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If I'm ever standing beside you and you get shot, I'll pray for your recovery.
I mean it won't help you from bleeding out from what would otherwise be a superficial wound.
But I'll feel good about myself even when the police are berating me for not calling the paramedics.
Evans is a bit better for a general overview of entomology and has better physiology, I think
Gullan and Cranston are better evolution and go into a bit more depth in places, and are also more up to date. But also the book is textbook sized instead of coffee-table sized
I know one lady who is a total hippie and homeschools her 8 year old son because she doesn't want him "trained to work in a corporate setting." He's also ADHD and starved for socialization.
What are you guys even talking about
WRITING THIS DOWN
no this is fun gypsy music
goodfellas
but if someone, like shiv, is like "hey I wanna know about bugz in a bit more detail than the average joe" then I recommend Evans' book
Buckaroo Banzai. Green Wing. Episodes. Anything in youtube by Charlie Brooker.
Or this excellent miniseries which is also entirely in youtube:
Beirut has never even stolen a child from a village and raised them to be a knife juggler
The only people I know who have been homeschooled are my US cousins.
While they were religious, it wasn't a religious thing. Or at least I didn't see anything that points to that when I was over there (granted I didn't look)
As far as I understood it, it was a cost thing + transport/weather thing since they lived in Boulder, Colorado. Gorgeous house on the mountain, surrounded by forests with a patio overlooking the edge.
So school was far, and travel was sometimes spotty due to snow.
There was also a cougar eating the local pets.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/user/Mort-ZA/
@MortNZ
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
Ronin.
he spent his teenage years in a weird electronic band and wandering faraway lands
i mean, he hung out with albanians
that's guaranteed trouble right there
I have an idea of where such locations exist in the Boulder.
In fact I went to a public school in Colorado that served such families.
The buses have gigantic wheels to get up the hills in the snow. And my elementary had buses driving 45 minutes out.
So that seems off to me.
Pretty busy
Probably why he makes such flaccid music
you do have the religious ones, but you also have people who would rather not have their kids in public schools for whatever reason. usually because the schools are bad or the parents think they could do a better job. they're usually middle class or better off since you need one parent with a high income to support the mom/dad staying at home even during school hours.
If its done correctly there are huge benefits. I think a lot of homeschoolers pool their resources so the kids grow up in a social environment and interact with each other. I think the good homeschoolers encourage their kids to participate in group activities. you also have the advantage of going on a field trip whenever and wherever you want - i mean you can spend an entire week at an a museum or something. you can also teach things not generally taught in schools like personal finance and home economics. you can tailor a curriculum to a kid's needs.
but yeah, not everyone does this, nor do they have the resources to do so. a single wage earner bringing in enough money to support an entire family is increasingly becoming a luxury. but it's not like homeschoolers are universal whackjobs. I think a lot of people are understandably dubious about letting people with sometimes suspect credentials teach their kids for 6+ hours every day
Public school in the US is free, and rural school districts have buses that come to your house, or near enough that transport isn't really an issue most places.
Unless they lived 30 miles away on really bad roads, I'm guessing it was for religious reasons.
beirut plays melodies
I ain't defending a motherfucker who's down with fucking harmony like some sort of capitalist pig dog
I often hear about people (usually well off people) homeschooling in order to provide a better education than the public schools in their area can.
Back in the woods where I came from homeschooling was universally used as a means for poor ass hicks with way too many kids have the older kids stay home and care for the younger ones while never getting an education at all.
Wow increases the immune system 3 to 5 times!
What's the normal power level for an immune system and how much power level does it take to defeat diptheria?
@Evil Multifarious I like this movie a lot. It's not the only film to try to capture the recent zeitgeist but I think it's one of the more successful. It reminds me of the classic 70s social thrillers.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
School is more than just learning in the classroom it is very much our tool of socializing children to function in society and home schooled kids miss out on that.
You did not start with "This is based on a story by Douglas Adams", which is doing me an incredible disservice!
Luckily I started watching it anyway and found that out myself.
our educational system sectioning kids off by age, I believe, is a problem since children learn from older children pretty fucking effectively
We're like hard wired to mimic older kids as a species
as is right and proper for Douglas Adams books, it is only very very loosely based on the books. But its a really good show.
I liked it, but as I mentioned in the film thread it seems like ultimately Clayton didn't do much
Some things happened to him and then the movie ended
i was a freshman in 2006.
7 years ago. still can't and wont finish it. real pathetic vibes going on in my 8x9 room right now.
i did make the dean's list twice. so that counts right.
@So It Goes
Yeah! I think so too, even if it's a bit scary.
I just meant that like
So I spent several years doubting my gender identity and questioning and dealing with feelings of inadequacy and not deserving stuff and pain and fear and an inability to stop thinking about stuff and refusal to believe I even deserved to be called trans, or a label, thinking I was making it up/attention seeking, etc.
Basically years of crushing doubt and questioning and total fear of change locking me down, refusing to allow me to make any single step.
And I got through that, eventually becoming so fed up and tired that I said "fuck it I have to try something," even though I was terrified and it took me weeks to try that something.
And it turns out I'm a lady (or so close to one that it's the easiest term to use), and have newfound confidence that fuck it I'll figure everything out, no need to label myself when instead I can do stuff and see how the labels fall, and so on.
And I'm also a social group that is often unfortunately visible, obviously queer, something people get thrown out of their houses for, all that nasty stuff.
Since I've been through that super rough thing, where I couldn't even figure myself out, and I'm already queer and so on, what do I have to lose by being bi? I mean, a lot of the negative parts already apply to me - I'm already queer, would've been kicked out for being trans if I was going to for being bi, and so on. There's no stakes here. And I've already dealt with figuring myself out - my intrinsic self, where no one can guide me but me, I had to be my own spirit guide, figure every single thing out myself before I even began to know who I was. Where my central identity was totally unknown to me, as compared to who I'm attracted to, which is just kind of... flavoring on top of the my core identity.
After all that, I just can't get worked up over who I'm attracted to. If it's dudes that's great, ladies that's great, both that's great, neither that's... weird, but sure, anything else, wohoo. It's so mundane to me after the maelstrom of confusion and doubt that I went through for years.
So that's what I meant. I guess you could say I'm questioning my sexuality, but that implies I'm actively asking questions. I'm not. Whatever happens happens and I'm ok with that. The outcome is eh, I'll deal with it if it comes up later. It's boring because I don't feel at all invested in it.
Which I recognize is kind of weird now that I read it. But it's just an aspect of myself that I'm kind of super easygoing with. "Oh no I kind of have a crush on a dude" elicits an "eh, that's interesting" the same way it would if it were a lady. I skipped the step where I care about liking people of non-lady gender or grapple with it.
But I mean I also consider transition mundane, along with the rest of my life, so maybe I am not normal in this opinion.
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someone I know who is a musician just posted this:
It's always some 60 yr old dude who thinks somehow he found the secret to health and either nobody else figured it out or they're in cahoots with BIG PHARMA to HIDE THE TRUTH!
it doesn't count
Add it to the list of weird vocabulary, I guess!