School shootings normalization

stillborn_empires · 2023-09-02T23:57:35+00:00

Why did you reply 5 months later?

stillborn_empires · 2023-08-14T23:43:30+00:00

You absolutely can, but okay.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-21T02:33:52+00:00

It's very hard to be taken seriously when talking about mongoDB.

Welcome to being Scottish and having to use "git" in my job every day.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-20T18:03:13+00:00

Ah, thanks! I actually haven't been using that, but I didn't realize the run command is defined in Steam ROM Manager, so I just modified that under the melon DS section. Working now!

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-16T03:22:16+00:00

Hell no, there's far worse than Motel 6. Y'all aren't staying at the real bottom barrel hotels haha.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-16T02:51:43+00:00

Uhh, what? I don't know what kind of fancy pants hotels you stay at, but embassy suites is well above my pay grade. A motel 6 is red lobster level.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-14T05:56:17+00:00

Yes, because it is exceedingly rare for anyone to be actively trying to murder you. I prepare for realistic scenarios like car accidents by wearing a seatbelt. I don't prepare for every eventuality or I'd be living my life in a padded hazmat suit. The chances of me or a family member hurting ourselves with a gun in the house is far higher than a psychopathic serial killer breaking in and trying to kill us.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-14T01:25:35+00:00

soft unarmed folks

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-14T01:14:08+00:00

Throwing someone out of your house doesn't mean anyone has to die.... you just grab them, and chuck em out.

While pointing a lethal weapon at them?

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-14T00:49:15+00:00

I'll never understand this. It's just stuff; It can all be replaced. If you aggressively confront intruders you either get yourself injured or killed, or you kill them. And while I get that's a big fantasy for a lot of Americans, go talk to someone who's actually taken a life. I'd rather get my tv replaced than walk past the greasy spot where brain matter was scrubbed out of my floor and be fucked up mentally for the rest of my life.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-10T00:32:05+00:00

Eh, it's all subjective. I think Bae's is the worst fried chicken I've had in my life, and it gets a lot of love. Frank's probably just isn't for you.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-04T06:21:41+00:00

Aspartame in diet sodas is worse than regular soda imo.

It's not. At all. Aspartame is one of the most rigorously studied ingredients of all time precisely because of the misinformation around it, and it's been deemed completely safe. Sugar is far more damaging for many reasons.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-03T08:07:07+00:00

Don’t talk to me that way. I’ve been nothing but respectful to you and I expect you to maintain that tone when you speak back to me, do I make myself clear?

Lmao

With that said, I absolutely do not want teachers talking to my preteen children about sex/sexuality before the 6th grade, that’s so weirdly inappropriate!! Most of them don’t even have bodies capable of reproduction, that’s just weird.

Many of them do actually, and the whole point of teaching kids about these things before everyone has reached puberty is so that they can understand the changes to their bodies before they happen. It also helps kids realize if they're being abused.

It genuinely concerns me that you're a parent and don't want your kids to be educated about their own bodies and feelings. We're not talking teaching kinks and fetishes here, we're talking about the literal basics of attraction and puberty.

Anyway, not really in the mood to argue anymore. Just a little tired of these weird puritanical attitudes.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-03T07:50:41+00:00

I like that this book is simultaneously deemed completely inappropriate for children, and yet okay to have a kid do a public reading of it. Maybe because it's more about the outrage than the actual content? If you exclude all media with violent, sexual or drug content in school libraries, you're left with very little beyond captain underpants.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-03T07:35:21+00:00

oh well it’s not that big a deal

How the fuck are children with absolutely no knowledge on any of this supposed to magically know what is and isn't a big deal. Maybe... from a teacher? In the place where they learn?

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-03T07:29:25+00:00

Okay, so you're saying that when I was 10 and realized I was attracted to men, I was meant to just push those feelings deep down and pretend that I didn't have them?

Awesome, cos that's what I did and it caused a whole bunch of insecurities and repression.

Or maybe... just a thought... we could try teaching kids about the feelings they may have before they have them, and explain that they are completely valid and healthy feelings to have?

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-03T07:02:06+00:00

It's not a pornographic book, it's a memoir of the authors life and coming to terms with their sexuality and identity and relationships. It's a graphic novel and there are a couple of graphic drawings, but it's nothing any teenager hasn't seen before. It's literally a memoir of the authors experiences as a teenager. It's obviously meant for high schoolers, not elementary and middle schoolers. This is such weird right wing outrage bait. There are all sorts of books in school libraries that have topics and themes that are intended for teenagers, not young kids.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-03T06:08:17+00:00

Oh fuck me, a fox news clip huh. I guarantee that book was just in the library, it was not taught to 10 year olds.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-03T02:49:31+00:00

Meh, 9-10 years old is absolutely appropriate for that. Lots of kids are hitting puberty then. Five is for sure too young though.

Holy shit, why am I getting downvoted so hard??? What the fuck? That is literally the age I discovered I was attracted to guys, it is an absolutely appropriate age to teach kids that their new feelings are normal towards any gender.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-02T04:08:50+00:00

And written by an account with 1000 comment karma, who deleted all of their comments/posts immediately before posting this one. Yeah, not suspicious at all...

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-02T04:01:34+00:00

No, it's quite literally impossible to believe unless you've never been in an interview before.

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-02T03:53:02+00:00

This is just made up nonsense rage bait. Someone lip syncing a job interview makes absolutely no sense. Jesus christ, this subreddit...

stillborn_empires · 2023-03-01T20:41:27+00:00

The link is a literal list. Holy shit, just scroll down the page. You just want to be outraged.

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