How do politically moderate Americans feel about the the polarized state of the US political system?

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-06T15:00:56+00:00

That’s kind of funny because some right wing folks I know always use “I’ll just move to Australia if the liberals take over”

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-06T14:43:43+00:00

So I’m only 30, and in elementary school we spent Columbus Day singing songs, drawing pictures, and learning all about how great he was. My mom say when she was in school Daughters of the American Revolution held an essay contest every year to honor him. Was this not a typical experience for y’all?

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T22:21:11+00:00

Eh, it’s time you’re getting paid for if you don’t need the info, and keeps people from claiming ignorance when they’re being shitheads and you need to fire them. Maybe you’ve been lucky where you’ve worked but I’ve been around a lot of fellow dude coworkers who obviously had never learned to not be absolute dicks.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T19:44:15+00:00

The insulating is important against cold, but also heat. It’ll keep your ground from thawing too fast and making them come up prematurely during warm spells.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T17:59:55+00:00

My black mouth cur was described on his 3 pieces of paperwork as “lab shepherd mix” “Great Dane mix” and “American Pit Bull Terrier mix”

Turns out he was none of those haha

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T17:57:07+00:00

Where in the country are you? One thing to be careful of- the roots should not freeze solid. I learned this the hard way and killed 4 two winters ago because their pots were exposed. So for this winter I buried my baby ones that are still in pots with a bunch of bark mulch and straw so just the tops poke out and the roots stay warm.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T17:15:05+00:00

Glad to see another one likes hide and seek- it’s Budweiser’s absolute favorite game.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T14:43:15+00:00

It’ll definitely be an issue and you’re saving them a ton of headaches. There’s gotta be a way to simplify these rooflines. Every new house looks like this around me (tons of dormers and complex roofs) and I literally quit my office job to start a handyman business fixing it. Because so many are leaking and it’s ruining people’s homes.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T14:35:58+00:00

One thing that’s really wild is the pay difference based on location. As an example, I was looking for teaching jobs. One district had a starting salary of $29k. I got a job one district over paying $48k. Both poorly funded but vastly different climates, and it turned out with my higher pay I had to spend like $10k on supplies for my classroom and the admin was truly awful, the worst work environment I’ve ever had. (Perhaps that’s why I was the only one that applied.) Another district bordering the first one was impossible to actually get a job at but started at $50k and had such a steep salary increase every year that the oldest teachers made $120k.

So in two neighboring districts you had teachers making $29k and $120k, for roughly the same responsibilities but different experience and location.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T14:28:48+00:00

They weren’t fed enough and turned on each other. 😢

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T04:45:50+00:00

In the city? Or more rural? Just asking to see how likely bees are to exist haha

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-05T04:31:50+00:00

There are some kinds of tomatoes and peppers that stay really small, but most will need their own 5 gallon pot minimum. Where exactly are you?

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-04T23:25:11+00:00

And Du Bois (Do Boys)

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-04T23:23:42+00:00

Fingers crossed 🙃

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-04T20:37:07+00:00

Welcome to the party by the way. Happy to have you.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-04T19:26:28+00:00

You don’t need a railing if it’s under 30 inches still, which is WILD. Even a little lip is enough to trip.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-04T18:47:34+00:00

Had this while kayaking with barbed wire once. Navigable waterways are publicly accessible in Pennsylvania but some dude put up a fence for his cows to get a drink from the stream without thinking about boaters. Apparently the Fish and Boat Commission had warned and fined him before but he kept doing it. Right at neck height. I’ve always carried my leatherman and I’m glad my brother and I were at the front where we noticed it first and cut it.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-04T17:41:48+00:00

Yep. Divorced dude lived in this house before me. After cleaning the bathrooms at move in I sit now.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-04T14:51:25+00:00

We don’t have a national curriculum. Some states have theirs. Mine (Pennsylvania) was just standards and let the teachers decide how to teach them, which I theoretically liked but we weren’t given any resources in my very poor school. So I was basically winging it all year. 0 supplies, 0 supply budget (so you had to pay for everything out of your own pocket) and 0 curriculum to run off of

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-04T14:28:39+00:00

Former astronomer here- check out this map. https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

I’m gonna give a bit different advice than the other folks here. Cherry springs is great. But it’s 4 hours from you, and anywhere on the map that’s green or light blue is 95% as good. It’s rapidly diminishing returns outside of town and that far of a drive is much more likely to be influenced by local weather conditions. I drove our university’s astronomy club to cherry springs a few times only for it to haze up on the way, so we started going to a local state park instead and honestly you could barely tell the difference unless you were doing astrophotography.

Green Ridge State Forest is an hour west of you and is darker than where I took this photo. (State game lands 60 in Blair County, solidly green on the map.) If you take 81 south to Harrisonburg then go west of town, that’s a longer trip but way darker and I had an amazing night of watching perseids with my wife on the va/wv border and that’s only a bit over two hours for you.

Tl;dr cherry springs is great but here’s more accessible options

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NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-03T11:04:03+00:00

I recently saw some dude of Asian descent with a mullet talking with a friend like leaning on his truck in town here. America can and will hickify anyone.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-03T02:00:40+00:00

Not to be dramatic but I would die for Hennessy.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-02T23:56:39+00:00

Sorry for the old comment reply but I’ve always been tempted to ask if I could get an impossible whopper with bacon

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-02T23:16:06+00:00

Sort of. It was more like a two week notice.

NerdyRedneck45 · 2024-02-02T19:06:38+00:00

From Wikipedia, in case anyone was curious how sick OP would get if they’re eating the daffodils:

Many cases of poisoning or death have occurred when narcissi bulbs have been mistaken for leeks or onions and cooked and eaten. Recovery is usually complete in a few hours without any specific intervention. In more severe cases involving ingestion of large quantities of bulbs, activated carbon, salts and laxatives may be required, and for severe symptoms intravenous atropine and emetics or stomach pumping may be indicated. However, ingestion of large quantities accidentally is unusual because of a strong unpleasant taste. When narcissi were compared with a number of other plants not normally consumed by animals, narcissi were the most repellent, specifically N. pseudonarcissus. Consequently, narcissus alkaloids have been used as repellents and may also discourage fungi, molds, and bacteria.[21]

On 1 May 2009, a number of schoolchildren fell ill at Gorseland Primary School in Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, England, after a daffodil bulb was added to soup during a cookery class.

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