My mom made me start saving for college when I was in elementary school, taking anything I got from gifts and chores to put into my college fund. I mowed lawns before I was legally able to work, then got a job as soon as I was able, all to continue padding my fund. I got my bachelor's then my master's in biology. My mom died a few months ago because she didn't believe me or the doctors that her holistic medicine herbal teas wouldn't cure her cancer.

Now this is my kind of meme; it actually gets into the details and complexity of the scenario it's discussing - while still making fun of it and keeping the meme feel - rather than just simplifying it to the point where it looks straightforward, killing most of the important discussion.

Maybe I'm basic, but I love exposition over pretty much all else. I watched the entirety of Adventure Time despite not really being a fan of the humor or the main characters just because I craved more information about the history of Ooo.

I've always felt that republicans were the ones to push pronouns mattering, to the point of obstinance; they frequently get worked up about people's genders, and refuse to use pronouns that differ from what they believe to be the "correct" ones for a person. The lefter people understand that pronouns really only matter to the person who identifies with them, so we're fine calling people whatever they want, since it's their choice and we don't really care what they choose in the end.

Nah, they just did a bunch of takes for the music video.

The thing to focus on is that there are many different kinds of people in the world. I grew up with a disability, and it didn't take me long to figure out that there are people you'll meet who just hate you for not being what they consider to be "normal." There's nothing you can do - they're just going to hate you. But, I eventually found that there are also people who would never dream of doing such a thing, and will treat you neutrally until they get to know you, and will treat you well after that if you treat them well.

Yes, the assholes of the world will always be there, and they'll make you feel like shit, but the more you can dismiss them as simply being judgemental assholes who know nothing about you, the more you'll be able to see all the people who will treat you fairly. Sure, if you've got a terrible personality, then even those people will want to have nothing to do with you, but if you control the things you can control, there are a lot of people in the world who will see that and think well of you for it.

My wife loves these. I'd never had one before I met her, and I never will again now that I have. I've never eaten something so bland, yet so sickly sweet, and my sister and I used to eat bowls of straight sugar when our parents weren't around.

Israel is attacking now because 10/7 gives them the excuse. Again, they're not attacking the people responsible for 10/7, they're attacking everyone in that area, and hoping maybe they got one.

It's pretty sad. My mom fell into it hard around 2018, and back in 2020 when I stopped talking to her she was going on about how some guy in Montana was now the official ruler of the US because he filed an application to claim the United States flag during some obligatory grace period before the US sold it to the King of England. Mind you, this was before the queen died - she was convinced that the previous king was still alive and scheming to regain British ownership of the US, and that this Montana guy saved it at the last second. She was literally crying in joy.

The difference is that we understand that real change needs to be ushered in for that to happen, while they just bury their heads in the sand and pretend it already did.

What? That's just a normal bath/shower setup. The spout is for running a bath, with a pin on top to divert it to the shower head for showering, the lever works to control hot/cold water for the shower/bath, and the circle at the bottom covers a hole that drains excess water during a bath to prevent overflowing. Do people not have baths anymore?

Eh, it certainly can be, but many of us could barely afford it, so we had to spend all our free time working. I woke up at 2am Tuesday through Saturday to work at FedEx before class, and would often have lectures until 8pm, since I was double majoring to get everything I could out of the 4 years of tuition payments. Any time I had between classes was spent studying, doing homework, or trying to catch a nap so I didn't fall asleep in class. I barely even had acquaintances when I graduated, much less friends. I managed to graduate without loans, though! Too bad I still didn't end up using either of my bachelors degrees, or the masters I got afterward...