Not just public schools. I went to private school and still woke up with high school nightmares for years as a college graduate.

I think the expectations are a part of it, but I also think it’s the fact that it’s an extremely stressful time period between expectations for one’s future, high hormones, major social changes that happen as everyone’s brain cooks at a different speed, and the constant fighting for increased independence.

Like, don’t get me wrong I also didn’t enjoy being in class, and I’ve had full on flashbacks to fights with my father over my grades in high school (also have a ptsd diagnosis), but imo the educational elements of high school weren’t meaningfully worse than earlier years or college/adulthood. It was being a teenager that was particularly traumatic, and high school was just the location where most of the issues converged

That makes perfect sense actually. It’s an effective way of asking “are you aware of what’s going on” and “are you intentionally acting in a way that’s socially frowned upon and may be illegal”.

Are. Avians are the extant clade of dinosaurs. I feed theropod dinosaurs when I go on walks.

Oh, I’m finally an old and out of touch member of the community

Dinosaurs are archosaurs

Again‽ This is why godot has become so popular

Exactly, every court order you give is one they have to ignore, it’s one that further delegitimizes the regime. The goal is for the regime to struggle to enact its goals. It desires its people to be high energy, fully committed, and to be seen as essentially legitimate in order to make that happen. If they can’t be respected they want to be feared. Hero or villain they’re still a major character who gets their way. Deny them that.

You can tell what works by who they attempt to quickly and quietly stop. Lawyers can file lawsuits. Everyone can protest. People can organize their workplace and neighborhood. But also you can just drive 5 under whenever ice is active in an area. You can get their order wrong at a restaurant. Get in the habit of looking for plausibly deniable ways to deny them what they want.

“You got a criminal background?”

“No”

“Well, if you do well enough we might be able to look past that”

The fight for real education remains a workers’ rights issue. There’s a reason anarchists in spain used to offer it to workers.

One of the most insidious forms of disinformation in America right now is the anti education push. Many workers aren’t mad that they didn’t get enough out of their education, they’re mad they had to spend so much time and energy being taught things they don’t use for a living

Babylon had 60. There’s a few that used 12, but they’re not super influential historically. In modern day, place value, base 10 with Arabic numerals is the international standard. This is

I’m fine. I’m playing a tiefling paladin who rolled really good stats. And honestly the barb dgaf either.

It’s worse than an echo chamber that they have. It’s isolated improv. They aren’t just agreeing, they’re "yes and"ing. Collective world building without critical thought, disagreement, or awareness that it isn’t how reality works.

Tabernak

It’s wild to me that that’s legal here. Devices should have to be carrier agnostic.

Yeah 5e has them as using ki in ways that feels very much like they started building a psion and were told to change it to a monk. Pf2 has them also using qi magic (there it’s just the monk flavoring of focus spells, something most classes have), and doing a lot of classic monk stuff. There I’m far less unhappy with it being it’s own class, I just don’t think wuxia classes are generally fitting enough to belong in core 2 rather than a splatbook.

Oh it’s great. When I worked for a Japanese company a lot of the businessmen liked going shooting while in America. Like, I don’t think the fun is worth the safety of people given all the mass shootings, but guns are really fun.

I’m from Ohio and I met a lot of folks through that same scene with similar attitudes. My ex was armed to the teeth and unsure whether it was more because she was afraid of the state or her ex husband. Hell I’ve met women who’ll tell you it is a gun in their pants, but they’re also happy to see you.

I got issues with guns. Everyone having access to semiautomatic weapons while we undergo a radicalization crisis, and a ton of people living in fear and concealed carrying doesn’t make for a good society. I grew up without guns in my household and was taught to see them in a negative light. This was partly because back in those days it was scandalous for middle class suburbanites to have guns regardless of political affiliation, and also because those were the days when gun tragedies involving kids were them shooting themselves on accident.

All that said, I still want a bolt action to blow an afternoon with

No, I’ve got nobara on my gaming rig, batocera on my wife’s retro console that’s just turned into a kodi device, and proxmox on my server

I mean 69 was a great year. Stonewall, Apollo 11, Woodstock… and that was just the summer

Then get a double decker bike. Or show off that classic folding bike swag. Nothing cooler than a bicycle that looks ridiculous in order to be able to fit in your apartment