Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

@loke @Pat @lupyuen the issue is we don't yet know which side of the "thais changes everything" line AI will fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhJbKBuNnA

@SusanPotter "Children left unattended at [redacted] will receive a latte and a puppy before being returned to their parents."

@McPatrick @StillIRise1963 Given my recent track record with elected officials, I fully expect Biden to get shingles in early October and lose because he is too ill to campaign.

@StefanThinks The GOP would suddenly and radically discover separation of church and state.

@McPatrick @StillIRise1963 The Democrats don't have to be inadequate. There is a primary. There *could* be a candidate beside Biden in that primary. Maybe someone younger and more progressive.

Instead of conceding the future, we could perhaps work to make it better.

@Popehat Paging Gov. Deed, Gov. Howard Deen, please report to this thread.

@juneussell @cmconseils I guess. I gave up on geography when I could convince a single person that "mid west" ought to refer to the Rocky Mountians, and "Northern California" refer to the 50% of the state located North of a line from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe.

Geography, I'm told is more about people than geometry.

@cmconseils What I don't get is how the UK is still on that map and hosting the bloody thing? Didn't they #Brexit or something?

A question for those a decade or two younger than me: When I was in school history stopped with the end of the Vietnam conflict. Everything after the fall of Saigon was still "current events." What I would like to know is what you learned in your history classes about the US involvement in the Middle East, and The September 11th attacks.

I know the history of these event as I live through them, and read the first draft of history in the news. I guess I wonder what the second draft looks like.

#history #sept11 #GulfWar #MiddleEast

Note the so called trillion dollar coin is found in Monetize the Debt. Trying to invoke the 14th amendment and having SCOTUS shoot it down as absurd is found under Default.

Debt ceiling pool round 2. Biden has said he will not negotiate on a debt ceiling increase, McCarthy has said he cannot pass one without spending cuts. What do you think will happen:

@rml Scheme suffers from the same thing all lisps sufferer from a syntax based on long irritating strings of parentheses.

@freemo "so far hasnt been found guilty of anything that would disqualify him" as a legal matter, only impeachment and removal from office can disqualify one from serving as president. This is intentional. It stops the party in control of the DoJ from removing political opponents by trying to convict them of crimes.

Remember Nelson Mandela was a convicted felon.

Also, Trump is a terrible human being and voting for him is both stupid and evil.

It is time to write this again. The *Five Paragraph Essay* saved my life.

While roundly hated by "true lovers of the written word," as a student who struggled with #LanguageArts, the #5PE let me break the daunting task of 1500 words into a task that could be taken one part at a time; one sentence at a time. It let me use the problem solving skills that made me successful on math and science to tackle academic writing. Most importantly it was good enough to get a C or better whenever I applied it and kept me from failing out of first high school then college. The grades were not stellar but sometimes C is for complete and even D can be for Done with that s**t.

If you are a hater of the 5PE, my challenge for you is to name an alternate tool that a poor writer - esp a poor writer with diagnosed cognitive challenges - a way to break a huge writing task down into bite sized pieces, very small bite sized pieces.

#edutooter #english #EnglishLanguage #writing #writingtips #pedagogy