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Expired beer used in power plants in Australia:
https://t.co/R5ywaWfTwk
Very cool, and beats selling it off at 33% discount like where I live, but for fairly inactive, housebound old me, the main takeaway for today is a reminder that beer contains *lots* of calories. Thanks for passing the link on, @ahimsakerp!
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@isasv Well, I never got the option of relying on a supervisor but I some useful feedback would have been nice. I learned some stuff in the workshop but the thesis process was basically, “Go write stuff.” (Oh, and it was suggested I leave out one story I’d originally included.) @isasv Not that I’m lingering in bitterness, but I find it utterly unsurprising that the prof who was groping students also was not interested in advising those whose theses he was supervising. Missing stairs often are “missing” in multiple ways at once. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_s…
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@isasv (To be clear, we didn’t know quite how bad it was: most of us assumed it was more a schtick/sleazy joke or something, than some of the really awful stuff mentioned in the article. Whether people were warned about him like I was warned about Monty Floyd in 1st year, I dunno.) @isasv I only ended up working with him (Rob, not Monty—the latter was gone by my time) because everyone insisted the *other* fiction major prof would *never* work with a genre fiction writer. Should’ve asked the other guy anyway. *shrug* It was an incredibly disappointing experience.
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@isasv Congratulations! A good advisor is worth their weight in gold, just as a bad one is worth his weight in lead. Mine for my M.A. was… well, technically my advisor, I suppose. I got feedback on punctuation. @isasv He was also sort of a ringleader for lots of toxic stuff in the department:
That wasn’t exactly a secret at the time, either. I saw him hit on students at one or two parties.
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@kamorris101 @ToddKenreck He’s fun: tiny elderly goblin and would rather be in a library but absolutely rampages his way across battlefields. (Well, on days when I roll well.) Healing is something he does to the scorpion chair with tinker tools. We swapped the usual Barbarian magic for the Alarm spell.
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@kamorris101 @ToddKenreck That’s basically my B-team character in one game I play in: his chair has pincer claws, a scorpion tail, and crossbow bolt and javelin launchers. The (paraplegic) pilot’s a bookish goblin historian/mechanic. @kamorris101 @ToddKenreck (Though, I will note, instead of using Artificer, it was easier to build him as Warforged Barbarian with unusual proficiencies: the combat and physical ability scores are his chair’s (since those are what’s used in combat), while the the mental scores are his.)
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Great story, worth a look! twitter.com/SophieOrbital/…
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A petition on the Blue House website calling for improved education about racism and racial discrimination in the public education system in South Korea. If you’re in Korea and legally entitled to sign, do it! If not, pass it on. twitter.com/Kall_It_A_Day/…
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@isasv Ha, oh, all of this is familiar. Again, a little less amusing after decades of it. Also, when people start saying, “No, you don’t understand my answer because you’re a foreigner,” or whatever. But yeah, photoshopped fake medical documents make me laugh. @isasv Or the badly photoshopped fake screencap of a webpage announcing a funeral for a teacher who never died. (“I had to attend the funeral.”) Or the dad of a student emailing me asking, “Why did my son fail your class?” and my explaining, “Well, I’ve emailed your son about why, &…”
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@Kall_It_A_Day Ha, yeah, I mean, I can do really simple adjustments, but was hoping to go to level 2. Except if I bought a horn needing repairs I’d need to get to level 10. It’s a bit like the guy with the car in the garage for 15 years that he rebuilds, piece by piece, but—unlikely to happen. @Kall_It_A_Day Now, if I saw a Bb bass sax for an incredibly cheap price? Then I’d commit to rebuilding it. (I assume paying someone to do it would be more than buying one of those Chinese bass saxes from Wessex Tubas—they carry the better of the two modern Chinese bass saxes, apparently.
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@Kall_It_A_Day No, I know about the shop in Nakwon Sangha (though I actually had better results, with my tenor, by a guy in Incheon). I also know of an independent repairman in Seoul who does repairs, who studied somewhere in the States a while back. And my tenor’s fine. @Kall_It_A_Day I mean I have a tech book because I was hoping to learn the basics of it and do maintenance myself, and have also though of getting a busted-down horn to try repair, except I’d probably never spend much time on it. Maybe someday.
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@Kall_It_A_Day I mean, I think there’s elements to the system by which people become public school teachers that kind of filter out people with too much… I want to say common sense, but probably “reformist sentiment” is a better way of putting it. @Kall_It_A_Day If you are motivated by a deep conviction that the wrongs of the world need to be, and can be, righted NOW you’re probably much less likely to do a mind-numbing BA in pedagogy, and then study a full year (or 2+) for a 공무원 exam. The process tends to attracts other people more.
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@Kall_It_A_Day There was a sort of, “You think you’re better than us?” type vibe to it. While new, she also was basically forced to be the new foreign English teacher’s guide to everything because other English teachers REFUSED to acknowledge his presence, let alone speak to him in English. @Kall_It_A_Day Which is just to say, if there were a certain amount of inertia in terms of this kind of change to curriculum happening, it would surprise me not at all. I mean, also: I’ve known older people who were well-meaning and nice but also pretty passively racist.
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@Kall_It_A_Day Oh, sure… but it’s not like there’s a tremendous amount of space in the curriculum, *and* I will also say that it often matters letter what most teachers think than what the most senior, older teacher in their department things. A story: @Kall_It_A_Day A friend of mine studied TEFL hard, studied English hard, was committed to task-based, practice-centered learning. Got a job teaching. Was ostracized by all the other English teachers for—wait for it—speaking to her students in English in class.
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@Kall_It_A_Day That’s kind of exactly what I immediately said in the rest of the tweet-thread, if you click through and read how I followed up this first tweet! Or here’s a link for most of the posts in the thread, anyway:
https://t.co/XiwDMDwcIf @Kall_It_A_Day That said, after many years of major TV networks airing this, and it getting called out, and the networks apologizing and then repeating the same behavior… I mean, ignorance is becoming an increasingly untenable defense, when it’s being willfully maintained on and on.
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@bighan @chaiwalla5 It’s take a lot to surprise me, after all I’ve seen: the national security minister talking about “무식한 깜*이” with no (real) consequence while arguing for a Jeju naval base; politicians fondling the genitals of art statues while on diplomatic trip abroad… @bighan @chaiwalla5 (Change “you people” to “people” and that’s pretty much my feeling.)
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@chaiwalla5 Oh, sure. I’d be more concerned about that if I’d seen anything to make me think the kids are being doxxed or whatever. I mean, as I say, I think their parents, schools, and the media have failed them. They’re kids, it’s easy not to know. @chaiwalla5 I have lots more to say on that but, not right now.
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@chaiwalla5 I mean, I think Sam Okyere would have called out adults the same. I am not really privy to the wider discussion online, except the bits where people have spat at Okyere. It wouldn’t surprise me if people are raking the kids over the coals more than they would middle-aged men. @chaiwalla5 Or women. Or, you know, especially poor or underprivileged people, or any other marginalized group here. It’s a pretty well-established and familiar behavior online here (& to some degree everywhere, but I’ve noticed middle-aged males enjoying more leeway to act terribly here).
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(In some cases, anyway.)
Which to me means that the biggest problem here is that, despite the lip service to “moral education” in Korean schools, stuff like racism doesn’t seem to be getting addressed in anything like a sufficient or reasonable way. There’s bigger issues within the system that probably work against that, like pressure to cram a lot of academic material into kids, and the infamously conservative social environment faced even by teachers who would want to innovate or reform the curriculum in these areas.
