I get these weird ones that have AI generated sounding audio of women talking about their husband’s premature ejaculation and his one weird trick! No idea what it was (other than whatever gas station boner pill shit they’re selling), I skip before then.
I often think about an Arthur C. Clarke book—I think Songs of Distant Earth?—that has a colony of humans that solves all the big debate questions facing their society anonymously through the internet, which has completely solved the problem of judging ideas based on who said them.
Bless the optimists.
Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer - it explains in detail the biology and evolutionary history of parasites, and some of the incredible science that goes into studying and understanding them.
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan - plain English explanation of what the scientific method is and why it’s our best way of understanding the world. It also explains how to think more critically about the world and how to identify pseudoscience.
This feels like the modern day example of Indiana attempting to pass a law that would have inadvertently redefined the value of pi in 1897. It would have passed, but for a mathematician in the audience who spoke up. Nobody passing these stupid ass laws is sitting there going ‘oh yeah, no more Plato in philosophy class, that makes sense,’ they’ve just ideologically exiled anyone that would have told them why any of this masturbatory horseshit is a bad idea.
I can only imagine that’s the case, but it also seems plausible that it could kick in when you’re in space and not earth, since you actually get a break from the Vomit Comet and other training exercises.
It’s probably something else regardless, inescapable vertigo was just my first thought.
Okay, but they’re not saying that about a child of color. They’re saying it about DHS coming in and throwing people to the ground. I’m sorry that happened to you, but it’s not really relevant.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.
You know it’s fucking dire if someone that works at a school says that.
Stable condition, but whatever condition is also serious enough to warrant returning to earth. I hope the astronaut is alright, but that combo makes me really curious what’s wrong. It could be almost anything of course, but I’ve heard some people get extreme vertigo without gravity, so I wonder if that’s it.
I would rather everyone benefit and not only people technically competent enough to know about uBlock 🤷♂️
uBlock doesn’t come with financial and legal penalties, I’ll take Vietnam’s solution.
Oops, you only counted men as people? Women 65+ did not in fact ”overwhelmingly” vote for Trump, since you need at least 50% of the vote to do that.
55% of men is an interesting definition of “overwhelming” as well, especially considering women outnumber men aged 65+, and the difference only becomes more pronounced as people get older.
As long as 55% is the bar for ‘overwhelming’ Trump support that shows you should be numb to the death by starvation of anyone fitting that demographic, here are some that voted equally or more for Trump:
Let’s just shrug if they die of starvation, right? Since statistics both dictate morality and assign blame?
Unless it’s 100% you’re still doing guilt by demographics. If thinking about that makes you uncomfortable, good! That’s a messed up thing to do. Do we have to do the whole ‘you can’t tell who someone is by looking at them’ song and dance again? The last half century is full of people eloquently writing and speaking about why that’s fucked.
My grandmother passed before the 2024 election, but she hated Trump. There are people younger than you all in on Trump. Generational divides that frame one generation as evil and another as morally pure are fake shit that keeps you from learning from elders who know how to show up and get shit done.
Thankfully you would never commit the moral crime of getting old, right? Since we’re doing guilt by demographic?
55% of Republicans/Republican-leaning people own or have a gun in the house, vs 31% for Democrats/Democrat-leaning
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
The second example doesn’t give an abbreviation as the origin of the link to rap sheet, is what I was saying; records, arrests, and prosecutions to mean RAP instead of rap sounds like a backronym.
I don’t see anywhere on there that gives the etymology as an abbreviation? Etymonline gives the following:
rap(n.)
early 14c., rappe, “a quick, light blow; a resounding stroke,” […] native or borrowed from a Scandinavian source
Slang meaning “a rebuke, the blame, responsibility” is from 1777; specific meaning “criminal indictment” (as in rap sheet, 1960) is from 1903
Things have changed since I went to school so I can’t give you the exact details of how it works now, but whether you pass a class or not in most US schools is/was based not only on how well you do on a standardized test at the end of the semester*, but also how well you did on class work and tests during the semester. If you bomb everything it’s possible to get into a hole where even if you do great on the final exam, it still might not lift you up to a passing grade, depending on how all the assignments are weighted. So the teacher decides all of your in class grades, which determine if you pass or fail.
* I’m actually so old that we didn’t even do that when I was in school, and now I couldn’t tell you if the standardized tests are national or state based.
In a roundabout way. If Chemistry 1 is a required class for graduation and you fail it, you either have to repeat it or don’t get to graduate. That’s how it used to be, now there’s much more pressure to pass everyone no matter what, due to school funding being directly tied to pass rates.
More funding means more opportunities to expand free breakfast/lunch programs, tutoring support, after school programs, basically every program that has been shown to help students from low income homes costs money.
I’m not sure how the hell cutting funding from the schools of poor students is supposed to help them… go ask anyone teaching in a segregated school in the northeast how decades of funding cuts have served their students. Or examine any study that’s come out in the past 20 years about how NCLB has been an utter failure.
How can we be held liable for sinking this ship? We put a bandaid on every leak that was reported to us!