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  • Happened last sunday, again

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  • She was pretty fucking awesome.

  • Happened last sunday, again

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  • North american here: I love Donald Duck. Lol. My mom used to a spot on Donald Duck voice to entertain us as kids. Told us he jumped out of the TV once and lived in her belly.

  • He knows his ABCs

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  • Absolutely my favorite vehicle I have ever had. My mom was disabled and we have had to use SUVs and pickups and vans my whole life, before anyone jumps me for the environmental aspect. But it was genuinely the nicest vehicle I've ever had. Loved everything about it.

  • Well, it really is the end of times soon.

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  • Well, it really is the end of times soon.

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  • Mhmm, yup. We're a denomination founded around the "Jesus fish." During the reign of Henry the 8th there was a lot of controversy, because Catholics didn't eat meat on Friday, and Henry wanted to murder his wife. But the pope said that wasn't cool, because Henry wanted to do it on a Friday (so he could take the weekend to recover, y'know?), and the pope said that that fell under the whole no meat on Friday thing, since once someone is dead, they're more meat-like, and Henry said that he wasn't going to eat her, but the pope was like "still not cool, bro, do it on a Thursday" and Henry didn't take kindly to bring called bro by a dude in a dress, so he founded the church of England (then called the Church in England), and he got to murder his wives, but in exchange for not crusading against England for doing this, Henry agreed to the popes compromise that they could murder wives on Friday, so long as they also ate fish.

    Well, when the US was founded, we really took that whole fish thing and ran with it. Started putting little Jesus fish bumper stickers on our carriages, branding them on our horses, the whole shebang. By the time the US split from England, though, there were no bishops left that would ordain American clergy, so we went to the Scottish, and they ordained us a few starter bishops to get us through the lean times, but by then there were enough disagreements between us as the CoE that we decided to just go ahead and change the name, and now we exclusively eat fish, and we're called Episcopalians.

  • Well, it really is the end of times soon.

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  • Can we be friends? My best friend is also a former Baptist preacher who's now a daoist/nondualist. I'm a nondualist who's interested in daoism, and super interested in gnosticism (and occasionally an Episcopalian, especially on holidays ;) )

  • I've never seen a sovcit screw themselves this badly before. This is fake your own death sovcittery.

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  • Yes

  • Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel Axe

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  • Bbc iplayer has an insane amount of stuff, not just bbc original productions.

  • Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel Axe

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  • I would very much so like to know, please

  • BMW

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  • Probably not to the same level of lane-correct-agressiveness, but my SIL's Volkswagen's lane correct is insane. The roads around here aren't great, and it will often detect random streaks or lines of potholes as a lane and refuse to allow you to avoid them. Once an elk ran in front of the car and when my brother tried to swerve to avoid the damn car fought him so hard we only narrowly missed it. And at other times when on roads with no lane markings at all it randomly decides that the road isn't the road, and that ditch over there is the lane we're supposed to be in.

    All that said, it works great most of the time, and we just turn it off if it's acting hinkey

  • Watching DEAD LIKE ME and in Season 2 Ep 4 they line Donald Trump up in a perp walk with KNOWN DICTATORS! Unreal!

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  • Awww

  • Watching DEAD LIKE ME and in Season 2 Ep 4 they line Donald Trump up in a perp walk with KNOWN DICTATORS! Unreal!

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  • I'm sorry your kids are lame, but the fact that you love dead like me and your username makes me really, really want to hang out with you

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  • A well rounded graduate of highschool, having experienced multiple different kinds of work environments could help our society feel a little more connected, lead to kids better able to determine what it is they want to do with their lives. If you had to do this once per year during highschool, and you had to pick a different one each year, you'd end up with at least 4 different experiences by the end. That's a lot better than our current system of "you've never been allowed to make a decision before. Now, my child, on your 18th year, decide your career for the rest of your life, and blindly take our 200 thousand dollars worth of loans to do it"

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  • That's fair, honestly. I was going to make a quip about kids not wanting to learn math, so what right do we have to force them to learn it. But in all honesty, you're right. We treat kids like little machines who must do and say as we command, and that's a problem. I still stand by saying that experience with the working world would be beneficial, and that it should be part of standard education, but as far as the ethics and morality of it goes, it's a sticky area that would need much discussion.

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  • I'm not suggesting that no one has empathy, or even that most don't, just that some would benefit from this in that arena

  • Me_irl

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  • What does "you want lip too" mean?

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  • How about we just add it to curriculum for school. During general highschool educational, you must take at least one Public Service class per year. You can choose from farming, retail, plumbing, electrician, road crew, et cetera. Each kid has to do a certain number of hour per school year, and it's required even if private school kids. Disability would obviously be an exception, but otherwise you need to be doing at least X number of hours per school year to graduate. Could help people understand how these things work, and hopefully build some empathy in the little sociopaths.

  • Clock logic

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  • Dammit, that wasn't supposed to post yet. I'm still in the process of revising! Lol.

  • Clock logic

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