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  • Yeah this seems generally opposed to the concept of a general education. I get that many people don’t like that they had to learn all these things in an environment that generally sucked to be in, but also basic understanding of math, science, language, music, etc is just a nice thing for everyone to possess.

    Like several of these things will be tangentially encountered at various points in your life. Yeah I’ve never had to write in cursive, but I’ve had to read it. I haven’t done much chemistry since college, but carbon sure comes into the news a whole lot. I don’t use a protractor much, but I’ve had to imagine them for various uses of space. I don’t diagram sentences often, but it’s really useful when learning a foreign language, and also way too much of the country thinks pronouns were invented in the 21st century. Communal making of music is something that used to be normal as a fun way to pass an evening and recorders are cheap and easy for children to learn.



  • Strange. We had just enough Jesuit influence to tell us that God was why, but what and how is best understood through science. Non overlapping magesteria and whatnot.

    Now thats not to say they didnt spew some shit. Hell we once got pulled out of class to look at magic bones (internet atheist Latin teacher didn’t like that lol), and our Christian lifestyles class was mostly bigotry and marriage advice, but science class was for understanding the world and the scientific method.






  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBased 🫡
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    4 days ago

    And i imagine a lot of gay men have the attitude that if they report intimate partner violence it will come back to hurt them in one way or another.

    I know as a trans woman if I were to report violence from a cis woman I’d likely be reframed as the perpetrator and if I were to report violence from a trans woman it would be framed as “trans woman commits violent crime” and used to hurt me.


  • My American catholic school taught us that creationism is against catholic doctrine. They also taught the controversy.

    My friends who went to public school got less instruction on evolution and their science teachers were obviously creationist while mine barely hid that she thought it was moronic






  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    5 days ago

    This is the only body you get. It will inevitably wear out. The worse you treat it the faster it will wear out.

    Keep in shape. Eat right. Don’t take stupid risks. Listen to your doctor. And modify it to your hearts desire, but analyze your desires.

    Someday with fortune you will be old. I’ve spoken to a lot of old people. The things they say they regret aren’t things like tattoos, piercings, or transitioning. They regret not doing those things more often. But they also regret eating poorly and not exercising. They regret the injuries that now cripple them. And they regret not enjoying their time.