Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
The link works, it is amazons link to add the book to a wish list that fails
is anyone else is having an issue maybe save the link in book marks and try again later. It may just be a glitch their end.
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@mikec415 Wow. I hope that school district has lawsuit money, because they're going to need lawsuit money.
I am not sure how the pledge thing works in the US. If someone was to emigrate then they have to take this to become a US citizen,
That aside, the article does state people are not obliged to take part in the oath.
The actions by the substitute teacher were clearly wrong, the lad made a point and at an appropriate time maybe this could lead to a proper discussion.on the topic surely
As for the flag being racist, it is meant to represent the 13 original states and the 50 states of the union.
As for the Anthem, I was under the impression it told the story of the war of independence from the British, so after the battle the flag was still flying.
Certainly the 3rd verse has
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution
I assume refers to the British Rulers, who the war of independence was fought against.
Reference
https://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/pdf/ssb_lyrics.pdf
Maybe i am wrong,
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I am very pleased to see student-centred books like this one now being published on open science & the replication crisis. It has become ever more transparent that when you stop discussing & teaching the issues of the past, and why change was needed, those issues tend to repeat & become a problem again. With some luck, & with more books on the topic, we might start to make a lasting change here.
Congrats @drcpennington on the book. Can’t wait to read it & put it on my class reading list!
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The Washington Post now flags journalists' profiles as verified on Mastodon.
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I made a scale visualization of the shapes and relative sizes of WASP-12 b (a very hot Jupiter) and Saturn.
Saturn is spinning pretty quickly, which draws it out into a squished ball shape (oblate spheroid), whereas WASP-12 b is pulled into a long football shape by the tidal forces from its parent star.
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Join us in a week for the next Virtual Astronomy Software Talk seminar: https://vast-seminars.github.io
and hear from Alex Gurvich on Firefly and Peter Teuben on NEMO
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@therobburgessshow The media are to blame, for encouraging people to think that politicians have to have larger than life personalities, instead of solid policies to benefit their people.
Those clowns don't have a people. They've forgotten they're supposed to be there to serve, not to rule.
me too :)
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My patience has been tried and tried again. Don't forget I've lived through dial-up connections.
@charlesarthur
I agree, this would also be good to have a cite post too, so the data collected could be for example.
Post content
person who posted + instance
date
so we can the cite mastodon posts in papers or articles
Not that I write either, but it would be really good to be able to cite stuff anyway. Especially as we are seeing more and more science people on here. lets make it science friendly.
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Dammit Mastodon we need a quote-post function SO badly. Didn’t realise how important it is, but as a way to add context it’s unbeatable.
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Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.
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The latest episode of the Abandoned America podcast dropped today, and it's a wild one. In it I talk about the brief life and protracted death of the Six Flags New Orleans theme park with Jake Williams, director of the recent documentary about it, "Closed For Storm". If you want to know how a whole 220-acre theme park could be left in ruins for nearly a decade, here's your episode!
https://anchor.fm/abandonedamerica/episodes/Abandoned-Amusement-Parks-Six-Flags-New-Orleans-e1uigr2
I wonder how much talent we are losing by discriminating against and or dismissing groups of people based on race. People of all background should to be given equal chance to undertake and PUBLISH their research, should be about the actual research not the people behind it.
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I’m very clear that the ONLY way to the supremacy, coercion, discrimination, and exploitation FREE future I seek is through an honest reckoning with current systems, institutions, and policies DESIGNED to privilege the few at the expense of the many…that the ONLY way out, is through 💛✊🏾
That is pretty awsome, could this be attributed to the size of Jupiter? Jupiter is large enough to trap any objects in to it's orbit, and capture new moons around it?
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New Discoveries Puts Jupiter at 92 Known Moons - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/159991/new-discoveries-puts-jupiter-at-92-known-moons/
#jupiter #space #solarsystem #science #technology
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Sunset at the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans
Check out the huge gallery update: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/six-flags-new-orleans
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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