Getting a tech for your first win, especially in a match where your team got crushed is a big deal, especially for a new athlete. I wouldn’t call anything about that a participation trophy.

In fact, one of my proudest memories as a HS wrestler was losing by one in a dual meet against our rivals where the coaches asked me to wrestle up two weight classes and my goal was “don’t get teched or pinned.” I lost, but I did my part and the team won (so the inverse of your sitch). I would say that an individual win and team loss or an individual loss but team win are both worth celebrating. That’s one of my favorite things about wrestling is that you can have a good day regardless of who the team is facing or how everyone else does.

The political prints about Spain and Spanish politics are particularly interesting to me

I dunno, I think that’s part of the magic of the Black Paintings. To me, what makes them truly unsettling (in the best way) is the fact that he painted them exclusively for his own desire and that we’re limited to guessing the subject matter (which, although ambiguous, was undoubtedly dark).

I GOT SOMETHING TO PUT IN YOU!

AT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BAR!

Depends on your town. I live in a small tourist town with one cinema and they only play the biggest hits, focusing on the lowest common denominator. I mean, I’m not even sure they screened Sinners, but they definitely played The Minecraft Movie in 4 (out of 14) theaters for months. If I want to go to a different cinema, I have to drive 45 minutes to get to the next town (where the selection still sucks, but at least they’ve got more screens) or 75 min to get to the closest independent theater.

The biggest part of the issue in state-run higher-ed is the glacial pace at which hiring happens vs. how fast the works shows up. My organization is legitimately trying to hire appropriately (I believe), but we can’t allocate resources until the students show up, and then it’s an 18 month turn around between filing a faculty hiring request and the person starting work due to the standard academic hiring cycle and state-mandated EEO requirements (and that’s assuming that admin approve the hiring request the first time you ask for it, which they do as often as they can). On the other hand, it only takes 2 weeks for people to resign and move on, so we’re losing people as fast as we can hire them. We could to try to hire faster, but it’s a tiny school with a tiny HR (so we’re capped at hiring about 4-5 faculty positions per year) and a small number of faculty (so it’s hard getting enough people to volunteer when you need to fill a hiring committee).

Honestly, I really like the organization and think admin are making good choices, but we legally can’t turn students away, so when more people enroll, there’s more work with the same number of workers for at least a year. It’s honestly a good problem to have, and they do a decent job at compensating me for my extra work, but I’d rather have more help and less OT as soon as we can manage it.

All that said, working in private industry or in an organization that doesn’t have as many restrictions, I would absolutely be saying “no” a lot more. As it is, when I say no, it’s my colleagues and the students that feel the repercussions, not admin, and I have a hard time being OK with that.

It’s not my fault, but it is definitely my problem if I’m in a position to help people and decide not to. Make no mistake, I raise holy hell while I’m doing it, but the lack of workers doesn’t lessen the amount of work that needs to get done. Maybe it’s just naivete, but I’m idealistic enough to believe that helping students is the most important thing I can do, so I only say yes to things that are directly helping students, faculty, and staff (admin and their busy work can fuck right off with their bloated salaries and support staff)

This is definitely a difference between people that believe the work they do is important and people just punching a clock.

I teach at a community college (salaried) and my partner works as staff in the same school (hourly). She works her ass off, but when she gets to the end of the day, she is done and leaves work at the office, so attending meetings is no big deal to her. Meanwhile, I’ve gotten involved enough in peripheral committee work that I regularly stay up working until 1AM because there are literally not enough hours in the day to get done what needs to get done. I could try to leave work at work, but I’d be hanging students and fellow instructors out to dry, so that’s not always an option.

not often enough. It’s funny though, Community definitely nails a lot of aspects of community college life.

IRL, this is why conservatives are working so hard to turn community colleges into vocational schools as opposed to low-cost ways to transfer to 4-year schools.

History and systemic racism did a great job of making sure that going straight from HS to 4-year schools is only possible if you come from privilege (for the most part), and community colleges fought back to give all people access to traditional college education. So now, conservatives are trying to incentivize CC’s turning into vocational schools while pushing to cut their funding at every opportunity.

Source: I teach in a CC and have watched all sorts of right-wing talking points get pushed onto us under the guise of student success. Turns out, forcing unprepared students to leave cutting funding to their community college if they don’t finish fast enough is not really about student success; it’s about limiting their options. edit: they’re not truly forcing them to leave, just penalizing colleges if it takes students more than 3 years to transfer and trying to make it illegal to offer foundational math/English courses

That’s what my friends call me, the kinki idiot

Kerbal Space Program has tons of mods that add realism, including a “realism overhaul” and a “Real Solar System” mod that also adds a realistic sky box

It’s not the author, it’s the neurotypical dino. I think the point is that neurotypical people think ADHD behaviors/symptoms are voluntary.

I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade

Not to be that guy, but there was the whole Bosnian Genocide thing from 92-95 and the Gulf War from 90-91 that really legitimized the US practice of inference in the Middle East in the eyes of many US citizens. Up until then, most Americans still saw intervention a la the Iran Contra Affair as a negative.

Plus, the Troubles in North Ireland were still in pretty high gear until 1998, most of Africa was involved in civil wars and ethnic cleansing for a large chunk of the 90’s, and the collapse of the USSR, which was viewed as a positive in many parts of the world, did leave a power vacuum that resulted in numerous civil wars and militant separatist movements throughout eastern Europe and western Asia

Well, considering Murica is a Christian nation, it’s fine for politics to be brought into church (and vice versa) as long as it’s my religion ^/s

I think that’s a “santoku” knife, but I’m not an expert. And I think it’s the style of knife, not a brand, but it works pretty much just like a chef’s knife as near as I can tell (as a home cook that pays attention to techniques but hasn’t sought out training on knife styles before)

If you’re cutting soft soft bread, then a plain blade is fine, but if it’s a crusty bread like a sourdough, the serrated blade is much better at cutting the crust without crushing the soft interior (IME, not a chef)

Except the antagonist of the Muppets movie knew Kermit was a frog, which is why he wanted to kill him and eat/sell his frog legs at his frog leg restaurant. You’re right that no one saw anything unusual about a talking frog (and that is part of the humor), but at least some people recognized that he was a frog.

Luke isn’t even the best plagiarist in the Gospels (because Matthew is a more direct adaptation of Mark than Luke)

I hate how accurate this feels