[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 47 points 3 months ago

Walters said at Thursday’s meeting that Boismier violated rules that prohibit instruction on topics related to race and gender. He told reporters that she “broke the law.”

Oh? I didn't realize providing a link to an online resource was considered teaching or had anything to do with race or gender. 🤔

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 54 points 3 months ago

"People who are barely surviving have extremely limited freedom," he writes.

"All their time and energy go into earning enough money to pay for groceries, shelter, and transportation to jobs … a good society would do something about the deprivations, or reductions in freedom, for people with low incomes.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When I was in 8th grade, I ended up separated from most of my elementary friends. I had one friend that I knew, and she had the same problem the previous year, and introduced me to some of her new friends. One was this boy who had a deformed arm. He opened my eyes to a whole new world of interests, musical tastes, style, anime, books (including one of my favorite authors to this day), and just generally made me look at life differently. We talked on the phone every night, to the point where my parents got me a second phone line because I was on the phone so much. He introduced me to his friends, one of which became my first boyfriend. And he was one of the first people I’d met that was as smart as me and I could have real conversations about the world with. He pretty much changed my outlook on life, and I would say the trajectory too. And he was my best friend.

The next part gets sad, though. I met him the first day of 8th grade. Fast forward to summer break, we’re about to go into high school, and I went on a vacation with my family. My mom gets a call a day before we go back, she is visibly distressed but says it’s nothing. When I get home, three of my friends and my grandma are waiting for us. My grandma breaks the news: my best friend died. He had a heart defect - his heart gave out. I knew him for a year, and I still think about him all the time. It’s surreal sometimes. I have like two photos of him. I don’t talk to anyone who knew him anymore. It was so long ago and I know I’ve forgotten so much about him, it’s hard to think about sometimes. But none of that takes away the changes he made in my life. Also, ironically, he brought me to Christianity, but I could never forgive god for taking him away.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 64 points 6 months ago

All these lovely people who spent tons to get their little brats to graduate don’t want to be reminded they’re complicit in genocide on their big day, okay? Is that so much to ask?!

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 52 points 7 months ago

This is a beautiful sentiment. Shame about that punctuation tho.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 54 points 7 months ago

She was delighted to put it in for us.

She is paid to be delighted.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 54 points 8 months ago

I find it funny that the first lemmy meme obsession was beans and now it’s jeans.

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Google literally giving me sex talk lines.

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I just got done listening to ep 6 “wtf is a socialism?” 1/3 of the way through ep 7 “Ls of former socialism”

Some things I’ve learned so far: Democratic Socialism is like only doing a cancer treatment halfway - the cancer will always come back because capitalists will always find ways to roll back the progress made for the workers/people. That’s because it’s the way capitalism is built (squeezing the most money out of all resources, workers included) and the concessions they give are just to stem the progression towards revolution.

If anyone questions the violence of a revolution, remind them that there is inherent systemic violence in a capitalist state. Ex: homeless population, the way poc and poor people are treated, and police aggression at protests, just to name a few.

Questions: Socialism is Communism, just an earlier stage?

Other thoughts: I was humbled hearing Hakim’s childhood knowing my country did that to him.

I liked at the end of ep 6 where they talk about how you don’t have to be a martyr, just contribute to communist causes in whatever way you can. Maybe because I’m just really delving into this, but sometimes I’m like “I don’t think I can start a revolution, but it feels like I have to.” Maybe that’s normal idk

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So… any of you bears wanna help me out? Thanks!!

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit, this literally aimed at helping kids vape in school… this makes me sad.

edit: yes, also anyone in a no vape office, but I see these being used in middle school to high school eventually.

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Can you report posts? (midwest.social)

First of all, I just installed it a few days ago and I’m already loving it! I was wondering if I am too dumb to find how to report posts or if this isn’t a feature yet? Thanks!

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Lemmy.world is turning vanilla. They closed the shrooms community too!

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Looking for a free app that allows me to record my calls, incoming and outgoing, without having to dial out and merge calls. Is that possible on the iPhone? I used to have one in Android that did this, but all the ones I see in the AppStore are the conference call or merge call type. I don’t care too much about quality as long as I can hear the other person.

Yes, I am in a one party authorization state.

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