You know, the focus on the “antebellum” era really does rob the South of the rest of its history. Everyone’s so focused on it and recreating it in some way they ignore everything else. Like, they want to tell me there wasn’t some epic southern “fuck the feds” moonshine running going on in the 20s? No way that was only…

Given it was a science teacher they and other kids had bullied (bible belt: science not welcome if it contradicts the party line) I think she knew and dgaf. I cannot tell you how many of her classes the ruined.

Oh, that was a major part of my thesis. EVERY study I had in the lit review showed that people genuinely preferred going to the museum for the real thing whenever possible, it’s just for a lot of people it’s not possible due to money or physical location.

I cannot recommend it as they are phasing it out. I went to JFK University. It was 3 years for me (2 if you don’t do the MBA and just get a Master’s). I do feel it needed more focus on the practicals and internships physically doing things as I spent a year interning in basic collections stuff and almost EVERYTHING…

Yep. My thesis actually involved museums and the web (focus on putting collections online) and one of the articles I read was all about instagram (there were quite a few other social media articles too). Like this huge debate of “we don’t mind these specific artifacts going online since we allow photos with them but…

As someone who perfected such a stare in middle school I find it helps to remember you are trying to convey with your eyes that you despise them with every deep ember of hate in your soul.

Yep. I got my museum studies degree a few months ago and one of the fun discussions was had was “smartphones suck, selfie sticks are infinitely worse”

Counterpoint, you have never had to fly with period cramps.

Because there are people who honestly think the KKK are a defunct club that does nothing and now that they’re gaining in power again it’s good to have receipts on what they really believe to stop them from spinning the narrative too much.

Yeah most I know about end with WWII. Which, yeah, then you miss a hell of a lot.

I think some of it is how history is taught to us as well. A lot of people seem to think the Civil Rights Movement started in the sixties instead of was going on the whole damn time after Jim Crow started.

Yep. Camping on the street in a trailer last I checked.

And then they got into a fight over how high the rent was and are now camping on the sidewalk by Trump Tower, last I checked.

Ooh, sounds good, thanks

I actually just finished the quest where you get the second pair of boots and I was snickering at how blunt you are with him and how he really does end up standing around barefoot. Dude does not get Link isn’t into him.

My parents are flying home that day (they’ve been on a cruise) and their flightpath is pretty much following the band that gets 100% for the first 2/3s of it. Should be interesting. Meanwhile my cousins and their parents and their friends are heading to my aunt and uncle’s cabin in the GA mountains for a pretty good…

Yep. I had two high school classmates who were REALLY obsessed with dictators and always asking a (way too obliging) teacher for tips on how to run a dictatorship “better” (bigger rule: kill dissidents, never let them live—this came up a lot). I have promised myself if I EVER see either of them running I will find a…

The problem with doors with windows down the middle is you can make a small hole in the window, reach over, and unlock the door.

How’s this?

I’ll join you.