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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I went to Duluth and they had outdoor tunnels between buildings to prevent your skin from dying due to the wind chill and exposure from walking outside for 10 minutes. Downtown Chicago has these as well for the same reason, except underground.
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Apr 19, 2023 22:53
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Inferior Third Season posted:I've been waiting 30 years for the promised "it gets easier to wake up early after doing it for a few weeks" to kick in. Get a dog. You will never need an alarm clock again.
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May 1, 2023 02:35
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Staluigi posted:A gently caress yea do they print up their emails and store them in a file cabinet I worked for a computer book publisher for awhile long long ago and the head of the expert user division used to have his secretary print out his emails, he would write his response on them and hand them back for her to type in and respond.
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May 2, 2023 00:03
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Staluigi posted:trump actually makes a fabulously all inclusive candidate for The Literal Antichrist according to practically any of the eschatological hallmarks constantly constantly constantly used by evangelicals, and this happened to be true even before he pronounced himself a messiah
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Jun 1, 2023 17:37
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Furnaceface posted:Part of me wants to visit Finland some day, but the other part of me knows its just northern Canada with funny accents. So basically the U.P. of Michigan (lots of Finns ended up there, coincidentally).
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Jul 2, 2023 05:58
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V. Illych L. posted:this is an ideological tension which has been at the back of my mind for a long time with gender reveal parties, but i don't know enough about the phenomenon It’s extremely popular in Republican circles. Shooting at a box full of tannerite and color powder of your choice to make a giant gendersplosion in celebration of a developing fetus’ sex organs has become proof of manhood and woe is you if you miss more than once. (Setting the countryside on fire is just an increasingly inevitable side effect). That said people in the US have always been weird about it. My godmother was downright angry at me for deciding not to find out the sex of my firstborn because how else was she supposed to know what color baby blanket to crochet?
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Jul 5, 2023 12:41
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I just got a letter informing me that I ran a red light in 2019 that triggered a red light camera and owe a fine. look up the statue of limitations for running a red light. Also see if they haven't gotten rid of red light cameras or some state law has been passed stating they're bullshit (because of stuff like this).
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Jul 26, 2023 15:42
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Also, what happened in 1991, 2004, and 2016/2017 that rocketed up the virginity rates in those years? 2004: narrow re-election of Bush Jr, young Republican males increasingly rejected as mates. 2016: Trump beats first viable female candidate for President, is vile, young male Republican supporters are vilified and rejected at historic rates as online profiles on Tinder state such things as ‘swipe right if you’re a Trump supporter, not interested’ and news stories of single Republican males having to hide their political orientation to even get dates abound.
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Jul 27, 2023 19:43
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i don't own a smartphone, i had to watch videos saved on my hard drive to pass the time, just like a loving cave man Post pics of your flip phone grandpa.
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Jul 28, 2023 13:38
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I had a Verizon-exclusive flip phone (I forget which model, but it was blue and you could flip it up sideways for a keyboard) for 11 years and only switched to a Smart Phone because I broke it and they said they literally didn't have any non-Smart Phones left. They lied.
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Jul 28, 2023 13:57
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The only song sequel that comes to mind is ‘Judy’s turn to cry’ (a sequel to the smash hit ‘Its My Party (and I’ll cry if I want to)’ by Leslie Gore.
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Aug 30, 2023 13:03
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:lmao. Thats loving amazing.
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Sep 14, 2023 20:59
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Rappaport posted:I wonder what 30-somethings would say about WW2, and who were the Axis and the Allies. WWII is drilled endlessly into the heads of schoolchildren from grade school on in America, and plenty of Hollywood movies have reinforced the broad strokes. Vietnam is... iffy. My brother thought we won in Vietnam because of Rambo.
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Sep 15, 2023 00:42
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Rappaport posted:I realize WW2 has a lot of cultural osmosis behind it, but I'm mildly curious how that translates to factual knowledge of what happened, never mind why. Of course that latter one is a doozy in any conflict, and this wasn't a question to the kids about nine-eleven either Public school history classes love teaching about World War II because it’s the last time America was the ‘good guys’ and looked really good doing it and it appeals to both liberals (fighting fascism) and conservatives (winning wars with a strong military, ushering in the idyllic 50s nuclear family and fighting communism). Conservatives would grumble about the time spent on the Japanese internment camps or racism but by and large it was a safe topic and not nearly as glossed over as say, Reconstruction.
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Sep 15, 2023 05:52
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Main Paineframe posted:American schooling varies tremendously from state to state and even from district to district. The history classes I got in school mostly just covered 1776-1865, with basically zero mention of anything that happened in the 20th century. The lions share of that time was spent on the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and WWII. So many dates/locations of battles and names of generals…
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Sep 15, 2023 06:05
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Main Paineframe posted:Yes, Florida in the 90s. It was divided up totally differently. One year we'd cover the colonial era, the next year the Revolutionary War, the next year went up to the War of 1812 or so, and so on, each year covering a couple of decades in significant detail. Elementary school got up to the end of the Civil War, and then we went to middle school and history classes went back to 1777 and started the whole sequence over (in even greater detail now that we were older and could retain more). High school covered a bit of the early 20th century, I think, but I came out of school not having a drat clue what the Vietnam War was, let alone the Korean War. Did they not watch M*A*S*H in Florida?! (that and having a Korean best friend growing up were responsible for most of what I knew about the Korean War). My stepdad was a Vietnam vet and it was in the news quite a bit growing up but basically ended the year I was born so basically Rambo movies, Platoon, Good Morning Vietnam and Full Metal Jacket kept the gist of it in the GenX consciousness.
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Sep 15, 2023 15:11
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Main Paineframe posted:during my 90s childhood, the people around me usually watched shows and movies from the 90s, not shows from the 70s My dad watched MASH religiously. That and Cheers. We only had one tv so what he watched, we watched. And this was the 80s not the 90s.
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Sep 15, 2023 16:30
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Rappaport posted:Quick, Oracle, what do you think these fellas know about the second world war? Ironically enough, they’d probably do better on those questions than their families personal lives. This is just another example of women being expected to do all the social-emotional labor in the family from attending parent teacher conferences to making doctors appointments to sending their husbands’ mothers’ birthday and Christmas presents (labeled as from their husbands of course). I’d be surprised if any of these guys knew the names of their own doctors because their wives probably schedule that too. But I bet they could tell you who won the 1968 World Series.
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Sep 29, 2023 14:35
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Along with the Hamster in a Blender game from JoeCartoon.com. Wasn’t that a frog? I think you’re conflating it with Hamster Dance (which is 25 this year).
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Oct 7, 2023 03:41
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Possibly blinded by being in a DINK household of middle-aged online shoppers. Kids have two parents at least one of which they will have dragged along. Also people can see a movie more than once. As the mother of a kid was both traumatized and fascinated by fnaf back in the day, yes, it’s that popular and has been for a decade. Not Minecraft popular but it’s up there and has gone through about ten years of grade schoolers.
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Nov 6, 2023 21:13
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Professor Beetus posted:Thanks for the answers, work has been busy today and I didn't really get a chance to look more closely. The answers were definitely dumber than I expected, so thanks for the chuckle They were pretty cool for the time period technology wise. You could put a bunch of them together and they’d interact with each other. Also the CIA banned them from their offices in Langley, which made them forbidden fruit that freaked out spies thus cool.
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Jan 6, 2024 09:41
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an egg posted:it's post-apocalyptic. things were very different before they invented the pokeball. Viva Piñata
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Feb 11, 2024 00:28
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BougieBitch posted:I played the first one way back when, it was okay but not enough for me to want to find the sequel. I feel like part of the problem was a lot of them were really cute, so having to beat them to death to attract vulture pinatas or whatever always felt kind of bad to child me Nature is cruel and heartless
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Feb 11, 2024 16:59
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:lol the exhaustion in my tutor's voice (postgraduate) when they say "academic writing should be in the third person" My kids buddies have one. He’s 15. Their parents were in bands and raised them on a pretty varied diet of 90s alternative and they even cut an LP. They aren’t bad either, it’s fun to play ‘guess the influence’ on their songs.
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Apr 17, 2024 13:16
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:that's excellent. playing music with others is one of those skills that is being lost in this generation and it's so important for the social brain. it requires real encouragement and understanding on the part of the parents too, you're doing a great thing for them. Thanks. It helps to have a local all ages club that serves food and not liquor (until 9pm after their sets). These kids are not really into alcohol like it’s necessary to have a good time either (tho the vaping, ugh).
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Apr 18, 2024 03:05
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:classic americana gives me a feeling of deep cold melancholy that is quite unlike anything else on earth There’s Polish cos players who rp Midwest backyard bbqs. https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vpbx/poland-larp-america-ohio
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May 12, 2024 23:05
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:this has inexplicably lifted my mood Right? Like how do you even dress for that without a Walmart. Also people wanting to send them genuine red Solo cups lol
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May 12, 2024 23:18
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:the total capitalist domination of publication of creative work has led to role-playing in all its forms taking off in a way hitherto unseen in human history I think it has more to do with a greater desire for escapism into an alien world with problems that are appealing in their alien ness as the real world becomes increasingly untenable. For USAians that’s armor and orcs, for poles it’s cousin Betty’s done run out of insulin again and it’s only halfway through the month can she convince her baby daddy who works at the Walmart pharmacy to hook her up with enough supply to enjoy two servings of Meemaw’s ambrosia salad at the bbq without going comatose.
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May 13, 2024 05:32
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:seriously thank you so much for sharing that article, for some reason that glimpse into a parallel universe was exactly what i needed at this moment in my life Happy to help
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May 13, 2024 17:11
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i would strive for professional success if it meant i got to wear a long flowing robe in everyday life, preferably with a cowl There are judgeships in every county of this great country my man. Run for office. Some don’t even require a law degree!
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May 15, 2024 03:02
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