Had the funniest kid on a field trip today who had obviously been on my tour before but wouldn’t fess up to it and instead just pretended to be deducing and intuiting the answer to every question on the spot. I didn’t rat him out because I didn’t want to embarrass him and because I was really impressed with his recall. He’d clearly learned and retained a lot and I was flattered!
I was like “does anyone know why fire might be important to a prairie ecosystem?” and he raised his and said, with this theatrically exaggerated air of thoughtful consideration: “I think it might be because many native prairie plants have deep roots and keep most of their biomass safe beneath the soil, so that when a fire burns the dead plant matter above ground, the roots stay alive and can grow back stronger on the nutrients from the fire?”
like yeah dude it’s like you read my mind or are receiving my whole spiel from memory with suspiciously exact phrasing… good job
people keep tagging this Tim Drake and I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept of “Batfam, but they’re public park rangers”
googling shit like “why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends” and all of the answers are either “you need better friends” (i don’t; my friends are wonderful) or “your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels” (i don’t; i’ve got tons of energy, it’s just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it’s like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much
I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say “you were fun today and no one hated you”
here’s the thing about the fucking tariffs. besides Unfairly Punishing Our FUCKING ALLIES YOU MORON- okay okay. anyway. the other thing
the other thing is that we have no manufacturing here
most of the fabric I buy to make my clothes is made overseas. I would actually love to buy wool from a local, unionized woolen mill! I’d be pleased as punch to do that! it’s better for the environment and creates good local jobs that don’t have a barrier of entry re: college degrees, which we need more of!
exceptwe don’thave any more fucking woolen mills because your billionaire ilk outsourved all of them to avoid union rules, OSHA, and paying minimum wage, when those things became commonplace and/or law. you orange fuckface
“buy American instead!!!” okay FROM FUCKING WHERE. we don’t MAKE shit here anymore. and the few remaining local producers have been forced to charge exorbitant prices because they’re competing with cheap unethical labor practices from big companies, so most people can’t afford to buy local
god it’s all so fucking stupid and I have to suffer for other people’s idiocy that I actively tried to prevent
During the Biden-Harris Administration, over 700,000 new manufacturing jobs have been created and over $910 billion in private manufacturing investments have been announced nationwide. As manufacturing has soared, so too has the opportunity for workers of all backgrounds to get good-paying, quality jobs.
You probably didn’t hear about it because Biden was old when he did this.
Older people have made up the bulk of many protests for ages now, since they have the free time to participate, but every single time people act shocked and go “whoa, the BOOMERS have woken up?” bc internet memes convinced them everyone older than 55 was a monolith of conservatism. Something that was never ever the case
Young people are all perfect radicals. Old people are all conservatives who hate everything and everyone. Now to look at the 2024 polling data and
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