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Well... Did the author look at Wiki first to know WHO is in the picture that they proudly use to represent Wiki?

Revolting little machine I hope someone guy fawkeses you too.

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)

Okay, let them stay up till 5 in the morning and feel like shit for the next day, eat a bag of candy in one go and have a huge stomach ache, go out without an umbrella and catch a cold, watch a violent movie and get scared?

Corporal punishment should never be used against a child but letting them simply experience the consequences of doing something does not always work either.

I teach kindergarten and most kids that age cannot make the linear connection between "I stayed up really late" and "I'm really tired and grumpy".

There is simply too much time between action and consequence.

Instead, you as the adult have to provide a consequence in the moment for if the behavior continues.

Taking away a favorite activity for a selected amount of time is a good one.

An example from my own childhood:

- children at daycare are not allowed to play with big sticks because they could hurt themselves or others

- the actual consequence of being hurt by the sticks is both too abstract and too risky to be the used consequence

- instead, children are denied part of free play time

- if a child is playing with big sticks, they are given a warning that they will lose part of free play if they do it again

- children does it again because they do not believe that the consequence will happen

- consequence happens and they miss out on fun

- child now connects the action (playing with big sticks) to something they don't like (not getting to play) and no longer perform the action

- once they are older, they can understand the why of playing big sticks is dangerous

Well... Did the author look at Wiki first to know WHO is in the picture that they proudly use to represent Wiki?

"Where" is a place, like where you are. "Were" is the past tense of "to be," like you were reading this list. "We're" is the contraction of "we are."

"Their" is a thing or concept belonging to a person, like their book or their justified anger. "There" is a place.

"To" is a conjunction, or a word used to make other words work. For example, you don't "go the store," you go to the store. "Too" is either an intensifier indicating an excess of something (like "too dark," "too cold," "too long"), or a word meaning "also" (like "I want to go, too"). They are not interchangeable.

--"a couple" is explicitly two. "A few" is three to five (unless you're using it for comedic effect, like describing a horde of ten thousand orcs as "a few").

And finally, a few that don't get discussed all that much these days but they'll make me very happy if you know them:

--"less" is for abstract, "fewer" is for concrete. I get less and less happy when I have fewer and fewer books.

--"can" is for ability, "may" is for permission, and the two have mostly become synonymous BUT if you're writing an old or uptight character, or a period piece, that change is recent enough you should still do it the "right" way.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

now, you might ask, “why are they repeating ‘baby killers’ and accusations of ‘eating children’ so often?”

“why is this so ubiquitous on social media and even now in real life?”

There’s a dangerous myth spreading on social media. It’s radicalizing people and inspiring real-world violence: Jews have been falsely accused of "blood libel,” which has led to the persecution, massacres, and the expulsion of Jewish communities.

actually, you probably wouldn’t ask why, because you’re reading this post, which means you’re either Jewish or an ally and already know all about blood libel.

still, it is growing in pervasive popularity, and it is as dangerous now in 2026 as it was in 1144, and every other time it has stained history, and has inevitably led to the murder of Jews.

what needs to be understood is that it is the very worst, most monstrous accusation most people can think of. in many ways it usurped the charge of deicide (though that is where this concept originated, Jews as the killers of Christ), a charge leveled specifically against Jews to prove them as a unique and inhuman evil, the corrupters and perverters and destroyers of everything pure, good, and innocent. Jews kill children on purpose, in fact, they even slaughter and consume them and use their blood for their profane rituals. it’s an easy lie, and a seductive one (it’s also absurd, but when has Judenhass ever been logical?). get the people to believe that and of course they’ll hate those responsible for it. let the messengers be those who are respected, admired, adored, and it will travel that much faster, be given that much more legitimacy.

this time, the charge is even more horrific because children have undeniably and wrongfully died in the midst of war, and that is being categorized as intent, as targeted murder, rather than as terrible casualties. the questions aren’t even about conduct or whether enough was done to prevent these deaths, whether there are soldiers and other officials that do need to be held to account. that doesn’t incite enough distress, that wouldn’t reasonably cause Jews around the globe to be attacked for it. instead it’s boiled down to the basest accusation: they’re Jews. killing kids is what they do.

the medieval town square is now every corner of social media. the trusted monks are now the celebrated entertainers and influencers and politicians.

I’ve borrowed this quote before and will again (and so does this astute video): The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.

henmazzig:

Most people will admit they’ve absorbed something from the racism or sexism baked into movies and TV. That’s why we scrutinize problematic messages in media, and why every push to change them meets so much resistance. What people see affects how they think about others. In 2026, this is hardly a new idea. Yet even though false antisemitic ideas have been widespread in Western art and media for centuries, few are willing to accept that they might have absorbed anti-Jewish ideas. Like it or not, you have to work at it, actively, the way you would with any other bias you didn’t choose to inherit. Because the background hum of this society is that Jews are to blame for almost everything that goes wrong. It’s not a true story. Never has been. But it’s one that’s left its imprint on generations, and gotten millions of Jews killed in the process. That idea doesn’t disappear, even if it changes clothes.

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“Nine centuries, one libel, and its genius has always been that it travels best on trusted lips - not the monster’s, the beloved’s.”

https://antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Antisemitic-imagery-May-2020.pdf

1. Anon is absolutely right that Mamdani is not especially antisemitic and we should be pushing back against anyone who says he is. Personally I have not really seen that on jumblr but I'm very willing to believe that's just the bubble I'm in.

2. I think it's kind of weird to claim that jumblr doesn't call out white Christian Democrats specifically when we shit on Graham Platner aka Maine Kampf aka Nazi Tits way more. But again, might just be my bubble.

"Jesus built his whole kingdom in belief and he didn't need a pre-existing IP!"

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judaism

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Judaism

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JUDAISM!!!!

boop! forgot to post this here

also a lil bonus if you wanna connect it to my other post :3

i'm thinking extra hard about how we've ended up where we are, with trans kids at the center of so much hatred, because children are not seen as people with interiority or an ability to narrate their own experiences. we've decided it's alright to lock children up for horrible diagnoses that psychs throw around like they're nothing, to strip their autonomy completely and force them through humiliation, invasions of privacy, and endless torment by "professionals" whose power over every waking moment of their lives has no end. these things cannot be separated.