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It's time to vote for a mayor. The polling stations are open for early voting and people are making their choices.
In NYC the primary is a big deal because Democrats often win in the general elections (but not always.)
I'm thinking of voting for just two people. What matters most to me is "refreshing" the Democrats so they can be competitive again. The old guard, the rotten wood must go.
toothie spotted
Have any math teachers on here used minecraft (eg arrows to teach about parabolas. You can use command blocks to make the parabolas physical arcs when you fire. Or redstone for logic?)
There is also something called "educational minecraft" apparently.
Thought I might mess around with it this summer, but don't know if it's worth the time or if I'm just making up an excuse for me to play video games. (very possible)
Curious what it was like *in a class*
I think
"who ended the rhyme on line two"
scans better.
"limerick" is a hard word to scan in.
A new D&D class: accounting wizard
How about a *hot* accounting date just the two of us and the *dual display* calculator?
(God I love odd gadgets ... look at it!)
I do not want to play anything with them thank you. This is so scary.
I'm scared of police and I will leave if I see too many of them. It is maybe sad that I can be intimidated easily but I'm very small and not steady on my feet because I have a bad leg. Also I'm scared and you can make fun of me for that or whatever BUT
That doesn't make it right or good that police are intimidating people from protesting if they want to. That isn't their supossed job. That isn't serving the public or a good use of "muh tax dollars"
I'm glad there are videos!
The young people were doing nothing. Keeping their distance from the police, not even yelling much or seeming angry (yelling and angry being perfectly normal protest things to do)
There was no pretext for the use of force at all. Zero.
The good news seems to be that if there are enough people and if enough of them are white, not under 30 and middle-class looking police won't try as hard to shut the event down. But I've seen video from LA of a park full of people in broad day light just holding signs and getting shot at for existing.
The crowd was about half white people and mostly younger which is why I think the police decided they could escalate.
This isn't true. We have congestion pricing. We had to throw a whole fit to keep it but he wasn't successful in trying to do this at all.
Is it legal to gather in the park and shout slogans and hold some signs to petition the government for redress of grievances or nah?
I think it can be easy to get jaded and assume that when people get injured by police in protests they must have "done something" eg not gone on the sidewalk when asked by the police* or whatever but this isn't true. We don't really live in a country where protest is defacto legal anymore and this has been the case more and more over time.
Do you like that?
The cops in LA are more out of control than normal in the footage of these protests.
They are shooting into crowds who are standing in a park with signs during the day well before curfew. Throwing tear gas. And also not saying anything? There are no instructions to leave or anything being given as they try to make the protest end.
It's not about keeping the streets clear for cars. They are acting like having a protest is illegal.
This is LAPD too. What is they mayor doing?
Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.
Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.
This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
Solar powered? Make it ipv6 too and it's the perfect computer to run off into the woods with never to be seen again.
This excites me. I love that it has a seven segment display too ... And the solar design limitation is an exciting way to organize the project.
People who complain about violence at protests generally just don't like the protest at all but are too cowardly to address the issue so they focus on the side issue which is impossible to control.
It's the same thing that's done to any targeted group... if a single member of the group does anything wrong it counts for everyone.
It is always possible to make the news coverage of a protest seem "violent" no matter what those who participate do.
With murder, and shootings and political assassination happening on the same day I do not want to hear about a broken window or how someone knocked over a garbage can. It's getting absurd.
Democratic law makers lectured and stressed "PeAcEFul" protest for weeks and weeks and it was annoying and patronizing.
Where are the right wing politicians saying "Do Not Kill People" for example. Just as a thought?