They’re birds.

They’re still cities, but people tend to start calling them “rural” when you get a certain distance from the big cities and things spread out, often also near farmland and/or nature.

For example, this would probably count as rural.

I’ve heard it’s one of those ways they haze new operators.

People like you are why we have good things.

I’m not sure that Kanye truly belongs to any time period.

Ha, I can definitely see how that could be visual clutter. You should also see it for posts when scrolling through the community.

I help mod a handful of communities, and I suppose it helps sometimes when I’m navigating into random threads from my inbox - just as a reminder.

That shield symbol just means that YOU are a mod in that community and can take mod actions on those comments.

The disrespect!

I had them! Hurt myself plenty…

Can’t be too careful out here.

(But honestly this meme was stolen and I didn’t notice)

Schools (both K-12 and university) keep loosening their expectations of students, and now we have kids starting college with 6th grade reading levels.

School administrators don’t want their graduation stats to look bad, and universities don’t want to lose $$ by flunking students out, so there’s a massive conflict of interest that is ultimately resulting in a disservice to students and society at large.

The other day, I saw this 8th grade graduation exam from a county in Kentucky in 1912, and it drives home how much things have changed:

Is this another terrible consequence downwind of Citizens United?

I think that’s what they did during his first term, right? I remember him skipping the event altogether.

Lol, it’s luck of the draw I guess. I do most of my posting from my phone, so sometimes it looks good enough to me, but probably not on a bigger screen.

I’m worried that I’ll never know if I’m getting Alzheimer’s.

CTRL + shift + T and I are very well acquainted.