Oof that burns harder than the ISS will when it gets de-orbited
Munrock
joined 2 years ago
tens of Ukrainian soldiers
Tens, so... all of them?
He does that at home already so there was no cosplay challenge
This only applies to olympic athletes because they're the only ones strong enough to get out and push the rocket
In North Korea nobody calls kimchi just 'kimchi' because it has the Dear Leader's surname in it, u have to call it 'Thank you kimchi' and ppl in North Korea can't even make proper Kimchi anyway because they don't have vegetables, instead they use a mix of hair and skin from the dead bodies of rats and babies and use leaked reactor water as the pickling agent.
👆👆 This
Over the past several years Alipay and Wechat pay have gone from nowhere to everywhere in Hong Kong, and though I've gotten used to them for payments, my West-trained brain just kind of blanks out all of the other stuff in them as visual noise. But when I do open up one of those sub-apps out of idle curiousity, there's nothing but benefits in there. It was a full year before I tapped on the icon called 'bill payment' and found I can use Alipay to pay for literally all my bills - utilities, services, everything except the Western parts of my life like Netflix and Xbox Game Pass. And it's not like the banking systems' autopay services where you give up control and let the (London-owned) bank and service decide whether you pay or not - if a subscription service decides you have to sit on hold for an hour to cancel your subscription manually through a phone call, you can just stiff them instead: the app will side with you, and the subscription is de facto cancelled unless they want to explain in small claims court why they have such a user-unfriendly unsubscribe procedure.
Anyway that's a long-winded way of saying that despite the wild bazaar vibe you get from those apps, they're also extremely regulated in the public interest. The Government lets Alipay and Wechat make a fortune just by running those platforms on the understanding that if they step even a little out of line and leverage that privilege against the public, they're done. And that includes transaction fees.
Meanwhile Paypal is streamlined spotlessly but they take a fat chunk in transaction fees compared to the *checks notes* zero transaction fees that I've paid on Alipay. No transaction fees ever.
"Hey everyone, we found an upgrade to planned obsolescence: we call it planned obsolescence 2.0. Instead of designing hardware to break and require replacing after a few years, we'll design the software to break every month! We'll say it's an upgrade. It'll reduce our material costs and we can pass those savings on to the shareholder."
Well it must be possible, because these two redditors have clearly shat their brains out.
I love using Socratic Dialogue during lessons. When students are grasping the material well, you get very palpable feedback that they are, and it lights a fire in their enthusiasm when students understand that they have so much agency in the student-teacher interaction. On the flip side, when they're distracted or disinterested it slows your lesson down to a crawl, and time is the most scarce resource you have as a school teacher. Essentially you can get wildly mixed results because you're entrusting your students with a great deal of influence over the flow of your lesson time.
Always have an alternate plan if you plan to engage in dialectics with students. A good educator can present the initial ideas and concepts, and then gauge the responsiveness of the classroom and know whether to prompt dialogue or just lead. When you can get students really grasping a topic just from talking to them about it, it's the best feeling. And when you tell students that homework is to read the textbook pages that were planned for that lesson but that they didn't need, it's a huge confidence booster for them, too.
The unfortunate reality is that most schools are curriculum based. There's assessments with set criteria at regular intervals, and between those assessments you have finite lesson time to prepare your students for the assessment criteria. So truly open-ended dialogues are rare; they're a luxury you can afford after you've squared away the closed-ended lesson objectives.
Is Wang Yi thorium-powered or something? Comrade doesn't seem to sleep
"You activated my trap clause."