I’ve always known and used them interchangeably, my health teacher had to update the ancient health textbooks through her lectures. This meant that when it came to the sex ed portion, we stopped using the 40 year old textbook almost entirely and used a modern bookless curriculum.

I suppose that’s a matter of perspective. Using inches for measurement and a total ignorance of sex education screams US to me

Planned Parenthood provides STD testing. Go see them. Set an appointment here

I highly recommend the online book How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.

Fun fact, the person maintaining this book is professor emeritus from my college and received multiple awards of recognition from the IEEE

I like to find news sources that analyze the story as well as explains where it fits into the ongoing situation, why it’s relevant, and has a reasonably accurate history of predictions based on their analysis. Since this is rare, I try to find a source that has 3 of the 4 to make it part of my news consumption. So this tends to include Democracy Now!, Some More News, Last Week Tonight, Beau of the Fifth Column, AP, and the like. A lot of the sources shared on lemmy, bar the NYT, are in that category

The NEA is peak business union. There are movements to democratize the union though. It’s happening in most unions lately

Still a drop in the bucket, but these are fine numbers I can get behind

It’s not so much a special capacity of swifties, but that they’re probably the only large unified bloc anywhere on the electoral left. I like them because they’re a large enough group of progressive liberals to prove that a unified front is absolutely effective

Hey, I resemble those remarks

The index looks at how every congressional district voted in the past two presidential elections combined and compares it to the national average.

Sounds like a poll to me. If you actually look at how the politics play out at the state level, it tells a different story.

Polls don’t matter in this instance. Look at the state record, which shows a modest progressive lean on statewide and municipal politics and a moderate conservative lean on federal politics.

Missouri is more purple than people realize. They often vote against their own interests nationally, but locally they vote relatively progressive

If you truly want to help him, give him a list of post-carceral support resources, a note stating that you’re only willing to help more if he truly wants to change, and a small amount of money to get started.

Make it clear in the letter that you don’t want to see him in prison and that you know he’s a better person than that. Do not bring up the falling out just yet in case he’s willing to contact you for a real life change.

I’m pretty affordable as a friend, I’ll be yours for $5. I’ll even use it to share some ramen

I don’t know if this was true when they posted it, but conservation efforts are working! They’re considered near threatened for their small habitat and endangered to give it protected status