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crossmr , to til

There needs to be actual content rules. TIL worked best when the mods actually adhered to those content rules. Otherwise you just have people posting all kinds of nonsense. Quality is better than quantity

NABDad ,

Perhaps people on Lemmy just aren’t learning anything.

NABDad ,

I just had the odd experience of using a manufacturer’s discount card to pick up a medication for my wife. The medication is relatively expensive and seldom covered by insurance.

According to the information on the card, if you have private insurance which covers the medication, the discount card covers the co-pay, so you pay nothing. However, if your insurance doesn’t cover the medication, the discount card covers the cost, and you still pay nothing.

Our insurance didn’t cover the cost, and we didn’t pay anything for the medication.

I don’t understand how that works.

NABDad ,

You’re also assuming she gets 8 hours of work a day at her normal rate. It’s not like she’s salaried.

Can someone explain me USA obsession with prom and similar school rituals?

I just don’t get it… Why is that important, especially for kids now, that feel like they need to do a YouTube video asking for a date or doing some meme stuff. Some teens even hire the hottest celebrity or ask them to appear in their prom? This is so bizarre for me, all that just for a frivolous night....

NABDad ,

the 1950s. This was a high water mark for conservatism in the U.S., and in order to go on any date at least one parent, usually the girl’s dad, had to be present.

Perhaps this was a regional thing.

I was born in 1970, but from what my parents have described, dates were not chaperoned in the 50s unless you happened to have particularly strict parents. Like maybe if you were Amish or something.

Here’s the only thing I was able to find online about dating in the 50’s

www.plosin.com/beatbegins/projects/sombat.html

NABDad ,

I think it’s important to remember that the USA isn’t a single culture. Things vary dramatically even within a single state to say nothing of differences between states.

In some areas prom is very important. In others, not so much.

Only one of my three kids went to prom (Eastern PA).

Prom in my high school was a relatively big deal. You rented a tux or bought a dress. Some people would rent a limo. The prom was held in some kind of banquet hall with a fairly fancy meal. There’d be a DJ and dancing.

My wife was one year behind me in high school, and we attended FOUR proms (my junior prom, then the next year her junior prom and my senior prom, then the next year I came back for her senior prom).

I think for most people it’s just an opportunity to get dressed up, have a good meal, and dance. If you’re already dating someone, it obviously has more significance, but I had plenty of friends who just took another friend as a date for the prom and others who didn’t go with anyone. However, there was a lot of pressure to be a “couple”, even if you weren’t actually romantically involved with your “date”.

Typically the parents take pictures of the kids in their dresses and tuxedos. From the parents’ point of view, it’s a moment to sort of take note of how your kids are maturing and think about what the future holds for them. Lots of thinking about how old you are ;-)

Often there’s an after party that goes on late into the morning, and for many kids the after party is more important than the prom.

I think social media has had an effect on what prom is, but it also has the effect of distorting what it is to people who only experience it remotely. When you’re seeing the crazy YouTube videos and Instagram posts, you’re not seeing what prom is. You’re seeing a snapshot of what those particular proms are.

NABDad ,

Guinea pig bites are the worst.

It’s not the force of the bite, although it does hurt (they bite through wood after all). It’s the humiliation from having one of the most fragile, easy to kill pets decide that it can express its displeasure by biting your hand.

Damn little meat potato. The only reason you can even bite me is because you’re so damn fragile I can’t risk dropping you. Also, the reason I’m holding you is to trim your nails because you don’t wear them down naturally since you live your entire life on padded flannel blankets. Where do you even get off having displeasure to express?

If you weren’t so damn cute, you’d be on the grill.

NABDad ,

Naw, the potato has friends. Mental health is still broken.

She’s actually very sweet. She just managed to luck into the discovery that biting gets us to move faster.

NABDad ,

Just one?

Well, if you had more than one, you’d find that they are all different, with different personalities, and you wouldn’t be so quick to assume you know all guinea pigs because of your experience with your sole pig.

NABDad ,

I’m not sure how you reached the conclusion that they don’t have wood to gnaw on. They do.

NABDad ,

Plus, the chances of randomly getting BOOG88 have got to be pretty small.

But not impossible.

I’m just imagining the guy that randomly got that license plate with no idea of any possible meaning.

He just can’t understand why his car is always the victim of such vandalism. Every time he gets it fixed, he finds it keyed again, or the tires flat, lights smashed…

NABDad ,

Yeah, I’m not saying it was random chance either. I’m just amused by imagining the possibility of some poor sad sack who got it and can’t figure out why everyone hates him.

NABDad ,

Party pooper.

NABDad ,

Serious question: are there other constitutional rights that can provide the direct means to kill?

Even if god exists religion can't possibly be the way to god

So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there’s a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of...

NABDad ,

I’m just going to drop this here:

whywontgodhealamputees.com

NABDad ,

Did she actually throw shit on him?

If she did, a punch seems like a not unreasonable reaction to me.

NABDad ,

www.wnycstudios.org/…/dolly-partons-america

NABDad ,

it has pedals like a bicycle

Are you taking about the Aptera from the video you linked?

If so, the Aptera doesn’t have pedals like a bicycle. It’s a fully electric vehicle (or it will be if it reaches production).

NABDad ,

So is the pond in my yard that I created 25 years ago, but then neglected for most of the last 10 years a swamp or a marsh?

There’s not a lot of woody crap growing in it, but there is a tree that sprouted at one end that I’ve been trying to kill.

Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" (www.salon.com)

“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”

NABDad ,

If you are female and have to take time off for a medical procedure, they’ll just assume it’s an abortion and flunk you. After all, why are you in school anyway? You don’t need an education to clean house and have babies.

This stuff about the price reductions after 4 years of blatant gouging is really freaking me out

I mean, that’s 4 years of our lives taken! 4 years of opportunities that were more challenging because they wanted a number on a computer to go up! 4 years of feeling worse than necessary about my finances and management of them and general personhood because i felt like i couldn’t afford anything because everything was...

NABDad ,

I recall Bush II starting his first term saying that the economy was doing so great that we had a budget surplus, and that had to be given back to the people* via tax breaks.

Then, before that could happen, the economy hit the shitter, and he said we needed to encourage the economy to recover by giving tax breaks to the people*.

It’s amazing how tax breaks just fix everything.

  • The rich people, of course.
NABDad ,

Came here looking for this.

NABDad ,

The nice thing about Linux is, he can’t buy it and fuck it up.

NABDad ,

How?

fathermcgruder , to asklemmy
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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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NABDad ,

www.stroke.org/en/about-stroke/stroke-symptoms

NABDad ,

As I understand it, it isn’t sunlight, but distance.

If a child spends all its time indoors focusing on nothing farther than the walls, myopia will result.

NABDad ,

No no, you’re wrong. The problem is taxes are too high and the people on the absolute top don’t get enough money. If we just make them a bit richer, the wealth will finally start trickling down on us.

Wait! I think I feel it trickling down right now!

Nope. Just piss. Again.

NABDad ,

Because ignoring genocides is what the world does.

NABDad ,

I could never understand how believers refused to believe in evolution. Even if you believe in an all-Knowing, all-powerful deity, why would you want to believe they wouldn’t use all the tools at their disposal?

Having evolution at your disposal and still manually creating every living thing would be like using a pencil and paper to sum the columns in an Excel spreadsheet.

In other words, if you believe in God and don’t believe in evolution, you believe in a dipshit god. Your God probably failed out of deity school.

NABDad ,

If 9 year old girls could hold an aspirin between their legs, they wouldn’t get pregnant. They are sluts so naturally they should give birth because that will make it better.

This is the craziest thing to me. Babies as punishment for “moral failing.”

A baby is not and should never be a punishment. Anyone who thinks a baby is a punishment shouldn’t be having babies or forcing others to have babies.

NABDad ,

Who can say that death is the injury? It could be that continued suffering would be an injury worse than death. Life is suffering. Death ends life. Therefore, death ends suffering and stops injury.

NABDad ,

If they steal both, someone would notice. Steal one and replace it with a neuticle, and no one’s the wiser.

NABDad ,

We gave our son children’s Benadryl to get him to sleep, but:

He was five.

He couldn’t sleep because he broke his arm earlier that day and we had to wait until the next day to get a cast on it (so the swelling would go down). He just had a splint, so every time he moved, it hurt.

When we called the ER to ask what to do so he could sleep, they said anything they would do would require him to be admitted, so the best solution was to just give him a dose of children’s Benadryl.

He was our kid, not someone else’s kid entrusted to our care with the understanding that we wouldn’t drug him.

NABDad ,

That’s ridiculous. He was executed for being black. The counterfeit bill was just the excuse.

NABDad ,

There’s a chance that Melania has instilled in him a deep and neverending hatred of his father. It shouldn’t have been too difficult. In an effort to rebel against everything his father represents, he might accidentally become a good person.

NABDad ,

Yeah, but if the hated turns into a complete rejection of everything he stands for, there’s a chance.

NABDad ,

I came here looking to see if anyone would point out that they are toy animals, not real ones.

NABDad ,

True, but Owl and Rabbit weren’t mentioned.

They do complicate things, since Owl and Rabbit shouldn’t get along unless Owl happens to be too small for Rabbit to consider him a threat.

NABDad ,

“This is frightening! Someone like me afraid of heights might just wet myself up there!” wrote one Chinese online commenter.

If you’re afraid of heights, why the hell would you be up there? Wrong turn on the way to the corner store?

NABDad ,

Eyelash bugs.

NABDad ,

You mean The Gangster of Love?

NABDad ,

Fucking racists think if you’re anti-racist, you’re anti-white.

NABDad ,

… state judges won’t finalize divorces during a pregnancy. Established in the 1970s, the rule was intended to make sure men were financially accountable for the children they fathered.

So, I’m assuming if you knock someone up in Missouri without being married, you don’t have to pay child support?

Are judges in Missouri just too damn stupid to include conceived but as yet unborn children in any child support requirements?

Or perhaps, it’s just about making sure men can continue to abuse their own “property”?

NABDad ,

No, the Conservative mindset is, “I imagine that I suffered to get where I am after a small million dollar loan from Daddy, everyone should suffer like I imagine I did even if they didn’t get free money from Daddy.”

NABDad ,

Welcome to humanity

NABDad ,

How about not electing people who would even entertain such an idea in the first place?

The people who vote for Trump vote for him because he would entertain such an idea &/or they are deluded enough to think they’re not on his list.

NABDad ,

Fascism is always a right-wing reactionary movement against leftists.

Except, in the U.S. our fascists don’t have any real Bolsheviks to stop, so they have to pretend that the center-right conservatives are actually Bolsheviks.

NABDad ,

Sad, not mad.

NABDad ,

And she ended up suing

thethings.com/mel-brooks-was-sued-by-hedy-lamarr-…

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