LA Tech Spartan

Engineering has taken over my life. Science fiction. Anime/cartoons, politics, firearm stuff, art, video games, photos of places, and other cool stuff are probably what I'll post here. I'm still figuring out how this whole tumblr thing works.

[raesterize]

i spent way too much time on this.

[submalevolentgrace]

people keep talking about how we "have to" go back to "normal" after covid because "we can't live in fear with restrictions like this forever"

which is funny because I'd like to know when the same return to normal after 9/11 is happening, because it's been over 20 years and none of the restrictions on freedom or privacy have eased even slightly

i wonder why

[sloppystyle]

😳

[johnnyrico]

[johnnyrico]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[breelandwalker]

This used to be called “Auto Shop” and “Home Economics,” subjects which were included in nearly every high school curriculum up until the 1980s. Auto maintenance, budget management, sewing skills, cooking, and other basic Adulting skills were actually taught in classroom settings. But suddenly all that money got funneled away to sports and graduation requirements shifted toward standardized tests because those were somehow more? important? than life skills? and the home ec and shop classes were no longer taught, even as electives. We’ve been steadily losing arts classes for similar reasons.

And so students leave school with a thorough grounding in football and calculus, but having no idea how to sew on a button or change a tire. 

Petition to bring back these classes in every single middle and high school in the country.

[dissonant-aria]

Like most things that went wrong in the 80s, this is due to Reagan. He signed the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act into law which allowed “Job Creators” to control our educational system.

If it can’t help the Boug make a buck from you, it no longer gets taught.

[safetytank]

[nightblightowl]

I graduated in 2010 and we still had home ec, woodshop and auto classes but they were treated as like ‘extras’? They could only accept so many students in each class for a semester, so once you were getting ready to go into 11th grade, you had to pick which one you wanted to get into and send in your application. If you didn’t get in, they placed you in which ever one had space for you… I managed to do woodshop and auto… but I never got into home ec. Which sucked. Wish I could’ve gotten all 3 under my belt but it was like a god damn race. People had enough stress to deal with with tests and co-ops.

[latechspartan]

Does anyone else remember that time NOPD massacred unarmed civilians and covered it up only to eventually have all those involved tried? What about how 4 years ago those sentences were retried and had their sentences drastically reduced, save for one that was already released? Yea the officers that actually carried out the shooting get out of prison this decade. Do with that information what you wish.

Danziger Bridge shootings - Wikipedia

Danziger Bridge shootings - Wikipedia

[trenchcoats-anonymous-deactivat]

[awesomeness2]

Always reblog

[ultrafacts]

For any writers: http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/SFTerms.html

For more facts, follow Ultrafacts

[greatfulldedd]

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[smashwolfen]

@space-australians Feels like this would kinda fit your blog, specially for writers who want to make up weird human space shenanigans involving a ship and alien crew and what not.  Maybe someone can write about how a person fixed a specific part in the dumbest way possible using the right words XD

[space-australians]

Guys, NASA is cool.

[emperorsfoot]

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, they have a whole list of articles and pages to help sci-fi writers. NASA is the best! 

[nunyabizni]

NASA decided long ago that the information they collect (for the most part) belongs to humanity so they make as much of it available as they can. Their image galleries are without parallel and all of them are free to use however you like.

[fuckyeahasexual]

So if you lived in a society where you had to secure your communication in order to be yourself around others, here are the apps that could help you do that.

[fuckyeahasexual]

Signal let’s you securely text and make phone calls.

Onion Browser allows you to surf the web without leaving a trail.

Duck Duck Go isn’t super secure but it won’t record your searches like Google.

ProtonMail is a email client that lets you email other secure email accounts.

Periscope allows you to stream live video.

Semaphor is there so you can securely make group chat rooms.

American privacy laws allow you to use these all. So that’s pretty cool.

[beaniebaneenie]

Because we’re currently living in the prologue of a cyberpunk dystopian novel, imma reblog this.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

So useful

[latechspartan]

General ironwood when he goes to fight Salem.

[old-man-meme]

[just-here-ya-know]

[latechspartan]

Anyone else feel like for some reason metro 2033, metro last light, and metro exodus are a good representation of a battle with depression? Like it’s dark with little bits of light and then you finally get it under control and things aren’t so bad anymore.

[anxietyproblem]

[latechspartan]

I’m really enjoying Dr. Stone episode 13.

[latechspartan]

I knew this guy looked familiar!