Learning how to write efficiently and having gained a enough knowledge of the subject that you can slap together an essay in 30 minutes on the bus is putting the work in it.

You say they were “just good”. Sounds like they had to “git gud” in the first place.

I had the opposite teacher (also 7th grade), who lost my essay, claimed I didn’t do it, and gave me a zero. I still had the doc file, so printed it off again and re-handed it in. But by then it was “past the late turn in date so still worth zero.”

Oh, and it was past the late turn in date because she took a month to grade them, so I had no idea she had lost mine until past her arbitrary deadline.

From this experience I learned about covering your ass in communications with authorities, which I don’t think was what I was supposed to learn from the essay but it sure worked.

Choosing to read this in Astarion’s voice.

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I mean, by the original meaning of “first world country” we were by definition.

The first and second world countries were the US and USSR after WW II, and their immediate spheres of influence. The term “third world country” was, if I recall correctly, originally a self-assigned label to essentially say “we’re not part of this shit-flinging fight”. Which then people started viewing as “too poor to be worth dragging into either major power’s sphere of influence” and then just “poor”.

The first season of Andor is some of the best TV I have ever watched. Its incredibly well done.

The second season is still good, just not great. Apparently there were originally supposed to be 5 seasons, and it kind of shows that they compacted it all into two. The highs of season 2 are on par with season 1, but its just not as consistently excellent.

The ending isn’t a grand finale, but it can’t be. The grand finale is Rogue One. I didn’t have a problem with it because I always had RO in mind as the last, extra long episode.

1000% still worth a watch. Easily the best Star Wars content to have come out in the Disney era by a mile.

My partner and I stumbled across first edition Ticknor & Fields printings (1867) of Henry Longfellow’s translations of Inferno and Purgatorio at a used bookstore a couple years back. Got them for a song since they were missing the Paradiso to complete the set.

The owner said that they had been sitting in his storage for 15 years as part of an estate donation he got and he finally had the chance to go through it. When he found them he tore apart the rest of the boxes looking for the Paradiso but it just wasn’t there.

Now its our white whale. Every used bookstore we go in we scour the classics/oldest/rare book section looking to complete the set.

Who art a douchebag

“Of course he has a gun. This is Texas, everybody has a gun. My florist has a gun!”

Cast Vicious Mockery.

In the book it is explained that since (in universe) her vision is based on movement, she roars to scare prey into fleeing so that she can see them.

This guy can’t lizardpost.

In the original Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton, one of the animals they’ve cloned are these giant dragonflies. Its only one line in the book (Tim, one if the kids, sees one fly by and recalls reading about them) but it caught my attention as just straight impossible. I remember thinking, “Unless you’re somehow controlling the oxygen level of the air around this entire island, there’s no way that bug can’t breathe.”

Kidnapping is a crime.

Toothpaste companies give free products to freshly graduated dental students, then ask them if they would recommend it. They get a bunch of “sure, whatever, yeah” replies and boom, “9 out of 10 dentists recommend! We can’t say 10 out of 10 because legal says that opens us up to lawsuits.”

> Be me

> American college kid by himself in Italy for a week

> Staying at hotel with Italian hottie at the front desk

> Hell yeah, love this country

> Eating all the pizza cause that’s Italian food, right?

> The pizzas are so goddamn thin

> Like eating a sheet of paper

> Eat an entire pizza and still hungry

> This goes on for like three days

> Tired of being hungry

> New pizza place, order three entire pizzas

> “They’ll just think I’m picking up for my friends”

> Get my pizzas, hell yes

> Walk back to hotel

> Walk past the front desk carrying three pizzas

> Front desk hottie knows I’m there alone

> Cover blown

> Go up to my room and eat all three pizzas in shame

> Finally fucking full

Worth it.