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Housewife (she/her) and unpublished amateur writer. Grew up a Southern Baptist in GA, currently an Episcopalian in MA after several stops along the way.
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Literal Genie trope, but real life.
'We have to follow orders and we can't badmouth you publicly because you're the CIC, but you only set the date and the minimum parade size. Welcome to the vibe of a Christmas parade in a town of under 25,000 people and you are not starring as Santa.'
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It's also combined with Boston Pride, so people who had another protest march closer to them may have already prepared to come downtown anyway.
The contingent from my church that was going probably traveled *under* the Harvard protest location to get there, in fact.
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Or not even temporarily rescinded, but official recognition that 'for medical purposes' or similar language in the ban laws expanded to everyone at the moment that seemed to amount to the same thing. But then there was disagreement about when the risk was low enough to reverse that and you get now.
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I got the SBC version, where we were told there was ONE sin God couldn't forgive and no the adults weren't telling us what it was and when we did get a possibility they weren't defining 'contempt'.
Not the thing you tell the kid who finds new rules she broke before she knew they existed regularly.
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Given their current religious structure, how could they not and especially when entry to the USA is concerned
Anyone who converted thanks to that missions emphasis of theirs and either moves to or visits Salt Lake City because of the Temple there or any of the LDS central offices is in peril.
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I paid under $30 for Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate on Switch 1 release week for Rise because I got into Rise's demo. Also Rise, at release day price.
I know I haven't touched half the content in MHGU and I've only recently hit Master Rank in Rise. And by design the quests are replayable.
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I still miss LJ.
There is something to be said for a blogging or microblogging platform that lets you sit for a few hours on the weekend, refreshing every time you see something you know you've already scrolled past, and know you didn't miss anything posted by people you follow in those few hours.
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And for that long.
I don't care how much 'if you have a problem with this you don't understand the military' gets posted, there's a difference between a few nights on the floor guarding the Capitol and sleeping on a floor for at least almost a month stateside bc the CIC is cheaper than Scrooge.
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With three people independently working on Myst for months in the 7th grade, it took the Prima guide for us to get into the Age behind the voltage setting and tone entry puzzles.
We were all in band or orchestra and I was in the advanced math track.
It's easy to the designer who knows the trick!
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Also everyone else is also going to be trying to cash out into something more appropriate for paying rent, food costs, etc at the exact same first opportunity afterwards, so even if it is $1000 equivalent when handed over, it's probably going to stay that for a very few people who are fastest.
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It wasn't a riddle. But we have the east coast ports and waterways, west coast ports, the Mississippi basin shipping system, and the railway or former railway routes. So we're all spaced out and as long as the goods make it to a market somewhere we haven't really cared esp w/ interstates and planes.
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There's a No Kings protest at the intersection that was THE 'we don't have an abortion clinic to picket but some still want to participate in nationwide events' hotspot in my hometown. On top of the protest that's actually by city government buildings.
I thought the April ones were everywhere.
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But they still have their major population centers in one pattern established before the railroads, over by their east coast and the rivers draining into it.
The USA has at least *four* patterns, five if you separate westward expansion railway from 'got lucky becoming a junction' eastern railway.
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I swear watching from a school bus as one lady put mascara on at an intersection at the top of a hill and accelerated no hands with the wand still at her eye when it turned did more to keep me off the road than all the 'and these are the horrible things that can happen to you' PSAs at school.
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I keep thinking that we really needed to be given information, esp senior year, on what being a lifelong solo musician who wasn't in the music dept at college looked like.
I owned my own instrument. A bunch of us did, the local music store did partial rental credit toward purchase! 7 yrs adds up!
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It took being a senior planning to major or minor in Music to learn any actual theory at my high school as a symphonic band student other than circle of fifths and 'this is how you form these minors, memorize for the final and annual placement tests, no we aren't explaining why these work'.
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I think I got permanently screwed up by the tradition of not teaching students who have started on instruments in keys that are not C where they actually fit in transposition and harmony. Turns out I have damn good sense for what whole and half steps sound like, but C still has multiple meanings.
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I have tried tuning ukuleles on a ukulele setting, but the usefulness of How Far Off Am I always sends me back onto the chromatic option anyway.
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Me and the pile of used Just Dance and Lego games in 2019 when I was getting over whatever was wrong with me in 2018, thanks to sales.
Probably a good thing I lost access to the in-person used sections the same time I got my own Switch. (But we still prefer physical for passing around.)
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Self-recovery, too.
Both in emotional regulation and in the 'no one asked much about my bandaid use once I was old enough to reach the box' sense.
You have to let someone navigate the world themselves just a little before the legal system says they're responsible for themselves and their actions.
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Also that meant people couldn't see every single time small things happened.
My parents knew my grades 6 times a year and even being involved they didn't know every bad project grade I got. My social life had no documentation they could read In Case Predators. My time with peers was away from home.
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Boston 25 news alert mentioned EVs on fire without bothering to mention they were driverless taxis, and the Waymos were definitely NOT where my brain went first.
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(Sometime I would *love* for us to process as a society how many people we've lost before Better Write That Down I'm A Senior Citizen realization because of a gap between last employment and Medicare hitting at 65. Or facing Medicaid system limitations between last employment and 65, in this case.)
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And some of those have AI results too.
I realized DDG had switched from the start of the top result to AI summary first result when it gave me the wrong RCL liturgical year. Start of the top result should *always* be right because explaining how the three year cycle works is basically boilerplate.
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I remain glad I had that innocence destroyed via an online 'and this specific piece of hell-logic exists' discussion instead of when some people tried to use it seriously in relation to an actual case in my hometown later.
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Feels like the kind of thing that happens when someone thinks the lesson of the past is LA Must Be Subdued First Because They Fight instead of Leave California Alone Or LA Will Give The Other Cities Ideas.
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Started last night because of your post, so I'm telling them you invited me.
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That and the hush puppies from the local BBQ joint have been our top 'yep, definitely two Georgia kids a long way from where we grew up' moments.
Runner-up goes to the KFC who didn't know what I meant by 'slaw' when ordering in-person. I know there is more than one 'slaw', but you ONLY sell ONE.
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Also conferences.
Boston got damn lucky, first that the Biogen corporate conference did not cascade into a wider outbreak and second that it put enough fear into people that there was already a taper in in-person activities and transit ridership before it started to really pass through Logan.
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And there were places that reopened and had complete disruption via kids being bounced between in-person and 'we don't have enough adults to supervise OR enough kids are out we need to clean the building' distance learning with no chance to coherently lesson plan the way 100% distance allowed for.
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That is a sweet *dessert* cornbread and tastes like an offense unto baking if you bite into it expecting the other kind.
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Me and the other reason beside guideline change why they just stuck me on a combo control med with bronchodilator.
My record for 'I probably need Albuterol but I don't want to be a bother and do I really need it, I can just be quieter, thinking about it counts as management' is about a month.
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We also should standardize testing for hormone levels far earlier for baseline. Because "normal" isn't the same for everyone.
The last 15 of 30 years everyone denied I had asthma, it was bc I tested ONE SEASON as normal according to the women's chart. Medicated, I'm pretty good on the men's chart.
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Not renaming even small boats is one of the ones most likely to be known by people who never set foot on anything that floats larger than The Minnow from Gilligan's Island.
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Food with a mandated minimum cooking temperature to kill bacteria stored over food that can potentially be served straight from the refrigerator is an outbreak waiting to happen.
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My entire second grade class had a wax resist fad going on for months complete with trying to figure out which of the standard Crayola 16 crayon box went best under which of the standard Crayola 8 marker box.
Intro to color play, for cheap! Under $10 at out of sale season drugstore prices even now!
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So much playing with compasses, from the earliest time anyone would trust me with them.
Before all this AI slop started, 'I started playing with the minimum supplies I needed for school assignments, MWAHAHA they couldn't stop me Because Grades' was a reasonably universal recognized intro to art.
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I will admit I bought a cribbage board as part of the early tariff panic, but I meant it as 'yay an infinitely reusable gin rummy counter'.
I remember the bridge column when I was growing up. Still have never seen anything that defined terms enough for me to have a clue what it was talking about.
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The scoring is multilayered.
It's not just a card game with a board, it's a card game with a board that marks what your score was at the end of the last hand so if anyone wants to challenge your addition skills mid-scoring *rolling back and beginning the current count over is an option*.
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One recurrent issue in the US is how many jurisdictions *require* setting cash bail.
So on the one hand you have minor misdemeanor charges result in long jail stays because the accused is broke.
On the other, you have murderers with multiple eyewitnesses out bc of friends with deep pockets.
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I was in a car accident as a passenger and had what I said on-site so mangled in the report that I might have had the choice of False Statement, Perjury, or taking the 5th if there had been charges.
Still sort of wondering how a judge would have taken an eyewitness victim needing to take the 5th.
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Gila monster, specifically.
You can find out interesting things about how the body works by researching how things that make it break down do that.
Same thing with certain venomous snakes and anticoagulant research.
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Also how much of a staple crop they are in the USA, and I'm not talking about soy being used as filler.
There's a reason 'Brit who thinks the US judgment of beans on toast is about eating beans discovers it's actually that the US eats multiple varieties of beans so many other ways' is a thing.
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The "skipping breakfast" kind doesn't get sales so they're the other one.
And there's a sample menu in the ad for each age range that of course leaves out any supplementation the ad buyer is selling, so see enough of them and 'a human could survive on that AND build muscle doing it' creeps in.
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Single metro area example: Boston wastewater is about as low as it's ever been, and definitely as low as it's been since the 2023 holiday season spike was happening. Copies per mL stays copies per mL.
www.mwra.com/biobot/biobo...
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Also the more times the kid hears the story, the more they are going to process any depth present. You don't get to read There Is A Moral To This Story books once and think the message got in even if the kid is the right age to understand it.
Chikka Chikka: not just an alternate alphabet song.
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The mindset (and money) behind reform for reform's sake as a goal also means disruption of the kids being taught.
We had one big change when I was in k5, where we switched from tracked to untracked but same general philosophy. How do you manage when the basic approach changes multiple times in k5?
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We did IBM's Writing To Read as a supplement when I was in early elementary and from what I'm hearing I don't think you could get a mixed program like that through now.
A day a week of cycling to language games in place of direct instruction? (Upwords, we taught ourselves about false rhymes at 6.)