NewEnglandRedshirt @ NewEnglandRedshirt @lemmy.world

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Teacher here. I'm fucking speechless. What kind of people remove a library and claim it as a win? The only people who do that are shooting for authoritarian regimes where the people are kept stupid.

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day." ~Thomas Jefferson

It was captivating

It isn't free at all

I see myself in this cartoon and I don't like it.

This fall, on Fox... Are You Faster than a 4th Grader?

Death by snu-snu it is, then

C'mon dude. As a history teacher, I can tell you that it is definitely possible to fire a gun without arms.

Teacher here. Kids want the quick dopamine hit from their phones and their school-supplied chromebooks. They do not want to take the time to try something that might be hard, and they do not want to stretch their brains at all

Is there an equivalent to /r/fuckmyshitup on Lemmy?

I love your username btw. It feels like a food truck Mariner would takk Boimler into running with her as part of a scheme to make money for her to pay off debts she owes to her Ferengi friend or something

Me: it hasn't been that long! It started with Nixon!

Also me: Nixon was president in 1973, which was 50 years ago, dumbass.

Also also me: Now you're going to tell me that the 90s were more than 10 years ago, aren't you?

Was this in the 2000s? After the Columbine shooting, a lot of schools banned big trench coats and other long jackets because you could have hIdDeN wEaPoNs under them

IIRC didn't they have a small amount of alcohol or other chemical that kids would use too many of to purposely get drunk/high? Maybe I'm thinking of something else though

WHY DO I NEED TO WATCH A COMMERCIAL BEFORE I CAN WATCH THE COMMERCIAL I WANT TO WATCH?

I agree with you 100%. What they are latching on to is the fact that SOMETIMES, in EXTREMELY LIMITED AND SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES, some enslaved people were able to "hire themselves out" as craftsmen when they had done whatever work the enslaver had required of them. An even more limited number of those enslaved people were paid for their work and got to keep their pay.

But the percentage of people we are talking about here is tiny ... but it is nonzero. The standard therefore isn't completely wrong, but it absolutely gives the impression that these cases were waaaay more common than they actually were.

Destroyer of dream houses

She called him that like twice in the series? Early on before it became Will all the time

I'm honestly surprised that it didn't happen right after Brexit. There was definitely talk of unification so people in Northern Ireland could continue to be a part of the EU and visit the other parts of the island with no Troubles. (Pun absolutely intended)

I am apparently a unicorn

Maybe the guy has red hair