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I also knit/crochet as a very industrious hobby. When people tell me that I should sell my items, I reply that they couldn't afford my items. It took me 100+ hours to make this sweater and the yarn alone cost me over $200. This sweater is in the ballpark of $1500 in value. You can't afford me.
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Just like a big brother to put his butt in the little brother's face lol
A couple of years ago, my mom somehow seemed very insistent about the "caravan" crossing the border. Turns out she had started watching Fox news when I didn't even know her to pay attention to news at all.
I was trying to explain to her that this was really small potatoes news since - at the time - I had seen very few headlines about it on the usual subs on reddit. I also encouraged her to strive toward empathy about why a person would leave their home and all their previous life to travel by foot through Mexico to the US. And then after more news came out, tried to point out that they were asylum seekers from a country the US had intentially interfered with to maintain control in the region. She never got super Trumpy, but she seemed to keep talking about the "border crisis" almost every time we had a discussion. I then flatly told her that this was a distraction because of mid-term elections.
Eventually, she abandoned Fox news, but I'm not sure if it was my brow beating or some other reason. She started watching CNN a lot and a few times that I'd walk through the living room in the evenings, Don Lemon's big head (or Chris Cuomo) was just always at this shrill tone of exasperation. One day I told her that just because we may agree with what's being said here doesn't make this news either. News shouldn't tell you how to feel about what's going on in the world.
I'm harkening back to my college journalism days when my professors bemoaned the 24-hour news cycle. Working in a newsroom, we would sneer at the way TV stations covered current events. And now, I don't know how or when we will ever get to a point where the news can be communicated during prime time that doesn't get editorialized to hell - on either side of the aisle.
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Thanks for adding the screenshot. This makes more sense about why you haven't been including labels.
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This is tragic that so many people don't see social-emotional education as part of schooling.
It wasn't apparent from this article whether the school board sides with anti-LGBTQIA sentiments or whether they're bending to a hostile and vocal presence in their community. 😒
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