Dearth
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- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 46 minutes ago:
School budgets are tied to property taxes for the district the schools serve.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
I always felt that the most compelling argument that we did it was that faking it was too risky. If America faked it and the USSR went up and found no evidence that America got up there then that would have been impossible for America’s position on the global stage. Remember the Apollo missions happened during the Cold War. Irrefutable proof that America pretended to go to the moon would have been deeply damaging to idea that the might of capitalism was greater than the communists.
America left lots of stuff up on the moon with the idea that someday someone would go back up and see it.
It’s also not really a big deal if your friend doesn’t believe we went to the moon. What is their ignorance harming, really? They’re another cog in the great machine of capital and neither their intelligence nor wisdom is required to keep it spinning
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
There are indeed. I think at least 1 mission laid out 3 reflectors in a triangle so the distance to the moon could be calculated?
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 week ago:
You don’t need to get shitfaced at a bar. 1 drink per hour is under the legal limit for driving. I find it’s enough to loosen up and if you politely decline further drinks nobody will bother you. And if they’re pushy order a sprite with a twist on the rocks. So it looks like you’re drinking alcohol but really you’re staying sober
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 1 week ago:
Seriously. He took a normal size bite for someone who doesn’t want to get messy. The internet is acting like he needs to take a tv commercial sized mega bite to oversell how good the burger is.
Dude is clearly just a tidy awkward human and the internet is convinced that means the food is bad
- Comment on Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 2 weeks ago:
I like the ones with memory foam tips. The rubber mushroom tip ones make distracting noises when you move around while wearing them. They amplify noise from the cable rubbing on stuff so they’re really only good when you’re sitting still.
But if im sitting still I’d rather wear over the ear headphones
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 4 weeks ago:
His charade parade likely cost an American figure skater a gold medal. The traffic jam his ego created delayed her arrival to the venue so much she had to skip her entire warmup.
- Comment on Everybody: If There Was a Meme Museum, What Meme(s) Would You Put In It? (down below) 1 month ago:
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom
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It’s peanut butter jelly time!
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- Comment on Everybody: If There Was a Meme Museum, What Meme(s) Would You Put In It? (down below) 1 month ago:
I think the wing would include a sizable amount of pepe from before its co-opting by chuds, as well as work by the lefty creator who continues to use the frogs in fictional work unrelated to western fascism.
- Comment on They still have a lot to scrub out of those files 3 months ago:
Trump sourced children for Epstein to traffic. We’ve mostly been focusing on girls that were trafficked, but i wouldn’t be surprised in the least if boys were trafficked as well
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 4 months ago:
My father in law died in his 50s. Both his parents outlived him. They donated thousands of dollars to gideons for bibles. My wife checks every bible on every hotel room now trying to find one with her father’s name in it.
The irony is that he was an atheist and my wife is Jewish. But grandma and grandpa er devout Christians
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 4 months ago:
Isn’t that all an airfryer is? A convection oven?
- Comment on Mr. Pope 5 months ago:
The sub is clearly a protestants, so the Pope has no power to excommunicate
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 months ago:
G. Sufficiently diverse populations and no hoity toity rules about what is authentic cuisine. Plus these regions contain every biome to grow every sort OG fruit vegetable and herb i could ever want to eat.
- Comment on You can't make this shit up 5 months ago:
Why is trumpos signature so different on that novelty check? His signature is famous and looks nothing like that. It looks exactly like the signature of on the birthday poem to Epstein with the drawing of the adolescent girl.
It’s starting to feel like that check is getting spread around intentionally to discredit all attempts to link trump and Epstein
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 6 months ago:
Bike mechanics hate Slime
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 6 months ago:
Swear words are ok in my house. Slurs are not ok ever
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 7 months ago:
Most common “garden snails” in north America are actually invasive and you absolutley should murder them ruthlessly to keep your garden alive
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 7 months ago:
Blade 2 is peak
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 7 months ago:
Probably the designers off the tower knew about ATT surveillance and pitched the idea to clueless executives in order to remind the public about the all seeing eye of massive telecommunication giants
- Comment on It's strange but I know many people like this 8 months ago:
No not traditionally.
- Comment on Why do Conservatives physically look evil? 8 months ago:
Blue hair soyboys are ruining society. Vote for daddy and he’ll make it better
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 9 months ago:
Buy it from a used book store. He won’t get any money from it and you’ll support a local small business
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 10 months ago:
Yes, i was pursuing other opportunities that do not relate to this field so i did not include them
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 11 months ago:
You can’t see steam. It’s not visible to the naked eye.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 11 months ago:
Poor reading comprehension skills are more prevalent than we think
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 11 months ago:
Bryce canyon is superior for a day trip. Grand Canyon isn’t really that beautiful unless you can hike or ride down into it.
- Comment on What year is it 1 year ago:
You can buy copies of it on Amazon
- Comment on Checking in 1 year ago:
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 1 year ago:
Easily minecraft. I love just fiddling with making random machines or decorating or optimizing pathways. Sometimes i just want to run around with a flaming sword and kill every cow i see
