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Cake day: October 3rd, 2024

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  • We literally had no sex ed other than pointing at a model. Nothing about how to do it or do it safely. Nothing about how to recognize if you’re being forced to and don’t realize it. Just pure memorization of the inner parts that people forgot about instantly. We had to watch a baby be born in a video but that was literally it.

    This was last year. By the best bio teacher in the school.




  • I once saw this community shitting on people that were literally saying “I wish they would make single row seat smaller trucks like they used to”
    Like that’s LITERALLY what this sub wants. Making fun of anybody who owns any truck without considering what they use it for doesn’t get people to stop getting trucks, it just makes people dislike the anti car movement.



  • 2016 kia soul, it’s named “sir-hops-a-lot” because the gas petal is sensitive and someone who hasn’t driven it will ‘hop’ (also my love of frogs and that it’s green).


    (picture is a bit inaccurate due to the year)

    It was like ~$11.5k and we got it from a pretty small car dealership which is family owned that doesn’t squabble about prices. What’s on the website is what you get.
    I love my little frogmobile to death :3




  • TriflingToadtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNo need to boil the ocean
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    9 hours ago

    rediscovering science is one of my favorite things about the human mind. The brain is hardwired to fuck with shit and figure stuff out, often at its own harm.
    It’s so nice seeing people taking stuff apart to learn how it works, it’s how we learn!

    My grandpa immediately after getting married went home and disassembled and reassembled my grandma’s hairdryer for fun, as expected she wasn’t very happy about it. This kind of mentality is what led him to becoming a high up worker in a paper bag factory then later a grocery store manager.

    (obligatory DONT mess with CRTs and Microwaves, they can kill you)

    I started my computer science obsession by going against my dad’s command* and plugging in a different mouse that wasn’t as old as the one that was used on the family i3 dell optiplex computer.
    I went against his suggestion and used Firefox instead of chrome. These learning opportunities often backfired, I’ve nuked my OS (both windows and Linux) like 5 times by this point and had to reinstall, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I want to get some sort of a junk 2nd car that I can tinker with without messing up my own car that I need.

    *note about my dad

    my dad is very much a 9-5 “it just works” kinda guy, he would always call over a friend when the PC stopped working and would just take his car to a mechanic. He doesn’t know how to teach me about computers or how to fix it if I break something past unplugging everything and plugging it back in. He encouraged me to experiment in other ways, just not with computers.

    I think exploration and mistakes are adorable and should be encouraged.






  • TriflingToadtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldQuestions?
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    1 day ago

    Speaking of touching hair, this isn’t really related but what are you supposed to do when holding a baby?
    Like I held my family members baby the other day at Thanksgiving and my brain just defaulted to petting their nearly bald head like my cat 😭