[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That is a deeply unsatisfying non-answer.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"One of the best ways to drain people's energy is via the internet." —Colin Robinson

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren't banned from "mentioning anatomy". They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.

How is that any better? Next your going to rationalize having no books in a literature class, showing no pictures of cells in a biology class, or having a trigonometry class without using the devil's radians.

I don't know why some people seem compelled to ignore all context and rationalize state sponored religious persecution in the name of "protecting the children". It's not post-truth just because you've decided to willfully ignore all the context.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Is this another one of those "dead frog pinned and glued in a cute pose for art" things?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Thanks for this post! I read The Three Musketeers ages ago while in middle school (pre-teenage). I'm sure I didn't get get much more out of it than sword fights and adventure at the time. I'd always meant to go back and read more Dumas. This post (and the comments about Dracula, another book I read first in middle school and enjoyed even more when I read it again last year for Halloween) has encouraged me to add to the top spot in my "to read" list.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

He got a speeding ticket in a poorly designed street with variable speed limits that is only designed to funnel people to and from the stadium and the interstate that just so happens to cut something like a nine lane street through a low income and predominantly black neighborhood and school zones. And the only reason he wasn't shot dead was because he was driving a very expensive car and the cop likely identified him as a semi-celebrity right away. This whole thing is like a case study in all the various forms of institutional racism. Tyreek Hill might be an unredeemable asshole, but that's FAR from the whole story.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

There is no such thing as official English, so it's only as official as it is popularly used by English speakers.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The speed limit need not be the same for each direction of travel. The speed limit changes at the sign. There is no expectation that the signs be at the same road stationing for opposing traffic. If the open street map database can't handle that appropriately, then there is no correct way to map this situation.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They generally don't breed in large bodies of water where the water is flowing. They moatly breed in the little stagnant pools of water that collect in other spots because of poor drainage or things like tires, empty pots, and other trash being left out in the rain. There exist these little pellets that poison those stagnant puddles for the mosquito, but not your pets. That and proper drainage around your house will do wonders to reduce the excess population. Pointing a fan to blow out at any open window can help too, but proper screens (with a fine enough mesh) would help more. Mosquitoes don't like a stiff breeze.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Have you read "South of the Pumphouse" by Les Clay pool? It's not non-fiction, but it was the first book I thought of when I saw NOFX in your comment.

Does "The Electric Kool aid Acid Test" count as non-fiction?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sounds like an interesting premise for a musical.

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