I want to learn more about cars, specifically to try to reach this type of kid.

I had one car obsessed kid that I sorta won over with “let’s try to model car parts with geometric solids and think about volume as it pertains to things like gas tanks,” but I don’t know enough about cars to really make the kinds of deep connections I know could be there.

I have a good rapport with anime and gamer teens usually. Minecraft is a godsend, because almost everyone has played it and you can tie so much math and science shit into it. I’ve learned more from this YouTube channel than I did from my fossil fuel funded undergrad geology classes.

You can buy tisanes/tea with marshmallow root in it that’s good for sore throats!

Ya know, I’d rather just have plain text website designed for 4 gb or less. I’ve never been in the financial position to have 16 gbs, and it’s far worse now. I just want to not be denied access to text because all websites want to secretly run so much JavaScript and all the other shit. Eventually I’ll give up on the web and just be happy on gopher and Gemini.

Most middle and high schoolers use chromebooks nowadays.

I think you’d want a diploma mill that gives out law

The diploma mill option does sound promising. I really just want to be able to send letters that won’t get tossed.

However, sending legal-sounding letters doesn’t require a law degree at all.

Are there any online courses or textbooks that would give a good intro to doing this?

I’ve found that any time I’ve interacted with the legal system, everything has been stupid and bad and made no sense. Pretty much every state agency in Oklahoma is routinely flouting law and ignoring things like public records requests, and the Attorney General has zero desire to do things like prosecute cops for killing elderly Asian men or teachers who molest kids…

It’s so weird to me. When I was in second grade, I started trying to read the Bible from cover to cover (made it until Numbers, then I had to start skipping around for my own sanity).

We keep hearing about how this is the most important book to this group of people. They demand it be taught in schools, they demand that we follow its precepts, but they can’t be arsed to read it themselves?

Taylor Swift in particular has had thousands of pornographic pictures generated of her, which is fucked up.

Your internal critic just gets overwhelmed by your internal cheerleader telling you everything you’re doing is awesome and it makes it much easier to just get something onto the page.

The only way I was able to finish my final paper in college was adderal + weed + booze. I used to be completely unable to write anything because the internal critic.

Now, I do 5 minute free writes on paper. Set a timer, no corrections, do not stop writing until the timer goes off, reword the sentence you just wrote if you can’t think of anything else.

Also weed still. Weed lets me write and write, and write…

the educational parts were actually pretty good

It’s just workbooks that you do independently and grade yourself, right? All of that seems like it’s what we’d call low “depth of knowledge.” Multiple choice questions and just memorizing facts.

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

The only real heirs to Byzantium are the delightful micro nation of Byzantium Novum

There is “old earth creationism” which works along those lines. But creationists are “literalists,” which actually means they believe a specific interpretation of the text taught to them by their pastor.

Really, you’d think that most anyone reading the texts would realize that Genesis 1 and 2 were mutually contradicting…

The creative justifications for creationism that try to approach something like science amuse me. Like Kents Hovind and Ham are both too stupid and incurious to be fun; a creationist who’s at least knowledgeable enough to look at “variable c” “”theories”” is entertaining to engage with. That’s part of how I’d justify calling this a “meme” anyway - it’s one of the brighter ones manufacturing a meme to sell to the stupid ones.

I collect that kind of stuff for fun + have some exposure to Christian education communities.

Were you doing ACE? Those workbooks should be illegal.

Can you give me individual numbers of those incidents versus incidents of violent rape, domestic violence, and statutory rape?

Yes. Bad people exist everywhere.

On the whole, the system is set up to help bad men. There is systemic oppression of women. The fact that the US elected a man who went on tape proudly described sexually assaulting women indicates this. The fact that every woman in my immediate line was teenager impregnated by an adult man. The fact every teenage girl is taught to how to put the keys between her knuckles as she walks somewhere late, the way that packs of adolescent boys or “men in a car” have been a signal of instant threat to all women ever.

I got dog whistled as a teen. I dressed about as strange as I could be I can still go find a Facebook message of relative who confessed things to me. It’s just universal if you grow up female.

Which gender is in prison for violent crimes? What are the leading causes of deaths for pregnant women?

I was explicitly denied a job because I’m a trans guy and that’s kinda common man. Im sorry there’s a couple of Internet forums you can’t post too, I wouldn’t have been able to get a bank account 50 years ago.

Pretty much 99.9 of women through most of human history, and a good chunk today, were effectively property. Occasionally times a bit better - right to divorce, consent to marriage, property rights, inheritance, ability to get a job……

Things don’t magically change over night. I don’t know, I’m just a trans man that got recommended and took a special “careers for girls” elective that was nurse or cosmetologist.

What do you think the numbers look like for girls being sexually harassed in school versus boys being sexually harassers in school? I know what the numbers have looked like in my classroom. I’ve seen boys get together in GROUPS, to sexually harass individual girls. To the point the girls had to change schools. Deep fake AI porn.

There is one gender that this disproportionately affects, but y’all are children who seem to think that someone else’s pain being recognized is an attack on you.

You fucking realize in the US that abortion is illegal and women are dying? That the president is a rapist, who bragged about raping women, and appointed other rapists? That shit like the SAVE act is deliberately engineered to deny women the right to vote?

Why are men unable to put aside their emotions anyone someone points out that lots and lots of men do fucked up things, and are systematically supported?

You hear some men, and because you think emotionally, you hear “all men.”

Rapist in my state almost killed three teenage girls. He got court ordered therapy and community service.

Tulsa’s DA was just complaining about mandatory minimums for rapists.

And are we fucking forgetting that for 99% of human history, and still in most of the world, women didn’t get to learn to read? Go to school? Got married off as children?

Marital rape wasn’t illegal in every US state until 1993.

How many people are jerking to those videos on motherless right now?

When was the last time several thousand women organized groups to discuss raping men?

Have you ever been sexually harassed at work or school?