Any old westerns you’d like to recommend? I’ve been watching a lot of 70s era and earlier movies lately, seems like I’ll stumble into the golden age of westerns sooner or later
For a more modern show (geez, 15 years old already) I really enjoyed Hell on Wheels
For me, the break timer is really just “take a few minutes to eat/hydrate/pee” and then resume the original task. Although when I’m depressed I often use one full 25 minute task to do the thing I dread, and then the next one is to play video games or watch a show - generally to do something fun to recharge my batteries. Sometimes I can’t even manage to do something fun for myself without timeboxing it, I hate that.
My wife has pretty debilitating ADHD, sometimes the pomos are really helpful for her and sometimes it’s the opposite. Without some kind of externalized structure, she can’t finish the tasks that she intends to start and it causes her a lot of distress.
She would want me to plug Spirit City LoFi. It’s a customizable task manager that’s very chill, and just gamified enough to keep her attention without being distracting
I’d make that face if someone gave me that salad too
Some dry leaves and a tomato, wow, really pulling out all the stops
Is there any first-person soulslike out there? Does that even work? Very curious to see what this’ll turn out
Elderborn released in 2020 and fits the bill. It was a lot of fun, I thought it had Conan vibes and a killer soundtrack
It’s interesting that the phrasing here is that the younger people shouldn’t be allowed to date the older people. The issue with this kind of age gap is the imbalance of power, and whether you realize it or not you’ve just placed the stigma at the feet of the person who’s most likely to be victimized.
Anyway, banning this kind of thing doesn’t work. It happens at a scale that would likely be unenforceable, not to mention that rebellious people will do things because they’re banned
A better approach to harm reduction is education. Meet people where they’re at without shame and explain the risks realistically. And even then, some people just won’t learn until experience teaches them
At the end of the day, if your daughter wants to work out her daddy issues by getting railed by an older man, no amount of pearl clutching is going to prevent that
Many people prefer boneless, but this way you can save the bones to make stock
You’re gay people, is she tired of seeing you in her feed?
This has all the makings of a non-apology
Top 5%, mom would be proud!
I’d argue that racism is a symptom of some of these other things.
An imbalance of societal power leads to - or is caused by - manipulative politics. Those politics are increasingly being pushed through addictive technologies, and indeed, are using racism to divide us at the cost of democracy.
Racism is a symptom, but understanding where it’s being pushed from has value. It’s like saying someone died of heart failure - just about everyone dies of heart failure, but it can be more useful to know what caused the heart to fail
Twice more than I would have liked to.
Very fortunate nobody was hurt
Every time I’ve been hit by a car, it’s been when I’ve had the right of way. You have to be super defensive as a pedestrian because you can be thoroughly solidly right and follow all the rules… and still end up dead.
So it bothers you when people vocalize their question marks, eh?
Git is what’s known as “Version Control Software” which basically means that it keeps track of the changes you make.
It’s primarily used for software development, and where it shines is when multiple people are collaborating on a project which will receive many changes. You can create a “branch” of the project with the changes you want to “commit” and then after they’re reviewed in a “pull request” you can “merge” them back inyo the main branch. If at any point in the process you discover that the changes cause issues, a history allows you to “revert” those changes back to what you had previously.
As you can probably see, there’s a fair bit of terminology in git. It’s a powerful tool that has a learning curve in order to use it.
While git is primarily used in software development, it doesn’t have to be. In fact, you could use it for any collection of files that receive changes. It’s not uncommon to see it used for technical writing , wikis, or large collaborative documents. I recall seeing a compelling argument that it could be used for drafting legislation, although I’m not aware of any government which uses it for that purpose.
Some people argue about whether or not you should use git with non-text files because the changes are much larger, but you don’t have to rigidly follow dogma.
I knew a guy who liked to use git for his RPG campaign notes. The main branch held his setting info, and when he’d run a game he’d create a new branch. If he was pleased with the game and wanted to enshrine it in canon, he’d merge it into main. Otherwise, he could leave the branch alone, but he’d still always be able to go back and look at the adventure with the details of the setting as it was at that time. I thought it was overkill, but he had fun.
“There’s no way we evolved from monkeys, and I’ll prove it: humans are good at holding bananas!”
Can’t make this stuff up
Only on the fediverse can I expect to see someone explain how to manage their kitchen with a computer analogy and not the other way around
It’s good advice though, I have no notes
I think it’s historic, I suspect the letter grades predate using GPA
To be honest, I didn’t even know we did GPA at all until after I got my high school transcript for applying to college. Our report cards gave us our percentage and a letter for each course
As the meme suggests, the whole system is pointless and frankly kind of foolish
We have them in Canada, I assume they work the same:
When your work is assessed, you get a letter grade in the range from A-F. E is absent, although some regions will use E instead of F. Your letter grade is determined by your percentage.
Letter grades aren’t super useful to show your overall results, and are difficult to average, so they can be converted back into numbers. You start at 0 for F, then skip over E to get to D which is worth 1.0, C is 2.0, etc. GPA doesn’t go higher than 4.0 at A, or 85%, so there’s actually quite a lot of margin for error to allow people the maximum GPA if they test well.
Oh, and your letters might get a + or - to show you’re on the high or low end of a grade. There’s a lot of range between a C and a B, but C+ is close to B-. A + is worth 0.3 on your GPA, and a - is worth -0.3
Also, your letter grades and therefore numeric GPA is a non-linear scale, and the conversion for what percentage converts to which letter might differ depending on the institution, school district, or region.
Isn’t it so simple?
Valedictorian is a bit easier to understand. At graduation, one student is selected to be Valedictorian, and their function is to give a speech at the graduation ceremony.
Traditionally, it’s the “highest performing” student, but GPA caps out at 4.0 which means that two students with an 87% and 98% average have the same GPA and are therefore equal. Their social achievements are then considered, so the valedictorian will usually be someone who was very active in extracurricular clubs or sports.
Basically Valedictorian is usually the most popular student who got straight As.
It’s a common turn of phrase that people use when explaining something to someone who seems unclear on a subject.
I hope this clears things up.
I have a hard time watching new movies and shows. I guess I usually look for a show to unwind with, and nostalgia is a pretty strong factor there.
If I’m watching a new show with somebody because they want to see it, I’ll generally enjoy myself. But lately I find that I’m pretty quick to reject anything made after 2020 or so
Another way I look at it is that there’s an awful lot of crap competing for my attention, and with the rise of gen-AI, writing for streaming, and other icky things, a lot of it really is crap. I’d rather watch the crap I already know I like