The Nashville Zoo launched a petition on June 3 opposing a proposed data center next to the property, drawing more than 19,000 signatures in about a day. https://t.co/0xF9inuonu
I’ll never listen to white people talk to me about what it takes to build wealth. I know what’s really behind it and how it’s systemic. People who have built their wealth off of generations of slavery and exploitation will look you dead in your face and say work harder.
As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)
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THIS!!!!
THIS!!!!
The idea that ANYTHING in a goddamned quickie mart is more valuable than a human life is ABSURD.
That boy could've emptied an entire shelf of chips and candy into a duffel bag. It's not cause to shoot him.
So anyway, my required gen ed did this to me for my required lab class with three men. Mind you, I was a D1 athlete on a sports scholarship at a private university, so it took a lot of work for me to coordinate between heavy practice and open lab slots.
I group texted for every assignment my availability, and booked the lab myself, they never helped with the coordination. They all showed up for the first two labs, but I showing up alone by the middle of the semester. I just did the work, wrote the report by myself (which sucked, the reports were obviously supposed to be four-person jobs), and only put my name on it. The first time I brought it to the TA's attention, he (of course it was a he) told me that he was not our babysitter, we were adults, and it was up to us to divide up the work. That was great for him, he wasn't presumptively tasked with repeatedly texting three men that kept blowing me off and did not want to hear from me.
So it's near the end of the semester, all of a sudden they're back in the group chat, blowing up my phone with how they all have Fs. Those stupid motherfuckers really thought I was going to just write their name on work they had no part of, including the final lab and presentation, which I did myself, in front of the class.
The TA is on my ass now, saying that one of my lab "partners" told him that I blocked them from the group chat. I did not, I texted them every single assignment, and none of them responded by the end. This led to an academic inquest that got the actual professor involved.
Sorry, but this story does not have a happy ending. The only reason the whole thing went away, I got my A+, and those three guys got their Fs is that my male coach was notified of the investigation (regular procedure when you're an athlete), had me explain, and then got so pissed off he yelled at the department head about it.
So yeah, that's how I got out of babysitting slacker men: by doing the work of four people and getting away with it only after a man vouched for me. Thank you sexism!
Something I’ve noticed in various fabric chats on here is people confuse moisture absorbing with moisture wicking.
Moisture wicking pulls the moisture from your skin and passes it to the outside air where it can evaporate.
Moisture absorbing pulls the water and holds on to it.