Grundgetta is Oscar's Grouch girlfriend on Sesame Street. Her earliest appearance was in Season 11 (Episode 1443). Oscar occasionally calls her Grungie, while she generally calls him Oskie. She and Oscar, in addition to being a "couple", are also best friends.
During my programming class lecture today our lecturer was using a theoretical database storing personal data as an example for the particular programming concept the lecturer was about. He fielded suggestions for attributes for a person in said database, and someone called out "biological sex" and without skipping a beat he gave the guy a weird look and wrote "gender" on the whiteboard instead
then later he mentioned how you'd want to have multiple options for the gender choice, and someone was like "don't you mean two?" and that person also got the weird look and "no, you want at the very least 3" in response
kinda felt nice to see this grumpy old guy lecturer just nonchalantly being up with the times
That's good, because in my programming classes we definitely used gender as like, an example of something there is exactly two of.
iirc when we started talking about datatypes for the class constructors he stated that "gender" would be char (this is java, btw) and that you'd only need to validate inputs to ensure they were the right datatype, nothing more
which is quietly saying "literally any letter in the alphabet would be an acceptable input"
Hell fuckin' yeah. What a great professor.
I cannot even imagine being that guy who goes out of their way to make sure everyone knows exactly what they think about trans people, in a lecture about databases. What a fucking tool.
well like 90% of the class are fresh-out-of-highschool 18 or 19 year olds, so I kinda expect some amount of naive foolishness from them on some topics. I'm not sure the student was outright trying to say some social comment, but rather was asking why not just set it to to options because (insert stuff about teens being conditioned by human society to only think of the gender binary etc). It seemed like a harmless enough naive question, but I appreciate that the lecturer just gently reproached and corrected without taking a beat
been pretty damn happy with all my tutors and lecturers in this new degree this year. everyone is chill, welcoming, and at least perceptibly LGBT+ friendly- even the old dudes. two of my lecturers this semester play Pokemon Go, so I have them as friends there now, which is hilarious.
everything kinda boils down to "social issues are important, and we're accepting of everyone and will reproach any student who isn't, and when it comes to computer science your innate biases can be left at the door kthx"
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I go to my therapy sessions and can't think of what to say. My mind just goes blank for 50 minutes. But then on the cycle home my brain goes into overdrive and I usually end up having some massive realisation.
I should probably tell my therapist that so she knows I'm not just wasting both of our time.
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GrogMy sword is only steelin a useful shape.Registered Userregular
I think that's pretty normal, tracks with my experience of therapy.
I go to my therapy sessions and can't think of what to say. My mind just goes blank for 50 minutes. But then on the cycle home my brain goes into overdrive and I usually end up having some massive realisation.
I should probably tell my therapist that so she knows I'm not just wasting both of our time.
Write down talking points to bring with you next time. I guarantee it's not as weird as it initially feels
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Yeah. Whenever your brain is like that, write that shit down. It only becomes more and more helpful to learn about yourself this way, otherwise you'll have some great insights that you just forget later.
They don't have to be right, being there is a good start. If they can't be there today, maybe they can coalesce tomorrow? Or.. next week?
I have somewhat the same issue and part of it for me is that putting words to it feels like.. not accepting it, but like.. accepting that I have to do something about it? I'm not as far ahead in any process as you are so this is not a judgement call on you at all, just me being me.
Anyway, putting things into words is a lot more than just finding meaning, it's also ascribing and allocating this[es] to that[es].
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I tried writing things down last week but it was impossible to get the words right.
I totally get this. But you don't necessarily need to write down the exact transcript of your thoughts. An approximation that you can start from at the therapist's office will make it easier for you then to articulate those thoughts in real time.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
Also, part of their job is to help you articulate what you mean, so getting out the rough idea is always a good start.
Yeah it can just be bullet points to jog your memory in the session. You probably don't want to be specifically reading off a card in the session because stream of consciousness or a conversation is (in my experience) a lot more productive, but it gets you past that initial hump of forgetting what you wanted to discuss.
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I had no problem remembering today what I thought of last week. But I couldn't get it into words while talking to her any better than I could get it into written words when I tried.
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I had no problem remembering today what I thought of last week. But I couldn't get it into words while talking to her any better than I could get it into written words when I tried.
Can you get it into words in other situations at all?
You just have to trust that they're trained professionals who do this kind of thing as a living (in addition to a few other surgery-related things). Also, hope that they were the ones who graduated from medical school with a 95% instead of the guy who just barely passed with a 61% or whatever the low benchmark was.
Hm normally I never watch linked videos but these lyrics goddamn
Well it’s a jungle out there
The year 2018, I didn’t think
We’d still be sorting babies into blue and pink
And all our progress – well I wonder what it means
That the only girls clothes that worked for me turned out to be boyfriend jeans
Well that’s fine, cause I decline
A narrow set of rules that just don’t work
These red lines – they’re not mine
And if you need me you can find me ironing my shirt cause I’m in
Black tie tonight
Get a postcard to my year 11 self
In a year 11 hell
Sayin everything’s gonna be alright
No you won’t grow out of it
You will find the clothes that fit
And the images that fucked ya were a patriarchal structure
And you never will surrender to a narrow view of gender
And I swear there’ll come a day when you won’t worry what they say
On the labels, on the doors
You will figure out what’s yours
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Still het relationships in Sesame Street.
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Grundgetta
wario is wario and is sexually attracted to gold
only gold
His original games have him straight up rejecting the affections of a woman in favor of money
oh and one other error in that video is that wario and waluigi aren't siblings
biggest lie I've heard all year
100% of the cast is ace confirmed.
Seriously though, that's BS. I get why they did it, but BS.
well like 90% of the class are fresh-out-of-highschool 18 or 19 year olds, so I kinda expect some amount of naive foolishness from them on some topics. I'm not sure the student was outright trying to say some social comment, but rather was asking why not just set it to to options because (insert stuff about teens being conditioned by human society to only think of the gender binary etc). It seemed like a harmless enough naive question, but I appreciate that the lecturer just gently reproached and corrected without taking a beat
been pretty damn happy with all my tutors and lecturers in this new degree this year. everyone is chill, welcoming, and at least perceptibly LGBT+ friendly- even the old dudes. two of my lecturers this semester play Pokemon Go, so I have them as friends there now, which is hilarious.
everything kinda boils down to "social issues are important, and we're accepting of everyone and will reproach any student who isn't, and when it comes to computer science your innate biases can be left at the door kthx"
I should probably tell my therapist that so she knows I'm not just wasting both of our time.
Write down talking points to bring with you next time. I guarantee it's not as weird as it initially feels
I have somewhat the same issue and part of it for me is that putting words to it feels like.. not accepting it, but like.. accepting that I have to do something about it? I'm not as far ahead in any process as you are so this is not a judgement call on you at all, just me being me.
Anyway, putting things into words is a lot more than just finding meaning, it's also ascribing and allocating this[es] to that[es].
I totally get this. But you don't necessarily need to write down the exact transcript of your thoughts. An approximation that you can start from at the therapist's office will make it easier for you then to articulate those thoughts in real time.
Can you get it into words in other situations at all?
I'm definitely less stereotypically feminine than I used to be since I started regularly passing and not needing gatekeepers' approval to transition.
Oh my gosh that sign in the background just got me cutting onions again. Happy tears.
Take one look and be like “these are the balls of a pervert, I’m sorry we can’t help you here”
Ouch.
Yo, if they released an HD, 4K/Blu-ray version of Run Lola Run, I need that shit.
No one remasters the good classics. It's always Disney and awful shit.
Steam: TheArcadeBear
It’s a good two-pack
i don't know if the fact that they have a degree in cutting people with a knife makes it more or less terrifying
Steam: TheArcadeBear
Hm normally I never watch linked videos but these lyrics goddamn
really solid