Oh no, I’ve been reading it as oh-mih-cron.

Haven’t said it out loud yet though.

We never had active shooter drills. We had fire drills pretty regularly and occasionally had “emergency” drills where we would all go into the hallway and stand facing the lockers, so think that would have been really bad for an active shooter.

One year, there was a man with a gun in the school and we all turned the lights off, barricaded the door (they didn’t lock), and turned over desks and sat on the floor.

People were crying, but I wasn’t very worried because we were on the 7th floor and I didn’t think a shooter would bother with that many stairs. He was apprehended by a security guard and did not fire any shots, I’m not sure if we ever found out why he was there, but it seems like he wasn’t intending to shoot up the school and just happened to be armed.

Another year, I wasn’t in school that day, but they locked down the school because there was a man shooting pigeons on a nearby roof.

ETA: I just took it for granted that this is normal, but we had full time security guards that were not police who worked at the school. Every morning we went through metal detectors and the security guards searched our bags. They were really nice though and well-loved by the students.

There are a couple places that paid people $100-500 or had a vaccine lottery. Idk how effective it was.

Yea, like do I want to stop using single use plastics? No.

Do I want the government to make and everyone else? Yes.

People will take the path of least resistance and are motivated by short-term gratification so you need to cut off that path if it’s going to kill everyone.

There are definitely wrong doctors. That’s where the expression getting a second opinion comes from.

Go to any women’s forum and you will see tons of post about women who left their doctor because they refused to give them tubal litigation or they were suffering for years with severe pain that they were told was normal only to find out they have a huge cyst or something similar.

I’m sure this isn’t an experience exclusive to women, but it happens a lot.

Definitely not Five Guys. All the toppings are free and there’s like 20 or so options.

So what you’re saying is that Engles is another Marxoid saying stuff that Marx never said?

On the chance you’re being sincere, it’s a euphemism for “Fuck Joe Biden” because of this viral nascar interview where the crowd is chanting “Fuck Joe Biden” but the reporter pretends they’re saying “Let’s go Brandon” to cheer on the NASCAR guy.

I guess they think it’s some sort of liberal media conspiracy but she was probably just conscious of trying to make it seem like there wasn’t cursing on live broadcast.

I don’t care as long as it’s soft.

This is so crazy to me as tech worker. I feel like what I do is meaningless and it’s insane that I get paid so much for it. I have a friend who’s a social worker and they qualify for Medicaid. Their job is so much harder than mine and they actually impact someone’s life.

I can’t imagine one way how anything I’ve worked on made a positive impact.