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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • To those who grew up in religious schools, what's the craziest thing you remember a teacher telling you?

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  • My diocese had one of those too. He ran the Newman/student center at the university. The bishop knew about him and "applied restrictions" to him, but it wasn't until he died that they publicly investigated him.

    It was about ten years after he died that the investigation report came out. They concluded "there was a homosexual culture" at the Newman Center to blame.

    During this investigation, no direct information was learned that Msgr. Kalin was homosexual or was a practicing homosexual; however, there was sufficient testimonial and anecdotical [sic] information learned during the investigation to confirm Msgr. Kalin did seek out and prefer the company of men. Much of this exacerbated later in his life due to ongoing medication and treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

  • To those who grew up in religious schools, what's the craziest thing you remember a teacher telling you?

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  • That girls wearing shirts that showed any sort of curvature were leading boys to hell. RIP girls with anything larger than a B cup.

    And then there was a transfer student I became friends with. Didn't have the words for them at the time but probably non-binary. They used a chest binder and got in trouble for that. Damned for having boobs, damned for trying to minimize them; damned for just existing.

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    Your anatomy when you twerk

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  • Is that your actual AI prompt? "Your anatomy when you twerk"? That would be delightful.

  • Who are you up for in the World Cup?

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  • You think FIFA and the selection of the US as host isn't political?

  • Who are you up for in the World Cup?

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  • Wut?

  • Who are you up for in the World Cup?

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  • I'm for the people who will be posting dank memes shitting on the US government.

  • Would you consider it predatory if a 30 year old woman was hanging out with people aged 20-29 because she has a mental age of 20 due to being in a coma for 10 years?

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  • Quebec passes secularism law banning street prayers and prayer rooms in universities

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  • At my university (US), one of my calculus professors with a 150+ student lecture hall would repeatedly open his lecture with a slide showing his church and an invitation for students to join him there on Sunday. Absolutely inappropriate to proselytize a captive audience under his power to pass/fail them. There has to be some accountability for universities to stop this, but not to harass a person wearing a cross necklace or a koppel or a hijab. Shame this is legislated at such a high level instead of people just being professional and not a*holes.

  • Is Lyme Disease recognized in the US?

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  • Yes, it's recognized in the US. Not always quickly and accurately, I've known several people who lived with it for years before a doctor finally figured it out.

    (Pure personal anecdotal, not data-backed) I suspect a generation of doctors were trained only to look for a red rash in the shape of a bullseye target on the patient's skin and not to run blood tests until a bullseye is seen. People with Lyme don't always get the bullseye rash or sometimes it's in an area not easy to detect it (on scalp, covered in hair). Hopefully there continues to be better awareness and diagnostics.

    It's not super common where I live (middle of the US). I've been bitten by ticks many times but never contracted Lyme. My state advises saving the tick for 30 days after it bites you. If you have any symptoms, your doctor's office can arrange to have it tested. If it tests positive, you get tested and then treated if needed and also the an official report goes to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is a national-level public health agency.

    Unfortunately, the CDC is under the Department of Health and Human Services, which is now run by RFK Jr. I wouldn't be surprised if that moron were to advise tanning one's butthole as treatment for Lyme.

  • Have you encountered anyone who uses ai, but claims not to?

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  • Yes, my industry is revising their standard to say something about needing processes to control the use of "AI". Literally a sentence long. So I pointed out that as written it would apply to spell check and face ID to unlock my phone and Google search engine and so on. "Oh, that's not what we mean, we mean like ChatGPT". They need to write that before they publish an absolute shit requirement for the industry to wrestle with.

  • How would you respond to the statement "Trans women are biologically male" ?

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  • Humans don't fit neatly into a male bucket and a female bucket. I'm not interested in discyssing this with anyone unless they're referring to studies from scientists and medical professionals who actually have some knowledge behind their statements.

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  • I was super good at recording the local music radio station to a cassette tape to minimize the DJs chatter. My brother would pay me to catch songs for him. Too bad he had awful taste.

  • Reconsidering World Cup tickets?

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  • There will be games in Canada and Mexico too, consider going to those instead. The cup is in July, so due to height of summer I would be looking at Canada, personally.

    I'm seeing friends cancel vacation plans and work colleagues cancel work trips to the US and I don't blame them. If I didn't already live here, I wouldn't be looking to travel to the US without really good reason, and a sport tournament would not be enough for me.

  • Did that United healthcare CEO have friends, who counseled him about his company's denial rates etc.? (prior to Luigi incident)

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  • People getting CEO jobs aren't hanging with working class bros. They either never were working class or they shed those connections on their way along the corporate ladder.

  • New Book Just Dropped

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  • Forget the fingers, look at that wrist with the bracelet cutting off circulation.

  • New Book Just Dropped

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  • AI or are her fingers fucked up IRL?

  • Trump Cracked a Pearl Harbor Joke to Japan — A Day Later, Tokyo Declined His Hormuz Request

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  • JFC, what a psycho.

    Kudos to PM Takaichi for keeping composure. Her eyes bugged out a bit but mine would have popped straight out of my head.

  • HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support

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  • I did tier 1, 2, and eventually some 3 support back in the day for a software company. I liked how they handled it.

    Customer called in, reached a live person doing intake. The intake person noted their question and callback number, helping to scope the problem if needed, and entered a ticket into the queue. The intake person gave the caller an expected wait time for a support tech to call back, pointed them to online written help documentation, and ended the call. Then push the ticket to tier 1, 2, 3, or "urgent, need to call NOW" queues. Depending on tier and call volume and time of day, they'd get a callback from a tech anywhere from immediately to the next morning.

    Support techs like myself were coached to help over the phone, but also to point out the written materials and encourage their use. I would commonly say, "sure, that's a problem we can fix, go ahead and go to screen x, click on button y, etc. By the way, you're not the only one who had had this question, we even have an entry on this in our support documentation. Let me show you where you it's at so you can get to the fix even faster than a phone call next time".

    Having the intake person take numbers, then techs call back later saved customers from having to wait on hold for lengths of time. We had very few cases of irate customers stuck waiting.

    My shittiest experiences are the companies that don't do any intake and make all tiers of calls wait on hold in the same queue. Luck of the draw if the tech you end up with is a tier 1 still in training pants or a tier 3 pissed to be walking a customer thru updating their password for the millionth tim.

  • If Peaceful Aliens beamed down. Wouldn't we pose as much problem as them being out immunities and diseases are different from them? And vice versa? So we could accidentally kill one?

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  • Water and a solid wooden bat helped too.