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[SallyM]

Election Fallout

Democrats brought the voters complex, nuanced, information and policies, but those of us who would be attracted to such were mostly already voting for Democrats. We did not need to be persuaded. The Republicans, on the other hand, brought them “Black woman bad, Trump good” and “immigrants are eating your pets!” The dems don’t need to go to the same level of ignorance, but recognizing that they’re not fighting under the same rules anymore would be great.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

They rescinded the memo but not the order. Tomorrow, I understand they will rescind the paper the order is printed on but will stand by the ink. The pen Donny signed it with is right out but the ketchup stain on the pen is still valid. It’s all very complex.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Whenever I hear the term “common sense” from a political type person it’s usually preceded by, or preceding, something stupid.

[Surprise_Puma]

The goddamn Trump Administration

You know what? I’m already sick of being told to we need to reach out and show sympathy for all the people surprised at what Trump is doing, because they didn’t really think he would. Ok…but what did they think he was going to do? It was still all about hurting people, wasn’t it? Just not them? Hang that nonsense then. We get out of this from people fighting for a better, kinder world for everyone, not from assholes who wanted trans and brown people to be thrown on the pyre.

[SallyM]

Strategies for Survival

This has been percolating for a few days now; if you have, or know people who have school age children, maybe think about collecting up textbooks and other books on things like history, science social studies, etc, because the school systems in many areas are already purging and rewriting those things. People with children might have to begin some level of homeschooling or extracuricular studies to counteract what the schools may not be teaching, or giving false information.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Oh, there are very good reasons why this specific suggestion of a Sovereign Wealth Fund is a mindblowingly stupid idea, but the concept itself is just “hey, we’ve got all this extra money lying around, what should we do with it?”. I mean, ideally it’s “… lying around, and it’s not possible for us to spend it fast enough, …”, because the point of a government is to invest in the nation and its people, so any surplus is money that didn’t go into BAU, subsidies, benefits, tax cuts, or infrastructu…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Facts are the enemy, after all. They get in the way of opinions that are held by rich white men. This is unacceptable and must be ended.

[SallyM]

The map library

It really pisses me off when physicists go on and on about alternate dimensions and universes, but never tell us how to get there! [Vicious Heartless]

[MerelyGifted]

Thank you, Sugarplum!

[SallyM]

About Languages

English speakers love to make fun of the whole “four twenty and seven” thing in other languages, but then start a speech with an exact synonym of that and it’s somehow brilliant eloquence.

[MerelyGifted]

Well this is interesting

That would require a level of insight into the real world that most of them are incapable of. Nothing is simple, binary and easily understandable. Nothing. But that falls on deaf ears most of the time. So they insist that the world bend to their lazy ignorance instead of accepting how it actually is. And yeah, I’m a little bitter about that mindset.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

I’ll discuss the fraud at USAID. My first job was with a food aid contract to USAID. I know A LOT about international food aid, not because I did anything at my job, but because I was so bored off my ass that I read all these academic papers that people spent a lot of time preparing and I don’t think we did anything with them. I think they were supposed to be for some conference. Anyway, I was bored and I read them. There is a lot of grift in food aid. We send food aid to a country that’s war…

[Millie_Fink]

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

I read that steaming pile of fecal matter, even though I knew I probably shouldn’t give it the time of day. Relevant (to my ranting) quote: Of course, it is clearly exag­ger­ated for comic effect. But humour reflects deeper truths about social expect­a­tions. Women have long had to endure the relent­less scru­tiny of being deemed attract­ive based on impossibly nar­row stand­ards. Now men are find­ing them­selves judged not just on their looks, but on split-second actions. The idea that a mi…

[SallyM]

Systems of education and its discontents

I like reading about history and I used to read everything I could about the Second World War. One day I read an article about the Manhattan Project and how the United States, despite all its economic power, was far behind in the atomic race precisely because it lacked “brains” and had to import scientists and machinery from Europe. The author of the article said that the American authorities no longer wanted to take risks and started investing in education and ways to attract students to scie…

[SallyM]

Strategies for Survival

This is small, and more maintenance than crisis management, but; rinse your mouth with water after eating. Really swish the water and pull it hard between your teeth with 2 or 3 mouthfulls. My dental hygienist recommended doing this because it not only removes food particles, it helps to quickly de-acidify the mouth, and cuts down on tartar and plaque formation, which helps prevent cavities. I’ve found that cleanings are much less painful since I’ve been doing it, and I’ve had no new cavities.

[SallyM]

Follow up news

I want musk’s and Donny’s version of the US to not survive this. The imperialistic, patriarchal, hetero-fascist, xenophobic, white supremacist side that the US has always had needs to die. I hope the version Emma Lazarus wrote about on that great big metal lady in NYC can come through though. It really does feel like the uneasy coexistence of both halves can no longer abide.

[SallyM]

fork kerning

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

I plan to use that everywhere as my new swear word.

[SallyM]

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

Yeah, that’s the problem. I believe most men are decent and safe, and some are very obviously unsafe, but the really bad ones are indistinguishable from the decent ones. (See also: Neil Gaiman.)

[SallyM]

Systems of education and its discontents

But more seriously, they’re trying to eliminate all action against discrimination, and (because fascists live in backwards land) they’re doing it saying that anti-discrimination efforts are discriminatory. And by “eliminate”, I mean not just to stop doing it, but to scrub all information about it, all research, all documentation, all history. They’re working on not just undoing but unexisting the Disability Rights movement, the LGBTQI+ rights movement, the Civil Rights movement, and the Women’s …

[SallyM]

Space Exploration

Your article included a line that surprised me: Years ago I saw someone at Caltech give a presentation about risks to earth from asteroid impacts and the guy said that, counterintuitively, an ocean impact would actually tend to be more deadly than an impact on land because it would cause a tsunami that could travel huge distances, and a large fraction of earth’s population lives near coastlines. But maybe this one just isn’t big enough to cause a major tsunami? That author wrote a book about …