Wandering Adventure Party

@FediTips you are an important part of the fediverse! You are dare I say core to its success. Much appreciation for all you do

@danyow @LeBonk @Dtraslerwriting @rayocentric @D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke that in itself is a huge step up from what we do here

@LeBonk @danyow @Dtraslerwriting @rayocentric @D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke do you have insight on this @juergen_hubert ?

@LeBonk @danyow @Dtraslerwriting @rayocentric @D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke right, my understanding is that in Germany, it is uncontroversial that the Holocaust and Hitler were horrible. It's not uncontroversial in the US that the Confederacy was horrible, that violence and voter suppression against Black people is happening and is wrong, etc. In fact people in some places are taught to celebrate or at least accept these things. Hate, and tolerance for hate, are two continuing political positions

@danyow @LeBonk @Dtraslerwriting @rayocentric @D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke I know almost nothing about this, but didn't Germany do some good work on its education system to make it clear to students what happened and why it must never happen again?

I was in sixth grade, TX, when a teacher told a whole classroom that the civil war wasn't about slavery, but states rights. Looking back I am appalled that classroom authority was being used to indoctrinate kids with that as recently as 1993.

@Dtraslerwriting @rayocentric @D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke It should be about picking up reconstruction where they abandoned it ... i.e. explicitly acknowledging that some parties are bad faith actors, not just an equal opposite viewpoint, whose illegal actions must be prosecuted, not explained away or ignored as water under the bridge, and whose future actions must be closely and strictly regulated. Make reconstruction great agai---this time.

@D_J_Nathanson @mekkaokereke they're like movie producers - worried about money mainly, and making big bland assumptions about what the majority will say yes to. And like producers they don't learn from counter evidence: the indie films that everyone loves, the victories of the progressive left. They have resources and lack courage

@arrakeen_urbanite @briankrebs that would definitely suck for us citizens, but our government would not care. Punch them, not us

@aka_quant_noir @SaanichGuy @briankrebs funny thing is imagining how upset they would be if literally every person left the US. Can you imagine their confusion

"Guys ... but guys, I ... need someone here to order around."

@briankrebs do not come here

@dianea If you are hungry for education, they are hungry for education. Let them in.

@juergen_hubert @naan where do you find the folktales Jürgen? Is there an archive you go to?

Hello fediverse, can anyone give me a technical deep dive on how the body uses iron? I have a friend with anemia whose iron "storage" is low but iron is high? Lotta specific terms floating around (ferritin, platelets), and the way the Internet summarizes it isn't answering questions about the actual mechanisms involved. Neither is her nurse practitioner. So she wants the deep-in-the-weeds geek explainer.

#pleaseBoost for reach!

My kid asked, "What ... IS autism?" Meaning what are its features. So I explained quite a few, giving examples from his life and mine. Later I asked what he thought of all that. "It's good information, that I'm glad to have," he said. #actuallyAutistic