Yeah, fuck me for taking out student loans to go into a high need career which has abundant openings and need while also being too subhuman to be allowed to participate in society because conservative freaks figured out they could destroy the economy by convincing half of America that transgender people are pedophile freaks and a danger to all children.

This my friends, is what we mean when we talk about privilege.

I was a teacher. That’s illegal for trannies now where I live.

Yeah, we all know that there are so many government jobs right now.

I’m sorry you don’t live in a shithole where you can be fired for being who you are. Maybe fuck off with the condescension and unsolicited advice. Maybe you could learn to be an empathetic human being - I figured it out far before I learned to code, but we all grow in different ways.

I’m sad that Alan Wagner is using AI. Love his work most of the time.

Get your CDL or something

Epilepsy.

I had a job that paid a living wage, they just made it illegal for trannies to have it 🙃

Often people have jobs which involve computers, which force them to use whatever software the 90 year old running the company thinks is appropriate.

Y’all know that spiders can climb right?

And that spiders often make webs that look like this? Famously, funnel spiders?

I married a trust fund kid and then got saddled with his credit card debt after he dumped me.

Got to go on nice expensive vacations, ate ridiculous food on the top of Harrod’s in London. Now I’m making pillows out of old t-shirts because I don’t have a mattress.

The big lesson I learned is that it actually does not matter how smart, talented or hard working you are. It’s about having rich family.

Missionary trips are often glorified vacations. “Voluntourism.”

High school/college kids come over, build a school and then bounce. It would be better if that money was spent hiring local people to build that school. It relies on this racist thinking that somehow those poor Black or South American or whatever people are too stupid to know how to build things/survive, and they need some random white kids to come in and safe the day.

It’s for show, it’s to make the “missionaries” feel good about themselves and get some nice profile pictures instead of actually doing anything.

There are cases of “hospitals” being started by random people with no medical training - one I’m thinking of killed lots of babies. Somehow a random unqualified white person is just better and smarter, that they can fix all the problems.

It’s such a fucking farce. The real problems of the global south are that the centuries of exploitation and colonialism destroyed those countries economies and ways of living. The pseudo charity does nothing but exist as colonialism lite.

(I am excluding the rare groups of actually qualified people. I’ve talked to nurses and such who have done good work in places like Haiti. But they also did the same kind of work here - the kind of people I met assembling fentanyl test kits.)

Is pan handling legal?

Didja know there’s often waiting lists for shelters? Didja know that food banks usually require proof of residency? (Good luck cooking that bag of beans if you are unsheltered. Milk might have a few chunks in it too.)

Hmm, I wonder if you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Everyone knows my hairy bearded ass would make everyone’s 11 year old daughter feel totally safe in the women’s restroom.

It was actually a crime for me to piss in the men’s restroom for my last couple years teaching. Misdemeanor - they could have docked my schools funding by 10%.

I’m a criminal mastermind, I commit so many crimes just by breathing now.

They already technically revoked our drivers licenses I think? No idea - if I randomly stop posting I’m probably dead in OK County for “fraud.” (Don’t remember if it’s 7 or 8 deaths so far this year.)

Drummond wants the governors seat. Could be a good stunt to get the MAGA 15 minutes of fame.

Dune 2 walked so that StarCraft could run.

NASA should never have started subcontracting/giving work to private companies like SpaceX and Boeing. NASA’s talent takes pride in their work and does things well. Private companies are incentivized to cut corners, which you cannot do with spaceflight.

It’s been a problem for a while. Those o-rings that failed with the Challenger? Made by a company run by the FLDS child rape cult.

There’s always big error bars on these dates for that kind of reason. Actual archeologists are going to be careful with their language and say things like “the earliest evidence we have for bows is around 9000 BCE.”

I know about the types of communities you are talking about, but there is a difference between people who purposefully put animals together to cause them to kill each other for entertainment and taking striking pictures of natural predation.

I just watched a video of an Australian water rat eat the heart of a toad, as an adaptation to prey on invasive species with mostly toxic organs. That is pretty cool, and the shock value helps with the educational aspect.

There’s a difference between that and “let’s put a snake and a spider in the same confined environment to watch them kill each other for fun.” Or god, the monkey torture people.

Animals eat each other, and learning about them will require confronting this fact. I think this photo is educational, not lurid. Most people know very little about spiders, and I hope that my posting this picture got people to think more about the natural world. It is shocking, it does provoke a visceral reaction, but it also prompts questions. I am probably going to use it as a phenomenon to explore the next time I work with a student on biology.

That’s probably the idea with the big beautiful bill and AI shit - make an AI version of King Trump to allow his glorious rule to continue after he dies.

Saw that shit in theatres. As well as Baby Geniuses 2 and Meet the Spartans.

Its the subtext in musicals.

Spiders routinely hold onto 100x more than their weight. Are you basing any of this on a knowledge of invertebrate biology? Ants can do similarly impressive feats - that’s something I will stand firmly by, as someone who’s name is in papers in ant research.

My actual degree is in physics too, and I’ll say that often things that seem counterintuitive are entirely supported by physics ;)