u/Grebnaws

Fwiw my wife is a teacher and in a union, she loathed closing the schools for COVID and hates teaching remotely. She has a good opinion of her representation but my union (SEIU) spends less than 2% of their budget on representation. They were horrible and ineffective. I separated from them shortly after the Janus ruling.

We watched it happen live on TV in 1st period English in my senior year of highschool. I had just talked to recruiters that week about joining the Navy. My mind was changed immediately.

It didn't prepare me for the changes we'd see over the next 25 years. That brief pulse of patriotism wasn't enough to keep the sworn enemies of our country from being elected within the same generation. I was a bright eyed ultra liberal Democrat, same as I'd been raised, until I began to wake up.

Sounds like one less semester worth paying for.

My wife teaches and she hates them but the schools have made them necessary. Now that everyone has a device they've turned snow days into "E-learning days" and given everyone an excuse to call for the next pandemic. School was supposed to be one of the few places I didn't have to police my children's screen time.

My in-laws have a TV over their mantle which is tuned to CNN all day long. I've only seen them change it for the Superbowl. If they actually want to watch something individually they use a laptop or a bedroom TV but CNN never goes off.

25 years ago I took a zero on my final because I copied the bibliography that my sibling used in the same course, from the same professor, a few years earlier. The essay was genuine and the course materials were unchanged so I just copied the final page over from the family computer to save time.

That final was worth 40% of my grade and I failed the course as a result.

Chat gpt and AI are in such common use today that these academic frauds must be legion. Combine that with DEI and here we are. It's all so vacuous.

My daughter was born in 8/21 and I was in the room with my wife during a well baby visit when her doctor told us that she would absolutely not take the vaccine or any boosters while pregnant.