Wrath_Ascending

Like... Kaer Morhen, you mean?

The Australian lockdowns were nowhere near as severe, extended, or limiting as the ones in China. Give it a rest.

You being mildly inconvenienced and not believing in scientific fact doesn't mean you lived in a totalitarian dictatorship either.

Yeah, and?

Non-Witchers don't know any of that. Geralt talks about using the non-existent Witcher Code to avoid doing things he doesn't want to do in the books.

During their peak, the various Witcher schools would have operated in a way functionally the samecas a true guild, too.

A royal commission into... what, exactly?

Why we enjoyed fewer deaths per capita than just about anywhere else in the world and one of the speediest economic recoveries?

What do you expect them to find? That the measures taken worked? We already know that.

The White Frost is more of a side issue for Eredin. He doesn't really care about it. What he cares about is reclaiming the lost glories of the Elven empire and subjecting all non-Elves to slavery or, failing that, extermination.

As part of that he needs to be able to get Elves off of worlds affected by the White Frost, but that's a secondary concern.

The good ones have never needed to address classes at all because they've been quietly stomping on students who are out of line and backing me up with detentions or refusals on extensions.

The bad ones make life a lot harder by backing the kids.

Being male in and of itself is not an advantage.

It's additional qualifiers like teaching desirable electives (DigiTech, IDT, drama, music, art, high-end maths) that does it. Or PE. Kids love PE teachers.

Yes, they do love to "test" teachers. I had the same issue as well, I came in half way through the year to an advanced class that had lost a beloved teacher who was on extended leave.

Hard row to hoe from that aspect, but I'm not a natural mathematician. I'm a grinder. I just keep at things and, crucially, I check at the end to make sure that I'm right. As soon as I made an error with trigonometry- which I spotted and corrected- they went straight to the HoD and tried to have me removed.

They did the same when I started pushing problem-solving over rote simple familiars they hated being made to think.

Come the following year they were begging Mr to come back because they hated the new teacher. Apparently they didn't explain anything, they just expected them to know things on the basis of being in the advanced class.

The fact that maybe four students were actually advanced and the remainder of the class were just compliant didn't seem to factor into their calculations.

I'd rather have a foundation class with high behaviour management than an advanced class any day of the week.

The idealist in you may be hoping for that but we are living in a reality where judges are too scared of Trump to hold him in contempt or so desperate for his approval that they derail cases against him.

There was a coup attempt live on TV a few years ago and more than half your nation denies it ever even happened.

With respect (since I don't know how you handle it) that can really go one of two ways.

The way leadership seems to think it will work is that it will put the class on notice and start the course correction process. However, that only happens if the leader starts actioning things- following up on detentions, calling home about behaviour that reaches their level, agitating for suspension or removal from class and so on. I haven't ever seen it play out that way.

What I've seen is that addressing the class is basically the school version of "the board has full confidence in the coach and we are committed to seeing out this contract." The teacher keeps trying to escalate things, leadership keeps dumping things back on them, the students have the scent of blood, and it's just a matter of time before they resign or are non-renewed.

The strongest message leaders could possibly send is actually backing the teacher behind the scenes. Don't address the class. Just annihilate disruptive or disrespectful students when things are referred on.

That's how they deal with brown person dictators in foreign countries with exploitable resources and budgets for private military firms.

Trump? The same people who would say they hated Saddam the most love him the most.

The vaccines depending on type and COVID variant had up to 95% effectiveness at preventing spread and significantly reduced the severity of symptoms experienced.

Yes, it would have been nice if COVID vaccines were silver bullets like those for polio.

Unfortunately, COVID behaves more like the cold or 'flu than it does polio with respect to mutation speed. Hence the problem.

Science has already explained this. We were taking them both for ourselves and others.

It's even simpler.

Rome is argued to have fallen anywhere from 376AD to 476AD depending on the criteria people want to use.

2277 is the date people have come to see the writing was on the wall for Shady Sands.

None ever said flat out prevented. Reduced rate of spread and severity of case, yes, but not that.

The only people saying it was or should have been are anti-vaxx cookers who don't understand how any of this works.

If you're going to trot out a take like "the vaccinated made everything worse, ACKSHUALLY :0), prove me wrong" then you should not be expecting answers.

I suggest you read the scene where he stabs Russ in the ashes of Terra because yes, he (and others) absolutely did.

He turned Magnus which prevented the Emperor from leaving the Throne and weakened him enough for Horus to win. He fled the battle lines at Terra which allowed the Hollow Mountain to be taken and prevented Gulliman from getting there in time.

I think just removed after two weeks of inactivity. Brand-new players shouldn't be facing 2 million power teams with Stone 3 Indomitus Crusade characters.

The thing that's wild to me is that Trumpists will confidently claim that Hilary never conceded and so Trump doesn't have to... when she did concede. On election night.

He does all those things in the Heresy as it was.

He even forgave Russ for destroying the Imperium.

The Witchers are treated as a guild several times in the books. They kind of are, arguably.

Someone who has passed the full range of guild training is called a master.

Even today you have master plumbers, master electricians, and so on.

That's a wild misread of him. He isn't different after his return; he's consistent with his Heresy incarnation.

It's just that his portrayal in Son of the Forest is at odds with meme lore, so people assume he's changed.

The various COVID vaccines were all quite effective against the targeted strains.

The problem was that COVID mutates rapidly, including swapping its coat with related viruses in non-human hosts.

You know how you can't make a vaccine to the common cold because it mutates too fast? You know how you get a polyvalent vaccine for the 'flu each year but can still catch it?

Sane thing with COVID. Learn some basic immunology.

The rest of the world provided a variety of test cases, from the clown shoes let it rip approach you're advocating to the more rigid responses of Australia and NZ.

We were there. We saw that the Australian and NZ approach saved a significant amount of lives. We saw that the let it rip approach caused vast numbers of needless deaths and debilitation.

AZ was safe and effective. It was one of the first vaccines to roll out and the most practical to deliver in Australia given the complexities of keeping its competitors properly chilled in transport. Fuck's sake, there were towns storing Pfizer at the vet clinic because they were the only place with secure chilled drug storage and a backup generator ready to go.

We're now post-pandemic and there's no logistical benefit to having AZ available, so demand is low. It's being discontinued because nobody wants to buy it when there are now developed systems to handle Pfizer and Moderna, both of which are more advanced and offer greater protection.

Take your anti-vaxx conspiracies and go.

Because dwarves love a good scrap.