Slippery slope is “If we let libraries carry un-educational books like fantasy novels, we’ll end up having to let libraries carry porn and mein kampf.”

And that’s the last I’m going to bother responding to idiot trolls.

Which implies there was possibly a time when those books were in school libraries

It implies no such thing. Before that, it would have simply been the school administrators decision as to whether or not to have those in the school library. There’s no evidence that any school actually did.

The school board bans come from a blanket list they get from probably some far-right evangelical consulting firm somewhere. It’s pre-emptive. And it never used to be needed because we trusted our teachers and long-suffering librarians to do their job. THEY made sure that what was in THEIR library was appropriate.

The school board is just making smoke in order to pretend that there’s a fire.

Stop catastrophizing. You know as well as I do that isn’t what I’m referring to. I’m talking about putting fantasy books and other “non-educational” books in school libraries.

No one is saying that libraries should have porn and mein kampf. What you’re doing is the classic slippery slope fallacy and no one is dumb enough to fall for it, so shut it.

It’s not sane at all.

The biggest struggle is getting kids actually reading. You don’t do that by forcing them to only read books that don’t interest them at all.

If the entire purpose is to encourage kids to read (it’s not…not in 'murica, anyway), but you take away anything they want to read, you’re defeating the purpose.

I can’t believe this is actually something people want to debate! It’s ludicrous. Reading improves a kids cognition and ability to process complex thoughts. That’s the entire purpose of a school library.

How in the fuck did we go from a world where your teacher would tell you to go pick three books from the library to take home and read, to a world where your teacher tells you to not read books you like for some obscure reason?

Getting kids reading IS the entire point. It’s the foudational skill to everything else that comes along with it.

Perfection.

Seems too on-the-nose, really

Trump doesn’t do subtlety. Hell, I doubt he can spell subtlety.

Same as always. Just going with the flow.

The Sykes-Picot agreement basically fucked over anyone who wasn’t white or Jewish.

At the end of World War 1 it carved up the middle east into areas controlled by the allied powers (France, Russia, England. Although Russia was only there as an observer mostly). Each of those sides puppeted their zones of control with varying degrees of civility, while the original groups that still had to live there day-to-day radicalized over being controlled by outsiders.

That was exacerbated by the Balfour Declaration in 1917, in which Britain basically said “tough titty-toenails, Arabs. We’ve promised to give the Jews a homeland, and we’ll have to take it from you.”

Did you know that if you put all the Spice girls into a blender for five minutes on the lowest setting, you get home-made Allspice.

“Aim”? What’s this “Aim” you speak of?

The only way I’ve ever known is to stand four feet back, whip down your pants and skivvies right down to your ankles and just firehose that sunuvabitch.

As God intended.

• Advanced privacy app automatically blocks trackers and ads.
• Let’s you toggle your IP and your geolocation to hidden with two simple toggles…
• App Lounge provides an exodus privacy report on apps; details the trackers and the permissions needed.
• If you have a Murena.io email account, it automatically generates a random alias for you without having to download another app.
• Much much much more granular MicroG settings allowing to to grant Google as much or as little as you want.

I’m not saying that these are all things that mainline lineage can’t do. But you would most certainly be installing additional apps for it.

Ignore /e/ OS - it’s Lineage with their crap on it.

It’s actually quite a bit more than just that. But hey…if you want to be a hater, no one is going to stop you.

Honestly just some no name thing I received in a prize bag at some conference I attended once upon a time.

I keep a bug-out bag in case of fire.

It’s not that I’m particularly afraid of fire, so much as I’m afraid of being thrown out into the night wearing nothing by my skivvies.

So I keep a back-pack loaded with:

• A change of clothes

• photocopies of all my identification

• Spare car keys

• Spare credit/debit card

Every person I’ve shared this with says “Hey…it makes sense…but it’s still a little weird.”

Fraud

GDScript for the Godot game engine. I’m passable in Python and Lua for some basic things, but I’ve been obsessed with a game idea. I refuse to use AI for anything more than maybe prototyping, so I’m essentially learning what I need to as I go since I’m a one-man-band.

Oh I’m not against voting. Knock yourself out. But don’t act surprised when the supreme court nullifies those votes and hands them to the GOP regardless of the outcome.

By all means vote. But be prepared to back it up afterwards, because only a fool thinks Trump isn’t going to call in every stacked corrupted favour he has to nullify it.

Dogs have the ability to read body language. So a gentle behaviour like kissing or cuddling would definitely be perceived differently than an abrupt gesture like poking them.

where they seem eager to engage with content they don’t even like or that pisses them off. It’s like joining a bicycle forum only to find out everyone mostly just spends their time there shitting on tricycles.

Rage Farming or “scientifically”, The Commodification of Trauma

I don’t get it either. But I still fall for it myself without even realizing it. It’s truly bizarre that we all have that tendancy to some degree; I can’t fathom why such a behaviour would have evolved to be necessary.

I lost my girl at 8. Didn’t quite get there. :-(