Odysseus32

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eat up with the dumb arse

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Stealing this line

Doesnt make sense.

Noise cancelling headphones are so good nowadays all you have to do is pop those in and put on white/brown noise and you legit would not hear any of that.

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Genuinely don't see how that's possible. I'm using 10 fingers at roughly 100 WPM and would be lucky to get 40 WPM with just two fingers.

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I rarely use anything other than my two index fingers and I type about 90.

I am sure if I learned the proper way I could go faster, but this works for me.

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Just relax man.

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Oddly it has made me more relaxed.

I'm just much more aware of the fact that I can't put my shite where it doesn't need to be.

I can put it here, this is anonymous (I hope).

Hello tOT,

When you found out you were going to be fathers, what was the feeling? Was there a sense of obligation to remove undue stress from your family? How did you deal with it knowing that there is a fine line between repression due to emotional issues and needing to be the glue?

Any and all anecdotes and wisdom is appreciated.

There's no reason to buy a gas powered mower unless the yard that you're going to be mowing is over .25 acres.

Just buy a battery powered mower and a battery powered weedeater.

You'll save on gas, maintenance, and time.

Whole Foods Hot Bar is so good.

Kind of expensive, but you need to be strategic about what you get.

There are definitely better "deals", but you can get actual vegetables and stuff from the hot bar with good protein.

That makes my blood boil.

Horrible.

It's disturbing watching the videos of people dying.

The more disturbing part to me is that I am sitting here watching it, living my own life, and someone's life is breaking down. It makes me think about if the roles were reversed, there would be some guy living his life, maybe seeing it and typing about it, and then will move on in an hour.

It's really unsettling.

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If you can enforce the standard and hold them accountable for results, you may have something. The wild card is student home life. Good teachers can only do so much with that.

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For the sake of my example, I think you're right and I also think that is one of the downwind effects that would occur.

50k teacher is stressed. Kid with shitty home life is acting an arse. 50k teacher is dealing with financial stressors. Needs to work a gig job to make sure they don't pay extra interest on their debt. They are tired, they don't have the capacity to deal with bad kids. The shitty home life kid gets ignored and turns to the streets because lord knows the teachers didn't give a shite.

120k is not stressed. Got 2 more hours of sleep than the 50k teacher after watching a movie. They wake up with a normal stress level. Not on top of the world, but not fed up. Same scenario happens, kid is acting an arse. Attitude goes from "frick this kid" to "Hey man, what is going on". Does it fix everything? No. Down the line when the kid is faced with an opportunity to make a bad decision, he remembers that teacher. He showed grace, he would not like what he is going to do. He hesitates, doesn't act on impulse.

Same kid who would be in the system is instead working a job, trying to do right. He has a child, who he raises right. The system perpetuates from there.

I know that's a made up scenario, but I have lived it. Whenever I think of doing something stupid I remember my social studies teach from 7th grade. We all loved him. He was a great man. He was underpaid, but he did his best to show up for us every day. All of us hold him in high regard. A lot of us were from incredibly poor families and we are all doing anywhere from okay to successful, and we all attribute that to him.

I'm as guilty as everyone else of loving individuality. But so many of these things that go in that are direct results of your local government have an effect on you whether you like it or not.