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Slapped Velma on the ass and caller her dummy thick during a commercial break while [classic] filmed it.

Steinbeck is depressing, even for English majors, but what really kills HS English is the way they teach it. Steinbeck is meaningless unless you (a) had a older relative survive the Great Depression, (b) live in Salinas (which is really nice for a farm town), or (c) are taking a history lesson on the first 3 decades of the 20th century. If you can’t derive any perspective out of what you’re reading, what’s the point? For the record, as decent as Steinbeck is a prose writer, you’re not likely to read him for his word smithing. It’s for his characters, all well written and sympathetic, but unmistakably creatures of the Dust Bowl. Most HS freshmen aren’t going to have a real insight into the droves of people that escaped the Midwest only to waste away here in California. Unless you see it for yourself, it doesn’t really make sense.

I didn’t piss myself at the Home Depot. I call it a win.

They’re more put together than any human. I gotta go back to Wild Animal Park… that place is awesome.

The one in Julian yesterday?

Best 5 minutes spent.

People "not knowing better" isn't misinformation - people misrepresenting an opinion as fact is misinformation and is not protected by the first amendment.

Lazy professors are the worst.

That might not even be legal. Reproducing any work, even that of a website, is subject to copyright law. It's generally understood that "reproducing only for your private use" means to prohibit you from denying the source author compensation for disseminating work. All articles, including critical and scientific articles, are subject to licensing fees. In the stone age, your local library would buy a book and, if you wanted to quote and source it, you had to check the book out, actually read it, and return it - you couldn't quote verbatim the entirety of the book or photocopy its pages and then dissmenate them. The prohibition would be printed somewhere on either the back of the title page or at the very back. Nowadays, websites have a similar disclaimer that can appear usually on the very bottom of the page under "Terms of Use" and includes a section called "Copyright Ownership" which says much the same thing. My advice to you is to have a seperate page where you re-list all your sources and say that permission to copy and submit was not permitted by the author.

Those are fine looking pancakes.

Nabs didn't hate me, he just wanted me to stuff him like a burrito. Sandstone, though, like legit thought I was making fun of his mental state. I think he's cool now, but I can't be too sure....

The sure fire way of knowing it’s Sandstone is him extolling a full throated, almost pure, hatred for me.

He is not Sandstone.

That's good Ghosty.

Drink a liter of Dr Pepper and try again.

What do you mean by that?

Only a race supremacist would care if someone else of their race was bringing shame on the whole group. Just saying, ghosty.

Why does it matter?

Well, neurodivergence has nothing to do with personality and the disorders that relate to it. Musk can be neurodivergent and a narcissist because the latter isn’t disorder in the neurological process, it’s a failure in coping behaviors. In that respect there is a rational explanation for his activities even if it’s abhorrent. At the same time, you as a neurodivergent man have a unique perspective on how his neurodivergence could shape his perceptions of the people he’s impacting.

I don't think that actually answered my question. Why do you think Trump does imbecilic things? And, for that matter, what is your opinion of Musk, a neurodivergent man, and the things he's doing?

You just have to hold out for a Rasing Cane's. One moved in like across the street from the local Chik-fil-A, and instantly cut the line at the C-f-A by 3/4.

Ghosty's a good dude, but there's no shame in being frustrated by his sometimes incomprehensible musing. I've kind of learned to see what I want to see in his threads and shape my responses that way instead of trying to give it a straight response. Also, I take every opportunity to encourage him to fuck.

I think most people would probably do a better job on both accounts. Why do you think he did it, Ghosty?

It's how most universities abbreviate it, ackshually.