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I hate what this country has become.
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# ? May 1, 2020 19:42 |
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Proud Christian Mom posted:i cant even get people to learn some lessons from 2016 let alone get them to give a poo poo about the great depression This but the Spanish flu.
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# ? May 1, 2020 19:43 |
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Woofer posted:I’m admittedly stupid and didn’t know what work sets you free was referencing so I’m here to say the history curriculum in this country sucks I went to school in rural Georgia (in a town of less than a thousand) and we covered it. I will say I was extra lucky in high school to have a history teacher who gave a poo poo and to this day wants students to learn actual history and not redneck "states rights" history.
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# ? May 1, 2020 19:46 |
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Syrian Lannister posted:I hate what this country has become. I'm coming up on two decades of federal service and in that time have developed a lot of contempt for both the government that pays me and the people I nominally serve.
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# ? May 1, 2020 19:55 |
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Syrian Lannister posted:I hate what this country has become. Just because the leadership is hosed doesn't mean that the country is hosed. Actually, it probably is, but the good people will go down fighting. https://twitter.com/JasonGregor/status/1256293766958206976 Edit: At the risk of spoiling the joke, because the picture is so good: https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1256293755247824896
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# ? May 1, 2020 19:55 |
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Cugel the Clever posted:What's always confused me is the folks I've known who dismiss history as boring, but then can recount the entirety of the extended history of Middle Earth. Sure there's no magic and fantasy creatures in real history, but it's full of insane drama that is often super compelling. I think that when it comes to any kind of education, you have to make people want to learn, and one of the easiest ways is to give them a personal connection. Stories like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars resonate because they have compelling characters we can attach ourselves to and root for, on top of cool fantasy/sci-fi environments and mystical storytelling. History, likewise, is filled with all kinds of tales and sagas that are incredibly interesting and compelling, but because we insist on teaching for tests and arbitrary benchmarks everything that would make people want to learn more about it is lost. To take it in the opposite direction, if you were told to teach someone about Star Wars, but you had to tell them what year the Death Star was blown up, why Palpatine dissolved the Imperial Senate, and what factors lead to the Rebel victory over Endor, and there was a test on the end where their score was seen as an objective reflection of how good you are as a teacher, you'd run into the exact same problems. Of course, what makes the problem even worse is how important understanding history is to understanding the world we live in—and even more importantly, having a nuanced understanding of history, and proper methods for finding out things you don't already know.
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# ? May 1, 2020 19:57 |
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My world history teacher was from Boston who served 20 years in navy intelligence before becoming a southern high school football coach who taught history on the side. He had a way of making every class a story instead of a list of facts. He also dunked hard on the states rights kids when we got to the Atlantic slave trade. He's also one of the two vets who told me I was a loving idiot for wanting to throw away a college scholarship to enlist after 9-11. Thank Yahweh, Christ, Allah, Vishnu, Ahura Mazda, Loki, Quetzalcoatl etc. That I listened to them instead of my chud uncles who apparently still tell the family I'm not a real man because I didn't enlist in the marines.
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# ? May 1, 2020 20:00 |
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Syrian Lannister posted:I hate what this country has become. become?
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# ? May 1, 2020 20:26 |
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I'm enjoying watching moron right wingers take to the streets on a socialist holiday. Gloomtube is up and running. I walked to downtown and back today and didn't see any commotion or protesters, which is surprising given how conservative Colorado Springs is. I've started incentivizing long weekly walks with a reward of buying weed. It's a good system, and no one gives a gently caress if you smoke a joint while walking around in public.
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# ? May 1, 2020 20:40 |
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What number press secretary are they up to now? 4? 5?
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:05 |
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To think people wanted daily press briefings back, and we just had a solid month of Trump doing them. You'd think we've suffered enough already.
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:09 |
Radical 90s Wizard posted:What number press secretary are they up to now? 4? 5? I would bet $5 that Sean Spicer was the first, but would not be at all surprised if I lost that bet (and why I would only bet $5).
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:09 |
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Basticle posted:not to defend these idiots but thats not blackface Given the crowd and the intent, its blackface dude.
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:10 |
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Woofer posted:I would bet $5 that Sean Spicer was the first, but would not be at all surprised if I lost that bet (and why I would only bet $5). You'd win that one. Spicy was the first trump press secretary.
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:11 |
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Outdoor loving starts today
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:12 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:You'd win that one. Spicy was the first trump press secretary. Don't forget the mooch
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:24 |
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facialimpediment posted:Lasted about a minute. What have you done
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:33 |
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Suicide Watch posted:Don't forget the mooch I don't remember who filled the gap, but I remember the mooch. Saw him giving an interview on SkyNews one day (stream on youtube) like, three weeks ago. It was weird. I really couldn't tell you who else besides those two and shucks. Oh, and Canada banned assault style weapons. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/world/canada-assault-style-weapons-ban-trnd/index.html CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 21:43 on May 1, 2020 |
# ? May 1, 2020 21:39 |
Is Mooch still the shortest term press sec for this admin?
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:49 |
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Woofer posted:Is Mooch still the shortest term press sec for this admin? Yeah
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:50 |
CRUSTY MINGE posted:I don't remember who filled the gap, but I remember the mooch. Saw him giving an interview on SkyNews one day (stream on youtube) like, three weeks ago. It was weird. I dont think Mooch was press sec, I think he was comms director. I could be wrong.
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:51 |
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He was acting press sec, that I remember. Ah, the stars that burn the brightest and all that jazz.
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:57 |
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Midjack posted:The Memento approach to a history class is something I kicked around too but like you could never come up with a way to present it that wouldn’t lose half the students. Not to mention the permission slips for the body tattoos and awkward field trips. RE: Not knowing a phrase from history. I wouldn't put knowing that phrase in the top 10% of important information from the Holocaust, or from WW2, or from the year 1945. That snippet, in and of itself, will have tremendous meaning for some individuals because of the trauma or empathy with the trauma. For many others, that they recall that piece of information due to a particularly effective lecture, the luck of being interested at the time it was given, or it having been reinforced through active recall or sufficient exposure to encourage long term memory. I cannot be mad at someone anecdotally not recognizing a phrase (make a statistic out of it, and then we can start to investigate whether its indicative of a failure). Imagine a doctor that cannot remember the name of the disease that ails you. That doctor bites his lip, wrestles with the memory, shakes his head and then looks it up. "Ah, [i]metaphor syndrome[i]," he says embarrassed, then proceeds to prescribe medication that cures your illness. That's still a good doctor, though it may shake the patient's confidence. What we have here are people willing towrite down slogans on a sign that they heard online or someone told them to write, and take them into public without investigating those slogans. Even this was once conceivably a bridge to far, if you had to go down to the library, go into the stacks, and try to find a book with the title, "Almanac of Terrible Slogans Linked to Human Atrocity To Never Reuse Less you Look Like a Nazi." But that's not the price for investigation any more. Type it into the chrome bar on your cell phone--you don't even have hit tab any more. The failure here isn't that they don't have in their recall a translation of a phrase put to terrible purpose. It's that they don't know enough to look things up before they accept them or that they have been rendered unable to care.
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# ? May 1, 2020 22:34 |
Doc Hawkins posted:wow can we please tone down the guillotine jokes https://twitter.com/dril/status/922321981?s=20
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# ? May 1, 2020 23:12 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:wow can we please tone down the guillotine jokes
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# ? May 1, 2020 23:36 |
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Nice glory hole.
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# ? May 1, 2020 23:43 |
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The first response is "Orange County is the Florida of California" https://twitter.com/nbcsandiego/status/1256311846123917313 And it's a reminder that even though 80% support the lockdowns, 20% is still a lot of stupid loving people and of course they're the ones least likely to mask up.
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# ? May 2, 2020 00:06 |
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Based on my knowledge of people from Huntington Beach (Tito Ortiz ) they arent exactly the smartest people around.
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# ? May 2, 2020 00:40 |
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I live in OC. It's amazing to see the difference in San Diego and LA counties compared to here. There are a lot of businesses and residents who are taking this very seriously. But the loving beach crowds are like the chuds of OC. The county commissioners voted to keep the county beaches open which caused the governor to (rightly) step in. 1100 deaths LA county 149 deaths Riverside county 120 deaths San Diego county 145 deaths Orange county It's not like we aren't right next in line if LA blows up like NYC.
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# ? May 2, 2020 01:15 |
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OC sucks. I do not miss working and living there.
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# ? May 2, 2020 01:46 |
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Midjack posted:I'm coming up on two decades of federal service and in that time have developed a lot of contempt for both the government that pays me and the people I nominally serve. 21 years in local government in July.
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# ? May 2, 2020 02:34 |
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A play in 4 acts. Maine has extended the shut down of restaurant dining rooms until June 1st, but takeout and delivery are still an option. https://twitter.com/WorstBeerBlog/status/1256312501068640261 https://twitter.com/WorstBeerBlog/status/1256312033957445639 https://twitter.com/hannah_dineen/status/1256341903173394433 https://twitter.com/beerbabe/status/1256361605035700226 You hate to see it.
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# ? May 2, 2020 03:35 |
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Shutter it. Board up the windows, bar the doors.
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# ? May 2, 2020 04:18 |
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I know what arbeit macht frei means and where it's from, but I don't know why I know. I'm sure it wasn't from the minimal history classes I took. Now I wouldn't want to unnecessarily paint anyone in a negative light here, and I'm not certain this is the case, but I wonder if I picked it up from some front page articles like Photoshop Phriday? e: vvv To clarify, I know that, I just don't know why I know it. It must have been something I picked up on the Internet somehow, and I'm going to blame SA. Buttcoin purse fucked around with this message at 12:54 on May 2, 2020 |
# ? May 2, 2020 04:30 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:I know what arbeit macht frei means and where it's from, but I don't know why I know. I'm sure it wasn't from the minimal history classes I took. Now I wouldn't want to unnecessarily paint anyone in a negative light here, and I'm not certain this is the case, but I wonder if I picked it up from some front page articles like Photoshop Phriday? It's best known as a phrase posted on a placard that was posted on top of the gates into Auschwitz.
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# ? May 2, 2020 04:40 |
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TFW when you get fired the first day of class for telling kids history is about how rich assholes get everyone to go along with whatever dumb poo poo they cooked up and that history class is how rich assholes get them to go along with whatever stupid bullshit they're cooking up
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# ? May 2, 2020 05:01 |
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Somewhat of a palate cleanser, from Bloombergquote:Angry Undergrads Are Suing Colleges for Billions in Refunds
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# ? May 2, 2020 05:02 |
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quote:Payments can add up. Small residential institutions, for instance, may be refunding $2 million to $3 million, while large schools with several thousand on-campus students are likely to return $8 million to $20 million or more, Hundrieser said. So, 3-10% of an FBS team's football revenue?
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# ? May 2, 2020 05:16 |
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Speaking of colleges doing dumb things, here's my alma mater! https://twitter.com/politico/status/1256036879490785281?s=20
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# ? May 2, 2020 05:54 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 04:53 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelcoren/status/1256399876528779267
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