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Vita Brevis; Ars Longa 🌹
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This irritates the hell out of me. A college friend's sister actually works in a prison as a choir director. Like she started a women's prison choir, and it's a fantastic program that a lot of people get a lot of good out of. Claiming the J6 ppl are a "choir" at all is insulting to her work imo.
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I was on a search committee for an IT support position and this is precisely how we prioritized skills. You can teach people the technical stuff they're less familiar with, but you can't teach them how to talk to users.
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And, wildly, we've chosen to call this very reasonable response "reactive abuse" rather than what it actually is (self defense).
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Yeah, people underestimate him at their peril. He's not dumb, is evil, and has more power than we'd like to believe.
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counterpoint: absolutely not sorry at all, let's GO
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Getting it via email every day worked really well for me, because it was something I'd always check first thing in the morning, and then I'd have coffee and read for 5-15 minutes depending on the length of the day's entry. It also stopped me reading headlines with my coffee, so there's that...
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Although I'd read it before, I've really enjoyed the "Dracula Daily" presentation. Since the novel is epistolary, you can read it in real-time from May through November, which is a very neat way to experience the narrative tension, imo. It's now become a yearly read.
draculadaily.substack.com
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Cars, antisemitism, and learning square dancing in public school gym class! He hated jazz (for racist reasons) and pushed schools to teach "traditional" (the white kind) of dancing instead. Nothing inherently wrong with square/line/circle dancing, but yeah, mandating it in school is bc of Ford.
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Home ec is absolutely still in the curriculum in my district. In fact my SiL teaches it. Going under a different name now (FACS), but she's definitely teaching middle schoolers how to do basic cooking, sewing, budgeting, etc.
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Diamonds and Rust was the second song I ever learned to sing & fingerpick at the same time (after Blackbird, obviously). I adore Joan so much and am not sure I'm going to be OK seeing how she's portrayed in "I'm Not There."
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"If you're lucky, you'll live long enough to become disabled" is how I've heard it phrased, and...yeah. That part.
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This is incredible; I thought it was just us. We (IT) are "not in charge" of the EIGHT screens in the building...except when we are. Kind of. But not the content. Unless we are. Absolute nightmare stuff.
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My god, the 9LC discourse has broken containment.
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I recently learned this due to having to purchase 127 film for a Christmas present! I was like "how can it be re-spooled 35mm, those two things are nowhere near the same size..."
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Yep! Got friends from Rochester and also Philly who grew up with it.
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...and now this is how I found out Hastert isn't dead yet.
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My sister's kitten lies in wait.
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The reality is that Biden isn't running for anything ever again and he easily could've commuted all 40.
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The rationale was those three were convicted with either terrorism or hate crime enhancements (I don't agree with the exceptions but that's the reasoning). No, Trump can't reverse it. Yes, there are still state death row cases, but the president can't do anything about those.
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One of the people who's been vocal about not wanting Roof put to death is a woman who lost three family members by his hand (including her own mother). Maybe don't presume to know what families of victims would think.
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Maybe not in so many words, but either the death penalty is wrong or it isn't. Every exception made to that weakens the position.
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Completely agree. It takes practice using a deliberative process, not just "keep practicing doing it quickly". I look back on my post-schooling years of playing and transcribing music, and I've used the ability to jump in and play an unknown piece much more often than I have immediate transcription
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My parents wanted to be in the secret gift exchange this year, with all the adult children and their spouses. I knew immediately that they'd never give up getting every single one of us "a little something" even though THAT WAS NOT THE DEAL.
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I was/am quite good at that part, and I still feel the same way you do. The opposite situation (reading/playing an unfamiliar chart on sight) is far more "real world" than having to transcribe on the spot.
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Easy to say democrats should "take a stand" and let the GOP house flounder and prove themselves incompetent until it's your/your family's livelihood on the line.
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The federal workers who don't get paid for a month+ immediately after spending extra money on gifts and/or travel will definitely notice.
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Favorite: The Wexford Carol and it isn't close.
Least: Mary Did You Know SUCKS. I'm sorry. It sucks. It's also completely unbiblical because we know the answer. Yes, she did know all that, there's a whole set of verses where a literal angel comes down and tells her. Unnecessary song.
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Yeah and "Roe is settled law," right? My gosh it gets tiring trying to convince people who just want to say the rest of us are being hysterical.
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Linux People(tm) can be such gatekeeping jerks, it's incredible! I can't understand loving a thing that much and being that rude to other people who just want to learn about it. I'm very much a Linux baby and I just don't ever ask questions in forums or on help sites. Not worth it.
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Where were you motherfuckers BEFORE the election?
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1. Yes, 2. US Southeast (rather not get more specific)
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Class of '98. Only reason we got a GSA was because admin realized if they banned it, they'd have to ban all "non-academic" clubs, and that would've included Young Life (Christian group). Our principal and both VPs were openly homophobic, and also dress-coded (suspended) a guy for wearing a skirt.