The part that always gets me about this is the conversations with people who assure me that parents in the past didn’t mind losing several children to infections or accidents, because they were so much stronger/more enlightened then. Unlike us spoiled, whiny moderns.

Angela Davis and Dick Cheney are voting for the same person.

Clean indoor air the kind of no-brainer, basic component of civil society that future generations will be aghast we neglected this long

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HEPA filters in classrooms: "HEPA filters... predicted to reduce PM2.5 by 40–60 % and viral RNA by 30–50 % depending on... classroom design and window opening... The energy cost of... HEPA filters is likely to be only 1 %–2 % of the classroom heating costs. " www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Coupled indoor air quality and dynamic thermal modelling to assess the potential impacts of standalone HEPA filter units in classrooms

The quality of the classroom environment, including ventilation, air quality and thermal conditions, has an important impact on children’s health and …

Jimmy Carter stared down the freaking Reaper to be able to cast his vote for Kanala Harris. I think the rest of us can get off our asses to do the same. And vote early to avoid the lines! meidasnews.com/news/jimmy-c...

Jimmy Carter Achieves His Goal, Lives Long Enough to Vote for Kamala Harris

Early voting begins today in Georgia

In high school I lived on the wrong side of the tracks in a railroad town and if you were walking you just accepted you had no idea how long it was going to take you to get to the other side of town because the freight trains could literally take 45 minutes to get past the pedestrian crossing.

EVERY FUCKING DAY FROM NOW UNTIL ELECTION DAY: WE ARE GOING TO WIN AND THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE. LET THEM BREAK ON YOU. DO NOT LET THEM BREAK YOU.

Fun to remember that Columbus got arrested for brutality. In 1500. By SPAIN

“Harris should be up by double digits” and “Liz Cheney and her ilk shouldn’t be supporting her” are mutually exclusive ideas

THIS. Also, I have failed having pulled my punches, and I have failed after leaving it all on the field. All on the field is better. The “what if” is harder than the failure.

Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.