About to #monsterdon the heck out of the evening, mute the hashtag if you don't want to see a stream of nonsensical commentary on a 50's B-movie: The Wasp Woman. Or come watch it with us, it's on tubi!
@jeffc@jredlund Yeah, one of the best classes I ever took. We read Theodore Sturgeon and John Brunner and sat around and watched movies ... it was fucking great. And I had only read about half the syllabus before I started the class. I learned quite a bit, even though I had read a lot of SF already by that point.
@jeffc@jredlund At WPI, we had to do an "Interdisciplinary Qualifying Project" in addition to our "Major Qualifying project", and because I had read so much SF and taken that class at UMass, I tried to find an advisor who would let me do a SF focused IQP. I finally found one of the English professors who was willing to consider it... as long as I would read Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pinchon, and focus primarily on his work.
@jeffc@jredlund Yeah, that's pretty much been my experience with English classes as well. That SF class at Amherst was a fluke.
And you're right, they could be reaching more engineers. I got removed from my AS English class at Franklin Institute, because I got in a fight with the teacher. She was a 50 something Smith graduate and she was berating the crap out of the auto kids, who just wanted to fix cars and did not give a shit about and Associate level English credit.
@jredlund@jeffc We say "there's two kinds of engineers: those who built models as a kid, and those who didn't"
it's about visualization, and there's no way reading SF doesn't help you visualize
@dnc Repot it. Check the root ball to see if it's still alive while you're doing it, and if it is alive it will benefit from the repotting. And if not, you start again next year with seeds from some of those danger berries.
I have never seen so much evil in my life, think-tank wise. Florida billionaire and major DeSantis donor Dick Uihlein and his Foundation for Government Accountability—FGA (& its lobbying arm “Opportunity Solutions Project) are not just trying to roll back child labor laws across the country— with great successes thus far— they are into EVERYTHING, and to a degree of sickness I’ve never seen.
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One of its newer initiatives: discourage high school kids from furthering their education
@JoParkerBear "Mail-in and absentee ballot (sic) are a big problem when it comes to election fraud and ballot harvesting."
Says who? By which I mean, can they cite any evidence to support this assertion? Because 37,603 lawsuits later, and we still haven't seen proven example 1 of voter fraud.
Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful & visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... & The Other One.
Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now, dotes on mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/ #ideas
@FantasticalEconomics@futurebird Asserting that economics is related to mathematics is capitalism's way of claiming that its philosophy is fundamental to the proper functioning of any economy. It's a strategy to defeat the other economic -isms, not a general model.
@dnc In jail, they used to microwave bologna with grape jelly, said it made it taste like bbq'd pork. Until the screws took the microwave away cause no one cleaned up the leftover mess of bubbly fat and stuck-on jelly blobs. 🤷♂️
@jonny@moira IKR? Like, wow, sparkly dresses and laser guns that look like Schmeisser machine guns left over from an Alistair MacLean movie and that spaceship is super cool!!!!
@jonny Um.... that's the version I watched. I just scrolled down to see the comments and there was the one you quoted. So I''m not convinced it makes sense in any version, no matter how good it looks. And the guy that made that comment is the one who loaded that version, so...
