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i wouldn't necessarily have a problem with seeing a doctor whose name was dr skull. but if his office was in a cave i'd be alert for signs of a lair
Oh please! This isn't a CAVE! This is a hollowed out volcano lai... erm... office. A completely normal hollowed out volcano office. Nothing off books going on here. Did you sign the waiver online or do you need to do it here?
reform supposedly ending student loans for 'mickey mouse' degrees, yk the degrees that promote critical thinking and contribute to culture/the arts/heritage while examining socioeconomic factors behind ideologies
The same people bitching about “mickey mouse” degrees for the last ten years were the same fucking people telling Millennials that “any degree will get you a better job” twenty five years ago. They are going to be calling all degrees that AI can supposedly replace the entry level of “mickey mouse” in a few years. Hell, they’re practically doing it now.
In their mind, a “real” degree in a STEM field has always been a sure bet and yet they will blame computer science and engineering degree holders for not going into the trades in a year or two if the AI bubble hasn’t popped yet.
What they will never admit is that degrees were relatively cheap to obtain and did get you a better job in 1975 when they graduated. Even if you chose a “mickey mouse” degree.
My best friend in high school’s dad had a degree in music theory. He got a job as an accountant for the county and retired as a senior lobbyist for public accounts in the state capital. A very decent paying gig for a guy who spent seven years getting a BA in music.
Now, people his age would laugh you out of a building if you suggested a person should have such a job with a music degree.
As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays
The British class system in action: the upper and upper-middle classes have their facilities watered even during a drought, while facilities and spaces for the rest of us are left parched.
actually i am gonna give you guys a genuine answer to that. not the anon because they obviously don't actually care, but the rest of the new followers i seem to have picked up off that youth lib post.
why do i give a shit about social media restrictions? well, i went to the library three months ago with my two teenage brothers to sign them up for new library cards (they just moved) and i was told that under 18s can't have a library card, even a restricted kids-books-only card, without a parent there in person to give consent.
that's fucked for abused kids for sure but that's also fucked for kids whose single mum works two jobs and can't get to the library while its open. and there is NO good reason for it except to appease parents who want to control what their kids can read.
people coming onto my posts telling me 'kids should just do X' have not actually looked into the possibility of doing what they are suggesting. kids now cannot do what you did when you were a teenager even a decade ago. abused kids, disabled kids or kids from low income families ESPECIALLY cannot do those things. they are running out of places to go.
interviews and studies with teenagers repeatedly prove that they WANT to hang out with their friends in real life, and it is getting harder and harder to do it. the internet is one of the only places they can all spend time together, unsupervised, without spending money or getting hassled or moved on by adults.
social media bans won't fix that. they won't even keep kids off social media. they're just going to make life harder for everyone, increase the amount of tracking and monitoring EVERYONE is subject to, and force kids to lie about what they're doing to any adults that actually DO give a shit about them.
it is genuinely so unbelievably annoying to be a child trafficking survivor and have to listen to people argue about shadows on the wall when it comes to children’s rights and child abuse prevention. the only true way to prevent child abuse is to take away parental control. give children rights. give them the education, resources, and rights to say yes or no to whatever and whoever they desire. i know what would have helped me. i’m so mind numbingly sick of all of this. everyone wants to feel like a hero, but nobody wants to help anyone.
there is not a pedophile cabal hiding in the shadows waiting to kidnap children. parents are the number one perpetrators of child sexual abuse. my kidnapper was my mother. my traffickers were all paid by her and had legal custody over me. i was forced thru constant manual labor and sexual humiliation in the name of “therapy” because parents are allowed to do whatever they want with the children they own. the end of adult supremacy is the only way to end child abuse.
okay i can accept a lot but i'm supposed to believe adult toph shaves her armpit hair?
fuck off
hey gang this post was not about how i have an armpit hair kink (i don't) and i don't really care to hear about the reasons you made up to justify its absence i just feel it makes more sense for toph's character for her to have armpit hair and i feel its exclusion is probably motivated by systemic misogyny and i frankly don't think this is that wild of a take like i think it's pretty basic feminism 101 here okay bye
This made me laugh because I was like “Doesn’t Toph canonically have armpit hair?” but then realized I was thinking of the episode where Appa is shedding and she stuffs a bunch of his fur in her armpits.
I have a hard time believing that a rich girl who almost exclusively hated being all coifed and primped, who held people obsessed with appearance in disdain, and who actively sought a healthy layer of dust on her throughout their journeys would decide to suddenly shave her pits.
"We need trilllions to replace all workers" is quite the ask for an industry that has no profits.
I get it is made with AI but the fact that fake libertarian losers who live in 2500 sq ft houses and have 9-5 white collar cubicle jobs can’t write a prompt that doesn’t look like their barren suburban subdivision as their “promised land” is difficult to wrap my mind around.
Mf’ers still imagine mowing a yard inside a compound shielded from others eyes.
They can’t imagine agrivoltaics at all. Or to put their power generation inside the compound.
Bet your ass they imagine doing “farm chores” as like a one hour thing in the morning and not an entire job.
What they seem to want is a two acre homestead 45 minutes from downtown where they can cosplay being a farmer but can still drive 10 minutes to the grocery store for their actual food.
Iran has not attacked Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. It isn't complicated. The Gulf States are mostly Sunni and Iran is largely Shia, also. There has been centuries of hostility between the two largest factions of Islam in very much the same way that Europe had centuries of Protestant and Catholic feuding and warfare. Still, Pakistan is predominantly Sunni as is Afghanistan, so a religious or doctrinal lens is less convincing than the presence of US military bases. Which, whether you despise the Ayatollah, the Supreme Council, or the IRGC or not, is what Iran has been saying all along.
It would be foolish not to also note that removal of US bases in the region and damage to the Gulf States military capacity isn't also a political and military win for Iran, which has long sought to spread its regional power.
Without the US or Israel attacking Iran, though, it wasn't likely to attack its neighbors outright. Pretty cut and dry cause and effect. The US and Israel strike Iran... Iran strikes the Gulf States that harbor the US. Tit for tat. The thing is, even from the US perspective the US isn't gaining basically anything here. It hasn't forced any concessions from Iran and in fact has had both its international prestige and its military capability put under a microscope and the verdict hasn't been great. It is being called a paper tiger and its historic allies are doing the two hands up by the shoulders Seinfeld shrug thing. There is a very "Hey man, you started this thing," around NATO and Europe. Fuel prices are absurd. Urea prices are absurd (and therefore fertilizer prices). The Strait of Hormuz is mostly closed still. Iran has an even more ardent religious zealot who is 25 years younger than his predecessor as Ayatollah. US bases have seen various amounts of damage across the region. The US has used up almost its entire stockpile of Patriot missiles and the US Strategic Oil Reserve is down to a couple weeks at current use levels. Sure, a lot of infrastructure in Iran has been destroyed. Great... I guess. If you like watching stuff blow up, I'm sure its been a great five months. The irony is that the US and Israel still might not have destroyed Iran's nuclear processing capabilities in all this.
There is no way to justify the carnage brought down on the heads of the Iranian people. Period. The US and Israel are the baddies here. The Ayatollah and his government are total pieces of shit but the US didn't even unseat them. Their covert support of bad actors like Hamas or Hezbollah or the Houthis doesn't justify the damage done to some of the oldest cities in human civilization and, most importantly, their people.
Iran is justified in retaliation against nations harboring its attackers. If Mexico let another nation bomb the US from its soil, the US wouldn't entertain not attacking Mexico for even one second. Hell, Cuba hasn't even attacked the US ever but it hosted some USSR missiles 65 years ago and has been under brutal embargo for it ever since. The US wouldn't think twice. It should be understandable for Iran to make the same call.
Sometimes people will be like, "Isn't it disgusting that this rich guy owns this mega-yacht?" and my response to that is that I really don't care. I also have a bunch of dumb crap I don't strictly need.
But finding out that Donald Trump voted by mail in the last election has made me want to eat the rich more than any picture of a mega-yacht or tasteless mansion or gold plated toilet.
Oh, the billionaire with the enormous staff and private plane can't be bothered to actually go to a physical polling place, but he's going to complacently tell the guy working a night shift job six days a week that it shouldn't be a problem for him to make the time to physically stand in line at the polling place?
Fuck. You.
And fuck every rich piece of shit Republican following him on this.
And that blue collar guy might be voting in a blue district of a red state, so his wait time might be 12 hours.
It is pure, unabashed voter disenfranchisement.
They don’t want elderly voters to be able to vote by mail because they know they’ll probably vote Democratic.
They don’t want students to vote by mail in the county of their permanent residence (usually their parent’s house) because they’re probably going to vote Democratic.
They don’t want a black thirty year old factory worker who works overnight to vote because they know they’ll probably vote Democratic.
If they can ban voting by mail and they can increase wait times in competitive states, a lot of people just won’t vote. When turnout is low, Republicans win and they know it.
I think the yacht question is a different animal. There is owning that guitar you never play when you worked a job to pay for it and then there is paying tens of thousands of workers far less than the value of their work so you can buy a mega-yacht you use then days a year.
I can.
I never liked him, not even when he was just some guy with a big ugly building and a book deal.
I was twelve or so when The Apprentice first aired. I was a brainy adolescent so it isn’t like the concept of “Massively rich businessman hosts a competition to see which person is the most business savvy” was lost on me.
I immediately pegged it as “the guy just likes telling these people he’s smarter than they are and telling them they’re fired.”
Even back then, it was a vaudeville act. The guy didn’t have insight, he was just bloviating in half finished sentences. Multiple contestants struck me as smarter than he was. I couldn’t stand the show but my parents would put it on occasionally.
As a kid I was amazed anyone listened to the guy. In the US, rich equals smart for way too many people.
In 2015, when he became a candidate I was absolutely amazed people could be so stupid that they’d entertain it. I am not less amazed now.
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imagine wanting your children to be so mediocre they have to have a right wing grift to gain any kind of traction instead of wanting them to win 2 world cups and an Olympic gold medal
But... gay!
Blue hair and pronouns!
I want my daughters to be whiny losers that are straight and right with god, not highly celebrated winners with wives, blue hair and opinions! That way they can blame their failure on trans women, just like the bible says!
