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[+] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
  • This is amazing and inspirational. You do great work. As someone who has been hospitalized for mental health issues more than once, I've witnessed first hand the incredible impact (positive and negative) people in your line of work directly have on the lives of others. Thank you for being a reason that others can go on to be an astronaut.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    If it helps, those cringe moment you have of something you did in the past? That means you've grown past it. You're able to see that behavior in yourself and recognize it as a cringey moment because you're a better person than you were then. Yeah, it sucks to have those, but take it as an indicator that you're doing just fine.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is hilarious.

    It's been on my calendar and I couldn't remember why.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Happy Leland Melvin Day. May the dogs be with you.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Haha I remember this photo. Brings me a smile every time I see it so thanks for posting.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Happy Leland Melvin Day!

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

    Oh Lynchburg, what a lovely name. Wonder why it's named like that.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It’s named after the founder Lynch, Who was an abolitionist no less, not after lynching.

    Very cool he’s from there

    Upon reading his article he even freed a slave that he thought killed his son. Freeing them mid 1780s is super progressive for the time.

    Reading further, his brother Charles Jr. Lynch might be where the term comes from. Upon reading more it seems the term comes his free use of imprisoning Loyalists during the Revolutionary war without support of the law. Then he was worried about getting in trouble for this so he asked the Continental Congress to pass Lynch’s law to forgive it.

    Maybe the term later was construed to me taking the law into your own hands by killing enslaved or freed black people?

    So if this is true, John Lynch, good Lynch, founded Lynchburg. Charles Lynch, bad lynch, termed extrajudicial killings, of mostly enslaved black people. Diverse family.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Did not expect to see my hometown mentioned on the Internet randomly ever.

    Unless they were mentioning Liberty University, where the evil Falwells still reign, may their entire family's days be short. That place is always doing something.

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