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[silverspawn]

Obviously going off limited information here, but people tend to get invested in their identities, and the google sucks tape is the kind of thing that's probably more effective at signaling to everyone that he's serious than at actually doing anything if his views were correct.

With my sister, she's paid a decent price for her beliefs about vaccines so far, so I do believe that she's genuine, but she's also much less extreme.

[silverspawn]

But even if that's true, it's not gonna make all that much of a difference. It's not like people who only believe they believe X are just going to make a 180 if you point that out.

[silverspawn]

There's a rat/mouse in my room this is really creepy and not good no isea how 2 get it out but I sure can't sleep now

[silverspawn]

Who needs slee anyway what I really wanted to do at 6 in the morning was to catch a mouse with peanut butter

[silverspawn]

YES MOUSE I  CAN HEAR YOU

[silverspawn]

I never truly appreciated the luxury of having no mice in my room

[silverspawn]

It may have left the room if so that would be anti climactic also sorry person who owns the house

[silverspawn]

No fucks were given about peanut butter

[silverspawn]

Or its still here but very quiet and hiding very well

[silverspawn]

I think the secret about food that has escaped me for most of my life is that diversity of taste is an inherent good. I've often made very simplistic meals based on a taste I liked and then didn't understand why they didn't seem to work as well, especially if I made them repeatedly. For some reason it seems that having a complex taste makes meals better & dramatically reduces the effect where they get worse if you taste them too often. Now it's just a matter of finding ways to do this that aren't time intensive LIKE ADDING GARLIC

Relatedly, I virtually never eat fast food, but what I remember about fries is that they are usually super tasty for about four bites and then rapidly get worse

[faust]

I think the secret about food that has escaped me for most of my life is that diversity of taste is an inherent good. I've often made very simplistic meals based on a taste I liked and then didn't understand why they didn't seem to work as well, especially if I made them repeatedly. For some reason it seems that having a complex taste makes meals better & dramatically reduces the effect where they get worse if you taste them too often. Now it's just a matter of finding ways to do this that aren't time intensive LIKE ADDING GARLIC

I advocate for soy sauce. It improves a lot of dishes.

[silverspawn]

I advocate for soy sauce. It improves a lot of dishes.

that will be investigated

[silverspawn]

me: ok I'll install Linux using an USB stick. Let's mount it using some program
me (later): :)
me: ok I need a stick so let's just put other stuff on here. That will probably mess with the Linux installation, but that's fine since I don't need it anymore. Could have even deleteded but it can't hurt to leave it on
Windows: your stick has problems you want to repair it?
Windows: *works flawlessly with the stick*
Windows: your stick has problems you want to repair it?
Windows: *works flawlessly with the stick*
Windows: your stick has problems you want to repair it?
Windows: *works flawlessly with the stick*
Windows: your stick has problems you want to repair it?
me: ugh fine
Windows: Repair complete. There weren't any problems.
me: go figure
Windows (on next boot): Your stick is now empty

[silverspawn]

I blame both windows and myself

I did get some of it back with a recovery tool

[silverspawn]

I've taught my first three classes now and I think it's fair to say that it went quite well. Maybe I'll have more trouble maintaining order later in the year when students are more comfortable, but so far, it's been fine.

Also, I've talked a bit to other computer science teachers and the preparation that they get away with is almost shocking. Some of them don't even seem to think through the lesson at all; they just download a bunch of exercises and then conduct the class almost on the fly. I think if you just teach computer science and do it like that, you can have a pretty absurd hourly wage.

I'm doing 10 hours a week because it's only meant to be a side job, but honestly I could do thirty without too much trouble. And that is kind of ridiculous.

It's especially unfair if you compare it to (in my case) German teachers who have more work to do preparing classes, a harder time maintaining authority, and have to spend hours upon hours grading essays, all for I think identical pay. Similar but less extreme for foreign languages.

[silverspawn]

And the other thing is that most of them are probably really bad at their job just judging from when I was at school, but there is so little quality control.

[silverspawn]

I'm doing 10 hours a week because it's only meant to be a side job, but honestly I could do thirty without too much trouble. And that is kind of ridiculous.

I mean seriously I could just stop trying to learn stuff, settle down, and live a comfortable upper class life from now on. All that when a few months ago I was struggling to find any kind of job. That's just absurd.

[silverspawn]

Ok so I've now experienced one class that was loud and difficult, which definitely makes the job both harder and less pleasant. If it stays at that one, though, it's still mostly pleasant even if I can't ever get the noise level down, which I intend to try.

[silverspawn]

Still easier than my six hours of private tuturing of a girl in third class. That was pure evil.

[WestCoastDidds]

12-14 year old girls travel in packs, making them even more dangerous

[silverspawn]

Teaching good classes is incredibly fun

[LaLight]

As a person who was a teacher for significant amount of my life (not any more), I'd say discipline was the last of my problems. Then again I only taught 6-9 year olds and they are easily mesmerised if you talk correctly. That was a lot of fun actually and I am a bit sad that the teaching system in Russia killed every bit of my motivation to continue.

[LaLight]

although one of the best experiences of course was a 54 year old Londoner I taught Russian to. he was amazing, but never did any homework, so it was a slow process.

[WestCoastDidds]

Teaching is the BEST! When it goes well, it’s a heady, heady high and the room is buzzing with folks grappling with new idea an gaining new perspective.

But I teach 18-25 year olds, so I avoid the packs of puberty-addled young ones. I couldn’t manage that, I don’t think. I don’t have the patience.

LaLi…. I always do my homework!! Hahaha!

[silverspawn]

As a person who was a teacher for significant amount of my life (not any more), I'd say discipline was the last of my problems. Then again I only taught 6-9 year olds and they are easily mesmerised if you talk correctly.

Yeah, I think age is a massive factor, as is the setting. I had zero authority problems tutoring students from classes 5-13 across at least four years. It's just not an issue;  if you tell them to do something, they always do it. But the first time ever taking on someone from elementary school (the aforementioned personification of evil) was a nightmare.