In other words, legalized theft…
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This video… or how to create a bomb 101
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Also see cancel culture… Blazing Saddles, children’s books, Dumbo, Little Black Sambo, lord knows what will disappear next.
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Yet books like Mein Kampf by Hitler or The Communist Manifesto by Marx still remains for sale… These has done far more damage to the world than Seuss and his books…
Keep in mind the Seuss books were removed from sale by the Publisher. The publisher chose to do so and, to my understanding, is acting on behalf of Seuss’ heirs.
It’s more like when I decide I’ve said some shit and delete my own posts, but on a much larger scale. It’s looks like when @sig or other mods delete my posts because they want to limit what I’m saying.
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Yup, I keep hearing that “Dr. Seuss is cancelled” and that is laughably inaccurate.
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Cancel culture?
No.
Accountability culture.
If you like something that you think may ever be controversial, buy it on hard copy. Literally anything you like now may be gone tomorrow if you don’t actually own it.
Accountable for what? Today’s morals compared to yesterday? Almost nothing by any culture survives that test. Hell, most of popular entertainment today doesn’t pass that test.
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Before lunch today, my car dashboard computer showed “13:13PM; 13°C; range 131 miles” just as I passed the 13th milestone on the A7.
Were I superstitious, I might have been worried. My brain instead decided to bet a can of Monster against itself that the next car I passed would have a 2013 license plate.
Alas, it was 2017 
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Go buy a lotto ticket.
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The last time something like that happened to me, I was at a 7-Eleven and the customer’s total came to $7.11 (or it was the change, forgot which). We joked about he should buy a lottery ticket. He didn’t. Guess what came up that night? 711. That was many years ago when our state had a lottery game with only three digits.
The next time was today. The car in front of me had a license plate that very close to mine. If mine was ABC1234, then this one was about ABC1350. Not spot on, but close enough to count as a first time that sort of thing ever happened to me.
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Oh I love it when that happens. Our plates work CC11 AAA (where CC is city or county, 11 is the year, and AAA are random sequential) so I always like to see cars that were bought around the same time as mine one or two letters off, or the same final letters but different county.
So, Windows 10, everything is up to date but I’m being forced to upgrade to a new version? I just hope the contradiction doesn’t include borking the OS.
I don’t know what’s going on. No one will tell me what’s going on. This is, fortunately, balanced by the fact that I don’t care.
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New day, same old transphobic asshats.
Have I mentioned my term for owlets is “Skull-faced muppets?” It’s not quite the same for quail, but seems relevant to the conversation. Or just random!
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My son’s math teacher sent this to both him and us this afternoon:
I recently sent out messages to students in 1st period math class regarding…
“The end of the 3rd quarter is upon us - April 16th. According to my records you have a failing grade (below 65%) on a DeltaMath (DM) assignment and/or owe me homework.”
Skimming the email, I nearly left my office to go ask WTF was going on, because based on all of the grades we’ve been seeing come through, he’s doing very well in math.
But then I scrolled a bit.
I wanted to share with you, that you DID NOT receive this message!!
YOU have submitted every math assignment and passed all of them! Thank you for being a diligent student and working so hard. This message is to let you know that I see and appreciate the effort you give in math class. This motivation will carry you through all of life’s hills and valleys!
Who the hell does this!? Son, wife and I all had the same response when we saw this message when we first saw it. Not only did this induce panic in all three of us, who in their right mind publicly shames 8th graders like this? You don’t go telling the students who are doing well “hey, some of your classmates are failing horribly but you’re alright!”
Just another in a long line of questionable and confusing things this teacher has done this year. When school’s done in June, we’ll be sending an email to the administration about her.
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Why wait? Or would retaliation be an issue? (Which would be even worse.)
She’s “quirky” enough that we are in fact worried about that. We’ve bit our tongues all year. Not showing up to class, showing up to class late, ending class early, holding kids late in class (they have only 3-4 minutes between classes as it is and that’s just not enough time for a bio-break and context switch), other miscellaneous dubmassery.