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This post is not about ballet.

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How Americans get to Work

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A couple of years ago we were all terribly concerned about the fact that a lot of American high schools are assigning such crushing homework loads that some kids literally don't have enough time to eat or sleep (and all this in spite of the fact that there's no good evidence that assigning homework actually improves academic outcomes at the pre-university level), but now we're hearing stories about those same schools struggling to stop kids from using ChatGPT to write their essays and suddenly It's The Children Who Are Wrong. Like, do you think maybe there's a certain level of cause and effect in play here?

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late night blocks call for a wardrobe change!

alt title: Two Kinda-Sortish Robots Settle In To Binge MTV

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I screamed but they are correct

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??

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i am legit crying here

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People will see the most fucked up designs and be like, "that's ugly." No, it's tasteless, it's excessive, it's camp, it's discordant. Ugly is a street full of identical, inoffensive, and disinteresting mcmansions.

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“go early, it’s hard to find parking” you want public transit. “don’t go on weekends, traffic is terrible” you want public transit. “once i parked i had to walk half a mile to the entrance” you want public transit. “it took me an hour to get out of the area after the concert” you want public transit. “ugh somebody needs to DD” you want public transit. “can you drive? my car won’t start” you want public transit. you want public transit. you want public transit. you want public transit.

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He said it.

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people saying "vance is worse" don't get it. I want trump to die, not because I want the country to heal, but because I want trump to die.

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hearing "the ps5 is in the latter stage of its lifecycle" and laughing myself sick. NO GAMES

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when i was a kid i had moments of being so fucking diabolical because i realized at some point the best way to leverage power over my family was to do shit that would make everybody late

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i am NOT interested in the divine feminine. i will jerk off for 3 hours straight and eat 10% of my bodyweight in smoked meats and cheeses.

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Just had the wildest experience with a door to door solicitor.

I have a friend who lives down the block from me, and I drove her to the hospital today for a procedure. When I got her home, we had some lunch together, and a guy comes knocking on the door representing a new internet provider.

My friend can't really stand up at this point, so she asks me to deal with it. I politely listen to about one sentence of his spiel before letting him know that the owner isn't interested.

Anyway, afterwards I run some paint supplies that my friend had borrowed across the street to another friend who lives nearby. She runs a small dog rescue out of her home. So when the doorbell rings and she's dealing with a dog issue, she asks me to answer it. So I do, accompanied by the cacophony of a dozen reactive dogs. It's the same guy, who gives me a bewildered look. I let him know that I'm just there to help out, but that I happen to know the actual owners are happy with their current internet provider.

A little bit later I return to my own house. Only to find the exact same guy on our front porch trying to talk to my husband, who is currently also on a work call. My spouse gives me a frantic look and I'm like "I got this". At this point I'm pretty sure this guy is worried that I might be stalking him or that I just like breaking into people's houses. I tell him that I actually am the owner this time, and if he had a flier I would be more than happy to look over it.

He didn't have a flier so I sent him packing. Anyway, it's fun being friends with your neighbors!

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My therapist, who specializes in adults with ADHD, recently told me that all of her clients need a three day crashout period after a big life change. Finish the semester? Crashout. Change jobs? Crashout. Go on a really cool, really relaxing vacation? Crashout the moment you get home.

It's true of literally all of her clients. She works with a lot of them to put systems in place so that their crashouts are only three days. This includes the high-powered execs who travel regularly for work. It does not matter how successful or high functioning they are - they have ADHD, and a crashout is just part of the process of living with it.

I'm sharing this with all you ADHD friends out there, just in case you (like me) start shaming yourself if your crashout lasts more than one day. It turns out three days is kind of the best case scenario. Be kind to yourselves!

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