Ammo

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[Ammo @AmmoTime]

whatever you do, make it count

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@badkidjess @Soosh_OW We just need to get a dev that loves their grandma again 🥲

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@HunterALanier Friday the 13th got you good 😭

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@parsepixel That seems like it should cancel out the bad luck

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@SocialistJedi @bageloverwatch You get anti'd every time your boots leave the floor

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@RachelVT42 @judic8t Yes! My daughter had to go to school due to health issues for my wife, but over 8 hours a day and she's exhausted. Not to mention everything already mentioned above about the future.
I hate it 😕

[jude @judic8t]

Some thoughts on homeschooling, from someone who went to public school:

Most opinions I see on the effectiveness of homeschooling slot into two categories.

1. Homeschooling is terrible because parents aren't qualified and should be considered child abuse.

2. All parents who homeschool produce better results than the public education system.

I don't think either of these positions hold up under scrutiny, but one is more directionally correct than the other, and it's not the one that gives the state more control over your kids.

Some of the highest and lowest performers I know where homeschooled. I've known brilliant people who excelled and slackers who underperformed. And everyone else fell along the spectrum in the middle.

But this is also true of public school kids. Some achieved great results and others were obviously gonna be failures.

And these groups mixed so well together that I really couldn't see a pattern to definitively conclude homeschooling or public schooling was better.

However, another pattern did emerge among the homeschooled: kids usually performed at their highest potential, unless a parent created a terrible schooling environment. Basically, a student will reach a given potential, unless the environment dragged them down. But if a parent at least put effort into teaching and creating the right environment, then it was really up to the kid to achieve. The parent couldn't do much more.

So really then, the effectiveness of homeschooling is a roll of the dice about whether the parent truly cares and puts in the effort. As long as a terrible environment isn't created, the kid will do the best they can.

Which leads me to the most important question: homeschooling is a roll of the dice on whether or not they kid will be hindered, but what about public school?

I think public school is all but guaranteed to drag someone's potential down, or at least attempt to do it.

So while homeschooling is not a guarantee to produce better results, it at least offers the chance for someone to flourish. And the bad results would probably still be bad if they went to public school anyway.

So would you rather roll the dice or accept your fate?

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@softspineow Believe me no one flames me as much as myself I will get better

Masters one day 🙏

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@HimugLamuh @uwu_underground @BSidesPyongyang Lol I love the different activities it's so cute

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@HunterALanier That's such a great saying, I love that!

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@KianErfaan This is an image of my coworker

[divenire @divya_venn]

i have been making a video a day for the last 15 days and you have no idea how much i hate it. i am SO uncomfortable on camera. in fact the whole concept of a social media skeeves me out. before i started writing on twitter, i had NO social media at all for like 8 years.

S asked me why I do it. I told him I was too tired to think about it, and I'd answer after I did what I resolved to do, which was make a video every day for 15 days. Here is my answer:

Writing is my joy and my vocation. Good writing saved me as a lonely child and an unhappy teenager and it continues to save me now. I credit who I am to these authors, long dead, who sent their words out into the world like small ships out to sea. I still prefer books, but most people don't. And if social media is the game I must play to get people to read good writing (mine and others) then by golly I'll do it.

It drives me crazy to see youtube channels and instagram accounts with 1M+ religious viewers and most of them can't write worth a damn, and they don't CARE either. I'll sit there hypnotized by their reels and think at the end "god I just spent 3 minutes of my life watching this and not a single thing of substance was said"

Well, I'm a pragmatist. I'll meet people where they are at. If you need the sugar of a beautifully filmed and edited video made with a $1.5k camera and a $800 lens and a $200 production software and 4 hours of my time, to get your spoonful of medicine down, just to read something it took me half an hour to write that I think is important, that would have helped me a couple years ago, then well I'll DO IT.

And god, if there's a kid raised on intellectual junk food, Peppa the pig and whatever nonsense Pixar is up to these days and brain rot reels, who stumbles across one of my videos and that's the first taste of careful writing he's ever had, and that gets him into blogs, then books, and he goes on to become a great reader, then as Eminem said "if one kid out of a hundred million/Who are going through a struggle feels it and relates, that's great" I'll do it for that kid.

because you know i was lucky enough to grow up with no phones, and hardly a computer, and walking distance from a library, and a mom who cared enough to wrestle me into a chair and make me learn how to read. but god we live in a depraved age, and I WILL DO MY SMALL PART IN TURNING THE TIDE. I WILL MAKE THINGS THAT GO VIRAL THAT ARE NOT SLOP, THAT MAKE YOU THINK, THAT HAVE TASTE!! and i do not know how to do it. i have a LONG way to go in being a writer, a MUCH LONGER way to go in making these videos, but as Reepicheep said

“My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.”

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@JS_StrngstSldr @EubanksJarom Omni would never

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@FiverMacGyver @witchesflight

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New Dad superpower unlocked

[Kimberly McCoy @Serenity3000]

So I have discovered/realized my dad has been speed-reading all the books I read before I can finish them so he has something to talk to me about. He said he started when I was like 8.

🤯🥺❤️‍🩹

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@BeautyInTheMyre Personally I've never seen a woman I liked more with short hair than long.

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@dobvesna "Heroes never di-"

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@dobvesna @OWsunshine My cass is nerfed the other cass has plot armor

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@larosadelicata It really was a subtle dig at your omp+tern setup

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@FamilyofAutumn Well I just haven't had it in me to say "zoinks" since and that's just no fun

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@mind_worm_ There is a lot of it on here. Or at least it's getting pushed a lot