officermike

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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was taught cursive in my elementary school years. Since leaving elementary school, I have basically only ever used cursive to sign my name, and even then, calling it "cursive" instead of "illegible scribble" would be charitable to say the least. I think I encountered maybe one document ever in my adult life that weirdly specified that I transcribe a printed sentence into cursive. I get that there's other things taught in school that I do use that others absolutely don't (trigonometry for example), but I can't imagine cursive being a necessary prerequisite for any common modern career path.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In a better timeline

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Eric Michael Kelso

His parents really named him after That 70s Show?

Donna Reid Kelso

And then he went out of his way to find a girl named Donna to fulfill his nominative determinism‽

Edit: The man is 44! Unless there was a legal name change at some point, his name predates the show. Wild.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The C is for Cuba, BTW.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (10 children)

The word "fascism" had been used a lot in regards to Trump - not because it's a go-to insult, but because Trump is meeting every characteristic of the word.

Per Wikipedia:

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

  • Dictatorial/autocratic: Issues a flood of executive orders and works through Elon to exercise singular executive power with zero regard for Constitutionality and separation of powers.
  • Militarism: Threatens land grabs/annexations of Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza
  • Forcible suppression of opposition: Lawsuits/investigations/threats against media companies that say things that hurt his feelings
  • Belief in a natural social hierarchy: lifelong history of public racist and misogynistic comments
  • Subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race: suppression of transgenderism, everything DOGE is shredding, abolition of CFPB, OSHA, etc.
  • Strong regimentation of society and the economy: extreme censorship, immediate blame of disasters on DEI (even if only white, cisgender, qualified men were involved see DC airliner/heli crash), tariffs (and threats thereof), intent on destroying the renewable energy sector and forcing fossil fuels
[–] officermike@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because the main box is divided into three smaller boxes, one for bow, one for stern, and one for midship. You can build them in any order, or they can be built simultaneously by you and your friends/family. They included a brick separator in each sub-box.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That game cartridge mechanism is satisfying.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm guessing OP was talking about set #10497 Galaxy Explorer with 1,254 pieces.

Spaceship!

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Maybe two weeks of nightly building after work while watching TV.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The reverse Monty Burns

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Titanic, and no. I looked at getting an LED kit for it, saw how much I'd have to disassemble and decided not to.

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