CicadaSpectre

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

I've been on a Warframe kick. I need to get back to playing Resident Evil IV, but just haven't been in the mood.

My favorite genre is probably first-person anything, though I have to usually settle for third-person. I also like strategy and puzzle games.

I'm anticipating Warframe 1999, but that's not coming out in 2025. I think. Idk, I don't keep up with stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

You forget their mastery of necromancy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

They're claiming Russia is losing 1,200 soldiers a day. They're delusional.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Or that they hate themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish I'd seen it. Sounds darkly funny.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Do you have the clip by chance? Or better still, is there a cache of all the videos, articles and posts of Ukraine being a "totally normal democracy"? I remember there was a giant shareable document breaking down and debunking the Uyghur genocide myth a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I agree. When the Russian intervention began and Western media did a huge crackdown on the truth, the only people I saw allowed to tell the Russian side on mainstream were MAGA crackpots who looked crazy doing it. Can't say there's no censorship, because the narrative is allowed on mainstream media, but presented from the side progressives hate and distrust the most. It's an insidious kind of manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah... there's always just enough self-awareness in their words that I have to wonder if they're poor liars, or suffering some kind of ingrained mental block that keeps them from finishing the line of logic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I love this game. I did well on my first playthrough, but of course I managed to get the two characters I wanted to save most killed :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did people even ask the easy questions (without being banned and censored)? Y'know... questions that would have been answered by looking at the photos of the Ukrainian soldiers and the symbols they wore? Or the posts and comments they frequently made? I'm actually curious what the "hard" questions could be, when a lot of the answers were pretty apparent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

And here I thought California would at least be a little better about maskers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't mask, but that's largely because the state I live in here in the US is overwhelmingly non-mask. If there were even, idk, a few businesses in the area that did it, I might - but there's not. Me wearing a mask around when nobody else is feels more like virtue signaling than anything. Damn near nobody else is wearing them, so few in fact that I can count the times I've seen them in the past year on one hand. If the idea is to wear the mask to reduce to spread, then it doesn't make any sense because the overwhelming majority aren't doing it.

But your situation is likely different. Perhaps you live in a more sensible state, where politely asking someone to mask isn't met with a tirade about how masks are Nazism.

 

I'm currently an emergency certified teacher, but I'm really interested in maritime work and know a little bit about the career path and some options of how to navigate it.

I tried finding a maritime community on Lemmygrad, but I didn't have much luck, so if it exists I'd appreciate a redirect. Any comrades here familiar with maritime work and law?

I've got some friends who want to move to Shenzhen. I used to live in Beijing for a time as a ESL teacher. I don't really enjoy teaching, and I want to do maritime work, but I also rather miss China. So, I was curious: can I live in China, doing maritime work? As an ESL teacher I know companies will hire and help me with visas and the like in order to live there, but shipping is an altogether different matter. I know in most countries, maritime work hires foreign nationals all the time, but it's also a security thing. As an American citizen, would it be possible for me to get a Chinese visa and work in the maritime industry while living there?

This is really just a pipe dream at the moment. I don't have much maritime experience, and I don't have a maritime job at the moment. This is more of a five-year plan type of situation - something to start working towards, if possible.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

I'm an emergency certified teacher for geography in middle school in the US. Our textbooks are most odious propaganda I've ever had to witness, and I just can't deal with it. I managed to swing some alternative sources when we covered Eastern Europe and Western Russia, and when we covered China, but now we're going over Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Russia.

The textbook is just vile. Takes any opportunity to overrepresent every negative aspect of socialist countries in ways obvious to people like us, but innocuous to children. I've been struggling to balance my lessons in a way that teaches the regions, but isn't brainrot. Some of the stuff I can let slide and use the textbook for, but anything Soviet related is written in an insanely biased way.

We have to rush through the region to catch up to where other classes are, so I only need a few days' worth of material, but it's difficult to find things on YT that cover history of the region that's 1) easy for kids to understand, and 2) doesn't try and make the region out to be some kind of nightmare.

view more: next ›