The music accompanying the Night King scene is absolutely top-tier. Shame the storytelling failed to live up to it.

Disjointed

No idea on numbers, but considering IRL cowboys were poor folks doing hard work nobody else wanted to do...probably quite a few black men 0-3 generations removed from slavery.

Conservative politicians and calling the popular arts satanic: a tradition going back centuries.

I mean, ideally we avoid fascism BEFORE the point of civil war.

Pyrite: best known for "could be a conductor of electricity" and totally not "could be gold"

I mean, few things in life can be graded objectively so that's not really the best standard to hold education to. There's a lot of value in learning and practicing the skill of taking in information and then rearranging it into your own words, creating and supporting arguments from the knowledge you've gained.

But the subjectivity of it DOES mean that occasionally teachers will need to set aside their egos. Those who legitimately want to educate the next generation usually can do that, but some just enjoy having power over children and absolutely will not units forced to do so (and doing so will just create a new grudge against that student).

I once got a C- on an essay, but for extra credit we could submit that paper to a state essay contest. I was a state finalist in that contest, with my only revision from the class-submitted version being spell checking Britan->Britain.

Fuck you, Mrs Wickham.

Powerful words offering no solution, or even recommendation.

Wait until you see the Nepalese flag. It's not even a rectangle!

(It's also the only flag in the world to be mathematically defined by its country's constitution)

I got a call from this woman in Boston, out was just a product activation call so I had to read her a 20-character activation string. We use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for those, to reduce confusion over the phone.

The last character was Y-Yankee. I followed that up with "but I guess that's a politically incorrect word around Boston, huh?" And she goes on an absolute tirade about how people are way to sensitive, throwing out a few racist dogwhistles along the way.

I just said "Ma'am, I was making a joke about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees."

She went silent for a few seconds and hung up on me.

Blue MAGA

It's not even 8am and I've already read the dumbest shit I'll see all day