Truly. And I do realize that book was not the main point of your current post 🤣

Up the Down Staircase was one of the first books I read in my new language when I came to the US as a young teen in the late ‘70s. It was befuddling having been a student in the USSR, where discipline was king, as you can imagine. Brilliant book.

Same. Awful.

I stand corrected. Very disappointing they used that slur.

Pedophiles. Not f*****s.

"He said he is not saying vaccines cause autism; he is simply saying there is no proof that they don’t." And there's no proof that autism isn't caused by ketchup, or pet dander, or too many viewings of the classic mob film GoodFellas, either. FFS.

So like do we see the techno fascist plan yet? Break the skilled jobs market with AI. Drive out migrant labor. Wedge highly skilled workers desperate to feed their families into low paying factory jobs. Capitalism, baby!

Also @moiradonegan.bsky.social

Naïve is the right word. Criminally so. Surely he has read Solzhenitzin.

The claim that parachutes save lives has never been definitively tested in a randomized controlled trial 🤦🏻

He knows. He is just a lying liar who thinks we are all too dumb to know. The worst.

This is the only reason SCOTUS declined the case. She is not a sympathetic plaintiff. They are just waiting for someone to bring a better looking case.