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NielsBohron

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  • Trump Completely Loses It on ‘Stupid AOC’ Over Call for His Impeachment in Wild, Marathon Rant

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  • This is legit why people started to believe in Hell

    This, and monotheism. You can't have an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent deity if there's observable evil in the world unless "it's all part of God's plan," and/or "people reap what they sow"

  • Trump Completely Loses It on ‘Stupid AOC’ Over Call for His Impeachment in Wild, Marathon Rant

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  • Respectfully.

  • Cheeto devouring his nation

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  • I dunno, I think that's part of the magic of the Black Paintings. To me, what makes them truly unsettling (in the best way) is the fact that he painted them exclusively for his own desire and that we're limited to guessing the subject matter (which, although ambiguous, was undoubtedly dark).

  • What a scam

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  • Except you do level up if you continue to practice and learn new skills.

  • Dozens attend 'Hetero Awesome Fest' in Idaho

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  • I GOT SOMETHING TO PUT IN YOU!

    AT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BAR!

  • Every theater

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  • Depends on your town. I live in a small tourist town with one cinema and they only play the biggest hits, focusing on the lowest common denominator. I mean, I'm not even sure they screened Sinners, but they definitely played The Minecraft Movie in 4 (out of 14) theaters for months. If I want to go to a different cinema, I have to drive 45 minutes to get to the next town (where the selection still sucks, but at least they've got more screens) or 75 min to get to the closest independent theater.

  • Derail any conversation by mentioning "microwaving your water" rule

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  • chronic exposure to time dramatically increases your chances of getting terminally old.

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  • Sorry, I edited my comment on mobile so I couldn't see your comment directly and I wasn't sure if it was you or the person above you that said that.

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  • Methamphetamine is still prescribed for ADHD in extreme cases. "Street meth" is exactly the same but with more impurities (assuming it hasn't been cut with other drugs like fentanyl). It would be much worse for you because of all the harmful/carcinogenic impurities, but not any more addictive or euphoric (again, assuming it's not cut with opiates)

    edit: This is assuming, like the other commenter mentioned, that you stick to taking it orally. As soon as you change the route of administration to bypass the liver on its first trip through the blood stream (meaning literally any other RoA), both the "rush" and addictive potential get much larger.

  • Nice one

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  • The biggest part of the issue in state-run higher-ed is the glacial pace at which hiring happens vs. how fast the works shows up. My organization is legitimately trying to hire appropriately (I believe), but we can't allocate resources until the students show up, and then it's an 18 month turn around between filing a faculty hiring request and the person starting work due to the standard academic hiring cycle and state-mandated EEO requirements (and that's assuming that admin approve the hiring request the first time you ask for it, which they do as often as they can). On the other hand, it only takes 2 weeks for people to resign and move on, so we're losing people as fast as we can hire them. We could to try to hire faster, but it's a tiny school with a tiny HR (so we're capped at hiring about 4-5 faculty positions per year) and a small number of faculty (so it's hard getting enough people to volunteer when you need to fill a hiring committee).

    Honestly, I really like the organization and think admin are making good choices, but we legally can't turn students away, so when more people enroll, there's more work with the same number of workers for at least a year. It's honestly a good problem to have, and they do a decent job at compensating me for my extra work, but I'd rather have more help and less OT as soon as we can manage it.

    All that said, working in private industry or in an organization that doesn't have as many restrictions, I would absolutely be saying "no" a lot more. As it is, when I say no, it's my colleagues and the students that feel the repercussions, not admin, and I have a hard time being OK with that.

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  • It's not my fault, but it is definitely my problem if I'm in a position to help people and decide not to. Make no mistake, I raise holy hell while I'm doing it, but the lack of workers doesn't lessen the amount of work that needs to get done. Maybe it's just naivete, but I'm idealistic enough to believe that helping students is the most important thing I can do, so I only say yes to things that are directly helping students, faculty, and staff (admin and their busy work can fuck right off with their bloated salaries and support staff)

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  • This is definitely a difference between people that believe the work they do is important and people just punching a clock.

    I teach at a community college (salaried) and my partner works as staff in the same school (hourly). She works her ass off, but when she gets to the end of the day, she is done and leaves work at the office, so attending meetings is no big deal to her. Meanwhile, I've gotten involved enough in peripheral committee work that I regularly stay up working until 1AM because there are literally not enough hours in the day to get done what needs to get done. I could try to leave work at work, but I'd be hanging students and fellow instructors out to dry, so that's not always an option.

  • Art imitating life?

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  • not often enough. It's funny though, Community definitely nails a lot of aspects of community college life.

  • Art imitating life?

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  • IRL, this is why conservatives are working so hard to turn community colleges into vocational schools as opposed to low-cost ways to transfer to 4-year schools.

    History and systemic racism did a great job of making sure that going straight from HS to 4-year schools is only possible if you come from privilege (for the most part), and community colleges fought back to give all people access to traditional college education. So now, conservatives are trying to incentivize CC's turning into vocational schools while pushing to cut their funding at every opportunity.

    Source: I teach in a CC and have watched all sorts of right-wing talking points get pushed onto us under the guise of student success. Turns out, forcing unprepared students to leave cutting funding to their community college if they don't finish fast enough is not really about student success; it's about limiting their options. edit: they're not truly forcing them to leave, just penalizing colleges if it takes students more than 3 years to transfer and trying to make it illegal to offer foundational math/English courses

  • Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference

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  • Very well put; this is exactly what I'm talking about.

  • Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference

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  • I'd say part of the difference is that, at this point, the billionaires have left us with just enough to lose. I'm sure the risk of physical violence was still daunting, but when you have nothing left to lose then the prospect of physical harm somehow seems preferable to continuing with the status quo. That seems like an easy thing to say, but I've been there before.

  • Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference

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  • Many people can't miss a few days work without significant financial implications. Billionaires and corporations have us so underwater that we have no choice but to make a big stink where we can and voice our concern, with the occasional weekend march.

  • something's fishy

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  • That's what my friends call me, the kinki idiot

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  • I chortled at that one