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TheTeludav t1_j6owtsz wrote
I don't think mandatory education is like a prison any more than any other obligation to society. Everyone hates jury duty but nobody says it's prison, it's the cost of living in a society where justice is not decided entirely by people with the resources to become judges.
Public education might be unpleasant at times but it's the cost of living in an educated society. Which is so much better than dying of cholera, and that's what we would be doing without public education.
You know why we don't? Public education let normal people become doctors and scientists and engineers so we could treat disease, develop new medicine, and develop clean running water infrastructure.
MysticMoteToter t1_j6owtk7 wrote
Reply to comment by BobertoLinguini in People who stop talking to you when they're in a relationship do it because they're secretly more in love with you than the person they're with by omissionpossible
Right I read this and thought I was having a stroke. Maybe if you think they're the one who got away but hey. There's a reason
MaximumZer0 t1_j6owo3e wrote
If a gnomish spirit talker escapes police custody, that's a small medium at large.
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gonzo8927 t1_j6owhag wrote
Reply to Listening to a podcast has the same energy as listening to a class discussion just outside the room. by WillKimball
Not really, I'm not taking notes or trying to intensely digest a podcast
Hysterical_Control_ t1_j6owfx8 wrote
Wow, that's definitely a unique observation! It seems like psychic smalls and larges are the missing pieces of the puzzle. Maybe one day we'll be able to unlock their mysteries!
American_PP t1_j6owbxa wrote
Happens with a lot of words.
There are two words I can think of to describe female genitalia, yet calling someone one word means they're a coward, and the other word will pretty much set off a world war if you call a female that word.
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Buttholerolls t1_j6ow882 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Fully blind people don’t see the same thing we do when our eyes are closed ; they do not see black, they simply do not see. by KoexD
Try putting any object of any color up to your face and cover your eye, it still works
A1steaksauceTrekdog7 t1_j6ow7dc wrote
Most people who are younger than 50 probably have never seen a John Wayne movie. I’m about to be 40 this year and I never seen one of his movies
Wolvenhausen t1_j6ow5fw wrote
Reply to comment by playr_4 in The amount of people that do not know that a cold sore is herpes is surprising. by BellyScratchFTW
Yeah this guy definitely use to think they were the same animal until one day he found out they're not and ever since then he just has to state the fact that they're not cause he thought that was a common confusion
matrixfan0831 t1_j6ow4jf wrote
Reply to There's a perception that you can't just invent a word, and yet hundreds of thousands of them have been invented by pufballcat
Stop trying to make fetch happen, fetch isn’t going to happen
FormulaDriven t1_j6ovxot wrote
Reply to The ending of 2023 is 123123. by tpb772000
Only for the approximately 4% of the world's population who use the unusual MM/DD/YYYY format.
PokeManiac16 OP t1_j6ovwfz wrote
Reply to comment by angryterrier546 in A lot of people take kindness for weakness, that’s why costumer service workers get mistreated. by PokeManiac16
Ok so now we just have to have everyone have that same energy all the time while working jobs that don’t pay enough lol
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fleshlyLoath t1_j6ovnw4 wrote
for me this goes for toilet papper. at the end of the month the cardboard can be used with no problems
angryterrier546 t1_j6ovira wrote
Reply to A lot of people take kindness for weakness, that’s why costumer service workers get mistreated. by PokeManiac16
For the first ten years of my career, I worked in retail, mostly in a customer service capacity. I went through good and terrible days. I can state with absolute certainty that when I was having a nice day and acting as amiably as I could, people treated me a lot better.
RandoCalrissian11 t1_j6ovdoy wrote
Reply to comment by PacketFiend in That 90s Show is farther from the 90s than that 70s Show was from the 70s by islandofcaucasus
They also tried to copy the previous characters but have every culture represented (guess they haven’t been to rural Wisconsin) making it just another show that failed to cast accurately.
Frost97872 t1_j6ov7jj wrote
Reply to comment by FastWalkingShortGuy in Daylight only becomes broad if a crime is committed in it. by YouAnswerToMe
It’s bad that I read it like that first.
Deadxendxempty t1_j6ov4va wrote
Iusually use my toothpaste tubes until the look like they've been empty for a year. Fucking things still have enough usable paste in them. Not even being frugal about it.
Nayox91 OP t1_j6ov4b6 wrote
Reply to comment by CRO553R in A good climbing rope lasts 3 years, a bad climbing rope lasts your entire life. by Nayox91
More like the rest of your life.
Winter_Match5072 t1_j6ov24d wrote
Reply to comment by GoatTotes in Adults only curse around adults. Kids only curse around kids. Everyone curses, its just taboo across generations. by Chipbread
I never swore in front of my parents and it meant that I could never really be myself around them. My kids get a free pass. It’s very liberating and leads to a lot more openness I believe.
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