**Official** Physicists are freaks and very weird dudes LC Thread

[Smacc_25]

@anon46587892

Took me a while to realize it’s a parody, and tbh I’m still not 100% sure it is

I thought for a fact that that tweet would get me atleast 10 brownie points, sad.

[Smacc_25]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Exploding_Heads/status/1380121136617431042

[Huehuecoyotl]

Probably meant in the political and inherent worth sense. As in deaf people can live just as good in modern society as hearing people, so it’s not a problem in a communitarian/political sense to solve for.

[iron81]

Basically, some deaf people perceive deaf culture as the same as any other cultural minority and want to preserve it. Even at the expense of integrating with the rest of us.

[Trolly]

https://twitter.com/washihoshi/status/1381177850082914309?s=21

[6ix]

@JohnnyTruant

I forced the Truant boy to get off his training wheels this weekend with great success. Now he is a full on two wheeled maniac.

If he’s not reciting pi whilst doing so I ain’t interested.

[Trolly]

“Hey Johnny! It’s your brother, Marvin! Marvin Cage! You know that new sound you’ve been looking for? Well listen to this!”

hangs up

[i2i]

https://twitter.com/ebeggin1/status/1381426171821297665?s=21

https://twitter.com/tragicplonker/status/1381428661623136257?s=21

CIA turned Bin Laden into Darth Maul to try and scare kids in Pakistan lol

[6ix]

@Trolly

“Hey Johnny! It’s your brother, Marvin! Marvin Cage! You know that new sound you’ve been looking for? Well listen to this!”

hangs up

that’s fucking good

[StimAbuser]

Almost certainly ponied but sounds like Alabama lost their union vote against Amazon :(

[Riverman]

Catholic Church playing the hits:

Head of Elite Catholic School Is Fired Over Sexual Misconduct Charges...

[Devil]

Last night I fell asleep with the stereo playing quietly. I was still half asleep this morning and there was a Van Morrison tune on that was interrupted by “…I can’t see my own butthole. I CAN’T EVEN SEE MY OWN BUTTHOLE WITHOUT MY EARS ON…” I guess this was CB interfering with the bluetooth signal somehow. Never happened before.

Eta that was just unfortunate timing to follow the priest story.

[Supwithbates]

For those that remember I had an insane flat earther boss and my company’s owner made a racist remark that got shared to the news and left us with a black eye.

I finally got a new job with better pay and less stress, and started a week ago. I never told them where I went, but they found out anyways. My old boss’s boss called my new boss last Thursday and vaguely threatened him for hiring me, and today my old boss just showed up at my office and was passive aggressive to my new boss and my coworkers. Really really glad to be gone from that company.

[6ix]

omg sorry

[superuberbob]

I go where the posts go brother.

[VoteForSocialists]

targeting adults is an important improvement

[Melkerson]

@Huehuecoyotl

You learn something new every day. I knew a lot of people consider Alexander Graham Bell to be a ahole, but I didn’t know this

AGB’s “listening and spoken language” — based approach comes out of the school of oralism, which aims to educate Deaf children through the use of oral speech and lip reading (as opposed to manualism, which advocates for the primary use of ASL in Deaf education). The goals of oralism may not sound controversial to most hearing people, but oralism has a long and problematic history.

In the 1860s, Alexander Graham Bell was a prominent oralist, and to some, an important figure in the spreading of audism — the belief that it is inherently better to be able to speak and hear. Although he surely thought otherwise, Bell had an ugly relationship with the Deaf community. Though his mother and wife were Deaf, he was intent on wiping out “hereditary deafness.” He removed Deaf faculty from schools, demanded the same schools stop their use of ASL, and advocated against “deaf intermarriage.”

Bell was also involved in the Eugenics movement, serving for a time as chairman of the board of scientific advisers to the Eugenics Record Office.

In 1880, prompted by talks between Bell and other prominent figures in deaf education, 164 delegates met for the Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf. Only one of the delegates was deaf. At the conference, a resolution was passed that banned sign language in schools, in an effort to encourage spoken language skills, and thus “[restore] the deaf-mute to society.” Other passages in the resolution urge us to “[consider] the incontestable superiority of speech over signs,” and argue that teaching deaf people to speak English will “[give them] a more perfect knowledge of language.” After its passage, schools in Europe and the United States ceased all use of sign language.

Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to Be 'Fixed' - The Atlantic

I’ll throw up the @MattyLice bat signal. This is right in his wheelhouse, IIRC.

[MichaelDavis]

Central American travel is boring compared to your life story. Just write the biography.

[simplicitus]

What state is this? If they try to get legal on you send me a pm. In the meantime, don’t use or take any info from the old company or login/access anything, unless it’s in your head.