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moakley

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  • Megyn Kelly suggests Epstein wasn't an 'actual pedophile' if victims went through puberty

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  • I don't know. Can't we just stigmatize it to the point where their only recourse is to turn to faith and try to live a life of celibacy and denial? They can all become priests or something. That'll help them with the internalized guilt while they're at it!

  • Nobody asked for this

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  • Switching to Linux requires a certain level of technical skill and patience that the majority of people don't have.

    It's the same as the build-your-own-PC people. That's their hobby, so they don't count the years of experience, research, and knowledge that they've built up.

    See also: recipe writers who don't include prep time in their time estimates.

  • Trump's Team Is Scrambling to Scare GOP to Defect on Epstein Files Release

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  • Someday I want to write a story about a group of time travelers who travel to the past to try and stop Donald Trump from destroying America.

    Every attempt fails. They catch him on tape making fun of handicapped people. They bring forth credible rape allegations. They help ensure he's convicted of 34 felonies. They make sure he's clearly implicated in his attempted insurrection. But every attempt fails.

    And every time it's like, "We've got the 'grab them by the pussy' tape! Surely this will be it." Then they get back to their own time and nothing has changed.

  • Home with others

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  • He thinks his family actually disappeared. He remarks that they couldn't have gone to Paris, because their cars are still in the garage. The garage having been left open is even a plot point, to allow Kevin to make this realization quicker.

    He does eventually call the police. It's the last step of his plan. He calls them to his neighbor's house.

    The movie is seriously bulletproof. Like how Kevin spills Pepsi on his ticket and we see it accidentally get thrown in the garbage the night before.

    Fun story:

    When my daughter met Santa Claus for the first time, she'd recently seen Home Alone and was obsessed, and she introduced herself as Kevin.

    When it was time to take a picture I said, "Ok [daughter's name which in all fairness does have an "ev" sound in it], get in Santa's sleigh."

    Then Santa leaned over and whispered, "Ohh. I thought she said her name was Kevin."

    "Yeah, no, she did say Kevin."

    Santa thought that was weird.

  • Wendy's to close hundreds of US stores in bid to halt falling profit

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  • Oh I totally agree. They're a crime against god and man. Especially when I just want a fucking Coke.

    Fun fact about actual cloacas: when chickens breed it's called a "cloacal kiss", and it's exactly what it sounds like.

  • Wendy's to close hundreds of US stores in bid to halt falling profit

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  • Must be a regional difference or something, because I recently had Wendy's and was impressed with how good their fries have gotten. Crispy and flavorful.

    Meanwhile I haven't had a bite or sip of anything from McDonald's that wasn't absolute shit in like 20 years. I never loved McDonald's (I'm big on texture), but at least they used to have the best fries and sodas. Then they removed the beef tallow from the fries, making them the actual worst fast food fries available, and they replaced their soda fountains with Freestyle soda cloacas.

    I already wasn't eating their meat because I like meat to be chewable, so that reduced the number of items I'll order from McDonald's to zero.

  • Hrmmmmm

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  • Two things can be true.

  • MAGA supporter feeling gaslit

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  • In today's political climate, Leftist propaganda isn't a threat. It's irrelevant.

    I say this as someone who firmly believes in capitalism and limited government.

    Fascism is the only threat that matters right now.

  • All grown up now

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  • I'm pretty sure that Morgan Freeman picture is AI.

  • MAGA supporter feeling gaslit

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  • I agree with what you said, but I'm like 5% worried you might be referring to "leftist propaganda".

  • Mamdani rules

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  • There's still plenty to like out there.

    I dislike exploitative games as much as anyone else, but I just don't play them. But that's not really what I'm talking about, since that's a legitimate complaint.

    Movies being recycled year over year isn't a thing.

    Books being censored is an example of conservatives hating things.

  • never gonna run around and desert you

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  • I don't recall. But I took the pharmacy test too, the more accurate one.

  • Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it.

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  • moldly infuriating

  • never gonna run around and desert you

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  • Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn't smell Vick's VapoRub, which usually has an extremely strong menthol scent.

    I got tested, talked to a doctor, and didn't have COVID. It's possible we lose our sense of smell sometimes with other types of colds too, but we never noticed because we didn't panic about it.

  • Mamdani rules

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  • Some people hate things as a hobby. I say that a lot, and I'm really serious.

    Some people play video games, watch movies, or read books, and other people just hate stuff. That's their whole thing. They seek it out. They doom scroll until they find something to hate, and then they latch onto it and spread that hate wherever they can. Most of them don't even realize they're doing it.

    I've seen so many good things fall apart because of this internet hate machine. It's sad.

  • [NoahBuckley] Start with you

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  • Well, nobody's perfect.

    I'm just saying, her heroes may be unrealistic, but her villains are a prescient depiction of MAGA. So it's strange to me when people try to equate Rand with MAGA.

  • Yup. Not fun.

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  • I have ADHD, and this was my childhood. But I also learned some important coping methods, like how to mask. Given how resistant I am to learning behaviors like that, I'm not sure I could have done it without a struggle. Meanwhile the kids who were diagnosed had a stigma on them that I'm glad I was able to avoid.

    My parents did their best with what they knew. I've got bad memories and good ones, just like every person ever.

    With that said, we've decided to hold off on having my daughter tested, even though she's showing some symptoms. If she has it, I don't want that to be part of her identity until it has to be. If she starts struggling, we'll take action. Until then, it's best not to burden her.

    We also got extremely lucky with her first grade teacher. She started the year with a very traditional, veteran teacher. Her seating arrangement changed three times in a month because, according to her, the other kids kept talking. But then the school said they had too many kids in the first grade classes, so they started a new class of just 13 students and moved my daughter. The teacher is brand new, just recently certified.

    My daughter came home talking about how they constantly do "brain breaks" in between lessons, and other unusual things.

    We went to the parent teacher conference, and this teacher is the most ADHD woman I've ever met. We did a one-on-one meeting that lasted two hours. And she's wonderful. She's the best thing that could have happened to our daughter. She approaches everything in a way that's perfectly tailored to someone with ADHD, and it sounds like the other kids love it too.

    So maybe we'll have her tested next year.

  • A child shows Mr. Rogers how to play Donkey Kong as Keith David shows kids how the machine works, 1983

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  • Do people really not know that they used to do the summer and winter Olympics in the same year?

  • [NoahBuckley] Start with you

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  • It's like 50 pages long, which yeah, is way too long.

    But what he's actually doing is calling for a general strike. He's explaining that if every productive person just stops contributing to society for a few years, then the parasitic oligarchy will die out, because they're not capable of keeping things running themselves.

    It doesn't resolve the overt conflict, but it's suggested that his plan is in motion by the end.