Yo ho ho

pronouns: they/them

[theconcealedweapon]

Also, "stay home if you don't want to be murdered by the government" is not something said by people who value freedom.

[captain-price-returns]

[noneedtofearorhope]

before trump and the creation of ANTIFA as a boogeyman, the fbi listed animal liberation and 'eco-terrorism' as the number 1 domestic terror threat.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,029:

I miss the days of cross media shipping. Like bring back the crackships and people hearing you out over them. Let's have fun with shipping again

[argumate]

oho this gonna be good

Musk insisted that AI will exceed human intelligence in five years and that humans will no longer be in charge of the world in 10 years. Beddoes pressed Musk several times on what that means and how his companies will continue to exist. The billionaire rambled on and on in a way that didn’t really stand up to any scrutiny.

humans may no longer be in charge of the world but they're investing in SpaceX today and presumably they have concerns about the return on that investment in ten years.

Musk was asked how his companies would make money in this version of the future, and he insisted that “money won’t matter in 2036.” He claimed that everyone would have a high income from doing nothing and that people might still perform some kind of labor as a hobby, much in the same way that people might grow their own tomatoes in a home garden. Musk insisted backyard tomatoes weren’t as good as those you can buy from the store, but people still do it anyway.

tomatoes aside, that suggests the only reason to invest in SpaceX is pure altruism given that money will be worthless and everyone will be sharing the results, think I like this new Comrade Musk.

From that point on, it was all downhill for Musk. He suggested that everyone read Iain Banks for a vision of the future, and Beddoes pointed out that Banks was a socialist. Musk insisted he wasn’t. Musk said he wanted a Star Trek version of the future, which is also a version of the future that is routinely referred to as “space communism.”

computer, fresh takes, hot.

[unicouniuni]

Uni says hi :3

[depsidase]

[friendshapedhole]

Every graduate program I applied to in the last 6 years and every public school job I’ve applied to in the last 2 has required me to submit, on top of a normal cover letter or personal essay, an additional secondary letter asking me to attest to how I intend to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion as an educator.

It’s always fairly clear on the application that a statement like “I don’t intend to promote them” or “those values are nice but it’s not really part of my job duties to promote them” would be completely unacceptable, and even a boilerplate statement like “I will always strive to treat every student the same, regardless of their race, nationality, or religion” would probably be viewed negatively.

Also this image—

always captioned to negatively contrast “equality” with “equity”—has been featured at least once in the materials of every single Education course I’ve taken as part of my teacher certification. Every single one. And I’ve taken five so far.

I don’t really like conservatives at all. But I can’t help but pity them. You’re literally required to submit to an ideological test where you must renounce their beliefs, if you want to go into academia or education.

[tapirwharfhypothesis]

The funny/sad thing is, I don't really think of myself as conservative (no doubt there are people who would consider me so, but I've voted for the most left wing option available to me at every election in my entire adult life and have no expectation that that will stop, so I figure that probably counts for something), and "literally required to submit an ideological test where I must renounce my beliefs" is pretty much how I feel about the situation you've described. It does, indeed, suck.

[brazenautomaton]

and yet so many fucking people will just say this isn't happening, it never happened, you must be a hateful lying chud to claim it happened, why do you hate black people so much.

[all-blue-queenie]

Teachers when they're required to do their job apparently

Also "required to renounce my beliefs" uh- what beliefs buddy wanna share with the class 🤨

[brazenautomaton]

The entire point of the post here is that promoting DEI is not, actually, their job.

The beliefs in this case might be "I want to treat everyone equally regardless of race or gender."

[all-blue-queenie]

I think its a teachers job to teach a diverse class, ensure equity in their learning and be inclusive actually

[friendshapedhole]

Every graduate program I applied to in the last 6 years and every public school job I’ve applied to in the last 2 has required me to submit, on top of a normal cover letter or personal essay, an additional secondary letter asking me to attest to how I intend to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion as an educator.

It’s always fairly clear on the application that a statement like “I don’t intend to promote them” or “those values are nice but it’s not really part of my job duties to promote them” would be completely unacceptable, and even a boilerplate statement like “I will always strive to treat every student the same, regardless of their race, nationality, or religion” would probably be viewed negatively.

Also this image—

always captioned to negatively contrast “equality” with “equity”—has been featured at least once in the materials of every single Education course I’ve taken as part of my teacher certification. Every single one. And I’ve taken five so far.

I don’t really like conservatives at all. But I can’t help but pity them. You’re literally required to submit to an ideological test where you must renounce their beliefs, if you want to go into academia or education.

[tapirwharfhypothesis]

The funny/sad thing is, I don't really think of myself as conservative (no doubt there are people who would consider me so, but I've voted for the most left wing option available to me at every election in my entire adult life and have no expectation that that will stop, so I figure that probably counts for something), and "literally required to submit an ideological test where I must renounce my beliefs" is pretty much how I feel about the situation you've described. It does, indeed, suck.

[brazenautomaton]

and yet so many fucking people will just say this isn't happening, it never happened, you must be a hateful lying chud to claim it happened, why do you hate black people so much.

[all-blue-queenie]

Teachers when they're required to do their job apparently

Also "required to renounce my beliefs" uh- what beliefs buddy wanna share with the class 🤨

[depsidase]

[argumate]

Jordan Be Peterson is still alive?

[argumate]

seriously though if this is a joke it's a really good one

[bowlby4]

[ajyyna8]

[cnmcn]

[captain-price-returns]

Trump: "We're gonna keep the strait, and we'll probably run it. We'll become the guardian of the strait. We should be reimbursed for that. When we do that, we're gonna be reimbursed. We're gonna get paid."

None of this is true.

[captain-price-returns]

The strait is closed.

[collapsedsquid]

What’s remarkable to me is that this is not the first time Trump has proposed literally this policy. Back in August 17, 1989, in a speech to a group of travel agents reported by the Tampa Bay Times, Trump proposed exactly this:

[hotvampireadjacent]

[mono-socke]

copying his smile :D

[alice-za-kat]

Bilewater