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- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 17 hours ago:
I was once called down to the principal’s office and told I would be expelled from my Catholic school because in spite of my catholic upbringing, I was an atheist (in the US, at a time when this was obviously unconstitutional, given that the school accepted non catholic students of other religions). They called my dad and had me wait in the hall outside the principal’s office. For context, my dad’s an agnostic who doesn’t harbor any positive views towards the Catholic Church, but is a huge fan of educators and would always side with the teacher, no matter how unfair they were being.
My dad went straight in without acknowledging me and spoke with them inaudibly for about a minute, before the secretary came out and sent me back to class. I never heard anything about it from the school again and when my dad got home, he just said I didn’t need to worry about it. Decades later, he still won’t tell me exactly what happened, but I honestly think he might have forgotten and doesn’t want to admit it.
- Comment on Maybe need a little ivermectin for that. 1 day ago:
I’m an American living in Germany and married to a German. The first time I brought him to the US, he thought we paid way too much for gas because he forgot it wasn’t by liter.
He’s been driving for over twenty years and he’d never seen as low a price as the ones posted right next to the airport in New York City.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 5 days ago:
We gossip about our coworkers, shared hobbies, and upcoming plans together.
- Comment on Late 5 days ago:
I’m newly a teacher (of adults), and I accept literally any excuse anyone gives me. I suspect that I’ll change that as time goes on, but I don’t even really get excuses.
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 6 days ago:
Whaaaat, bottom middle for me, except he’s got mean eyes. That might be a reflection of his recent circumstances though, I can’t imagine he’s in a great mood.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 6 days ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason my great uncle used to make fortified tomato wine. I wasn’t around for it, but it seems to have exclusively been drunk by his kids, to their great regret. He could always tell by the uncontrollable retching
- Comment on The Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Just Published Trump's Iran War Plan 6 days ago:
Germans have insurance and pay for prescriptions, but it’s not a huge amount (from my perspective, I hear a lot of people complaining about how expensive insurance is). However, insurance isn’t tied to your job and afaik, the government pays for your insurance if you lose your job (and the less you earn, the less it costs).
- Comment on The Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Just Published Trump's Iran War Plan 1 week ago:
I’m an American immigrant in Germany. What I didn’t realize is how fucking cheap everything about healthcare is, not just insurance, but the various other costs. I take (generic) vyvanse, which cost me about a hundred bucks a month, in addition to monthly doctors visits and urine tests, totaling about $200-300 (it was still around $90 a month after hitting the deductible). In Germany, I go to a doctor every other month for free, don’t have to do any testing, and the prescription costs ~16€/month.
- Comment on The unprompted texts I send my best friend. 1 week ago:
Also pretty likely if they’re from MENA
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m on voyager, lol, but that’s good to know. I can zoom in further, but there’s no point, it doesn’t get clearer.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What’s the x axis on those graphs? I can’t zoom in enough on this picture to read it. I did look it up, but I only found versions with the exact same resolution
- Comment on Vampires are from Jersey 1 week ago:
Plus, there’s a (kind of) precedent. All you’d have to do is plan it for April fool’s day.
- Comment on I am convinced the makers of those ads are on something strong and very illegal 2 weeks ago:
Mobile gaming ads on YouTube are like softcore animations of a compilation of really specific niche fetishes.
- Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors? 2 weeks ago:
I worked for an insurance company in latent bodily injury claims (asbestos, lead paint, etc), and the symptoms of lead paint poisoning include lowered IQ, reduced emotional control, impaired risk assessment, and increased aggression.
There was a black man killed by cops for the crime of impoliteness in response to racial profiling several years ago, who had been one of our claimants. I didn’t find a reference to lead paint on the Wikipedia page, so I don’t think it’s public information and I won’t say who, but it’s unfortunately not a unique story.
Lead paint is nearly exclusively still present in awful apartments rented by slumlords to the poorest people in the US.
There’s also ambient exposure from leaded gasoline, but that’s not really an ongoing problem anymore (for now, I could see this regime fully legalizing leaded gas again). Even though lead hasn’t been legal in house paint since 1978, shitty landlords just painted over it instead of remediating it, so kids get exposed to sweet tasting paint flakes, as well as the dust released when it flakes off ending up in their homes or in the soil surrounding their buildings.
- Comment on Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze? 2 weeks ago:
They should just call it a maize.
- Comment on Paneraverse 2 weeks ago:
That is JFK.
- Comment on This one we can all agree on 2 weeks ago:
Eh
- Comment on Working retail can be embarrassing 3 weeks ago:
I work at a bakery and teach German classes (in Germany). One of my students came in the other day and I made her a sandwich to order, which I felt 100% normal about, but my bakery manager felt awkward about. The student seemed to feel a little weird too, but she ordered it, lol.
Then she missed my class later that afternoon -_-
- Comment on Not the one holding the record for longest cave hide and seek 3 weeks ago:
People were shorter in the past, I don’t make the rules
- Comment on Should try again tomorrow 3 weeks ago:
Just FYI, to reckon is to figure and recon is short for reconnaissance, so to investigate/scout behind enemy lines or metaphorically do the same.
- Comment on Rest in peace 4 weeks ago:
That’s so much worse. Solution and question aren’t as natural a pairing as solution and problem or answer and question, and the only only example of them going together as an established phrase that comes to mind is the nazi one.
If the coworker exists, they must have hated him
- Comment on Vitamin technology has advanced so much over the years 4 weeks ago:
Even proper food has fewer nutrients than it used to
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 4 weeks ago:
They really just folded that snake up
- Comment on If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campign. The effects can last for years, even decades. 4 weeks ago:
Or new slang
- Comment on Found this kinda funny 5 weeks ago:
That’s a fucking tongue twister.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 5 weeks ago:
5, 1, 3, 4, 2 but I don’t actually like any of them. I want the smallest functional fork available (generally around 15cm/6”)
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 5 weeks ago:
14 year olds in factories used to be a punchline. Now it’s just par for the course in some parts of the US
- Comment on Happy Easter 1 month ago:
I’m genuinely trying to think if I’ve ever seen a single nonsecular Easter decoration.
- Comment on xkcd #3077: de Sitter 1 month ago:
Look at you, making it all easy to understand
- Comment on xkcd #3077: de Sitter 1 month ago:
I love reading about physics things that I just can’t conceptualize. Spaces with more or fewer than 360 degrees of rotation? Cool, I absolutely can’t imagine it