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I personally think that banning the hijab is too much.
Dozens of Montreal school staff already fired or resigned over expanded religious symbols ban | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-94-secularism-school-staff-9.7106299

A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

New Marquette Law School national survey finds high approval of Iran cease-fire, low support for the war, and few who think U.S. goals have been achieved (Charles Franklin/Homepage)
https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2026/04/22/new-marquette-law-school-national-survey-finds-high-approval-of-iran-cease-fire-low-support-for-the-war-and-few-who-think-u-s-goals-have-been-achieved/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p43#a260422p43

Top 10 Best HBO TV Shows of All Time | No Film School https://nofilmschool.com/best-hbo-tv-shows
Discuss.

Top 10 Best HBO TV Shows of All Time
What are the shows that you think have ever aired on HBO?

I found my liner notes for a track I have in a compilation and I think they're still valid.

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

You think 6-7 is a new thing?
Gilbert & Sullivan were at this in 1878!
It’s old school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

It's almost 1 in the morning but the kid brought home a nasty cold from school (COVID negative on RT-LAMP but stuffy and sore throat and generally not having a good time) and gave it to us.
Slept a good chunk of the day and now I'm cleaning up the lab.
Every time I think I've put away all the random wafers I find another cassette buried somewhere.
Anyway, this bench is slightly less of a disaster now. Still have a lot of random samples to organize whuch might be…

My neighbors definitely do not think this is more of the same. You don’t have to take my word for it. Look at how many Somali and Latin-American restaurants were thriving in November and now are closed, or getting almost no business if they are taking the risk of staying open. Look at how many kids are staying home from school — regardless of legal status, just because of the color of their family’s skin. Look at how many families are living in houses filled with dirty laundry because they won’t even take the risk of leaving the house to go to the laundromat.
My neighbors are living in •terror•.
If it’s more of the same, why did all of this suddenly change in the last two months?
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In addition to the many things I didn't like about the Natural History Museum in London, one thing I especially disliked is a huge wall given to showing *constellations* (or, as I prefer to think of them, "old-school hallucinations"). Let's have some actual science, people.

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

RE: https://mainz.social/@javahippie/115983154571179269
This study makes me think of that machine from the old-school point&click adventure Zak McKracken. You know, the alien machine that makes people dumber and dumber.

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

#DearLazyWeb ( #Nederland #HamRadio edition): I have small kids. My oldest is just turning 7. I have an idea of starting to introduce radios to them and some other parents are also interested.
I'm starting with walkie talkies and basic radio protocol. My thought is to try to play a few games of "keep talking and no one explodes" over walkie talkie, then trying to expand that out into an informal radio net or something. I have some other ideas for projects, like downloading weather satellite data or something (but I think this may be a bit too advanced, perhaps).
I've also been thinking about playing a bit with LoRa radios (meshcore or reticulum), but I haven't yet figured out an application that would be fun for kids.
One parent suggested a kids radio broadcast. In the US it's possible to get a local FM license (within about 2 kilometers) for community stations and educational use and such. Is there any similar program here in NL?
Extra question for #Ham operators: are there other simple kid friendly projects you can think of?
For parents (to gauge interest outside of my weird little circle): one goal here is getting kids into radio to build the next generation of disaster communication. Is this something you would be excited about for your kids? Is this something you would be interested in seeing as an after school program?

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration