I used to do the same every year or two on Reddit, for similar reasons. Mostly to prevent the accidental accumulation of PII that could be compiled to dox me. Just nuke the old account, start fresh with a brand new account, and import subscriptions so my home page didn’t drastically change. I even had a dedicated lurking account for browsing the NSFW subs.

Texas: We had it three times. All three times were ineffectual or outright wrong.

First was in 3rd grade (9 years old) where the boys and girls were split into different classrooms. This was mostly the “your body is going to change, your penis will sometimes get hard, you’ll get hair in new places, please for the love of god wear antiperspirant” talk. They didn’t really touch on the opposite sex at all in this one, except to vaguely say that the girls would also experience some changes of their own.

Second was in middle school, probably 7th grade (13 years old). They marched us all into the gymatorium and had us sit on the floor in front of the stage. They brought in a dude who looked and acted a lot like a church youth leader. Very much the “hey kids, I’m the cool relatable teacher” type. This was an abstinence-only sex talk. We were told that condoms don’t prevent pregnancy or STIs, (“on the microscopic level, latex looks like Swiss cheese”), and can actually increase the risk of STIs in some cases by “sealing everything in”. We were told that women’s birth control is ineffective and probably shouldn’t even be legal to sell because of the horrible side effects. We were shown lots of gory and graphic images of sex organs in various states of disease or decay. This was basically the start of the “if you have sex you’re going to catch a ton of diseases and then die” messaging. We were told that the only safe way to have sex is to wait until after marriage.

Then in high school, we had Health as a required elective. It could be taken anywhere from 9th to 12th grade (15-18 years old). The class was mostly focused on things like nutrition (using the very outdated food pyramid) and exercise (without any actual practical portions where we went to the gym). Sex ed in this class consisted of a single class session (~55 minutes) of more “if you have sex it’ll rot, and then you’ll die” messaging.

Naturally, kids had a lot of unprotected sex, because teenagers are horny. They tried sex, realized they didn’t seem to get sick, and then kept having it. And they didn’t use protection, because they were told that condoms were ineffective. IIRC we had around a dozen girls get pregnant in high school. Also, all three sex talks were entirely heteronormative, with zero mention of LGBTQ+ stuff.

Edit: My partner went to school in a neighboring town. They didn’t get the middle school talk, and Health was an optional elective for their high school. So the only one they actually got was the first talk in elementary school.

Media literacy and reading comprehension. Specifically, the ability to infer an intended target audience for a particular piece of work. A large part of media literacy is being able to view a piece of media, and infer the intended audience. Maybe you see an ad for pink razors, and can infer that it is aimed at women who shave. But that’s just a simple example. It should also extend to things like internet comments.

People have become so accustomed to laser-focused algorithms determining our media consumption. Before, people would see a video or comment they didn’t resonate with, infer that it wasn’t aimed at them, and move the fuck on. But now, people are so used to their algorithm being dialed in. It is to the point that encountering things you don’t vibe with is outright jarring. People don’t just move on anymore. They get aggressive.

Maybe I make a reel about the proper way to throw a baseball. I’ll inevitably get at least one or two “but what about me? I’m in a wheelchair, on crutches, have a bad shoulder, have bad eyesight and can’t aim, etc… Before, those people would have gone “this clearly isn’t aimed at me” and moved the fuck on. But now they make a point of going “but you didn’t make this specifically for me.

It has gotten so bad that content creators have started adding disclaimers to their videos, news articles, opinion pieces, etc… It’s fairly common to see quick “and before I get started, this video is just for [target demographic]” as if it’s a cutesy little thing. But the reality is that if they don’t add that disclaimer, they’ll be inundated with “but what about [outlier that the content clearly wasn’t directed at]” types of responses.

I actually recommend against dual booting, because Windows is not a friendly neighbor. It has a bad habit of fucking with boot loaders and insisting that it be the first priority every time it updates.

Like corpses. And corpses don’t tend to be particularly strong or fast once they start rotting. Unless there’s some sort of magic involved to stop the decomposition process, they’ll likely all die out as they rot. The fresher zombies will take a few weeks to become inert, but that’s a blip in the radar in the grand scheme of things.

But the bigger issue then becomes what caused it. If it was something like a prion disease, (like Mad Cow Disease) then you’re likely fucked even after the zombies all rot; Prions don’t decompose, and (if the zombie outbreak was big enough) you’re almost guaranteed to catch it via dirty soil exposure (either directly, or via tainted produce that was grown where a zombie died) eventually.

In terms of real world applications, prestidigitation is pretty fucking solid. It’s sort of a wizard’s “do anything” spell. Flavor food, clean something, warm up or cool something, make a small trinket, etc… And since it’s a cantrip, you can use it as often as your imagination will allow.

Your lunch got cold? You don’t need a microwave, because in just 6 seconds of finger waggling, your food is now hot. You wish you had some salt to add to it? No need, just waggle your fingers and flavor it however you want. Forgot to do the dishes, and realize you don’t have any clean spoons to eat it with? No need, just waggle your fingers and now your dishes are all clean. Ice cream is starting to melt? Just cool it back down again.

Alternatively, just like it can be used to clean, it can also be used to soil objects. If someone pissed you off, you could literally soil their pants.

Why not just take it a step further, and go full Jean Grey? She can do everything Magneto can do, and then some. She affects things on the atomic level with her psychokinesis, so she can literally split or combine atoms to be whatever she wants them to be. She could make a nuke out of thin air, or stop a nuke from exploding by turning the isotope into lead. No need to manipulate the iron in your blood when she can just manipulate your blood cells directly.

But this also sort of misses the point of the question, I think. The question was about which powers would be most useful. In reality, I don’t have a lot of use for being able to manipulate metals. It may come in handy occasionally… But unless they go full superhero/villain mode, there’s very little practical use for the average person. Unless you’re a welder or work in construction, because being able to warp metal doesn’t have a lot of practical applications for an office drone.

I started to argue that it would be a Nat 1. But then I realized that if a D1 existed, it would only be able to roll Nat 1’s… Which feels apt.

Ding ding ding. It’s just another form of the “won’t someone think of the children” fear mongering that gets used to restrict freedoms.

I suppose that depends on how you define it, because they’re definitely tangentially related. I started my career in theater, running lights and audio for live events. Now I sell audio equipment, which I got familiar with by working in theater. I still occasionally run shows too, (when I have the time), because it’s what I enjoy doing. But the sales side of things is where the money is, so that’s where I landed in the course of my career. The vast majority of my clients are theaters, and if someone asked I’d confidently say that I work in theater.

That’s pretty much every arts industry though. The theater and film industries also have a bad habit of chewing up new workers, under the guise of “working on a passion project”. And it doesn’t matter how many people they chew through; There will always be a new graduating class full of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed graduates to abuse.

Hell, look at the video game industry. The entire industry is designed around underpaying creatives, forcing them to work unreasonable 60-80 hour weeks because of unreasonable launch dates set by marketing departments, and then abandoning the workers as soon as the game is complete. All because the creatives are passionate about what they’re creating, and capitalism has learned that it can abuse that passion. Hell, early Japanese video games even refused to put the employees in the game credits, because the publishing companies didn’t think the people who designed the games were important enough to mention.

Creative workers will tolerate a lot just so they can say they worked on a project.

Unfortunately, company scrip is legal as long as they’re still paying at least minimum wage in USD. Like they can pay you $7.25 per hour (federal minimum wage, assuming your state doesn’t have a higher minimum wage) plus $92.25 per hour in company scrip. And they could claim that your wage is $100 per hour, because of the company scrip. It’s scummy, but technically legal.

Because at the time, minimum wage was actually intended to cover the cost of living (housing, utilities, food, and a single car) for a family of three. So as long as they were at least paying the minimum wage to cover your basic essentials, the scrip was legal. Nowadays, minimum wage has deflated to the point that it doesn’t even support one person. So the spirit of the FLSA’s company scrip section hasn’t been honored, as minimum wage has deflated.

Ohio is a single party consent state, so as long as at least one person in a conversation consents to being recorded, it is legal to record the conversation. And you can count as that single party. So as long as you participate in the conversation, you can record it without telling any other participants.

Just quietly set your phone to record a voice memo, and keep it nearby.

Also worth noting that even just keeping a notebook with the date, time, and conversation details will be sufficient. That is admissible as evidence, and in a he-said-she-said scenario (which this would turn into, with you saying the employer denied your raise because of this and the employer saying it was for something different), the side with the notes will win 99% of the time.

Like go buy a cheap pocket notebook, and fill it in with as many details as you remember. Dates, times, specific instances of the company/management saying they’ll use the app to determine promotions, which specific manager said it, etc… Then just update the notebook every time it comes up again.

The big issue with Stremio is that it’s not a sustainable model. It relies on torrents to actually download the video, then just holds it in cache. This means you’re not actually seeding anything (at least, not enough to hit a 1.0 ratio) so you’re essentially just perma-leeching off of torrents. This means that if everybody used Stremio, nobody would be able to use Stremio. It makes torrents worse for everyone, including other Stremio users.