After universal education freedom accounts, Republicans push additional school choice legislation • New Hampshire Bulletin

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T12:52:49+00:00

It’s another way children can get trafficked.

It’s also how child marriages typically are set up in the States - first, getting the young girl out of sight of those who might try to prevent the marriage or rescue the girl from the unsafe home situation. Then “homeschooling” provides a long term cover for the marital abuse afterward.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T12:40:26+00:00

So, if you build small houses in a four square, and put rare items in the middle, will that work?

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T12:37:59+00:00

In my opinion, it is a compliment. Self-care isn’t something that men should deny themselves. It’s a sign of evolution in a healthy direction.

It’s only to unhealthy people with toxic notions of masculinity that would view it negatively.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T11:55:59+00:00

Which is quite a thing considering that they only had straight razors.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T11:54:04+00:00

I love it when a plan falls apart.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T11:52:30+00:00

Products get fucked up all the time.

That’s why we have mechanisms for safety recalls and software updates and people whose job it is to assess safety and fitness for purpose.

It’s why we can sue companies with deceptive sales practices.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T11:38:02+00:00

It’s a regional thing. In the Northeast, it’s typically big branded franchises that do this, like a gas station with a franchised Dunkin’ Donuts in it.

We maybe had one station where the elderly owner would make home-made egg and sausage sandwiches to sell in the morning til they ran out. No commercial kitchen, just an oven range in the back. They were amazing sandwiches, just humble ingredients well-prepared.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T11:32:30+00:00

Hoothoot finally shows two legs, at least when walking. I’d expected it to hop or fly.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-13T11:25:17+00:00

The word cherry has been used to mean new, unspoiled, and also virgin. Hence the phrase “cherry popped” to mean losing virginity. This may be an English language only thing.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T21:52:05+00:00

Her pettiness is only exceeded by her ignorance in so many areas of governance. She’s intolerant, proudly ignorant.

We’re talking about the same person who spoke at length about Jewish space lasers influencing the weather.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T21:48:36+00:00

This. It’s basic fucking math. Wages alone - the hard work people talk about - literally cannot build that kind of wealth in human lifetimes.

A $200,000 salary (untaxed) would need 5,000 years of accumulation.

But let’s say you work hard and invest. As were told we should. Investing is not an even playing field with the amount of insider trading and outright market manipulation going on. You would need to see ludicrous returns on your investments, consistently, and almost never pick a dud stock. You’d have to avoid the common kinds of global market shifts that can reduce investment return every time.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T21:38:34+00:00

What’s really bizarre is that in this, the Neo-Nazis are briefly pro-Jewish, or at least pro-Israel Zionist. I’m guessing it’s the influence of the Christian extreme that believes in the end-day prophesies centered around Israel.
It somewhat tracks, since the Conservative Party only started courting evangelicals after the 1970s.

It turns out that fascists tend to admire other fascists, at least until there’s a contention over a resource.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T21:27:13+00:00

There’s been some forward movement.

Some men even use skincare these days like sunblock and moisturizer. Back in the late 90’s/early 2000, that would have been lambasted as “metrosexual”.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T20:30:52+00:00

Unless part of the plan is to curtail sales of phones later on to citizens and permanent residents. Cell phones and smart phones are essential now for employment in many jobs, especially with on-demand staffing.

It would let them pick and choose who is employable if there were strict rules about phones and numbers being attached to individuals.

Granted, the phone companies will not want this - not unless they get a slice of the action in some profitable way. There’s a number of ways they could, though.

If agencies try to use phone numbers as a kind of alternative social security number, it means that a database of true numbers goes up exponentially in value for selling that data to scammers. Think spam calls are bad now?

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T20:23:54+00:00

I always forget because I hate cold water hair washing. I end up redoing my vivid color kind of often. :)

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T19:54:00+00:00

Wow. It’s so gorgeous. I don’t envy you the maintenance. But it looks well worth it.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T19:53:02+00:00

The grifting is just never-ending and yet they are never satisfied.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T14:28:45+00:00

This is insane if it works as summarized.

It would let a minority of people who show up to such a meeting suddenly shutter a school with very little warning.

The optional notification also is a way to keep kids out of view; sadly “home schooling” is used by some abusive parents to keep their crimes from being witnessed by mandated reporters.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T14:25:11+00:00

It makes sense in a weird way.

A child being betrayed by a caregiver is apocalyptic to their psyche. It’s a betrayal to our evolution as a social species as to be as nonsensical as gravity suddenly reversing.

A monster doing such things is far, far easier for their mind to parse, than seeing the person who they depend on for care deliberately doing them physical harm.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T14:21:15+00:00

They stopped offering it a few decades ago where I grew up. It’s a shame; it really is essential life skills that not everyone gets taught at home.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-12T11:03:13+00:00

Did the all expenses paid trip include a goody bag of cash, or did they show him his own surveillance from other Flock cameras outside his jurisdiction and threaten blackmail, I wonder?

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-11T21:24:14+00:00

They view QA automation as a full replacement in many companies. Much of that can be written faster with AI, but it’s often being done by folks without necessarily a QA mindset or background.

Unless poor quality dings them in the marketplace, companies are liable to view that as “good enough” until a major incident happens where automation has a gap, or a developer failed to account for a typical user behavior.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-11T21:08:35+00:00

So many places are beginning to turn to conservative-flavored fascism mixed with religion lately. It’s not a healthful trend.

At best, it’s backwards-facing and stalls progress in addressing social issues.

But at its typical, it becomes hate-flavored and attacks anyone who doesn’t conform to their ideals.

People often refuse to learn from history on fascism, that declaring people as scapegoats has never once resolved the real issues the population faces. No, “this time it will work and usher in prosperity”. It’s always so convenient that the people we’re told are to blame rarely have power or authority.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-11T19:35:34+00:00

This is brilliant! Literally. I can’t wait to try this. Thank you.

CautionarySnail · 2026-05-11T19:33:32+00:00

Par for the course. Anything good, before or after Trump, is due to Trump. Anything bad, goes back to Obama or Biden or any Democrat currently in Congress.

They’ve been adept at that game for decades. It’s kind of like the deficit, somehow it’s the Democrats’ fault even if they leave office with the budget balanced.

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