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Homeschoolers: the silent welfare queens

I saw a TikTok the other day of someone explaining that the filament dryers really aren't all that great at getting it dry. Ultimately he explained that food dehydrators are the way to go.

I'm so happy to see actual consequences for these terrorists.

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It's $25/mo for family. I hate that I pay for it, but I use music, and I mostly watch YouTube on a streaming device, so I've never been able to use ad blockers. $15 for the fam felt worth it, but $25 has me rethinking. Maybe I can configure YT-DL to get the shows I care about on my Plex

For the layperson, what does arraignment consist of?

If you want to complain about the toxicity of sensational headlines, I don't think many people would disagree. But it's two posts in a row you've claimed untrue things about the article without having clearly read and digested it. Maybe you should consider why you're so quick to assume it's "propaganda" and rush to prove yourself correct.

Read the three lines right above that quote. Those are the experts.

Adrienne McCarthy, a researcher at Kansas State University, told the Guardian why this is particularly troubling.

“It’s propaganda 101,” she said. “Equating people concerned about climate change with Nazis can have long-term impacts on young, impressionable people. The beliefs PragerU are pushing forward overlap with far-right extremist beliefs. The fear is that they will bring this sort of extremist beliefs into mainstream society.”

In a piece for Mother Jones, principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists Kristina Dahl annotated the transcript of one of these videos, demonstrating how the visuals and script are trying to convince the viewer to ignore the findings of scientific research.

"Studies show productivity increases with 4-day/32h work week"

"Ok but we'll only pay for 32 hours."

"I literally just said it makes us more productive. Maybe you should pay us for 48 hours"

Also there is a forgiveness period after 10+X years for $12+X thousand in subsidized loans (as I understand it).

This is exactly my point. They don't care about being hypocritical, they'll update laws to be explicitly and overtly hypocritical to get their way. This gotcha means nothing to them.

Did they learn it? A Republican would eat their own shit if it meant a Democrat had to smell it on their breath.

This is not leading to better policies. Just expanded bannings. The physical Bible doesn't play a role in day to day schooling. But some of the banned books would make real differences to people. Republicans lose nothing here, in fact they're getting vocal support for more bannings from people on the left.

Right. They don't care.

I see this commented a lot, and I don't get what the idea is. Are the expected outcomes:

• They will get Gotcha'd so hard they see the error of their ways?
• They will get the Bible removed from schools and lead a consistent crusade against anything sexual?
• They will just keep the Bible and ignore the hypocrisy?

Never underestimate the capacity for Republicans to remain willfully hypocritical. It's literally the foundation of today's Supreme Court.

This is amazing news. RSV is so serious in infants, but they relied on safety from those around them who "just have the sniffles".

The .gov page has a pretty extensive FAQ.

Right, these people are so quick to "well akshually" they completely ignore the inflated house costs since which layers more unaffordability on top of already unaffordability.

This is a non-automated TL;DR summary of the article:

Justice Dept.: "Bruh"

Yeah there's something about the ratio of posts to active users. If it gets too high, there's just a sea of posts with comments too diluted. A lot of subs just don't have the users to support the same level of posts that equivalent reddit subs have.

There's a fun discussion on origins of RUD and the like on the Space Stack exchange