I’m a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I’ve had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.
I used to get letters from Who’s Who among American High School Students. Wikipedia has a write-up about that category of questionable practice.
I’ve used similarly-titled books from the late 1800s/early 1900s for research, but nowadays we have the Internet.
I did that last month at a new-to-me grocery store. Saved $5! Jenny needs to use her gas points, though. She has a ton.
What’s your pain med of choice? I like children’s chewable ibuprofen because I already have too many pills to swallow.
Lucky! My local DMV doesn’t take people without an appointment, and the only way to make an appointment is online. If you try over the phone they’ll tell you to ask the nice people at the local library to help you.
Btw, they didn’t tell the library about this policy. As a librarian, I do not like being an extension of the DMV, but I try and help my patrons. Including the dickhead that argued for the defunding of the library but now needs help making an appointment.
I don’t think you understand what the Census is in the United States.
Every 10 years, each household gets a long form to fill out. In it, you voluntarily list a ton of information about your household members. If you don’t fill it out people (census workers) come around and try and get this information in person.
The census is only as accurate as the people filling it out.
Seriously. We don’t even know how old the poster is, just that their dad is 48.
I was 20 when my dad was 48. I was in college and was only ‘home’ over the summers and winter break (when the dorms closed). My brother was 15. I don’t think it’d be reasonable to tell either of us to move out just because the adults in our lives were a tad indiscrete.
Agreed. I wouldn’t interrupt their fun, but I’d mention it to my dad some time when the girlfriend wasn’t around. I’d send an email or text if I felt too embarrassed/shy to say anything face-to-face. “Hey, Dad. Just FYI the walls are really thin in this apartment and I can hear what you two get up to.”
I’d also look into earplugs. Earplugs + bone conductive headphones could be a good work around. I’m a fan of Shokz, but other brands exist.
My impression at the time was the superintendent acted on his own. Not even the board of education was involved, and they weren’t happy to be blindsided.
My guess is the
Western Kentucky in the 90s. . There was a ton of weird stuff at that public school. I went far away for college and am glad for it.
Edit: Better link/source
I wish autism was a “get out of taxes free” card.
Walks up to checkout counter. 7% sales tax? I think not, my good computerized checkout clerk. I have the autism.
The thing that got me to significantly reduce my dairy consumption was
I eat much less cow now because of cute internet cow videos.
Anyways, I think if 5 people reduce their consumption by 30% that’s more impactful than 1 person reducing their consumption by 100%. (Math caveat: assuming each person has the same baseline level of consumption. 5 vegans reducing their consumption by 30% won’t do squat).
As an academic, it’s a tad heartening to see institutions not rolling over.
My college talks a good talk but hasn’t been tested yet.
In middle school our new science textbooks were recalled the first week of school. The textbooks discussed (horrors!) the big bang theory without also talking about the theistic theory. The books were returned with those pages rubber cemented together. The teachers were upset (upset enough that middle-school me noticed), but it was by order of the superintendent.
My parents got me a copy of A Brief History of Time in response. Also, rubber cement is fairly easy to pry apart.
I think you’re saying that we/I in the USA still see/have the trappings of normalcy: ads for BB&B, our Amazon packages are still delivered, we still have our treats.
Y’all outside of the USA don’t care about our treats. Y’all’s news is showing all the human rights erosions and ignoring that I got new prescription glasses by mail just 2 business days after ordering them (what a successful and stable country this must be/s!).
(sidenote, maybe prescription glasses aren’t treats, but I’m very excited because my prescription has changed and maybe I will stop with these eye strain headaches)
My partner almost always has a shawl tied around his waist, like a sash or belt. For him it’s a comfort object that can convert to shield him from the sun or cold. For me it’s a warm thing I can borrow that smells like him.
Anyways, he’s genderqueer sometimes, if that helps. And no one’s ever given him guff about his shawls that I know of. (Edit: I guess he might be called genderfluid, but he’s not very into labels, but wouldn’t mind me labeling him to strangers he’ll never meet)
I don’t blame you for wanting to move. My partner and I are straight-passing, cis-passing, white folk in a blue state. We’re thinking of leaving the country. (Well, I am. My partner’s kind of like yours–not convinced we’re in danger.)
You’re much more visibly “other” than we are. One thought I’ve seen floated around is that options are good. If you can claim an international citizenship/passport (through, I dunno, Irish parents or something) it’s worth doing.
It reminds me of what’s often sold as a “pashmina” around me (USA), but it looks much wider along the tasseled edge than the pashminas I have.
Of course, having to teach science instead of their myth really upsets them too.
In my experience, it was in addition to. My high school biology teacher was a creationist who “taught the controversy”.
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Hopefully next week I’ll add Polish–I’m on day 3 of learning it in an app.
I think they were delayed, except for China. But it is hard to keep up.