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- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 5 days ago:
I think taking people who need a place to be is a primary step. You can do both.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 5 days ago:
Yeah, I keep reading about the rejections and thinking about how many people might have lived if the rest of the world had just accepted the deported Jews from Germany.
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 4 weeks ago:
Alcohol is also used in medication
- Comment on My favorite 4 weeks ago:
I knew someone who worked there with a woman who, when asked if she recommended the seasonal cheesecake, replied: “it’s so good, it makes me wet.”
She wasn’t fired, so I don’t think they really screen their staff much.
- Comment on USA | California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants 1 month ago:
This is separate from tuition assistance, which they may also be eligible for. Unfortunately, the descendants of slaves are not only financially affected, but academically affected. Early interventions like reading to your young children and helping them with homework are reduced for the descendants of enslaved people, likely due to a combination of less favorable working conditions and the reduced academic involvement of their own parents.
This is an anecdote, but it’s stuck with me: I used to work in a call center and once spoke to a man my father’s age, whose grandparents (like my father’s) were sharecroppers. That man was not literate enough to write down a claim number, so he put his daughter on. I asked (impolitely, but I was too curious), and she explained that the majority of teachers in 1950s and 60s Alabama just didn’t care if a poor black kid learned to read. My father has a master’s degree. There’s no way this man’s daughter was read to as much as I was or given as much academic help as I was. That’s happening on a huge scale, and a lot of people will consider only my father’s merit, not this man’s consistent, overwhelming disadvantage.
- Comment on USA | California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants 1 month ago:
There are still effects on education from slavery. This is one way to remedy that, but it’s not a complete solution to this problem, let alone sufficient reparations across the board. It doesn’t have to be though.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
We can also hear the difference between hot and cold water from the sound it makes while being poured into a cup
- Comment on wrappers 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, we’re the only ones with true chins, but I still scratch my cat’s undermouth area and call it a chin.
- Comment on Dentist the Menace 2 months ago:
To be fair, he didn’t exactly have to go to dental school or anything
- Comment on gen z gorillas 2 months ago:
Then they might actually be Gen Z, lol
- Comment on lab supplies 2 months ago:
That’s why it’s done through email and not at checkout
- Comment on American Politics 2 months ago:
There was a great joke going around near brexit, that the US and UK were in a competition to ruin their countries. The UK really pulled ahead with brexit, but the us had a trump card.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 months ago:
I get most of my clothing free (I’m not picky and I’m a common size), so at least in my case, sometimes I paid nothing to look like an advertisement. I don’t really care what’s on the shirt, and some of them are logos I don’t recognize, so it could be anything. It’s there to keep me from being arrested or kicked out, and my primary criteria are comfort in texture and temperature. If it’s comfy, has no holes/stains and fits well, I’m not worried about what design it has on it.
…To a point, I’m not wearing anything bigoted (though part of me enjoys the idea of a queer autistic immigrant getting use out of bigotry by wearing it inside out, but not enough)
My favorite sweatshirts are my uniform sweatshirts from the bakery I work at- they’re high quality and comfy as hell, plus I’ll never, ever wear them at work because it’s a bakery, it’s hot as fuck.
- Comment on They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them 2 months ago:
On a world scale? Absolutely.
- Comment on They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them 2 months ago:
Sure, but I’m rich because I have a net worth of about €10k, retirement savings included. I’m not the rich, because my €700 rent is sometimes tough, even as part of a DINK couple.
- Comment on The Sarah Palin Mandela Effect 3 months ago:
Miloueue
- Comment on Click here? 3 months ago:
Sometimes I try to pause my husband. It’s probably because we have different native languages, but it always gives us a laugh
- Comment on Like Fleetwood Mac? Get ready for 3 months ago:
Four digit phone number, that’s wild to see
- Comment on Hope September doesn’t go by too fast 3 months ago:
Two months and eight days 🙃
- Comment on Get good. 3 months ago:
Yep. Maybe the sister’s named Elizabeth (and they obviously didn’t accept any nicknames)
- Comment on Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts 3 months ago:
That’s honestly worse. They shouldn’t be allowed to lobby actively enough to warrant a public policy department in any country, let alone all of them.
- Comment on Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts 3 months ago:
Honestly, the fact that meta has an Israel policy chief is a problem. They’re a private company, why do they have country-specific policy departments?
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 3 months ago:
I thought he willed himself back to full dexterity, but I also didn’t really pay attention to the movie, to be fair.
- Comment on Honey 3 months ago:
I’m in the same camp, but wording it as “unable to assimilate new information” might actually help me have more sympathy for the willfully ignorant. That sounds awful to deal with.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 3 months ago:
Isn’t/wasn’t Dr. Strange a surgeon?
- Comment on Pesto!!! 3 months ago:
Isn’t that basic the rock’s diet? Let’s get a kid ripped
- Comment on ‘I’m pretty smoked, mate’: Lachlan Morton completes epic 14,200km ride around Australia in record time 3 months ago:
That would honestly still be impressive. Maybe not news-worthy, but definitely small town gossip material
- Comment on I love children's sense of humour 3 months ago:
Honestly, everyone just being a little gracious is all you really need.
I’m vegan and I have no issues going to a normal bbq place for someone else’s party(though I don’t know what this place would be like). I can eat corn and undressed salad for a meal, I’ll survive. If the party were for me, I’d probably feel like it was passive aggression or a weird test though.
Similarly, there will be non-vegan food when I introduce my husband to my family and celebrate our wedding in my home country with a potluck, because one of my sisters has celiac’s and the other IBS, which restricts her fiber intake. I would have been totally cool with exclusively mashed potatoes (skin off) for dinner and sorbet for dessert, but I don’t think many others would be, and there’s not much else that works for all of us.
Sure, I could tell them not to bring non-vegan food, but that’s not very gracious, and I want people to be comfortable. They’d probably agree and either eat ahead of time or leave earlier and eat on the way home, so it’s not like there’s a practical difference in meat consumption, and it’s a great way to make people feel less welcome.
- Comment on I love children's sense of humour 3 months ago:
While celebrating them, no less
- Comment on Yemen fires long-range missile at Israel, no casualties reported 4 months ago:
We’ve been seeing these signs for years, but what can we do about it? A world war could never be a surprise, because it requires significant worldwide tension.