@tom4okstate

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Life long learner. Intellectually curious. Interested in new solutions to old problems. Work smarter not harder. Proponent of egalitarianism and representative government.
Texas High Schoolers Must Retake SATs After Tests Fly Off UPS Truck https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/us/el-paso-sat-tests.html?partner=IFTTT
Texas High Schoolers Must Retake SATs After Tests Fly Off UPS Truck

Seniors who sat for the SATs last month at El Paso High School will have to retake the test after many of the sheets with their answers were scattered on the street.

I've noticed a lot of corporate P.R. campaigns encouraging people to vote. But they never say who to vote for, anything about specific issues or even where they find candidate information. It's the P.R. civic engagement equivalent of greenwashing. #election #vote
Hard to explain how rich the rich are. What is $974 billion? If the top 10 US billionaires sold all their assets and went on a buying spree, what would they get? These 10 people could buy all 41 million used cars sold in 2019, for $20,600 average each ($841b), and still have almost enough to buy every NFL team ($139 billion). Or...
Russian military personnel in Belarus are sick in mass because of «poor sanitary conditions»

Posted in r/UkrainianConflict by u/dniprshyrokyi • 302 points and 43 comments

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1. Tomorrow is Election Day and INFLATION has emerged as a dominant issue.

But voters aren't getting the full story on what's driving inflation from major media outlets

A major factor is being mostly ignored.

🧵

https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-inflation

If anyone needs some encouragement of a Monday Morning.

"Uninspirational Quotes", by Brian Bilston, and a little bonus for the "impostor syndrome."

If you like Mastodon it'd be great if you supported their development with a modest donation like I've done.

There's no better way to annoy Elon than to bank roll an alternative to Elon

See this tweet for two ways of donating to Mastodon:
https://mstdn.science/@corneliusroemer/109298404704283226

Cornelius Roemer (@[email protected])

If you like what you're seeing here, why not donate a little bit to support Mastodon development? I've just donated a modest $10 myself through Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastodon Patreon is also available: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon Mastodon gGmbH is registered as a German non-profit, so if you want to donate substantial amounts, you should in theory be able to get a tax waiver - but first contact someone at Mastodon, e.g. @[email protected] Governance looks solid!

mstdn.science

♥️ Let’s show some gratitude and financial support for our hosts. I happen to be on the mstdn.social instance, so @stux keeps our server going here.

I just joined his Patreon. You can pay monthly, or a year in advance at whatever level you choose. As low as $1.50 per month.

if you have the capacity to help out, find out who is your host and do the same. Look in their “about” near their profile to find out how to help.

https://www.patreon.com/mstdn/posts