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The whole 'jet fuel can't melt steel beams' argument softened for me when I watched my first blacksmithing YouTube. And it got even more wobbly when I saw my first skyscraper architecture video. And it broke completely the first time I snapped a Harbor Freight "steel" tool in half in my hand.
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For me, I managed to survive my math classes by using graph paper exclusively. The extra columns helped keep the numbers from swimming around on the page quite so much.
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All Adderall does to someone who actually needs it is act like a gentle pair of hands pushing them down into the chair so they stop getting up every 30 seconds.
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My own area of neurodivergence - ADHD with a bonus of dyscalculia - wouldn't be helped with this, unfortunately, and l never did learn to write cursive well. I never learned to write plain text well either, though. I jumped aboard typing as soon as word processing software was available.
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Never knew this about cursive, but it does make sense on some level. The origin of the script was that it allowed for continuous ink flow, preventing blots. If it's easier for someone with dyslexia to read, that's a nice bonus feature and a valid reason to keep it around in the era of typing.
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To put it in DND terms, he's got a +10 CHA bonus against anyone who fails a wisdom check. A full third of the country has a Charm status on them and it cannot be broken through normal means.
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GA Tech math is why, even though I was accepted to GA Tech, I ended up going to the the horse school instead. I knew I wouldn't be able to hack it when even Calc II kicked my butt in high school.
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Good penmanship is a skill, and like all skills it takes practice on a regular basis to stay in shape. I see modern day calligraphers write funny things with a beautiful hand, and I know the art is not lost.
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comrade gritty
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May I recommend this wonderful comic about gay hockey players for Pride month? www.checkpleasecomic.com
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Nepotism and networking. The big company CEO may not have family to hire, but their golf buddy's son needs a job.
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I love the idea that G'raha is gay (or at least bi) even if your WoL is the straightest straight girl in Eorzea. As someone on Tumblr put it... bottom energy.
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I decided I would try to get 1 atma a day. If I get my atma for the day, I go do something else that isn't OC. This method has already finished out the missing Free Market for Living Memory and gotten me to level 15 in OC, and I do not feel burnt out.
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(Yes, this is about FFXIV and Ishikawa. She may be a good supervisor, but she was a brilliant writer, and we still miss her.)
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Yeah, every white guy with a mail order bride or the modern day equivalent would have their kids be denied the vote. Applies to a whole lot of people I know, oddly enough: because I group up in a military family, and MANY of them are blended with immigrants.
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This is the conclusion that we have as well. We'd mourn the historical loss of the building if it was being utilized as a museum and a place of introspection. Instead it was being used as a backdrop.
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If any building more than a century old had to get burned down today.... couldn't have thought of a better one.
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A reminder that half the Founding Fathers were not born in the Colonies, and not including birthright citizenship would have made their children not American citizens either.
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That was the way the animators for Jurassic Park figured out how to make the various dinosaurs run.... by looking at chicken films.
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Around 260 years ago Catherine the Great extended a similar offer to my Hessian ancestors, who moved to the Volga River. 125 years later Russia kicked them back out again and they had to move to the US.
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All I can say to them is "lmao good luck!" They might like Idaho, though.
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Plenty of seinen anime feature high school aged kids. Red Ranger Isekai, for example. It just means that they are aiming the show for late teens and adults, not 13-14 year olds. It's a marketing demographic, not a genre indicator.
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This makes me want to think of a game: What would be the best movie to show him cause him to improve his policies? And what would be the worst one to show him?
Hubs just chimed in with, "Brokeback Mountain" for both options.
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HE'S COMING FOR THE WAIFUS WE WARNED YOU
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I mean, we're already seeing a lot of the stuff that caused our patriotic forebears to rebel against the British Army.
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Most sane admins know not to touch the MIC money.
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Andrew Wakefield, the person who started that rumor, was trying to sell alternatives to the MMR vaccines. He's been discredited, his studies have been debunked, but the lie persists because OTHER people are trying to sell you alternative products that don't work.
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I remember the first time I saw the Hubble Deep Space image showing 13 billion light years away. This is even more breathtaking.
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Didn't they promise they were going to help farmers? Cancelling SNAP hurts farmers in addition to hurting children and families. Another lie from the Republicant party.
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I used to think that MAGA lived in an alternate, very different timeline. Now I think that their leader does not experience linear time at all and events that are in the present to us were happening to him a year ago, and vice versa.
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If this is a joke, it's one in poor taste. Parody hats need to be in any other color BUT red at this point.
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He still thinks that he's campaigning. He didn't know how to govern before, and doesn't know how to do it now. He doesn't hire the "best people" - he hires people who tell him he is right and awesome, who then proceed to govern horribly.
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Temu is doing it, and the Hairless Fuhrer can't call them and complain about.
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I mean, I would happily use that infrastructure and I live about 6 miles from my mid size city's downtown. My city has plans for a bike safe alternative corridor, but it's still a decade out. In the meantime, the only route is a 6 lane highway.
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Republicant party. Because they can't stop lying.
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I like Hurts a lot more in the NFL than I did when he was making me cry (as a Georgia fan.)
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"No one does anything meaningful" - this is because you simply don't see us when we're doing our jobs correctly. When we do our jobs poorly, people notice immediately.
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Thank you!
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I believe the same applies at almost every public and private research institution in the US (including the places that my husband and I work.) That is why it was disheartening that so many of them - including ours - immediately caved to the unreasonable demands of a toddler president.
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It's a bachelor's degree, not an MBA, for the record. One of his professors was also quoted as saying he was the dumbest student he'd ever had.
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One explanation I have heard for this is: "you grow more conservative because you have more invested and more to protect." Millennials have never had any stability in their adult lives at all - we are all acutely aware that everything can come crashing down at any moment.
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Very late 1979 here and I've been calling myself a Millennial from the get go. I have far more in common with my 1982 friends than I do my 1972 older sister.
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People in the US already willingly hand their driving data over to Google for easy map access, and to their insurance companies for a slight discount.
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Wanes quickly, eh? I had the measles vaccine over 40 years ago, and yet I have never caught the measles. (I DID catch whooping cough when I was 25 because I didn't get the booster at age 18 like they now recommend.)