Salem

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Now with 200% more racism! in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS5w11VNPXg

It's bizarre, like Jimmy Carr's stand-up but in podcast form.

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How did you become an adult? Any advice to impart? (hexbear.net)
 

How did you get your first job? Apartment/house? Dating?

I ask because I really only did so after years of bouncing around from colleges, summer abroad programs, living with friends, and really just use Zillow or StreetEasy to look.

(I also ask because I want a distraction from the world that isn't entertainment or documentary/non-fiction and often daydream about what things I could have done different had I known things - real life skills - earlier.)

[CW Eugenics] It's finally autistic people's turn to get a "I want an refund for my shitty kid" NYT OP-Ed. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That last paragraph you wrote reminded of that page from Flowers for Algernon, where the father defends his son Charlie from his mother.

Matt - the father - loved his son and accepted him regardless of his disabilities.

We should all be grateful we are not divorced from love, even if just as a concept of it, as Emily May is.