@Grass545143 @bitcloud @jon_stokes Yes people whining about DEI are usually racist and sexist. That is correct.
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JCF4004
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All the signs are there
Aaron Francis@aarondfrancis
Imagine winning this hard. Impossible
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@Berathe @portraitinflesh They have been necessary because otherwise racism and sexism is applied without restraint. Equity is the word that’s important, everyone should have the same chance and that wasn’t the case in the past.
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@portraitinflesh And that's why I don't support DEI initiatives because, as well as rewarding mediocrity, they are weaponised against competent women and people of colour
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This woman's career is ridiculously impressive, yet you just know there are sad little men all over social media claiming she's only on Artemis II as a "DEI hire", and probably saying the same thing about her black crewmate, Victor Glover, who also has an extremely strong résumé.
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka
Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.
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@travelinjeebus @portraitinflesh We can celebrate their achievements without that blowback. That blowback is the result of a coordinated propaganda campaign and is entirely unnecessary. Just blatant racism, what they’ve been taught to say.
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@portraitinflesh That would be true if the WHOLE advertising blitz of NASA wasn't just "first woman..." "first Black man..." "first Canadian..."
They LITERALLY just posted that "She has become the first woman to travel the farthest from Earth in history".
So, yea... the blowback is "she's DEI!"
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@Grass545143 @bitcloud @jon_stokes If that is your “first take” about a ridiculously qualified astronaut maybe you should seek help. Because you are a racist and a victim of fascist propaganda.
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@bitcloud @jon_stokes Idk, maybe. Just my first take, he’s probably qualified, I’m sure it at least helped though
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In March 1921, a fifteen-year-old girl named Rose Sullivan made an incredible escape. She didn’t run through a crowd or walk out the front door. Instead, she moved through the cold, dark tunnels beneath the Boston City Hospital morgue… eight months pregnant, following a stranger who had decided to help her.
Rose had been married off at just thirteen to Thomas, a man ten years older. It was a family-arranged marriage. By fifteen, close to giving birth, he had already decided her future: no going out, no visitors, no freedom. Not even the choice of what to eat or wear.
But one March morning, Rose changed her destiny.
She pretended to feel ill so she would be taken to the hospital. Once inside, she slipped through a door marked “Staff Only.” She went down to the basement and found herself in a maze of dark corridors.
Down there, among the stretchers of the morgue, she was alone, exhausted, terrified. And she was crying.
Then something happened.
A fifty-year-old man, Patrick O’Brien, a morgue attendant, found her. He could have reported her. Instead, he simply said, “Follow me.”
He led her through those silent tunnels, among death and cold, to a staircase. From there, they reached a door that opened onto another world: the women’s ward.
Dr. Elizabeth Morrison understood everything immediately. She didn’t ask unnecessary questions. She arranged care, protection, and legal help.
By the time her husband managed to find her, it was already too late.
Rose was free.
A month later, she gave birth to her daughter in that hospital. She obtained a divorce and raised her child on her own. Years later, that little girl would become a nurse… in that very same hospital, for over thirty years.
Rose lived to be 93. And before she passed away, she left behind a sentence that still strikes the heart:
“I walked through death to reach life. Every mother does when she gives birth. I just did it… a little more literally.”
Patrick also wrote about that day: he said he had used “the tunnels of death to lead someone toward life.”
Her story reminds us of something simple, yet powerful:
Courage doesn’t always make noise.
Sometimes it’s a fifteen-year-old girl, pregnant, walking in the dark… step by step, because she knows that at the end, there is freedom.
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@grrrimarobot @big_pedestrian The second picture is clearly, 100% Long’s Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Go ahead and searched it on Google lens. I’ve climbed it myself!
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@JCF4004 @big_pedestrian This is found in 50000 different places in CA. Drive out to the Sierras today and check.
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Sitting in a cafe in coastal California with people wandering by from every nation under heaven. At least 60% of couples are interracial. The tech bro next to me is tenderly caring for his ~1 month old baby. This is the country I love so very much. This is the America dream.🦅🇺🇸
Mitt@MittCPA
the california propaganda will continue
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@ericswalwell One of the pictures is from Colorado. Please don’t keep sharing this post!
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@StatisticUrban Stop re-sharing that post. One of those pictures is Colorado anyway it’s total BS.
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California is the most climatically and geographically blessed state by far. It is among the most blessed places on *Earth*
But because of that, and because of the stickiness of network effects, they can govern like total ass and get away with it.
Mitt@MittCPA
the california propaganda will continue
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@C935685111 @molly_perco @MaryBowdenMD @ParkviewHealth Boo hoo, can’t believe you’re whining about it! Putting your racism out there for everyone to see…
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@molly_perco @MaryBowdenMD @ParkviewHealth Hard to find now a days. I’m in medical and I’ve been a minority for a couple of years now in Florida. Both in color and country. I’m a white female american. Go to a local hospital almost all docs foreign. Nurses and aides too.
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14 of 15 residents in this Indiana internal medicine program are from foreign countries.
12 of the 15 are from Pakistan.
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@BlackDiamen12 @neeratanden Would certainly improve the state if nasty unpleasant racist people like yourself would pick up and move to a nice red state and leave us alone.
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@neeratanden Yea left wing retards are fucking up the living standards by raising prices and stealing tax money. We just got to get rid of the liberals and this state will be the best again.
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This is a gorgeous state. No place like it on earth. Never understood the hate towards the state, except envy from the right wingers.
Mitt@MittCPA
the california propaganda will continue
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@MittCPA The second photo of the mountain is Long’s Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Speaking as someone who has climbed it, and now has now lived in California a long time, can’t fool me! Plenty of beautiful mountains in California, no need to make a fake post.
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@mattyglesias @RossBarkan I was raised to be a Mets fan, as my dad was raised in Brooklyn, so Dodgers fan then Mets fan later (although we lived upstate). Never Yankees!
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@RossBarkan I was raised to be a Mets fan because my dad was a Mets fan because *his* dad was a Giants fan because he lived near the Polo Grounds when he was a transplant in the 1930s.
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The Mets fan base doesn't really send its best, so I'll explain my point as plainly as I can: of course, there are NY native Mets fans. Many, many. But if you are a gentrifier laptop class individual, pure transplant, the odds are you are a Mets fan.
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@Carawieneke Was Indiana misbehaving or something? Why do you think you’re special?
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Oh good, the geoengineers (i.e., the U.S. military) have decided to create and steer another storm towards Indiana. Third week in a row. Near the end of the week of course. But not to look so obvious, they decided to make this happen on Thursday night instead of the weekend.
Ryan Hall, Y’all@ryanhallyall
SPC just bumped tomorrow to a Level 3 from Illinois into western Ohio. Supercells are expected to fire late afternoon with hail over 2 inches, then transition into a damaging wind event as storms merge into a line by evening. If you're in the warm sector, stay alert.
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@OracleSeagull @netflix The KNBR broadcast with our guys should be played along with the video, so you don’t have to listen to weirdos.
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No one who is tuning in to watch a baseball game wants ANYONE doing guest analysis. They want their local broadcasters calling the game. @netflix this is already a shit show.
kwohla 🐨@kwohlamusic
@OracleSeagull We have Bert Kreischer doing guest analysis for the true baseball fans 🤦🏻♂️
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@Noirchick1 The Story of Temple Drake
Blonde Crazy
Dames
Footlight Parade
Gold Diggers of 1933
Baby Face
Blondie Johnson
Our Blushing Brides
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Anything with Chester Morris, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, and, of course, the #QueenOfPreCode Joan Blondell.
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What is your favorite Pre-Code film you would recommend to someone not familiar with that film period?
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