What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[Fake]

Holy hellfire Batman.

 

o_0

[Nighthawk]

First of all, OH MY GOD GLEE. :DDDDD

 

Second, I finished my painting, finally!! :DD Shall I post a picture?

 

Third, feeling super happy/giddy/wheeeee... :DDDD

 

This is a nice change from being all sick and depressed the last few days.

[Fake]

:D

 

It hardens my wee little shriveled blackened heart when I hear things like this.

 

*sniffles happily*

[EndOfTheEarth]

My Hist Professor: (My name here)! Thanks for taking the opposing opinion in class today, it really helped move the conversation along!

 

Me: That? That's more of an automatic thing; you could put my own writing in front of me and I'd be critical of it. Happy to know I helped though!

[Xuut]

I have learned to always agree with my Social teacher. 

 

She hates you if you don't agree with her and when she hates you, you get low marks. Like, we had this one position paper where it asked whether or not people should apologize to governments for past mistakes (like the mistreatment of the indigenous people) and everyone who said no either got 75 or lower. One of the really smart guys in my class got a 50. My teacher thought everyone should agree.  

 

It's easier for me because I do agree with some of her views, others irk me...

[EndOfTheEarth]

XD

No, you always agree with the professor. You never agree with anyone else. Except for when the professor is being incomprehensibly dumb (i.e. my MetEco Professor, who thought that humans need gravity to live), you always agree, or challenge in the form of a polite question ("But professor, that doesn't exactly apply over here, could you please explain to me how that fits?").

 

You can actually go to the principal with that paper if you can get the whole class to show this. Most school systems will sack a teacher if they are faced with irrefutable evidence by students that the teacher is biased. After all, you're being graded to prove any point; if she wanted a specific point, then it would have been written on the assignment sheet.

[Contradiction]

my MetEco Professor, who thought that humans need gravity to live

 

o.e Wow. Are you sure that wasn't just an in-the-moment-stupidity kind of a thing, because... wow.

[EndOfTheEarth]

No, it wasn't.

 

Him: What do humans need to live?

Person 1: Food

Him: Good, food, anything else?

Person 2: Water

Him: Water yes, of course, someone else?

Me: The right air pressure.

Him: Okay, gravity--

Me: No, not gravity, air pressure. If humans couldn't live without gravity, then we couldn't have sent anyone into space.

Him: *stares at me dumbly* Uh, ok, so Gravity. Another thing?

Me: *Headdesk*

 

I shit you not.

 

I had so much fun in that class.

[nathan_p]

That's, uh. Special.

 

At least he's not teaching Bio or something.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Metropolitian Ecology. Green movement, local currencies and all that other Utopia BS.

 

Here's a short essay that I wrote for his class:

 

Frankly, with all the previous discussion with regards to green ideas, the jobs provided were by all means expected and unimpressive; the original shock was expended when we were discussing the social requirements that these jobs must come from. What it all comes down to, in review, is that the green-collar worker is either a scientist, or a construction worker: they are either putting it down on paper, or they’re setting it up on the land. Consider, much of the point of the green movement is based in alternate energy and cleaner means of disposal. So, naturally, you have someone go in there, an engineer most likely, and think up a system that works. Then you hire a bunch of other people to build your new bioreactor, or windmill, or public transportation, or ‘green housing’

True, there is also the farmer, but we just essentially need him to keep doing what he’s already doing so well already, perhaps using some of the space the construction workers cleared out with their wrecking ball.

So then, what kind of green job can you make that doesn’t already fall into these categories?

I have one for you: Turbine operator.

The concept of this idea is that during the day, you take all the people who can’t find jobs otherwise, and you plant them in teams on the human sized equivilants of giant gerbil wheels (I’d argue the hand-crank version, but that’s harder to do with a group). These are then run upon, acting as a human powered turbine for a generator, which in turn distributes half of its energy to the working world, and the other half to batteries, which are used later in the day to supplement other green energy forms when everyone has gone home from work. This is an especially excellent idea, because for it to be at all practical it would involve a great number of people—essentially all the homeless and or imprisoned criminals in Philadelphia, and this would take them off the streets during the day, and leave them too tired to do anything that would cause problems for others, while at the same time benifiting everyone else. Additionally, humans are a self-renewable resource, as are both homelessness and crime, and therefore there will never be a lack of people to operate said device. Even better, because of the proliferation of said devices, it would require a great number of people in the other green job, which is to say engineers and construction workers, to help design, construct, and maintain said devices.

 

 

 

In short, I recommended a return to forced labor. I got an A.

[nathan_p]

Oh my God, that's wonderful XD

[nathan_p]

Finding a flashdrive for two reasons:

 

- I don't have Winrar on this laptop.

 

- All these files total over a gig, and I am old-fashioned.