I’m an UnCiv Stan; Civ5 implemented with SNES-level graphics for your smart phone. Excellent selection of mods and supports multiplayer.

Just today I was made aware of an open position for a high school math teacher that I’m finding myself surprisingly keen on. It is a private/charter school which I’m "generally* ideologically opposed to but in this case it’s geared towards sending underserved children to university.

I was that child, only I received virtually zero support from teachers and made a shitton of mistakes trying to figure out university and adulting with neurodivergence. Helping to prepare guide and inspire the next generation actually sounds incredibly fulfilling.

Congratulations, you just disenfranchised many of our most vulnerable demographics from the disabled to seniors to stay at home mothers.

Every single person subject to a government and it’s set of laws gets the chance to voice their opinion. Full stop.

You’ve falling for the lies that the right has been shouting for decades. We had that education, had reasonably trustworthy information outlets. Both of those institutions have been eroded and co-opted by the GOP for years and years. We are in the endgame of 60+ years of slow, calculated corruption of our institutions. Flaws have been exploited, loopholes created and repeatedly sommersaulted through.

Basing school funding on property values is a sick joke that leaves the impoverished underserved and undereducated. This is why we have a literacy epidemic. Social media and the consolidation of news outlets under billionaires have been the primary drivers of mis- and disinformation. The firehose of shit has been pumping trash down peoples throats for over a decade at this point, filling the brains of people who did not have the opportunity to learn critical thinking or media literacy with falsehoods and false hopes.

Every single person living in any country should have a voice. Citizen or not. Once you allow one group to be disenfranchised it opens the gate to more widespread disenfranchisement of other “undesireables.” We need a concerted effort to re-establish robust, evidence-based teaching that goes beyond regurgitating facts, that is equally available and not dependent on your neighbors property values. We also need independent journalism that is not beholden to the whims of a single, disgustingly rich person.

Start there. Start with figuring out how to respect and help the people around you rather than sneering and looking down your nose at them. Your mindset and solution are antithetical to a fair and just system of governance.

As a plane-type autist, I had to stop watching the airspaces around El Salvador and Palestine for my own sanity. Shit’s so fucked.

I am in this article and I don’t like it.

Mechanical Engineer, graduated a few years ago. Slightly above this age band due to mental health struggles in my 20s. Four years of internships + undergrad research during school. One year, three months of unsteady, career-relevant contract work since then.

Moved from Bumfuck Midwest to a city with plenty of aerospace gigs but can’t even get an interview at the grocery store. I’m lucky that my parents and state aid have covered me thus far, have gotten wildly higher-quality mental/physical care here. Behaviourally I’m better than ever but chucking resumes into the void is wearing me down and I’m backsliding on my executive functioning progress.

Employment or a Master’s/PhD in Sweden/Germany/EU in general is preferable to the American defense industry but that’s a tall and expensive hill to climb (if anyone wants to assist please DM 🙃) and I’m nearly out of time before being faced with moving back home.

I’m tired, boss.