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Time to say this again.

I work for a school board that runs three "abnormal" schools and supports over 2,500 families and 5,000 students in home schooling.

AMA.

A different social circle of mine has been sharing personal bingo cards so I might as well stick mine here as well.

I really don’t get so many of the choices within APA formatting

bunch of bossy psychologists

Visiting the Netherlands? https://levisan.me/articles/visiting-the-netherlands.html

"Pay rise" instead of "pay raise" seems so weird to me

The weirdest thing about knowing some Dutch is seeing names that might be Dutch and pronouncing them accordantly instead of only defaulting to English pronunciation rules.

No idea if Maljaars is a Dutch name or not but I said the j as /j/ instead of /dʒ/

I don't get the point of AirBnB and similar for the sake of doing what a hotel can do, but one day I would like to find one that has a waterbed so I can see what they were all about.

Watching old farts drumming is my new thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjUATJtAs_s

Anecdote time.

My mom's stepmom was born in 1926. She grew up with a pit toilet as the family toilet, but it was a special one. Inside the shack, they had two seats. One was normal size and the other was smaller, to be more kid-friendly.

As she and her siblings got older, they would say that using the regular-sized seat was a sign of maturity. And, being siblings, they'd often use the toilet two-at-a-time.

One morning before school during the height of the Depression, she and her sisters went to the outhouse before leaving for school, shouting "Big hole, big hole!" to call dibs on the toilet seats and flex how mature they were that they could handle the adult-sized seat.

Turns out there was a hobo (her words) in the outhouse. "…and he scurried out of there so fast and we never saw him again".

Being homeless then was nicer because there was "public" toilets everywhere.

Made some notes for you if you head to YVR https://levisan.me/articles/visiting-vancouver.html

Among your _actual_ friends, what is your least popular opinion?

If I could avoid all the draining social things I'm required to do, I think I'd surprise myself with the amount of social things I'd end up doing

If you borrow a noun from another language, a word that hasn't already become common usage in English (like "pizza"), and you want to make it plural, do you use that language's plural form or the English?

The 50s were wild! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_quiz_show_scandals

I don't understand the response of "oh, did they?" when you tell someone that someone did something. What, do you not believe me? I guess it is kind of like "no way!" or other statements of disbelief but this sounds more… combative?

If I'm understanding the Space Liability Convention correctly, if one of Elon's rockets were to crash on my house and kill me, my family would have to petition the government to petition the US government to charge SpaceX for the damages. https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/151/

I want a map where I can click any section of border between two countries and it tells me why. Arbitrary line? Following a visible land feature like a river? Following a subtle land feature like a continental divide? Toddler scribbling on the map?

"settler" vs "coloniser"

https://levisan.me/articles/settler-vs-coloniser.html

Call me crazy but it seems ridiculous that APA citation formatting rules dictate changing the letter cases of the title of a source so as to match the rules, rather than using the letter casing used by the author/publisher. One more point added in my personal style-guide.

On most platforms, pepper and olive emoji are unripe fruits. WHY.