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

[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.

[NotBruceZ]

Who ya got?

• Steak-umm
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson

https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1381804144344903682

[superuberbob]

With ‘misteaks’, it’s hard to tell if this is an advertising campaign to advertise steak-umm or expressing genuine beliefs. I’m leaning towards the former.

I’m hungry now. So it must be effective

[Supwithbates]

South Carolina. Appreciate it. They sued before for violating a non compete in a different industry so I would not rule it out

[Smacc_25]

https://mobile.twitter.com/usosce/status/1381859026934325249

[Smacc_25]

https://mobile.twitter.com/mrbobodenkirk/status/1381714991544369153

[i2i]

https://twitter.com/mcconaughey/status/1381316927839080450?s=21

[Mr_Unstoppable]

[clovis8]

Mongolia invented the national park 100 years before America.

[Smacc_25]

I can see why he bought a football club in Wales now… He was enjoying himself there on Saturday that’s for sure.

[clovis8]

Why is the guys funeral being broadcast live on CNN?

[MysteryConman]

I finally activated my $600 stimmy card from a few months ago. Gave a third to an indigenous/environmental non profit, a third was used on a year supply of generic viagra, and a third was spent purchasing vape cartridges at Medmen. I feel like this is the woke version of dropping all your loot on sex workers and blow.

[DrChesspain]

@clovis8

Mongolia invented the national park 100 years before America.

So they took the first steppe?

[clovis8]

lol nice one

[mosdef]

[Trolly]

In lighter news:

https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/1381766401128534025?s=20