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No, we are.

He fucks around, we find out.

And they either leverage or disavow the Old Testament according to their needs, as in this case.

Oh you think the Bible endorses slavery? How cute. That is the old covenant, and should be read historically

Vs

God is a god of WAR, and praying for the death of your enemy is Biblical, right there in the oldest part of the bible.

But ‘they’ is basically him in this instance.

In a functioning society I think that would be criminal.

While true, making the change now and doing so conspicuously is nothing less than Ed Bastian signaling loyalty to Trump to curry favor.

Disgusting.

Oh yeah. This is my jam.

The things that ICE could conceivably do with zero training are not coming from the same labor pool that keeps the check points moving.

This is theater at best, but in fairness most of airport security is theater too.

Oh definitely.

This is art by almost any definition, and it is based and badass.

It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.

I would have to go and download an ad, and then upload it, and then select it from new additions in order to hear an ad on Plexamp.

But the subscription model is the framework for fuckery here.

It wasn’t long ago that subscribing to something, implied a consistent (usually periodical) delivery of actual goods or services that were in some way distinct from the previous periods good or services. Issue #33 is different from #32. March’s soup of the month is different than February’s.

And you could hold issue #33 in one hand and #32 in another hand and directly interact with two months worth of that subscription.

The tech bro idea of innovation is to get two revenue streams from each customer; keep us paying for the same thing over and over but never owning it, and sell our data to advertisers. The fact that they are also showing ads to subscribers is just dripping lemon juice in the paper cut because they can. They were already making money off that data.

Or that they will only negotiate with Hillary.

Actually thank you for the question. I’m still processing a lot of this stuff so in many ways writing it out ended up being to my benefit more than yours.

This could be directed at almost any group of people in the context of almost anything that happened in 2016. Can you be a bit more specific?

If anyone has seen a higher res version of this I would appreciate it.

I had very similar experiences. Let me know if you ever want to talk about it, but I’m also unsociable so I will understand perfectly if you never do, and may even be relieved.

You get it.

I was homeschooled K-12 and never went to college, so home school is literally all I know and I have thoughts.

1. Motivation matters - I was home schooled for religious reasons by parents who were themselves educated but wholly unqualified to teach a single child much less 4 kids. They homeschooled us primarily to avoid the indoctrination of the secular world, where the lies of evolution and gay baby killers reigned supreme. Thus, I was not well educated and didn’t realize it until I got into the work force. I have been battling crippling imposter syndrome ever since I realized how deficient my education was - I’m still in the process of understanding the scope of that deficiency
2. oversight is not optional. In my situation, we were homeschooled without any government involvement or oversight in any way. My parents told me at the time that this was how the laws in my state worked but they also told me to stay away from Truant Officers so I think they were lying. I had no sense of equivalency or where I stood compared to my peers until I was in the process of testing out to get my GED (because weirdly, prospective employees weren’t keen to accept the “diploma” my dad had printed from MS Word) that I saw my percentile rank in various subject
3. Unless you are an educator, don’t try to run a curriculum. If you’re going to homeschool, pay a tutor. If you can’t pay a tutor, probably don’t home school

I know that last bit sounds extreme and I don’t think my home school experience is typical so take it with a grain of salt.

Edit: none of this even addresses the social impacts, which are intense if not mitigated with a lot of sports and group activities, etc

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Let’s not rush to judgement about the actions of an illegal fascist paramilitary gang until all of the facts are in, okay?

Ironically it is comments like these that led to Reddit gold. But thank you kind stranger for saving me having to descend into The Depths for this.

Or we were at least able to share in a mutually convincing fiction that they did.