Chicken? That’s basically health food.

I heard from a relative that Pat ain’t there any more, he retired.

It wasn’t 9/11, it was the 2001 release of Slayer’s epic album God Hates Us All.

!cyberpunk@lemmy.zip

You’re right, I’m honestly embarassed.

The CEO of that company supports Trump and spreads the election lies, FWIW.

oh, good point… OK I won’t do it, thanks for the tip!

You’ll probably never see this, but I applaud you. Isn’t that the whole point of the fediverse? You can control who and what you see, and if you ever change your mind you can easily undo it. (And I get it, everybody needs a safe space sometimes.)

I unironically love the terms “meatsplained” and especially “carnist.”

On my next date I’ma say: “I’m a Carnist… RAWR” and then click my teeth. Clear test for taking or leaving. (edit: this was a stupid thing to say.)

Yes, this is a really entertaining movie. It’s kind of like “Gone with the Wind” in that it presents a very skewed historical perspective but does so in a technically-accomplished way. It’s worth watching because it shows the American perspective on its place in the world back in the early 60s.

The white actors playing Chinese people is part of a long and embarassing history of “Whitewashing.”

To get around it, replace “www.youtube.com” with “redirect.invidious.io” and click “go” til you find one that works.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=rBL7--38dEU

Replace “www.youtube.com” with “redirect.invidious.io” and click “go” til you find one that works. Looks like privacyredirect works. (time spent: about 30 seconds.)

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=rBL7--38dEU

I think the idea is that parts of the world will be like number 1 (with people in it), and other parts of the world like numbers 2 and 3.

That’s a great definition of science! Look at something in the world and take it way too seriously.

Oh it gets worse. The article says after they empty a library, they fill it with “teams” of “disruptive students” as well as “teams” of “high-achieving students”.

One strategy among his planned overhaul — called the New Education System, or NES — was to close libraries at 28 schools [eventually 85] out of the district’s 274 total and turn them into “team centers.” It would accomplish two goals, he said: create a place to send “disruptive” students after removing them from class as well as an environment to send high-achieving students for enrichment.

… these schools — and the entire school district — serves a student population that’s overwhelmingly Black and Latino.

So much to talk about. This is in Texas, btw.

Some of these studies sound pretty interesting. Links to them in the article:

Botany

Given to Jacob White in the US and Felipe Yamashita in Germany for reporting evidence that the South American plant Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of plastic plants it is placed alongside, leading them to conclude that “plant vision” is a plausible hypothesis.

Medicine

Won by a Swiss, German and Belgian group for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than fake medicine that does not cause painful side-effects.

Physics

Awarded to James Liao at the University of Florida for a comprehensive, multi-publication investigation into the swimming abilities of a dead trout.

Probability

Shared by a team of 50 researchers, mostly Dutch, who flipped 350,757 coins to test a hypothesis put forward by Persi Diaconis, a former magician and professor of statistics at Stanford University. Their work supported Diaconis’s prediction that tossed coins are (slightly) more likely to land the same way up as they started.

Stephanie Pope, CEO of Boeing’s commercial airplane unit, told machinists earlier this week the tentative deal was the “best contract we’ve ever presented.”

“In past negotiations, the thinking was we should hold something back so we can ratify the contract on a second vote,” she said. “We talked about that strategy this time, but we deliberately chose a new path.”

I don’t know anything about their contract negotiations, but if someone said this to me during negotiations of any type, my BS detector would be off the charts.

As I recall, the French navy was seriously weakened by their revolution of the late 1700s because many of the officers were nobles, and then the British kicked them while they were down at Trafalgar in 1805, so they had to rebuild after that. I know a lot less about the north African pirates, but I think they were based in lands protected by the Ottoman Empire, which was declining but still somewhat powerful. There were various expeditions against the pirates though, and a lot of times they could be “paid off.” Anyway, once the Europeans defeated Napoleon and adopted a “balance of power” approach at the Congress of Vienna, they started colonizing Africa, and France grabbed most of modern Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, which I think is where most of the pirates were based. (Shamefully, the French also commited many atrocities while doing so.) The pirates in Libya I think were mostly reined in when the Ottoman Empire took direct control (instead of allowing them autonomy) around that time.

Sounds interesting. Apparently there were in fact Mediterranean pirates until at least 1830: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates