The Crazy Years

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Always some control issue. Government just can’t seem to help itself.

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Good for a chuckle

https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1706676593261785178

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New York State Regents Examinations from 1935

(All of these documents are PDF files hosted on Google Drive.)

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Wait, no Algebra II was on the exam :wink: ?

P.S. after reading through the Solid Geometry test, one reflection is that 1935 shape rotators (see, e.g. Steve Hsu) had to have solid verbal skills, since there are no diagrams.

P.P.S. the history of the exams section on the book of knowledge reads like a play by play account of the ongoing enstupidification of society, which seems to have been picking up speed more recently.

Throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s vocational education Regents Exams were approved and administered. These included but were not limited to, agricultural science, costume draping, and salesmanship.[2] By 1970 the number and types of Regents Exams changed to reflect the changes in high school curriculum: vocational exams were discontinued, and the sheer number of exams were either dropped or consolidated as the curricular emphasis trended toward comprehensive examinations rather than the singularly focused tests of the past. This trend continued into the twenty-first century, with the cancellation of foreign language exams in 2010 and 2011.

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The Latin, German, Greek, and Hebrew language exams were removed after the 2009–10 school year, and the remaining language exams (Italian, Spanish, and French) were removed after the 2010–11 school year. Previously, a Regents foreign language exam was an option that would allow for Regents Exam with Advanced Designation. Currently, local school districts can develop their own exams to assess foreign language competency and allow for students to meet the Advanced Designation requirement.

The June 2020, August 2020, and January 2021, then later, August 2021 and January 2022 exams were not administered as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Only four of the ten exams were administered in June 2021.

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Babylon Bee was two weeks early:

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Now up to 89 prophecies on 30 pages.

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From the Musk tweet:

As for myself, I got original Covid before the vaccine was out (mild cold symptoms) and had to get three vaccines for travel. The third shot almost sent me to hospital.

Same here. 104 fever, heart rate through the roof, blood oxygen plummeted.

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I’ll have some of what they’re smoking:

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No sex please, we’re anthropologists.

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For more than 60 years, stained-glass windows honoring Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson hung at Washington National Cathedral. But after a gunman shot and killed nine Black worshippers at a church in South Carolina in 2015, the cathedral decided to take them down.

Now, six years after the panels’ removal in 2017, the Washington, D.C. church has unveiled their replacement: four colorful windows depicting the struggle for racial justice. Titled Now and Forever, the panels show Black Americans holding protest signs bearing the words “Fairness” and “No foul play.” Most of the figures are on foot; one is seated in a wheelchair.

The Confederate-themed windows had hung in the cathedral since 1953, when the United Daughters of the Confederacy donated them to the church. They featured Confederate battle flags and showed Lee “bathed in rays of heavenly light” and Jackson “welcomed by trumpets into paradise after his death,” writes Peter Smith for the Associated Press.

The leadership of the United Daughters of the Confederacy has remained silent about the cathedral’s windows. However, in a statement shared on the group’s website, President General Jinny Widowski argues that Confederate markers and statutes are “part of our shared American history and should remain in place.”

The text in the new windows reminds me of the hallucinated text generated by DALL-E 2.

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