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What movie terrified you as a child? Or what character?
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I only saw parts of it and yet it haunted me for years. I found it genuinely terrifying and fucked up.
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What movie terrified you as a child? Or what character?
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I only saw parts of it and yet it haunted me for years. I found it genuinely terrifying and fucked up.
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18 October 1989
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I always bring up this story when talking about (bad) teachers. Once on my way back from school on public transit, I saw a teacher grading essays. They give this one essey an A, then close the notebook, check the name, open the notebook again, cross out A and write a B. Obviously I don't know the backstory, but I was still looking at it in disbelief. I'd definitely been graded lower based on how the teacher liked me. Even on things that should be objective, like science subjects.
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18 October 1989
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From my experience most teachers shouldn't be teaching. Some downright hate kids. I had one who admitted she didn't manage to get into medicine, so teaching biology was the second best. She definitely shouldn't have gone into teaching.
My elementary school literature teacher loved my creative writing and always left a note on my assignments, encouraging me to continue. Then in high school my literature teacher consistently gave me lower grades because she didn't like my wiriting. Completely killed it for me. To be honest, I don't know how she could even be a literature teacher, because the creative writing she loved from other students my friends and I agreed was unimaginative garbage.
In the 12 years of mandatory education, I can count on one hand the good teachers who made me interested in the subject. And I've had well over 24 teachers in a wide range of subjects.
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Ur autistic rule
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YMMV. I like the weight, but not for sleeping. I toss and turn a lot and wake up sore and uncomfortable.
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Your Truck is Stupid Big
I've seen an increase in these dumb trucks in my small European city. Every single one in pristine condition, so you know the pricks don't use them for work. A few stood out with expectedly dumb details. One had a license plate a la "I love USA", and another had a sticker "0800-EAT-SHIT". I'm pissed EU doesn't have the balls to ban them altogether.
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Indoor vs Outdoor Cat
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Internet has a hard-on for virtue-signaling and black-and-white perspective, and "adopt, don't shop" is one of those. There is nothing wrong with ethical, responsible breeding.
There is, however, a lot wrong with unethical breeding (e.g. doll-face persians, scottish folds, pugs, frenchies, showline GSDs, etc., and backyard breeding as a whole) and official breed standards set by people who only care about the looks and not the health of the animal.
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Japanese Precision & Accuracy
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I'm sorry to disappoint.
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My father would beg to differ. Some of the things I've heard: "who's going to take care of you when you're old", "the undesirable immigrants with 5+ children will take over and ruin Europe". He also told me I was being selfish when I was barely 18 for stating I didn't want to have children because carrying a child for 9 months and childbirth terrify me. That shit still terrifies me to this day, on top of all the other reasons why I still don't want to have children.
Also, according to him the feelings a parent has for their child are "unexplainable". That must be why my mom and and his mom were more a part of my childhood than he was!
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type shit
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Circumcision is and should only be a medically necessary procedure. I've never heard anyone say medically necessary circumcision is mutilation, but I'm from Europe where most men aren't circumcised, so there's that. Whoever says it's mutilation when it's medically justified is ignorant.
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using github should've been a warning sign
I run multiple containers from a single dev, and I could switch to someone else's images, but it's a hassle. Once I ran into an issue, I realized the sole support is provided on Discord. Which, whatever, I think it's awful because it's not openly searchable on the internet, but it's his choice. However, what I found extremely dumb is ALL announcements, changelogs, including breaking changes, are posted exclusively on his Discord server. Nowhere else. And he acts all pissy about people stumbling into the server for help and not finding the exact announcement, and being trigger happy with the bans. I get people being dumb and not reading basic instructions, but this goes beyond that. Your whole fucking operation is on a closed Discord server with subpar search function.
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Finally deleted GBoard
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You wrote you "couldn't find any instructions on where to get the necessary files or how to do it". I just provided the info where one can find the wiki with the instructions (among other info), and the link to the repo with other versions beside arm64-v8a. That is all.
I use HeliBoard myself and love it. Lots of customization and glide typing works as well as on other keyboards.
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tragic
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A formal state apology was issued in 2014, and a compensation scheme for survivors was set up by the Irish Government, which by 2022 and after an extension of the scheme had paid out €32.8 million to 814 survivors.[4] The religious orders which operated the laundries have rejected appeals, including from victims and Ireland's Justice Minister, to contribute financially to this programme.[5]
Shocking. /s
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This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability
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Lately whenever someone complains their C partition is full, it's always unmistakably Adobe's fault. Their shitty way of updating piles up crap in the Windows Installer folder. Uninstalling Adobe and cleaning up its garbage, no joke, frees up anywhere from 20 to 40 gigabytes of storage. Insane.
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This week on Windows...
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Microsoft acknowledged a bug in the June 2026 update that displays internal file names instead of real names in Recycle Bin confirmation dialogs.
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Finally deleted GBoard
The instructions are on their Github wiki, the link to which can be found in the About section of HeliBoard Settings, for anyone who's curious.
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Meow meow meow
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I know it's a meme com, but they really aren't. In this case it's more about humans being "dumb". They try to apply the same methodology they use with dogs to cats. And that in itself is dumb. There are studies out there that treat cats as cats and yield actual results.
Another thing is there's much, much more funding for dog research simply because dogs are far more useful to humans than cats. E.g. guide dogs for blind people, other service dogs, bomb sniffer dogs, rescue dogs, etc.
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Replication crisis, my arse
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In this case it would be an intolerance, and those you really do have to find on your own, unfortunately. And figuring it out can be extremely difficult.
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Exactly
This goes well with "We've all got the same 24 hours", as if someone who has to work two jobs to support themselves and their family is in the same situation as someone who lives off of inheritance or rich partner and doesn't have to work.
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It's insane, isn't it? Especially when it comes from a fellow woman.
I had a pre-syncope and could barely get out of bed for a week and a half. When I told my doctor I'm worried about it reoccurring because I don't know the cause of it, she just smiled and said that's something that would be hard to diagnose and that I shouldn't live in fear. And I'm like ??? Your job is literally to diagnose. I also have a few chronic illnesses, so I tend to feel up and down. She straight up told me it's just anxiety and I should be grateful I don't have any serious illnesses.
Unfortunately, she's not the only one like that. Just recently I had a doctor tell me such nonsense that's debunked with a 2 second internet search that I questioned whether he got his license off Temu.
Too many misogynists and narcissists in the field.
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Neutrality won't save you from Russia, Kallas tells Ireland
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Hey don't worry. Here the Nazi party that won general elections has direct ties to Putin. They like sucking that dick while blaming immigrants for everything, including the weather/climate change.