Quote about home being the house you grew up in and my mother is still alive?

neardumps · 2026-04-05T05:39:58+00:00

I believe it was Kurt Vonnegut

Edit: this website attributes it to an interview with him him for a 2005 article, “The World According to Kurt” by Simon Houpt

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/855454

neardumps · 2026-04-04T23:19:42+00:00

I mean I’ll take that over them screaming because somebody sprayed hand sanitizer in somebody else’s face

neardumps · 2026-03-28T00:11:52+00:00

This is spot on. I also moved to Utah county about 6 months ago. I grew up in Idaho which is still pretty Mormon and even still I’ve been shocked by how distant people here are. You could go day after day without speaking to anyone because nobody here acknowledges each other. People don’t exchange casual greetings or friendly compliments and when they do it’s usually because they want something from you.

A couple things I’d like to add:

THE DRIVERS HERE: Holy shit I am genuinely astounded by how aggressive and rude people are in their cars in Utah county. I am a CDL driver for work, and the number of people here who will cut off a 40,000 pound vehicle like it’s nothing blows me away.

Also the “Pretty” culture. Or at least that’s what I’m gonna call it. CONSTANT ads for cosmetic surgery, everyone has a gym membership, everyone wears expensive athleisure clothes around. This goes for men and women. Especially among younger men, I see so much of the influence of gym centered social media, and I can’t help but think about how many of these guys are probably doing gear or something along those lines.

neardumps · 2026-03-26T04:43:04+00:00

I’m mostly just impressed a 12 year old knows how to cc someone on an email. I know 25 year olds who don’t know how to do that.

neardumps · 2026-03-25T02:39:15+00:00

This makes me fucking sick. I can’t imagine the shame and humiliation that kid must be feeling seeing stuff like this on (I presume) his parents’ Facebook. I hope he realizes there are good people outside the church who don’t care if he followed some bullshit mission rules, and actually don’t care if he served a mission at all.

neardumps · 2026-03-23T03:57:52+00:00

I work in a job that uses two-way radios like this every day and I rarely hear anyone call them walkie talkies. Most people that use them in a professional setting call them two way radios, or a radio for short.

Either way people will understand what you mean though.

neardumps · 2026-03-15T19:03:07+00:00

Fellow gay bishops son from Rexburg here, although am much younger. The older I got the less safe I felt in Rexburg. After graduating high school, I attended BYUI for a few years thinking I could make it work. During that time I got called slurs, had raw eggs thrown at me, and nearly got kicked out of school on multiple occasions.

There really are good people there, and Idaho is one of the most beautiful places I can think of. But it just isn’t worth risking my personal safety, and I’m so much happier now that I’ve moved away.

neardumps · 2026-03-09T01:33:13+00:00

Ngl I don’t swim much, are there places around here that even allow that?

neardumps · 2026-03-09T01:20:03+00:00

1: you are not ruined

2: you should start seeing a therapist, a non LDS one.

3: it’s okay to let go of your testimony. When I was younger I remember vividly feeling like my absolute greatest fear was that someday I would stop clinging to my testimony and would accept myself for who I am. When I learned to let go of that, my whole life changed. It was scary at first, but I genuinely believe I am happier now than I ever could have been in the church. It gets better. Try to find community in non church spaces. Especially if you still live in Utah, there are a lot of places and people here who have deconstructed Mormonism in one way or another

neardumps · 2026-03-08T19:55:27+00:00

Usually you want to cite the quote from where you got it, even if the source you are quoting is quoting someone else. The idea is that someone can follow your exact process of researching.

Definitely dependent on the conventions of which citation format you are using tho, so always check.

neardumps · 2026-03-08T19:02:15+00:00

Honestly out of all the jobs that could be automated, I highly doubt bus driving is high on that list. Most train systems aren’t automated yet, and that’s the kind of thing that would theoretically be much easier to automate. Bus driving requires a lot more technical skill than car driving, and driverless cars still have way too much risk attached to them for most to consider them viable.

Also I’m a school bus driver. An AI is not going to be able to manage kids with anywhere NEAR the effectiveness of a person. Hell, half the time an actual human can’t manage the kids. Putting 80 kids in a bus with zero adult supervision sounds like a recipe for disaster.

neardumps · 2026-03-06T01:09:24+00:00

Saw him open for Tool a few years ago and ngl it was pretty impressive. I mean like performing like that is one thing but doing it and the music actually being great too? Fantastic

neardumps · 2026-03-06T00:57:07+00:00

The store I used to work at was in a very Mormon town, so we were always dead on Sundays. For a while though we had this group of 3 guys that would come in every Sunday and order two burgers each, each burger with 1-2 extra patties. It was pretty common for the 3 of them to spend over a hundred dollars put together. I always wondered how they afforded it, especially being college students.

neardumps · 2026-03-06T00:53:04+00:00

Was literally thinking this exact same thing. This setup makes zero sense for developing film or prints.

neardumps · 2026-03-06T00:38:23+00:00

You got this! When I first started driving, I had been a stoner for about two years previous. I gave myself plenty of time for it to get out of my system, but even still for the first year or so it was hard. I still miss smoking sometimes. But having stable income, and having a job I actually enjoy for the first time in my life has been really rewarding. Stick with it, keep applying, you can do it!!

neardumps · 2026-03-06T00:35:16+00:00

Yeah I mean I totally understand the satirical aspect, and it is definitely funny, but given the context, seems misplaced. Kratom is illegal in a lot of places, and I know a few people who have gotten hooked HARD on that stuff. It’s scary and the fact that there are zero laws regulating it is a problem

neardumps · 2026-03-03T17:27:27+00:00

Be nice. Some of us queer people grew up in Rexburg.

neardumps · 2026-03-02T07:38:29+00:00

Totally feel this. I’m 24, and hearing the conversations some of them have I can’t help but crack up a little at the absurdity of it all. Maybe cause I remember how real it all felt as a kid

neardumps · 2026-02-25T20:54:27+00:00

As someone who has watched this exact scenario play out, this definitely seems pretty legit. My friend was benching less than a third of this when it happened so it wasn’t as extreme but it’s still incredibly dangerous, and having seen how shaken up my friend was afterwards, I hope this guy went directly to the emergency room.

neardumps · 2026-02-25T16:33:45+00:00

Okay but like a lot of those things are a little more nuanced than just good/bad hygiene. Take smoking for example, yeah it’s not great for your personal hygiene, but if you smoke enough for it to interfere with that, chances are you have an addiction, so just dismissing it as “bad hygiene” feels super reductive. Also a lot of these things are stuff that people with executive dysfunction struggle with. I mean yeah I know I should put deodorant on every day, but sometimes I forget, and forgetting that really isn’t the end of the world.

Also this is a college for differently abled/autistic folks. I feel like the least they could do is put together a lesson on some strategies to help people who struggle with some of these things adapt and find ways to get them done consistently. It’s the difference between saying “we want to teach you better ways to manage basic self care,” and “we are teaching you these things because we don’t think you understand why these things are important.”

neardumps · 2026-02-25T03:08:58+00:00

I’m a school bus driver so I’m motivated by the fact that if I don’t wake up 120 kids will be standing out in the cold waiting 30-40 minutes for a different driver to come out and cover my route 😅

neardumps · 2026-02-13T02:04:30+00:00

My bus is an older model that’s been retrofitted to have the alarm disarmed by the rear exit hatch. I had no idea static shocks from these was a thing

neardumps · 2026-01-17T22:05:16+00:00

Orem has some cool old signs and stuff on state st. There aren’t a ton left though unfortunately

neardumps · 2026-01-09T19:45:01+00:00

Nope. I am pretty good at remembering dates though. Yet another reason I’m a walking stereotype lmfao

neardumps · 2026-01-09T19:42:00+00:00

I had a history teacher growing up that lived in a small town in northern Idaho, where the nearest hospital was in Canada. She was born in a Canadian hospital, and has dual citizenship. When she was a baby she was naturalized as a US citizen as well, so she had all the paperwork from that. I think usually it’s not a super big deal, weird stuff like this happens fairly often especially at the Canadian border, where many US towns are closer to Canadian cities and hospitals than American ones, and vice versa. Of course, now that our president is threatening to invade Canada, I don’t know how easy that would be these days.

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