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Is it eating a pork rind?

Ahh, yes. I see you know your judo well.

“But we don’t allow people to drink-drive, yet we keep putting them up in aircraft at 33,000ft.”

Aaah, so the problem is drunk pilots. I can get behind a two-drink maximum for flying a plane. Although, in “Flight” the guy flew a plane upside down hammered…so maybe it should be a two-drink minimum to get maximum innovation.

ETA: I prob should have added /s

I honestly didn’t know who to write down, maybe Barron? He’s heard of Trump, maybe he would actually want to give a hand to such a wretched soggy being? Or, imagine he might be invited to caddy the clubs behind the cart?

concerned family member shows up - “oh my God, is he ok??”

Aide, visibly shaken - “I honestly don’t know, I’ve never seen him like this…”

concerned family member - "is…is he out there right now?*

Aide - yes… I’m so worried, he is out there right now, just… playing golf, all day, every day… he needs to stop and confront his feelings and all he can do is golf sob"

CFM “earlier you said 27 holes… he must be exhausted just trying to cope…this is really bad”

Aide - “IT IS SO BAD PLEASE HELP HIM!!”

CFM - “God be with me, I will get him to come inside and drink a diet coke. Hopefully he will snap out of this madness…”

Aide - “…please…go with God!”

CFM - “God will guide me to him. Wish me luck!”

removes leather shoes, hops in cart, and speeds away through the green grass, nary a thought to use the given path… this is the most important rescue in the world. People say that it was the most important, maybe, probably, the most important, ever.

Don’t stop, don’t… stop… I’m about to… VOTE

It’s in reference to the Dead Kennedys’ song with that same title. There was a rise in far right “punk music” along with early skinhead (neo-nazi) movement when the song was written. Nazi punks were trying to flood the scene and people were not letting them.

“Nazi punks” beat the oxymoron by being anti-authoritarian, just depending on who’s authority they reject.

Nah dude both sides are gross y’know?

/S

It’s just a weird detail for the author to include. It’s a “while I’ve still got you here…” sentence. It’s entirely unnecessary except to make absolutely sure that everyone knows that she is not speaking in favor of those abortions.

Ms. Cecil said that she wanted to make clear to the legislators that “abortion is not black and white,” explaining that every abortion is different. >

Maybe I’m reading into it, but this paragraph stood out to me.

Are we 100% sure he isn’t staying awake past bedtime on purpose? I don’t know if there is an argument to be made that because he didn’t hear the trial, they clearly need to hold another one … ?

Oh look. A two day old account.

This is incredible. I’ve had 2 friends grow up with one of their parents suffering through MS. It is one of the cruelest diseases I’ve ever seen. Imagine eradicating it! I get bummed out nonstop… but, this is truly a giant step forward.

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I was kidnapped in the night and taken to one of these in 2002. My mom finally figured out how awful it was after 14 months and came to get me. The school convinces the parents to not believe any bad things their kids might sneak through on one of their once-a-week call privileges, and they also make older students sit in the phone room and listen to the phone calls in case they need to cut you off.

If you’re being punished for anything (which is basically solitary confinement in public- you are limited to a booth 16 hours a day and nobody can talk to you unless they’re assigned to bring you homework from the school you’re forcefully missing) you also lose your rights to talk to your parents.

Further, there are a series of brainwashing events called propheets (some overnight or multi days long) that convince a LOT of students that they very very very much deserved to be taken away and that they must essentially repent and accept the program to “heal”. It was really upsetting to see kids who ordinarily struggled socially to 100% immediately fall im line and then become hall-monitor manipulative snitches.

I’m trying not to really get going about it bc I think the comic covers a lot of it, but only some of the kids come from rich families (and they’re ordinarily just spoiled, nothing more). Most of us learned that our parents mortgaged their houses or took out other high high interest loans. So, that got thrown in your face too “you’re such a piece of shit person that your own parents had to almost lose your house!”

And yeah they’d get in your face and scream as loud as adult men could scream until you’d break the fuck down and weep and scream as well.

I wish more parents would have been vocal when their kids told them the truth. They could’ve spared more families the trauma.

My school was in Idaho, where parents could petition for custody until their kids turned 19, so there were fucking ADULTS there that couldn’t leave without being tracked down and physically (violently) brought back and then put immediately “on a booth”.

Two of my friends I made there killed themselves not long after release.

My bad! I work in a large warehouse and we have something like 10% vets. My bias of understanding led me to believe that the number was outrageously low. TIL!

I’m honestly just shocked that out of sixty-five THOUSAND employees, only 1,500 are vets? Do they actively try NOT to hire them? 2.3%? Fuckin lol JFC

I did NOT expect the comments to be so divisive on this

I was having some problems with Google podcasts (which I used for years) and switched to Pocket Casts. It’s been great other than some kind of clunky bits when trying to add to/edit your play-next queue, but otherwise I think it’s a pretty great transition from Google