@KyleJGlen This is probably reinforced by how scary the ballistic missiles are— probably near unanimous public support to permanently remove the threat
@Agi1eTab1et@stakenut Yeah I think it’s more general, a lot of class and educational segregation has happened since?
Collapse of manufacturing seems related?
Lots of small towns used to have surprisingly deep institutions bc money would flow in eg from Detroit to Toledo to surrounding small towns
@stakenut@Agi1eTab1et I dunno, listening to lots of TWiV I’ve noticed that many older US guests had good public school teachers in the 50s and 60s that nudged them into science; I think that doesn’t happen as much anymore
@Maks_NAFO_FELLA That’s like thirty people…
(AFU acting very professionally, better to highlight that in every way possible and not fish for grievance against the civilian population)
At a white coat ceremony, kinda bummed their oaths didn’t start with “I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses…”
TIL: https://t.co/W6F47xAa7P
Wondering if China wants to keep Russia as an ally for a Taiwan war or just let them crumble and retake some of this territory...
@PaulSkallas Peak Ellis Island inflow was when the US was a much poorer country.
It's just an immigrant nation, immigrants have to keep coming to prop up all the layabout native failsons
@Agi1eTab1et It can be really great, just pure enthusiastic curiosity meets time and resources and then they tell you all about it.
But also lots of boring careerism, performance, outrage, scolding, &c