Leftists.

Poor guy! That happened to a kitty of mine when I was a kid, with the same symptoms. We caught it early and he was fine, but it was a scary couple of days while he stabilized at the vet. I hope your furry child is alright.

If cats just weren't so secretive and weird, instead throwing up all over the carpet and making a scene like dogs do, treating their issues would be so much easier.

Aww, kitty! What happened to him?

My mother did the same. Her reasoning could be summarized as "how bad could it be?". It turns out that, when placing a narcissistic con man in the highest office in the nation, the answer was pretty fucking bad.

No worries, I completely understand. I hope everything goes well!

Post it here and I'll chip in. Take care of your fur baby!

Edit: or DM me the link, I don't want you to dox yourself.

Me encanta tambien.

Hey, the Boy Scouts are getting better, no need to kill them!

Where is the next Smedley Butler when we need him? The guy was a true hero.

Marketing is truly the worst. A friend of mine studied psychology and his classes were inundated by industry trying to convince them to go into marketing.

You can't interface fairly and honestly with people. No, you have to use how their brains work to trick them into buying your products!

/s

That aspect is my concern. A 2020 Gallup study suggested that over half of United States residents lacked English proficiency. While I suppose a tool like this might encourage some to read who might not otherwise, I worry students will use it as a crutch, not pushing themselves to develop their vocabularies and comprehension skills.

Anecdotally, I work in a field that typically requires an advanced education. The proportion of my coworkers that consistently demonstrates basic reading comprehension issues likewise concerns me.

Edit: that this post was three down from this one gave me a good laugh: https://lemmy.world/post/17068182

It's the classic conservative condition: I didn't see it was a problem until it happened to me. So let's start making it happen to them.

I think what they're getting at is not every person on the Internet lives in the United States.

It always surprises me that people forget this. Here's the last few decades of United States politics:

Dems get power, compromise with Republicans anyhow, and mostly toothless bills get passed. Republicans pull remaining teeth once back in power and then push their agenda forward hard. Dems throw up their hands and tell the public the only way to fix this is to vote them back into office. Rinse and repeat as the country ratchets further to the right.

I think what will DEFINITELY help is all the immature passive aggression, like this post, that manifests when anyone dares to suggest they might have an issue they need to fix.

/s, in case that wasn't clear

I just bought a copy at Thrift Books! I'll have it framed.

Wow, it's a real book.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_34th_Rule

I was coming to post the same. Those fucking clickers were so stupid and overpriced, all so my biochem professor could poll the class AND grade everyone on their results. Results to questions about material that was JUST taught in the same lesson. Good thing everyone benefits equally from lecture, right? Fuck that guy.

https://yourschoolgotwrong.com/ ?

Feeling this so hard as I trundle into my forties. I can't get enough bitter gourd.