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lonefighter

@ lonefighter @sh.itjust.works

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  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • But why wouldn't you want your child to have the highest chance of having enough money to survive, or the best chance of getting a job they want? I know so many homeschooled kids who ended up working for exploitative employers or doing really hard labor for really shitty pay because they weren't educated enough (both academically and in life skills) to get jobs doing anything else. To just be like "well, you don't need money to be happy or do well in life so I'm going to give my child a subpar education" in this economy is just naive at best and cruel at worst.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • My landlord doesn't accept thoughts and prayers.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • The studies that show that homeschooled kids perform better academically are actually flawed. Adults who were homeschooled are much less likely to finish higher education and statistically have lower incomes than adults who attended school.

    https://crhe.org/research/

  • Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

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  • God of War: Ragnarok.

    I don't have a console so I had to wait for it to port to PC, then wait til it went on sale and I could snag it at a more reasonable price. I loved the one before it and was so excited to play. The first couple hours were good, and then I felt like it was an endless repetition of fight a boss, talk about our feelings while we walk to fight another boss, talk about our feelings some more, and repeat. The part where you have to play as Atreus helping that giant girl do her daily chores made me want to weep from boredom and it just went on forever. I think I gave up shortly after Freya met her brother again, but I don't really remember the storyline because it was just so mind numbingly exhausting, like listening in on a bunch of therapy sessions (and I'm super pro "take care of your mental health and go to therapy if you need it", but if I have to listen to a literal god whining and acting willfully helpless for an entire video game I'm out).

    I have been told that it is actually a good game that gets better and I should give it another go, but I'm not sure if it's good for MY mental health.

  • Does anyone else also have this weird feeling that maybe governments can already break into smartphones and this whole "we can't break into it" they tell the public is a facade?

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  • All my phone has is on it is an absolutely embarrassing amount of memes and pictures of my cat. There aren't even any nudes on it, although maybe I should take some to traumatize any government agent who goes digging through it. Would serve them right.

  • What are some things you think of when you see something related to your field outside of work hours?

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  • I work in EMS. I'm also constantly checking out people's veins (veins are beautiful!)

    Any house I go into I'm mentally determining if a stretcher would get into the home, how easy it would be to get it around, and how I could get someone out if the stretcher didn't fit. Basically everywhere I go I'm like "how easy would it be to get you out if you dropped unconscious?" I'm also judging how well the home is set up for maneuverability if the person living there has a sudden loss of mobility - even young people can break a bone and end up on crutches or temporarily in a wheelchair and you want more room to move than you may think. My apartment is up several flights of steps with no elevator, but if I could scoot myself up the stairs and get inside my apartment I'd be ok. I have everything set up in such a way that if I was injured I could get around very well inside for a few months, it would just be the coming in and out that would be a problem.

    I also always back my car into parking spots, because we always back the ambulance in. When we aren't on calls the ambulance is always backed in so that if we get a call we can leave quickly, and if we are on a call the ambulance is backed in so we can leave quickly if the scene becomes unsafe.

  • What are things that bring you joy?

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  • I started the first book February 3rd after a podcaster I listen to casually mentioned it and said it was a great read. I'm on the 7th book now 😂

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    The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them.

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  • I grew up fairly socially isolated. I was always taught as a kid and younger teenager that people different from me are bad, that X type of people deserve bad things to happen to them, yada yada conservative bullshit.

    Then I got older. It's hard to see X type of people as the bad guy when they're treating you with more kindness and less judgement than everyone you grew up around and when you realize that they may be different from you and want something different from life than you, but they still just want to survive the day and find happiness, just like you.

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • Not everyone has their passport. If you do, that should be sufficient. It also made updating my passport easier, way less paperwork to send in. I'd never gotten around to updating my passport to the correct name and it was much less paperwork to send in.

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • If your name doesn't match what's on your birth certificate, look into whether your state allows you to change your birth certificate and do it before it's too late. My name is not my birth name or my married name, I had it legally changed. I got tired of hauling around my birth certificate, marriage certificate, divorce paperwork, and legal name change to show the paper trail that I both was who I was and was no longer legally married. Turns out in my state I just had to send in a notarized form, copies of my paperwork and pay small fee and I got my birth certificate updated to my current name. Now I can "prove" who I am by just showing my birth certificate and ignore the fact that I was married and changed my name. It also made updating my passport easier. Granted, I am not trans, but I did it last year and they had the option to change gender on the form.

  • YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years

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  • I work in EMS. When we respond to house fires in the middle of the night there's kind of two different ways they go. When people have smoke detectors and their house catches on fire in the middle of the night they're the ones who call us and we get on scene to find them outside their home in their pajamas, watching their house burn, very shaken up but ok. They never need anything from us ambulance-wise except maybe some blankets. When people don't have smoke detectors in their homes and they catch on fire in the middle of the night a neighbor or passer-by calls the fire in and we get on scene and the firefighters are dragging bodies out to us.

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    Whats a legit way to earn money from home?

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  • I'm in my 30s and I don't feel ready for a job. Work sucks, I'd rather chill at home all day and do whatever I want, but unfortunately I got bills to pay, I live alone and I like my little apartment. Also, I spent 2 months at home on medical leave last year and the toll it took on my mental health was incredible. As much as I hate working, I need something to get me up and out of my home and around other people (and I hate people).

    I would seriously consider trying to get at least a part time job. Growth is painful, but you can't become a better person if you never push yourself forward and do the hard things.

  • You ever wake up and question, "am i the bad guy"?

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  • I think it's also important to realize that there's a difference between being hurt and being wronged. Sometimes someone can do something that hurts you but isn't wrong, morally, ethically, or legally. It might even be the right thing (ie, breaking up a relationship if it just isn't working out). It might hurt you, but it didn't wrong you. And then some people wrong you, such as committing crimes against you, being abusive, or shitty to you, and that's not ok.

  • The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American

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  • I don't think there's a lot of doubt anymore that they interfered with the last few elections in some way, the only real argument is whether it actually mattered. But they're testing the bounds of what they can get away with and building their own army of hired thugs and I definitely believe they plan to use it to interfere with voting, opposing politicians, and anyone else they don't like or who stands in their way. If this isn't put to a hard stop very soon Minneapolis is going to be written about in history books as the very beginning of a period of violence and evil, instead of the middle of it.

  • The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American

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  • They're putting far too much money into all of this to stop with immigrants. If anyone thinks they're going to deport the immigrants and go "well that's it boys, good job, close 'er up and you're all unemployed now, thanks for your hard work" they're deluded, but then again it feels like a lot of people have happily been deluded for years anyway.

  • Greenland does not need US hospital boat sent by Trump, says Denmark

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  • Ironically, if Greenland ever did become part of the US all those people that Trump is pretending to care about will instantly lose free or even affordable healthcare.

    Why is Trump sending free healthcare to other countries while US citizens are dying of easily preventable illnesses because they can't afford medical care? I thought he was all about America first?/s

  • What’s your favorite sad song?

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  • Lost Shadow by Gunship

  • 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees.

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  • But after experiencing 15 or 5 for a few weeks 35 feels almost like spring. A few weeks ago I was half frozen at 35 with 2 jackets on, yesterday it was in the mid-30s and I took off my one jacket and was just in short sleeves because I was starting to get sweaty.

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    lonefighter @sh.itjust.works

    You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car

  • The WHOLE system? Do you promise?

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  • Does anyone remember "drain the swamp"? Anyone with half a brain knew it was a joke, but it's amazing how they don't even pretend to be the good guys. It's endless comic book levels of villainy.