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[–] Shootingstarrz17@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days 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.

[–] Shootingstarrz17@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Ah, didn't know that. Cool.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My brain auto completed it to say making them starve instead.

[–] Shootingstarrz17@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Lol. Brain be funny sometimes.

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Felt the same way too. In fact I think there was a subreddit dedicated to something like "first line/sentence" and thus there should/must be a Community for it by now.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

meanwhile Florida ponders whether children in the mines should be fed

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They can just sleep through the day at their woke school. /S

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Can't be woke if you're asleep

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 280 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 96 points 5 days ago

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

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 148 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 64 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And making them work to repay it!

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[–] UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

More like Pro-Life-Debts amiright?

[–] FoolishAchilles@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

Actually tho. Conservative politicians be pushing that pro-life shit cause of religion but also because they want to maintain their cheap labor force that they’ve sold the idea of “freedom” to

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days 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.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago

Richest country… for now

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[–] madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world 107 points 5 days ago (7 children)

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

A church. $206 Billion.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 3 points 3 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

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 13 points 5 days ago

Neither is terraforming planets for every male member

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The show American Primeval was the beginning, they showed how they ripped people/towns/indians apart for that land under government control by Brigham young. True or not, I'd believe it given their stake today.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Joseph Smith, the Jesus Christ of Mormonism, was killed by an angry mob who stormed a prison he was being held in to execute him for scamming them.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 18 points 4 days ago

You got me in the first half, ngl

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 71 points 5 days 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

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 21 points 5 days 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

[–] Unboxious@ani.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sort of. Our leadership have been doing some incredibly sketchy things lately and are very buddy-buddy with Trump.

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[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days 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

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

And no minorities in that picture.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 37 points 5 days 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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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days 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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[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 15 points 5 days 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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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Utah. White people helping white people 🤍

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[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

Love to see it.

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