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[–] [email protected] 281 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"They had us in the first half I'm not gonna lie"

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago

Dude for real. Seeing Utah and school lunches in the same sentence had me worried.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Richest country in the history of the planet, and we have "lunch debt" for kids in school.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well yeah, how are we going to get rich if we aren’t taking money from 5 year olds?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And making them work to repay it!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like Pro-Life-Debts amiright?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They held my high school diploma for 6 months because I had $20 dollar deficit.

They never got the money because my dad threatened a lawsuit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My school held someone's diploma to the max legal limit (like 6 months) because they did a twirl when walking on stage to get the fake diploma case thing.

Many US schools are more oppressive than some other country's prisons

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Richest country… for now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Can't wait for school lunch debt to become non dischargeable in bankruptcy

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Just a reminder that the LDS Church has $206 Billion in the bank.

A church. $206 Billion.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good thing it ends up in the hands of the Belters (at least in the TV show)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

also in the books!

the expanse is probably the most faithful reproduction of a book series ever.

especially considering it's like, what?, 5 books they made into the series?

it's almost a 1:1 translation into a different medium, which is hella impressive!

they cut some stuff here and there (more and more as the series goes on, for obvious reasons) but seriously, damn near everything about the main story is there!

there's really good reasons for the fans demanding more of it after Netflix stopped production

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Neither is terraforming planets for every male member

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They also own 2.7% of private land in Florida and 1 in every 550 acres of private land in the U.S.:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Also a reminder that "Mormon porn" is an incredibly popular genre on Pornhub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Its funny because I dont understand Mormons enough to know why the videos are taboo. They always look like dream sequences for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It makes me sad I wasn’t expecting this headline from Utah whatsoever when starting to read it but I’m glad it’s positive in the end

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Utah is a little weird in that they aren't so Mich maga as much as they are Mormon, they have progressive politics when it just so happens to suit the church's needs

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Same, literally a gasp then a sigh of relief as I read the headline

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're playing the long game here.

1st remove fluoride from municipal water sources, kids start getting more cavities.

2nd give free lunches.

3rd kids stop eating their free lunches due to the pain of their cavities.

4th State government proclaims they've done such a tremendous job with the economy that kids aren't eating and needing free meals anymore, so they are removing them from the budget.

/s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Remove the /s cause this is pretty much on the money.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mormons definitely deserve a lot of the bad rap they get, what with the overbearing patriarchal whatever they've got going. But they can usually be counted on to feed people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Ah, didn't know that. Cool.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

meanwhile Florida ponders whether children in the mines should be fed

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

how does a 14 year old work overnight i dont get it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

That's easy: you don't go to high-school anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is SOCIALISM and I cant WAIT for My Republican Representative to FIGHT to OVERTURN this NONSENSE!

-Republicans who have NO PROBLEM giving BILLIONS of Their Tax Dollars to Elon Musk!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

You got me in the first half, ngl

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been saying, "oh well" at just about every headline I've read in the past three months as a coping mechanism, but this one caught me off guard. I definitely expected Utah to charge kids full-price. Glad to hear they're looking out for kids.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Utah. White people helping white people 🤍

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Love to see it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Damn, fhe first half of that headline had me thinking something very different

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s a nice start, but it needs to be free for all kids, like at least my state

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, there no god damned reason K-12 lunch shouldn’t be free. Fucking bonkers to add another line item to people’s budgets. Especially now.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Finally, good news out of Utah.

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