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Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Because of GPS, many people, including me, have no idea how to get to something only a few miles away without their phone.
School is no longer about learning, it's about passing
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Before calculators, schoolchildren used to be able to do long division in their heads (source: the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder).
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Galaxy-Star wrote:
School is no longer about learning, it's about passing

School is no longer about teaching, it's about school districts getting taxpayer dollars for each student and colleges getting student loan money (which is secured by the federal government, so the school will get paid even if the student defaults eventually) and that's why tuition keeps going up and programs keep teaching less and less useful things. (Know how to fix your car? Nope. Know how to make a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the theories of BF Skinner to the theories of Piaget? Yepppppp).

/Rantover
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Galaxy-Star wrote:
School is no longer about learning, it's about passing

Teaching is no longer about teaching, it's about teaching-to-the-test.
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Something in the food, water or with technology created since the 1930s is probably causing ADHD because there did not used to be this much ADHD.
We still don't have Replicators or Transporters that Abigail can share with the world as the first starfleet officer on Earth.
Folks who say violence is never the answer, have obviously never had to cut down a tree before.
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Suwako423 wrote:
We still don't have Replicators or Transporters that Abigail can share with the world as the first starfleet officer on Earth.

Lol
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Manofmanyfaces wrote:
Folks who say violence is never the answer, have obviously never had to cut down a tree before.

Lol
Folks also say that Abigail has to use the Replicator to replicate some Raktajino
LakotaSiouxWarrior

A world with less hate prejudice racism and more love 💕❤. When you be accepted without boundaries by anybody.
RimCaster

People who throw away food, obviously never worked hours in the sun digging out potatoes from field or even took care of the vegetables.
Rogue-Scribe

RimCaster wrote:
People who throw away food, obviously never worked hours in the sun digging out potatoes from field or even took care of the vegetables.

... or have gone hungry.

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When one idiot at the helm of one bigly country in the world and his party of carpetbaggers are screwing the rest of the 🌍 planet 🌎 on behalf of himself and his ogliarchs from one other bigly country.
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Dunedain-Ranger wrote:
RimCaster wrote:
People who throw away food, obviously never worked hours in the sun digging out potatoes from field or even took care of the vegetables.

... or have gone hungry.

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When one idiot at the helm of one bigly country in the world and his party of carpetbaggers are screwing the rest of the 🌍 planet 🌎 on behalf of himself and his ogliarchs from one other bigly country.

Shots fired!

At work we were talking about kind of furry he would be. But that's... probably not a good topic. But it's like...why, would I skip work today when we have such interesting conversations at work? Oh, and it's Big League. He's saying big league. But that's...not really important... he also said ""euphanism"....anyway, just make sure your people vote in 2020! I've got to make sure I have my address straight with them by 2020, we've moved so many times, it made me not able to vote for governor last time.
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

RimCaster wrote:
People who throw away food, obviously never worked hours in the sun digging out potatoes from field or even took care of the vegetables.

True. I have to admit I haven't. But I don't know if you could call what I eat and throw away "food," it's been processed into something with very little nutritional value. But yeah. Good point, we have no idea how hard it is to farm. Well, I don't, anyway.
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

SexySultryBabe wrote:
A world with less hate prejudice racism and more love 💕❤. When you be accepted without boundaries by anybody.

Yeah, this is why I sometimes wish people were telepathic.
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Suwako423 wrote:
Folks also say that Abigail has to use the Replicator to replicate some Raktajino

Ok, see, I speak fluent Star Trek but I'm not fluent in anime, so while I know what a relicator is, I unfortunately don't know what a Raktajino is. But I'll replicate some synthohol.
Abigail_Austin Topic Starter

Don't point out the speck of sawdust in someone's eye when you've got a plank in your own eye.

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