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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 74 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I was homeschooled my entire childhood. My mom was a Christian. Not a crazy zealot, just a woman with faith. Initially, my school books were through a Christian curriculum program (I believe abeka books, iirc). One of my textbooks had this module on dinosaurs, with little pictures of humans in leopard print look clothes picking berries while a brontosaurus walked by in the background. My mom, ever the fantastic mother, immediately tossed those pieces of garbage and got me on the state curriculum that the public schools used. Took her forever to get it. Initially, when she called the state to ask how to get those resources she was told to stick with abeka, and was offered several other insane religious options before they finally relented. From then on, even though we lived in Virginia, my school standard came out of California, and I had to take end of year tests that aligned with the state of California. I got a great education, and because Mama let me basically choose what hours of the day I did my schoolwork in, I didn't really need to take summers off. Ended up finishing 12th grade at 14 years old. I am so thankful that she realized how bad those books were, and fought to make sure, even as a single mother working well over full time, that her kids got a good education. My brother and I both placed highest in the state when we took our final exams, in everything but math.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Most of my internetin' is done on mobile, because I'm very rarely at my desk, and when I am, I'm normally working on school. Are there any solutions to handling this easily on mobile without having to manually erase part of the pasted link when I go to send it to someone? A few people have mentioned that's it's not 100% guaranteed that the anything after ? Is worthless, so I don't know how to ensure I'm not breaking a link

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

Why have you filtered out your communions, my child?

It is important that you not desecrate the sacrament and accept the blood and body as they were intended, not strained or filtered.

Also, please do not chew the wafer.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

If you want trump to do, here's what you'll need to do:

Make the bottom border go straight across and connect to Mexico, then build that giant wall along the new mexican-us border.

The added benefit here is a larger border with Mexico, meaning he can run around screaming about the now larger border with Mexico, while simultaneously cutting off Mexico's west coast from the ocean, fucking their supply routes. He'd absolutely be on board for this.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Was using a VPN to watch iPlayer last night and then hopped on reddit and was like "whereintheactualfuck is all the porn‽" Before realizing I had it set to the UK. Blew my mind for a minute

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this template thing not... Just how life works?

Like, I've taken enough sociology and anthropology classes to know that humans these systems of behavior into our societies. We go into church and there is a set of behaviors expected, we go to the grocery and there is a set of behaviors expected when speaking with the clerk, et cetera, et cetera.

But, like, is this a ND thing to need to memorize the templates for these interactions? Because that's my whole life. Stand back, try to remain unseen, observe, memorize, then I can interact. Is that not just what everyone does?

Y'all, I'm having a little bit of a crisis here

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the one that gets me the most, man. People will literally go and say "the sixteen-point-nine-ounce bottle" instead of just saying "500 mil bottle" and it blows my mind. It's so much less awkward to say. I've even heard people ask for the 33-point-eight ounce bottle at the gas station I work at. It's a fucking liter. Just say the 1 liter bottle!

I know it's a completely lost cause at this point, but I genuinely wish we'd switch:(

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, in south Carolina, I pay bring home about 60% of my income, I can't afford to eat well, I get absolutely zero assistance for food, medical insurance, or God Forbid basic income, and I am genuinely contemplating attempting to live in my vehicle in an abandoned parking lot near my work to save on gas money.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't expect to find my fellow Advaitins on this particular thread, but hello, well met!

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fucking. Exactly. Tap is awesome. It's fast, it works, but just fucking standardize where it's at!

But until then, as someone who works a register, people, please, look at the machines and see if there is a very clear label on it saying TAP HERE. I don't know how every customer misses it, but they do.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 months ago

One of my favorite ways this has ever been expressed is through David Graeber. Paraphrasing:

If you convince 100 million people that you can breathe under water, and you go sit at the bottom of a lake, you drown.

If you convince 100 million people you're the king of France... Then you're the king of France.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 47 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Fairly short read effectively, it's never been made public what the loophole was/is, and all those who knew first hand are dead now. But it's speculated to be a few different things, the leading theory (and the one I think is it) is article V, the process by which we amend the constitution. If we can amend the constitution, we can amend article V, meaning we can then make it easier to amend again later, in a downward spiral. We could also amend the constitution, do a bunch of fashy shit, then amend article V to make it so the constitution could not be amended ever again.

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