@Wipqozn i'm not sure how big casses are in the US but 17 is a good average per class for Australia. just that were are 48 classes in my high school so the average would be 816 students and then you have 1 teacher per class and specialized job for adults (like guidance councilors, principles). unless they plan on doubling the size of the school or rebuilding it so every classroom is a shelter then it's just a bunch of craop
but something will need to be said about the fact that these saferoom being needed is an admission that there is an expectation of a school shooting
@Unionhawk oh no, this could very easily be used by politicians, especially those in the pocket of the NRA, as a election promise "My government will ensure that school safe rooms are built and it will be funded by the government". the normal pork barreling
Santa Fe shooter had a peturbator album cover as his cover image on facebook and now various media outlets are trying to associate peturbator with domestic terrorism
@TimStone I was about to post that. It's of course completely unhinged, but I suspect it might simply backfire
I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!
I mean the whole thing is predicated on the idea that the Obama Administration went to such lengths to do this without cause and then literally didn't do anything with the results before the election
So I guess if you can get people to buy into that, 🤷
Like even if you really hated Obama you'd think that you'd believe he'd Do Evil instead of, you know, nothing
I mean to be honest he could literally pretend to have officially ordered the investigation at this point and just continue to pretend it's ongoing and there is a non-zero number of people who would believe him
And I don't know what to do with that reality
Roger Stone: Mueller could “conjure up” a crime related to my business interests http://hill.cm/PRrR9Ve
@quartata The annoying thing is if it's stuff "other people don't get arrested for" even though they absolutely should get arrested. Love too be weak on white collar crimes
I normally ignore presidential tweets. This one requires attention, because it could genuinely produce a crisis with the Justice Department and the FBI. Here’s an explanatory thread that may (or may not) be useful. /1/ https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/998256454590193665
this is utter stupidity. it's one thing to be accepting of gender fluid people, but it's another to censor stuff because the author wants a certain character to be a certain gender
> Girls who played with 'feminised characters', such as Barbie dolls, had fewer career options
@ArtOfCode i find it odd that they think that playing with Barbie, the gil who's been done everything from being a veterinarian to an astronaut, makes young girls get fewer career options in the future
Assuming they conducted the study reasonably well, then that much is relatively indisputable. They've drawn a correlation between A and B - that's not to say A is necessarily the cause of B or to prescribe any specific response to it.
So... yeah, I have no problem with taking "Girls who played with 'feminised characters', such as Barbie dolls, had fewer career options" as fact (might go read the study to check it's not terrible). The problem with it is the response.
in other news i heard this morning. apparently one of the victims of the recent Texas School Shooting and reportedly the first one was reportedly being aggressively pursued romantically by the shooter and a week ago (i think that's what SkyNews said) she rejected him in front of a the classroom