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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • What's the dumbest/silliest reason you got in trouble for in school?

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  • Catholic school with uniform including khaki pants. I started my period and bled thru. I swapped to sweatpants. Most teachers just figured I must have some reason and didn't bother me. A couple asked after it, one accepted my reason and offered to to let me out of class to have a little more time to cleanup or call home or whatever I needed to feel comfortable. The last one gave me detention for being out of uniform.

    School administration reversed it when they heard why I was being sent to detention. I was advised to just go to the main office if it ever happened again so they could help me instead of having to deal with each teacher myself.

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    YSK this is Professor Edward Bullmore from Cambridge University, one of the world leading expert on the brain. He believes a lot of depression and anxiety is actually linked to inflammation

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  • Inflammation is measurable. Where are the studies correlating inflammation measured via whatever medical scans to depression diagnoses?

    An incomplete article if the studies exist and weren't mentioned. A useless hypothesis if the guy is already authoring books but hasn't done any studies yet.

  • What was your favorite part of today ?

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  • Waiting to board a plane and then I'm going to nap so hard. I should get some jet engine wash tracks for sleeping normally at home. I am usually asleep before the plane takes off.

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  • My highest rating on Letterboxd for a film from the 50s is The Night of the Hunter. I really haven't watched much from that decade. It is a pretty good movie, great at building suspense.

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    Are wasians the most attractive?

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    What’s the most meaningful “personal” gift you’ve received — and would a custom song feel sweet or cringe?

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  • If someone gave me an AI-generated song, I would be baffled at how little they know me. Any friend of family member of any depth would know I would place zero value on an AI-generated song as a gift. Even "it's the thought that counts" doesn't work because there's no thinking, it's been outsourced to a bot.

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    Are wasians the most attractive?

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  • Anyone else on here a "Reddit refugee"?

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  • MAGA freaks should love me. I didn't get banned from reddit, I self-deported.

    I actually had a Fediverse account several years before the Great Reddit Migration, but it didn't keep my interest at the time. Tried again and stuck with it after the API change killed third-party reddit apps and they started inserting reddit-approved mods into all major subs.

  • was middle school mostly good or bad for you?

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  • How different are the generational divides where you're from?

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  • ELI5 what is America's obsetion with the Kennedys? You would think a rich affluent family would not be in favor?

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  • If you could erase the existence of 3 people, who would they be?

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  • When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?

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  • Ditto.

    It historically the charging port for me that fails first to the point I can't reasonably return it. So this time I got a phone with wireless charging ... which stopped working after a few months and I'm back on USB C charging for years now.

    At least C is a little more physically robust than older versions.

    I haven't had a phone reach end of life for security updates yet, but that drive me to get a newer one too.

  • Do you like Astronomy? I'm looking for people who would want to hunt asteroids with me! :)

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  • Yes, please. I was just thinking about looking for a new citizen science thing to do over the winter and this falls in my lap. Please DM the discord link to me as well.

  • Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

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  • Aye. Bookmarking this thread to remind people when I see complaints Lemmy isn't taking off enough except for super technical topics.

  • Users who don't have a profile picture set, Why?

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  • I use an app that doesn't show profile pictures by default.

    I apply a user tag to anyone I want to recognize.

  • Have you met a Christian that sold/gave up everything they owned?

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  • And I'm also atheist, but raised Catholic and had a few schoolmates who became priests or nuns, and even more who explored it but left before making a permanent commitment.

    I've got enough anecdotal evidence to cast a very skeptical eye on your claim that homeless broke dudes are the ones that go into the priesthood. So in an effort to get something a little better than my anecdotes, I websearched the phrase "demographics of men who become priests"

    And got this page, https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/over-400-men-in-u-s-to-be-ordained-in-2025-most-felt-called-to-priesthood-by-age-16/100087, which says:

    On average, ordinands first started to consider becoming a priest at 16 years old, but 35% said they began to think about entering the priesthood in elementary school between the ages of 6 and 13.

    Not lining up with your theory unless you think there's a lot of homeless 16 year olds becoming priests.

    And I guess caveat that I'm in US currently, most familiar with Western countries approach to Catholic religious life.

  • Have you met a Christian that sold/gave up everything they owned?

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  • Who hasn't experienced some personal calamity? Seems like something that can be retroactively applied to anyone.

    Dude went into the seminary to become a priest after his girlfriend dumped him? Personal calamity! He's hiding from future dumpings by becoming a priest!

  • Have you met a Christian that sold/gave up everything they owned?

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  • I had some great aunts, now deceased, who became nuns and didn't really own anything themselves personally.