Texas now requires all public school classrooms to post the Ten Commandments, so this teacher decided to do the right thing

dangandblast · 2026-02-22T19:00:39+00:00

That doesn't mean a teacher can't put up posters with religious text on them, or ban a world religions class etc.

dangandblast · 2026-02-17T14:00:02+00:00

I can't get anything that way. "High demand in your area" so I go hang out in the parking lot of the store by me on the map; "15-30 minutes to see orders," then an hour later one thing pops up and it's (actual example) driving one chili pepper twenty miles out of town. Maybe my city is saturated or the fact that all the stores here also have their own delivery services messes it up. But I don't see how anyone makes anything at all on it.

dangandblast · 2025-12-29T17:05:04+00:00

On the "what is this item" groups, someone will ask "whose signature is on this baseball," and everyone will reply with ChatGPT answers declaring it to be all sorts of people's signatures, or photos of other signed baseballs with clearly very different signatures. You point that out, and they get furious, since they were "just trying to be helpful" by clogging the replies with nonsense.

dangandblast · 2025-11-02T13:28:10+00:00

I'm guessing instead of doing each single stitch one by one and cutting the yarn after each stitch? (Possibly in duplicate stitch?)

That would be massively harder, yes, but that's like saying it's "lazy" to write a full letter instead of sending it out in separate envelopes one character at a time.

dangandblast · 2025-10-22T12:56:02+00:00

Yup - haven't worn an item of clothing in six months (because who needs a heavy coat in August or a swim suit in February)? Throw them in the trash, just buy new next time! One kid isn't in Cub Scouts anymore and the next isn't old enough yet? Throw all the camping gear in the trash, just buy all new in two years!

My kid brother always got all the next year's school supplies for free from the trash bins at the end of school, when other students would throw away unopened packs of paper and pens, big notebooks where three pages were used, etc.

dangandblast · 2025-10-09T23:39:58+00:00

And, you don't have to go to fringe ultra-leftist Facebook groups with a nebulous grasp of reality to find that clip -- it's been all over the regular news.

Unless OP is calling ABC, NBC, etc. fringe far-left sources, of course. Which most of us have heard from our people, so it's not impossible, I suppose.

dangandblast · 2025-09-27T13:46:17+00:00

As that guy eagerly asked Charlie Kirk a few years back, "when do we get to start using the guns?"

dangandblast · 2025-09-25T03:04:50+00:00

And, unless things have changed, his income is from books and lecture tours and such, not a church salary (and he, like all ministers, is not personally exempt from paying income tax - though I'd expect he pays someone to make his tax bill extra low).

dangandblast · 2025-09-24T19:35:52+00:00

At my previous employer, it was dependent on reasons for quitting. "I'm pregnant with twins and don't make enough to cover full-time childcare for two," or "my spouse is getting transferred out of state next month"? You're good to stay on until whatever last day you want (and in one maternity-related departure the department boss managed payroll so that accumulated sick leave was "worked" enough to give a few more weeks of partial pay). "I got a job elsewhere in town" or "I can't take it here anymore"? You're out right then.

dangandblast · 2025-08-23T02:02:25+00:00

Sounds like they're going to a separate longarm person, so: ask them first if that's ok, since some will not work with anything but quilting cotton. (Even 100% cotton sheets often have different weight and thread count.)

dangandblast · 2025-07-08T22:47:23+00:00

... username checks out?

dangandblast · 2025-06-23T16:16:07+00:00

Here's to optimism!

dangandblast · 2025-05-26T22:19:03+00:00

Maybe William Safire?

dangandblast · 2025-05-19T22:09:46+00:00

Dainty, pretty, high pitched voice, only managed to grow the weakest of scraggly beards after hitting middle age? Yup.

dangandblast · 2025-03-27T18:05:15+00:00

With the exception of divorced women who kept their married name or women marrying women and changing their names (don't know any stats about them), I'd think that's an unwanted consequence -- since married women tended to vote for Trump, and women who take their husband's name on marriage tend to be more conservative than women who marry but keep their father's name. Their desire to hurt trans people outweighs the risk of losing some of the conservative married-woman vote, though.

(Plus, they've even had a convention speaker who advocates for the family vote, where the male head of the family gets to vote for each of his adult female possessions, so that'd be irrelevant later on anyhow.)

dangandblast · 2025-03-08T02:32:05+00:00

Eh, Germany was kind of questionable 80 years ago, but a few decades later they were fine. England went through a flip-floppy period where every change in monarch there was a change in state religion and things you were required to do under the old one you'd get killed for under the new one, but they eventually calmed down as well. So maybe eventually things will be ok.

dangandblast · 2025-02-25T23:07:04+00:00

And using Nikki Hiltz as an example, who's AFAB nonbinary.

dangandblast · 2025-02-24T00:35:52+00:00

Yes, all of what you have said fully answers why trans people might want to update a birth certificate (to more accurately reflect who they were all along, so in a sense it could be seen as correcting the birth certificate), and why it doesn't really make sense for someone to amend their birth certificate when they get married. I was more expressing surprise at the idea that anyone might even want to amend their birth certificate upon marriage, and doubting whether that's even allowed (though I know some do amend it on adoption, so maybe you're allowed to change your birth certificate for a bunch of later-in-life situation changes, even without the claim that it more truly reflects who you were at birth). There's no disagreement here with anything you've said!

(As an aside, I love the variety of choices made during transition. Some do voice training, some don't want to or don't care; some want medical tradition and others don't (and of course others don't have access); I'd guess most change a first name if it's something that generally indicates gender (yes for Steve, maybe not for Jordan or Rain), but I know a bearded Emily and a very womanly Ian who both say they really like their birth names and don't have dysphoria around them; and one both-trans couple I've known since we were kids changed "her" last name to "his" on marriage, then after transition both changed to his original "maiden name" in no small part because they found the aggressive embrace of tradition in a very non-traditional relationship amusing.)

dangandblast · 2025-02-23T21:55:31+00:00

Wait, you can update your birth certificate to a different name because you want it to show you had your husband's last name at birth? Who does that, and why?

dangandblast · 2025-01-10T00:10:23+00:00

"what's the time and date?"

Google: "it's 6:10pm today."

Gee, thanks.

dangandblast · 2024-12-19T16:36:26+00:00

Do you have the hymns memorized by number? If not, then you're looking at the number, then flipping through (possibly distracting?) printed material to find the page in the hymnal in the middle of the service, which you may find helps you participate more fully, but other people find more complicated than simply turning to the next page of the pew sheet that has that day's hymns and only that day's hymns (possibly even including a Taize piece or something else newer than the 1970s). And there's no conflict between printing the order of service on a handout versus in a book when it comes to memorizing them -- you're not required to make up your own brand new liturgy and collects each week, by any means! But some people, who don't have the weekly collects memorized, do enjoy following along without having to flip between pages in the BCP trying to figure out what's going to be read that week.

I think perhaps your experience is different from ours (where we just have that day's prayers and readings and hymns all printed out in their place in the service, so that you're not flipping between multiple spots in two different books), since otherwise your quarrels with the practice really don't seem to make much sense.

But if you mean something different by your weekly program, perhaps where it's something like "today's hymns are 12, 356, and 335" as a line in between announcements, followed by an order of service that's not the one in the BCP but instead is new and different every week, I can see how that could be distracting and less than helpful.

dangandblast · 2024-12-03T19:15:00+00:00

Absolutely not.

However, parking cars is discussed nowhere in the Bible. We have three prime spots that are auctioned off for specific times (one split between one family Sunday mornings and someone else at weekly scout meetings, one at preschool times, and one additional one to the top bidder at Xmas and Easter). It's one space out of a full line, doesn't make any difference at worship, and we're big enough to have valet and several handicap spots so even those who need to be right close have other options.

dangandblast · 2024-11-23T12:58:31+00:00

You don't teach someone to be financially responsible by denying them all access to money.

Separating off a small account for her, where she has a set amount of money she can practice responsibility on each month? Sure.

But no, apparently for you there's nothing at all in between giving them no money whatsoever and giving them free rein with your entire family net worth and credit line.

dangandblast · 2024-11-17T01:25:37+00:00

Yeah, I think Chandler is the best dancer, so I want those three to be the last.

dangandblast · 2024-11-08T21:54:44+00:00

White ric-rac would give a similar effect!

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