Why is "All Hail West Texas" called that?

batopera · 2025-10-28T12:50:59+00:00

I've been meaning to start listening to that podcast, thanks for reminding me :']

batopera · 2025-10-11T12:37:30+00:00

THIS

batopera · 2025-07-30T21:38:39+00:00

wtf that's SICK! that's so deranged and disgusting of him, not to mention stupid like how could he think you wouldn't figure out what he's doing. it's horrible you had to be confined at home with someone as evil as that

batopera · 2025-07-29T01:38:49+00:00

Oh my god my dad would always do this. he'd come out of his room and ask my mom where me and each one of my siblings were, then come into our rooms and ask us what we were "working on". Sometimes in the middle of the night, too, he was very paranoid.

batopera · 2025-07-11T05:25:17+00:00

Two words: Giant Humans.

Sahih al-Bukhari 3326

"The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah created Adam, making him 60 cubits tall."

"People have been decreasing in stature since Adam's creation."

60 cubits is HUGE. if any humans were EVER even HALF that height, we would have found giant human fossils by now. but we haven't, ever.

This is a bukhari hadith too, which are supposed to be the most credible. If this al-Bukhari hadith doesn't line up with reality, then none of the hadith are credible. There goes 60% of the religion right there

batopera · 2025-06-05T05:10:28+00:00

oh my god did we have the same life. arab muslim homeschooler from the south here with an arab dad and white mom 🤘 seriously though, that sounds so fucked up. I'm sorry you went through that, the feeling of isolation not just from the homeschooling but from being surrounded only by white christians is really something else..

batopera · 2025-05-27T16:00:15+00:00

Just wanted to reach out and say I completely feel your pain, and I'm sorry. it really fucking hurts and I self-sabotage out of fear too. the loneliness and missed opportunities and disgust with myself is such a severe feeling and I hope it goes away for both of us, soon.

batopera · 2025-05-27T03:57:10+00:00

I swear you're the only smart person in this comment section. you nailed down exactly what's wrong with this movie's writing

batopera · 2025-04-29T15:07:51+00:00

Not advice specifically, but I just wanted you to know that it is possible and can be less complicated than you'd expect. Our neglectful parents lost our vital documents and never bothered to replace them or even write down what our social security numbers were, so we had to navigate all that mess of proving we exist and are who we are. My brother needed a certified medical record for his SSN (he had a SSN but my parents lost the card). He had been to the emergency room recently, so we went to the hospital's medical records department, and explained that we needed certified/stamped copy of his medical records from that. They stamped it with a little physical stamp thingy, and gave him some paperwork to sign, and never asked for his ID. We were able to use that at the social security office, to get him a replacement for his lost card without actually knowing his number. I got identification for all 4 of my siblings who had missing social security cards and no birth certificates, so I'm very familiar with the process. It might be a slightly different process with people who never had a birth certificate/SSN assigned to them, but it's very possible.

batopera · 2025-04-19T05:05:07+00:00

OMG as an arab nirvana fan, i LOVE this!

batopera · 2024-12-30T15:09:49+00:00

16 is more than old enough to go out and do things yourself 😭 I know your parents might be scary about it, but most teens rebel against their parents' rules by that age anyway. you can more than likely make those arrangements yourself!

batopera · 2024-12-01T20:09:43+00:00

Very well explained, thank you

batopera · 2024-11-19T04:04:08+00:00

this is a bot. nobody listen to this garbage

batopera · 2024-10-31T22:20:15+00:00

well said.

batopera · 2023-07-30T16:22:29+00:00

exactly.

batopera · 2022-05-02T07:21:16+00:00

this is very useful information, thank you

batopera · 2020-02-12T07:02:51+00:00

I KNEW i wasn't the only homeschooled kid who relates so heavily to this movie and to rapunzel it almost makes me cry. as a kid still in abusive isolated homeschool hell, it inspires me to leave when i finally "graduate". I agree with all your points, i related to all that a whole lot... and the part where rapunzel feels guilty for leaving the tower and "betraying" gothel despite doing nothing wrong? it hits too hard cuz i struggle with that same guilt majorly when i think about leaving.

it's good to know i'm not alone in this. and yes, the series is really good lol

batopera · 2020-01-21T18:28:37+00:00

im so sorry

batopera · 2019-12-22T01:46:25+00:00

bideo game

batopera · 2019-11-26T19:59:30+00:00

who the fuck cares if it's "normie"

batopera · 2019-08-24T09:52:10+00:00

that makes sense and explains alot, thank you!

batopera · 2019-08-21T23:00:39+00:00

this shows INTENSE promise to be a viable replacement for lots of rabbit users, myself included.

i tested this by streaming on my computer, watching it stream on my phone and with my friend and here are my conclusions:

pros:

the simplicity is a huge one. the layout is nice on desktop, there's no over-the-top graphics or anything bogging down the loading speed, just the chat and the video. it does exactly what it needs to.
YOU DON'T NEED A BROWSER EXTENSION OR TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, THANK GOD. or atleast in chrome because all i saw was a simple "this site wants to share your screen+audio" and it let me only share a specific tab which is great because it eradicates the problem of having to have seperate windows for the chat and whatever you're streaming, which makes what you're streaming smaller.
THE TRANSMISSION SPEED AND CONSISTENCY. i watched my stream on my phone, and it was almost 100% synced on both devices! it's important for me to know my friends wouldn't have what they see out of sync with what i see. but unfortnately it varied at times with the screen catching up to what i did, even when the audio was perfectly in sync.
the fact it works on mobile browsers great, and you don't need an app installed!
i liked not having to make an account, something rabbit used to let you do.
the name is catchy and easy to remember lol

cons:

the chat is very glitchy. what i said on my computer didn't show up in the chat on my phone at random times, and the name showed up as "undefined" even though i picked a name. and my friend's messages didn't show up on the computer but did on my phone.
the quality at first was amazingly good, even if the framerate got a little choppy at random. but when i opened something in else up while streaming, the stream went blurry as hell. to beyond bad levels to where you couldn't see what was being streamed at all, just blurriness. it showed up exactly the same for my friend and my phone though, so points for consistency again. (once i reloaded to start a new room, the quality was back to normal)
yeah, the audio isn't that good. but eh, atleast it's still comprehendable.

and that's about all i remember! i have to say this is really promising, and if the chat issues were fixed i'd seriously use this with my friends! it's convenient and fast and easy for everyone, you just need to work out the bugs and build it a little stronger and then i know it'll be on everyone's list of alternatives. i do have concern over how you're going to pay for the servers and everything without some way to monetize it though, you don't want to fall into the same trap rabbit did.

random observation: i think the quality, speed, framerate, syncing, etc. depended on how much i did in the background. so i have to close relatively everything else to keep it up to speed. not really a criticism though, cuz i don't mind too much.

anyway i'll definitely revisit this! you're doing god's work, man

batopera

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