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[Akura]

So apparently Oklahoma decided to stop having AP US History classes because they don't teach enough good things about American history.

Well, to be fair, there isn't much American history to teach compared to the rest of the world. Unless you count Native American history. Which should totally be a thing.

[Frumple]

Two hundred+ years of shenanigans is plenty to fill up a high school semester. It's been a pretty eventful few centuries over here. The problem they're having isn't quantity, it's that much of it is pretty nasty and that offends folks' revisionist sensibilities.

[hector13]

My stepdad is demanding that I take a second job again. This is from someone who has no job, lies about being disabled(last I heard), and whose dream is to live in the woods in a trailer. I should try to find a new place to live, I suppose. Any ideas for $300/month?

Trailer in the woods?

But yeah, I wouldn't like that either. You probably won't get much, but if you're on your own, that... well it depends how much space you want. I have between 800-900ft, at ~$500/month. It's a smoker's building (not sure if that affects the price) and all utilities are paid for by the building, except the 'leccy.

[pisskop]

Roommates are a less-than-desirable alternative, perhaps, but completely doable.
  talk to family friends/neighbors/actual friends about boarding with them or in a spare room.  Offer monies to sweeten the deal if you must.

Whatever you do, please refrain from those daily or weekly rooms.  :[
  Those things are thief-magnets, unclean, poorly maintained (usually), and often your neighbors are . . . different or drugged.

[Truean]

I am designing a game. Real life imposing lots of problems on me, eats up time. Had another complaint against me. Gave 3/4 inch thick file to review board. Immediately dismissed. Insulting that person would bother complaining in case I got them probation on when everybody knows they did it. Cracky McCrackhead has crack? Say it ain't so.... He complains I didn't do enough for him (see above reference to 3/4 in thick file).. All others say he got off light and call me scumbag for associating with him.... It's either / or and can't be both. Another one tossed out and with significant paperwork to back up that call.

And people wonder why I would wanna do something else....

[pisskop]

Out of curiosity, do you take your own cases?  Could you if you chose to?

[Levi]

whose dream is to live in the woods in a trailer

Mine is to live in the woods in a yurt.    

[Rolan7]

Everything I've heard makes it sound like a thankless job, I'm just glad people do it anyway.  Even if it's a stepping stone, it sounds like an exceptionally harsh one.

Fakedit: Clearly I'm talking about living in a trailer in the woods 

[Graknorke]

Two hundred+ years of shenanigans is plenty to fill up a high school semester. It's been a pretty eventful few centuries over here. The problem they're having isn't quantity, it's that much of it is pretty nasty and that offends folks' revisionist sensibilities.

You'd think they could still teach it and just make it sound better.

[Truean]

Yes and no. Specifically, unoffically, if a judge tells me to take a case, I do. Why? Cause he's a freaking judge.... I'm not disobeying the guy, right, wrong or indifferent. He can tell a baliff to toss my ass in jail. No thanks. I never worked for a dedicated "Public Defender's Ofiice," but rather was "Appointed Counsel." They are very similar, but with some key distinctions. I didn't get a steady paycheck for one and got allegedly paid by the case (underpaid or sometimes never approved for payment, some judges have been indicted based on this and other factors. Still doesn't get me paid though).

Essentially, there is little difference to the individual criminal defendant. I was essentailly freelance which is why I could take other types of cases and business clients for example. One of my many problems was that I look young and like a patsy to some people. Nopes.... Anyhow it is common practice to just call yourself a public defender to appoint clients, because they get it. If you say "appointed counsel" their response is "huh?" It's six of one .... Half dozen of the other....

I took an exceptionally large amount of pro bono cases. Probably several tens of thousands of dollars worth.... I was both rather accomplished in these cases and astonished at the amount of BS complaints filed against me and quickly thrown out. One woman tried to say I inappropreately touched her..... I am secretly transgender MtF and only like men.... That's right, for all intents and purposes, she tried to say the super duper gay touched her sexually..... No go, and as you can imagine, she had done this to other innocent people....

All of the BS complaints have turned me off to the idea of taking pro bono cases. If you ever wonder why you an't find a lawyer, it's cause some jerks made the ones around you so tired of the BS complaints that it isn't worth it / is too risky and annoying. The problem is that there ARE shady as hell lawyers out there, but for each jerk crying wolf .... The legit complaints get lost in a title wave of BS.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Two hundred+ years of shenanigans is plenty to fill up a high school semester. It's been a pretty eventful few centuries over here. The problem they're having isn't quantity, it's that much of it is pretty nasty and that offends folks' revisionist sensibilities.

Basicaly
America isn't all sun shine and roses, as we like to think we are.
Acctually we even glorify some of the terrible things we do and make them look like good things.

Not to say America does only terrible things

[pisskop]

I think I could intellectually handle a law career, but I'd never have the fortitude you do.  I get upset just walking into a philosophy class. >.<

[Darvi]

There's not really that much. They brough DEMOCRACY to an undervelopped country, got FREEDOM from the tyranical Brits, liberated all the slaves ever, ended WWII singlehandedly by punching Hitler in the gnads while the Frenchies were cowering in their holes, and had a solid kerfuffle with them godless pinko commies.

All you need to know about US history in one sentence.

[Descan]

<sub>Trail of Tears

Slavery

Vietnam

South America in general

Discrimination throughout against anyone not!white

Japanese internment camps</sub>

[Baffler]

Most people don't learn much about this in school either.