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Incanto
49m ago
As far as I know it's never been proven that any such drones are real and not misidentified planes, birds, etc.
Bingbong
50m ago
My assumption is that he had some sort of bridging status that got formally revoked at the end of 2024, which might answer the question of how he managed to get into the job (since I assume HR's not doing quarterly immigration status checks)
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1hr ago
"Remember, the principal is your pal"
Lewis2
1hr ago
I think the assumption is that public school administrators are, which seems broadly fair at first blush.
Incanto
1hr ago
I remember back in MW3 my best setup was 2 or 3 ER large lasers + the rest heat sinks. You can snipe most enemy mechs from out of their range that way, with some heat management.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
1hr ago
This is a common intuition gap between the general public and the legal system. Most people walk around in blissful ignorance about how common things like sex crimes, domestic violence, or driving with substance abuse are. If we dragnetted everyone guilty of these and prosecuted them to the extent that John Q Public thinks reasonable, it would cripple society.
Necessarily, the police exercise discretion in who to throw the book at. This state-of-affairs doesn't mix well with moral panics about racism, but that's another topic.
It doesn't mix well with a lot of things; when prosecutions are massively underdetermined by the law, they're being determined by something else, which leaves a gaping hole for corruption and political repression.
TheLoser
1hr ago
Heck, Aphrodite, the goddess of sexual love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation, and is straight up naked in the game (though conveniently self-censoring with arms and hair) looks like a lesbian.
I don't know what sort of lesbians you're hanging out with, but that is definitely not lesbian presenting.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
1hr ago
I was having AGP fantasies before I had ever even been on the internet.
I likewise can't blame internet porn, although I strictly speaking had been on the Internet prior.
astrolabia
1hr ago
public school teachers are a parasite class? this seems like it's painting with a broad brush.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
More generally, "principal" means "first". Which I assume is the origin of principal as the head of a school, but IDK for certain.
astrolabia
1hr ago
Thanks for confirming. I thought I was taking crazy pills. I downgrade my initial assessment, this was not a great story.
anon_
2hr ago
Laid out in a case against commandeering local police to enforce federal gun laws, no less
sodiummuffin
2hr ago
However in those cases when he is described as lame, such as in the Illiad, he is depicted as limping, dragging his foot, and/or using a stick to walk, not a wheelchair. I strongly suspect the reason why they put him in a wheelchair is similar to why WOTC printed a Wheelchair Accessible Dungeon for D&D, because wheelchairs specifically are treated as an icon of "disabled representation".
I was wondering where the Wikipedia article you quote got this:
In some myths, Hephaestus built himself a "wheeled chair" or chariot with which to move around, thus helping support his mobility while demonstrating his skill to the other gods.
So I followed the citation and it's an essay in Rhetoric Review using "theory from the field of disability studies", and it doesn't use the term "wheeled chair" even once. Rather it describes him as riding a "proto-wheelchair" on the basis of a single cup showing him on a winged chariot. Nothing indicates this winged chariot is serving as a substitute for walking rather than as a chariot, nor is there anything about it "helping support his mobility while demonstrating his skill to the other gods". (Is it even specific to him or does there exist art of other gods in winged chariots as well?) And then the Wikipedia article makes it even worse by creating the term "wheeled chair" and putting it in quotes, so that people who don't follow the citation and get past the paywall will interpret "wheeled chair" as a literal translation of some Greek source.
In the Iliad 18.371, it is stated that Hephaestus built twenty bronze-wheeled tripods to assist him in moving around.[96]
And then this is just an egregiously false reading, it says nothing about helping him move around. They're tripods (a pot/cauldron with 3 legs to straddle a fire) that move themselves around. The same passage says "he moved to and fro about his bellows in eager haste".
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
2hr ago
Ahh I remember joining one of those back in the day it was fun. Maybe I’ll hop on with you sometime.
anti_dan
2hr ago
Reporting on things is always deceptive. "High School Graduate Gunned Down While on Stroll" was essentially the initial Michael Brown reporting. If you read the OP's news article, they frame all these allegations as allegations made by ICE, which is a far less credulous stance than federal law enforcement would be given by NBC news if this guy was being arrested on lynching charges.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2hr ago
I haven't retro gamed in a while, and an earnest revisit of Mechwarrior 3 has been on my todo list forever. So I installed it on my K6-2+ with a CH Flightstick.
The good! If you pine for the days of mech construction following tabletop rules, rejoice! Every mech is a virtual blank slate, limited only by it's max weight. This is a feature modded into virtually every Mechwarrior game without it, although it does tend to render mechs a purely aesthetic choice. This is probably the most simulation oriented Mechwarrior also, developed by Microprose in their heyday.
The different. Heat and ammo are brutal. Painfully accurate to the tabletop, one ton of AC10 is literally 10 shots. 10 shots easily missed with the slow speed of the projectile and poor feedback IMHO of how you need to lead. The shot just isn't terribly visible to see where it's gone, whether you hit or miss. I also find myself overheating virtually 99% of the time. Firing medium lasers. I'm not sure that's possible in MW5, but maybe my expectations are set with all the end game goodies I've grown accustomed to in that game. But still, all tabletop accurate. Pulse lasers are weird, and you need to hold a beam on the target for them to do anything. I think I prefer just regular old lasers at this point as they are the most reliable virtually hitscan weapon.
The ugly. MW3 has issues. On systems that are too fast the physics are horribly bugged. The slightest jostle and the physics over react and send objects into orbit at light speed. This isn't noticeable on my K6-2, and I think it's a good fit for the game, but I notice the keyboard randomly stops working, or I get stuck a lot. No clue what that's about, but it's caused me to have to alt-f4 the game and restart it. Joystick never stops working though. And once shutting down my mech and restarting it got me unstuck on whatever had hung me up.
Anyways, wish me luck.
jkf
2hr ago
I think it's complicated -- although in some cases having a hunting license makes it pretty OK. (Assuming he had one?)
Canadians deal with this all the time -- other than a hunting license in some state, if you have something like a letter of invitation to a pistol competition or something, maybe it's OK? I think there's some ITAR form that you might need to fill out for whatever guns you are bringing with you, but that wouldn't apply if he bought his hunting rifle in the US.
srf0638
3hr ago
Periodic reminder that state and regional conservation corps exist all over the American West and possibly elsewhere (see e.g. http://ccc.ca.gov/, https://sccorps.org/, https://thegreatbasininstitute.org/nevada-conservation-corps/, https://www.rockymountainyouthcorps.org/cc-field-life) and are sometimes cool but generally a bad deal relative to entry-level land management jobs.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
3hr ago
It is a strange situation. U.S. employers are usually required to confirm US citizenship or legal residency and work authorization before hiring someone, and while some employers are notoriously lax about this, school districts and other state institutions usually are not. If you don't produce a birth certificate and social security card at some point before your first paycheck, you won't be able to keep your job.
quiet_NaN
3hr ago
If the domain of a prince is a principality, does that make the domain of a principal a principalipality?
anti_dan
3hr ago
In a just world we would have passed legislation allowing prosocial and well behaved people the chance to make their decades-long participation in the country’s social and economic fabric official. Maybe tax them higher for a while as a sort of restitution or something.
But there is no such system that would allow a guy like this to remain. He's not productive, he's an active participant in the public schools system. Not just at the teacher level, which IMO is bad enough in most scenarios, but at the administrative level. The argument that this isn't a parasite class is incredibly weak. At best he's just following the incentives laid out before someone who wants money and prestige and has a passion for progressivism. 99% of the other scenarios he's cynical and knows he's part of a parasite class.
quiet_NaN
3hr ago
There was a story about someone working in a crèche here who had all the relevant clearance for working with kids and still got caught on CCTV being physically abusive.
This seems apples and oranges. There is no background check which can 100% assure you that someone is not abusive, or not a North Korean spy.
By contrast, if someone has a work visa is something which can be determined on a prima farcie basis. Sure, it is possible that he forged his visa, or stole an identity, or obtained his visa based on false statements, or blackmailed an official into improperly granting his visa, and I would not expect a school district to do the kind of digging to find these. But from what we know so far, it sounds more like they did not even check.
Is employing someone without checking their visa status (or nationality) an offense, criminal or regulatory?
Bingbong
3hr ago
In a just world we would have passed legislation allowing prosocial and well behaved people the chance to make their decades-long participation in the country’s social and economic fabric official
Isn't this just 'complying with the immigration law of the country you're trying to enter'? It's not like the guy entered originally through a Coyote over the Southern border. He had multiple hearings regarding his immigration status and then chose to ignore the final result.
I hate to point this out, considering that I myself am more of a traditionalist, but your own life experiences call in to question the validity of the above statement. Your father was immersed in that conservative culture, and he still had pregnancy scares and jealousy issues.
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