Message from @JD
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we had safety glasses which made throwing wrenches safe
robotics team sounds like a good time
because that's how it works
oh yes of course
it was but it's stressful because of the time crunch and it takes up a lot of your time
ah, yeah makes sense
my school tried to have a robotics team.. but lego made robots??
yeah lego has robot like capabilities
with only four people on it, two gals and two guys, none of them knowing anything about robotics
are you outside the US?
the supervising teacher also didnt know anything
yep why
in the states FLL is reserved for elementary school age. there isn't exactly a set rule about it as far as i know but
FLL?
FIRST lego league
ah
yep
nah it was in highschool
that's common outside the states. i went to worlds and visited the FLL competition and there were a lot of foreign teams with teenagers
the principal asked a few kids if they wanted to try, then we spent like 6 meetings goofing around with legos and trying to program the electronic part we were adding to them and then went to a competition where we were completely annihilated, but was still pretty fun
it's definitely an enigma of it's own
also sounds about right for a robotics team of any level
lmao nice to know
xD yup
I got a question
What's a government shutdown
And is it bad
Basically it's when certain sets of federal workers have their pay suspended and services shut down due to things not getting resolved in Congress, from my understanding
If the workers are considered "essential" then they work without pay for however long the shutdown occurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJubcZFA78
^^^hank green does a pretty good job explaining the last one, but honestly i avoid the politics of my country to protect my mental health
makes sense
i think this shutdown has to do with trump's wall
Build da wall
put a fucking mout
no one will dig
politics tends to get tough to deal with after a certain point
lolz
In a general sense I'd say that shutdowns are not good because they seem to have come from unwillingness for people to cooperate and in the meantime several peoples' jobs are negatively affected, and their livelihoods in turn
It's generally not good when two major points of view reach an impasse like this
yeeaaah I'd have to agree on that