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office jobs should have chemistry labs in them. just to change things up
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I had a beloved psych teacher in high school who got warned by the principal at least once to stop running psychological experiments on students - he was literally made for prank YouTube before YouTube even existed, these weren't even formally constructed tests of the scientific method, it was just clownery and tbh I think teaching at a catholic school for 2 decades does something to you psychologically.
but anyway the one that went down in history was when he faked his own death in front of a classroom full of his students "just to see how they would respond, for science"
but he couldn't just fake a heart attack...because that would be lame... he concocted an elaborate scenario where a former student of his came in during a quiet self-study time and got in an argument with him about past grades. and the situation escalated, and this kid pulls out a fake gun and the teacher is like "oh my god!!" and gets shot in the chest - he had fake blood and everything and was doing his best to serve an oscar-winning performance. but I mean if you're known for clownery then. lol. most of the students were like "oh. we're being experimented on again" and just sat back mentally eating popcorn as a handful of people who didn't know him well freaked out.
nobody got hurt but he didn't record data or anything he was just like "wow that was interesting...let's talk about why none of you over there cared I was dying...it hurt my feelings...."
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Hey. Hey. Look at me. Eyes here, I need to tell you something important.
Anyone who tries to sell you on that "LGB without the T" bullshit is a fucking sell-out who wants to sacrifice a marginalized community to beg for scraps of approval from bigots who hate anyone who isn't straight only slightly less than they hate anyone who isn't cis. Anyone who tries to sell you on it is pretending that conservatives won't just shift targets to target the gay community after they've destroyed enough trans people.
Martin Niemöller did not write "First They Came..." just for fascists to pull the exact same "one community at a time" bullshit decades later.
Support and protect trans people. Community and solidarity is necessary. Anyone trying to convince you abandon another marginalized group, especially anyone who tries to turn you against that group, is a tool of bigots.
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i think this guy's dad was a stephen king character
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those coconut crabs shot amelia earhart’s plane down because they were misogynists.
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In this video detailing his day one plans for education reform after disbanding the Department of Education, he explicitly states that he is going to enforce a “standard” where universities are required to “defend tradition and western civilization,” and will confiscate their entire endowment fund if they don’t meet this standard. He details that this will be done by dismantling all college accreditation institutions and replacing them with party loyal Republicans who will ensure universities are granting “fast-tracked” degrees to get people into the workplace.
This is, beyond an obviously fascist move to crack down on dissent and totally destroy the concept of academic freedom, in his own words, “crushing his enemies.” The left in this country retreated into academia for job security, but the humanities as we know them will be gone completely soon. This is not an overreaction, it is literally already happening. Most of my colleagues are already looking for new jobs. For what it’s worth, republicans are very good at identifying and crushing their enemies - the left as a whole has no choice but to exit the academies and enter the workforce. It’s on us to make him regret heightening this particular contradiction.
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every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu
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born to be an abstract concept, forced to be a percievable entity
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