I read it as criticising reductionist views of the many diverse nations that existed in North America before Europeans showed up and decided that the whole continent was Terra Nullius.

To this day a significant number of US high school American History textbooks only discuss the tribes in terms of their interactions with European invaders, and shy away from anything that might make them look like they were ever legitimate nations. Referring to them as ‘Native Americans’ instead of by name also has this effect.

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I liked it until I learned some of the things that happened there, and now it’s all I think about whenever I see photos of it.

wow, I didn’t need any more reasons not to support Oracle but thanks anyway

Can’t tell if you’re joking or just a dickhead tankie.

Not just the right. The entire Taiwan situation is entirely due to the Chinese being taught at school that Taiwan just is part of China like it’s an immutable fact.

Weird how many people seem to think it’s like a competition or something. It’s a descriptive label.

The whole Pluto thing taught us a lot about the psychology of letting go of something taught at a young age. People getting proper frothing at how they shoulda just let Pluto keep it, just to save themselves the extremely minor cognitive dissonance.

“be wheat” yeah like anyone here has ever been wheat

buncha posers

At school, topics are divided into Arts, Science and Humanities. The majority of Bachelor’s degrees are titled Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.

Using the word “Science” colloquially to describe anything that isn’t the Arts or Humanities is entirely consistent.

profoundly stupid

Hey, that was my favourite movie when it came out. I was sure Yahoo Serious was going to be a huge star.

Yes that puzzled me too, I checked like 5 different transcripts and they all said the same thing.

The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house-martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter; yet these are not strangers to our land.

There’s billions of people, literally billions of them

On lemmy?

I don’t know how we’ve managed to get to 2025 and there’s still apparently people who haven’t seen a thousand shit PEMDAS posts already

UP AND AT THEM

You don’t even need to, you just need seven digits of numbers. As password formats go, it’s hella low entropy.

Yeah I’m with you, because I don’t understand why a “dumbass” would be the speed of light.

Makes more sense for God to measure things in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units

Some people find the smell very strong. Something to do with receptors idk? I know someone with a banana allergy who can immediately tell if he’s entered a room with bananas in it from smell alone, even if they’re not peeled.

also, banana strings