Instructions for how to download a Youtube video using VLC on Reddit
Instructions for how to navigate the underworld on an Orphic gold tablet
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their ship name might as well be theseus the way there's not a single original characteristic left there
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which is definitely not an omen
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in 2015 I needed a job really bad for reasons not worth getting into. i was living in ohio for like 6 months & i just applied at every place within a 30 minute drive from me and i got a call from the local Game Stop mere minutes after submitting the online app, which was obviously a red flag but I wasnât in the position to be picky.
so they tell me when to show up for orientation & I get there the day-of but the store is closed & locked. i text the manager & he says back âoh yeah. i manage two Game Stops and open them alternate days.â
apparently the Game Stop I originally applied to is open Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and the other one is open Sundays Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays.
Theyâre 15 minutes apart. I donât ask whether it would make sense to just have one store locally that is open daily, bc maybe the guy knows something I donât.
So I get to the other Game Stop and walk in and it seems like thereâs no one working there. Thereâs just a single woman in there wearing an ankle length leather trench coat. She didnât greet me when I came in & sheâs just browsing.
After ten minutes I ask her if sheâs seen any employees and sheâs like âoh Iâm an employee.â Sheâs not wearing a name tag on the trench coat.
I tell her Iâm here for training and she tells me the manager hasnât come in yet. âhe falls asleep playing xbox all the time but if heâs on live we can try pinging him to wake him up.â
I play Xbox and that absolutely doesnât sound like a thing you can do in the way sheâs describing it but once again maybe she knows something I donât.
I ask if we have an Xbox that we can use to âpingâ him and she says âyeah the one in the back we play on.â
She has an English accent by the way, a very specific & posh one which usually wouldnât be relevant but weâll get there.
So before she leads me to the Xbox-in-the-back she goes âoh damn. our internet has actually been down all morning, I forgot. We need to call the provider and have them come out and fix it. Can you do that?â
Can I call an unnamed internet provider and schedule them to come do service at a business where I donât even technically work yet? Idk. She gives me their number and I call them and they put me on hold.
People are walking in and sheâs not greeting them. She keeps browsing and people assume like I did that sheâs another customer so theyâre coming up to the counter where Iâm on hold to ask me for help, and then I have to say I canât help them and to ask the woman in the trenchcoat, and then she says âwe canât sell you anything. internetâs down.â
this goes on for 30 minutes and every time the store is empty sheâs chatting at me and Iâm on hold and then a man walks in the door and he says âsorry I fell asleep on live again haahaahaaâ so this is the manager and the minute she starts speaking to him she no longer has an English accent which has me confused because it did not sound fake.
It was regionally specific and very natural.
the manager asks what Iâm doing and I say Iâm on hold with the internet provider and he gives me a thumbs up and walks to the back.
so I ask how long sheâs lived in the U.S. and say Iâm always interested in the way people can sometimes go in and out of accents and she says âoh Iâm American. he asked me to stop doing the accent so I only do it when heâs not here.â
Suddenly I wonder what Iâm doing here and I tell her I need to leave and I give no excuse but at this point I didnât feel like I needed one? She said okay! See you later.
The manager didnât contact me and that night I got offered some other retail job I jumped on.
Three months later the Game Stop manager texts me and asks if I can cover a shift in an hour and I say back âI donât think I work there? I left an hour into my training. And we never spoke again.â And he texts back âhahahaha right on.â
ďżźAnd you may think wow, what a strange experience that all was but recently I have spoken to friends who did work at Game Stop and when I tell them this story they donât even blink. Nothing I say surprises them. I was at the average Game Stop
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The thing about the D&D movie which is absolutely genius is that the game mechanics basically insulate them against any of the most frustratingly fun sucking movie criticisms. âBut why were the guards looking the wrong way?â Failed their perception check. âWhy did the spell stop RIGHT before they would have diedâ Dropped concentration. It gets to be dumb and fun anyone that TRIES to be the plot hole police gets ever increasingly obscure D&D rulebooks thrown down in front of them and called a fake nerd. There's NOTHING those type of guys hate more than being a fake nerd. This movie is untouchable.
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as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds
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the African wild cat (from which house cats are descended) looks like a normal house cat but with uncomfortably longer legs
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government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program
hell fucking world
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People are so stupid about snakes. If there's a little black racer chilling outside just leave it alone, you don't have to kill it, it's probably dealing with all your pests for you, jesus christ
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âIf a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to âeat like growing boys,â while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them⌠Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like âMen are stronger than women.â We should be asking: âWhich men?â and âWhat do they do?â There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.â
â Ruth Hubbard, âThe Political Nature of âHuman Natureââ
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Yes.
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US food & drug administration (FDA) proposing ban on electric shock devices (like ones used by places like judge rotenberg center [JRC]) for self injurious behaviors or behaviors deemed aggressive.
was banned before, then was overturned. now propose new ban.
can submit formal comment here:
which. if can, please do. show FDA that there public support for ban.
not see if say only US people can comment.
edit to add: open until may 28th 2024
put under cut, some trigger warning about badly summarized info abt these devices & JRC
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these devices different from modern ECT. modern ECT done under general anesthesia. these devices. ECT not without faults but these devices not same as ECT.
while there truly are behaviors in disabilities like autism that genuine cause harm to self or others, 1) using this shock device for those behaviors without consent or try other methods or think about underlying why, still issue, 2) many times used for behaviors that. staff just donât like. like saying no. or refuse take off coat.
there videos online.
but let just say. GED-4, used by JRC (at very minimum used, past tense. not sure what model use now, but definitely still used. & still being defended on JRC website), shock for 2 seconds, lowest setting, shock at 45mA, highest at 90. donât know what means? me neither, but to compare, tasers 3-4 mA. n frequently see survivors say they get more than 1 shocks. people shocked by these scream. put it lightly
old stuff wrote by survivor:
often see people only talk abt autism when talk abt JRC & these devices. not just autism. those diagnosed w conduct disorders, psychiatric disorders, autism, intellectual disability, & imagine other developmental disorders too.
though. need lower support needs autistic people & late diagnose autistic people decenter themselves on this. you all not typical target demographic for this. you not most affected here.
because. going be early diagnosed & visibly disabled & higher support needs people most affected.
also. majority people in JRC BIPOC. one old statistic say 50% Black people.
majority of these. are children.
& most these ugly facts & statistics not going be on JRC website. they going make everything pretty & appealing & downplay. & defend use of shock device on website
had to look through JRC website for this. just for my sacrifice please go fill out comment for FDA. link again: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/03/26/2024-06037/banned-devices-proposal-to-ban-electrical-stimulation-devices-for-self-injurious-or-aggressive
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Gaza's municipality is trying to raise money to fix and restore Gaza's water system. Please support them by boosting and/or donating
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medieval backstreet boys: you are⌠my friar
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