I honestly believe we’re going to reach a point where 18-22 year olds are no longer considered legal adults and will need their parents permission for everything. College will just be 13th to 17th grade
Met someone recently whose father worked in Guantanamo Bay and he said that the terrorist suspects who were really religious actually held up under water boarding really well once they figured out it wouldn’t kill them
Are Pope's tweets just "tweets" or are they official acts of the Magisterium?
Like if a job asks me to use ai, can I just tell them that I'm catholic, point to this and refuse?
conservatives: 👏 MAKE 👏 GUBMENT 👏 SMALLER 👏
also conservatives: the government should be able to force my 45 year old son to give me fealty and respect
My daughter asked one simple question at the PTA meeting and watched the president's face tell her everything she needed to know.
Spring fundraiser raised $11,400. Big success, everybody's proud. PTA president presents the budget at the April meeting.
My daughter does accounting for a living. She's looking at the numbers.
Column says vendor costs: $3,200. My daughter knows the vendor—same company the school used last year. She'd helped coordinate it.
She raises her hand. "Can you break down the vendor costs? I thought they charged a flat percentage of sales."
President says there were additional fees for setup and materials.
"What additional fees? They're a percentage-only company. It's in their contract."
President shuffles papers. "There were some miscellaneous expenses."
"Like what specifically?"
Room gets quiet. President is shuffling the same papers repeatedly.
"I'd need to pull the receipts."
"You're presenting the budget. Don't you have the receipts with you?"
Other parents are looking at each other now.
My daughter asks for a line-item accounting of all expenses over $100. Very reasonable request.
President says she'll email it to everyone.
Three weeks pass. No email.
My daughter requests a formal audit through the school district's parent organization.
President resigns before the audit happens. Treasurer takes over, pulls the records.
$2,800 of the vendor fees were cash withdrawals with no receipts attached.
School district referred it to the district attorney's office.
My daughter never accused anyone of anything. Just asked for the receipts.
Numbers don't care about reputations.
Lethal injection isn’t really used because it is more humane. The guillotine is far more humane, as is a firing squad. It’s used because it doesn’t squick out observers. It’s rather pathetic
Every part-time job I ever had I got by claiming fully open availability even on holidays, then a week or 2 after being hired adjusted my availability down to what I actually want, & booked off a full two weeks around Christmas. Just lie to "managers", they aren't real people.
so basically by identifying your paternal haplogroup they found out your great grandfather had high blood pressure so your entire bloodline is medically uninsurable, sorry! venmo sent ❤️