I spent the ‘90s reading so much awesome fantasy/scifi just by picking books with Michael Whelan covers. This was one such series. He never steered me wrong.
But hey thank god at least the kids can program and can make money and can’t be educated in critical thinking because the schools only get grants for STEM, ya know?
Society has insisted that school curriculums focus on STEM for years now and this shit is a surprise? That the only path to success is coding and not how to read?
Even in the mid ‘90s I had people laugh at me for getting an English degree. Humanities have NEVER been a priority (in the USA at least) so why is this a surprise?
Chicago @LoriLightfoot@chicagosmayor@ChiefDavidBrown stop holding activists hostage after violent arrests. Let them all go TONIGHT! CPD has orders to keep all ppl arrested at protests overnight and we are demanding immediate release!!
imagine baking fucked up bread ONCE when you’re in a huge rush and centuries later your descendants are still gathering once a year to discuss how fucked that bread was
Ald. Hopkins talks about 7 community groups whose input was sought in #LincolnYards as evidence of enough community involvement, then says three of them now oppose it and one withdrew. Um?! #NoNewTIFs