andros_rex
@andros_rex@lemmy.world
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 10 hours ago:
Do you have any advice for coping with the discomfort?
I didn’t take the saline/get blood returned to me because it started burning. Which is fine, my doc has suggest therapeutic blood draws to deal with occasionally high hemocrit anyway.
But ugh…. The entire experience was really uncomfortable and icky. I’m debating on whether it’s worth going back, but damn if I didn’t enjoy having having a steak and a beer with the money after.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 day ago:
Have you heard of 996? It’s shorthand for a common work schedule in China: 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week
So a typical American teacher’s schedule?
- Comment on choice 1 day ago:
Someone has to have done some kind of project where they pulled data for how much porn there is of each Pokémon.
I want to see a graph.
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 1 day ago:
Imagine if Eichman had access to memes.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 1 day ago:
Yeah - as a result of the investigation I read 10 years ago which has mysteriously disappeared from the internet, there was a push to force employers to also offer direct deposit.
I remember around the same time being pressured at Kohls to use the damn pay card.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 1 day ago:
Pay cards are pretty popular among a lot of employers.
I know I read a ProPublica article about how fucked they are a while back, but both DDG and Google don’t seem interested in helping me find it…
But yeah, a lot of big retail/fast food places will pressure you into taking your pay as a pay card. These pay cards usually charge you for things like checking your balance or using an ATM.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 1 day ago:
Another thing I noticed is that you can’t donate if you are on PREP or PEP. The info screen says that you shouldn’t discontinue those meds to donate - but if you are in the situation where you need food, what’s the choice going to be there?
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 2 days ago:
It’s really amazing how expensive being poor is.
I pay interest on my credit card loans, I pay late fees on things like electricity and my internet. The interest and late fees and all that other shit would be enough to start saving up for home.
Gas station food and energy drinks are expensive as shit, but sometimes when you are working two jobs you just want a fucking slice of pizza and enough caffeine to make it through the next shift.
I can at least manage my apartment, and can pick up a third job once school starts up again - but being in these places where I see people who are poorer than me and lack the ability to understand how to navigate the world - who don’t have a college education/the ability to read/the ability to speak English - what kind of sick and evil world is this?
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 2 days ago:
Yeah - that’s what I found dystopian about it. That someone would be desperate enough to come back the next day to try again.
- Submitted 2 days ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 66 comments
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 3 days ago:
They made the physics and chemistry tests even easier in the past couple years.
When I took the chemistry test - I hadn’t even really studied chemistry. Just two semesters in undergrad, never took organic. Didn’t know what hydrogen bonding was. I just marathoned the Crash Course YouTube series - I hadn’t ever wanted to teach chemistry, but the school decided that they were going to make me teach it and emergency certify me for it. I figured that would mess with my student loan forgiveness incentives, so took the test to be legit.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 3 days ago:
Department head at one of the schools I worked at was a creationist Bible college graduate.
He would compliment students for choosing to not wear masks in 2021.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 4 days ago:
I’m not the drag queen - I was referring to a different individual - a case that should have been picked up by the media but wasn’t.
I am trans.
I think the answer to your question is that a drag queen is really their personality when they are in drag.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 4 days ago:
My student loans are about to come due.
It’s all but illegal for me to teach here. And I can’t get out. I’m so sick of being alive.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 4 days ago:
There was a principal at Western Heights (iirc) who did drag on the weekends. No one knew. He was a great principal, had excellent performance reviews, was loved by his community.
Ryan Walters showed up to the school every day to tell them to fire him. And they did.
Ryan Walters is also gay himself. Everyone in the community knows this. He’s a chicken shit human, who helped write the evil woke social science standards, before he decided to have a political career.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 4 days ago:
And I love teaching autistic kids. Please put me in a group of autistic children. I would absolutely fucking love to teach science to a group of autistic children.
But I am transgender, so I can’t. I don’t count as a human being where I live. Nothing would make me happier than spending all day teaching chemistry and physics but I can’t.
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 4 days ago:
I will qualify that I struggled with the mild/moderate test (still passed but had to study) because it was quite literally incorrect about ASD. But Oklahoma is mostly about torturing autistic kids anyway.
- Submitted 4 days ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 5 days ago:
Bro - I was literally a fucking teacher during the peak of that moral panic. I spend more time every day with teenagers than half of you on this thread do. Every kid knew it was a fucking joke. A handful of children actually did it on purpose, and like every moral outrage/hysteria it became “teens are doing this wild crazy thing!”
Yes, teenagers do dumb fucking shit all of the time. It’s not the shit the media picks up on for the viral clicks.
The real shit teens are actually doing is vaping shady carts and creating massive group chats to bully each other with naked pictures. But that doesn’t sell the same kinds of ad impressions as “there’s a stupid TikTok video that when viral so we are going to assume this is a massive regular thing that hundreds of children are doing.” Talking about those issues involves parents having to, you know, parent but instead it’s gotta be about stupid shit.
The real “hiding under a rock” is being distracted by the newest stupid TikTok video instead of dealing with the things teenagers actually do.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 6 days ago:
Did you know that cognitively delayed teenagers exist?
Check real quick - I think “gullible” is written on your ceiling. Watch out, I hear human traffickers are putting fentanyl laced roses on car doors.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 6 days ago:
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 6 days ago:
Did you see the part where only half of those ingestions were intentional?
You would be freaking out about rainbow parties and snap bracelets in the 90s.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 6 days ago:
Do creative people have viable paths to income that aren’t social media?
How does one survive as an artist or a small film maker, when there is no patronage, government funding for museums is constantly on the chopping block, and any form of art you make is going to be uploaded whether you like it or not?
Our society essentially has no paths to success for creative types other than social media - especially with C-suites deciding that they’d rather use the plagiarism machine to make slop than hire actual content makers and artists?
Making things like clip art used to be a job. You used to be able to paint signs. There was work for casual level artists. Now, your options are trying to go viral on social media/hunt for commissions.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 6 days ago:
You get this a joke?
Children were never eating tide pods either.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 6 days ago:
I’m an educator, and I’m forbidden from taking about fracking at work ( ° ͜ʖ °)
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 1 week ago:
My goal I think is to be a science clown. Balloon animals with a touch of biology, comedically “failing” at chemistry experiments, the physics of juggling. The goal has been percolating in my head for a few years, but now I’ve lost all sense of shame and feel like I could confidently fall on my ass and look like an idiot to entertain and educate.
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 1 week ago:
100% serious. I spent like 10 minutes entertaining a two year old by failing to juggle earlier today and that was the most joy I’ve felt since November.
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 1 week ago:
Just not looking for the low effort, Reddit-tier jokes. Wanting actually advice or at least funny jokes.
- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 1 week ago:
Isn’t it funny how Dems chased out Al Franken for that shitty photo, but Republicans rally behind their own sex pests?
