May the Fourth be with you.
Attack the Death Star every day.
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Shiitake Toast
I probably shouldn't be saying this. This is my shitposting handle for stuff that I don't necessarily want the boss to see. He/him. Here for jokes and cats, mostly. Profile pic is a smiling clipart cartoon mushroom. Header is a schematic of a public bathroom.
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This is a really thoughtful and personal piece on the challenges of practicing liberalism in an increasingly fascist society.
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I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my laptop and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of AI technique
And the boss said empathy makes us weak
You load sixteen tons and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
@sil Are those tonnes of CO2e?
@purplepadma @MLE_online In France, it's the cooking vessel that both of those things are made in.
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Seriously, he gave that reason for not having a dog:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/how-would-i-look-walking-a-dog-on-the-white-house-lawn-trump-on-owning-a-dog/2019/02/11/a2c7506b-a842-48c8-b94a-4e256f685432_video.html
"It’s an oddity for an American president, with the U.S. Presidential Pet Museum noting that he’s the only president since Andrew Johnson to not have any kind of animal companion at all." [Note Andrew Johnson is widely regarded as the worst president in US history before Trump. Not a coincidence IMO]
@flexghost This is his life-long MO. He's been involved in scam after scam and blames contractors, accountants, and lawyers, who have all gone to jail for him, but it's never his fault for coming up with scammy business ideas and hiring low-quality unethical people to carry them out.
Now he's just doing that with running the country.
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“Don’t you need to uphold the constitution of the United States as president?”
“I don’t know”
Terrifying.
@nazokiyoubinbou @mcnado
I went to a fancy high school for nerds, and in biology class we looked at bacteria under a microscope, learned how to do gram staining, and inserted antibiotic resistance plasmids into bacteria. (It's possible that we did that experiment in an advanced bio class, though.
I briefly worked in a mainstream high school in my 20s where the students rarely had lab time, and one of the experiments was dissecting an egg. The students learned how to look through the microscope with pre-made slides, but without the trial and error that goes into making a slide, I doubt the experience was memorable.
There's an education gap.
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Today's #NonSequitur is messed up on GoComics so I'll post it here while they get it fixed.
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This is not the message I wanted to see this morning.
Something missing from the possible causes of why my student had their visa revoked include:
- expressing themselves
- opposing genocide
- existing
@kinsale42 @gwensnyder.bsky.social I mean… they were… for white supremacist survivalists.
@paleofuture.bsky.social Good dog.
@david I could get enough cash to retire early.
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Somewhat related: Ingram tells me to price my books to libraries a lot higher than to individuals.
What kind of bullshit business brain thinks like that? Libraries exist for the good of all and have enough troubles with budgets. Any library that wants a copy can have it.
@troublewithwords I volunteered at a library for a while and learned that there are publishers who basically estimate how many times a book will be used by different users and more or less price their books based on the idea of how many sales that would represent (discounted by a factor that considers that a library won't pay more than 3x the price for a book).
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