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  1. IronBrig4

    Former President and Convicted Felon Trump Thread

    They're going to start wearing diapers themselves so they can "own the libs."
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    Nope, can't feel sorry for her. Can't do it. It would have been different had she not been aware of the many problems with Tradwife culture and entered out of ignorance. But she knew it was toxic and abusive and she went into it anyways. To make matters worse, she encouraged a large audience to...
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    My high schoolers didn't get scared during active shooter drills either. They just regarded it as an annoying task to be endured, like those surprise K9 drug inspections.
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    The Disney Thread: For Everything Concerning the House of Mouse

    I enjoyed the Bad Batch series finale. I've got a soft spot for the clones.
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    [Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

    I'm compiling attendance for the semester. Some of my students have perfect or near-perfect attendance. They're the ones who shook my hand at the end of the final lecture and said they'd love to take another of my classes. Most have a few absences scattered around but it's nothing much to worry...
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    Minor victory thread

    Sweet.
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    Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

    It's a long story, but the Mom cat and one of her kittens are back on campus. The Mom (her name is Daisy) has been fixed and is much more social. Her kitten, Ivy, is wise to traps and is very skittish. Daisy will meow and run to me whenever I show up. Even after I feed her, she'll keep...
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    Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

    I agree with you up to a point. There are the issues that usually come with childhood. Teachers are equipped to handle obnoxious kids. But I'm talking about kids who intentionally upend water bottles onto the carpet, steal food from classmates and even teachers, and routinely hit their...
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    Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

    He gets it. Those aren’t my students, btw. They’re my wife’s and she and her colleagues are very much in agreement with me. And these are teachers who are around them all day, five days a week. “Feral” is an apt label considering our freakin’ DOG is better behaved than these particular...
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    Rant VIII: The Reckoning

    It's a rough situation, no doubt. Ecuador is sandwiched between two massive drug suppliers (Peru and Colombia) and it's caught in the middle of their turf wars. Up until a few years ago, I wanted to visit Guayaquil. Now I'd rather stay away.
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    Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

    Behavioral problems in school have gotten much worse since the pandemic. Ask an elementary school teacher and they’ll tell you about the ferals in their classes. The parents never taught them even basic manners or self-control. Suddenly I’m reminded of The Boondocks.
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    Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

    There are two kids in my wife’s class who have been giving her hell pretty much all year. They are loud, disruptive, violent thieves. She can’t do anything except send them to the principal, and then their parents collect them. That’s exactly what those hellions want. Their folks brush it off...
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    The EPIC WIN Thread 3: SON OF EPIC

    I have just been accepted for a week-long faculty seminar at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Accommodations and a lot of the meals will be paid for. It will start the week after my NYC workshop. I'm going to have a busy June. The hotel I'll be staying it is modeled after a 1940s hotel...
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    [TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread

    It started off strong. I especially liked their long tracking shots that show how even one zombie is dangerous. Season 2 was just a relentless slog filled with selfish and unlikeable characters.
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    [TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread

    I think they're supposed to look like toys. The 1950s saw ridiculous contraptions such as the Davy Crockett nuclear recoilless gun.
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    Minor victory thread

    I just got accepted for a National Endowment for the Humanities workshop in New York City. In June, I'll spend five days touring the NYC waterfront and learning about New York's maritime history with nineteen other scholars. The only reason this isn't an epic win is because the stipend covers...
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    Least Favourite Part of Your All-Time Favourite Game(s)?

    The first time you climb up to the Greybeards is a treat. It's just you and the elements, and it feels so immersive. It wears then after a while. XCOM 2 made me rage sometimes. But there were some instances where most of my team was low on health and out of both grenades and medpacks. That's...
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    Milkshake Ducks - The official thread of falling from grace

    They're apparently experts on European political history, American Civil War history, international security, public health, and evolutionary biology. I don't think the School of Hard Knocks is an accredited institution of higher learning.
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    Milkshake Ducks - The official thread of falling from grace

    I think some people try to deny the association between Nazism and far-right politics because of the troglodytes who have been causing trouble for the past eight years. For these folks, they don’t wish to condemn people who look like them, who they might know, and who share many of the same...
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