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CatoPosting [they/them, he/him]

@ CatoPosting @hexbear.net

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  • Let's not look deeper, let's just blame the schools.

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  • I fully think school can't be saved until we decide that 1) Kids need more than one adult in the classroom, and 2) school needs to be longer than it is now. The fights are so often "well if we do THAT what will we cut". Kids need recess and PE everyday, plus probably another indoor free time as well. School has more reason to be 8-5 than jobs do, and yet elementary school kids her get out at like 1. (In this world there is also much less homework, imo)

  • Five people have died at Disney World over the past month

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  • I know someone who drove transport EMT for awhile, and I can tell you places are really weird about where you die. More than once places tried to get them to transport dying people (and once tried to trick them into taking a dead body), and places would refuse to take a non-stable person in but would instead work on them in the truck or litterally outside the hospital. I guess lawsuits are more of a factor than I realize? Said they were never told to try to hide deaths so

  • Larry Summers in there like "yeah im in the files, now open your textbooks"

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  • Don't you know, skepticism stops before questioning Liberalism. Liberalism is unassailable, truly the best thing humans have ever made.

  • Richest person ever doing self hazing in public

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  • Shit, this is bringing back bad memories of PowerModders on roleplaying forums in the 00s. I mean, we were all like this a little with our precious edgy OCs, but some really needed to one-up everyone and win every fight. I remember a guy teleporting his OC in just to beat my character and the one I was in a fight with to show they were badder than both of us.

  • Richest person ever doing self hazing in public

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  • I wouldn't say it was a street fight, but a friend took me to a "bonfire" in his ~10k pop county, and I did see two country boys who were upset (both dating the same girl or something?) discuss (really yelling at each other from like 12 feet apart) rules before throwing down. I felt like a cultural anthropologist. Despite growing up in the south I'd never seen such redneck shit.

  • "I'm going to insult you and call you an awful actor with expletives and everything but I'm also going to respect your gender identity and support your transition"

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  • I definitely think that's true. Page excels in understated dramatic acting, not in over the top camp. While Umbrella seasons 1-2 had both, the only enjoyable parts of seasons 3-4 were the over the top bits with the exception of Fives and Lila's outing. The Harlan as adult plot was underbaked and rushed, so I barely remember it.

  • Honestly that should have been a guaranteed one

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  • Just sharing the eventual happy ending to a sad story.

  • Honestly that should have been a guaranteed one

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  • I had a friend trying to get disability for a laundry list of problems that left her unable to do much, and the judge ruled against her with an example job of folding sheets and towels at a hotel. No hotel we could find employed a person to do that job alone, nor am I convinced she or anyone could do that job for 8 hours at a time, but still it was enough to get her case dismissed.

    However, it did start a paper trail that helped her win disability several years later in a more progressive district. She now lives in a 6 person polycule, 5 of whom are disabled.

  • "I'm going to insult you and call you an awful actor with expletives and everything but I'm also going to respect your gender identity and support your transition"

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  • I really feel that post transition Elliot was more underwhelming on screen. Not sure if they just didn't know how to write anything for Viktor to do or if Elliot was dealing with too much to give it his all but Vanya was probably my second favorite character in seasons 1 and 2, and Viktor I struggle to remember at all. And I liked all of Umbrella Academy, even if it was downhill after season 2 and its ending made no sense at all.

  • Filmmaker Claims Jeremy Renner Sent Unsolicited 'Intimate' Images, Threatened to Call ICE on Her

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  • That's sad, for no reason I can name I thought he wasn't like that.

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    [CW: Meat] Unholy Meat Obelisk

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  • Reconstituted meat or Phoenix, AZ, which is the largest affront to creation?

  • Very cool: A democratic party surveyor called and the only question they wanted to focus on is "should we deregulate consumer debt protections (yes[trust me bro(pls)])?"

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  • Learning Psychometrics in school taught me that you can painstakingly make a survey that reveals sentiment with as little bias as possible....or relatively easily make a survey that says whatever you want it to.

  • Jacobin says stop being mean

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  • Not disagreeing with anything you've said, but the "one professor in particular" was from a working class background. Among other things we bonded over was being the first in our families to pursue higher education, and how he didn't talk to his family anymore and I looked forward to cutting contact myself.

    I remember being a bright eyed youth excited for the change Bernie was sure to bring, and he told me to not get my hopes up and that Bernie'd never win. Hillary was the "safe bet", which was strange to me as he'd also talked about how Obama/the Dems let us down by not making a public option. I know he knows the system doesn't work for people, he just can't imagine anything better, and I think actively thinks pursuing radical change can only backfire.

    It still makes me sad. I remember breathlessly coming into a club meeting having watched the CGP Grey video about how much the crown properties make England, and telling him about it and how it "was a bargain to pay the royals what the UK does" and he told me how it wasn't because they had attained the land by being warlords and were lucky they'd kept their heads much less their lands. I was so embarrassed. By the next week I'd processed what he said and found myself agreeing. I told him at the next meeting that I had come to agree, and further no land could be owned because it had all been bought with blood at one time or another, from the Natives especially. I was so shocked/crushed when he didn't agree...even more when it became a running joke how you might find me in your kitchen calling it "our kitchen".

  • We had a guy come into the shop right before close, I was helping him and asked the teenaged cashiers to turn off the OPEN sign once it was 9 so more people wouldn't come in.

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  • The kids today are all stupid, its [current newer thing than my childhood]'s fault.

  • Jacobin says stop being mean

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  • This reminds me of several professors I had in college, one in particular. As a USAian from red country, they were the farthest left people I ever met, and I enjoyed having my beliefs challenged by them, but as quickly as I was helped past some ideological blinders by them, I came to see that they weren't interested in actual leftism in any way. I'm still not sure if it was because the topics were verboten, or if their actual opinions are just locked to the leftmost edge of the Overton window.

  • Jacobin says stop being mean

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  • I'll forgive someone who entered at 18 and then left as soon as they possibly could after seeing what is was like and have consistently avowed the military since. I've known a couple people like that. I'll not forgive people who in any way make that service a part of their identity, or who try and bring nuance to the situation. I've known many more people like this. This guy seems to be in the second camp.

    The fact is 18 year-olds are dumb, fresh from a propaganda mill, and poor. The military preys on this, and I don't believe anyone is immune to manipulation.

    America delenda est.

  • What dogshit game do you have a nostalgic soft spot for?

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  • Oh man, I wish that was the one I played. Sounds awesome to kid me, but I might have been taking myself too seriously by then

  • What dogshit game do you have a nostalgic soft spot for?

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  • That's the one where you play as Nairobi or the Asian guy, right? All I remember about it is trying to learn the hacking mini-game / cheat system.

  • New far-right prime minister installed in Japan

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  • My two predictions for Hillary's presidency were: 1) a new war she could "win" quickly, and 2) a new social program to put her name on. You could just tell that she wanted to go into the history books.

  • What dogshit game do you have a nostalgic soft spot for?

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  • Yeah, they definitely have it calibrated to get you to open your wallet "just one time", but it is a shit ton of game....just a mediocre one.