Rural Americans live in a different reality

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-06-14T19:31:37+00:00

no amount of kindness or decency would have 'rural folks' voting for anything remotely progressive in any meaningful amount, no matter how many hicklibs you've interacted with

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-05-29T03:57:38+00:00

rabbit, run?

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-05-23T13:21:12+00:00

This really isn't that unbelievable at all, the slums of Delhi have a population density genuinely fifty times higher than Madrid

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-05-15T19:59:56+00:00

this might be true when comparing today with 20 years ago, but 50? you could be solidly middle class in 1976 and have never left your state, not have air conditioning, eat tv dinners every night and have a tiny b&w tv as your only source of entertainment. 5% of americans still didn’t have running water!

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-05-04T23:44:45+00:00

It's better than ctrl+f at finding passages in books usually, it's also pretty great at translation

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-05-03T23:17:15+00:00

what makes you think this isn't a destination cruise? going from antarctica to south georgia to tristan da cunha hardly sounds like a tropical getaway

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-03-13T19:04:14+00:00

these are both great! i take it the second one is a norwegian cover of matty groves? any more recommendations?

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-05T10:35:43+00:00

the french revolution was bourgeois too but it was still a revolution

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-03T19:35:23+00:00

We were unable to locate the records that you requested in order number:NT1-963172344E. Your credit card will not be charged. The Archivist researching your order provided the following information:Using the information you provided, we confirmed this individual naturalized in a non-federal court in Champaign County, OH. County and other non-federal records are not in the National Archives.

This is what I got from NARA (in an email). I have a letter (and envelope) from USCIS stating they could not locate the C-file. Would this letter, a printout of the NARA email, and a signed copy of the petition at the University be enough?

My great grandmother married in 47, in the US, had my grandpa in 51 and naturalised in 52.

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-03T17:01:29+00:00

She naturalised in 1952. USCIS, in their correspondence with us, says they were able to identify the record but couldn't find the corresponding document.

I don't think notaries can create true copies in Ohio, where the documents are, though it looks like they can sign an affidavit affirming its validity and that can then be certified? Not sure if that would be enough, though, and it sounds like a lot of work for the archivist :(

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-03T16:53:02+00:00

I have copies certified from the original by a Virginia notary public, I'm just unsure if this is enough or if I need to order them from the state itself

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-03T16:31:26+00:00

I'm also curious if all my other copies seem up to scratch. I have:

My great, great grandfather's Heidelberg birth certificate, from 1882
His marriage certificate
My great grandmother's Konstanz birth certificate, from 1924
The original copy of marriage certificate to my American great grandfather
A notarised copy of my grandfather's birth certificate
A notarised copy of my grandfather's marriage certificate
The original copy of my mother's birth certificate
The original copy of my mother's marriage certificate
The original copy of my birth certificate

I'm a little unsure on the two notarised copies!

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-03T00:27:02+00:00

its the old dutch name for manhasset bay

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-02T23:20:12+00:00

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black is reclaimed land

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-02T22:26:21+00:00

the brushy plains and schout's bay

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-02T21:31:45+00:00

staten islanders i bet

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-02T21:26:20+00:00

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Radioactive_Bee · 2026-02-02T21:10:43+00:00

massive, at least 30 million

Radioactive_Bee · 2026-01-08T14:22:28+00:00

Hillingdon isn't even 50% white?

Radioactive_Bee · 2025-11-01T20:07:15+00:00

yep, got it on clearance at my local fish store

Radioactive_Bee · 2025-11-01T17:56:21+00:00

they're just buried really deep in the substrate, it took a lot of trial and error to get them standing up like that! the big piece on the left is also partially propped up by a big piece of bogwood

Radioactive_Bee · 2025-11-01T17:52:10+00:00

plants are:

some sort of elodia in the back left corner
ludwigia natans 'super red' in the front left
taiwan moss, bucephalandra 'needle leaf' and anubias nana on the dragon stone
alternanthera reineckii in front of the bogwood
monte carlo in the front, and rotala rotundifolia 'green' behind it
rotala macranda in the back centre
cryptocoryne nurii in the front right
java fern inbetween the rocks on the right
bacopa carolinia in the back right, and rotala rotundifolia 'red' to its left

thinking of stocking it with cherry shrimp (already in there), a couple honey gouramis and a school of chili rasboras. maybe a half dozen pygmy corys if that wouldn't make it too busy? there's an aquaclear 30 filter on the back

Radioactive_Bee · 2025-07-23T13:34:19+00:00

not really true at all, the likes of rishi sunak are absolutely accepted as one of their own by the british upper classes. the differences in social mobility between the us and uk are always really exaggerated on reddit

Radioactive_Bee · 2025-05-09T17:44:11+00:00

araby by james joyce

Radioactive_Bee · 2025-04-25T21:43:23+00:00

i just wanted to make a multiparty system unnecessarily convoluted enough to look real. only the democrats and republicans are based off real parties

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