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I thought it was (mostly) phenomenal. Acting was great and the emotional impact hit me hard.

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But a few issues I had:

1) The show wonderfully depicted an emotionally disturbed boy who allowed his unchecked anger to manifest in the murder of a young girl. The show, however, tried to communicate that this was the result of unhealthy masculine behaviors and somewhat-accidental neglectful parenting. The father says, “oh he plays video games all the time like the other boys” as if his anti-social behaviors were just part of the social sphere he lived in. I didn’t see a societal problem in the show with things like videogames and social media. What I saw was a mentally ill boy who needed psychiatric help. Maybe that’s what the writers intended, but it seemed more like social commentary on contemporary adolescent masculinity.

2) The show focused on dangerous white boys when the massive increase in adolescent male violence is 100% correlated with the rapid rise in African and Islamic migrants. The UK has a societal problem that is being exacerbated both economically and culturally by their foolish immigration policy.

Great show but the message seemed a little off.

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If everything was unaffordable

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Things don’t have to be unaffordable. People just need to believe they’re unaffordable. That’s not hard to do when grocery prices are up.

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electrolyte mix + magnesium will help with your energy and your morning shite

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I’ll try this. Probably like a hot tea or something.

I should mention that the bowel movement is priority. I haven’t missed a morning dump since 2011. I know it was that year because I called in sick to work because I didn’t know what to do.

I wake up most mornings feeling queasy. I struggle with acid reflux (silent kind) and often have consistent thirst throughout the day. I don’t sleep as well as I would like, often staying up until 11:00-11:30ish pm and often waking in the night feeling parched and having reflux. Even during the school year when I have to consistently be up at 5:30am, I won’t fall asleep until after 11 and often wake up before my alarm goes off.

I’m considering cutting out my morning cup of joe. Two concerns are 1) morning coffee guarantees me taking a shite within 10 minutes of waking up and 2) all coffee drinkers know that coffee is life.

My experiment (might) be to drink hot water upon waking for the bowel movement and then drink a cup of black tea mid morning.

Ninja edit - I’ve been tested for diabetes multiple times and am no where close to being pre diabetic. Doc says I have really bad reflux issues and prescribed a PPI. Pantaprozole helps but I’d rather not be on a PPI long term if I can help it.

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Sounds nice, but if everyone has a fortune, then no one has a fortune.

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But would everyone have a fortune?

Sounds like you have to be gainfully employed with a healthy salary for it to work for you.

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What is a proportionate amount? I have never been called that I know of.

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I don’t know. Once in a lifetime?

There are 660k people in Jefferson County, AL. AI says there are on average 160 felony jury trials per year. Around 100 civil cases per year.

The odds of me being selected three damn times in fifteen years seems pretty disproportionate.

Just got my third jury duty summons in 15 years. My wife has never been summoned.

I got out of it the first time but had to serve the 2nd time. A convicted felon got caught shooting a gun on New Year's Eve. His lawyer argued (and repeated many times during the trial) that his client was "toe arse drunk" and didn't realize what he was doing. Pure comedy.

But then it was declared a mistrial because one of the officers working the trial arrested one of the defendant's witnesses outside the courthouse during a lunch break.

The judge had to meet with us one at a time after lunch to ask if we noticed anything during the break. I said, "I saw the witness getting arrested. Not sure why." The judge stared at me for a second and said, "God damnit." And that was that.

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The pay ain’t bad.

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Teachers in most states have a built in salary schedule that rises with additional education.

Also, if a teacher is worth a shite, they can apply to districts that offer stipends.

And a teacher can get nationally board certified for an additional $5000/year.

In Alabama, year 12 with a bachelor’s degree makes $54k/year.

In my district, year 12 with an EdD and national boards makes $87k/year.

Many universities around the country offer a 5th year master’s program. This is where a student earns a bachelor’s in a subject—say English—and then takes an additional year of education courses to get a master’s. There are many online programs that are cheap to get an EdD, and it takes around three years for around $30k.

I would advise any new teacher to follow that plan.

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I’m sure the phone call from the Oval Office helped

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More like Trump sent a text message that was only a picture of Infantino’s house.

It’s natural and already happening.

Plenty of social media videos of Gen Z dweebs blasting millennials.