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mrbotus posted:I started studying Mandarin Chinese in 2014. I lived in Taiwan for about a year and I'm conversationally fluent. I haven't done much studying the past year (2021), but I can still get by and read news articles as long as the subject isn't too specialized. It's a great language and my life was improved by learning it. That inner joy you feel is the sensation of being in sync with the harmonic resonance and truth of Xi Jinping Thought.
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Yep... https://www.verywellfamily.com/the-value-of-earning-the-eagle-scout-rank-2958843 Military rank: Every branch of the U.S. military allows Eagle Scouts to enter at a higher rank and pay grade than others who are not Eagle Scouts.
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for all we know the tipping point could have been in oh, I don't know, 1982, and we wouldn't be any the wiser. 
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Zodium posted:for all we know the tipping point could have been in oh, I don't know, 1982, and we wouldn't be any the wiser. saint Reagan set the United States free
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The tipping point was when the gays could get married. That's what my dad said anyway.
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Platystemon posted:https://i.imgur.com/cznc7vX.mp4
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No, but for real I had a teacher once state the fall of the Roman empire was due to straying from God (thus the moral assumptions that come from the kind of person saying that.) and that America will do the same once gay marriage is legal.
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I enjoyed Scouts but that's cause our troop was basically a nature club and youth volunteer program (which I think is more in line with its purpose) but hooo boy did every time we interact with the superstructure orgs was it fuckin weird
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:saint Reagan set the United States free 
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As I sit here at 8am listening to a meeting that could have been an email, I thought I'd update this dear thread on my recent trip to applebees. As reported before, I received a $100 gift card for applebees from someone who got it for christmas and didn't want it. I like free stuff, but hadn't been to applebees in years. Last time I went was when our town had widespread power outages due to weather events and the only place open with power was Applebees and the arbys that was next to it. I downloaded the app from the app store so I could get my apps. The order process was pretty painless, but the gift card wouldn't work unless I dialed an 800 number first. Once I did that it was able to be used in the app that I was going to use to get the apps. I pulled up and the entire restaurant was filled with people sucking and loving. It was insane. I pulled into their parking spot and a nice masked girl came out and said hi to me. She took my name and went back to sucking and loving. She came back a few minutes later with the food. Herein is my review: Chicken Wonton Tacos - Best part of the meal. Actually had a nice flavor balance, was prepared well. Bourbon Street Steak - The steak was actually cooked as well as I think it could have been. The cut was super cheap though, so it was kinda tough. Shrimp 'N Parmesan Sirloin - Shrimp was the best part, but the steak was similar to the other one. Cheap cut - you can tell where the profit margin for this dish is coming from. Kids Grilled Chicken Alfredo - My toddler didn't much like this. He loves noodles. Flavored Lemonades - These were partially consumed. Too tart. Total with tax and tip was $63. The meal felt fine in that it was edible but it was pretty forgetful. But the total of $63 for the meal was insane. Wife report: "it was fine but not worth $63". Covid is OVER.
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Zurtilik posted:Yep... Oh yeah they loved trotting out this promo when I was still in scouts on the cusp of the war on terror.
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Zurtilik posted:Isn't there like a whole thing where you get a bunch of perks if you join the military after obtaining X rank in the scouts? I've always heard that becoming an eagle scout gives you access to some kind of easy mode. Sounds like some dumb boomer poo poo to me though.
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thedavid posted:As I sit here at 8am listening to a meeting that could have been an email, I thought I'd update this dear thread on my recent trip to applebees. The pretzels and pub cheese is good.
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thedavid posted:Wife report: "it was fine but not worth $63". All TL;DRs should be described as “wife reports” now.
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Jon Irenicus posted:I enjoyed Scouts but that's cause our troop was basically a nature club and youth volunteer program (which I think is more in line with its purpose) but hooo boy did every time we interact with the superstructure orgs was it fuckin weird 
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Jon Irenicus posted:I enjoyed Scouts but that's cause our troop was basically a nature club and youth volunteer program (which I think is more in line with its purpose) but hooo boy did every time we interact with the superstructure orgs was it fuckin weird I tried enjoying scouts, but my troop was a good old boys club, and since my group was a bunch of misfits, we weren't invited to do anything. The troop leader would flat out lie to our faces about it too. My dad let me quit, probably because he had also had enough. I made the rank of first class.
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I don't remember which way it went but either the Hitler youth were directly inspired off the boy scouts or the boy scout organizers saw what the Hitler youth were doing and were like "we're gonna make our organization more like this" Edit: also the boy scouts were used as strikebreakers in the 20's lol
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Platystemon posted:All TL;DRs should be described as “wife reports” now. 
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thedavid posted:As I sit here at 8am listening to a meeting that could have been an email, I thought I'd update this dear thread on my recent trip to applebees. I appreciate your report because I've never been to applebees.
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I was an eagle scout and look at me now
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yoloer420 posted:Step up your game! I use a similar setup to disinfect any goods/food I have delivered or otherwise bring into the house.  yolo
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Thinking a lot about something Robert Evans said recently- the open up stuff is mostly a capitulation by our government to terrorist actions taken early in the pandemic, a bunch of weirdos with guns walking into local legislatures still holds more terror than the hundreds of thousands of deaths since then.
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BONGHITZ posted:I was an eagle scout and look at me now nerd
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Business Gorillas posted:I don't remember which way it went but either the Hitler youth were directly inspired off the boy scouts or the boy scout organizers saw what the Hitler youth were doing and were like "we're gonna make our organization more like this" Good. Any form of collectivism should be stopped by the citizenry. Report what you see or hear.
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Tulip posted:Thinking a lot about something Evan Williams said recently
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BONGHITZ posted:I was an eagle scout and look at me now How weird are you?
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Tulip posted:Thinking a lot about something Robert Evans said recently- the open up stuff is mostly a capitulation by our government to terrorist actions taken early in the pandemic, a bunch of weirdos with guns walking into local legislatures still holds more terror than the hundreds of thousands of deaths since then. I think about that one tweet that suggested the only freedom Americans actually care about is the freedom to go to chain restaurants
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Tulip posted:Thinking a lot about something Robert Evans said recently- the open up stuff is mostly a capitulation by our government to terrorist actions taken early in the pandemic, a bunch of weirdos with guns walking into local legislatures still holds more terror than the hundreds of thousands of deaths since then. All that was astroturf and allowed to happen to furnish a pretext to do nothing about the virus. If communists tried something like that they would have been locked up before they even got there
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:This guy is an anti-lockdown, anti-masking, schools-must-open fucker who compared vaccine mandates to the rise of nazism in the 1930s and his tweets are obviously dumb as gently caress, but on the other hand the current capital-s "Science" touted by the White House and the CDC and every state governor is that infections simply don't happen in schools therefore they're the safest possible place for kids (mostly based on "studies" which used incomplete voluntarily-reported data from schools who were trying their darnedest to hide outbreaks, and they refused to acknowledge international studies which showed that schools are hella infectious places) so it turns out that the US really really does need new studies into all that stuff. If only to refute fuckers like this guy, but mostly to refute the CDC. just doing 100% twice a week testing in a random smattering of schools would have given us incredible amount of needed data. but is almost certainly would have determined that schools are loving plague pits that need shutting down to contain spread (or exceptionally expensive mitigation measures) and capital couldn't risk that happening.
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Basic surveillance testing & genomic sequencing on a few schools which had different restriction policies would have got us most of the way there.
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Shifty Pony posted:just doing 100% twice a week testing in a random smattering of schools would have given us incredible amount of needed data. We did this and they are. You're welcome.
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thedavid posted:As I sit here at 8am listening to a meeting that could have been an email, I thought I'd update this dear thread on my recent trip to applebees. you will be dead within 1 month
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FizFashizzle posted:We cannot ALLOW an unvaccinated gap! This proves that antivaxxers are a Russian plot, right
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Shifty Pony posted:just doing 100% twice a week testing in a random smattering of schools would have given us incredible amount of needed data. My school district does twice a week saliva testing and masking. I was surprised by how little spread there was in schools since they don't mask for snacks and in the cold they eat inside for lunch in the gym. That being said, cases shot up the week before Christmas and this past week with both teachers and students. It really did seem that most cases came from other places and school didn't contribute much to the spread. Something like 50 teachers k-8 had positive cases last week, all of those would have been contracted over break
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Raccooon posted:How weird are you? I post on the something awful forums in the cspam Covid thread
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Teenage Riot posted:This proves that antivaxxers are a Russian plot, right Both have huge populations that spent their formative years being led to the precipice of destruction by a sociopathic ruling class, and there’s no reason to think their current ruling class isn’t as cynical and capital obsessed as ours. Biggest difference is they’re at least understandably traumatized from the early nineties. Boomers in the states can only point to a terrorist attack that overwhelmingly did not impact them personally and not being able to go to Applebees.
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Jon Irenicus posted:I enjoyed Scouts but that's cause our troop was basically a nature club and youth volunteer program (which I think is more in line with its purpose) but hooo boy did every time we interact with the superstructure orgs was it fuckin weird It entirely depends on the leadership of the troop. Mine was laid-back except for the insane Vietnam vet and didn't have any sex perverts. I really enjoyed my experience except for being forced to sell popcorn door to door.
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