In Highschool I took health and it was the diagrams of the different junk, pictures and videos about STDs, saying most birth control doesn’t actually work very well (e.g. Condoms have a 36% success rates at prevent STDs or pregnancy) so it’s best to sign a card swearing you’ll be abstinent until marriage. Only one person signed the card since we were, thankfully, given a choice. No talking about being gay, since it’s a red state. They spent more time on a bunch of different drugs than sex.

Before high school there wasn’t really “sex” ed, just showing videos about puberty and ways to check for cancer/lumps. But I went to a Catholic school before highschool. There also might have been stuff about how Masturbation is bad in the Catholics “sex ed”.

If anyone wants to know what subreddit, it’s r/changemyview. I remember seeing a ton of similar posts about controversial opinions and even now people are questioning Am I Overreacting and AITAH a lot. AI posts in those kind of subs are seemingly pretty frequent. I’m not surprised to see it was part of a fucking experiment.

A lot of my memory is based on Music. So if I hear a song I get all of my memories of both the things that have happened in my life while that song was playing, and where I first heard the song (if I heard the song in a movie or show I can say/picture what was happening in that when the song was playing as well). To the point where many have said it’s a photographic memory based in song. Importantly, if there wasn’t music playing then I only remember the rough details instead of pinpoint details when there is music.

Now if only it worked for studying, then I would have been able to listen to music while studying and remember all the shit I was supposed to instead of being terrible at tests.

I was a library “aide” in for a year and a half about a decade ago. We were the ones who shelved books. Who cleaned the section, who had to answer some questions of people around the floor. We also, and this was the majority of the job, had to go through the DVDs and CDs and books to make sure they were in good condition. And make sure there were no bed bugs in them. We found loads of bed bugs. So many. It sucked.

We also had to just do whatever we were told so we had to do jobs of higher paid workers some times because they weren’t able to schedule someone for the couple hours of time we had to fill. We also got paid 10 cents above minimum wage to “be competitive” and were limited to 30 hours.

We also had higher ups saying “well 30 hours and not paid a lot is fine because this job is meant for super young people in or just out of highschool or while in college. It’s not meant to let you make a living.” But almost every single one of us aides were between 20 and 35 with multiple in their 40s and were not in school and many were living with their parents because our job wasn’t paying us enough to survive by ourselves.

They also had this “hey maybe if you stay here long enough in this job that doesn’t pay enough and won’t provide insurance, we’ll hire you for a higher paying job. Maybe.” Only a handful of aides in the entire library system got hired on for a higher paying job during my time there. This was a system that had like 15 branches. They gotta simultaneously dangle the carrot of higher paying job after years of being there while also saying that the job you have isn’t meant to be something you stay in for very long and isn’t meant for non people in highschool.

In short, if you’re the lowest rung employee in a big system, it sucks ass.

So the article has the headline “What are your alternatives”, but then doesn’t list any alternatives even goes as far as saying there are no good alternatives. What a shit headline.

Just so everyone knows because the article headline makes it seem like it’s a large amount of the GOP House Caucus, the 2 people who put forward this idea initially were GOP Senators and then MTG jumped on board of course. But Senators have no say in who becomes speaker of the house so this all seems rather pointless unless a large amount of GOP House members come out in favor of the idea.

And many of them voted for the guy who said he had “concepts of a plan” to maybe fix it, if it can be done better. So them being unhappy about it doesn’t mean much when we are about to get a government that is actively hostile to improving any kind of health care for anyone ever.

I wish this wasn’t being framed with “Big loss for corporations” and instead was being framed as “Big win for consumers.”

One guy said this “VP Harris failed to demonstrate she was ethically or intellectually capable of executing the office, repeatedly failing to detail out her policies…" It’s infuriating that people continue to believe Harris never detailed her policies despite the fact that all she talked about was policy. All they had to do was pay attention to her and she would talk about her policies, it seems like they just didn’t want to even pay attention to her. Or that because she didn’t detail alllll of her policies then that wasn’t enough. Add on that this person calls her intellectually incapable of talking about her policies, basically calling her stupid and it’s just exhausting.

This whole article continues to make me believe in the fundamental problem with Democrat voters which so many people have shown. The democrats have to run the perfect candidate with the perfect policies or the charisma of Obama who promise the world, while the Republicans can run a guy who says immigrants are eating cats and dogs and because the Democratic candidate wasn’t perfect, the Republicans win.

And then when the Democrats do promise signficant change and it doesn’t immediately happen, Democrat voters punish them for it, they lose the midterms, and any change that was in the process of happening gets stopped dead. But when Republicans promise the world and don’t deliver, Republican voters reward them for simply promising it.

“Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.”

Ya know what’s great about this article? It opens saying that Mace says she was assaulted and that all the witnesses say that it was a handshake. Then says “Whatever the truth…”. By using that phrasing, HuffPo is literally caving to Mace’s threat of a defamation lawsuit. They’re essentially saying “sure all the witnesses say this was a handshake, but we can’t possibly know the truth” all because they believe her that she will sue the places that report it as the handshake that it was. The decision for this phrasing was likely made by an editor, but it still sucks that they’re acting like we can’t possibly know the truth.

Can’t access the article because I don’t want to make an account, but playing by the rules hasn’t gotten the Democrats anywhere. If one party doesn’t play by the rules, they will almost always win. The only way to fix things and take any amount of power back is to play dirty. And fuck off to people (possibly like the author of this article but not sure since I can’t read the article) who say that that isn’t the right way to do things.

If democrats had gerrymandered their states just like Republicans, things would have been more fair when it comes to distribution of power. But because Democrats decided to make gerrymandering illegal on the state level for their states, the Republicans benefit because of the better drawn districts in those Democrat states. The only way we should have made gerrymandering illegal was on a federal level, doing it on a state level just fucks over Democrats since republican states will either never pass the ballot initiatives or will have the Republican government ignore it when it is passed.

Fuck playing by the rules.

Missouri voters: Let’s vote to enshrine abortion rights into law and also elect the people who want to make abortion illegal. That totally won’t have any impact on if our ballot measure gets respected.

He wants to eliminate the federal use of “west bank” and instead use the biblical terms Judea and Sumaria.

But don’t worry, republicans will be good for the Palestinians because they’re anti-war.

Ah yes the old “government so small they can drown it in a bathtub” plan. They want all this cut. But also want to police abortion and trans people. Small but only in the areas they want.

A cane, bent glasses, and a SSD filled with movies.

I had UHC for one year and they denied my long standing MS med that I had been on for 9 years because “we don’t know if you need to be on it” despite my doctors insisting I do. Because of that I was off my meds for a year and a half and ended up changing medication. The company who made the original med I was on, Novartis, also just ignored all my phone calls so that’s why I wasn’t allowed to get back on my med even with it being denied. Usually the company has a program that helps but with them not responding I was fucked.

And UHC refused to do anything to help.

Fuck UHC.

Isn’t it great that the only thing that has caused his nominees to drop out are either because they did something defended/held firm on the lock downstairs during covid, or had sex with a minor? So great.

There actually was a second season with an actual ending but it definitely deserved more.

Interestingly, Tate has been “trans-vestigated” recently. There are a lot of those fuckers saying he’s a trans dude. One picture in particular is of him sitting in a speedo on a chair and the person circled his crotch cause there wasn’t much of a bulge and said “looks like someone forgot to include their falsey” or something like that. Fucking hilarious that they’re investigating everyone they possibly can because they dont know how to tell when someone is trans even though they’re convinced they do.

Fuck Andrew Tate.

If Biden dropped out sooner, and we had a primary, and the candidate was someone from outside the administration who could say things that they would have done differently and had more history of passing progressive policy, maybe things would have been different. But who fucking knows. People would still have thought the candidate was constantly talking about trans people and pronouns even though they wouldn’t have been, would have still wanted to punish the current people in power for inflation which could have extended to any other democratic candidate, and all the other issues the electorate punished the democrats for. Maybe, though, it would have helped democratic turnout at least.

Sadly we will never know and because some people decided to stay home and others decided to embrace fascism because of the economy, we get to deal with the ramifications.