Tar_Alcaran

Go jump in a pool and exhale. Unless you’ve got a lot of fat, you’re not going to float.

Bodies only start float when the decomposition gasses accumulate inside you and can’t get out. True, putting a few holes in someone is likely to prevent that, but your lungs don’t hold any gas without muscles to do so. And you dont have those working after death.

Gasses in the abdomen cause bodies to float, assuming they’re not already fat enough to do so by themselves. But it takes a while for those to accumulate, at least a day or two.

Disclaimer: I write LARPs for fun, and sometimes that means you want to know why exactly bodies float…

Like UV light

Sure, I had 90 minutes of PE too, which included changing, explaining and waiting, and changing again at the end. Then depending on the activity, lots more waiting. I think spending half the time actually being active is optimistic.

familiarizing children with the concept of exercising and sports does a lot. I never would have entered my first youth sports club if it weren’t for PE.

Right, but that means PE is an absolutely terrible way to achieve your goals. It’s a massively expensive class. It requires huge special areas, sometimes both in and outdoors, with special equipment. And the return on investment is tiny (or in my case negative). And there is such an extremely obvious alternative too:

If you want to familiarize kids with youth sports, have them spend time doing youth sports. Why waste time and money on PE if your goal is directly available already, in a much more direct, effective and efficient way?

I would argue that PE in school is a thing the government uses to foist off kids being active on a school system that is inherently unsuited to teaching it. Schools are forced to teach it, wasting immense resources on something they ultimately don’t do well, with a goal that’s better achieved differently. The effects are tiny (or negative), but adults get to pat themselves on the back for a job well delegated at no extra cost, apart from every other area of a child’s education.

Exercise is important, lots of people would spend their entire childhoods with exactly zero exercise if they didn’t have PE.

And thanks to PE, they get to have some 40 minutes (or well under, for many activities) of exercise per week. I personally think that’s a terrible return on investment, especially with literacy going down the drain fast.

Honestly, all the money and effort spent on PE should probably just go directly into youth sports on a national level.

Your art class was miles better than mine, I’ll have to grant you that. I don’t remember much about mine, other than making lots of “art” (drawing, painting, charcoal work, clay… something) which was evaluated and finally graded completely arbitrarily but never worse than a passing grade, so after the first year art class quickly became time wasting class.

Actually, that’s a good point. If you can’t fail a class, it’s not actually important.

Really? You never had to compare two numbers to tell which is bigger? Never counted anything? Never added or subtracted anything? And you apparently got enough PE to count as proper exercise too!

We have had two very different lives.

Oh, it doesn’t work like that here, though you can assist other teachers I think.

PE, of course…

Yes? What important skill have you learned from a PR PE teacher? Because I can’t name a single one.

I can name plenty of useful things taught by, say, my maths or English teacher, or chemistry, history. Or hell, even my art teacher (though they come a close second). But PE? Not one actual skill.

I’ve used AI to generate the tabletop token that I would have otherwise stolen from Google image search. Only now I have 12 different random soldiers instead of 1 soldier copied 12 times.

I would never leave the session prep to AI, because that’s the fun part. Why would I outsource my fun?

What’s this “prepare” you speak of?

In the Netherlands, PE teachers have a 4 year college degree. Imagine spending that much time to be the least relevant teacher.

(some) frogs transition based on surrounding temperature. This behaviour is seen in humans too, where some individuals gain the amazing ability not to freeze to death in just long socks and a skirt.

More like 2300 years ago, but yeah, he said a lot for amazing things. Several are probably even true.

Are you telling me I need to subtly maneuver the poly group member into GM position?

Christian nutcases and AI doomers overlapping in a glorious orgy of deranged lunacy that will never happen.

It’s beautiful like a trainwreck

Good flashlight: 15 bucks

Really good flashlight with a wide beam: 30 bucks

just-barely-acceptable- bike lamp: 40 bucks.

Getting a rail for my bike sounds like an excellent idea!

In the Netherlands, it’s technically illegal to ride a bike while drunk (or operate any other vehicle). But they pretty much never test or ticket anyone, because if people start getting tickets for cycling drunk, they’re just going to drive instead.

yay pro…gr…ess??

Either that, or make it easier to just hook up whenever I park my bike, or some kind of alarm when it’s under 20% or something. Because what happens is that I grab my bike, leave home, shift three times, and then when i’m too far out, find that it’s actually empty.

My regular city bike has manual hub gears, which I have maintained once in 25 years, and they’re fine.

The robot was assigned-protoform-at-construction.