u/konstrukt_238

Is it always insanely busy or just at the end of the month?

Like, will I be ok going there on the way to work tomorrow or should I get in line now?

Does anyone know someone who could help with removing a copperhead that has made its home under my mailbox?

If it was a non venomous snake, I'd be happy to let it stay where it is, but I don't want it to strike an unsuspecting kid or dog that walks by.

Finally got to 175k for the first time, and I'm planning a trip to the UK. What I'm seeing with the SWUs is that I can easily get an upgrade for the domestic, but see no availability for the legs to LHR.

If I use it, will i get waitlisted for the LHR leg, Or will I just burn a SWU for a 20 minute flight from GSO to CLT? And if the LHR leg doesn't clear, am I SOL or can I withdraw the SWU?

These students have me on my last nerve and are dancing all over it.

Case in point. I have students look through a 3 month period of an abolitionist newspaper, find an issue that they are covering in the paper, and then write a short research paper on the subject, centering it on the abolitionist voices in the paper.

First part is FIND SOME SHIT THAT INTERESTS YOU (phrased a little better with instructions on how to do it correctly). Student responds with this:

>For my reading of The Liberator (September-November 1850), I read mainly of the controversy and reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This law was part of the Compromise of 1850 and mandated that citizens and government officials in free states assist in seizing and retrieving enslaved people who escaped from slavery. The articles in The Liberator portrayed abolitionists as strongly opposed to the law because they considered it extended the power of slavery to the areas that would be free. The Liberator covered abolitionist meetings, speeches, and protests against the Fugitive Slave Act on a number of fronts. Its articles exhorted its readers to disobey the law and promote escaped enslaved people. I realized the abolition movement was fighting not only for the end of slavery itself, although it certainly was, but also against laws that upheld, or made easier, slavery to obtain and escape. The significance of the event lay in the fact that it inflamed conflict between abolitionists and pro-slavery people. Moreover, it put some attention back on the injustice of slavery and thereby fomented stronger oppositional movements into existence too. All this sort of debate continued to drive the United States until the Civil War, and finally its end—with the abolition of slavery.

When I gave him the zero he deserved for the AI slop that this is, his simple reply was "can I still make an A in the course, and when is the last date to drop the class"

The lack of decency regarding AI cheating is what gets to me. These people have no shame. What is the point of you coming to a place of learning if you don't intend to learn and if you somehow manage to navigate a path to graduation, will end up with a piece of paper that is useless because you acquired none of the skills that come with that diploma, and in reality will just be saddled with debt that you'll never pay off because the system of higher education that we created in this country is run as a pipe dream for students and cash cow for administrators and a golden goose for the financial industry.

Why doesn't this student just go get an HVAC certification? I'm not denigrating HVAC certifications by any means, I'm just pointing out that it would take much less time and you'll be on the job within a year, making decent money. Probably a lot more if you work for the scammy company that makes the McDonald's Ice Cream Machines.