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@futurebird Geometry is probably a little more approachable and still mostly number-free but IDK that is that much better. Knot theory, maybe? That might be worse.

@futurebird Graph theory is good from a "not all math is about numbers" perspective. But it really isn't that approachable. That's one of two classes I dropped in graduate school. And I have papers published in graph theory.

@futurebird I'm a mathematician and I approve this message.

@futurebird My grandfather never touched the damn thing.

@futurebird OMG! My grandma had Juno. My uncle got her on it so that she could send e-mail because they lived in Congo and wanted Grandma to be able to communicate without waiting about a month for letters to arrive.

She continued using Juno long after it stopped being a thing most people used. We were afraid to move her off of it because she was used to it and teaching her to use a new e-mail client wasn't going to go well. It was enough of a pain when they upgraded from Juno 4 to Juno 5.

I think my mom eventually moved her to GMail when she moved in with them because she lost her Juno address.

@futurebird A lot of those keyboards also had multimedia buttons. But the buttons like "internet" could be configured to launch any app you wanted. I think ours also had an "email" button.

@corbden @futurebird @ramsey American cheese doesn't come in wheels. It comes in little plastic sleeves. If you had a wheel of American cheese, that really would be impressive.

Do you think Sesame Street is actually independent or do they have a puppet government?

@futurebird There's something in all this that's triggering to me at a pretty deep level and I'm not 100% sure what it is. I think it has something to do with control.

As someone who was manipulated from a young age and who was bullied by kids and adults alike, the Internet for me was a necessary escape. I needed not only to communicate through text but with people outside my community. I didn't really know it at the time but I also needed a place where things wouldn't get back to my parents.

Now I don't know all the social dynamics of how school kids are using social media and I'll readily admit it probably isn't healthy. If kids are getting treated okay in the halls where teachers are watching and then cyberbullied by their peers over lunch, that's bad. And the popularity contest that is IG pretty .

But I'm not sure if social media being a direct extension of school is great, either. For the kids for whom what they say and do making it back to their community is a useful motivatior for good behavior, it may help. But for the kid who everyone has silently agreed it's okay to bully, it just extends that hell to their phone.