Actually you need more than a few.

Remember, when push comes to shove, not a single Republican voted to remove him from office after he tried to kill them.

No that’s not it.

There are just a few left in the GOP that are smart enough to realize that the White “Christian” state that is developing isn’t going to put them on top like they thought it would…

After WW2 there was a real, not a joke I swear, proposal to construct a giant dam across the Straight of Gibraltar and dewater the Mediterranean. The thought was that such an endeavor would open up countless square kilometers of new developable land and require so many resources from Europe that the nations wouldn’t be able to afford to go to war again.

Me: I promise I won’t go on car dependancy rants tonight

Walks one block down the street

Me: Okay! Listen can I just point one thing out…

Her: so what are you interested in?

Me: Mostly how car dependent suburban development has eroded all forms of social capital and has torn our communities apart so completely that it’s functionally impossible to even call or neighborhoods and towns “communities” anymore. … But, uh, what are you interested in?

Synopsis: Social media is really bad for kids. Especially girls. But bad for boys too. Delay your kid’s exposure to social media for as long as possible.

They were so… Innocent.

Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?

I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.

Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.

Everyone here should read “The Anxious Generation”.

Of course we were joking. I kind of thought that would be obvious.

You are right. I should just deal with it.

“Yes, HR, I need to file a complaint. I’m told by all the women here that I’m supposed to be making more than them but that doesn’t actually seem to be the case. Will you please look into addressing that discrepancy?”

“Men aren’t relevant”.

@[email protected] is right. It is the ultimate acceptance.

Welcome to the club, boys. Now you are on your own. Enjoy the privileged life!

Trans men are men.

So they can just get over it.

Scouting America is a nearly completely volunteer organization. Their technology is generally about 20 years behind because it’s all pieced together by volunteers that “kinda done something like this for my company once”.

I’m just talking about a human capability standpoint. Maybe over time a person just develops the stamina to do it, but I’m pretty wiped after a solid 9-hour day. Honestly, my productivity collapses after about 5 hours of solid focused work.

I honestly can’t imagine how someone could work 9-9-6.

That blows my mind.

And, if you say “I plead the Fifth” then immediately shut the f*ck up. The cops will try to get you to un-invoke your right to remain silent.

Culture is dead because suburban development is poisonous to collaborative creativity.

I’m aware of that case, and if you read the language of the bill it doesn’t address that situation very well.

That case is a weird one because I actually think both sides, the student and the graduate assistant grader, were wrong. And ultimately I think the GA was more wrong because the GA held the position of authority in the situation. I generally think that those in authority should be held to more strict standards.

In that specific case that you, there was a very clear scoring rubric published that the GA was supposed to follow. (You can find the rubric published online.) There is no possible way a rational person could read the grading rubric and conclude the student deserved a 0. Yes, it was a very stupidly written essay, but it wasn’t a zero -not if you follow the published rubric. The student was given a zero only because of religious discrimination. The grader should have followed the rubric. If the grader has followed the rubric then the student still would have likely failed the assignment, but the grader would have been able to justify the grade and would probably have avoided getting disciplined.

That’s my position on that. I’m sure you disagree and believe the student was 100% at fault.