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I think we're too harsh on medieval painters because this is legitimately what some poodle mixes look like
like. these breeds didn't even EXIST yet back then. those painters were PROPHETS.
Those are the painters, cursed by God for their incompetence
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It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.
There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!
I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.
He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”
“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”
Several us nodded.
He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.
“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”
“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”
“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”
“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”
“No, of course not.”
“Then why lift weights?”
“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.
“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”
And I’ve never forgotten that.
THIS.
When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one. Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.
Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to. But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.
History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from. It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely. Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.
Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction. But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.
The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it. (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)
whenever people say they can't watch/play/read anything slightly upsetting or scary or challenging because it's... upsetting or scary or challenging all i can think of is this lol
instead of worrying abt whether or not yr scaring the hoes y dont u find some hoes that dont get scared, brave hoes. indomitable hoes
my hoes have a Warriors Spirit
Btw, this is how conservatives keep getting to claim that trans people are a new thing no one has ever heard, because our history and existences have continually been erased or obscured systematically through out history.
The most famous example was 92 years when the Nazis raided the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the medical practice where the term transsexual was first coined and the first gender affirming surgery was performed in in 1931.
What did the Nazis do after raiding the library on May 6th, 1933? You may be familiar with these images
It is happening again.
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Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away
Why does staff still allow people funnier than you to leave tags on your posts. They should have fixed that by now
Food for thought
Yeah, this sort of stuff serves several purposes, including:
Confuse the masses as to what the actual law is
Get people to obey in advance
Demoralise the opposition
Signal intention to supporters
^^ I was thinking, like, "surely we all remember this from last time," but then I thought about it again, and realized that there are people who voted this year, who wouldn't even have been in their teens during the previous Trump rodeo.
So yeah, if you weren't following it last time, there will be a lot of Executive Orders that get walked back, struck down, or, once subjected to even mildly rigorous legal interpretation, turn out to have little or no effect.
When you see that Trump has signed an EO about something that seems drastic and scary, take a breath and wait a few hours, then see what the experts are saying about it.
I don’t think the main goal is mass deportation. I’m at work rn and will elaborate.
Currently there are huge detainment camp being built in Texas for ICE. Slavery is legal in the case of prisoners. “How will we have field workers if they’re all in detainment camps?” Girl they will still be field workers, but under the thumb of for-profit prisons owners. Will elaborate further w/ but do you see what I’m saying??
Once more: if slavery is legal in the case of prisoners according to the constitution, if Texas (who has the largest amount of profit prisons) and Mississippi both have plans on building large scale detainment camps for undocumented immigrants to hold them indefinitely as per one of Trump’s executive orders, and if there is a large labor vacuum as undocumented immigrants are arrested and in hiding, what do you think is about to happen?
The insidious thing is that OF COURSE groceries are going to seem cheaper because of slave labor. Of course American produce will suddenly be cheaper because… of slave labor. But the thing is, we live in a post scarcity society, we grow and produce in excess to the point where groceries should be cheaper than they are. One peek into Rednote shows that American corn is sold for the equivalent of 90¢ a kilo in china- the same corn is sold for $7 a kilo here. It is INFURIATING that big corporations run amuck, charging more and more for “record profits” EVERY YEAR.
Anyways. I am BEGGING you to start a garden. I researched most of the information I need during work. I am going to set up a little hydroponic garden in my apartment. There are so many free resources, and I’m handy enough to put everything together myself, but you can buy the labs online. Grow veggies, herbs, and vines than you like.
And I understand there is “no ethical consumption under capitalism” but we have to, on a WIDE scale, put our money where our mouth is and boycott any produce that utilizes slave labor. This is something I already do. If I don’t have money for fair trade certified chocolate, I don’t buy chocolate, it’s not that fucking hard. Go to farmers market. Start a victory garden. Talk with neighbors and barter. Walk their dogs if they’re sick. Be kind. Be firm.
It is going to be fucking tough but we need to have each other’s backs on this. Do not give up on this country. Do not give up on your friends and family. Fight for your future. Fight for the future of the kids born today.
I’ve been saying this to anyone who will listen. The goal is not going to be deportation, that’s too expensive. It’s going to be chattel slavery.
Fully believe this. There's a bill being introduced to the Senate to make life in prison the punishment for illegal immigration. There can be no other explanation for this but creating legal slavery.
By the way, call to action here is call your Senators and tell them you vehemently do not want that.
CALL UR REP BEFORE THEY TAKE AWAY UR RIGHT TO
THAT BILL IS IN MISSOURI
THAT IS NOT A FEDERAL BILL
MO FOLKS CALL YOUR STATE LEGE
OTHER FOLKS DON'T CALL YOUR FEDERAL CRITTERS ABOUT THIS BILL
Meantime keep an eye on what your particular state is doing, because there is definitely going to be fuckery, but it's different fuckery in each place. I bet we'll see a bill like this in Texas shortly, but it'll be a different bill with different specifics and, like @prince-atom says, you'll have to call your state legislator and not your national one. In fact, now is probably a good time to go take a look at a nice diagram of the US government and how the fifty-some small countries in a trenchcoat add up to one big one, because it is stupid complicated and we now have to know how each bit works and where to apply leverage in order to save ourselves. And. Y'know. Save a whole bunch of other people.
No its perfect.
trump is 78, putin is 72, netanyahu 75, biden 82, lukashenko 70. if you kill yourself now, you'll never see them die. keep going
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I swear I get sad if I wake up and one is on the floor
They are exploring under the bed! This is normal stuffed animal behavior, as they are trained to protect you from monsters and shadow creatures, so it's natural that they want to keep an eye out. Don't be sad, thank your friend for doing such a good job.
they have little adventures with the dust bunnys under there
the death of dvds is so fucked. what about bonus features
far far away idol would never happen now
i think as adults it’s our responsibility to be nice to kids and treat them with the respect we wish we got at that age and im not kidding or exaggerating in the least
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tragic. 37 clowns were killed today in a devastating one car pile up.
#the funeral has only one casket. it's what they would have wanted
you could say that the world’s richest man was stupid and impulsive enough to do a nazi salute on stage twice without considering the backlash, but really what I think happened is the world’s richest man implicitly or explicitly calculated that in the current political and medial environment he could do a nazi salute on stage twice and not suffer any adverse consequences. which is worse. a lot worse.
