I started elementary as a high school student.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@alienghic @martin_t I know. I nearly took gigs working for two of them about fifteen years back.

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@drwho @martin_t

I ended up arguing with Friends of Science on twitter, and their arguments were so bad.

I remember one of their works included "we cant trust the IPCC report because it was written by people who don't wear suits".

[martin_t@mastodon.social]

@alienghic @drwho

Yup, many are real. What I was trying to say is that to the average person, it doesn't matter what is true, what matters is whether it sounds true.

[martin_t@mastodon.social]

@alienghic I wanted to say "killing people directly" but was out of characters. Gotta find a better instance.

To many people (sounds arrogant but the average person isn't very smart) there's a huge diff between lining people up next to a wall and shooting them vs putting them into a camp and killing them via malnutrition and disease.

> ICE straight up shot people on camera

Yup, and I hope the people responsible will be shot in return, though I have little hope of it happening intralegally.

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@martin_t

Ah ok. yeah. the character limits.

A core mastodon inequality.

[meltedcheese@c.im]

@danirabbit 100% agree. There is a huge range of contributions young people can make (and have made). In all fields, and I do not exaggerate.

I used to be a special prize judge for the US national science and engineering fair. (Was Westinghouse, then Intel). Every year I was astonished by the work of students who were often very young. One year I met a young woman at the competition, age 13 or so, and she was brilliant. She was there every year with something new. A brain computer interface at age 16! The next year I got her a hosted day at Caltech to hang out, attend some lectures. Not your ordinary college interview. A well known professor of astrophysics told me later that she asked better questions than his graduate students! Caltech offered her a free ride, a stipend, a fully equipped lab, an assistant … she ultimately chose MIT which was closer to her home. She has had a brilliant career.

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@danirabbit Church, bible studdy, and to their rooms where they are seen but not heard.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@alienghic @martin_t Ye gods, talk about a crit fail.

They weren't really trying there, were they?

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@drwho @martin_t

That argument was so bad I was wondering if they were scamming the oil companies.

[nwd@mastodon.online]

@danirabbit This is very surprising to me because I thought it was a requirement to finish elementary before starting high school.

This is a joke, and I’d like to apologize to you for making this joke.

[freya@social.highenergymagic.net]

@danirabbit simple answer: they aren't. they're supposed to have nothing outside their parents, their school approved reading materials and ,in the cases of a lot of the people pushing this, the church

[kawunngg@mastoart.social]

@tranquillity @danirabbit
But when they are released at 18, they must be perfectly fitting in members of the society. ️

[tranquillity@mastodon.minionflo.net]

@kawunngg @danirabbit yep, gotta magically figure it out

[rasmus91@fosstodon.org]

@danirabbit and that question is one that no parent wants to have to ask about their child.

When there's no obvious place to exercise an interest in a healthy way, it'll be done in a sketchy place in an unhealthy way.

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

@danirabbit They'll get let into our spaces as long as they do exactly as we say.

[rania@freesewing.social]

@danirabbit
I’m Rania from Gaza
We lost our home, and now my children and I are living in a fragile tent with no protection from the cold or illness.
Watching my children suffer while I can’t provide even the basics is breaking my heart every single day.
Please don’t leave us alone in this pain
Even the smallest donation or a simple share could help us survive 🤍

[archivescribe@mastodon.social]

@danirabbit We live in a place where the state, and its paid up “elected” agents, look at children like they’re animals to be controlled. Of course, seeing how things are going, our same government does not seem too crazy about the adults, either. Control and profits are the twin evils and motives of our age.

[radhitya@navi.lain.day]

@danirabbit Thank you for your and the folks hardwork \o/

[danirabbit@mastodon.online]

@martin_t i was thinking of safety more in terms of from predatory adults. In terms of content I wish that our society was focused a lot more on violent content. I’m not a child psychologist but I think being exposed to extreme violence and death is probably not good for anyone to see let alone a child. Being exposed to sexuality as a teen seems vaguely developmentally appropriate. I remember reading gay smut with my friends in class lol

[foolishowl@social.coop]

@danirabbit Some of the powerful have plans, but I think they've all drunk too deeply of the idea that they can do whatever they want and let the externalities take care of themselves. And what they want is for anyone and anything that questions them or gets in their way to not exist anymore.