I’m certified in special education and spent two hours of my day today teaching an adult how to do subtraction. I’ve worked with kids with Down syndrome. I entirely believe that it would be possible for 95% of students, if given the appropriate support, to learn how to take a simple derivative and have some vague understanding of what they did. It just takes visuals, good use of real world examples and metaphor, and patience.

Oklahoma let several bills concerning child marriage die in committee this year. Pedophilia is legal if you marry them after.

Butler said she had a turbulent childhood living with her mother in southeast Oklahoma City. A family friend started paying attention to Butler when she was a young teenager, giving her the love and affection she says she always craved but rarely received as a child.

By the time Butler was 14, the man was sleeping in her bedroom, Butler said.

Butler became pregnant and said family members told her she needed to get married or else she and her baby could be placed into foster care.

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The marriage was unhappy, Butler said. She stayed at home to care for her newborn child and never finished the 9th grade. She also sometimes looked after her husband’s two other children from a previous relationship, she said.

Butler said it took her 12 years to become financially independent enough to file for divorce.

Her ex-husband said drug use clouded his judgment and that he tried to do the right thing by marrying the mother of his child.

He said marriage was necessary to keep authorities from investigating the situation.

“Everybody involved would have been incarcerated,” he said.

Ireland

They were reconquered after. Oliver Cromwell did absolutely heinous things to the Irish, including the slaughter of people who surrendered to him.

Wales also fought for its independence throughout the Middle Ages.

You may ask why Judas didn’t get a book? He wrote one. But it was not included because he was the traitor who betrayed Jesus.

More that it was a weird heretical Gnostic text. And extremely doubtful that it would have been Judas who wrote it - really seems more like a second century text. There are tons of pseudepigraphal gospels floating around.

I imagine it would be against abortion, for example, since the act of a married het couple is an act of God and the fetus would have a soul. It would be less sure if the parents were not married, but I think it would still be against it.

See the ordeal of the bitter water for what the Bible has to say on abortion.

Give him a nice shiny statue, then take it away and give it to Obama after further consideration, because Obama has admitted to fantasizing about men.

Guarantee it would lead to him raving about how much better he is at having sex with men.

Some of the apocryphal gospels seem really embarrassed about the idea of Mary being a commoner/spinning clothes for money.

There are very old rumors about Jesus being the son of a Roman soldier who raped Mary.

There’s probably something we can peer at, through a glass darkly, about her somewhere there.

The industry is a black pit of hell. It’s amazing, daycares are be regulated, have accreditations, oversight, mandatory reporting laws…but not these places. All you seem to need is a facility.

They fuck you up in an indelible way. It gives you an immediate distrust for most advice/mental health care/institutions. It gives you permanent issues with self esteem. People also assume that you must have deserved it somehow, that kids only get sent to these places for some kind of “tough love.” You get the life long “this person is crazy; you don’t have to believe them when they say they are being exploited” tag.

It’s not uncommon to have a sneeze reflex when aroused.

Don’t forget the time cost. In high school, I really resented having to get up ~30 minutes early at minimum to put on the shit. Then you have to wash it all of your face before you go to sleep.

Then there’s shaving. I just didn’t own shorts until after I transitioned, because I hated that shit but having any kind of leg hair will get commented on negatively.

Now I can roll out of bed, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and maybe trim up my beard and look okay enough to not get shit on.

That hospital – once the home of a Scottish shipping magnate – would be her home for a month in April 1958, after a judge ordered the then-16-year-old to undergo treatment for “disobedient” behaviour.

Even when these facilities aren’t being used by the CIA to experiment, they are already torture facilities.

The US has an entire cottage industry of “troubled teen” treatment programs which are essentially completely unregulated. No requirements on accreditation, no requirements that staff have any sort of training, no requirements that the care offered be evidence-based. Children are raped and die at these places and it is covered up. Parents can essentially sign away all of their children’s rights.

I guess what always melted my brain was putting everything in terms of the dr dtheta etc of the surface.

With the “Micheal Obama” shit, they have two specific missing children’s cases that they claim Malia and Sasha secretly are. It’s ghoulish.

Peter Thiel recently put on a four talk series, sponsored by a “Christian” organization, where he suggested that anti-AI people are the Antichrist.

During the 70’s, outlets like Soldier of Forture recruited US and UK citizens to go slaughter black people in Rhodesia.

I only managed a “D” in E&M (why are surface integrals). Do I have to detransition?

I taught middle school briefly. I had a student that was sexually harassing another one of my students. Using “[student’s name] GYATT” as a nickname in kahoots and shit. The student being harassed had also transferred in from being homeschooled all her life - no experience dealing with this kind of shit.

Admin refused to do anything. I rearranged my seating chart to put them as far away from each other as possible, but admin blew me off when I asked if the problem student could be transferred to another class. Nope! Left me on read.

It’s insidious in Oklahoma. I imagine it’s the same in Louisiana. They really do not care about sexual harassment. It’s the “good old boy” system, where they refuse to consider it as anything more than a minor issue.

I found out my mom had spent three decades of my life lying about who my biological father was.

She has always spun some romantic bullshit story about a specific guy. Like I’m talking there was a whole ass story of her life leading up to my conception that she liked to tell me. A pretty fucked up story - she was a teenager, this guy was in his early twenties. But still, a mostly normal and consensual story barring the statuary aspect, not at all shocking where we live. He knocks her up, chickens out immediately, dumps her, etc. There was even a cathartic story about her being a then abandoned pregnant Sonic carhop, discovering the guy as a customer and throwing fries at his face. She describes my eyes and hair as his.

I reach out to the guy as a teenager with help from family, who keep track of this guy throughout the years in case I’d want to ever make connection. I reach out, he denies that he’s my father. Well, sucks, but nothing too unexpected.

As a lark, I get genetics testing kit one year. It’s on Amazon prime (back when that was a good deal and back before I realized how problematic that giving my DNA to a random company.)

I take the test. A woman reaches out. My aunt. And she’s not the sister of my “father.”

My biological father was a different adult man (mid twenties) who raped a teenager he met at a party. Even told me to my face that he hadn’t been interested in her, but more in her older sister.

When I confronted her with this. It was a non reaction. It was “oh.” She’s told so many lies throughout her life, but this was finally the one she couldn’t bullshit her way out of. She lied to me for thirty years, and unlike any other lie she’s told, there‘s no “oh you’re just remembering it differently” or “I didn’t really mean that.”

The most difficult thing is that maybe it was traumatic for her. Maybe it was violent. I’ve met him twice, and neither experience was really pleasant. He has a history. Maybe she did block it out, repress it in that Freudian way and did convince herself that some guy she had a crush on and her had some secret little tryst. Realizing maybe the hell of my childhood had an explanation - that she was trying to punish me, that she hated me as a symbol of rape. Can I forgive her for that?

It’s just such a complicated and difficult thing to wrap my head around. Nothing about her as a person has ever made any sense.

It matters a little more I think, because Coke’s aesthetic is a part of “Americana” - people collect vintage Coke advertising. (And it’s a broad enough hobby to have niches; I had a professor that was specifically focused on how African Americans have been depicted in Coke ads in his collecting)

If you put any stock into what capitalism promises - Coke ads are supposed to be the best of the best. Coke doesn’t need to advertise to inform you that Coke exists. Coke holiday ads are supposed to be a spectacle, to encourage you to associate things like Christmas itself with the soda. Their advertising has changed how Americans picture Santa even. There were good artists who got paid, and you got advertising that was more to be trying to make you feel positive feelings/some appreciation of the aesthetics.

It’s just another symptom of late stage capitalism - that the interaction between the business and the customer must be hostile. They can’t pretend that their advertising is meant to be for our benefit. Like yeah, obviously as cynic lemmings we know advertisers are always full of shit, but I think for most normies the Coke ads have always been at least mildly interesting part of seeing a movie during the Christmas season.

Every update decreases the amount of people you can see. Frequent, full page ads that cannot be closed out and will open up a webpage/the App Store as you try to hit the “x.” You’ll “accidentally” hit the $99.99 monthly purchase somehow because everything moves around after your conversations load and have to exit out of the confirmation for that. There are a ridiculous amount of Only Fans and bots. Often the app would rather connect you to people hundreds of miles away rather than the people in your immediate area.

Anger subsided all the other emotions for me as far as climate change. There were people who knew. There’s something along the order of magnitude of 100 people who chose to obfuscate science and sacrifice us all for profit. I hate those people. I can’t even feel sad because I hate them so much.