I have a kid in preschool and honestly I dread the "pledge of allegiance talk" more than most other common "uncomfortable parent conversations"
"Yeah this is bullshit but you WILL be ostracized if you don't join in. I realized this in middle school and just had to go through the motions for the next 6 years or so but I felt like I was taking crazy pills."
Loose leaf tea, re-steeped several times over the course of the day. The caffeine content goes down with each successive stepping, but good quality whole leaves will still let you get several cups out of them.
I stop making it at 3, which usually gives me enough time to metabolize it and sleep normally.
As far as I'm aware, all 50 states let you bring a "cheat sheet" into the Voting booth. Do your research at home at your own pace, write down your choices for each item, and bring that sheet into the booth with you.
I agree that vote by mail should be universal, but lack of it isn't an excuse to be uninformed at the polls.
I think his implication is that he'll veto everything, not just let it desk rot.
I hesitate to ascribe any sense of strategy to the guy, but the presidential veto is one of the most direct exercises of power that he has, and this is a guy who salivates at any opportunity to flex whatever power he can.
Yeah whining about the exact words she used while ignoring the substance of the memo is exactly the useless purity test that fucks up any attempt at getting real left politics in government.
Keeping it a single state means fewer senators. Not that Canada is like a communist haven or anything, but they're FAR from our MAGA bullshit and they don't wanna dilute the power they've accumulated in that chamber of congress.
Also, Canada would be the 3rd or 4th highest GDP in the US if it became a single state. California and Texas have it solidly beat. NY is neck and neck with Canada.
It's almost the absolute worst of humanity made anonymous and public. "Almost" is only there because they will delete blatantly illegal content like cp, but anything else goes. Overt racism becomes normalized because people engage with it so it keeps getting bumped to the top. Some legitimately mean it, some are just trolling for the lolz, but either way it desensitizes people and normalizes the view.
Repeat for any other kind of bigotry or harmful view you can imagine.
In terms of real people behind the accounts
One of the defining features of 4chan is the lack of accounts. Most posts are anonymous. Even harder to tell if someone is human or bot when you can instantly just roll a new anon ID.
"Arch isn't a difficult distro! All you need to do is run pacman -Syu now and then! Even my grandma could handle it!"
(Which is true until something goes wrong and now you're way more on the hook to un-fuck the system than just about anything that could ever go wrong on a Debian or Fedora based distro)
Less than half of Americans have a passport, and that's the only form of national ID we have. We have 50 different state IDs, but iirc only 3 of them show proof of citizenship.
My budget is rigid where the expenses are rigid (mortgage, daycare, utility bills) and fluid where the expenses are fluid (eating out, date nights, video games)
Labor has value. You have access to some amount of labor each week that you value at [your salary]. Your employer values your labor at [some higher value, because they only pay you if they believe you'll bring in more money than you cost] and thus "wins" at the trade.
I have a kid in preschool and honestly I dread the "pledge of allegiance talk" more than most other common "uncomfortable parent conversations"
"Yeah this is bullshit but you WILL be ostracized if you don't join in. I realized this in middle school and just had to go through the motions for the next 6 years or so but I felt like I was taking crazy pills."