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What are the things one can get away with lying about? I imagine there are things the employers normally do check.

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My teacher put a kid with dwarfism and tall kid side by side in front of the black board and drew a line between the tops of their heads, and then another still downwards but in the opposite horizontal direction. Thus the pointy end always faces the smaller thing, while the open end always faces the larger thing. Doesn’t work so well in english, though since it kind of implies people with dwarfism are “less than” people without the condition. In the language it was taught the verbs used for < and > are also used when comparing heights.

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Hover-over text of ExistentialComics’ comic:

Some people have called Plato the first totalitarian thinker, but if you look at what Democracy is producing these days it’s hard to not think he had a bit of a point…

And text beneath comic:

Also, my Dad is trying to raise some money for a surgery, I already posted this before and we met the goal, but then he contracted dengue fever so the surgury had to get delayed, so we are trying to raise a little more money to cover those expenses. If you could spare a few dollars it would really help.

As for Plato, he criticized democracy heavily, claiming that it gave people too much freedom, and if anyone could be elected by the ignorant masses, it would be too possible for selfish people who only wanted power and wealth to get into power. Democracy, ironically, would inevitably lead to tyranny and demagogues. He thought a better system would be for the wisest, most virtuous, and most selfless people to govern society, which of course would be philosophers like himself. How this system was immune to corruption is a little unclear to me, but given what’s going on with democracies lately you can probably at least say he has some good points.

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This looks AI generated to me.

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Probably because .world and other instances of that kind don’t federate with hexbear.

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Would you say one’s response to Adderall is a reliable indicator to whether one has ADHD?

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Thanks for the warning.

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