Bluewing
@Bluewing@lemmy.world
- Comment on This is bullshit 2 days ago:
Depends on just how good a shot the prospective dinner guest is when returning fire.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 3 days ago:
When it comes to the “state” tracking sex demographics it can be very important when it comes to future planning for citizens. It can matter if you want to transition for example. The state can make long term plans based on that data to encourage an increase in facilities that can offer more support and services to those areas than need trans people.
Just tucking that information away in a medical file that only you and a doctor or two will see does nothing to make society better for trans people as a whole.
- Comment on Pfft 3 days ago:
I am all about having fun playing with numbers. I did have students like you. It could be a real effort sometimes to get them on the right path. But the reasons I wanted you on that path was because I was trying to teach you shortcuts to make doing The Math^tm^ easier.
If you are a kid sitting in my math class I will tell you that you already learned everything you needed to know about algebra, (geometry is something different and sometimes more wild and fun), when you learned how to add and subtract. Everything else you were being taught was just a short cut to make the maths faster and easier to do. So it’s important to learn those shortcuts. Hey, mathematicians are nothing if not lazy. And we all want to be lazy mathematicians right?
I was also a little bit less concerned about getting the answer right than I was interested in teaching you to understand how you got that answer. Explain to me what steps did you take to get to the answer. If you can do that, that becomes an important skill in getting the right answer far more often than you will get a wrong answer.
And finally, and a point where I did cross into the world of “The English Teacher”, insert your native language here please. Neat penmanship counts in math. It makes going back and seeing what you’ve done far, far easier. Boys, as a very general rule, struggle with this a lot. Not that girls can’t also, they do. And as a member of the Bar Sinister, writing ain’t meant for lefties - The Struggle is Real. But keeping your math writing in neat columns and rows goes a very long ways to making math so much easier. Once I could get those boys to slow down and be neat and orderly, they would often be amazed at just how good they actually were with math and how easy it became. They could often quickly elevate themselves from being a struggling D student to a B or even an A student just on hand writing alone.
So remember Kiddies, You can’t blow things up until you learn the math!
- Comment on Pfft 4 days ago:
And this is why I taught math…
- Comment on Anon hates new slang 5 days ago:
They once drained nearly almost 2 liters out of me. The urologist was amazed that I didn’t die. I’ve had two more laser procedures over the years and another one is scheduled next week. Self cathing multiple times a day for years sucks. But it is better than dialysis or dying.
Everyone loves them titties enough to have a whole month of awareness, but not many care about prostrate health. Get it checked regularly fellas! And pay attention to how you pee and how often. It can get bad enough that not even a little blue pill can save your love life.
- Comment on FireWire 2 weeks ago:
Eh, it’s less about which is the “better choice” and more about “how good does good enough need to be”. With a dash of the 80/20 rule.
- Comment on And now we wait 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want you to call, text, email, or so much as send me smoke signals. The only time I want to hear from you is when I get up, walk over to you, and slap the snot out of you. And when I do, all I want to hear is you begging for mercy and the sound of your tears.
For those that don’t get the joke: .//////// (or am I?)
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 3 weeks ago:
The US has legally defined retirement ages too. And if you plan, I know malice afore thought isn’t your strong suit, you can have a decent retirement also.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
I started before that. I did some LTL and OTR driving. You could find showers and some washing machines, if they were working, to wash your clothes along the interstates, but get off the road any distance and that all went away. I always loved getting to Ohio because their wayside rest stops had free showers for truck drivers. A welcome relief from paying $5 to $8 dollars to take a shower. If you wanted a free shower, you had to buy enough fuel for that.
He might be pissed now about driving 16 hours, but I can guarantee that he did drive those hours at times back in the day.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
Just like the Japanese and Chinese right?
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
That’s the cool part. You never could get those things. So don’t think this is anything new.
Source: In my youth, I was dumb enough to drive for a few years, but I was never stupid enough to own one…
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
That’s the cool part. You never could get those things. So don’t think this is anything new.
Source: In my youth, I was dumb enough to drive for a few years, but I was never stupid enough to own one…
- Comment on Beer garden ready 4 weeks ago:
It’s an upcoming waifu model.
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
Well fack my spell checker and lack of tea. But to be fair, there was a LOT of unlawful sex involved too.
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
Get some. There is a reason Darjeeling is often referred to as the “Champagne of Teas”.
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
I’ve got a recipe from my Ojibwa neighbor’s Grandmother for roasted grouse made with nothing more than honey, salt, and cranberries roasted in duck fat. Served with wild rice cooked with cranberries. The subtleties of the dish will blow your mind. It makes delicate Japanese dishes look like all show and no go flavor. The smokiness of the hand parched wild rice set against the tart cranberries is to die for. A meal meant for kings, (And Queens if you swing that way)!
And she can’t get enough potato klub, lefse, and lutefisk when I make those Norwegian dishes I learned from my Grandmother and Mother.
It’s like there is no accounting for food tastes.
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
And Chinese and interestingly Indian food is catching on also.
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
No, no it was all about subagitation and money. You know, the thing us crackers do best.
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
Dammit Hony, now I need to order yet another good Darjeeling Fall leaf tea…
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
You must not pay much attention to what is placed on your burger then. Burger King or McDonald’s is all the same stack of crap on a bun. They both smother the patty with all the stuff I listed to hide the low quality. No matter if it’s a beef whopper or the impossible whopper. If you don’t believe me, buy one of each and take them apart to compare.
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
The buns, the catsup, mustard, “special sauce”, the onions, the pickles, the cheese, lettuce, and don’t forget the sesame seeds! You could put a piece of cardboard in that McDonald’s hamburger and not be able to tell the difference…
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
If you need to hide the taste with all that crap, can it really taste good?
- Comment on Why Should I... 5 weeks ago:
That’s a straight up case of dumping enough crap on top of each patty that you can’t tell what the hell you are eating anyway.
Try cooking each patty with nothing more than a bit of salt and eat them plain with nothing else, not even a bun, and then tell me you can’t taste the difference.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Not with that attitude they won’t be.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Open your horizons…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Try a nice German mustard or a Dijon. Or mix a bit of good horseradish in with it. There is a lot more to mustard than plain yellow mustard, (which is great on hotdogs with relish).
- Comment on 1 month ago:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No ketchup. Only mustard! Get a hold of your ovaries and man up!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Hey, ketchup/catsup, (choose your spelling - we don’t discriminate), has it’s place. It’s fine for the sick, old and infirm or small children with weaker constitutions. But anyone purporting to be an adult, a form of mustard is the only choice.
And yes, there are other sauces to be used as called for in the moment.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 month ago:
So would Elven Underwear and The Hobbit Belly Band
