It’s a good thing Lot had a de-sexing stick.

Lol gottem 🤣🤣🤣

Like carbon capture when it’s already too late

But he got rail workers like 3 more days of PTO to make up for telling them not to strike that one time!

This is like reading someone’s optimistic and totally original Game of Thrones theories before the final season.

Cops: Thankfully the Cybertruck is the greatest vehicle on the road. It easily contained the blast. And as you can see, the doors to the Trump Hotel are virtually indestructible. Nothing can touch them.

Ah well nevertheless

Is this ableist or am I overanalyzing it?

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Great suggestions, thanks.

They know those concepts from previous grades and learning. My example leaves out weeks of scaffolding.

Um are we forgetting that DHMO has a 100% fatality rate after exposure? It can take a lot of years to manifest, but there’s never been a case of someone surviving after being exposed.

Jesus I’m so fucking glad that didn’t happen to me.

I have dyslexia and legitimately didn’t learn how to read until I was about 13 years old. I mean, I got by on memorizing clusters of familiar looking phrases. Vibes-based reading. Oh and lots of cheating and lying about homework.

Two decades later, I still struggle compared to my peers. But I have had the privilege and luck to learn strategies to make up the difference.

I’m also an elementary school teacher. There’s only so hours I can try to teach my students to read. One of the biggest determining factors for reading ability/comprehension is how much vocabulary children are exposed to at an early age (0-4 years old). Reading to young children is crucial for language development, reading ability, and a slue of related skills. I don’t know enough about linguistics to know this for sure, but I’m assuming most of my students have parents with restricted vocabulary. And probably just not talked to enough as babies. Something just has to have affected their kids cognition in pernicious ways. Them getting COVID 8 or 9 times in their lives probably hasn’t helped either.

So the other week with my fifth graders we’re doing intro geometry stuff. I said something like, “A cylinder is just like the rectangular prism. It’s just that its base is a circle.” And like okay, I’ve been trying for half an hour trying to distill the absolute cluster fuck this caused in my students brains.

“It’s similar to this coffee mug. See? It has a circular base and it’s a prism. I know you’re thinking a prism has to look like the rectangular prism. It might be helpful to think of the cylinder as a circular prism.” I said, exasperated.

“What are you even saying?” a child asks rhetorically.

I eventually have to say something like, “Listen, if you can’t understand this it’s a skill issue and kinda cringe.” There’s a million little things that are hard to put into words how utterly dysfunctional some of these kids brains are and will be later in life.

Oh and I have to speak to these children’s parents on the reg, which is its own sort of hell.

I actually really like Superman in the story. He’s not the modern take on “Superman but evil.” He’s more or less the same guy he normally is, just less trusting of others to put it mildly. I think the biggest difference with his personality is that he feels much more intelligent than normally is in mainline stories. Probably because Miller leans into how his upbringing, political ideology, and powers could create a fiercely smart Superman. His intellect is overall used as a foil to Luthor’s. Regardless, there’s neat moments I appreciate with Superman.

Like when Superman meets Wonder Woman, recognizes she doesn’t speak Russian, flies to some library in Stalingrad or whatever, learns to speak Ancient Greek fluently, and flies back to Wonder Woman, all in about 10 seconds.

In this story, Superman is the antagonist, go figure, and the world is saved by the benevolent capitalist Lex Luthor, who uses the ultimate liberal move (a strongly worded letter) to beat Superman, which ushers in a golden age that ends in the destruction of Earth. Kind of an unintentional self-own.

Also the Batman of this universe is coded as an anarchist and has a tattered American flag hung in his Siberian batcave, like all anarchists.

I mean, have you ever seen Jesus and Luigi in the same room?

You’re not wrong either. Operator Syndrome (stupid ass name) is basically just “Why don’t I feel like a big strong man anymore? I keep doing manly things like facilitating the murder of brown people. What gives?”

No, it’s more about how the extreme stresses of military work result in a myriad of health issues. But chuds in congress think if soldiers could just take a testosterone shot then it’ll fix everything once and for all.

Yeah, I feel inspired and motivated. Not in relation to what Luigi did, just to start playing Minecraft again.