FuglyDuck

Explains the cray-cray

Molly is MDMA,

It’s apparently burning man and all the problem guys are freaked out by the bears tripping Molly and just staring.

The last pannel, the dude on the left is a Molly bear.

Paper cuts are no joke.

(Also, maybe find another job asap. That dude is psycho.)

Naw. this is lemmy. You’re supposed to say <checks notes> “yeah, dump 'em. you’re better off without that gaslighting loser in your life”

Wait. Er. wrong one. that’s for bad partners. Uhm. lets just go with what you said. (probably the best advice anyone can give on the internet heh.)

I’d much prefer him dead.

alas, I’m a coward.

Looks like you could ox or ax on the triple there (there’s an open x.)

Edit maybe that’s a V,

there’s the do at the top of the board (bottom of the pic,)

Every performance is different. Sometimes it’s faster sometimes it’s slower. Some times it changes during the song.

Some of that is responding to the audience’s energy or whatever, and some of it is just the natural human imprecision.

For your typical rock band set up, the drummer sets the tempo, which is part of why they slap their sticks together at the start of a song. (They may also do it because they think it’s cool.) sometimes different people might set the tempo, but the drums picks it up and carries it.

Jazz is a bit more fluid, especially with improvisational jazz, where everyone takes a turn leading and with slight changes. More rigid jazz, it‘s set by the leader with everyone coming together on that- but also, jazz is a bit more fluid and responsive to the audience. L

fire arms.

Hands down.

Lets just put it this way. you don’t hear about toddlers accidentally killing their parents because they got into the parent’s bows and arrows.

its a classic, it really is.

This is just yelling at clouds rather than seeking meaningful solutions to resolve issue. You are complaining that senators are upset about the failure of the educational system. Btw one of those senators introduced legislation to prevent this from happening again. Link.

They’re certainly not going to admit to systemic failures.

Did you read the article? What do you think “State Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding and Sen. Eric Berthel said in their Dec. 19 letter. ‘We continue to seek accountability as to how this student was illiterate when she graduated and how the system failed her year after year’” they meant when they wrote this.

whose the one willfully misreading things now? That was a comment about the school seeking to blame anyone else. the ‘They’re’ refers to the school district mentioned at the start of the paragraph. The point there was that Ortiz was getting rubber stamped through everything. more funding most likely wouldn’t make a significant impact. What I can almost certainly assure you is that standardized testing won’t do a damned thing to stop it. Which is why Bush’s No Child Left Behind fucked up education. What ended up happening with NCLB is that schools were forced to teach to the test, meaning that rather than providing a well rounded education, they were instead basically providing test prep.

Yes, New England Republicans do tend to be much different than other states. No educational spending is not solely tied to party platform that ignores that blue states on average have higher house hold incomes and GDP due to historical & socioeconomic factors.

Most states in fact use a similar system of funding, with state funds being tied to a formula based on the number of students and other demographic factors. Sorry if you misunderstand me. That’s not tied to party platform. What is tied, though, is how much funding that actually becomes. there is a broad and common problem where schools in urban areas are significantly underfunded because people like you insist that local taxes should pay most of it. maybe, maybe not. that’s a different argument, and once again: Does not change that most of hartford’s funding comes from state sources, and republicans in the state legislature bitching about lack of educational standards reads more like manufactured outrage than anything else. At least to me. Maybe I’m wrong, but I rather doubt it.

The socioeconomic factors that give blue states the higher house hold income and gdp you mentioned? yeah, a large part of that is…you know. better public schools. Funny how that works. there is an exceedingly strong, and exceedingly global correlation between public school funding and long-term economic growth (by long term it’s in decades, not two or three years.)

Win 98 was when they started “plug and play”

Some of the ps/2 things were also plug and play but that partly depended on the hardware, and sometimes you had to tell it to go look for it. But rebooting was easier to do. Unless there was an update….

those old ps/2 mice and keyboard plugs were annoying as hell. definitely not designed to be easily hot-swapped.

to add to this answer, those 24 pins would have to be aligned correctly.

so, you’d have this problem, but worse because because it’s round and not basically flat:

On your BTW, my point wasn’t about Hartford’s education costs but more on broader educational costs. In suburban CT well funded schools get nearly 70% of their expenses paid for by local property taxes. The failure of the city of Hartford to raise funds on the municipal level vs other municipalities is relevant here. Which of course stems from the difference in economics status between their citizens. Hence my critique of local funding playing such a big role.

CT has some of the finest public schools in the nation. But they sure as hell are not the ones in Hartford.

“well funded schools” in what I’m guessing are… rich, white, suburbs.

hartford is lowest in terms of per-capita income. So blaming the city for their residents not being wealthy is… rather a dick move.

I was stating the CT Republicans had little to no impact on the outcome of this student’s education because they have little impact on local politics in such a blue area. And resulting should have no reason to presume that any policy stances of their have an impact on the people of Hartford.

If CT republicans are more eager to dump money on education int heir state than CT dems are, then they’re an entirely different breed of republicans than anywhere else in this country. Which is why education funding in red states is vastly exceeded by education funding in blue states.

which brings me back to my original point: It’s patently disingenuous, hypocritical and totally on brand, for a republican to call out failures as being related to funding when they’re predominately the ones who predominately called for the funding to be cut. Reduced education spending is a core part of the republican agenda. And it has been for as long as I can remember.

Personally, I rather expect the issue has more to do with school administration rather than funding. Of course, the school district would blame a lack of funding- that’s somebody else’s fault. They’re certainly not going to admit to systemic failures.

so you’re saying it’s not republicans that are predominately concerned with defunding education?

or that republicans are not routinely “surprised” when their policies cause problems- exactly like this?

interesting. You’re right. I’m just flinging mud. I couldn’t possibly have a valid point (like maybe don’t get rid of the fucking department of education.)

By the way. Your stats on funding sources is wrong. (PDF warning, but here’s the budget break down as of April '24

a screen grab of the overall breakdown:

Are you salaried or hourly? if you’re all hourly, the person showing up early, clock in as the first thing you do. You’re entitled to being paid for the time that you work. (and that might be why the person showing up 30 minutes early is showing up 30 minutes early. that’s 2.5 hours of overtime right there, every week.)

If you’re salaried, then start when the shift starts. They’re not entitled to anything more just because they want to knock off five minutes early.

In any case, the person showing up 30 minutes early in this case may be slow getting into scrubs, etc, may want to stop and chat people up on the way in, or just take a moment to adjust their thoughts. Alternatively, they take the bus.

Standard republican play book: Break shit and when called out wonder why it’s broken.

The school to prison pipeline is malfunctioning because Ortiz was smart enough to sue.

they shove all their “special” cookies up your computer’s ass and it gets super stoned and forgets it’s not supposed to tell you about how they’ve already taken over the world.

legally as mentioned elsewhere, it’s supposed to treat it as a rejection, except for “necessary” cookies. but, eh… I’m not sure I would trust that. if there’s a website you’re concerned pushing cookies, use firefox’s private window mode. (I wouldn’t trust chrome to not just pretend like incognito actually did something. while it really does nothing.) all cookies are sandboxed, and deleted after you close the browser.

This is exactly what people need. An official cryptid.

Technically, satan is a prosecutor, god is the judge and Jesus the defense attorney.

But, eh, it’s all just cosplay and your fucked.