JCS criminal psychology is 100% copaganda. It presents cop interrogation techniques as a kind of science, as if the Reid technique wasn’t all about deliberately misunderstanding body language and coercing innocent people to confess.

Skip Intro has a good series on Copaganda. Talks about TV shows/fiction, but a lot of the messaging is the same.

Cops exist to protect property, not you.

If you want a good non-copaganda documentary though, Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line is a worthwhile classic.

Everyone knows the real conspiracy is Tinky-Winky making your kids gay.

Country girls make do…

Are you ready? 💦

The infanticide was historically accurate - although probably at a scale less than the movie implies. But it is in sources.

But yeah - the way that the film portrays the treatment of disabled people is especially gross. Pay attention to who is in the court of Xerxes - the acceptance of disabled bodies is presented as akin to the sort of “decadence” of these evil Persians. (If a necromancer brought Edward Said back to life to watch 300, it would probably kill him again.)

The movie is basically a Triumph of the Will for Spartans and torture for anyone who’s actually researched Greek history (Leonidus calling the Athenians “boy lovers” is teeth gritting, part of a Spartan education was getting fucked by older men…)

Did anyone walk away from that movie thinking “this is an unreliable narrator story and we shouldn’t take the fash-y elements at face value” or was it “damn the Spartans were bad ass”?

Benny (“having a wet pussy is a sign of an infection, according to my doctor wife”) is just jealous of anyone who can pull off an acting career.

On the Synder track, 300 is just a really uncomfortable movie. It’s a propaganda movie for a hell-state.

There was a “code blue” in Oklahoma and Texas today because someone shot a cop at a detention facility. People are doing shit, the media isn’t covering it.

There don’t seem to be any good math pages on Facebook. I’d like some sort of “daily brain teaser” but it’s all ambiguously written arithmetic problems with parentheses and division, or shit like using “e” as a variable to be obnoxious.

$$ \sqrt{\sec(\theta)-1} $$

I also usually really want people to know that, but it’s not “completing the square” or “wffence of txsquare.”

Almost all of it is wrong. It accidentally gets a few things correct, but notice how often things are repeated randomly. Remember your SOHCAHTOA and look at the triangle and the trig definitions it’s giving.

Do you have any advice for coping with the discomfort?

I didn’t take the saline/get blood returned to me because it started burning. Which is fine, my doc has suggest therapeutic blood draws to deal with occasionally high hemocrit anyway.

But ugh…. The entire experience was really uncomfortable and icky. I’m debating on whether it’s worth going back, but damn if I didn’t enjoy having having a steak and a beer with the money after.

Have you heard of 996? It’s shorthand for a common work schedule in China: 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week

So a typical American teacher’s schedule?

Someone has to have done some kind of project where they pulled data for how much porn there is of each Pokémon.

I want to see a graph.

If I was “pro-life,” I would be investigating the fact that black women in the US are 3.5 times more likely to die in childbirth than white women are.

All of those “able bodied adults” on Medicaid will of course be able to do farm labor.

Just like my younger sibling, who has a genetic disorder with scoliosis that makes him look like Quasimodo and had three open heart surgeries before the age of 18.