They didn’t figure out that I was fairly severely hearing impaired until I was 7. My mother evidently worked extra hard on getting me to pronounce things correctly so my speech was good enough that nobody suspected until I got into school and barely payed any attention to the teacher whatsoever. The teachers were convinced that I was “retarded” - the word they used back then. It all worked out okay in the end.
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Honestly, until they start learning to read it is easy to miss. Don’t beat yourself up. This is why I do an eye exam at every check up, even though it’s pretty rare to catch anything. Lots of peds don’t find it worthwhile, but that’s how I was trained.
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In a surprise to nobody at all, actually:
New details are emerging about the newest dozen police officers lauded by Gov. Ron DeSantis for moving to central Florida from New York City to escape what the governor described as low morale and a lack of support from Democratic politicians there.
The new hires include one previously fired as a Walmart Inc. security guard, one with only three years of experience who demanded more than double his salary and others with mysterious gaps in their resumes. One said he mistakenly checked a box on his employment application indicating he illegally used marijuana recently – then said he actually never did. Two failed to disclose on their Lakeland applications they had been disciplined over minor matters by the NYPD.
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Whatever the story was in Waukesha, fuck yesterday.
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Absolutely disgusting. In the end, money was what mattered. She knew/thought it was happening, but because it “never compromised [ERW’s] performance,” then, meh.
“I would believe every single thing Evan has said about Marilyn Manson, because we were there,” Emmy Award-winning producer Ilene Landress, who in addition to Mildred Pierce worked on The Sopranos and Girls , is quoted saying.
“He came to visit once, and I remember the vodka bottle flying out of the trailer. She would come to work in bad shape. She would come to work like the train had run her over… Pretty much every morning if I saw Evan Rachel Wood, the first question would be, ‘Where’s the medic?’ She was in a rough place.”
But, Landress added, what was going on in Wood’s personal life “never compromised her performance” on the show. “She would just fall asleep in the makeup chair, pop out of the makeup chair, and do her thing.”
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He’s the godfather of Johnny Drop’s kid. Which seems in character for both of them, I guess.
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You mean Johnny Drip?
/kidding
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Droop?
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Look, you’re all misspelling asshole.
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He must be cool. He has a cigarillo in his mouth. Signifying him sticking it to the taxman. At least until a decade ago.
Or he’s just broke now because he burned his money like an idiot.
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Kevin Strickland — who a judge on Tuesday confirmed has suffered Missouri’s longest known wrongful conviction — will not receive any compensation from the state for his more than 42 years behind bars.
Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article253915738.html#storylink=cpy
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Edit: Here’s the Times piece –
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It’s in our charter, we don’t take political positions for advertising money.
So they had to decline to accede to government coercion.
I didn’t read the whole article but that line is a zinger which skewers right wing hypocrisy just as completely as their anti-woke fake “university” with no degrees and no discussion on topics they don’t like.
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from the article:
If these anti-boycott laws are allowed to stand, get ready for a slew of copycat legislation. Texas passed two laws that went into effect on Sept. 1 — one prohibiting state agencies from conducting business with contractors that boycott fossil fuels and another preventing agencies from contracting with businesses that boycott firearm companies or trade associations.
i hadn’t heard about those before. i wonder what “boycott” will mean to companies, because i imagine it could make divesture from fossil fuels in pensions and the like impossible 
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Maybe so, but First Amendment rights are more fundamental and intrinsic to the doings of a newspaper then to those of fossil fuel corps, so hopefully not.
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