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1. NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 00:48:00 JST NEETzsche

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   @noyoushutthefuckupdad He greatly improved his reading comprehension in his latter years thanks to Internet use. Got up to maybe a fifth grade reading level. Oddly enough he was a pretty early adopter of the Internet in spite of knowing basically nothing about computers.
   
   In hindsight he was a pretty odd guy.
   
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   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 00:47:59 JST NEETzsche

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     Honestly the more I think about it, the odder my dad really was. I recall when I was a child he mentioned building houses and having to do the "trigger nomertry" to make sure it didn't implode on itself. I remember watching him do it, too. But I also recall him trying to read like a paragraph or two from novels to help me with my homework and he just couldn't. Novels for children. Then in the mid 1990s he bought a computer with a modem, for Internet access, well before anybody else in my extended family except my uncle. He took a remedial reading course provided by his church just so he could read the instruction manual to actually use the damn thing.

     I think his natural intelligence was more than people wanted to admit, and he just didn't get none o' that schoolin' because he was a hillbilly survivalist from Appalachia. Kind of tragic in hindsight.

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   • Hombre Lego Mexicano (grandtheftautism@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 00:47:59 JST Hombre Lego Mexicano

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     @NEETzsche @noyoushutthefuckupdad @Moon @adiz @coolboymew @grillchen @mrsaturday @zero he sounds like an interesting guy. Can't help but be charmed by his determination to use that computer.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 00:49:42 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Grandtheftautism @grillchen @NEETzsche @Moon @mrsaturday @noyoushutthefuckupdad @adiz @zero that's way more than most people would do