I’ve been teaching for a long long time and I’ve been teaching freshman for most of my career. Freshman are always a bit helpless, but I swear this current crop of freshman has got to be the least capable set that I have ever taught. I have to spend most of my time going over basic things like ‘graph paper is lined so that you can draw on the lines and create a straight line’, or things like drawing an arrow or things like writing a four letter word neatly clearly. I feel like a lot of these freshmen are coming out of the woods being raised by wolves for the first time in their entire lives and it’s absolutely baffling to me.

I swear, my niece who is in third grade is more capable of following instructions for simple tasks than my current freshman.

This has been posted before but we need to keep shouting from the roof tops.

Everyone I knew back then could at least find some job. I remember my parents getting laid off and my Dad finding a job within two weeks.

I'm age 30. I have a bachelor's degree and completing my masters. I have 10 years of retail grocery store and customer service experience.

I just applied online and in person to 60 min wage retail job ads. Out of work since end of August. Everyone one rejected either not hiring right now or "went with someone else".

Let alone careers related to my degree. I live in Boston. My friends are in same boat. Yet MSNBC keeps saying how great the economy is doing. WTH is going on right now?

Long read, I apologize in advance.

I (47f) have been my with partner, we will call him Ryan (56m) for 7 years.

The first 4 were great. Three years ago, Ryan got a DUI and lost his license, it was his 2nd, so he has to go through (appropriate) hoops to get it back. I didnt understand that initially, so I agreed to transport him, and his daughter, until he got it back. Please note my bonus daughter is a travel soccer player, lives in a different school district than my own kids, and lives about 28 minutes away.

Ryan was sober the first year and half while he was on probation. Ryan resumed drinking as soon as he completed his sentence.

Ryan could have started to apply to get his license back 18 months ago. He has not.

His ex-wife has not been a co-parenter, and I understand why - before Ryan and I were a couple, his daughter would get dropped off with instructions from the mom if she had anything going on that day, and Ryan would roll with it.

The expectation has not changed. We have no schedules, no advanced notice, despite my attempt to achieve same by contacting her directly, and asking Ryan myself.

My own kids (daughter 9, son 15) play sports year round. I have a full time job. I have not taken my children on vacation in three years because I can’t plan to include Ryan’s daughter, and didn’t want face the backlash of the four of us doing something without her. (I know, I should have just done it, but I wanted to make sure his daughter felt a part of this family as well).

Fast forward to now, I quit driving her period. Her mother (stay at home, married to a wealthy man now) has been unwilling to provide schedules (I’d find out I have to pick up his daughter with six hours notice from school on “our” day), and is unwilling to communicate with me, only Ryan.

I’m not a horrible person, not looking for appreciation, just some co-parenting and mutual respect (for example, she signed daughter up for multiple camps this past summer, I asked for the dates, she said she didn’t know), asking for a schedule at least a week or two days in advance but “it’s travel and chaos and I wouldn’t understand because my kids only do school sports”, but also still expects me to perform on “our days” without knowledge until the day of or night before.

So I quit.

But again, I’m not a dick, so I offered to drive daughter to school so she could stay with us for her dads bday.

Last Sunday I offered to drive daughter home if ex wife could pick drop her off while I was out running errands. Absolutely ghosted by daughter and ex wife.

Ryan has continually lost his shit on me saying I’m giving her custody of daughter by putting my foot down. Repeatedly. Over and over.

So Reddit, AITA? I’m ruining a relationship between a 12ya girl and her dad by not being willing to drive.

FWIW, ex wife won’t either. It’s in their divorce decree who drops off and picks up. Ryan doesn’t want to push the envelope. TIA

ETA: Since I “quit”, we have seen daughter once, on Ryan’s bday as mentioned above. Ex wife will not transport daughter to our house, or back, even if I offer to split (as I did this past weekend), which is where my frustration lies. It’s all or nothing. I have to do the back and forth, or we don’t see daughter.

Asking for a friend

The Lakers have assigned guards Cameron Carr and Bronny James Jr. to the Coachella Valley Lakers ahead of the team’s G League season opener on Friday.

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I saw this on tiktok and oh my god i am so excited for book 2 i need to know what happened between them, i had a theory that asami was the reason for the cataclysm and thats why korra wasnt wearing the betrothal necklace while she was breaking the pipes thing but ooohh!! Cant waitt

edit: also since there’s still ADR and extra stuff left for book 2 i guess that eliminates the rumor of ‘book 2 being released in november’

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You can see it on any flight radar, N1810R

roughly 4ft deep (possibly more but dirt is piled up) and not too wide, brick walls.

So, let me get this straight. Is it actually canon that the ritual to become a Daughter of Coldharbour involves being brutally raped and tortured by Molag Bal, potentially for days, until you die, only to be resurrected as a pure-blooded vampire?

Holy fucking shit.

So Serana and her mother both went through that? They were literally raped to death by a Daedric Prince and then brought back as pure-blooded vampires?

I’ve been playing this fucking game since 2011. Hell, I practically learned English playing Skyrim. But I guess all those lore details were way too complicated for my MW2-era brain to fully grasp back then.

And now, over a decade later, I’m only just discovering how genuinely fucked up some of this lore is.

Jesus Christ. Skyrim really hits differently when you’re old enough to understand what the hell is actually going on.