[-] falk1856@midwest.social 10 points 6 hours ago

We did at my work too. It wouldn't have been a problem had I not been working at a preschool.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social -5 points 1 day ago

I'm a former middle school principal and I hate and avoided the word "Bully" and "Bullying". It is one of those words that is insanely overused and thrown around. In most cases, kids engage in relational aggression and then one kid takes it too far (intentionally or not) or can "dish it out" but can't take it. There are some cases where kids will single out the "weird kid" but that is far more rare than relational aggression and much easier to identify and punish. The parents of the those aggressors usually are mortified by their own kid's behavior unless that kid is being raised by sociopaths.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

That looks like a calculated non-apology. An actual apology probably doesn't exist. He said "I'm sorry if anyone was offended". He placed the blame on the reaction that others had to his abhorrent statements, not on his actions themselves. He didn't seem to care that he was in the wrong, only that the reaction from the people was politically inconvenient for him.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 24 points 2 weeks ago

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a valid report of an instance of Trump ever uttering the words, "I'm Sorry?" I just wonder if this is a pathological thing for him and Fred instilled in him the idea that to apologize for anything at any time, no matter how wrong you are is to show weakness.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 67 points 1 month ago

As a middle school principal, I gas all my staff to be as gucci as this dope teacher.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Born in 1980. Seeing the original Mortal Kombat arcade for the first time at a smoke-filled bowling alley that when I was in 7th grade was pretty awe inspiring.

Aside from that playing Wolfenstein 3d for the first time was really trippy.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

As an American, it's nice to see that there are idiots all around the world and not just here.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 129 points 2 months ago

Something tells me that if Biden, Hillary and Obama were to start stumping for Harris and the media covered it, Trump would have no idea who he was actually facing in the election. There's no way his handlers would be able to keep him focused.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago

That it's pronounced heliclopter and not helicopter.

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[-] falk1856@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago

I was on pretty good terms with our manager. We'd write comments in the computer on customer accounts to try to get each other to laugh when we scanned the card. Some of the comments were about the customer, most was just random nonsense. I remember scanning a card and an alert notice popped up with the message "I pooped in the drop box" and I just lost it.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Or if you're a generation older, the story goes like this.

The year is 2000. You work at Blockbuster. A man and his child are picking out 2 movies for the weekend. A drunk old man wearing only a bathrobe approaches the counter and loudly asks where we keep the pornos. The man and his child quickly nope out of there and you're left dealing with the drunk.

[-] falk1856@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Short term, sure. But got 12 years of decent gaming out of my last PC that I just replaced in January. I don't know any consoles that continue to have releases over that sort of timeframe.

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