It is, because the US numbers are so incredibly dragged down by the worst of its school systems. I live in New Jersey, and we rank highly and are considered globally competitive (although I never really understand how you can compare them, they’re very different approaches to learning), but if you go to the shit hole parts of the US it’s a stark contrast. That being said, NJ has over 500 school systems, so there’s even stark contrast within the state.

But yeah, the DOD school system is consistently the best place to educate your kids. And it’s all free (if you’re doing your part).

Yeah, I’m from Jersey, and I guess the majority of people I know are just transplants to other states, but it’s shoes off everywhere to me. Home is comfort and comfort is shoes off.

Shoes offer.

I want going to be so forthright, but nail on head.

We’ve got the Lemmy/Reddit worldview out in force. We should shut down vital infrastructure, risking life safety of many, for a cat. I say this loving cats: that’s silly.

Yes, it was. Nobody was going to jail over weed though. They handed it a year of probation if you got caught by the cops.

Can’t wait! I’d eat like 4-5k calories a day, and literally couldn’t put on weight, although swimming competitively helped a bit I’m sure. Was just a bean pole.

Smoked an unhealthy amount of weed as a kid too, and my go-to high snack was a half gallon of milk and an Entemann’s All Butter French Crunbcake. Believe it or not, I cannot eat like that anymore.

You’re absolutely right. What’s it got to do with this post?

What in the original post has anything to do with America? Do you think it’s good to just go comment unrelated shit all over the place? Nothing says anything relating to America at all, and yet, no surprise, someone makes it about America somehow. How does that not bother you? We’re in shitpost for fucks sake.

Yeah, but there’s also seatbelts in the back. The car is either straddling the line between generations or it’s set design fucking with us.

I really understand how people with otherwise good lives get to an age where they no longer want to live forever.

I kinda take solace in this a bit. I’m 38, got young kids, and I don’t generally stop to think about my mortality but when I do it’s always with the thought that I’d miss stuff, mainly related to my kids and them growing and us all being a family. But presumably the rigors of life just become life, and you get to a point where you’re okay saying “Welp, that’s enough!” Perhaps I’m just rationalizing my future fears or something, I dunno, but that’s my hope, that I’ll reach an age where I can comfortably say I think I’ve seen it all, or seen enough that I can go peacefully into nothingness.

Obviously the darker alternative is that I’ve seen enough pain and I can’t take anymore. But I am not here for that! Good feelings only!

For some reason missed the text above the pic box, and I was like shrimp possessing and doing blow brings you joy? The context of your context cropping helped me enjoy it more.

That was my first though: Is this the cure to erections lasting more than four hours?

I appreciate what you’re saying, but I wasn’t aware that commenting on a post suddenly made me adopt any and all of it’s opinions. But when I see folks turn a post about a cheese and onion sandwich into an America bad jerkfest, I just felt compelled to point out how stupid that is, in spite of the fact that I probably agree with them.

Turning every tech post into Linux praise and every anything post into America bad does not create a healthy, entertaining community. It’s boring and repetitive. You understand that. Right?

So I didn’t know who Frankie Adams was, and I looked her up and spot on.

And so yeah, I want to read the whole series before I watch the show, so I can watch the show and criticize it, you know?

And Amos I imagine being the redhead dude from The Walking Dead, Abraham. And I know that’s not how he looks, but I can’t get it out of my head.

I like the joke, and maybe I’ll steal it in 20 years or so.

Bobiverse was fun, and one of my first forays into a series of Sci-Fi, particularly space, though I’d read some PKD shorts prior, and some other earthbound scifi stuff. I enjoyed it, I don’t think it ever takes itself too seriously, but I also come away from reading them with a renewed interest in learning more about space. Good stuff.

I’m on book 3 and enjoying it. I had started episode one of the show, stopped, forgot about it, and then decided to read it all, and eventually go back to the show.

The Gone World was awesome, and I have numerous times recommended it to people, but couldn’t remember the name and have to go look it up, and I end up describing the main character (physically) and adding time travel to my query, and I usually am able to find it.

I am nearly done with book 3. Definitely intend to chug through to the end, I can’t leave a series undone.