New New Internet.

This is my dilemma too! Most of the threads in my instance are politics.

It doesn’t help that I’m actually quite interested in politics.

I just don’t like discussing them online because of the minority of people can’t remain civil.

I can’t imagine how, unless you only had 20 of them or something?

Back when I was a TA, I had an average of 120 students per semester and we didn’t necessarily grade our own students’ work (it was usually divided by topic).

So if I’m grading 120 assignments - or worse, 480 pieces of exam assessment- and only 25% of them are from students I regularly interact with, I don’t think my subconscious has any idea 99% of the time.

Even with smaller classes… you’re just seeing too many people with similar thoughts and styles over the course of a year for any of it to imprint on your mind that deeply. Occasionally it’s going to be obvious, but I still think removing a level of bias through anonymizing is best practice.

They both seem equally bad to me.

You don’t have to have either problem though; both can be avoided easily.

I think blind marking is important. I have literally heard people objecting to proposed grades with phrases like “but he’s a bad student” or “but she’s really bright.”

I agree with this. It’s a bit like the first 2 pancakes, you have to go back over the first half a dozen once you’re in the zone.

I used to grade hard copies a lot, after I graded I’d put them in order from best to worst (numerical grades) and then do quick comparisons between an assignment and its neighbours in the pile. It’s an easy way to “quality control”.

As for the comments, that’s a self-discipline issue. If you’re giving, say, 4 positives and 4 negatives per assignment and have standard ways of phrasing, it shouldn’t deteriorate.

It would improve living standards and mortality rates for Cuban citizens.

Not exactly.

Any ship that docks in Cuba is barred entry to US ports in the next 180 days.

The US can also sanction foriegn companies that trade with Cuba.

It’s not a blockade but it has a chilling effect on trade.

Brb building time machine.

That would be confusing. I want to be able to tell govt.nz apart from the US one.

Pretty sure they would pick China. Big open spaces, plenty of tech, large population size, consistent leadership.

The behind-the-scenes is brutal.

Source: I live with someone else’s grandmother. As soon as the grandkid visit ends, she goes to bed for the rest of the day to recover from all the prep.

This and put it on neocities.

Nokia c5-00 and I stil prefer it.

I’m not either.

Now there’s a thought. I’ve only had it a couple of times at an American themed restaurant but it was very nice.

Thanks, I think I misunderstood the above, I thought they were saying you could make canned at home.

Never knew what was in key lime pie (it’s not much of a thing here), so that’s cool to know!

Sorry @Tar, I misunderstood what you were saying.

Take milk, simmer for an hour. Thats basically it

I feel like you’re one of the people this article is talking about.

Dromio05 showed me several posts he deemed questionable since Reddit took away his own mod badge. For example, this post shares a link to an article about “rebel canners,” which Dromio05 argues “gives a public platform to people who openly encourage methods and recipes that are known to be unsafe, like canning milk and open kettle canning.” The post is labeled unsafe, but Dromio05 would have removed the link to the article.

Condensed milk is mostly sugar.