I can definitely think of worse ways to spend my final moments

LMAO, this lady has four nobel prize winners in her family and lives on an estate that is also home to a national heritage oak collection.

Of course she wants us to ignore class warfare

I've been saying this since OWS fell apart, and you're the first person in a long time I've seen agree with that take.

Identity politics are important, but they pale in importance compared to the fact that people exist worth more than some countries, and the resources and options at those individuals' disposal.

This is very similar to a plot point in the later Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books. A civilization manages to convince all their hair stylists, project managers, telephone sanitization specialists, etc that the world is ending and that they've been selected as the elite to be the first on the colony ships leaving the planet.

Pretty sure it's a reference to a character in the first book of the Interview with a Vampire series. Lestat's partner struggles with his remaining humanity, and can't allow a little girl to die in some historical fire in New Orleans, so he turns her. This also gives them both fulfillment in terms of a child to raise, until the child becomes a willful young adult stuck in a prepubescent body.

Thankfully she's nobody's victim, she is a coldhearted little murder machine. On its face it doesn't read like creepy pedo material, but it is awkward as hell. Probably intentionally so.

Final Fantasy Legends 3 AKA SaGa 3 AKA Final Fantasy III-4: God catches a nasty case of Yog Shoggoth. Yog is a huge Kevin Costner fan and decides to remake WaterWorld, so airplane mechanics from the future send babies to the past to repair an even more ancient time travelling stealth bomber, so they can carpet bomb God. Also, the babies can be terminators, roombas, or furries if they want to be. It's not a phase mom!

I think it also has to do with how previous generations established what they considered trustworthy or not.

Most of the time, the only way to confirm information would be to go to the library and look it up. Most people weren't taking the time to do that for every little factoid, especially ones that had no direct effect on their lives.

So if Jim who has a cousin who works in construction said that Mexicans were undercutting the expected pay for construction laborers, picking up all the jobs they could, and out performing their peers... well that's first hand information from someone who would know (by way of the game of telephone).

And that doesn't effect them directly in any way, so it's not being blasted to the whole world. You may never know they have this belief.

Now they see Jim on Facebook sharing some article. Well, Jim wouldn't share it unless he was sure it was true. I mean, his cousin works in construction. Combine that with sensational headlines to maximize clicks and now you go from racist belief that immigrants are industrious to "illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs"!

Plus, spreading the word can be done in a single click, regardless of relevance to any conversation.

So you combine the idea of "that person knows what they're talking about" with sensationalism mills and how damn easy it is to blast your stupid ideas out to the world with the idea that you'e just letting people know, and I think you very easily end up here.

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

• Douglas Adams

Arming yourself is a far cry from actively doing violence. Go buy a gun, take classes, get hours in at the range to practice your aim. Be ready when the time comes. Don't make the time come.

I think it's silly to assume that this can't and won't be abused by Democrats as well, given time. The worst thing we could do in this situation is make it partisan.

No president should have this power.

Regarding the edit, I've seen people unironically post this take on lemmy.

What? The only thing with any definitiveness in what you linked is that 72% of teachers are using an outdated method for teaching early level reading skills (letter and word recognition).

As a secondary point, it says that teachers feel their kids can't read anymore so the teachers have taken to tiktok about it.

There's nothing there indicating high levels of illiteracy, or that they've been caused by an over use of devices as babysitters, dawg.

I think you need to brush up on your literacy.

It sure as hell isn't a good thing, and it isn't helping kids read or develop, but this is the same argument that's as old as fucking time itself where older adults blame new technology for degeneration of the youth. People literally made the same complaint about radio dramas leading the youth astray.

The core of the issue is that it has become increasingly easy for parents to use technology to avoid properly taking care of their damn kids.