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RT @sannewman@twitter.com

THE SEVEN SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghost writer
7. Journalists who ask, "What's your secret?" and uncritically publish the answer

hot take: logarithms are not that complicated and only seem that way because contemporary math education is obsessed with arithmetic and not the core essence of math which is understanding the relations between operations

humans think we are the most spiritually advanced species but its bears

please look at this

Anime character: *a strong, musclebound character who got their skills through years of training that loves their friends and is dedicated to justice throughout the universe*
Person who uses it as their avatar online: *rejected from the local planet fitness due to their obsessive sniffing of women's towels*

people who go to movies early to watch the previews are perverts who love advertising

tired: seattle is too rainy and dark
wired: seattle is not rainy & dark enough

- dense housing is an environmental issue (greenfield development is bad)
- the talking point "empty house count exceeds homeless population" and its alleged solutions "repossess the houses and give them to the homeless" would uproot people from their community and move them out to the middle of nowhere where they have no access to services and the structures need repairs
- public housing has been underfunded since reagan at the federal level, so we need to enact local solutions as a patch.

Thank you god

I never learned a word of Hawaiian in school, spend years homeless in Hawaii as a Native Hawaiian under imperial US capitalism working as a social worker/teacher paid starvation wages

But the Kanaka Maoli are taking our country back. Our *successful* prevention of a 1.4 billion dollar desecration (TMT) for 150 days has ignited, protests, strikes, shutdowns from Hawaiian airlines to the hotel industry, with Hawaiian flags, language spoken proudly one again

most of the time, the most productive way to deal with a 'rude' interaction is to assume the other person was doing what they thought was appropriate and move on.

when we, as white people, feel like a person of color is addressing racism 'rudely'? we need to deal with that perception on our own. anti-racism *is* disruptive, because racism — which benefits white people! — *is* the norm. to disrupt the normal state of affairs is good when the normal state is bad. a conflict discussed out in the open is a strict improvement on a conflict we, as white people empowered by racism, can ignore; and just because white people can ignore a situation doesn't make that situation 'peaceful' or 'civil'.

just handle the emotion you're having, and take the criticism. don't let your kneejerk feeling of 'that's rude!' stop you from *listening,* because that kneejerk rejection is there in order to keep you from listening, to keep you invested in the racist norms.