This is so incredibly useful. Thank you.
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This is so incredibly useful. Thank you.
US education system.
That’s a fair question.
The arts are seen as a luxury and a frippery. They are also seen as elitist.
If you want to defund public services and remain popular, the playbook is to remove the arts first. That way you are demonstrating the order of needs.
Related to another popular post right now…so what was Bruce Dickinson’s ancestor?
It’s 1994. The Bosnian-Serbian conflict is still raging. Some cool dude from the UN peace keepers thinks it would be good to have a concert.
He contacts Bruce Dickinson and says, “wanna play a much needed gig in a warzone?”
Bruce says, “yes”.
Here’s the documentary.
You can’t defund social welfare programmes without defunding the arts first. To defund healthcare you have to defund the arts. To defund schools, you first have to defund the arts.
You know where this is going.
The arts are the canary and it is lying dead at the bottom of the cage.
Adore the darktable gang.
I’m gen-x and I am at the point where I don’t know if I say anything unironically any more.
(But you are spot on, slang is there, always, and it mutates as it is needed, but it isnt generational so much as sociopolitical and regional.)
Nah, its for “grizzled tanman”. You oldies just don’t get it.
That hair though.
C’mon man, it’s time to get a coverage appropriate cut or just shave it altogether.
He looks like a boiled sweet that’s been dropped on the carpet.
Hi, I’m Issac Newton, you might remember me from… The motions.
Petition to edit all textbooks, renaming Newton as THE Motion Guy.
Yeah, no.
Newton was such a complex human. He seemed capable of holding many, sometimes opposing beliefs, at the same time.
Newton’s conception of the physical world provided a model of the natural world that would reinforce stability and harmony in the civic world. Newton saw a monotheistic God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.
There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to his religious beliefs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newton
If you are into learning about him there’s also a rather good read, The Janus Faces of Genius, by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, that looks into his occult work.
Furthermore, for the sake of complexity, we can look into how, when he was the warden of the mint, he became responsible for the deaths of 19 people. He turned a largely ceremonial role into a task force, chasing down forgers and sentencing them to death.
Mate, it’s just one accent. A mono-accent across an entire country. People from Glasgow and Edinburgh sound exactly the same… Can’t tell them apart. And if you go to Wick, right at the top, same. It’s wild.
I don’t want to have to add a /s but I just know some fud is going to comment “well ackshurly”.
Love how this story grows arms and legs. It was actually a Jimmy Carr joke that folk pretend was real.
And yet butter still has an anti-theft tag on it at the supermarket.
We are really living in a dystopia.
Really expensive food and animal cruelty.
Hey maybe we can have a clusterfuck of our very own!
If by us, you mean American christians, then sure.
Wait… The very notion of the seven deadly sins is a Christian construct… It only really applies to us anyway…
Ah. My bad. Carry on.
Pretent
Before you tent.
Foretent.
Mostly? So which bit were you serious about?