[-] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No idea on numbers, but considering IRL cowboys were poor folks doing hard work nobody else wanted to do...probably quite a few black men 0-3 generations removed from slavery.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago

End of the party of Trump, maybe. They'd still probably invoke his name at every opportunity.

End of the party of fascism and nihilistic corruption? No way, he's a figurehead there.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 21 hours ago

Conservative politicians and calling the popular arts satanic: a tradition going back centuries.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I mean, ideally we avoid fascism BEFORE the point of civil war.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pyrite: best known for "could be a conductor of electricity" and totally not "could be gold"

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I mean, few things in life can be graded objectively so that's not really the best standard to hold education to. There's a lot of value in learning and practicing the skill of taking in information and then rearranging it into your own words, creating and supporting arguments from the knowledge you've gained.

But the subjectivity of it DOES mean that occasionally teachers will need to set aside their egos. Those who legitimately want to educate the next generation usually can do that, but some just enjoy having power over children and absolutely will not units forced to do so (and doing so will just create a new grudge against that student).

[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago

I once got a C- on an essay, but for extra credit we could submit that paper to a state essay contest. I was a state finalist in that contest, with my only revision from the class-submitted version being spell checking Britan->Britain.

Fuck you, Mrs Wickham.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Wait until you see the Nepalese flag. It's not even a rectangle!

(It's also the only flag in the world to be mathematically defined by its country's constitution)

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

That could realistically be around 1/3 yearly profit in a reasonable company (18% operating margin is common). No idea whether Twitter is currently profitable (it wasn't when he bought it).

[-] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago

I got a call from this woman in Boston, out was just a product activation call so I had to read her a 20-character activation string. We use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for those, to reduce confusion over the phone.

The last character was Y-Yankee. I followed that up with "but I guess that's a politically incorrect word around Boston, huh?" And she goes on an absolute tirade about how people are way to sensitive, throwing out a few racist dogwhistles along the way.

I just said "Ma'am, I was making a joke about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees."

She went silent for a few seconds and hung up on me.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Blue MAGA

It's not even 8am and I've already read the dumbest shit I'll see all day

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Ooh, and they're deficit deadlifts too. Nice.

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