Freeposity

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[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Nope. He was stifling a yawn.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's telling that right wingers responded with invective and sarcasm rather than statistics. No one cited their literacy rates as a defense, for example.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Costed over $150.

Cost

Sorry about being pedantic. It's a sickness.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Public universities should use public domain books for their courses and grad students should be required to add to the public domain teaching materials. Undergrads should also be required to contribute to coursework for k-12.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

For the recipient, a fax is a physical reality. It requires paper. It requires ink. It requires time.

Actually, no. They convert the faxes to PDFs, just like he converted the PDF to a fax.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you checked out the slate truck?

https://slate.auto/

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

consisting of the likes of Baptists and Pentecostals who disagree strongly about… certain things.

My great grandmother was part of a Pentacostal church that split in half over a single bible verse. But they were both still speaking in tongue after the split.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you think they even know? Most of the Trump dipshits are in their own information bubbles and things like this generally don't penetrate their thick skulls.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Really we just have collectives of pro and anti Epstein class politicians.

And the number of pro Epstein class politicians far outweigh the rest.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

My boomer parents played bill roulette when I was growing up. My parents would put the check and remittance for the electricity in the return envelope for the water in order to give them a few more weeks to pay both. We ate many vegetarian meals because we couldn't afford meat every day.

They were very aware of income inequality and the financial struggle of raising a family in the US.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

equate a fancier document with a better outcome

"The steering committee spent months on this spec, how many days will it take you to build it?" is an attitude I get far too often. These people always seem to think that conceiving of a piece of software is the hardest part of the process and they come close to breaking their arms patting themselves on the back for doing their part.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While this can be anecdotally true, higher order thinking does require a mastery of language.

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