taiyang

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Sure enough the vast majority are Republican shithole states, although Virginia and Arizona are a surprise.

It's not that it's immortal to want IDs for porn (although GOP generally is immortal), it's just so... technologically stupid. The red states are stupid states.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 114 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I like that it tries its best to avoid spoiling just what is about to historically unfold. I'm pretty sure it's trained not to talk about death but it just sounds like it's trying so hard not to let Lincoln know so he keeps the timeline on track.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Just sounds like we're the Australia of the Social Media world. Exiled from Reddit and the rest? Check out Lemmy- we aren't the dark web, we promise!

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Real talk, in 2016 I knew two assholes who voted for him to punk libs as a joke. So uh, kinda yeah.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've seen people over rely on bad lane assist and just kinda ping pong from side to side in their lane. It's... kinda stupid.

Also, what's the deal with the side mirror light that turns on when someone is near? My car has a small convex mirror attached to the standard one and I can see my blind spot quite clearly.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It is common practice, which is more to the point that it's weird this teacher didn't. However, third rate instructors do exist. I've TAd for some even at a top 25 school who still just vibe-graded their classes. It's really unprofessional, but they were hired for research reasons, not instruction.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

As others have noted, both student and teacher are kinda awful. The student for obvious reasons, but the teachers assignment and grading isn't really best practice, especially if you give a 0 when there's literally any rubric you grade to (and you want that for anything you're grading seriously).

I teach psychology courses at University level and for written parts you really have two acceptable options. Important papers (e.g. final essays worth 20% of total grade) should always have a rubric-- these you can very much give a bad grade to a student who clearly doesn't understand what peer reviewed evidence is because evidence might be a 20pt rubric item and without it, an A drops to a C (and that's assuming everything else is perfect). Having it in writing protects you legally.

The other, much more common assignment like a reaction piece, is mostly to check for participation in reading an assigned reading. There's usually no rubric and it's scored for completion so there isn't any subjective side to it. Quote the Bible or whatever, it's like a participation grade to encourage reading and if you have a bad take, whatever. These are usually 1% of the grade and there's usually one every week to keep up with.

Doing anything in-between opens you up to problems, not to mention it's just unfair to students. If you follow a rubric, you almost never give a zero unless they just straight up cheated.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've seen worse. Idk why I always check when one of you folks say this, I almost always regret it but I hit those comments as people were mostly bashing ICE. Lol

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Added bonus, you might win over a Caroline.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I recently did Samurai Warriors with a friend and that was a blast. Kind of a golden era for musou games. SW2 and Dynasty Warriors 5 and 6 all solid.

I also enjoyed Gauntlet and the Metal Slug ports. I think that was PS2, at least.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Of these I only really played D as a preteen (when it hit 3DO) and that was creepy enough for me although my neighbor/crush liked to come to my place to play it so that's mostly how I got to know it.

I was more into RTS and RPGs at that age, though, and frankly I found games like Eye of the Beholder 2 scary enough (plus I learned to never trust blue eyed blonde folk; they'll fucking kill you).

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Not very many accidents out in the middle of nowhere highways, although in my experience last holiday season there wasn't a single jabroni hogging the left lane. Granted, I usually drive everyone back at like 1 am, so mileage may vary.

You're absolutely right in the middle of the city though, and the number of people who get angry at you for not going 60 on a 40 mph blvd is way higher than it should be. I got honked at and a guy swerved around me just got both of us to get stuck at the same red. Those are the people who will certainly kill pedestrians.

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