The fact. He had been moved from school to school before.

He made his student athletes work out naked and showed them his dick to show them “what a real man is like.” It’s amazing how many news articles leave out those details.

Also the fact that the Governor and the State Superintendent are known to be golfing buddies with Ringalings superintendent…. It’s almost as if Oklahoma systemically covers up the abuse of children….

OKDHS fired an employee for trying to get kids removed from a foster home where they literally locked children out in freezing weather…

I’m also a dumbass mid thirties divorced man, but this is definitely parching my thirsts.

It’s uh… a bit more focused on the “cougar” audience. Lots of stiff wood.

Dunning-Kruger is very overstated.

The original paper by Dunning and Kruger starts with the quote: “It is one of the essential features of incompetence that the person so inflicted is incapable of knowing that they are incompetent.” This idea has spread far and wide through both scientific literature and pop culture alike. But according to the work of my colleagues and me, the reality is that very few people are truly unskilled and unaware. The Dunning and Kruger experiment did find a real effect – most people think they are better than average. But according to my team’s work, that is all Dunning and Kruger showed. The reality is that people have an innate ability to gauge their competence and knowledge. To claim otherwise suggests, incorrectly, that much of the population is hopelessly ignorant.

I worked high poverty district - like, basically all students got free breakfast and lunch, because so many were eligible it wouldn’t make sense to even check.

The district got white flight to shit. No white kids in the middle or high school. There was one elementary school that the rich fuckers would send its kids to. That school was well funded. Teachers from there would show up in coordinated outfits, the kids weren’t thrown in classrooms with permanent subs, they actually got taught. It was in the rich neighborhood, so it had money - both the property tax shit and an actual fucking PTA.

The other factor to also consider is that public schools in the US have fairly extensive athletic programs, meaning that they spend a lot of the funds to build and maintain things like American Football stadiums fields, swimming pools, etc., as opposed to only funding actual academic education.

I bought my lab supplies. Bare minimum $50-200 a month in supplies. Lab chemicals, pencils and notebooks for students that didn’t have any.

My classroom looked out over the fancy new football and soccer field. One of the middle schools had a field that local semi pro teams would rent out. The district couldn’t even fund busing - we’d have students show up 1-2 hours late every day because of the buses.

Small towns will fund bonds for football fields and cleats; they don’t give a damn about anything else. If you are good enough coach, you can literally show your penis to students and the administration will cover it up, then quietly help you get a position in a new town.

Think more.

Oblivion and Skyrim were both massive disappointments to me.

If ES 6 comes out, it’ll have maybe three skills - magic/combat/sneak. Any interesting/complicated lore will be retconned and shoved aside. (Why wasn’t Cyrodil a jungle? Where are my river drakes? What happened to Sutch? Where is my Colovian armor set?)

I’m poor as shit and I think I’m pretty damn smart.

My ex was a trust fund baby and dumb as rocks. I did his college capstone for him.

Weinstein? Diddy? Epstein?

All three of those examples got away with it for literal decades.

Both Weinstein and Diddy were known dangers in their industry.

They took Epstein out because you know he had compromat on Trump. Best friends.

Or - the Cosby shit was an open secret. No one cared until Hannibal Buress started pointing it out.

The term “two spirit” is iffy, but there 100% were third/multiple genders in many indigenous societies.

We have pictures of We’Wha for example.

I’m Choctaw ish, wasn’t raised in it but there’s conceptions of third genders in Choctaw and Chickasaw cultures.

Remember how Randy Pitchford funneled money that was supposed to go to Aliens: Colonial Marines into Borderlands 2 (and Duke Nukem Forever lol)

Callender’s suit alleges that Pitchford “breached his fiduciary duties by exploiting Gearbox employees and property to fund Pitchford’s private cravings,” and one portion of the suit makes two sensational accusations about Pitchford’s behavior: that he accidentally left a selection of “underage” pornography on a USB stick at a restaurant, and that he used his company’s money to host parties where “adult men have reportedly exposed themselves to minors, to the amusement of Pitchford.”

How the fuck do you leave a USB stick full of child abuse material at a fucking Medieval Times and get away with it?

Atari 2600 Pac Man is shit lol

OpenSciEd is a model that teaches science like that. There’s been a ton of pushback from conservatives.

African Americans were supposed to be given the right to vote after abolition.

There was a brief period of time during Reconstruction where that happened. However, many states came up with complicated contrivances to make it impossible to vote - poll taxes, “literacy tests,” etc. Effectively, it was a right solely on paper until LBJ in the 60s. Conservatives throwing a massive fit about this is why we have the insane fascistic Right we do right now - they were pro public education until Black kids got to go to the same kids as white kids.

Women weren’t guaranteed the right to vote until 1920. Conservatives today are trying to revoke the 19th amendment and undo that.

Native English speaker.

I started trying to learn German from a book in second grade (not very successfully.) I took Mandarin and French in high school (for some reason, my brain translates 鸟 as « oiseau ») and some Spanish in middle school + working in a predominantly Latin American immigrant community. (You have to be careful with words like “chaqueta”)

Continued Mandarin study in college - I can read at maybe a second grade level. Took an online Turkish class when I was trapped during COVID, and a Sumerian one later. Dabbled in Korean, but realized the class was being run by a literal cult. Some formal Ancient Greek studies, some work in Wheelock’s Latin.

I can’t speak any of these languages - my brain/anxiety stops me from making words in other languages. But I can read French and Spanish literature (have a copy of Don Quixote I plan to work through one day), and enough Chinese to read children’s literature and menus.

Turkish though - agglutinative languages break my brain. Same with Sumerian, but it’s not like anyone finds it easy to read, barring maybe some U of Chicago professors.

I’d love to be a high level DND monk and be able to read everything. There’s so much stuff that isn’t accessible if you are stuck with English.

Been on the receiving end of much weedling and stealth removal.

Seriously, why is this such a common thing? It is straight up rape. I have had it happen to me multiple times in my life.

Few medical doctors have been as lauded—and loathed—as James Marion Sims.

Credited as the “father of modern gynecology,” Sims developed pioneering tools and surgical techniques related to women’s reproductive health. In 1876, he was named president of the American Medical Association, and in 1880, he became president of the American Gynecological Society, an organization he helped found. The 19th-century physician has been lionized with a half-dozen statues around the country.

But because Sims’ research was conducted on enslaved Black women without anesthesia, medical ethicists, historians and others say his use of enslaved Black bodies as medical test subjects falls into a long, ethically bereft history that includes the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and Henrietta Lacks. Critics say Sims cared more about the experiments than in providing therapeutic treatment, and that he caused untold suffering by operating under the racist notion that Black people did not feel pain.

[…]

In the 1850s, Sims moved to New York and opened the first-ever Woman’s Hospital, where he continued testing controversial medical treatments on his patients. When any of Sims’s patients died, the blame, according to him, lay squarely with “the sloth and ignorance of their mothers and the Black midwives who attended them.” He did not believe anything was wrong with his methods.

When I was a girl, earrings were fun. Could spin them around, and the backs were interesting.

You should. Extremely relaxing hobby. I sit down in front of the TV watching Star Wars, i mindlessly move my hands around, and then hours later I have a dishcloth.

It’s a great hobby because it’s super accessible and cheap. Go to Walmart, get a $2 thing of cotton yarn, $1ish on some size 8 needles, zone out watching TV, and then you have something you can clean your house with. More time means great blankets. More effort and time, and then you get something nice to wear.