Easy there, Edgelord.

I’m a freaking history teacher whose father was a computer scientist in the 70s and I didn’t know this until I read Hidden Figures

It isn’t free at all

Teacher here. Kids want the quick dopamine hit from their phones and their school-supplied chromebooks. They do not want to take the time to try something that might be hard, and they do not want to stretch their brains at all

I agree with you 100%. What they are latching on to is the fact that SOMETIMES, in EXTREMELY LIMITED AND SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES, some enslaved people were able to “hire themselves out” as craftsmen when they had done whatever work the enslaver had required of them. An even more limited number of those enslaved people were paid for their work and got to keep their pay.

But the percentage of people we are talking about here is tiny … but it is nonzero. The standard therefore isn’t completely wrong, but it absolutely gives the impression that these cases were waaaay more common than they actually were.

With the amount of aspartame I drink, I’d like the process to hurry up already, please.

It’s the whole “edge of space” thing that really pisses me off. When the billionaires started talking about creating their own space program, I was expecting corporate settlements on the moon or Mars–dystopian, to be sure, but at least humanity would be making progress to the stars. But no, let’s be content with charging people to get to the edge of space so they can go home and tell themselves they’re astronauts.

Relevant username. (Are we doing that on Lemmy?)

ACAB

As a former US President said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” (Not to mention all the abysmal laws that let the rich steal from the poor)

American teacher here. I shudder to think of the spying on teachers that could conceivably take place in some states in the US if this were passed. I hope things aren’t like that for teachers in France

Technically, any number bigger than 24 counts as “dozens” …

Kinda hard to do any deep sea exploration when your submarine imploded.

Richard Branson: So we’ve done the space thing… I wonder if anyone has tried running for-profit submarine adventures to the Titanic…

An inspection found she was “unprepared” and “inattentive”, and students refused to take part in her classes as she was distracted by her phone

As a teacher myself, the most surreal part of this story is this paragraph, since in my experience, it’s always the students too distracted by their phones to pay attention…

Came here to ask about the Russian Civil War…

Has there ever been an IPO of zero? Because it wouldn’t surprise me at this point…

*Red Sox