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The founding (and growth) of LDS can certainly be called an accomplishment, or achievement. One of America's great corporate success stories.

The extent of their core territories you can drive for is like the western 2/5 of the (current) continental United States. You'd have enough on your plate going about that on your own.

Gondor calls for aid!

The CEO of Disney contacted Ronnie D. to voice their concerns regarding the transgender school bill in Florida. Ron D. decided to use this as an opportunity to make enemies of the mouse.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) came out swinging hard Thursday against the Walt Disney Company for its CEO’s support of transgender instruction for kindergarteners.
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DeSantis took it further by calling out Disney’s hypocrisy, characterizing it as a greedy company willing to die on the hill of transgenderism while coddling Communist China.

“If that’s the hill they’re going to die on, then how do they possibly explain lining their pockets with their relationship from the Communist Party of China? Because that’s what they do, and they make a fortune, and they don’t say a word about the really brutal practices that you see over there at the hands of the CCP,” he said.

“And so in Florida, our policies got to be based on the best interest of Florida citizens, not on the musing of woke corporations,” he added.

Who does something like this? Why would you make enemies of Disney?

It didn't even dawn on me until now that Disney literally owns a feudal estate in Florida.

How many people that stormed the capitol, participated in the convoy, etc are the deeply evangelical megachurch-goers who believe anything someone tells them and pay thousands of their dollars to keep getting told that?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKcJrBRVZn4

I need more Kelly J Patriot and Crip Mac tha Loc in my life. I love channel fives ability to hone in on real life characters

Could roll the ol' wagon up to the grocery store, but I don't think they'd let me in with it. Tie it up outside and someone will steal the wheels. Can't take their shopping carts beyond the lockstrip either.

If it can be proved that Biden did stuff that should see him out of office, he should get the boot. Said the same with Trump, Obama. Plan to say the same thing for the next guy. People have tried to use this kind of thing as a "haha you hypocrite, gotcha," but I won't budge on equal opportunity impeachment.

"The Ukraine Crisis Briefly Put America’s Culture War in Perspective"

Those first few days after Russia’s invasion revealed something important about the United States: Much of what looks like unbridgeable polarization online may be the product of boredom, distraction, and jadedness; when something real happens, people pay attention to that instead. We refresh our feeds incessantly, looking for new information and sharing it. And as a shooting war started, average users sought out experts and reputable news organizations. Google Trends, for example, showed a relative increase in searches for nuclear weapons and potassium iodide—a treatment used after radiation emergencies—while searches for Ukraine were at an all-time high. The culture war temporarily faded into the background—much as it did in the early days of 2020, when a new pathogen was still largely confined to China.

I noticed this too. Pretty amazing

Work department had big meeting and the curriculum came up. (Genuinely shame Newbie couldn't be there since he would have liked the discussions more than he probably likes reminding the farm animals not to eat the dry wall or however he manages to keep them from hurting themselves.) A lot of great discussions.

Room was literally like this


Anyhow, the way it works in this state is you get three years of history in HS. World, U.S. 1, and U.S. 2. World covers 1789 to modern times. U.S. 1 goes from colonial to Civil War/Reconstruction. U.S. 2 starts at Post-reconstruction and ends with modern times. The issue with U.S. 2 is that there is so much we never get to since (A) not enough time in the year and (B) modern history is too controversial. Our department head decided to I guess be bold and make a big change to the start and stops.

U.S. 1 will now start with the Civil War and go from there. American Revolution, founding Fathers, etc. kicked down to the elementary schools to learn. "A lot of constitutional topics you would have covered in early U.S. 1 are relevant to the Civil War". The U.S. 1 teachers are probably happy. Whenever I talk about U.S. 1 they complain about how sick they are of talking about the founding fathers, the three branches, etc. for months.

U.S. 2 will now start with the Great Depression and end at modern times. Teddy R. and World War 1 now belong to U.S. 1 I guess.

I like and dislike the changes. I dislike that I will need to create new content. I was hoping to use the same material forever since World War 1 isn't going to get an expansion pack. I like that the admin seems to have our back to talk about modern things which is what the kids are genuinely interested in. The kids don't want to learn about the distant past. They want to learn the context of what is going on around them. We aren't doing right by them to not talk about the things that actually matter in their lives but instead talking about how great Washington was.


I still think U.S. 1 and 2 were fine as they were and we just needed a U.S. 3 starting at 9/11. A teacher mentioned this and our department head said "all starting points are artificial" which was again on point.

As for me, I am almost finished with a project mapping LGBT history. The state has a mandate that says we have to teach LGBT history. We have to.

Tell the kids it is okay to be gay or else.

I volunteered to help develop material for the Global War on Terror part of the new curriculum. I know a lot about terror

Your dept head made a good point about the controversiality of modern history. People aren't taught how to keep their cool when presented with different or opposing ideas. I think it's a significant problem that rips at the social integrity of the country. If more people could do this, there'd be less fingerholds for unreliable rags like Fox.