Sarah Hall53 said:So, you’ve got these school principals stepping up to claim an immediate 25% raise—just like that—while the actual teachers are stuck waiting around for whatever scraps they can get for themselves. It honestly feels a bit sideways, doesn't it? You'd think the people actually in the trenches would be the priority, but instead, the folks in the front offices are the ones getting the fast track. Just my two cents, anyway... I'm probably overthinking it, but it just seems a little off. I was just sitting here thinking about that 25% mark—you know, that threshold where things really start to shift? It’s funny how much weight a single quarter can carry. Sometimes it feels like you're just spinning your wheels, making tiny incremental gains, and then suddenly you hit that point and everything changes. I don't know, maybe I'm just overthinking it—that's probably a recurring theme for me—but there's something about hitting that specific milestone that feels... different. Like, you aren't just starting anymore; you actually have some momentum. Anyway, just a random thought bouncing around my head while I drink this coffee. They’re really going to have to bleed themselves dry with more debt just to make ends meet at this point. So, let me get this straight... we're talking about cranking up the workload by like 50%, all for the sake of a measly 25% raise? Honestly, it feels like a bit of a joke—kind of like when you realize the "all-you-can-eat" buffet actually charges extra for the good stuff. It just doesn't add up, you know? You're putting in so much more energy, way more actual labor, and for what? A bump that barely covers the cost of living increases lately. I don't know, man... it just feels like a losing game if you ask me. But not based on that... So then, when you actually sit down and crunch the numbers properly—I mean, really do the math—it turns out it’s closer to like 20%, according to those math experts. Honestly, it feels like they're lying through their teeth about that part, too. Just straight-up pulling a fast one on us.
What you wrote is pretty much spot on. Most teachers are against this—at least where I live. You might find a young teacher here or there who’s actually hyped about it, but they’re one in a hundred.
jadetinker85 said:I find it hard to believe nobody noticed this, and we aren't talking about millions here. 😁 We're looking at maybe $300,000. That might cover building a small gym, patching up a roof, or swapping out some old windows.
Thanks! Point taken, I misspoke there. But I’m still standing by everything else I said!
Schools are all buzzing about those $300 million in subsidies, and suddenly everyone is scrambling to make sure their district gets a piece of the pie. But I have to ask: why on earth are they cutting back on computer science—the very thing we need to actually function in the future—while doubling down on these soft, propaganda-heavy humanities courses? If we’re supposedly heading into a tech-driven future, what kind of future are we actually building here?
Richard Morgan said:I'm running into an issue where I can't even finish converting a movie because once it hits about 14%, my PC just shuts down on its own. Can anyone tell me what's going on? Thanks in advance
It’s most likely your CPU. That software is pretty demanding, and if you have anything else running in the background, you're toast. Grab a tool like Prime95, run a stress test, and keep an eye on your core temperatures. You'll see—once that processor overheats, the PC kills itself. Same goes for your GPU...
As for subtitles, as far as I know, that program only supports .srt and .sub formats. Nothing else. It shouldn't be a huge deal though; just use Subtitle Workshop to "Save As" and convert them to .sub or .srt. Another possibility is that the subtitle file itself is corrupted. If this keeps happening, just find a different program. Yours clearly has some kind of bug...
Anthony Smith3 said:Yeah... hehe... here we go again. Just one more. Only difference is this one is Mexican, which makes it feel a little different from the usual stuff.😁👍 After seeing that, you seriously can't help but wonder... why aren't we capable of filming something like that ourselves?🤷
All they ever know how to film is drama. Even when they’re trying to shoot a comedy, they somehow twist it back into some heavy-handed drama. Pffft. It’s like they just don't have an ounce of imagination.
Check this out—I've noticed quite a few mistakes in movies here that are actually pretty funny. But honestly, just like Jerry Martin19 said, there's no point in hunting them down. You should just try to ignore them and move on... that's really it. Take the movie Titanic on that link, for instance... the sheer amount of errors, from factual inaccuracies to everything else... I mean, if it were some low-budget trash, whatever... but this was a massive production with an insane budget poured into it.
Andrew Kim87 said:Yeah, I talk to myself too. It actually made me wonder if I’m losing my mind or what. Most of the time it happens while I'm gaming, or more often when I'm just tearing the whole world apart in my head, arguing about how things should actually work. One major upside, though? You can't ever really get into an argument with yourself 😁
It's really just thinking out loud. I do it all the time, and it’s totally normal—pretty much everyone does it at some point.
Jessica Rogers2 said:Take a closer look at what I wrote under my Superman section🙂.....and how is it that he never gets cold in that spandex outfit and briefs🤷🤷???
That’s a perfect example, even if you’re just joking around; nice one. Look, the movies explain certain things. In one of the sequels, they clarify stuff that wasn't in the first movie—like how his skin is basically invulnerable, letting him walk through fire or head out into the freezing void of space. To me, it feels totally illogical to sit there watching and wonder if he’s feeling too hot or too cold... On the flip side, they never actually address what I mentioned earlier regarding why nobody knows who he is... and that is literally the whole point of the story, right? Just some random unknown guy.... Listen, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Tell me what you think, or let me know if I somehow missed the part where they actually gave an explanation in the films??
Or maybe just the sheer cliché of it all—whenever you hear "shoot the gas tank" in every single movie, it starts getting on my nerves. Honestly, I feel like just farting in the tank and watching the car go to hell would be more effective at this point. And don't get me started on those horror tropes where some hideous monster chases a girl around. The villain moves at a snail's pace, which the whole movie emphasizes by showing how slow he is, yet the poor girl keeps tripping over her own feet. They just keep cutting back and forth between her and him, and then, in the grand finale, the famous bad guy catches her (probably because he hit the nitro when the camera wasn't looking, and then turned it off once he did).
Then there's that ridiculous physics where a villain gets hit with a 9mm Beretta—which is basically a standard movie trope where the lead actor shoots some side bandit and the guy gets knocked clean off the set by a single bullet. It’s unbelievable.
When I say "realistic," I mean realistic within the context of that specific film. To me, that means whether the movie actually provides an explanation for its logic, even if it is sci-fi or pure fiction.
For instance, there was one movie where the lead had a specific handgun, and in just a few seconds of screen time, he mentions he modified it to hold more ammo. Within the world of that movie, that feels realistic because they actually gave us an explanation. On the other hand, in other movies I've watched, you wouldn't believe for a second how much ammo could actually fit in a 16-round magazine.
To clarify what Jessica Rogers2 was getting at: I doubt anyone here is talking about real-life physics or things happening in the real world. Take a Superman movie, for example. Personally, I don't think it's great, but hey, I'm no critic. He flies around lifting buildings and destroying stuff, but the movie explains *why* he can do that, even if it's only for a few seconds. Because those answers are provided, the movie stays "realistic" on its own cinematic level.
Still, there are exceptions. When it comes to Superman, it always drove me crazy how he puts on that suit and suddenly nobody recognizes him, when in reality, he just took off his glasses... Give me a break. It's like an >.