Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
16hr ago
People who buy houses near military jet bases or farms and then complain about the noise/smell is... far, far too high.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Jesus, who supposedly stood up for prostitutes and adulteresses
"Go now, and sin no more." Does everyone forget that part?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Dugan's lead attorney "told reporters that he was disappointed with the ruling and didn’t understand how the jury could have reached a split verdict since the elements of both charges were virtually the same." A compromise verdict does make sense in the jury sense-making sense.
I knew a clerk who once told me of a case where a jury found a man on tried on drug charges to be guilty "possession with intent to distribute", but not guilty of "possession". I assume that sort of thing is reasonably common for legal purposes, but that attorneys will of course point to how nonsensical it is as a way to support their client.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Throughout the whole week I was impressed again and again by how kind and open the Spaniards I interacted with were. Yet another thing that Americans could learn from.
When you say "Americans", which part of America are you referring to? In my experience, New England is different from Metropolis is different from Midwest is different from Southern is different from...
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
Sounds almost like you're advocating SafeStart: Coding Edition.
Mantergeistmann
18d 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
21d 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
22d 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
22d 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
23d 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
24d 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
25d ago
Weren't most of these boats carrying cocaine rather than fent?
Mantergeistmann
27d ago
Or all your spare dollars are going into savings.
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
Time Team is a goddamn national treasure, though.
My wife's assumption in the past has been "did someone steal access to our credit card?" but neither one of us is known for extravagant purchases (and sometimes things show up weirdly on the credit card statement...)
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