@futurebird Yabbut do you teach physics with calculus or without?

@lerxst

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/05/887386869/how-transportation-racism-shaped-america

@mekkaokereke

@mekkaokereke Because they designed the bridges on the parkways to be too low for buses to get through? On purpose? So that blacks and other minorities couldn't even get jobs north of the city, let alone live there?

Sorry, I cheated, been living in New England a long time. 🙄

Who thought that when we finally got a world government it would be a cabal of supervillains?

@steevmi1 @mekkaokereke That one and "Facts, schmacts, you can prove anything that's even REMOTELY true with facts!"

@Gargron One of the BIG things I like about Mastodon is that the host is subject to German laws. As a Jew this has given me some feeling of safety to post here. Thank you.

Which reminds me I probably ought to renew my donation.

@WarnerCrocker Exactly. Put an aircraft carrier in the Black Sea. Quit fucking around.

@GramrgednAngel @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke Some books are OK to burn

@fifilamoura @GramrgednAngel @mekkaokereke I get that. I just think that it's unlikely that any individual is going to do that work on any significant level. That's the kind of thing that needs to be systematized and institutionalized - kids need to learn tolerance with their ABCs. And the flip side is that there are plenty of cases where one individual was radicalized to do something harmful by exposure to such material.

So, yes, but also it doesn't have to be you if you don't want it to be.

@fifilamoura @GramrgednAngel @mekkaokereke True. Does that mean we should all keep the statues of confederate soldiers in our homes?

I'm not advocating the destruction of history. I'm just saying that sometimes an individual can decide they don't want to carry that particular torch.

I just got a text claiming to be from "William Pompeo, Director of the CIA" warning me that this was my last chance to help prevent a "liberal invasion" of the US government.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

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@BethanyBlack In our defense, it means "I could say more, but I don't need to because you can tell what I'm going to say by what came before the ellipses." It's not just a style, but an attempt to be polite and efficient, AND we're trusting you to be smart enough to fill in the blank. Don't forget we both grew up in space constrained formats and were trained in much more nuanced means of communication than is expected of kids today.

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@AnthonyJK @blogdiva That's good to hear, but the wind damage will still be considerable in an urban complex that was never required to be able to withstand hurricane force winds. Expect power outages and lots of debris damage and the loss of major percentages of foliage, trees, etc. Mess is an understatement.

@blogdiva This is crazy to me. Never seen a hurricane take that path, in my life, and I'm getting kinda old. But also, have you seen how long it's going to take Hillary to move north? Baja California is going to be f**ked. 😲

@blogdiva Having lived on the Eastern Seaboard my whole life, and dealt with the aftermath of hurricanes in the Keys, Mainland Florida, and Vermont all I can say is SoCal should evacuate.

They have NO IDEA what is coming for them. It's not the rain, it's the wind, and that they have spent the last hundred years building structures with no building code requirements meant to deal with 140 mph winds. If this hits LA as Cat 4, or even Cat 3, it's going to be worse than any earthquake. 😬

@AnarchoNinaWrites When I use the term, I mean "willing to be personally responsible for my behavior, in that I break the law as I see fit and I'm willing to deal with the consequences of that, but try to adhere to a personal moral code that I made up for myself (mostly) because no dictate can limit a human. When it comes to state-sponsored activity, from which I cannot escape and am often forced to participate in, I prefer it to be socialist in nature, as opposed to exclusively capitalist."

@Gargron Just got mine today. Oddly, no one else seems to want to be Wyatt H Knott.