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[–] 253 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So glad I can't see William Clarks name

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm just here to roast OP for their incredible job at censoring names.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Life hack: I told them I was a conscientious objector when I was 18 and never heard from them again.

    I was this 🤏 close to joining ROTC and thought real hard if I'd be willing to kill random strangers in exchange for tuition. The debt was worth it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I also almost joined. Graduated HS slightly after 9/11 and everyone had a huge boner for the military around that time. My buddy joined and referred me. I ultimately decided against it, and it was super annoying when I'd get random calls from recruiters the next like 5 years. They were very persistent. Glad I didn't join and have to go to Iraq / Afghanistan. I quite enjoy being alive.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    So, how do these scumbags even get your number?

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My number is on my PsychologyToday page and my NPI profile, so hopefully from there, but I wouldn't be surprised if they bought it from the university I went to or got access to a government database associated with my license

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    When I was signing up for the army in 2012 they asked me if I knew anyone who might wanna join, I think there was a bonus involved? Anyways I gave them no names or numbers and got nothing, not even the other bonus they promised me.

    Never trust army recruiters.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Last one that reached out to me, I asked if I got to wear corporate sponsors of war on my greens like NASCAR does, and they didn't reply. :(

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The medical school application system, AMCAS, sells the information of every medical school applicant. I had to call the recruiters' office and explain to them that I have multiple failing organ systems and take more than 10 medications a day. I asked if they could get me a medical waiver for chronic kidney disease and they sheepishly agreed to remove my name from their list.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Specifically for medical stuff, they swipe your number and email when you take the MCAT. I was debating an MD/PhD so I took it and even never applying or getting into med school they'd randomly email me, for like 5y after.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago

    I'm in the EU. I can go to university and still live above poverty. Communist pigs, how could they do this to me?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm curious, how does one manage to get labelled a terrorist??

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How dare you hypothetically terrorize innocent fascists!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd move the word "hypotetically" a bit further, so that it says:

    "How dare you terrorize hypotetically inocent fascists!"

    There, now it's better and more accurate. Fuck them fascists. Not a single one is innocent

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Exactly, none of them are innocent, so that part is just plain irony. "hypothetically terrorize" makes sense because simply identifying as anti-fascist can get you on terror watch lists these days.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Those fuckers are desperate, so yeah probably.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    "We can fix you ❤️"

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Who*

    "Whom" is an indirect object pronoun, not a direct object pronoun.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Pronouns! Whom is correct here.

    Who / whom works like He / him —

    “The Trump administration attempted to label him a terrorist.”

    “The Trump administration attempted to label whom a terrorist?”

    “He is the person whom the Trump administration attempted to label a terrorist.”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    On direct vs indirect object, I’ve heard that before but it doesn’t make sense. None of the other pronouns in English work that way.

    Best supporting authority I could find in 15 seconds of looking was Merriam Webster.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You got me. I was taught incorrectly in high school. I always assumed it was the same thing as different pronouns in those particular cases for, as an example Spanish "se" vs "le". You've made me a better member of the alt write, formerly grammar nazis.

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