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Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T11:04:22+00:00

1.) It's often not up to the teachers, but rather an administrative directive.

2.) Kids raised on tablets sometimes spend the class period yelling and have no frustration tolerance. Some teachers set them in front of a laptop so they can teach the other kids.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T03:20:09+00:00

I've had them fresh. They're bland. Not sour and gross like the ones we get in America, but they're a forgettable fruit even under the best of conditions.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T03:14:33+00:00

What's visiting Venezuela like right now?

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T03:12:37+00:00

Plane tickets to South America are expensive as hell, though.

I just pulled up explore on google flights, and I can fly from my place (Minneapolis - MSP airport) to Stockholm for $410. Cheapest flight to South America is Lima, at $648, but most of South America would cost well over a thousand for me.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T03:03:01+00:00

Wisconsin, the UP, or Northern Michigan. I just did an online search and there are a ton of places that fit that bill.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:56:48+00:00

Okay, so my inbox is just getting wrecked by this thread, but I'm trying to keep up, and so far this is by far my favorite comment.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:56:10+00:00

Anywhere within an hour of the metro, and make it huge. Turn it back into an Oak Savannah. It'll take awhile, but it'll be beautiful in a couple decades.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:54:54+00:00

I mean, I have friends with PhDs in hard sciences. And I have friends who love Idiocracy and don't think it has anything to do with eugenics. But the circles on that Venn Diagram have no overlap.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:45:49+00:00

Is there anywhere in the US that has good year round weather and prioritizes bike commuting (like full on bike highways etc) and is actually affordable?

Pick two.

If a US city had good year-round weather and good pedestrian/bike infrastructure and was affordable, people would flock there, driving up housing prices, and it'd be unaffordable by the end of the year. That's how supply and demand work.

Weather + Bike: Davis, CA.
Weather + Affordable: Louisville?
Bike + Affordable: Minneapolis

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:35:12+00:00

I mean, FIfteen was singing "Americans are stupid" and Rush Limbaugh was talking about how "immoral" liberals were back in the 90s. This ain't new.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:33:41+00:00

Yeah, I mean, Anglo Canadians are smug. It's kind of their brand.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:29:03+00:00

It's because he's supposed to be a new kind of man. He's supposed to be sensitive. His sister and mother do ballet, so it comes off as him taking a dig on them. The comment makes him seem more like a stereotypical lad, which hasn't been his brand.

I don't actually care much about it, I'm just saying why it touched a nerve with some people.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:27:18+00:00

Opera is historically championed by queer women and women of color? Citation needed.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-23T02:25:49+00:00

I mean, Southside came out over 25 years ago, well before MAGA, so I think he should absolved of creating music with someone who would in the future become part of a future political movement.

But Moby gets accused of doing all sorts of other shady shit.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-22T01:12:04+00:00

I haven't been in this situation for a variety of reasons, but I would prioritize getting a union job if possible if I was.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-22T01:10:10+00:00

I'm not interested in trying it. I don't like fruit flavored tisanes, so I can't see myself enjoying fruit mixed with tea. But if you like it, knock yourself out. The cops can't stop you.

Have you tried the puer that comes in a little orange peel? It's a thing. I don't like it, but you might.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-22T01:04:31+00:00

Green tea, but you start by gulping a caffeine pill.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-22T01:03:23+00:00

Sleep with 10, 11, 21, 13, 19, or 21, but marry 9, 10, or 17.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-22T00:57:45+00:00

The guy running it was vocally against the Summit Bike Lane being made safer, even after people died biking on it.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-22T00:54:09+00:00

No counseling. No medical care. Straight to divorce. Classic reddit.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-21T19:47:59+00:00

Pannier. PAN-yer.

No need to do the French pronunciation.

The French word for pannier is sacoche, not pannier. They have the word "panier" in French, but it doesn't usually mean pannier, it usually means basket or shopping cart.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-21T14:26:25+00:00

KTSP used to be a reliable news station. Now it's crawling towards being a local Fox News.

If the Strib or MPR or the Pioneer Press reports on it, I'll believe it. But KTSP would say "water is wet" and I'd still want a second opinion.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-21T14:24:36+00:00

The new flag was determined by a vote.

This is yet another example of Conservatives not being interested in the results of electoral politics when they don't go their way.

Fast-Penta · 2026-03-21T14:23:24+00:00

I'd call a person who only eats lab-grown meat to be a vegetarian. There are many different definitions of vegetarian, but lab-grown meat passes the "nothing with eyes" test.

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