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i do think a lot of implausible medieval plot devices make more sense when considering the fact that these people simply did not have glasses

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Cleaning products are usually tested for chronic exposure hazards (OSHA covers custodial work, and everything under your sink has a MSDS).

Makeup, powder (i.e. small particles, silicates, etc.), removers, nail & hair treatments (use in a well ventilated area), those would be my top suspects.

news article about how 1/4 people with lung cancer are people who never smoked and they're mostly women and they don't know why. i know why, i would bet anything that's it's exposure to cleaning products

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My daughter has decided that our cat has to pick her cereal for her in the morning now. Why?? "He knows what I like"

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Okay so I’m an elementary school art teacher right, and I have this really fun game I made a PowerPoint for to teach like, emotions and intent and looking at the whole picture to first grade.

The idea is, when we count down and change slides, kids have to mimic one thing in the painting as best they can, whether it’s animate or inanimate. If there’s nothing in the shot for them to mimic (because I threw some contemporary abstract stuff in), they have to show me how the painting makes them feel. Easy enough, gets them excited to move around and vocal about their feelings regarding art, it’s very chaotic. I can tell pretty fast who’s got the emotional maturity to mimic things in a complex way, and who’s just enough of an abstract thinker to mimic inanimate objects early on in the game...

So the first picture is this:

Napoleon Crossing the Alps. My favorite reactions are usually the kids who pretend to be the freaked-out horse, but 2 memorable occasions were the one where a student immediately scrunched up to be the rock in the foreground, and the one where a pair of girls, without any communication on their parts, decided to be Napoleon riding the horse with one as Napoleon and one as the horse. Basically one of them fully tackled the other apropos of nothing, it was hilarious

I’ll add more if y’all want or if I feel like it lol I have a bunch of stories from this one game

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Story time: In which my coworkers thought I was cheating on my partner…with my partner

Ok so B and I are very tactile people. We mostly work from home, spend 90% of our days together, and touch each other all the time in a deeply habitual way.

We also work in the same industry, which means sometimes we go to the same in-person trainings/conferences/events.

We were at one such event yesterday and while a couple folks in attendance knew we were married to each other, most did not. Though, importantly, they did know that we each were married. We both wear rings. We regularly mention our spouses.

So, we arrived together and walked holding hands through the parking lot and, yes, had a smooch while alone in the elevator before we had to be on our professional best behavior (he was wearing a suit, kissing was unavoidable).

When the doors opened we were still a bit close together and got some looks. But I didn’t really clock them until later. We also checked in with each other a couple times through the evening and stepped out for a quiet moment here and there, which some people likely noticed.

So toward the end of the night, I was chatting with some peers and B came to stand next to me with some of his peers and without thinking I reached over to pull a bit of debris out of his hair and without pausing in his conversation, he reached over to squeeze the back of my neck and run his knuckles down my shoulder/arm in thanks.

There was a sudden lull in the conversation and I realized multiple people were looking at us with obvious discomfort. I rewound the last few seconds, considered some earlier indicators, and then hastily said, “we’re married! To each other! He’s my partner!”

And everyone let out a relieved exhale, had a laugh about it, and we continued on.

Whoops.

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This is such a an amazing piece. More people should read it.

You’re a daycare worker, watching over toddlers, when the imminent end of the world is announced. It becomes increasingly clear none of the kids’ parents are going to show up as the end inches nearer.

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i love the phrase "sex pervert" like. as opposed to what? abstinence pervert?

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To be clear - "some applications" does not include your cool, dry office computer equipment, or the back of any TV not exposed to rain and sleet.

Way too many people are saying gold is most conductive and should be used to make all wires.

This has to be from A/V cable marketing. Monster Cables used to market their 24K gold connectors as "super conducting" and when I worked at Best Buy I had to upsell gold plated printer cables. They wanted us to say they were faster and made your prints look better.

This is like, 30 year old misinformation.

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Had my suspicions but I have finally confirmed it this morning: The rival Pokémon Go team I have been beefing with, whose gym's total annihilation I have incorporated into my morning routine, is actually a group of local elementary school students

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I usually default to the Herobrine one but occasionally I claim that my sister was a bear and we used to fight a lot.

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It would mean going back nearly three decades. But it would mean seeing Elizabeth again. It would mean I could tell one of my dearest friends that I heard her, I was worried about her, and I would be crushed if she was gone.

Instead I got to speak at her funeral.

I'm here from the future to tell you, listen to your friends. Don't laugh off self-destructive jokes. Tell them you care. Tell them they are loved.

Tell them for Liz.

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Gold contacts are useful in some applications because the contacts are the only exposed metal on the cable, and gold doesn't oxidize or corrode. Copper can turn green if it gets left somewhere unfavorable, so if you're worried about contacts getting fucky with age, you plate them with something better - and gold worms great. It's easy to recognize (as opposed to the 15 silvery metal options of varying usefulness), has good conductivity, and is so stable we use it for jewelry that people wear for years in pools and showers and all kinds of temperatures.

Unfortunately, it also appeals to the marketing goblins and their "shiny = better" bullshit.

Way too many people are saying gold is most conductive and should be used to make all wires.

This has to be from A/V cable marketing. Monster Cables used to market their 24K gold connectors as "super conducting" and when I worked at Best Buy I had to upsell gold plated printer cables. They wanted us to say they were faster and made your prints look better.

This is like, 30 year old misinformation.

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Went to Catholic school my whole life and when I was 14 I had to do confirmation classes and since I went to school in a different diocese all the other kids had already done their confirmation and shit and it was weird as hell. I had to commute an hour home and then go to the basement of a church where I argued with the teacher all the time because he didn't actually understand philosophy, basically a protestant, very tragic.

Anyway part of the confirmation class was that I had to go to confession and so I went and I confessed all my sins or whatever but the next day my school also decided we needed to go to confession. So I'm waiting in the line for fuckin ever and then I get to the little confessional and I'm like "forgive me father for I've sinned it's been one day since my last confession" and the priest goes "huh?" And I explained the whole situation to him.

He asks where the hell I live and I tell him and he tells me he actually used to be a parish priest at one of the churches in town, and then he's asking me about priests he used to know and we get to talking about sandwich shops and restaurants and parks and it goes on for 10 minutes or so before we realize there's a whole line behind me so he tells me I don't gotta do anything and I leave.

The kid behind me in line grabs me as I walk past and goes "Dude what the fuck did you do?" And I almost told him what happened but I decided it would be funnier if I didn't so I was like "a lot lol" and he was like "do you gotta do like 10 hail Mary's now or something?" And I said "no it turns out if it's bad enough he just tells you you're going to hell, no contrition no nothing" and this kid was like Uber Christian and I think he felt bad for me forever because afterwards he was way nicer to me

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my parents visited today and their latest item of ‘what people you knew in school are up to lately’ gossip was about the absolutely BONKERS thing they’re trying to talk their friend out of doing to her daughter. I’m still in shock tbh