Oh, to live in the present where infinite potential exists! We all have a hand in the wake that will reverberate
Taq-e Bostan, Iran.
they’re forcing tumblr users to become fujoshis
every usamerican talking about the hollywood strike seems to be missing the rest of thr world makes a lot of movies. they're even good sometimes
i just think mutuals should sic me onto their haters. like. please. i would be soo good at it (many sins in past life)
the latest hit isekai webnovel to get an adaptation: I Have A Sad Backstory, So Everything I Do Is Justified!
abolish kendriya vidyalaya
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Wdym?
From their own website:
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan(KVS) offers quality education to the children of transferable central government employees, including those in the Defence and Paramilitary services by providing a common programme of education.
The chairman of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan is always the Minister in Charge of the Ministry of Education of the Government of India; the deputy chairman is the Minister of State of the Ministry of Education.
These are public schools, on the taxpayer dime that selectively admit only students whose parents are a certain class of central govt bureaucrats/or in the military. Like, sure Sanskriti in New Delhi is where all the top bureaucrat kids go. But this is basically the second rung of the ruling class school with tax subsidy edition.
Why aren’t syllabi standardised in all public schools? A lot of parents work migratory jobs and their children could benefit from not having learning sequences disrupted excessively if they have to change schools. This just allows civil servants to neglect public schools while their own children attend a nicer one.
who was it that said “post like you are unemployed, even when you are not”? was it sun tzu
"It's not public transit if it's not fare-free"
Spotted in Downtown Toronto, Ontario
Do Loons Yawn? by Gary Lackie
Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)
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i have committed many sins in my time on this earth.
After the first nuclear test at Los Alamos
Many of the scientists and technicians who understood the destructive potential of the atomic bomb felt that the U.S. should first conduct a peaceful demonstration to warn the Japanese of the consequences of refusing to surrender. Szilard and several other Met Lab scientists had collaborated on the Franck Report, issued in June of 1945, which called for a demonstration. However, the Franck Report was rejected by the scientists who served on the Interim Committee’s Scientific Panel – J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Ernest Lawrence, and Arthur Compton – who wrote, “We see no acceptable alternative to direct military use.”
[…] Szilard toned down his rhetoric over the course of several different drafts of the petition. Between 65 and 150 people signed the various different drafts that he proposed at the Chicago Met Lab and Oak Ridge project site […]
The petition fared better at Oak Ridge than at Los Alamos. Another Hungarian-American physicist, Edward Teller, brought the petition to that site with the intent to gain signatures there too. However, at the advice of J. Robert Oppenheimer, he ultimately decided not to do so. “Oppenheimer talked me out of it, saying that we as scientists have no business to meddle in political pressure of that kind. We know too little about that. I am ashamed to say that he managed to talk me out of the right intention,”
Hmm. Alarming trend in mass incarceration in Central America.
Also: Very disingenuous wordplay here.
Where do we begin?
– Very disingenuous for multiple outlets to run with “the West”. Though this initial AP article does specify that this refers to the Western Hemisphere, the choice to run headlines with “West” kinda implies that there are no other island prisons in “The West” (as in the European Union, the United States, Australia, etc.).
– One of the most infamous incarceration schemes on the planet is Australia’s “Pacific Solution,” a “solution” to refugee migration centered on the imprisonment of asylum seekers on island prisons, including the infamous prisons at Nauru and Manus, both opened initially in 2001, and re-fortified after 2012. (Nauru is extremely isolated, in the South Pacific, 3000 kilometers away from the Australian coast; the Manus detention centre is far away off the northeast coast of Papua.) Since 2012, over 3,125 people have been sent to Nauru while over 4,180 people have been sent to Manus. (The “last refugee held on the Pacific island of Nauru under Australia’s offshore detention policy” was “evacuated” to mainland Australia only on 24 June 2023, not even a month prior to this headline.)
– Obviously the EU incarcerates refugees on Mediterranean islands, notoriously at Moria on Lesbos, whose international reputation as the home of Sappho has been supplanted by its reputation as a de facto prison for asylum seekers. In October 2015, over 10,000 people landed on Lesbos in just one day. In 2017, the island averaged 2,500 arrivals per month. By 2019, humanitarian investigations showed that over 10,000 people were being held in a facility with a maximum capacity of 3,000. In 2020, fires left over 12,000 refugees on the island without shelter. By December 2021, Doctors Without Borders raised alarm that over 2,200 refugees were living in “dire” conditions on the island. As of early 2023, Lesbos (along with Kos, Leros, Chios, and Samos) is hosting over 4,500 people who are stuck in “reception and identification centers.”
– And in the Western Hemisphere? The US prison at Guantanomo, also on the coast of an island in this same sea.
– One of the most notorious island prisons was the early twentieth century French penal colony on the periphery of the Caribbean region at Guiana (run by a France, a “Western” power, in the Western Hemisphere), known internationally as “Devil’s Island.”
– The federal government says the prison will be built “in harmony with nature.”
– A prison … in harmony with nature.
– An island prison in the Caribbean, a region fundamentally and intimately connected to centuries of imprisonment, plantations, Indigenous genocide, antiBlackness, racial castes, and chattel slavery, all achieved and enforced through the bounded, isolated geographic containment structure allowed by islands.
– And this is extra-worrying, because it seems it’s a regional trend, evidently for Honduras, El Salvador, and Colombia.
– Merely a few days before this headline about Honduras, international outlets were profiling Honduras’s direct neighbor, El Salvador, with headlines like “Inside El Salvador’s new ‘mega prison’” (Al Jazeera) and, within the past couple months, headlines like “Prisoners are being tortured to death in El Salvador’s prisons” (VICE News).
– From less than a week before this AP headline, we have BBC: “El Salvador’s secretive mega-jail.”
– Don’t forget nearby Tapachula’s detention of asylum seekers.
Still discussing implementation of literal island prisons despite our collective familiarity with carceral archipelagoes.
sorry to be an engineer but do not blow up oil pipelines or rigs they stay on fire for a very long time and leak. this is very bad for the environment. you want to stop the pumping of more oil. the pump is where is at. no indiscriminate bombs around oil. please.
SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are now filing labor complaints against NBCUniversal for attempts to disrupt their strike efforts.
This includes not only trimming trees that were providing shade to picketers, but tearing up the sidewalk on the picket line, forcing picketers to walk in the streets, which resulted in two picketers being struck by cars.
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