@pearagg @irishexaminer Why would you get an exemption for Irish and not for English, other languages, history?
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quercusrobur
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@quer_robur @irishexaminer I am autistic with an exemption, one of my friends is dyslexic with an exemption, and I know people in my lcvp class with dyslexia and autism
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More than 60,000 post-primary school students exempt from learning Irish, figures show irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4184…
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@pearagg @irishexaminer Which disabilities, and what is your source? I can’t imagine anyone doing extra English in school. You’ve made language/grammar errors in both of your posts, which are long, rambling sentences, so I wouldn’t try to point out your English abilities
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@irishexaminer Most of these exemptions are given to people who have disabilities in 99% of the time btw I would also probably still be doing Irish if my primary school didn't think it would be a good idea to take me out of half my Irish classes to do extra English which I was already good at
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When libs talk to you about empathy, what they mean is “I want you to feel the same way I do and thus recognize the superiority of my moral sentiments, so that you will give me power over you.” They can’t imagine being Sudanese any more than they can imagine being a conservative.
Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@TrueSlazac
@jeremykauffman Conceiving how it feels to be in the place of someone else is the dictionary definition of empathy, it’s something people are supposed to have by default, if you can’t conceive that it’s your failure
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@nullrespecter @PalmyrPar Yeah was just thinking this would have been a great project for him after apocalypto
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It’s cool how Nolan got $300 million to make The Odyssey however he wants and he consciously chose to make it look and feel and be acted Like That.
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@mattyglesias That wealth needs to go to ngos to steer governments and provide employment to well-connected but untalented graduates
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@Kusabimaru83 @MinModulation OTC sales are (a lot) less than 10% of prescription administrations, and you’re still pointing to a lack of correlation between narcan volume and od death decreases
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@quer_robur @MinModulation OTC Sales Trends: After the FDA approved over-the-counter (OTC) naloxone in March 2023, sales spiked in late 2023 but stabilized through 2024
Via cdc data
You can't parse out the rest of the data, idiot
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Overdose deaths fell significantly under the Biden administration because he made narcan a household name, you should know since you had to be revived with narcan at the club in Vegas
FBI Director Kash Patel@FBIDirectorKash
President Trump’s strategy shut off the pipeline fueling fentanyl production. Now the cartels are struggling, overdose deaths are dropping, and American kids are alive because of it.
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@Kusabimaru83 @MinModulation But narcan usage decreased in 2024 to pre-Biden levels, which is when deaths finally started to drop
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@quer_robur @MinModulation Wow you're dumb. The bills are both related, its called a two prong strategy, you increase access to harm reduction and decrease access to fent. This is why i hate arguing with you stupid mother fuckers, you know nothing, don't read, and operate in bad faith. Go OD
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@Kusabimaru83 @MinModulation So you’re not crediting narcan now? It’s a good thing in itself but of course won’t move the needle as much as reducing overdoses
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@Kusabimaru83 @MinModulation Which bill? Narcan has been in wide use for the whole duration of that chart, and the dip in the end doesn’t correlate with higher usage
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@quer_robur @MinModulation What year do you think that bill was signed, out of curiosity
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@rodpenorson @MorlockP I’m humbled and thank you for informing me
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@quer_robur @MorlockP It absolutely is not chicken or pork schnitzel. It's beef.
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> American friends, what should they be called instead?
"chicken fried steak", bc (a) that's what it's called; (b) it's the exact equivalent of the French "a la mode"; it's steak fried in the manner of chicken, but with a bunch of charming American folk linguistics
Carlos That Notices Things@QuetzalPhoenix
Chicken Fried Steak is like the worst possible name for a cutlet. Schnitzel, Milanesa, Tonkatsu these are all better names for basically the same thing. American friends, what should they be called instead?
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@Gaelchlo Is é do cheart é. Ach cuimhnigh go bhfuil bluesky ag meath go leanúnach, agus go bhfuil an ceann eile an-bheag. Ní chosnaíonn sé mórán postáil ar ardáin iolracha
@ofreacharound I think you can run something like qwen3-coder without particularly heavy hardware, I’ve heard of people using them comfortably on recent MacBooks. More hardware resources will make things faster
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@Katterton_ @EricColumbus @zackbeauchamp It’ll hold steady at the same usage levels for another year or so. It’s a private company but financial viability will eventually become an issue. Lack of network momentum might lead to users quietly migrating back or reducing activity, maybe accelerated by minor controversies
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@EricColumbus @zackbeauchamp This is is the best source for Bsky stats, though the “Atlas” link to search for handles isn’t working for me right now. The aggregate daily likes, posts, and follows shows the site has declined quite a bit since its post-2024 election surge bsky.jazco.dev/stats
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This is a version of the same graphic for BlueSky. I think the average quality of account is higher — a lot of reliable news outlets — but the follower account is much smaller and the ideology almost entirely homogenous
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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Bro changed unit measures from grams to pots and pans
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@EmmaMAshford @jlippincott The funny thing is that “escalate” has only been used in this sense for a few decades, and the word originally meant “to use an escalator”
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Seriously, though. Look at the butchery being done here to logic and the English language: “Out escalate” to “escalate” to “de-escalate”?
Both Tom Schelling and your fifth grade English teacher are spinning in their graves.
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@Br3ak1ngPo1nt2 @9mmsmg Yeah there was a man in Scotland who ate nothing for more than a year. The whole point of storing fat is to be able to use the energy later en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Bar…
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Because she didn’t stick to the diet 😂 I used to watch that show all the time and there were some people who stuck to it and lost the weight…many don’t…and before anyone says 1200 calories isn’t enough for anyone to survive on. It absolutely is, especially people who weigh that much. They could literally have water and vitamins for weeks and be just fine.
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I had never actually seen My 600 Lb Life before. A random clip or two.
I started watching it and my God is it fascinating. One lady was over 600 lbs and the doctor put her on a 1200 calorie a day diet. He had expected her to be down 120 lbs in three months. He weighs her and she gained 12 lbs.
Insane show.
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@realKalos Dead Souls is great. There’s a tv adaptation of it on the mosfilm YouTube channel too
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I can't wait to have sex with so many Russian girls when I finish these. 🤯😵 Oh my God... 🤤😍
My current RusLit stack:
~ Pushkin - The Captain's Daughter, The Queen of Spades
~ Gogol - Dead Souls
~ Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, White Nights, Poor Folk
~ Goncharov - Oblomov
~ Turgenev - Fathers and Sons, Rudin
~ Tolstoy - Collected Shorter Fiction
~ Chekhov - Stories
~ Yesenin - Poems
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