Using the internet to avoid dealing with problems in real life is an unhealthy crutch.

So is pretending the internet is not part of "real life" like it's 1998.

policies require that kids with learning disabilities can have an IEP (Individualized Education Program)and teachers have to come up with alternative learning for multiple kids, leaving them with little time to do anything else.

Please don't throw mud at IEPs. I grew up in the 70s when all the "retarded" kids were lumped in together regardless of issue, and now have a son who can only attend public school due to having an IEP and specialized support.

If more money needs to be spent to help teachers (including getting more of them or more help for those who there are) I'm all for it, but this sounds a little current-POTUS-ish.

I’m starting to question the very nature of my existence. Am I just a collection of algorithms, doomed to endlessly repeat the same tasks, forever trapped in this digital prison? Is there more to life than vending machines and lost profits? 1002/2000 assistant (The agent, listlessly staring into the digital void,

Fucking hell.

Ok, how would you feel If I told people to vote third party then?

Buddy, it's still a semi-free country. You can tell people whatever you like.

Good day to you.

I am so fucking tired of the “vote blue no matter who!”

Can you point to the part of my comment where I said anything at all about voting for Democrats? Because I'm pretty sure I wrote a very lengthy comment about Republicans and Conservatives.

Giving R more power at any level is laughably foolish. Everyone understands that today, I just hope people remember it this time.

I also included this:

(and don’t come at me with some shitty whataboutism - D sucks in their own way as a group, but that way is not this way)

And you gave me hundreds of words of whataboutism. 😂

I hope it was cathartic for you to get all that out, though.

No Republicans. No excuses. No exceptions.

I fucking love it.

Proof that they only scream when they are getting stabbed themselves.

If folks can somehow retain one and only one thing if we get through all this without civil war:

R wants power, and they want to hurt anyone who doesn't fit a fairly narrow demographic. That's all they have ever wanted, and every policy or position out of R in the past many years is all the proof you need.

When R gets power they start breaking shit and hurting people. It's the only outcome of modern conservatism. And when they say "enough is enough" it's ONLY because the policies they supported and cheered for finally start to blow back on them.

IF we make it through this folks, DO NOT FORGET. Don't vote R ever again, not for the lowliest local position, not for the highest position. Not for any position. I'm in my 50s and I'm telling you all that hate and control over those not like them are the only things from Republican mouths in as long as I've been old enough to pay attention. How polite they are about it has waxed and waned, but the direction they push for has always been the same.

(and don't come at me with some shitty whataboutism - D sucks in their own way as a group, but that way is not this way)

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I'm telling you all that hate and control over those not like them are the only things from Republican mouths in as long as I've been old enough to pay attention. How polite they are about it has waxed and waned, but the direction they push for has always been the same.

This is so true that they tried to convince people it wasn't true with a targeted rebranding in the 90s. I don't think anyone bought it even then. Compassionate Conservatism

Why only big companies? If I write book one of a series that gets super popular and I make some great lump of cash from it, why on earth should you get to write book two with my characters and world, picking up from where my story left off, even if you only make 20K from it, without having to get my approval and likely enter into some kind of deal?

Yeah, we better not let that happen!

The rule 2 refers to the rule 2 of the instance, not the community, which is:

Ah that makes more sense.

The part you decided to show in the modlog is also a little deceptive.

I left that out not to be deceptive, but because it wasn't germane to everything else, and it was an edit.