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I think I'm going to give up on this garbage, because it's wasting my time AND they want 50 dollars for it.

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The weekly quiz's first question was about Ronald Reagan, and one of the multiple choice questions mentioned Iran-Contra, but it misspelled "scandal" as "scandle".

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“Americanization Day, Loyalty Day, and Labor Day have one troubling fact in common: They are stark evidence that the U.S. government has long held a vested interest in quashing dissent and cracking down on radical political organizers; in this case, the anarchist, communist, socialist, and trade unionist workers who were behind some of the greatest working class struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries.”

teenvogue.com/story/history-la

This is a course that claimed that Ronnie Reagan watching War Games inspired serious defensive security at the federal level in the United States.

Ol' Ron asked his advisors if the movie was real, if it could really happen.

I can believe that part may have happened, since Ronald Reagan was an enormous dumbass.

What I can't believe is that the same president who used a psychic to make policy decisions had any say in computer security at the national level.

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I'm taking this IBM course on security and it's so fucking bad, but I want the badge.

believing that you're a purely free thinker is what's stopping you from ever being genuinely critical

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What if...a clown was sad.

That would be deep, and disturbing.

I'm not a furry [instantly likes post about werewolves]

"It's privileged to insist on your rights as a worker" is such a fucked meme it can only exist in post-Reagan America

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People in job groups who respond to "This posting is literally illegal because it violates x y and z labor laws" with "How dare you, you're so privileged, some people are broke and would kill for this job"? They deserve to have their shoes filled with legos.

I feel like a vampire sometimes because I'm ancient in trans years yet I look like I'm ten

specifically looking young so when you personally remember things from the distant past it confuses people

I'm so proud to announce my new book about the racial politics of bathroom design, The Unbearable Whiteness of Peeing

@roxxers @avi the climactic one liner is literally Neo rejecting the name he was given at birth and insisting on the one he chose himself, so like, yeah

git push is when you tie your commits to balloons and let them rise up into the cloud

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