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one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

The marginal tax rate in 1962 was 87% percent.

That’s how the 1960s had the money to build highways and go to the fucking moon.

Is it just me or is AOC’s picture cherry picked to make her look crazy? either use crazy pics of both, or nice pics of both

all of this is cherrypicked to make someone look good and someone else look bad, it’s the whole thing about these kinds of conservative memes, so yes, it is cherrypicked to make her look crazy

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

So its that easy huh

Of course it is

Memes that are funny in 2018 and 1958

Universal Workers Union (UWU)

OH MY GOD

oh its been a WHILE since ive seen this thread 

there’s a shipping company called Specialized Transportation, Inc., and I think they just acknowledged and embraced this given that I have driven by many trucks on the highway emblazoned with “STI DELIVERS”

everytime i come back to it this thing gains a few more gems

The three letter code for a local library in the town of Fuquay (pronounced few-kway) is FUQ

The public transportation service around Williamsburg, VA was called Hampton Roads Transportation, and their busses all said Go HRT on them.

I definitely just screenshotted that in all its dozens of pixels for my reaction pics folder