@JoshPhillipsPhD @LibbyApp Love the Libby app for both Kindle books and audio books!
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Gen-X Libertarian, Mom, Wife, Boater, Investor #TSLA #BTC #MSTR
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FYI: the @LibbyApp is FREE!
Connects your public library card to your phone. Download ebooks and audiobooks. As long as your library has the book, you can check it out!
I mostly use it to get newer Non-Fiction books to listen to while I drive
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@deaflibertarian It is unbelievable that someone would have the gall to actually say that to you.
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Family member: Are you planning to go to the funeral?
Yes.
Are you bringing a "sign language person?
Yes, an interpreter. I'm paying for one to come with me.
Please don't. This is not about you. It's distracting for the service.
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Alternatively I had a roommate I bonded with immediately and we were nearly inseparable for an entire 5 months or so. Everyone was sure we had known each other for ages, we could read one another’s minds. It was uncanny. And then she got a serious boyfriend, I ended up rooming with other people the next year and I never saw her again. 😭
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My freshman year in the dorms, I had a roommate who I can objectively describe as a great roommate (clean, nice, didn’t throw parties or come back drunk or cause any chaos whatsoever), which is great! I was similarly chill so I think we both appreciated each other in that respect. But we hardly ever spoke or hung out, and it was a little awkward.
Our sleeping schedules were opposite — she’d go to bed early and wake up early, I’d go to bed late and wake up late. There were often days that went by where we literally never saw each other, despite sleeping in the same room at night. The longest consecutive period was 14 days (I counted).
The last night in the dorms at the end of spring semester, we had to unbunk our beds, so for the first time in 9 months, we were sleeping side-by-side rather than above-and-below. I distinctly remember lying down late that night to go to sleep (she was already asleep obviously), looking over at her bed, and thinking, “I’m sleeping next to a stranger.”
I don’t think we ever talked again after that but I think back on it a lot now and wonder if I should have tried harder to facilitate an actual friendship. I hope she’s doing alright today. I think she got married and has a baby now.
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@texasrunnerDFW @Eric_Erins We lived there for 15 years. Winters are soul crushing from Jan to April but I love so much about it still.
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@Eric_Erins Chicago is architecturally one of the most beautiful cities in the world and I’ll always love it, but those winters just took something from me. It isn’t only the cold—it’s the endless grey and the sunsets at 4:20 pm
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My coworkers down in Dallas are constantly blown away when they come to visit our office looking out over Grant Park but I’ve never once seen it go the other way.
Amy Nixon@texasrunnerDFW
I am astounded by the number of millennial families who moved to Dallas, bought a home, then turned around and sold the home to move out of Dallas, in less than a 5 year time span Is Dallas just super transient or is this a post-pandemic phenomenon happening everywhere?
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@solanaceae555 My grandmother in her prime was taller than me and I’m 5’10”!! We were the exact same size otherwise. She was married at 19 and I was 23.
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The wedding dress trend has me very confused about how some of you are the same size as your grandmothers. I haven't been the same size as my grandmother since I was maybe 12
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@Khensi_20 Works for me but it has to be plain not packets with additives
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"oatmeal keeps you full for hours"who started this lie please 😭
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Which supports your mood more: walking or sunlight?
Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only
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@texasrunnerDFW The first time, it was great. Every time after that was an increasingly worse experience until I stopped flying them altogether.
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@HootyMcHootHoot @deaflibertarian not only that--Starbucks coffee isn't even good. try ordering a drinkable plain coffee. gag.
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@deaflibertarian Some sap will pay for it unfortunately. It’s so much cheaper to make your own drinks at home. I’m not paying those ridiculous convenience prices. That’s inconvenient for my wallet.
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The $9 Starbucks drink will backfire for them. Watch.
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@shagbark_hick Lack of minimal education is also happening in the public schools. It’s definitely a societal problem heading in the wrong direction.
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Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all.
I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem.
While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives.
My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition.
Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
Just Jim@JimsTweets
Do Homeschool kids just like, not have to take tests or exams or get grades? How does the government know if the child is actually getting an education and not just like, being neglected
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@BitcoinRachy My son taught a financial literacy class to seniors in high school last year. It's a lot of the stuff parents should be teaching. Most kids in high school don't have the money to invest. But yes my son has investments because *I* taught him what to do!
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Why don’t schools teach kids how to actually make money?
Because the teachers making $50k don’t invest themselves.
You can’t teach what you don’t know.
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@musings_blonde Awww so pretty and young! Absolutely love the dress.
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Candid wedding photos are always my fav.
Back-Up Tambourine Player@UpTambourine
This is my favorite wedding picture of me, tbh. My SIL made the black ribbon belt. That was nice.
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I just spent an hour and 50 minutes on the phone with @NYStateofHealth to get health insurance - which coverage I have avoided for years. At the end of this inquiry, which delved deeply into minutiae of income, race, unrelated-to-this requests for other people’s private information, and other variables that were not in my last application for health insurance, I was denied insurance coverage based on a missing ‘r’ when the customer service agent for the second time misread ‘county’ as ‘country’. Half an hour later and with me doing breathing exercises to stay relaxed and pleasant, this was corrected and I was allowed the privilege of spending almost double what I had paid 5 years before for the exact same coverage.
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There is a Willa Cather museum and her childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska
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Anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2009, what’s one game you still think about?
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