Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
9d ago
where the Americans and the UK undermined French submarine sales
As I understand it, the French submarine sale deal wound up being... pretty horrendous, cost-wise. Granted, AUKUS may also wind up being do, but the French deal was not exactly an amazing bargain for Australia.
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
I had a history professor whose stated policy was, "I'm going to give you my views on X. You can absolutely get a good grade on the tests by just arguing in favor of my views, using what I told you in class. You can get just as good of a grade by arguing that I'm wrong. I just care that you support whichever answer you go with, and do it well."
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
I remember helping my dad grade essays when he was a professor, and I followed a strict rubric. The ones at the end of my grading scored much higher than the ones at the beginning (until I went back and re-graded them), because my expectations at the start were a lot higher than by the time I got to the end.
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
I'm reminded of when I was in grade school, my mother demanded to speak with a teacher (known to dislike me) over an assignment I received a "C" on. Not because I'd been graded unfairly, but because it was a multi-part assignment, and I'd received "C"s for every individual part of it... including the part I hadn't done at all. My mom's fury wasn't over a low grade, but that the grade had nothing to do with the quality of the work I had or hadn't done, and was simply because the teacher jumped straight to marking it all "C" because she didn't like me (but presumably expected a "D" or a failure to bring pushback, given my grades from other teachers).
When faced with this, the teacher's immediate response (with a fellow teacher in the room!) was to ask, "well, what grade do you want me to give, then?" in the assumption that having arbitrarily given me a poor grade because she disliked me, my mother would be satisfied with an arbitrary good grade to make up for it--yet another mistake by that teacher.
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
Card maxed out, maybe? Needed to break a $50 at the same time because the ATM sometimes gives those out instead of $20s and I hate that?
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
I had a great-uncle who would apparently listen to police scanners at night so he could be the first to roadkill strikes for the free meat.
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
Weren't most of these boats carrying cocaine rather than fent?
Mantergeistmann
18d ago
Or all your spare dollars are going into savings.
Mantergeistmann
19d ago
Time Team is a goddamn national treasure, though.
Mantergeistmann
21d ago
Even steelmanning your argument though, why would we grant citizenship to someone willing to sell out their country to an invading power for a paycheck?
As an incentive to future collaborators? "Help us out, and you can earn your citizenship. Also, if everything does go to hell, we won't leave you in the lurch to be executed by the government you turned against".
Mantergeistmann
22d ago
When I was a teenager, I thought Office Space was representative of real life.
20 years later, that wasn't really true
Let me tell you, at least in my white-collar office, Office Space is considered by most people I talk to to in fact be completely true, and if anything an understatement. Of course, it helps when you have reports of your own with a 3-letter acronym that everyone knows for a fact nobody reads...
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
The others in his gang claimed he was possessed by a female spirit and would commit suicide (kill him)if she lost the baby, so he had to be on light duties till the baby came to term.
I'm sorry, what?
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
Would it help the US to get rid of all their black soldiers if they were fighting some white supremacist state?
See also: the US civil war, and the CSA opinion of black soldiers serving in the Union army.
Sounds almost like you're advocating SafeStart: Coding Edition.
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