[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I have yet to take a flight where my Bluetooth earbuds will connect to the screen built into the seat in front of me.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I remember when Fox was a brand-new network that only broadcast during specific times of the day in my area.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Though the divorce judge found there was evidence that Hawkins had physically abused the oldest son, the judge said in his ruling that was “one instance that does not involve either of the two children at issue.”

As far as information in the article, it sounds like the two kids in court-ordered Christian therapy are the only two the guy didn't (allegedly) abuse.

But still, the whole thing is disgusting. These children should be protected from such an abusive garbage human. Their mother is doing the right thing.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

As long as they had source material to follow, the showrunners did okay. When they passed the end of the latest book, it all went to hell.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

But for every one of them, how many of their peers are still in it? I'm the only one from my generation who got out of my terrible religious upbringing.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's because many of them are old enough to remember a time when you were supposed to be quiet about your racism because you knew the rest of society would shame you for it.

Unfortunately, America has never reached the point where a majority of people felt shame about their transphobia, so in their minds it's okay to be more open about that.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

He's an actor whose biggest role was playing Hercules on a low-budget show on a third-tier network in the 90s. Now, as far as I know, he's only getting work in shitty evangelical movies.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure that white supremacist ideals for maintaining a white majority in the US has more than a little bit to do with this. It's gross.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's pretty telling that they are trying to portray Marxists, Hermeticists, Luciferians, and Gnostics as united -- or possibly even as the same group. Those circles of the Venn diagram might share some overlap, but (in my experience) their goals and principles aren't very similar.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

All true. But because teaching is historically "women's work," it is undervalued and underpaid.

Most teachers I know have at least Master's degrees, yet we're paid less than B.A.s start at in many fields. I took a 20k/year pay cut when I became a teacher, despite having received a Master's degree before entering the field.

Until we value teaching as much as we value other types of work, we're not going to attract large numbers of qualified people, whether they're men or women.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

For real. Every time I'm scrolling through a news article and I see a rectangle with an X in the upper-right corner, my initial reaction is, "Oops. Ad. Scroll past." I'm quite certain I've missed some embedded tweets that way.

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

This is something I wish that more people understood. In almost any other democracy in the world, Bernie Sanders is only slightly left of center. On a global scale, US Democrats are a center-right party and US Republicans are a far-right party. There are no successful left-wing politicians in the United States.

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