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It’s probably a lot more regions than you’re aware of. A professor of mine used to love telling stories about going home during the summer, and his cousins would tell him he had to dig deep in the stew pot, because the puppy (the tender meat) was at the bottom. He would always end it by explaining they didn’t raise dogs as pets, but just the same as cows or pigs. He was native american.

Seems odd. I even carry ring cutters on my belt; I’m sure an emergency room has even more options available.

I mean, the “mental instability” portion of the report is probably the biggest clue. You have no idea how fast law enforcement pushes anything resembling mental illness either to EMS or to gunpoint. I know of a person in my community who straight up has been stopped for DUI over a dozen times, but the local jail won’t let officers bring him in so he is just let go each time. I can’t remember the reason, but he is the classical ‘batshit insane’ caricature brought to life, and the standard protocol for dealing with him is to call us to bring him to the hospital ED.

Duck duck go is made a LOT better if you specify a date range before SEO became as stupid as it did. AIslop just made the seo bullshit articles/pages go from bad to fubar.

Aye, that’s the part that really worries me. Even evading JUST the flock camera isn’t enough. How many people have now contributed to the surveillance network, ring? How many non-flock cameras are out there that the government can access? I mentioned this in another flock post about how I became aware of license plate readers on the major roads five or more years ago, and police putting out license plate readers hidden in the speed displays a decade ago.

I know of the flock cameras near me, but even getting to them would be a minefield of other surveillance, and now there was that post the other day about law enforcement agencies getting waivers to do automated drone flybys/surveillance. Jesus fucking christ this surveillance state shit is bullshit.

I was going to say something similar. When there’s no ‘pressure’ and you just get to learn it without being tested on it, and potentially have negative outcomes if you do poorly on that testing, then it’s just a neat fact much like any science meme being shared.

Interestingly enough, no, not really. If you want to look it up, they call it the ‘Matthew Effect’ (from the biblical parable in matthew about the servants being given tithes by the master and using them).

Kids who read more get more from what they read later. If you’ve read ten books and your neighbor only one, you retain more and understand more from the next book you’ve read. Unless you completely stop reading, or they suddenly start reading way more, the earlier start with your reading will give you far greater benefits. A humorous little fact is that you can predict college gpa better with the amount of books read by age five (I think, it might be by grade five, it’s been a while since I read the study) than by the SAT/ACT tests.

It’s a fucking poem, Linda. Chill your beans at trying to be an amateur psychologist for a man dead 300 years already.

There was a massive crime perpetrated against high school students. Somehow, the teachers took the good idea of teaching a book and pointing out its underlying themes and historical context (that scene in great expectations where the girl plays the card game against the protagonist, as an example) to gain a greater understanding… and drove it into the ground by needlessly making everything (the infamous blue curtains) this massive deal that you absolutely had to contemplate and tear apart and put together with everything else, waaaaah!

Oh my god. How have I never noticed this? It’s going to be so much fun between the real thing and the ice cream version.