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No. 1733308
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KEK amazing thread pic
No. 1733414
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>>1733368If I'm reading it right most of the military technology Israel is making with the FMF (foreign military funding money) we give them is exported to other countries.
>India, Azerbaijan, and Vietnam are Israel’s three largest export markets.Huh? We're funding military tech sales to these countries through Israel and for what? It's a giant arms manufacturing setup. And sometimes we even buy from them, which is comical. I know we're military allies, but the amount of money we send is pretty fucked up. There has to be corruption involved.
No. 1733429
>>1733414so india is trying to kill pakistan and possibly china, and azerbaijan are holodomoring armenia (armenia really can't catch a break.) who is vietnam murdering?
american taxdollars used to kill starving brown peasants the world over, while americans sit at home rotting from diabetes with tapwater that catches on fire, paying $2000 a month in rent to get killed in a drive by shooting or eaten by a pitbull the moment they step foot outside.
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>>1733446Oh wow, I'd never heard that angle before. That makes sense. That's so corrupt lol Do you have more info on that? I just found a couple little news articles naming one company sometimes but not much else
No. 1739385
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There has been another mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. Scrote reportedly killed 22 people. I hate moids so much I’m so tired of not being able to go out without worrying about the next scrote who’s going to chimp out.
No. 1739702
>>1739398gun ownership should come with mandatory insurance. sellers too. corporations with financial interests may actually enforce the red flag laws because our government and law enforcement certainly won't.
this guy threatened to shoot up a military base, reported hearing voices, and was committed for two weeks for mental health issues. of course he had a history of domestic violence too.
No. 1739869
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hadn't ever heard of okracoke, it does sound pretty strange
No. 1740205
>>1739882my apartment removed the closest dumpster on my street. me and like 5 other people here have babies and need to take out massive disgusting diaper bags, meaning I have to walk almost half a mile with a literal 50+ lb bag of shit to take out trash
yes i am moving asap
No. 1741147
>>1740284just let's be honest: the fate of these people is to be exploited by employers. NO ONE should be supporting this. no one deserves to be exploited. i want them to be happily living back in their home countries so they stop overcrowding mine. my rent is high enough without a million other rent competitors crowding through the national doors every month.
global mass vasectomies would go pretty far to remedy the issue in south america and other places these desperate poor people are coming from. stop breeding more kids than your shitty dysfunctional country can support. god damn catholic missionaries for the harm they've done. poor? no jobs? stop breeding. cartels? lock up drug users, no market for the product no money to be made and no cartels committing violence anymore. problem solved. cartels only exist because people can't stop being drug fiends.
basically anyone who uses drugs should be locked in prison for life, not because of the drug itself, but because it supports cartel violence that is destroying other countries. drug users ARE terrorists by proxy. and my rent is high because of them. so in other words, migrants are a symptom of other problems, no hate on them but they shouldn't be here making my rent go up, they should go home and deserve to have a home worth going back to. if our CIA could stop destabilizing their economies, catholics could stop their breederism brainwashing, and californian rich kids could stop snorting crack, that would be peachy thanks so much.
(bait) No. 1741173
>>1740412>>1741147I'm glad that others see the big picture. Migrants in the long-term are being used to drive down wages and trample on workers' rights. American employers don't just want to pay their employees $2 but also employ migrant CHILDREN.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-hyundai-subsidiary-has-used-child-labor-alabama-factory-2022-07-22/> catholics could stop their breederism brainwashingI've also heard some tinfoil that one of the groups pushing the migrants here is the Catholic church. I kinda feel like it's a nonpartisan win-win where the elites benefit from cheap labor, Democrats can virtue signal, and Republicans can use it to alienate voters from the Democrats. Plus it provides a distraction from whatever else is going on.
No. 1741498
>>1741311Did you learn anything from watching? What did they say? Any motivation or relation the the
victims or business?
No. 1741510
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Breaking News
No. 1741520
>>1741513mostly a bunch of ugly boomers?
>>1741512i read something (no idea where) from someone who was put on antidepressants, and they made him have no sense of fear or inhibition, he immediately went out and robbed a bunch of parked cars when he never did anything criminal prior to that. psych meds are scary shit and like 1/4 of the country is on them.
No. 1743385
>>1741513>Aaron Young (14)That's so sad, someone lost their little boy
>>1741520Kek boomers are >55 now, this is mostly Gen X and millennials.
No. 1746295
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CITY BURGERFAGS HELP !!! Im going to Chicago soon and I'm taking two trains to see friends. I've only been there maybe twice before with a friend but this time I'm doing it alone. How fucked am I? I'm nervous about taking the train and I was wondering if it's going to be difficult as fuck or something? AHHHH I'M SO NERVOUS.
No. 1746312
>>1746300Thanks
nonny! I'm mostly scared of missing a train because I'm standing on the wrong side, taking the wrong train/ etc. I'm also worried about navigating ogilvie transportation center
oof.
No. 1746531
>>1746295you're gonna be okay nonna. chicago is fairly easy to get around depending the area…the cta has been a bit shit lately but not unusable. i love taking the train personally
>>1746513follow this nonnas advice ^ ive seen idiots run across the train tracks to get on the right train and the fine for it is immense, also it's incredibly dangerous. just follow signs and you will be ok!
No. 1749851
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wow I said this
>>1741512 before but I didn't think I would see it actually happen!
No. 1749871
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Wait.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/30/colorado-amusement-park-armed-man-dead>I am not a killer, I just want to get into the cavesWhat the fuck? The caves? That is so creepy lol
No. 1756592
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I think they are gonna target the illegals for this.
No. 1757451
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Do any of you think it matters if you vote? I don’t even know who’s running, and it really sucks that our options are “random pick & mix of republican nobodies with far right stances”
or “our 80 year old buddy genocide joe biden!!!!1!! air horns”. I’ve never thought my vote mattered and now more than ever I feel so cynical about it. I voted for the first time I was even able to for Bernie in the primary & Hillary in 2016, then voted for Bernie again in the primary and subsequently Biden in 2020. I didn’t want another 4 years of watching people easily spiral into fascism and division all because some financially disgraced NY real estate mogul wanted to feel like the country was in his palm, as much as I think Joe Biden & Barack Obama are just as much war criminals as every other president and VP our country had, red or blue aside.
“But the Biden administration fucked this country up! I had more money in my pocket with Trump! And people who get more food stamps than me make this country bad, and immigrants reeee!” other Americans at my income level in a red state talk shit about, with the most dead eyed stare when you tell them the economy is so bad because Trump fucked with it not knowing anything about the economy letalone money since he’s a retard and now Biden is using the fucked up and skewed military budget to fund foreign conflict in the most US way possible (see: violently) instead of addressing the overinflated defense budget & ever shrinking social services budgets.
This shit feels so futile and stupid, the two party thing was a stupid bit to begin with and was parodied/poked fun at often in pop culture because of it, it used to be a joke that it’s basically the same outcome no matter who wins in shows like Futurama, Southpark, the Simpsons, etc., but the next stupid cartoon to make fun of it needs to point out that we went very rapidly from “red or blue, doesn’t matter bc politicians are all still friends behind closed doors and have the same goals & intentions of lining our pockets at the expense of the general public” to “vote red if you’re a white guy, or really love white guys, you deserve rights!” and “vote blue we think everyone deserves rights! as long as you fill out these 9 forms, make sure you claim a voucher before 30 days past this date we snail mailed you this alert, jump through nine flaming hoops, and do a little dance through some red tape. Thank you for your patronage” and somehow they’re all STILL getting richer, working less, and acting like the house is more and more divided when they all stand for the same common goals and interests (newsflash, NOT ours as innocent civilians who have no interest in being cannon fodder for whatever war they’re dipping our toes into)
No. 1757770
>>1757451Voting in your small local elections really matter, the larger shit is just different heads of the same beast. Local elections will elect the judges who decide your community's crime, your mayor will decide how the budget is administered, and voting for sheriff decides how the laws are enforced.
The big elections are just for show. Look at Obama, he was supposed to be this great person who made all these promises yet he ended up doing nothing but barely holding the line during his presidency, and then he never endorses Bernie in order to support Biden who's just a war mongering Republican from twenty years ago.
No. 1757813
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I totally love being the only country in the western world without Universal health coverage! AMERICA!
No. 1757946
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I’m so glad I will never have sex.
No. 1758341
>>1739698No one cares, dear.
>>1740412>>1741147Bingo! These people are being allowed in just so that they can be exploited. This isn't a good thing for anyone involved.
>>1756592My tin foil. I'm betting the gov has been so lax on the ridiculous migration because they need to beef up the military so the gov can officially start WWIII before 2030. Eligible Americans aren't joining up in mass and would need a perk like having their student loans be completely paid off and 100% protection from sexual assault just to consider the offer. The gov doesn't give enough of a shit about Americans to actually attempt either. It's easier to let desperate illegals in and dangle the possibility that they could be full citizens if they agree to protect a country that doesn't give a shit about them.
No. 1758947
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so pissed at the voting results for texas…. lol at how people actually voted to set up funds for energy and broadband internet, when these companies already make a ton of profit. We don’t need a damn fund. Also remember how the federal govt. gave money for broadband and nothing came of it?? They literally just took the money and did nothing. So stupid… and of course voter turnout was abysmal like always
No. 1759087
>>1758947Does Texas have vote by mail or do you have to go to a polling place?
Tbh if my state didn't do vote by mail I'd probably never have voted.
My local ballot ths time was all just city council local stuff that probably won't end up being important anyway.
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>>1762571oh, you know, living the dream!
No. 1763092
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Anons, have you ever thought about moving to a different country? If so, which country and why?
No. 1764216
>>1763917I visited Stockholm recently and loved it so much. I went with an American friend and he also loved it, it ended up being his dream city.
We stayed at a friends house and his family was so welcoming. They were all so polite and nice.
No. 1765189
>>1764867This is something I’ve always wondered, moving to America and the state I’m in where it’s a give er take 40 minutes or less route in and out of the border to run some errands. It’s just kind of a whatever, I don’t think twice yet still I hear “well canada-!” The last conversation I had with an American friend 5 years ago expressed wanting to move to Canada because “free healthcare” great have fun sitting in the ER for eons. So other regions of America outside of the border must absolutely have to be wild as hell not knowing what in the pure fuck Canada is.
>>1765185 probably the fact moids can stay the fuck out of everything, including scenery
No. 1765340
>>1763917It's horrible. I have to live there sometimes and it's boring, ugly, and the people are rude which is strange because in other scandinavian countries they are normal. Even my boyfriend who's swedish hates it.
>>1764216Damn you must come from a small town and visited for like a few days kek.
No. 1765482
>>1765448chav or polish?
>>1765470 oh 100% it’s our food it’s not a conspiracy theory at all
No. 1766223
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>>1765185I wish it was colder already . I want to wear my hoodies
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>>1766386>pavotonWhat is this? I’ve never heard of this and there’s almost no info online about it. Is it actually a reggaeton pre-thanksgiving party?
No. 1766441
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I feel like the macy's days parade balloons have been pretty lackluster recently. Not that they have ever been too great, but I feel like the parade's gotten cheapier looking.
No. 1773227
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Xi came to the US and met with Biden. I didn’t know this was happening only just found out. I did see Gavin Newsom making an embarrassing speech about how they cleaned up the city for foreign visitors but I didn’t realize it was Xi.
No. 1773236
>>1773227CA is so bought out by Chinese influence its pretty crazy. There was an episode of darknet diaries that went into how many of the silicon Valley employees are just there to steal data from giant companies and they operate with no fear of consequence. Ironically I had a Chinese coworker who always complained to me about how he couldn't buy land in any state he wanted and was really entitled about it (not a US citizen and doesn't want to be). Not to mention the massive amount of farmland and such owned by them.
It'll be interesting to see how the US develops in the coming decades as it's various corporate and political proxy masters aren't exactly allies.
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This makes no sense to me. How the fuck do two separate trains that are scheduled to be going different directions crash into each other side by side like this? How does this even happen?
No. 1774709
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>>1773711omg Portland, this is making me nostalgic.
One of those is a Portland Streetcar and one of the is a MAX Lite Rail Train and they run on different loops that overlap in some areas. The system isn't on autopilot, the trains and streetcars have to stop for red lights and stuff. I don't know how they fucked up this bad but it looks like the train (white) hit the front of the streetcar (orange) at an intersection. Picrel, I drew arrows to show the direction they were headed in when the accident happened.
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Santos used campaign funds for his onlyfans subscription
No. 1774978
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Somehow I dumbly got my email on a Biden campaigning list, I seriously don’t know how I just starting getting them today. Also I can’t believe they are still on the dark-biden thing, that is literally a meme insulting Biden, his campaign has not successfully flipped it at all
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An illegal lab was recently found in posession of deadly pathogens.
Someone summarized the report on the lab and it really highlighted the incompetence, to say the least, of the CDC.
The lab was run by an international fugitive from China named Jiabei "Jesse" Zhu. After running various state-connected companies in China, he moved to Canada, where he set up dozens of corporations to "steal valuable American intellectual property and unlawfully transfer" it to China.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia found he committed "fraud on an epic scale," resulting in a $330 million judgment. He then fled to America, assumed the alias David He, and set up several more companies, including the one behind the bio lab.
The lab was discovered nearly a year ago, when a code inspector came upon a suspicious warehouse in Reedley, CA. Inside, she found many Chinese nationals "wearing white lab coats, glasses, masks, and latex gloves," along with "thousands of vials of biological substances" and 1,000 mice.
It was later learned these were "transgenic" mice "genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus." A further inspection found "blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums" along with thousands of vials of "suspected biological material." Some of the vials were labeled with the names of infectious agents, while others were labeled in a "code" that was never deciphered.
At first, the CDC refused to investigate, and even hung-up on local officials who asked for help. After the local Congressman got involved, the CDC did an inspection and found "at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including HIV, Tuberculosis, and the deadliest known form of Malaria."
Yet the CDC did not bother to test any samples, even those with unknown contents, making it "impossible for the Select Committee to fully assess the potential risks that this specific facility posed to the community." The Select Committee report calls this "baffling." Later, local officials discovered a refrigerator in the lab labeled “Ebola.”
While the supposed purpose of the lab was to sell test kits, in fact all the company did was buy counterfeit kits from China and re-sell them in the United States. Thus, there was a "lack of apparent legitimate (or even profit-motivated criminal) motive in the operation of the illegal facility."
This raises the question as to the true purpose of the lab – especially given that Jesse Zhuhe, its criminal operator, was "receiving unexplained payments via wire transfer" from Chinese banks. The report further notes that "no one knows whether there are other unknown biolabs because there is no monitoring system in place."
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>>1776224Why are you insulting the woman? Santos is a fat apple bitch himself lol
No. 1779077
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>>1763092I used to consider moving to Germany because I speak decent German and could realistically improve my language proficiency to where I could function in work and daily settings. But I also have a horrible "grass is greener" mentality that never lives up to my expectations. Basically I realized moving to Germany would not solve my problems and I would be too far away from my family and friends.
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>>1779612ayrt, i actually figured that out after i gave up on the idea so i don't really regret letting that it go kek. i wanted to move to heidelberg because I really liked the general Baden-Württemberg area when I visited but eh.
>>1780144American food is trash depending on where you live, but I live in an area that has really good locally grown produce and fish. German bread is vastly superior tho, vollkornbrot is so god damn good and i wish there was a place around me that made it fresh.
No. 1780285
>>1779077Germans are depressing. they hate themselves because of WW2 and have really crazy censorship laws because of it. It's like they have no identity anymore.
>>1779612Food is actually good though
No. 1780304
As a german, don't do it sis.
Technically financially and insurance-wise and so on, we're better of than you but it is a really depressing country that asks you to be very strict and hiveminded. Just as an example, nearly every german is watching the very same tv show every sunday at 8.15 pm since over 50 years. Me too since I was maybe 14, everybody does, it's simply something you do. And that mentality applies to workplace and all other areas too. There's so many rules, so much paperwork, I can barely keep up with all those letters I get every day. Other countries, even other european countries might be dirtier and a little more old, rundown and slow but at the same time so much more "free".
And about our bread, try eating it for every breakfast, dinner and often even lunch, there will come a time when your mouth will be so void of saliva that you could chew for hours…
No. 1780368
>>1773236I've worked both in tech, and for a big video game studio and it was absolutely insane to me how much we had to pander to China. At the game studio we had some awesome games in development that were completely scrapped at the last second in favor of shitty, ugly, uninspired cash-grab mobile games for the Chinese market (which were then promptly stolen and copied). At another tech company I worked for years later, a huge Chinese conglomerate bought out part of our company and my friends would have hours-long, unproductive meetings at crazy hours at the drop of a hat, because the Chinese team told us we need to change everything immediately and they wouldn't understand why we needed time to finish XYZ project, etc. Everything that China said was treated as gospel and we had to kiss their ass constantly. It's also an open secret that there are hundreds of Chinese nationals sent to work and study in the bay area so that they can share sensitive information back to China and nobody says anything about it.
There are also Chinese women who are sent here to "work" in tech, with the underlying goal of dating and marrying these Silicon Valley tech guys so that they can share security information back to the mainland. They know exactly what to say and how to act, and it works, because so many of these dorky dudes with "yellow fever" (ugh) are just thrilled that a beautiful Asian woman is giving them attention. It sounds like made-up bullshit out of a spy novel but it's 100% true.
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I'm sorry but I'm not ready to lose him nonnies. I might cry. He's just a humble peanut farmer.
No. 1780713
>>1780368I believe you 100%. Even hollywood earns more from chinese audiences than domestic and fears their word.
The kicker for that last part is the moids marrying foreign nationals are usually absolute simps for China after a while, yet act like they're smart educated/redpilled/opinionated tough guys who can't be influenced by women.
No. 1781185
>>1781178does the average person just eat restaurant or prepackaged junk all day? I know that pretty much everything gets laced with pesticides and blah blah blah but it feels like when I talk to others, they seem to barely cook and think it's normal to primarily rely on stuff that they just buy and eat? Of course that's going to go terribly because all that stuff is stuffed to the brim with oil and salt
I'm also stunned by beverage habits, it seems like a lot of people are constantly drinking sugary stuff instead of just water. Water is literally so good and so good for you. I have beverages that I like too but they're not my main source of hydration, I don't get people who always need an energy drink or fancy coffee or soda.
No. 1781341
>>1764789Why don't you just do it? Never know until you try.
Southwest TX is big and empty and dry. You could maybe get into bird watching because there are migration breeding spots all over although that's more of a south texas thing. No real dangerous weather there unless you're prone to heatstroke. It takes 11 hours to drive across texas and for most of that time there is fuckall to see especially in the southwest so think about that. You could be hours of driving away from the nearest international airport, it's not like the UK at all.
Louisiana is humid and green and has the occasional hurricane (but unless you're near the coast you're probably not gonna die or lose your house). Lots of crime from what I hear but mostly in NOLA. There is a lot of poverty in that area (Mississippi and Louisiana have the most people living below the poverty line of all the US states) which can be really bleak to live around, and leads to higher crime and low trust among neighbors in general.
You can't get an abortion any of those places but if you're making bank you could fly to another state… wouldn't be great in a medical emergency but for a regular abortion you could do it.
Not to just talk about the bad parts but that's just some stuff maybe you wouldn't hear as much about.
No. 1781384
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>>1781354High level US politicians have major investments and financial ties to china and wouldn't want to "get tough", it's not happening. They just want to use Taiwan as a wedge but not actually do anything direct.
Google Elaine Chao (Mitch McConnell's wife) and her family business if you don't believe me. Also I don't know if he's really up to anything now that his crackpipe videos came out but Hunter Biden was working for his daddy on chinese investments and connections (picrel snip of some newyorker article about him). To rich people, China is just a big billion-person market of consumers and laborers and minerals for them to get their grubby hands on. And rich people run the US so I don't see them blowing up their supply lines
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>>1781368This.
https://archive.is/VvISG interesting FT article citing Raytheon Chief
>“Think about the $500bn of trade that goes from China to the US every year. More than 95 per cent of rare earth materials or metals come from, or are processed in, China. There is no alternative,” said Hayes.I mean I'm not an expert but it doesn't take a genius to see that it would be extremely painful / crippling to the economy and industry to cut off trade to and from china. Biden would probably die of a mysterious illness if he lost his mind and actually tried to make that happen (which he wouldn't because he has money in china too).
No. 1781416
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>>1781382when has the opinion of its citizens ever mattered to US policy?
No. 1781427
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REMINDER if you need to go grocery shopping GO TODAY NOT TOMORROW. I mean you probably should have done it yesterday but today is better than tomorrow. Stores are going to be hell tomorrow and probably half closed on Thanksgiving! Don't get stuck without groceries like I have been so many times…
No. 1781448
>>1781185some people are like that. my older brother is. we live together so I know he only eats takeout, frozen items/dinners, and surprisingly pre-prepared salads. to be fair, his oven is broken, and has been for a good while. but if you're not using it, there's no rush to fix it
and i'm not about to make a stink over it because i'm already a little leech he's had to take care of for 25 years sorry to the anons who dislike reading personal accounts of experience but this seems to be one that warrants it enough. maybe? idk. anyway, I use the burners that work on the stove and sometimes i'll make a side dish that comes out well and let him know that he's welcome to it. we have very different diets, so a lot of what i will eat he doesn't, but if it's like a seasoned rice he can pair it with whatever frozen thingy he has, like some egg rolls.
No. 1781650
>>1781341>Lots of crime from what I hear but mostly in NOLA.but Interview with a Vampire made it looks so beautiful…
>>1781354If you only consume american news of course you'd hate it. China and the US are too biased against each other.
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>>1781700This hasn't happened to me yet but I'm kinda worried about it as relations sour. In my community there are many fob immigrants and some of them
were proven to be doing dubious things like feeding info to the Chinese govt, which is a horrible look for normal internationals. Many here are actually anti-ccp but can only express it anonymously for fear that it gets snitched on back to their govt; I see protest posters sometimes.
I'm western-born and people already falsely assume my nationality or language skills, so I'm a little paranoid that there'll be people lumping me in with the minority of ccp fans.
No. 1782040
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>>1781991That sounds delicious anon, enjoy! I've never heard of rumaki before, sounds pretty good aside from the liver.
No. 1783518
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>>1733300He deserves to be the next threadpic
No. 1784173
>>1783356Jackie Kennedy was a tradthot
Marilyn was a BPD girlie who desperately pandered to moids and then added a few extra interests so she didn't seem like a completely desperate person. She was also sloppy
JFK was an insecure manlet who couldn't keep his dick in his pants
so far jackie is winning
No. 1785141
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watching the parade right now. I thought the leading marching band did a good job. Smokey is struggling to stay off the ground though. he had a bit of a tumble but the crowd cheered for him to pick himself up again and it was successful
No. 1785160
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>>1785141I don't know which kpop boys these are but for some reason it just makes sense that they'd be on the Baby Sharks float
No. 1785553
>>1785546Happy thanksgiving,
nonnie!
No. 1793402
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Remember that book in the Laura Ingall's series that was about her husband, Almonzo, as a boy and the first four chapters are mostly about his teacher, Mr Corse, a "slim, pale young man" in town teaching school for the winter. There's drama with a group of "big boys" – some physically huge 17-year-olds who make a point to beat up whatever teacher they have; the previous winter they had beaten up a teacher so bad he died. Turns out that dead teacher was Mr Corse's friend and former schoolmate. Almonzo's father gives Mr Corse a huge leather and metal bullwhip which the teacher uses one day to absolutely thrash the teenagers and throw them out of the schoolhouse.
That was fucking wild. Also I remember thinking the teacher was gay and the dead teacher was his lover or at least a friend he was in love with.
No. 1799734
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Well this happened in Virginia
No. 1799747
>>1798642I can't stand these half-baked, click bait headlines. First of all, subsidized lunches come federally, not from the state or funding being directed at the school at all, so this interpretation by these articles don't make any fucking sense. In fact, school lunches are a department financially separate from schools altogether.
There is plenty of actual stuff to be worried about in the us and not just made up garbage that muddies the waters.
No. 1800155
>>1799743How is it that the suspect isn’t dead if he/she was home (as indicated by him/her firing rounds) and the whole house exploded?
And how does firing a flare gun result in your house getting blown up? Did they blow up their own house, did that enormous cop vehicle blow it up? Why such a heavy duty police vehicle to serve a warrant?
No. 1802068
>>1801657I didn’t even know about the one earlier today until I tuned into a hockey game and there was a moment of silence for the
victims, when I went to look it up wow shocker there was one yesterday. I wish all moids a very ropemas
No. 1804431
>>1803418I think maybe she was just who was available because they gave me an appointment really fast and they seemed quite busy. She was cool and was qualified to do everything I needed so I don't really mind.
>>1803278She had a nurse with her as her assistant so I think it might be a step above that in an obgyn clinic but I'd need a medical nona to clue me in if that's right
No. 1805832
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You've got a lot and more when you get caught
No. 1806411
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My dream is you(check your tab before posting)
No. 1812644
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My GODDAMN rent for this shitty apartment in this boring, "affordable, low cost of living" area is going up to FUCKING $1,550.00 next month. God damn it I'm so sick of this shit.
No. 1812787
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>>1812644Follow in the footsteps of other poorfags and just make your neighborhood property value low by being loud and annoying at night. Had neighbors shoot guns at night just to keep the rent below $500 and it worked
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I’ve become an American statistic nonnies. I’ve become… fat.
No. 1813915
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How nice is North Carolina? I want to get out of my shit hole state and my friends that have moved there seem to be thriving…but I guess anyone would thrive where they don’t have to pay out the ass for rent.
No. 1814749
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>>1813915NC is a weird state. It's not as cheap as many people would believe, so unless you're in the Bay Area/NYC/Seattle your cost of living is not going to be that much better here. (Especially if you can't work remote and will be in Charlotte or Raleigh.)
One thing that really bothers me is that the cities feel like they have no personality and most everything has been added in the last ten years, so it feels very barren to me. There are lots of smaller cities that are nice to visit but not to live in. (I definitely don't recommend living in Asheville partly for this reason)
I like TN and GA a lot more, they feel like they have personality compared to NC and the cost of living is comparable. More stuff to do in Atlanta and Nashville compared to Charlotte as well, and anything you're missing out on in NC is a short drive away from there.
No. 1814987
>>1813915I'm from there and there are only 3 good things about NC:
1. The beaches are sandy and the water is warm
2. There's lots of public land in the mountains
3. The barbecue (both pork and beef) is by far the best in the country
No. 1815742
>>1813915I only visit for periods of days/weeks at a time but I always get the impression that people are really friendly. Most areas I've visited are fairly unpleasant in terms of… urban planning I guess? Like concrete everywhere, no trees, impossible to be a pedestrian because you'll get killed by the speeding truck drivers, no real activities just a bunch of consoomer businesses. A lot of people seem unhealthy too. The nature areas are wonderful but there are some real ugly cityscapes… I guess it's not exactly unique for America but it stands out to me since I live in a walkable community. So for me it's nice to visit friends and go out to forests with them, but I probably wouldn't like living there
One funny experience I had was that I met a woman in a poor rural area who was apparently unfamiliar with the concept that some people are neither white nor black, so she was genuinely confused to meet me and apparently she asked my friend for an explanation after I left kek
No. 1816074
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Sorry for secondhand husband story but today my husband came home from work (mail carrier) and said he delivered mail to a teenager holding an assault rifle. I was like, huh??? He said he was walking up a driveway and some teenage boy got out of a car holding a rifle (“not the hunting kind, the other kind”). So I asked did he think you were a threat or what?? And my husband said no he acted embarrassed to have the rifle and kinda put it behind his back. kek what the fuck? Why is America like this
No. 1816079
>>1816074Samefag:
Also it was across the street from an address where his coworkers said there was a shooting yesterday. Not a death just a shooting complaint that got the cops called. We have got to move.
No. 1816296
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>>1816180You don't like Alabama white sauce?
No. 1816299
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i almost thought this was a fake story wtf
No. 1816485
>>18161801. If you are reaching for the sauce, it's not good barbecue.
2. Vinegar-based sauce is the only good barbecue sauce. Tomato-based sauces are all just seasoned ketchup.
No. 1827794
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What is your opinion of this chart?(global rule #7)
No. 1834152
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>>1833998Why do we have these freaks in congress it’s crazy. I’m so glad I don’t have to put up with hearing Fetterman is heckin based anymore, he’s as useless as the rest of them and even uglier. I’ve got to laugh or I’d cry
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Wow
No. 1837020
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American nonnas, what are your thoughts on this? cause I saw a lot of people reacting negatively, saying that it will usher in literal fascism or whatever, while others celebrating were still a bit more cautious.
No. 1837025
>>1837020What’s the hidden downside people are worried about?
I honestly think death is the only solution for child rapists. They will reoffend and they cannot be left out in the world. Death penalty is barbaric sure but it’s self defense for society in this case.
No. 1837028
>>1837025well there are some legitimate concerns, it might make
victims less likely to come forward.
I didn't tell my father about the man who molested me years after the event, cause I was afraid my father would likely kill him. and as much as I hated that man, as a kid I could never handle the idea of knowing anybody died because of me. No. 1837091
>>1837025The one I can immediately think of is rapists being more motivated to kill their
victim at an attempt to silence them.
No. 1837110
>>1837020Don’t forget this is Florida. Politicians don’t actually care about the welfare of children. They only care about upholding the illusion of their righteousness. I agree with the concerns that it will deter
victims from coming forward. In fact, I think it will make perpetrators and their enablers even more secretive. This reminds me of how families will often go above and beyond to defend their rapist scrotes.
No. 1837407
>>1837020I wonder how the internet's going to play into this. I agree with all the other points anons have made, but nowadays everything's permanently monitored. A rape or murder can be caught on a nanny camera or recorded by Alexa without the rapist's knowledge. A kid who's a bit older can film or voice record what's happening and send the evidence to the police themselves without having to find a trusted adult to help them. The kids can release evidence online and use the fury of a million permanently online teens to help them get their rapist in the chair (50/50 chance of this backfiring spectacularly, but it could work in the
victim's favor). Everything from fridges to TVs to doorbells has a camera, microphone and GPS these days, it's almost impossible for anyone to completely hide their actions. I think that this is one instance where kids having zero empathy and a burning desire for salt-the-earth vengeance would be useful. Can't guilt trip your
victims if the
victims know you're subhuman and deserve a one-way trip to the slammer.
>>1837054Self-loathing immigrants are something else. Try telling them that it's trendy for rich Americans to connect to their roots because of 23 and Me, show them a few examples of white American celebrities trying foreign dishes, and they might relent a little bit.
No. 1837931
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I'm sorry if this has been posted about already but america is such a shithole. one of the biggest reasons I'd always see mentioned as to why abortion should be legal is that in countries where it's illegal women can go to jail for having miscarriages. it's already happening. and the same people who wanted abortion illegal because it's "murder" refuse to do anything about school shootings and every time one happens they just cry that their gun rights are under attack. I fucking hate this country!!
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-miscarriage-prosecution-brittany-watts-b8090abfb5994b8a23457b80cf3f27ce No. 1837989
>>1837952NTA but where did that anon ever say she's trying to claim she's "french/italian/irish/german/etc" just because she's trying to connect to the culture? Just because someone is trying to learn about their ancestors' culture doesn't mean they are claiming to be from there?
Sometimes reconnecting with your ancestors' cuisines will make you grateful kek. I tried polenta (northern Italian food) and it sucked.
No. 1838088
>>1838065What frustrates me is that I feel like my great grandparents did neither. They abandoned everything they were brought up with and absorbed nothing from the people who were already here. They just went straight for whatever was peddled to them as "American" and drilled it into their kids' heads to do the same. So using cuisine as an example, "Grandma's recipes" are just old top-selling cookbooks full of untested recipes she never modified, and my parents were actively discouraged from doing anything more complicated than adding water to a box of powder.
After Christmas a friend of mine brought me some tortillas her Mexican grandmother had made from scratch and I literally cried when I ate them because they were so good. I've been teaching myself to cook for years and I don't know if I'll ever make anything as delicious as those tortillas. I'm mad about it.
No. 1838952
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I got this off a reddit post. Apparently there is an age verification put in place for pornhub and other porn sites in North Carolina.
How do you guys feel about it? IMO it sounds a good idea, but I don't know how they will enforce it.
No. 1838959
>>1838952My take is you should be required by law to be at least 21 years old to own a smartphone and access the internet unrestricted.
Minors with smartphones is the tragedy of out time and we will have a couple lost generations before society finally realizes what the root problem was
No. 1839035
>>1838952Louisiana was the first to require age verification. After that more states passed similar legislation and pornhub just blocked access, so I'm guessing that once age verification is required, it's no longer profitable to operate within that state.
So far the states requiring age verification are Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, Utah, Arkansas, Montana and North Carolina.
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Another tranny murdering children why am I not surprised
No. 1839222
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>>1839221Had a whole tiktok dedicated to his troonism
No. 1853220
>>1851917It's not tinfoil. It literally has its own website lol.
>>1851864are you in the wrong thread?
No. 1855208
>>1855204One more thing before the sleepy time tea knocks me out. Just imagine the unfettered power postal workers had over the communities in their area. The kind of men who would gate keep the system, and steal from the mail, or spy. Later, when people moved further west, the local postmaster was the
only elected official around .
How much has the postal service affected the outcome of the United States?
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I hate our federal government. Instead of doing any number of the gazillion things that could enhance the quality of life for the average American, they instead felt the need to abolish humorous highway warning signs. Damn it, reading those retarded phrases was one of the few tolerable things about our local freeway. Guess we're not getting any more
>Seatbelts always pass a vibe check
>Hocus pocus, drive with focus
>Drive hammered, get nailed
Or other silly shit like that because the feds apparently have nothing better to do than to regulate unnecessary shit. Nope. Can't enjoy whatever dumb nonsensical slogan the poor sap at the DOT had to come up with or have a single bright spot in a miserable commute. I know this is a retarded thing to get mad about but it's retarded that the government is regulating it at all when they have countless other things to do.
No. 1859677
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What I don't understand is why this guy would have a Nazi flag considering the fact that they would have gassed his ass
No. 1859686
>>1859677There's quite a few nazi troons and furries actually. Also,
>black shadow journalkek
No. 1862273
>>1862089I didn't really read the whole thing myself, but a quick run-down from Wiki:
>replace all civil servants with Trump cronies>entire executive branch falls under presidential control>limit anti-discrimination policies against LGBTQ+etc.
There was also the part that Trump, if elected, might use the Insurrection Act to install martial law and target political dissidents. Overall seems very scarily authoritarian to me.
No. 1863014
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fetterman-says-american-dream-threatened-300000-illegal-immigrants-swarming-southern-border.amp"Fetterman says American dream is threatened by 300,000 illegal immigrants swarming southern border"
Tbh I’d argue that The American Dream died after most manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas
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DeSantis dropped out and is now endorsing Trump.
No. 1863905
I just learned about CamperForce. It's apparently discontinued now and after reading more about it I have to say that seems like a good thing.
>The Amazon CamperForce seasonal employee recruitment program attracted RVers in droves to work at dozens of fulfillment centers across the US. Amazon offered its seasonal CamperForce workers up to $18.00/hour and a stipend to cover campsite costs. https://camperreport.com/amazon-camperforce-discontinued/I never watched Nomadland which I guess is how a lot of people heard about it. I found a short doc from 6 years ago too (vidrel)
No. 1864558
>>1864543>kindergartners>using chromebooksWe have reached hell. Anyone else remember how grubby and sticky all the shared classroom supplies were? Imagine a kindergarten class computer.
>>1864546I bet they don't even take kids on camp day trips anymore. My school was in suburbia central and we still got to go into the woods every few years. Even if they still do those trips I assume too many parents use permission slips so their kids don't have to go.
No. 1864567
>>1864546yeah i was also wondering how people are taught nowadays to get their teaching credentials? i’m sure it’s a bunch of e-learning stuff, which just means it’s being perpetuated to the new teachers.
my mom (who does a lot of field trips for her class on her own accord) was also telling me field trips are not mandatory, and are incumbent on the teacher to plan and implement for their class. a lot of teachers nowadays are just very lazy in their work and aren’t motivated to do this stuff which is really sad.
No. 1864576
>>1864567in that case whats even the point of requiring teachers to get their degree? I was in school when education started downfalling, I do remember how quickly a lot of hands-on learning and lessons quickly became nothing but videos and a small question sheet after
College is becoming the same thing too, I had a handful of classes that were actual activities and discussions. Most classes were just the teacher reading out a powerpoint and everyone taking notes as fast as possible, not even questioning or discussions
No. 1864585
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>>1864543When the teacher would roll in picrel, it was gonna be a good day. Ipad kids don't even experience the joy of technology.
No. 1864737
>>1864611It's so funny how e-learning was a way to shoehorn in this "eco-friendly" alternative to learning, reducing paper in the classroom–and in the end there's more tech plastic waste being thrown out every year with these chromebooks.
google/silicon valley must've lobbied at the highest levels in state governments to get these changes in the classroom. covid made all this stuff even worse.
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No. 1865386
>>1864747My school also used Chromebooks (the fancy MacBooks were reserved for the art classes) and everything you said about them is true. They’re pretty shitty stuff, and if you had a laptop of your own that’s would you would’ve brought in instead. I personally don’t mind that assignments are digital now, it made/makes doing schoolwork more convenient.
>>1864611Unless you’re buying something cheap your “tech” shouldn’t be breaking very often. Most times it’s either a software or user issue (esp if the professor or teacher is >50 years old) which is easily fixable and does not require one to purchase new products.
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two chick fil a's on the same block facing each other in times square
No. 1868462
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Anyone else following the Texas border dispute? Qrd from what I understand, please correct me if I'm wrong-
>Supreme Court ruled that border patrol can cut down the barbed wire at the TX-Mexico border because migrants trying to swim over keep getting caught in it and dying
>Texas National Guard blocks border patrol from accessing the border
>puts up even more wire
>TX governor says "Texas will not back down from our efforts to secure the border in Biden’s absence"
>trump calls for states to deploy national guard to support Texas
>picrel, list of states that have signed letter in support of Texas. Some have pledged to send personnel or financial aid to help "fight the invasion"
I live in Texas and most people I've talked to about it fully support Gov Abbott. Some think this is the beginning of a civil war and they're excited about it… It won't go that far but the border has been a mess for years. I think this was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
No. 1868577
>>1868462TX is full of drama queens. You never hear about blue states kicking and screaming over stupid crap.
>>1867167I use a tablet + stylus for notetaking so its pretty similar to having a physical notebook, but otherwise I mostly use the computer for turning in homework assignments. There's definitely many ways you can integrate analogue studying with digital education.
No. 1868942
>>1868897Based
>>1868910Cringe
(racebait) No. 1869225
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>>1869220It's okay to admit that you're retarded anon, picrel is one of the billboard trucks that have been all over the news a few months ago. Not reading the rest of this but for a group of people who love to whine about how ~oppressed~ they are they sure have a lot of means to silence dissent. And of course the billboard trucks aren't the only issue. (((They))) run the legal, economic, and entertainment sector too.
(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE) No. 1869233
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Passing by to say that I'm proud to be a Burgerfag. Let freedom ring!
No. 1869274
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>>1869225It can both be true that jews have a lot of money and power but also that palestinians and arabs/muslims in general view outside women especially white as exotic whores who are up for grabs. Literally Islam says rape of a non-muslim woman is perfectly fine. The worst muslim is better than the best non-muslim, Islam states this and it's the core of how they act towards outsiders.
https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/316717/meaning-of-statement-the-worst-muslim-is-better-than-the-best-non-muslimMeanwhile most jews are nominally jewish and not very religious at all, a society run by them is much more tolerable than one run by muslims
(derailing/racebaiting) No. 1869536
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>>1869307>some of the malesDo you think we're referring just to the criminals who choose to aide Hamas? Violence against women is rampant in the middle east, anon. Why are we suddenly acting like middle eastern men are angels?
(racebaiting) No. 1869623
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Bit out of season, but what is your favorite pie nona? I can't get enough of pumpkin pie, but cherry is a close second.
No. 1869692
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>>1869623cherry pie sounds so nasty to me but i haven’t tried it so idk. ive only ever had a cherry danish and i wasn’t a fan. i love a strawberry rhubarb, apple, mixed berries, or pumpkin pie. i also made this five spice sweet potato miso pie last year and it was soooo good, i need to throw a dinner party so i can make it again. here’s the recipe:
https://www.lahbco.com/desserts/murasakimisopie No. 1869752
>>1869692I love miso paste and I like sweet/salty combos but 5-spice & miso in a pie sounds so wrong, like something a confused weeb made up lol
>>1869623Ranking:
>Mixed wildberry pie (must pick berries yourself)>Mini pecan pie>Plum galette>Apple empanadas>Cranberry curd tart No. 1869820
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It feels shitty that it’s required that you have cancer or AIDS or some disease just to be allowed to have a painless, safe death. It’s oh fuck you go shoot yourself in the head! unless you have cancer then you can totally have whatever you want ♥
No. 1869850
>>1869825Yeah I actually am quite jealous that you can get diagnosed with terminal cancer and then get to die in a big warm comfy bed the next day instead of parking the car in your garage and choking on the exhaust.
>>1869839I don’t care about the logistics or morality of it I’d just like to die without having to do the job myself
No. 1869977
>>1869944We’re talking about euthanasia, retard. Euthanasia is only offered to patients with terminal illnesses such as cancer so that they
don’t suffer from the excruciatingly embarrassing death that is Cancer. Euthanasia is when they sedate you, make sure you’re asleep, and then kill you. That’s painless.
No. 1869987
>>1869983I’ve been sedated before no it’s not painful actually, and if you’re referring to the cancer what does it matter if you’re going to die the next day?
>>1869984Blogposting is discouraged here so I won’t be able to answer that unfortunately
No. 1870180
>>1869610Hey farmhand handmaiden, listen to this:
OVERWHELMINGLY, RAPISTS ARE MALES. ALL CULTURES ARE RUN BY MALES BUT SOME CULTURES FREELY ALLOW WAR CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN. THESE CULTURES HAVE NOT CHANGED IN HUNDREDS OF YEARS. THE ONLY GOOD RAPIST IS A DEAD RAPIST. I CHEER WHEN THESE MEN DIE.
>>1869623Among the fruit pies, apple comes in first because it's rare to get a bad apple pie, she consistently hits it out of the park. But when the ingredients are actually good, blackberry is amazing, with strawberry comes in second.
Among the non-fruit pies, chocolate peanutbutter pies reign supreme.
(Not that I disagree with you but this has nothing to do with amerifaggotry. Contain your derailing and alogging.) No. 1870211
>>1869623Cherry pie or pumpkin pie
>>1869650Sweet potato pie is another good choice
No. 1870651
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A school in Georgia has a policy to serve kids cheese sandwiches for having lunch debt, so Arby's (yes the fastfood chain) stepped in to pay off the debt. America.
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/01/25/arbys-foundation-pays-off-student-lunch-debt-4-metro-atlanta-school-districts/ No. 1873203
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I still cannot believe Mormonism is such a powerful sect in the US. It's utterly baffling. They're basically a loony cult worshiping some guy's long con
No. 1873263
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>>1873259of all the things to be called a schizo over… use fucking google this isn’t some conspiracy theory kek I just find it interesting
No. 1873275
>>1873272forgive me for contributing to the topic of conversation,
nonnie! oh wait, I must just be a schizo and a fed
No. 1873344
>>1873317That doesnt mean that they are powerful or large figureheads
>>1873309TA was trying to say that 'mormons are a powerful sect in the US' which really isn't true, they just find jobs easier because they're agreeable and sober. If you google 'mormons run the united states' you're going to get a bunch of bullshit results kek.
No. 1873356
>>1873344that’s literally not what I said, stop reaching. all I said was that mormons have connections to the CIA and anons got
triggered. no, I don’t think there’s a mormon conspiracy to run the country kek
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elon musk is a fucking immigrant too kek
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>>1874297why he looking kinda…
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>>1873203Fun fact, Mormons think bigfoot is actually Cain.
>Abraham Smoot recorded the following after early Church Apostle David W. Patten described an encounter he had with Cain in 1835:>As I was riding along the road on my mule I suddenly noticed a very strange person walking beside me. . . . His head was about even with my shoulders as I sat in my saddle. He wore no clothing, but was covered with hair. His skin was very dark. I asked him where he dwelt and he replied that he had no home, that he was a wanderer in the earth and traveled to and fro. He said he was a very miserable creature, . . . and his mission was to destroy the souls of men.anyway they are a strange bunch, a century ago they they were being "martyred" left and right and doing plenty of killing themselves, while at some point during the mid-20th century, their higher-ups had a council to decide to adhere to very stereotypically 1950s standards and normalizing their current goodie two shoes act and they've been that way since then.(with some breakaway exceptions)
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from the washington post
No. 1878192
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seeing Republicans saying anything anti-war is such a trip for me
No. 1878199
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>>1878192the letter from the Speaker of the House I cropped out there. the Speaker is also a Republican, there's some party divide on the issue
No. 1878237
>>1876417How old are you (roughly) and what kind of urban amenities are you looking for, nonna?
I grew up downstate and lived in Albany for several years, as a grad student at U of A and then a state employee peon. I live in the mid-Valley now. No offense to any Albany natives, but when I lived there I found it pretty disappointing. I was hoping for "cool small city" vibes since it's the capitol and has a big (if not very prestigious) university, but it's still a depressed upstate Rust Belt city, just doing a little better than the others because it's the state capitol. I haven't lived there in a while, but I still go up there sometimes to visit friends, and my impression is that the exodus from the city that's transformed Beacon and Kingston hasn't spread that far north yet.
All that said, you're 100% right about the outdoor opportunities. I could get on my bike and be riding through rolling hills and small farms in 30-40 minutes. Happy to share more if you say more about what you're looking for.
No. 1878422
>>1855208Did you read The Crying of Lot 49,
nonnie?
No. 1878443
>>1878237I'm 29 and all I really want is a supermarket or two, some vegetarian restaurants, bowling, rollerblading, a running club, and a gardening center. I grew up in a rather out of the way part of NJ and wanted to live there but because NJ is so dense all the employers don't have locations there because they may as well move them 30-40 minutes west and benefit from the Philadelphia metro. I would have to commute 80-90 minutes one way to live where I grew up. By comparison Albany itself is the regional hub and is a fraction of Philly's size so I could live in a relatively wooded area and only be 25-35 min from work.
I fully admit I'm like those Californians you would hear about during COVID who would snatch up property in Idaho and whatnot. I would be rolling in with all of my Philly metro money saved and getting a place that's like half the price of it's NJ equivalent.
No. 1878451
>>1875058Scientology is leagues and leagues more horrifyingly corrupt than the mormons could ever be. At least the mormons buy farms that actually end up being productive and producing a lot of food, or they buy empty unused land to build their temples. They aren’t purchasing gorgeous historic buildings in prime locations and making them useless cult hideouts. Scientologists just buy up real estate in historic downtown districts and let them rot, when they could be used for places people would enjoy going (cafes, restaurants, bars, clubs) or even apartments.
What the Scientologists have done to downtown Plant City is especially egregious. They also own a huge swath of gorgeous historic buildings in Ybor that could actually be being put to good use. Same for St Pete. Literally grubbing up buildings that can and should be used for public good. I hate Scientologists so much.
No. 1878482
>>1878479If we’re talking about offshoot cults then yeah obviously the FLDS are horrific and worse than Scientology for sure. There’s a reason they are excommunicated from mainstream LDS faith. But mainstream Mormonism/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is barely comparable to Scientology and far far far less harmful.
For demographics, there are under 10k FLDS, zero celebrities. There are 40-55k Scientologists and many are celebs. There are like 15-16 million mainstream LDS adherents with some celebs and politicians in the mix.
No. 1878500
>>1873223This is actually true! But, it doesn't make Mormons spooky or anything. It's mostly because the CIA wants people who will obey authority without question, have never used drugs (and not drinking is a plus, don't need to worry about them getting drunk and 'loose lips sinking ships"), and have a good reputation in their community.
So, you have these sheltered Mormon guys who never smoked weed, don't drink, have decent background checks because their families in town all know each other, AND they genuinely believe that Joseph Smith's batshit stories are true just because some other old man said so? Perfect candidate.
No. 1878503
>>1878443>I could live in a relatively wooded area and only be 25-35 min from workNice, if that's the kind of lifestyle you're looking for then Albany seems like a good move. It's been long enough and I don't know the area outside the city itself well enough to give advice on real estate or particular towns, but this is definitely doable if it fits your budget, and a 35 minute commute will give you some options.
I will say that as a "city person" who was looking for walkability and nightlife, I found Albany city proper to be bleak and depressing, and I wasn't sorry to leave. But if you're looking for a slower pace of life with a car commute, the Capital District is a good choice for a metro area that's still relatively affordable by Northeastern standards. And you can't beat the location. Almost all of upstate NY and New England is within reach of a day trip. I didn't realize until I lived there how close it was to Vermont and Western Mass.
Keep in mind that Albany is part of a tri-cities metro area with Schenectady and Troy. The area inside of that triangle (between I-87/I-90 and the river) is suburban sprawl serving all three cities. So for a more rural setting you probably want to look outside of that triangle. But the details will obviously depend on where your job is.
Good luck nonna, I grew up in the downstate suburbs of NYC so I know the struggle
No. 1879152
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American nonnas, is the inflation really this bad?
No. 1879519
>>1878504This is terrible. These really aren’t the norm, thankfully, and it’s becoming less likely for this sort of thing to happen as the church itself is becoming less conservative as the years go on. Technically all they are supposed to ask for “worthiness” interviews is “are you obeying the law of chastity” and that’s it. No specifics. These are nasty men that ask specifics.
I’m sure if you go looking for bad news of scrotes in positions of power in any denomination or faith, there will be stories like these. Scrotes gonna scrote.
>>1879181I’m sorry you had to grow up so sheltered nonna and I’m so so so sorry about what your Sunday school teacher said. Just for the record doctrinally that shitty belief isn’t at all accurate and if I’d been there I would’ve absolutely said something and then got the bishop involved because someone who says such terrible things shouldn’t be a Sunday school teacher. God loves you and Jesus loves you and that horrible thing didn’t happen to you because of a lack of holiness on your part. That’s just such a bullshit thing to say. Was Jesus crucified because he wasn’t holy enough???
I had Mormon friends when I was a kid and while they were sheltered they were not nearly as sheltered as the fundie baptist kids around. The Mormon kids were allowed and encouraged to celebrate Halloween, they were allowed to play video games and stuff like Pokémon and Harry Potter weren’t forbidden. Meanwhile the fundie baptists kids weren’t allowed to play Pokémon or watch or read Harry Potter because those things were apparently satanic kek. I also remember going trick or treating as a kid and the fundie baptists would put huge signs on their door saying shit like WE DONT CELEBRATE SATANS BIRTHDAY AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU like cmon.
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>>1879152If this is from a restaurant in NY that I googled then I think the prices are higher because it’s probably through a delivery app and delivery apps take a percentage of the restaurants profit so they’re up charging due to that. Picrel is the menu for the place I believe we’re discussing
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>>1879725Not sure if it's the same one but the San Francisco location is showing much cheaper prices than what OP is showing
No. 1880054
>>1879783There are no therapists in your area who accept self pay if you can go that route
You might have to try an online psychiatrist, and they fucking suck, but have you asked or researched with your insurance company what doctors will take them?
No. 1880071
>>1880054 I have checked for online psychiatrists, but they are all “out of network”. The self pay option is not really an option atm since my job cut my hours.
I called the insurance company and now there is a “case manager” attached to this. I will try to call my PCP and see if she can fit me in for an appointment.
I am also worried that the one local company what accepts my insurance has TERRIBLE ratings. It makes me feel like I should give up. (Kek that depression is shining through)
No. 1880864
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Are any of you planning to use the new IRS Direct File thing for your taxes this year? I'm not eligible for the pilot rollout but I'm happy it's going to be a thing (in theory, assuming it goes well, simplifies the process and cuts out the middleman/turbotax).
No. 1880919
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please god let this happen because it would be so fucking funny
No. 1881000
>>1880868Thank you nonna. I wanted to update; a case manager called and is taking the lead. She apologized and is booking the appointment for me and resolving the issues of referrals. We will see how it pans out, but I am relieved someone is finally proactively helping since its just been me trying for weeks.
I hope medicaid helps nonna. Did you know that also automatically approves you for food stamps? One of my friends applied for both. Maybe 300/ month towards food will help you too.
Thanks to everyone who listened to me bitch. Rooting for you nonna. Take advantage of the chance to get help in all avenues. I believe in you.
No. 1881673
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britbongs complaining about burgerfags in
>>>/ot/1730353 …this could be us kekkk
No. 1882585
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Welp. Biden just said that Mexico is on the border of Gaza and referred to Egyptian president El-Sisi as the president of Mexico. It’s been a good run, America.
No. 1882916
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I've been reading recently about how many schools are teaching children to read by sight instead of teaching phonics now, and how a bunch of kids basically can't read because of this. Really depressing to think that if I have kids in this stupid country I'll probably have to supplement their education at home after they've already spent 6-7 hours in school, if I can't find or afford an actually decent school with standards. Honestly I hate how education culture here has become so concentrated on making stupid feral children and their retarded parents happy, instead of setting high standards for the children who will actually be productive members of society later. This sight reading bullshit just feels like another way for educators to just pass along children who can't read to the next grade without having to actually teach them anything
No. 1882936
>>1882633Then why do we keep electing drooling retirees? Rhetorical question but so was the question from the ayrt.
The only time Biden looks alive is when he’s talking about his cars. His brain is gone.
No. 1883381
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I fucking hate this. Hope they kill themselves instead.
No. 1883411
>>1883305You should listen to the podcast this anon mentions
>>1882943, it's a doozy. Sight reading is how illiterates cope with not being able to read, it's essentially guessing what a sentence says from context clues. Oh and it's been going on for like twenty years in some school districts so if you ever end up in a retarded internet slapfight with some zoomer, they very well might not even understand what you're saying.
No. 1883472
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>>1883305There is no /c/, /q/, /x/, or /y/ in american phonetics. Cat uses /k/ whereas ceiling uses /s/. Colonel is pronounced like kernel. Sounds are important but our letters are stupid. I think teachers should be taught phonetics during their time at university. Picrel is some stuff on phonetics.
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>>1883472Phonics and phonetics are related but they are two different things, nona.
No. 1885223
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Shooting at a church in Texas. Unclear if the child shot was shot by the shooter or cops at the moment.
No. 1885468
>>1885444Obama. He's the first president since Woodrow Wilson to stay in Washington after his terms were over, living in a home not far from the white house. He's still the major behind-the-scenes powerbroker in Democratic politics, since most of the people now on Biden's staff were members of his administration.
I read a good non-conspiratorial deep dive article about this a few months ago, on a legitimate political news site, but I'm having trouble finding it with broken modern Google.
No. 1886085
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>>1886034another tranny shooter… reported by liberal media as a “female”… so close to a-logging
No. 1886109
>>1886099you think a child chose to be be there? Joel Olsteen wasn’t the
victim of the attack, retard. based on the news report, it seems like the tranny shooter used the child as a human shield and failed to kill anyone else
No. 1886136
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>>1886034>>1886085>>1886090All the trans bullshit has made it difficult to get real information regarding these crimes. Picrel is circulating on Twitter that suggests the shooter might have been a TIF. It's hard to know, especially as mass violence is typically a male crime so people see "female shooter" and think TIM. However, I don't doubt that injecting yourself with testosterone doesn't make you behave more like a moid with a death drive. See Audrey Hale, the Nashville shooter. And just like that shooting, I'm sure since this vile excuse for a human being fits a certain demographic, it'll disappear from public consciousness in a snap like it never even happened.
No. 1886239
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>>1885223I hate twitter tradcons as much as any nonna, but can libtards be anymore embarrassing?
>being trans has nothing to do with it!strange how we’re starting to see a pattern of trans shooters though huh?
>poor misunderstood mentally ill shooter… if only they had healthcare!stfu about muh healthcare. this isn’t a gotcha for your political campaign
>they deserved it for being racist bigots!the only confirmed
victim was a 5-year old
>muh white shooters!pathetic deflection
No. 1886295
>>1886261It will be buried and forgotten because it’s inconvenient for mainstream media:
>immigrant>tranny>Palestine supporterNothing to see here.
No. 1886362
>>1886303Ayrt and I agree with you,
nonnie. Only brought it up for context.
No. 1886488
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>turns to you, eyes pleading for comfort
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>>1886136Press X to doubt
No. 1887623
>>1887496I think Trump is going to win tbh. Granted, I'm not an expert so this is just my guess. But Biden has so many things against him now from both the left and right (palestine, border, crime & drugs, inflation, etc.) And he's clearly so fucking old that he has no idea whats going on.
Anyways, cant wait for the democrat "THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER, YOU MUST VOTE BIDEN" spiel to begin. I'm voting for Jill Stein
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What are they gonna do with 30,000 monkies? Jesus Christ. Poor little dudes
No. 1888012
>>1887996Animal testing, most likely. There will be a huge demand for it since the transhumanists have a desperate need to turn into cyborgs. And, to take off my tinfoil hat, more normal stuff like pharmaceutical and cosmetic testing
>>1888002Kek bless your heart
nonnie No. 1888106
>>1887996Animal testing, apparently they used to just import them from China but can't do that since covid so they want to breed them locally.
Sad but sort of necessary.
No. 1888390
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Another shooting unfortunately
No. 1888725
>>1887996this makes me upset. I still think about all those beagles they have in new york state they were straight torturing for "scientific" purposes
fucking inhumane SHIT
No. 1890315
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>ped*philes
Seeing replies to this like
>This will be used to target lgbtq people
I'm a lesbian and don't molest children so now what
>This will be used to make children feel guilty
They already feel guilty and get shamed when their abuser goes to prison for life. I guess it shouldn't be illegal at all then!
Though most replies are normal. Hoping this expands to all states.
No. 1890344
>>1890315I thought the reason the death penalty was not used for pedophiles is because they’re more likely to kill their
victims to avoid it
No. 1891988
>>1890315Fuck yeah, good news at last! I hope this extends to online groomers too. Fingers crossed that this sets something of a precedent for rapists and mass shooters to be given the death penalty, or at least a physical castration penalty.
>>1890320A hit dog will holler kek, this law won't affect the LGBs more than any other law but the transgender ladygirl population in Idaho will plummet.
No. 1893223
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>>1890315That’s nice but doesn’t Idaho have the highest rate of child marriages in the country? Not that the two things are related directly or one cancels the other, I just feel like Idaho is kind of inconsistent.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article226944034.htmlIn Idaho you can also arrange to get your teenager married if you’re losing a custody battle, apparently. There was a big case about it a while ago
https://apnews.com/article/idaho-marriage-boise-child-custody-25e2429fd0d28413335af70ac55c780d> The case arose from a custody battle between a Boise woman and her ex-husband, who planned to move to Florida and wanted to take their 16-year-old daughter along. The ex-husband was accused of setting up a “sham marriage” between his daughter and another teen as a way to end the custody fight.Idaho had a chance to close this loophole but the judges decided not to for some reason. Obviously they should just make child marriage illegal but they won’t do that either,
No. 1893230
>>1893226you must believe this is a really common thing.
>>1893228guess
No. 1893273
>>1893228companies dont have to hire adequate staff anymore b/c people will still come to their businesses anyway.
it doesnt matter how long it takes for the 1 person working the front desk to help you, youll still wait for service like everyone else b/c even if you go to a competing business the situation will be the same there as well. i used to work at a hotel, guests would complain about how understaffed we were, and the disappearing amenities they used to enjoy which have now been done away with, but the prices are higher than pre-pandemic. everyone is paying more and getting less out of it, and since it maximizes profits companies have no incentive to change.
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>>1893361When looking at that gif, you might only see an unsightly freak that should be hidden from the world, but what i see is unadulterated joy of someone innocent.
No. 1895387
>>1893280You’re weird
Anyways, my friends have roped me into going to an oscars watch party but I really don’t give a shit about the oscars it’s rigged and so boring now sigh
No. 1895510
>>1895439Honestly it kinda feels like my city is losing a lot of it's flair and identity due to the immigrants. A lot of places being sold/torn/etc just to be repurposed as Indian Market/Convenience Store #5768264. Feels like I also see more Indian people than literally anyone else. In terms of jobs all is fine it's just the culture shifting in one single direction and leaving no room.
t. East Coast (no not New York)
No. 1895535
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>>1895510Is it like the Patels and motels? Most of the hotel/motels here and the convenience and package stores are run by Indian families but that’s basically as American as apple pie at this point. There’s a lot of coverage about it if you’re into immigrant American business history
https://www.voanews.com/amp/indian-americans-dominate-us-motel-market-150041615/369987.html No. 1895936
>>1895439i just watched that 60 minutes segment and was legitimately shocked to see that the #1 illegal immigrant crossing the border rn is chinese people???
crazy shit
also fucking insane that illegal immigrants in new york get free housing and 3 free meals a day.
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I promise I'm not trying to bait, but it's been so interesting seeing Asian people be at the frontlines of the movement to get rid of affirmative action (at least in the media), to now fighting because they're still not being accepted as much as they would like. It's like they got fucked over by what they were advocating for.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-affirmative-action-virginia-thomas-jefferson-high-school/ No. 1896411
>>1896244Exactly Americans do not understand the Chinese mentality at all. I'm not sure america and china will every really go to war but if it happens I think china could win just because their pro-china vibes are strong and they're actual competition. Meanwhile in america we just had a hand wringing episode because a senator asked the singaporean (75% ethnically chinese) CEO of TikTok (Chinese company) if he had CCP ties. How brilliant for China to use diaspora chinese to achieve their goals, they know westerners will hand wring about being
problematic and it must be so amusing to them
No. 1897316
>>1895954>>1895993There's always an influx of immigrants from nations the US is fighting with. There are political reasons for this. It's also a good PR visual for "fleeing the communist regime" stories.
However maybe I should just shut up because I'm not actually that tapped in to what's happening at the border. Just giving my offhand thought after seeing what you're saying I guess. Is chinese really the #1 nationality crossing the us border right now? Is it just for illegal crossings or legal too? I haven't seen this statistic.
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Any other nonnies here unable to text and call right now? Wtf are they doing?
No. 1897459
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>>1897454Chinese hackers?
No. 1897472
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>>1897459ily china can you pls give us our cellular capabilities back?
No. 1897496
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I'm spooked. My father had got in a wreck just yesterday so the lack of service is spooking me since I can't get any updates. At least im used to no calls from hurricanes all the time but I'm a bit worried.
No. 1897858
>>1885323>>1884905This is 100% a price issue. It's so odd how people who can afford a cosmetic surgery know where to find shelters that neuter animals for free in their area but the poor can't afford to pay and all the shelters either say
>lol sorry we can't because you don't live in this areaOr
>why yes we'll neuter your cat/dog, that'll be approximately the cost of three grocery bills so you're going to starve for a while! No. 1897874
>>1897840You're blaming the
victim.
And there is nothing wrong in replying after three days.
No. 1897877
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>>1897845While the oil industry gets blamed for the high cancer rates around the Mississippi river, it's more likely to be atrazine run off from the corn belt. Atrazine is a pesticide that's banned in the EU for being a suspected carcincogen.
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>>1886137If everyone is listed as white, then there can't be a "racial bias". I'm not even racebaiting, this is actually what has been happening since the 2010s. Picrel, all of these people were listed as "white" for their ethnicity.
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i went to an urgent care clinic today in my LCOL midwest town (higher than avg poverty rates, household median income lower than the state average, etc) and a woman came in with an obvious BBL. this is the second time i've seen one here, the other was a sales associate at TJ Maxx kek. both of these women made sure to bring as much attention to their BBLs by contorting their bodies deliberately.
have any other nonnies who live in average/lower than average towns encountered this in the wild? i don't go out much since poorfag so its surprising that i've seen so many since moving here. are these women on onlyfans? what's the deal?
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>>1898211These pictures are edited and her body actually looks more normal but I'd prefer to say CASEY ANTHONY GOT A BBL for fun
No. 1898635
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I need a reality check amerinonnas: is it me or people have gotten weird about masks again in the past few months? does it depend on the state? I've recently noticed some odd, blatant stares from boys and men. I've been treated like a ghost by all men my entire life so the change is jarring. today I was in self-checkout quietly scanning things and I looked up. a young cashier with his back turned to me had twisted around to stare at me instead of helping the customer in front of him. when our eyes met he just coldly stared for, what, 10 seconds? it spooked me. and now I've had several experiences like that. also I mostly wear masks because of my severe allergies, not because I think it protects against most diseases.
asking mostly because I have heard some stories of men picking fights with mask wearers. however I've never been harassed over anything in my life so I'm probably just being a paranoid idiot.
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God bless americs… look at his little clitty print
No. 1899690
>>1898635ok feel kind of dumb. actually I think that young guy also did that the other time I was there too. vampire pale, skinny, wild dark hair and super tall. the way he was looking at me then was also scary and comically blatant. maybe I'll just avoid that store. courage the cowardly dog would be proud of my cowardice kek
>>1898709yeah, that's it. I've dealt with a lot of easily angered family members over seemingly insignificant things so I don't have much trust. however, I do live in the most liberal state in the country so who knows.
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I think it’s funny when Europeans talk about ‘dumb americunts’ and our poor education, because they’re talking about outdated and inaccurate statistics. The US is ahead of Sweden, Germany, UK and France
No. 1900253
>>1900223Samefagging
>>1900248, why are estonia and poland so high though? Isn’t eastern europe the backwaters of europe?
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>>1900311Please be nice to us, nonna… we know how bad our education system is and eurofags already call us stupid all the time. Let us have this moment of gloating!
No. 1900457
>>1900315Are you retarded, anon? They used data from european schools in wealthy areas, and used data from American schools in poverty stricken areas like the Ozarks, with the most disenfranchised students who don’t even show up to school.
When comparing schools in poor areas in both America and Europe, the American students are still better. When comparing schools in average or wealthy areas in America and Europe, American students do better than European students in most but not all European countries.
The problem with that one study is that they compared rich European kids at good schools to kids who live in poverty and go to terrible schools, which isn’t a fair or honest comparison. That caused America to be ranked 40-something, right above third world countries, which dumb Europeans have been sperging about for years.
When they redid the data and compared good American schools to the good European schools, American students went from 40-something to being in the top 10.
> you get better service at richer areas (that get more public funding) and private schoolsNo, European countries have private schools too, are you dumb?
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>>1900457>American students do better than European students in most but not all European countriesmatters nothing if true because you still dont get free university lmao die seething about it
No. 1900490
>>1900480I honestly think American schools are way more rigorous on purpose to keep people frustrated
(Not American, just heard a lot about it)
No. 1900655
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>>1900480Why are the eurofags bullying us in our own thread. You would still move here if you had the chance kek
No. 1900681
>>1900655They’ve been building up rhetoric about having better education, standard of living, better quality food, less obesity and more ~enlightened and progressive culture~ and lower crime, and when faced with the fact that none of it is true they all start shrieking.
>America has comparable or better education
>America has a better standard of living than every European country besides Scandinavian ones
>their food is equal or worse quality>the “banned ingredients” are in their food too, just under a different label for legal reasons>their food has high fructose corn syrup too, but it’s called fructose-glucose and they don’t realize it’s the exact same thing>they sperg about how American bread is like cake compared to theirs, but European prepackaged bread has more sugar than American prepackaged bread
>their food tastes flavorless and shitty and they ascend when they try American food
>Europeans have about equal levels of obesity and the average bmi is similar
>they have worse race relations, they think Americans are obsessed with race only because they hate nonwhite people and refuse to change, hate crimes are more common and they ldo things such as throw bananas at black people. They hate women, and they’re all pedophiles, sex buyers and rapists
>America has a high crime rate because more crimes are reported and prosecuted, most crime happens in a few areas (literally all localized to a few counties) and the rest of the country is relatively safe, European cops literally walk around in public with machine guns so Europeans are scared and intimidated No. 1900857
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>>1897636>>1897845>>1897877i just literally saw this in the news.
its seriously crimes against humanity-tier the way this country runs. and it all fuels the medial/pharma industry ultimately too.
No. 1905949
>>1905305>pay my bills, have a job, no debt, building savings, disposable income for recreationI'm assuming you're somewhere in millenial/zoomer range and if so that puts you in the top % of our generation. You have no reason to worry. I'm mid-twenties in a low COL area and almost nobody I know my age is living like that. I have a car, apartment and no debt and that makes me the "adult" of my friend group kek.
I know a couple people making six figures and they live pretty similarly except maybe their apartment's a little bigger, or they doordash every meal.
plus they're mostly programmer trannies blowing unbelievable amounts of money on anime figures Even though property is cheap here, I don't know of anyone my age buying except for this one moid with insanely rich parents who got gifted a house kek
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>>1901316This situation is so evil and the fact that they are successfully manipulating people by calling criticism of Israel "antisemitism" is bleak. Every single day there are new images of dead children, dismembered people, tortured families, sex crimes. No one does anything. America has funneled millions of dollars to Ukraine but suddenly, any support of Palestine is anti semitism. "Isrsel is our strongest ally" why would you want this as your ally? I just saw a post about how a little boy who watched his whole family get killed froze to death outside willingly because he wanted to die like his family. He was laying in the road hoping to be ran over. Proud photos of women's lingerie hanging from army vehicles with the soldiers thumbs-up smiling. This is genuine evil being waved around gleefully and its become nothing more than a new political grab for online, fake news outlets to sow discourse and call anyone who points out the discrepancy "liberuuulzz". It's maddening that you can do nothing but watch it, watch white sheltered psychos take "birthright trips" in their 30s and 40s and posting photos of themselves kissing the ground despite all of the violence and cruelty. They don't care. It's outright insanity and just watching people go along with it really will make you see how small and helpless you are.
No. 1906715
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>>1906707Not from PA but that’s where hitchbot was murdered so do with that information what you will
No. 1906887
>>1906707Pittsburgh was nice when I lived there. I kinda miss it actually, I haven’t seen a yinzer in years. Not sure about the rest of PA.
Fun fact: Nepalese is the third most spoken language in Pittsburgh (or it was when I lived there). Not that you’d notice walking around but a lot of Nepalese refugees relocated after that huge earthquake in Nepal. They became housekeepers and cleaners mostly, from what I saw.
No. 1906894
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>>1906843The map shows groundwater contaminated by fracking.
No. 1906915
>>1906909Wild. A few other people I was hanging with mentioned also feeling a bit unwell after drinking the water. We all just assumed it was because we weren't used to it (none of us are from the South, but I'm from New England). I've experienced tap water in upstate NY being chalky due to minerals, but it's mostly safe
but now looking at this map, I realize the area that I'm talking about is in/close to fracking spots. I sometimes get mild bloating from drinking it if it's been a long time since I had last done so, but this NOLA water has given me multiple days of diarrhea; I've never experienced anything quite like it.
No. 1906922
>>1906915personally I do drink the tapwater and I'm fine but it's not "good" tap water in my opinion, just going off taste. it hasn't made me sick like you experienced.
I miss the Vermont well water I grew up with even though it had those caddisflies in it lol
No. 1906947
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Map of Superfund sites and brownfield sites.
Superfund sites - heavily contaminated sites that are on the national priorities list for remediation by the EPA
Brownfield sites - areas of former industrial activity that need to be remediated before redevelopment
Map Legend
Red - Superfund site
Brown - Brownfield site
Purple - EPA responses
>>1906903Not that I'm aware of. A cancer mortality map can be found here
>>1897877 No. 1907214
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>>1906894Why the fuck are they fracking in the Everglades?!
No. 1907623
>>1907214Because moids freak out and threaten to riot if energy prices go up.
I'm hoping the ever decreasing price of solar puts the kibosh on this shit.
No. 1907685
>>1906894You know my mother in law was just talking about how the oil industry fucked up louisiana and I forgot fracking existed.
>>1906843I've lived near the NOLA area my entire life but always told to never drink straight tap water. I drink it with a brita filter now but I'm not sure it does any good.
Probably explains why the waterbills are pretty cheap, water's contaminated anyway. It makes it more ironic when they send out a "boil-water-advisory" whenever a heavy storm/hurricane passes through.
No. 1907863
>>1907685>>1907787NOLA is such a beautiful and culturally rich city, it's a shame that they can't even drink their own water. I remember the program I went with (they aren't from LA) encouraged us not to buy bottled water, but I'm glad that's what I had done for the most part. I didn't think that the restaurant water would've made me sick, though (it was a semi-pricy bar that looked pretty clean + a girl who went to school in the area told us about it). I guess I was a bit naïve since I haven't traveled much around the country and just assumed since the US is first world there wouldn't be any issues outside the main problem cities (i.e. Flint) but lesson learned.
Now that I think about it, we we had a mini field trip during our week in NOLA and the people running the excursions brought in cases of bottled water, despite our program runners telling them not to. I think I can see now why they did it kek
No. 1908991
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i'm just surprised that people here actually drink tap water, it was always instilled in me that tap water is dangerous no matter where you are in the country. never trust the pipes and the people in charge of them.
No. 1909885
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As an oldamerifag, I wish I could say I’m desensitized, yet it gets worse and worse. Every goddamn day.
No. 1911760
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I feel like my state is so small and country that I will never find another farmer from here. Or any rf friends in general.
No. 1911780
>>1911774You guys absolutely do. I went on a week trip to Chicago and I was in heaven. I never drank so much water. It was the dead of the winter too. Beautiful state. I was near the bean and went ice skating.
I believe Florida has the worst water i've had. Disguising grainy water, even when filtered.
No. 1911881
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I contribute the train derailment map. It's just something I think about from time to time ever since that one Ohio trail derailment.
The source with a graph that shows that the number of derailments are going down but the number of train cars that carry hazardous substances on trains that have derailed has gone up over time (though there are still at least 1000 derailments a year):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/learning/whats-going-on-in-this-graph-march-8-2023.html No. 1912885
>>1912559I was considering one too, since I'm in an area that's a little more lax on CCW in our state. HOWEVER I also heard that I won't be able to smoke weed anymore if I get one, so-
>>1912873Oh holy fucking shit, nona the video is even crazier than I imagined. Lithium battery fires are fucking terrifying, they're extremely hard to put out
No. 1915283
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The American Education system is busted as fuck. Imagine this being your homework. Imagine being the teacher grading this.
“Here’s my assignment, Mrs Jones!
@DoughboyUltimate: Axisfags seething over alliechads”
No. 1915624
>>1887996Fuck this faggot earth. Why test on monkeys and dogs when convinced prison moids are free? Our stupid fucking country already uses them to make cheap plastic shit may as well use them for something that actually matters like testing medicine
>>1909885Fucking schizos and gang members everywhere, chomping at the bit to shoot and kill people, I feel so bad for children growing up today
No. 1916254
>>1916223I did. Seemed pretty par the course beyond the MAGA crowd being classless as usual.
What pissed me off is all of the news sites I read spent weeks speculating about it as a show of how Biden is senile or not, but after it happened they all posted "takeaway" articles that were all about political stances and whatnot. Literally no analysis on this subject at all either positive or negative (for the record I don't think he's senile). Basically proof all of these rag websites were running with it for pageclicks instead of any real desire to report.
Also I didn't check but apparently Trump tweeted like 50 times during the speech. Deranged.
No. 1916349
>>1916223i'm wondering what they shot up biden with to get him so pepped up
amphetamines of some kind
No. 1916436
>>1916396I've been familiar with him for a long time (about two and a half decades, I was too young for politics before then) and he's always been fairly bumbling. He has definitely slowed with age but not altogether different from how he was when he was younger.
My grandfather has full blown dementia and Biden acts nothing like how how my grampa is now or how he was 10-15 years ago when it really started setting in. If anything Trump acts more like he does. The way he repetitively drifts into these non sequitur topics during his speech reminds me of my grandpa's Alzheimer's.
No. 1917004
>>1916994NTA but it’s not his stutter. It’s the confusing Jill and his sister, Gaza and Mexico, telling his ghost writer classified information etc that I have an issue with.
From what I remember he had a brain aneurysm after dropping from the race in 1988 due to a plagiarism scandal that impacted his speech.
No. 1917038
>>1915459It's so ridiculous. What on earth does making kids lick pits and soles have to do with democracy? I hate boomers
>>1915471It's real, apparently for a fundraising event. I'm not into the satanic panic thing that the old republican boomers are chimping out about rn but it's still creepy and they're absolutely retarded for thinking that was okay wtf
https://www.okcfox.com/amp/news/local/deer-creek-school-district-faces-criticism-after-students-licked-toes-during-a-fundraiser-toe-licking-sucking-reaction-state-superintendent-ryan-walters-wonderful-week-of-fundraising-oklahoma No. 1917140
>>1916973totally agree. Having experienced both methods from middle, high school, and then college, traditional learning methods including reading books, writing notes, and problem solving with pen and paper is superior for comprehension and retention. classes that allowed 100% laptop uptimes and that aren't actually computer or tech focused were usually a total shitshow. and also the teachers that relied on electronic grading systems were usually the lazy ones. Computers can supplement but they shouldn't take over lessons. We had a couple of geocities webdesigning sessions in art class and independent research for specific historical or scientific topics with emphasis on what constitutes a reliable website, for example, and that's totally fine and appropriate. tweet like you're in WWII or what hashtag are you is bunk dreamed up by the type of education major who only got there because they failed out of all other majors.
besides. schools aren't the only places where kids can be exposed to tech. kids can still get plenty of hands on experience with technology at home, sitting by a desktop computer and motivated by their own curiosity or desire to pirate films, play video games on emulators, and whatnot.
No. 1917258
>>1917034there will be massive backlash in the future to laptop learning, chromebooks aren’t even really computers in the OS sense and that’s what all these kids are being forced to used from kindergarten up nowadays.
retention of information is simply not the same on screens vs pen and paper
studies show this time and time again. the brain develops differently
No. 1918319
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This woke word-policing is running us into the fucking ground as a country.
Biden just apologized for using the word “illegal” instead of “undocumented”….to describe a man, who was here (get this,) ILLEGALLY, who KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED a 22-year old nursing student last month.
Apparently he also tried to rape her, but the poor girl fought like hell, and he got scared and SMASHED HER HEAD IN WITH A ROCK. But nope, we don’t wanna offend any murdering rapists! What a joke. Absolute clown world.
Rest in peace, Laken Riley. I’m sorry that men are horrifying monsters and our president would rather be politically correct towards your murderer than honor your name.
No. 1919056
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>>1918319Love how Republicans will lose their shit over Biden being asked to use a different word but are totally cool with a man who raped child sex slaves being in Congress.
No. 1919660
>>1917140I have shitty handwriting and I always got in trouble for taking a long time to hand-write anything, so I always preferred typing, but I can’t deny that I remember things so much better when I write them down by hand.
That’s why we learned study tips like hand-writing your notes and re-writing facts you want to memorize, there’s a connection between your memory and the act of physically writing down information. It’s just not the same when typing for some reason.
No. 1921371
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I seethe whenever I look up rail maps for places like Singapore, London, and Tokyo. I'd like to go to NYC again someday mostly for the subway. The rail system in my area is decent all things considered, but I can't wait for all of the expansions to be completed even though it will be decades into the future. The scarcity of rail transit in the US is extremely sad. I wish everyone could just walk and take trains everywhere. It's fun, and I think people would be way less fat.
No. 1921396
>>1921383I know, just wishful thinking.
There is something about the humongous parking lots and cracked roads with no sidewalks and dry grass covered in garbage in American suburbs that fills me with despair. At least in cities you won't be the only person walking on the sidewalk for miles.
No. 1921408
>>1921383Russia is the biggest country in the world yet has better-developed public transport than America, even in rural areas. The majority of Americans thrive on flexing and are too lazy to call for any form of revolution/ will just tell other people to try harder.
If you complain about how hard it is to run errands/work without a car people will tell you to suck it up and save for a car instead of questioning why we built our entire living system around expensive 2 ton death machines. Apartments are considered immature, for broke people and "you should be saving for a house". Meanwhile no one stops to question how our ancestors did it with no cars, no big suburban home, etc yet that's considered the ~basics~ of adulthood here lol
No. 1921417
>>1921415the percentage of rural folk is similar in both russia and Europe. If russian bumkins can use the train and take day trips to tripdippiskippiov there's no excuse on why rural America has the accessibility of that to rural villages in 3rd world countries.
kek scratch that I'm pretty sure rural villages in some 3rd countries have busses and trains
No. 1921431
>>1921417>tripdippiskippiovkek
>>1921419I think most places the buses aren't usable. I'd like to use the bus system, but I live in a rural, university town. To use the bus here, I would have to walk along the highway for 20 minutes to get to the bus stop, wait for the bus to come once an hour, ride it 30 minutes to get to the grocery store, and then wait for it to come back around cuz it doesn't take me an hour to get groceries, and then ride it back to the stop nearest to my house before walking along the highway back home. Driving to the grocery store is only 10 minutes. If I want to go out of town on the bus, I have to call the bus service and schedule it a month in advance.
No. 1921471
>>1921446Listen ask about 50 people in your town and only one will confirm to have ever seen the bus and point out its been running for 20 years and the stops are at random places that don't really make any sense and the schedule is practically an ARG treasure hunt to find and you'll be like I've lived here for 20+ year and I've never seen a fucking bus in this town and when you do you'll feel absolutely bamboozled because it's apparently played ninja with you your whole life.
That's the American small town bus experience.
No. 1921779
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>>1921426Are you joking? What do you consider "rural"? This? I'm not even in an especially rural town and the closest bus stop to my house is 28 miles away.
No. 1921894
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>>1921759I mean San Francisco did install that $1.7m public toilet in Noe Valley finally. Hardly one of the neighborhoods I'd say needs public toilets. Joke of a city.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/1-7m-public-toilet-project-finally-installed-in-noe-valley No. 1921906
>>1921426i've lived in rural areas. one place had a van that only ran five times a week from like 10am to 6pm. you would have to call them to get them to pick you up. they were used by elderly people who didn't drive. the rest had no public transportation. you either walked or got a ride.
>>1921446this. they're also not going to be used to pick up town kids, the buses only picked up the farm kids.
No. 1922811
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Burgers why are you not rioting
No. 1922832
>>1922811taco bell gives me the shits anyway, it’s just more incentive to stay away kek
i miss the quesarito
No. 1923677
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Do employers really treat people like shit in America? I'm immigrating to the southern states from Ireland and I'm worried that the rights and dignity I have here won't be something I have over there (I've only ever heard bad things). I'm a baker if that helps?
No. 1923713
>>1923677How skilled are you? The harder you are to replace, the more polite your work is to you. But if you're working at McDonald's, you'll be forced to work whenever they say for very little money and no benefits. Depending on how the boss feels, you may be working a close shift and then going home and coming right back five hours later to work an open shift.
Some places are way better than others, based on how stressful it is, but with all places you can be fired for any reason except for a small list (race, sex, pregnancy, disability, ect) and if you're fired, you won't be given any notice or preparation.
As a baker you'll be in a slightly better position (skilled blue collar), but you also have the distinct possibility to start your own business, as there will be demand for an Irish bakery in many large cities, so you'll be your own boss.
No. 1924941
>>1923677Living in Texas I've had two experiences, and I'd also look up whether your state is "right to work" or union, because without unions it's easier for your employers to fire you, no explanation. Texas is a right to work state and it sucks ass
As follows
>bosses at first jobs fluctuated between being cool and loose on the rules to hardasses who you had to behave around or else fired>bosses at latter job I had were often rule followers but treated me fairly well until my mental health went downhill, to the point where I was laid off, they were older women in an almost all female workplace and they respected me>worst behavior typically came from male bosses who are far more prone to general and sexual harassment of women>the lower wage the job the more disposable you are to a company unless you prove yourself to be a good worker>I much preferred working around majority women>people would often judge me or undermine me because of my age and the fact that I presented younger physically than I was, so I had to work hard to be taken seriously in workplaces where it was majority older people>but ageism seems like a universal thingAs a southerner I feel like the attitude down here and the laws reflect it is very much a "conservative bootstrap" mindset, and the politics and policies set forth by many bosses reflect it. Despite my jobs being pretty shit wage I was always a hard worker, even at my most mentally low. It varies depending on where you're working and what state you're in. I'm not sure how the rest of the states hold up but Texas is very much individualistic bootstrap mindset and not at all into workers rights. Which means a ton of your bosses will reflect that mindset too. It doesn't mean all of them are like that. In short, if you find a job with a good boss, benefits, and one that's fairly protective of you as an employee, stay there, that's rare in the south
No. 1924958
>>1923747Its OK, I'm Irish, me and the Mexicans have mutual respect because we're both brown
>>1923713>>1924941>>1924553>>1923747The state I'm moving to is close to Texas, it's Oklahoma. I'm not sure if that makes a bug difference but I'll be working in Tulsa
>>1923713>How skilled are you?Better than the average off-the-street baker, I have formal culinary training, but also not a master baker + I'm fresh to the industry so I don't have like a ton of work experience
No. 1924990
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>>1924987Absolutely during corona I remember it clear as day kek
No. 1925000
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>>1924990interestingly looks like he's changed his stance? Guess he really wants the zoomers to vote for him kek.
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>>1924971The data privacy issue is the justification legislators, news pundits, and people on social media are giving for banning it though. It has absolutely nothing to do with the sort of content hosted on Tiktok and I haven't heard anyone make this argument. If that was why, then every social media site would go down. They would be happy to make some sort of American Tiktok and that was in fact their proposal to Tiktok's parent company ("sell Tiktok to a company that is US approved, aka an American company.") Picrel is the sort of legal arguments they're making.
>>1925009They sell consumer data to push advertisements, but it's a poorly regulated practice, so in reality massive amounts of your personal, private data is floating around without your control or knowledge, much less your consent. This can lead to things like identity theft and bank fraud once their data is inevitably breached and sold due to poor security practices. The massive amounts of data they have on you also makes it very easy for the government to subpoena these companies to hand over your data, something companies will obey the majority of the time (~85%). Meta, Google, and Twitter have all done this, for example. And even without that, the US gov has a long history of mass surveillance of its citizens.
No. 1925246
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>>1924944I miss the days when Instagram was just a way to share cool pictures with our friends that we filtered in Hipstamatic to look old and vintage, lol. TikTok ruined everything with the short-form monetized clickbait videos
>"WAIT TIL THE END!!!! laughing crying face" >"NEW WAL-MART HACKS: WATCH TIL THE END!">YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THIS BABY DOES WHEN HE SEES A DOG!>teenagers twerking No. 1925271
>>1921383No excuse. They can build out already established areas. It's truly shameful that Northern Virginia is considered one of the richest areas of the east coast (esp Loundon country) and we have almost no buses here. I had to wait over an hour to take 2 buses home from herndon to Sterling area. My commute should be 15 mins, but it can take nearly 90 because buses want to come every 45 mins to never at all. There isnt a schedule posted either. They just show up when they want to.
They need to stop pretending every single person has a car and build out the bus and train systems.
No. 1925864
>>1925284You're right but Tiktok getting banned sets a precedent for shutting down those other sites. Companies like Meta are OK with being fined, but if there's the possibility of getting banned altogether, they'll change how they operate. It's still bad, but it won't be as bad.
And I don't think that going back to anonymous imageboards is a good idea. 4chan is not a safe place for kids in need of their cocomelon fix.
No. 1926345
>>1925422If this was true, why didn't they ban the message forums before tiktok existed? Why only make a law trying to ban something that is so
toxic to people's mental health, that China doesn't even let children use in their own country?
No. 1926415
>>1925422>the government bans all social media sites and all that's left are imageboards and forumsDon't threaten me with a good time.
>Or that social media refugees won't find out about those sites and run to them?People who pick some arbitrary meaningless thing like the state they live in or the type of social media they use and make it such a fundamental part of their identity that they get upset by other people moving to that state/social media site are a real enigma to me. I just can't imagine having so little of consequence going on that something as trivial as that would actually seem important.
No. 1926961
>>1925891This is true, but the slippery slope of it is that the ones in charge will change the standards of what's acceptable like being a
terf or saying mean things about China or something
No. 1927106
>>1924961There's other incentives for banning tiktok as well, but China is hostile towards America and are absolutely collecting shitloads of data to use against us later, as well as manipulating americans to be more retarded. it's basically modern covert warfare which the chinese are currently winning because americans are too fractured and retarded to think properly
>>1926974Look at the UK and Canada. There's no reason America couldn't be the next country to start prison time and heavy punishments for what basically amounts to wrong think, we've already gotten to the point that free speech is now freeze peach
No. 1927625
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I'm not American, so sorry for invading your thread but I had to say this.
Think I'm a weeb, but for America instead of Japan… like an Ameriboo I guess KEK. Obviously there's a lot I dislike about it (government, bad food regulation, cringe influencers with their shitty valley girl accents, the way they care about race way too much, the way tranny shit and other woke crap starts there and spreads to the rest of the world, etc)
But there's a lot to like about it too. For starters, that flag is beautiful, I mean damn. And I really like the stereotypical 'American' food, especially the stuff at those retro diners, like burgers (yes I know Germany invented them) and fries and all that. I love southern accents, midwest emo music, those Western movies with the cowboys, rock and roll, and so much more. Oh and you guys have some beautiful nature too, I need to visit someday. Just a little scared of being mauled by bears, or killed by some loony serial killer or something though…
No. 1927653
>>1927640I can't wait to check out all the wildlife and thank you so much for telling me about the dude ranches, they look so fun, I definitely need to go!!
>>1927642I just looked up the parks you mentioned and they are absolutely beautiful, I feel like when I get to see them in real life, I might just burst out crying because of how heavenly the views would look.
>>1927645It really is so beautiful, I refuse to die before I get to travel to America. You guys are super lucky to live there!
No. 1927748
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How dare PNW nonnies get their own thread. Should I make a mid-atlantic thread so we can flex on those hippies with our superior urban civilization? I know there’s at least one other anon here from the dmv, let’s be friends nonna!
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yah I was surprised how many PNW anons there are here. Southern thread when? I know there's several other tx nonnies here
No. 1927898
>>1927851Ayrt, also in NOVA! It’s a lovely area to live in, minus the cost of living kek
>my long time wife Assuming you’re not a moidposter (no offense, you just never know), that’s so sweet! I love hearing success stories from lesbian couples. ♥ I hope I can get married one day and settle down around here as well with my wife…
>>1927878Based on the discussion a few days ago itt, a southern thread seems promising! I feel like most southerners don’t really consider Virginia to be the true south, though
No. 1928071
>>1924971dumb as hell of the 'average citizen' and 100% not congress' intent. sites like discord are literally out there openly distributing csam, gore, and literal national security secrets due to their well known lack of content moderation. if they gave a shit about content, they would try to impose regulation on discord, pornhub, and reddit before tiktok. and congress' ban isn't even a ban. it's a forced sale.
the usa-approved buyers are not gonna change a thing about the content or data privacy and anyone who believes otherwise is getting played.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238520324/steve-mnuchin-buy-tiktok-ban-house-bill No. 1928711
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>>1927900It's OK, the real South is the freinds we made along the way
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It’s time we had an alfred f. jones threadpic, fellow burgers
No. 1930057
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>>1930056Big fan of this artist as well
No. 1931139
>>1930056The love I have for Alfred is the only thing I really like about America.
>>1931126I think kids got lazy during covid. Parents were already stressed and tired, but the online teaching fucked a lot of people up. I think it's both parents and teachers who dropped the ball for this one. Kids did not get the education and proper stimulation they needed. Not being able to read is a joke. It's okay if someone needs extra help, but the kids that came out of the pandemic are definitely fucked.
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>>1931126I don't think they're terrible at school I think the school system is terrible at teaching. Common core was made to dumb down students, a lot of parents are afraid to let their children grow up so shelter them from biology and reading. Ofc you can claim technology is the issue but millennials spent their high school years purposely speaking lykkk d!sss$ and were still successful in school. People nowadays cannot be told when they're wrong at all (but also stems on how strict failure can be nowadays) and the over-strictness in schools just made children rebel all together.
Personally IMO they should just have schools set up similar to colleges, especially in high school
No. 1931184
>>1931171Common core is a waste of time, resources and overcomplicates things that most kids only need a literal day to learn.
>>1931145Could this also be a result of shitty school lunch? I know a lot of kids now don't even bother eating breakfast or lunch when it use to never be that way. Now I see kids given moldy fruit, watered down milk and expired meat
No. 1931190
>>1931142The common core math hate is so sad because it's literally just teaching all kids the strategies that exceptionally smart/creative kids always invent on their own. Kids who never actually understood how the "default" strategy worked grew up to be the parents who are mad about their kids being taught different strategies. It looks different from what they're used to, so it's "dumb" and "not math." They're the ones screaming at their kids over 8+5=13 being obvious because they don't realize that they never learned to add, they just memorized ALL the single digit additions. It never occurs to them that there's an alternative, so if their kid isn't great at memorization they're just an idiot. 8+2(=10)+3=13 is just a longer math problem and totally irrelevant to the 8+5 situation, "why is the teacher making it so complicated???"
Sorry for sperging. I'm not even a teacher or anything, this attitude just bugs me.
No. 1931230
>>1931190>people need to be taught this.Dire. I came up with that shit when I was like 6.
Anyways, from what I've heard the really fucked aspect is how reading is taught, not math.
No. 1931380
>>1931130>>1931126Look into Sold a Story to learn how they basically stopped effectively teaching children to read a while ago
>https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/>>1931145Also this, kids aren’t being taught well because nobody is able to focus on teaching them. Teachers and parents are both struggling to make ends meet and when that happens academics slip. There’s a reason why most poor people were illiterate just a bit over 100 years ago, education was a luxury. The elite would like it to become a luxury once more so we see the slow chipping away at educational infrastructure.
No. 1931677
>>1931230So, how are they teaching kids to read nowadays? It can't be that hard to teach kids how to read, can it?
When I was a kid we were first taught the alphabet and then phonetics. Then we would have simple books to read every week, and we would have a reading record thingy where our parents would sign it every night so we could show it to the teacher as proof that we did our reading for the night. We'd get a list of vocabulary every week too and have a little spelling test on Fridays. We'd have an annual book fair too, to encourage kids to read more.
We also had these workbooks where we would read a story in class, then go home and read it again and answer 10 questions about the story in full sentences.
No. 1931686
>>1931677A podcast that did a big report on it was posted twice above in this conversation by others:
>>1931177>>1931380Basically kids are taught to guess the words based on context clues, no phonics involved. It's an infuriating listen.
https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ No. 1931687
>>1931680Fair play to your teacher, I think that's a
great way to teach the kids how to read, and testing each kid individually helps the teacher to really track each student's progress and make sure they're getting on well.
>>1931683What?! When did this happen? That's absolutely idiotic, jeez. At this point I feel like becoming a teacher myself and saving these poor kids
No. 1932112
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I love how Europeans are always shrieking about how dumb, ignorant and uneducated Americans are about general topics, yet America scored 5th on the global knowledge index.
I don’t know where they came up with the idea that American education is worse than education in European countries, it’s better than almost all of them
No. 1932143
>>1932112As someone who has been in multiple schools around the world including the US, I don't think that's true. In post-secondary education sure, for secondary education and below it definitely isn't better than most european curriculums.
I looked up the GKI and I don't really get why you think a higher rank means that your kids have better education. It's not a rating about how knowledgeable the average person in a country is.
No. 1932207
>>1932143Even for post secondary education it’s not
that true. The quality of instruction at elite universities is not much better, or sometimes even worse, than the average state school. What makes them “elite” is their alumni network and research output, not the actual education.
>t. student at an Ivy League No. 1932209
>>1931930Out of $7292 monthly gross:
>Federal income: $889>Social Security: $442>Medicare: $103>State income: $190Lots of other misc. stuff like all the insurance. Most prominent is $138 for health as a single person. My ultimate take home is ~$4,800.
I assume SSN is the big debate target simply because it's the main line item besides federal. I'm a bit more upset that I pay federal and it helps pay for stuff like disaster recovery when retards build close to the ocean and get rekt by a hurricane.
No. 1932357
>>1932254A random chart with no source? Pls
nonnie.
No. 1932653
>>1932209what state is this? mine is
>1800 weekly pay>100 state taxes>300 SSI>200 MedicareI personally
use medicaid but at least my taxes are going to something I can use if I'm down on my luck, most people will pay upwards of millions of SSI and Medicare throughout their entire life, but will only qualify for it when they're damn near their death bed, can't use it in emergency situations, and if you do somehow get it you will see at least 1% of what you paid throughout your entire life. If it was up to me everyone "ssi" would simply just be their own retirement fund
No. 1932685
>>1932653NJ, I imagine my taxes are higher than most.
The individual retirement account thing sounds cool but I think it would never work IRL. Too many people are just too fucking stupid for it. There's already plenty of dumbass old people who are fucked financially even with SSI.
Also might just be better to view SSI as a subsidy rather than a retirement account. It is so young people can subsidize elder care, not invest.
No. 1932692
>>1932685it's unfair how much old people are given and now that the younger generations will have to work until we die even though those people grew up in a time where they had unions, retirement funds, 401ks, affordable education and housing, etc and things only we could dream of just to piss it away on JCPenny credit cards and applebees
the worse part is that they still get free and cheap shit like the amount of 55+ trailer parks that are the only affordable ones in the whole damn state, colleges offer 5-10$ per credit courses for boomers, 55+ meals at restaurants end up being half off, senior discount galore, etc. Idk how the generation to have as much free shit as they do still manage to burn up the free crap they get
No. 1932736
>>1931677>>1931689I'm so fucking glad I ended up not pursuing teaching in the long run. Even though I wasted time and money going for my teaching credential and realized it's probably not for me, I'm now hearing about the constant shitshows from my teacher friends who want to quit or change careers. The Gen Alpha iPad babies and youngest zoomers and are growing up now and apparently they're absolutely out of control. Veteran teachers who taught for 30 years are saying that it's "The worst they've ever seen".
Teachers also aren't allowed to discipline, take away phones or distractions in class or "hold back" kids anymore, even if they're completely failing. Some kids just simply don't show up to school "because they don't feel like it" and want to stay home playing Fortnite and their parents don't care either. I'm hearing stories of teachers getting physically hit by 8th graders, who then get sent to the office and given a piece of candy and sent back to class, and then the teacher is called in to the office because "maybe they need to work on communication and opening up a gentle conversation with the child". Wtf? Everyone is also SO abysmally behind in reading skills, that kids who can't fucking read are getting pushed through to the next year, so now we have middle and high schoolers who can't spell or even know their own home address. The future of this country is so fucked.
No. 1933125
>>1933089Female conservatives will say it's protecting female babies therefore real feminism
The Mississippi NAACP will say they're protecting black babies (the statistics in the state when abortions were legal showed most black women in state got one)
Moids just want to control women
Also that subsection of Christians who believe doctors are sending the fetus they ripped apart and pulled out to be used in some kinda satanic cult stuff
I just keep remembering the yee olde Japanese allowed abortions post birth where the nurse maid would ask the moid who owned the women if her wanted to send it back"