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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
tha--snazzle
darthvcder

the fact that community colleges are seen as less valid and for “stupid” people is a result of classism and in this essay I will-

darthvcder

ppl in the tags saying that it’s “genuinely a lesser tier of education because people go there for trades and nursing and thats about it” are just proving that its classism. bc a) no thats absolutely not correct. a good chunk of people that go to community colleges do so to knock out their gen eds at a lower price than they’d be if they went to a four year, then transfer to a four year. and more importantly b) trade professions are not lesser than other professions that take higher degrees. people who go into things that take associates degrees are not “stupid”.

if you think ppl who are too poor to attend a four year university for all four years, or that ppl who are too poor to/don’t want to get their bachelor’s/master’s/doctorate are “stupid” then i have news for you:

thats classism, babe

thsoftestsound

Mmmyeah, despite the fact I had to because I decided to just take my GED rather than finish up a couple of classes I slept on while in HS (I went to continuation, and if you aren’t aggressively working to graduate once you turn 18 and are no longer their problem they expel you anyway) so I could go to community college, this ended up being an auspicious culmination of events because I left CC w no debt when I transferred to UC Berkeley (yuuuuup, nobody gave a fresh fuck what I did in HS when I had a 4.0 at CC), and therefore ended school w exactly half the debt.

I tell anyone who will listen to me that if they are planning on going to for a four year degree and beyond to start at CC because for sure the education I got there was commensurate with what I would have gotten at a four year.

And for anyone who 👀👀👀 the idea that this is the case even when compared to “elite” schools I can tell you that some of the best, most skilled, and most rigorous professors I ever had were at my CC.

Also, there was only slightly less students that were absolutely average or demonstrably not interested in studying at Cal than at CC.

Anyhoozle, anyone who shits on community college can get bent.

tha--snazzle

ALSO given the wild unavailability of tenure-track teaching jobs at major colleges and universities, a lot of brilliant, talented people teach at community colleges. you can get a good ass education at one, even by “ivory tower" standards. for real.

jaiisanerd

Hi, I went to a university and got two degrees, which are both useless and which I’m still paying for 17 years later. I then went to a community college and got a two- year degree in a “trade” that got me a job that is allowing me to pay off my loans for my useless degrees while actually making enough to live comfortably (for my needs). I’m happier with this job than with any I got with my “real” degrees. The only reasons I don’t regret university are the amazing people I met while I was there.

historyisntboring

Hear The Oldest Flute In The World

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In 2008, archaeologists discovered fragments of flutes carved from vulture and mammoth bones at a Stone Age cave site in southern Germany called Hohle Fels. They were carved and played by Homo sapiens. These flutes are ancient, dating back 42,000 to 43,000 years, making them the oldest flutes in the world.

The oldest Homo sapiens flutes, that is. There is at least one flute made by a Neanderthal that is older. Found at a Neanderthal campsite at Divje Babe in northwestern Slovenia, the Neanderthal flute is estimated to be over 43,000 years old and perhaps as much as 80,000 years old.

The video above features Ljuben Dimkaroski, who plays trumpet for the Ljubljana Opera Orchestra, and who helped archaeologists figure out how to play the prehistoric flute. Don’t worry! He is playing a clay replica, not the original.

systlin

God, the sound of this went right through me, right to my soul, and tugged. 

dominawritesthings

The spiritualist in me is having a field day right now. This is fantastic.

witchaj

That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

nineprotons

This is really cool. My cat, however, disagrees. He did not care for it at all, going by his face and ears when I played it.

tha--snazzle
slimydad

yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes

“there’s that penny again, pa!”

comicshans

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beetledrink

shout out to what is, in my humble opinion, my only good post

celeloriel
rawstory.com

Black farmers were deliberately sold ‘fake seeds’ in scheme to steal their land: report

Black farmers in the Mid-South region surrounding Memphis used science to uncover a multi-million scheme to put them out of business and steal their farmland, WMC News reported Tuesday. At the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show show in March of 2017, African-American farmers believe that Stine Seed Company purposefully sold them fake seeds. Thomas Burrell, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, explained how black farmers were receiving one-tenth of the yield as their …
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“Mother nature doesn’t discriminate,” Burrell said. “It doesn’t rain on white farms but not black farms. Insects don’t [only] attack black farmers’ land…why is it then that white farmers are buying Stine seed and their yield is 60, 70, 80, and 100 bushels of soybeans and black farmers who are using the exact same equipment with the exact same land, all of a sudden, your seeds are coming up 5, 6, and 7 bushels?”

ilyena-sylph

i am losing my shit all over the fucking place because yes I believe this company would do this, god damn them. 

celeloriel
thespiralpath

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Source: https://twitter.com/ImpPoster

rufeepeach

This.

It’s genuinely worrying to me how often white supremacist misogynist dudes have a weird Viking obsession. The Vikings did not agree with you. Stop dragging the Vikings into this.

amuseoffyre

Right-wingers: We should treat the Muslims like the Vikings did!
Me: You mean travel thousands of miles to strike up profitable trade deals with them in their own countries and establish mutually beneficial business arrangements?
Right-wingers: Wot?

celeloriel
seewater

it’s getting close to Thanksgiving in the US so i wanted to pass around a link to the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Donate if you can, and even if you can’t, spend some time this November educating yourself about the history of the very-much-still-alive tribe that sat down with the pilgrims, the continued history of colonization in America, and about the tribe/s whose land you are occupying.