Warl0k3 @ Warl0k3 @lemmy.world

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Even the current US lunacy is preferable to the hell the west has brought to huge portions of central america.

If we're randomly declaring things with zero basis except our wounded pride, I'm declaring you the prettiest unicorn to ever grace the boards and I shall brook no challengers to your glorious reign-bow.
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I'll figure out how this reflects my wounded pride later.

Yes, it's the bare minimum precaution you can implement. But at the same time, it's the bare minimum precaution you can implement. There's really no excuse for not doing it, and it catches a shocking number of images.

What? Alcohol and tobacco are both drugs - as with caffeine, they are not illegal ones, but they very much are still drugs. Not sure where you're getting the idea they're not.

And the second part, racism probably? (though posession of a firearm while intoxicated is usually an exacerbating (not the right term sorry) circumstance)

It's not a rigorous nor formal test of quality, but a simple indicator of representation. Per wikipedia,

A work of fiction passing or failing the test does not necessarily indicate the overall representation of women in the work. Instead, the test is used as an indicator of the active presence (or lack thereof) of women in fiction, and to call attention to gender inequality in fiction.

It wasn't ever intended to be a mainstay of lit crit, but it's turned out to be an extremely useful yet quick and simple test, so it's stuck around in the toolkit.

Yes, your point being?

Mate de coca! Very pleasant tea, great treatment for altitude sickness. Fun fact, the largest importer of coca leaves is Coke, as it's rumored to be one of the ingredients in coca cola.
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Cough.

Omg, SecuriTay in the wild? Fucking love to see it.

Well shucks, I suppose I should preface everything new I encounter with "to me" going forward, since that can't be expected to be implied through grammar alone...

I've got no idea if you're trolling or not. But on the chance that you're not, drugs are either synthesized or bio-derived.

In pharmacology, a drug is a chemical substance, typically of known structure, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect.

I suppose an argument could be made that under that definition cannabis is a plant and THC/CBD are the drugs, but that's dubiously semantic at best since the consumption of cannabis is what produces the effect.

You know, I don't think I've ever seen someone take this position. Pro/anti legalization yes, but never "it's not a drug" (it's a feature).

You're wrong, but at least you're novelly wrong!

Having guns? In Texas?? THE CRIMINAL SWINE!

just Tumblr Brain things

IDK maybe they're just really bad at cutting pizza.

So did anyone else in the study turn to terrorism to express themselves...?

For anyone who doesn't know who this was, it's a photo of Ted Kaczynski - the unabomber- a terrorist who over approx. 20 years mailed and placed a series of bombs targeting universities and other technology-focused places and people, killing three and permanently injuring more than a dozen others.

Posting him here is a reference to his manifesto in which he lays out many grievances against technology and industrialization, including increased ability for governments to surveil their citizens.

Hmm. If you don't mind me asking, what field was your masters in? During my grad work, you'd have been thrown out after a week if you did similar, but assignments were very much supplemental to the lecture and didn't overlap with the lecture material much at all.

You know, I've had students attempt this every quarter and I've still never seen it actually work. It might be a reflection of how teaching has had to shift as a result of the changes brought on by AI + the pandemic, though. I started professing only a little bit before then, so I never really saw the era where you could get away with such strict adherence to the textbook.

While it's good that you are disciplined enough that you can succeed without it, many students benefit greatly from a rigid structure more in line with the educational environment they experienced up to that point. After freshman year, attendance requirements are usually greatly relaxed since people have gotten into the swing of things (like not having to ask to to go to the bathroom anymore, god what even is the public school system). Personally I don't care if you show up or not, you'll learn something important either way and if someone uninterested isn't there it means I have more time for the other students.

Also I can 100% promise that clicker thing was a contractual obligation from the publisher and not the instructor's idea. Those things are fuckin' awful to support on the instructor's side, and goddamn Pearson managed to tie using their shitfucking software (including those goddamn clickers) to the state and federal grants unis rely on for funding. Fuck pearson.

Okay setting aside that I've never ever seen someone try that and actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they're going to do that anyways? My syllabus is good, but it's not all that useful for independent study time. (You also can't replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I'm just not sure what you're basing this on.)