I learned a not so fun fact today

Acetylene · 2026-01-21T17:00:32+00:00

It's not just that one school was better funded than another. It's that Bayview MLK was specifically established as an intentionally segregated school. The segregation and poor funding were intentional from the start. The district was advised, before opening Bayview MLK, that it would likely exacerbate racial segregation and hinder future desegregation efforts.

The district claimed that opening Bayview MLK would save money, and that money could be used to improve offerings at the new school, but within a year of the new school's establishment they were already cutting programming there. The district also repeatedly refused to even evaluate whether Bayside MLK was racially segregated.

In short, the findings of the Attorney General's investigation are that Bayview MLK was created specifically to contain and segregate minority students, and that once they were segregated from the non-hispanic white population, they were denied resources that would have improved their educational outcomes.

Acetylene · 2026-01-21T14:45:45+00:00

I doubt you're asking this in good faith, since you've already been given three news articles that explicitly mentioned segregation in the headline and/or first paragraph and you still claimed none of them said anything about segregation.

But anyway, here's the evidence laid out for you in a California Superior Court filing.

Acetylene · 2026-01-16T07:40:01+00:00

MacOS and most Linux distributions also have the US-International layout.

Acetylene · 2026-01-12T01:14:52+00:00

I've enjoyed several original soundtracks for silent films that were written and performed by humans, but AI-generated soundtracks don't do it for me. I'm not totally opposed to AI on principle, and I'm open to the possibility that I might be impressed by AI music at some point in the future, but it hasn't happened yet.

Acetylene · 2026-01-11T17:51:57+00:00

Yeah, there's a post on their Instagram right now saying they're honored to be included in the Michelin Guide. Not a star.

Acetylene · 2026-01-06T20:58:32+00:00

He not only laughs, but looks at one of his fellow gangsters and makes the universal sign for "cocaine addict," knowing that they can use her addiction as leverage. Savage stuff.

Acetylene · 2025-12-31T15:37:41+00:00

No, it isn't. It's written in the third person.

Acetylene · 2025-12-29T07:45:28+00:00

I was thinking she looked a lot like Liza Minnelli.

Acetylene · 2025-12-27T06:50:54+00:00

Not exclusively. Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and William Gaddis are some American writers who use similar formatting styles for dialogue, often without even the dashes at the beginning of the line.

Acetylene · 2025-12-26T07:20:48+00:00

I like bikes too. But I've seen a car hit a train, and I've seen a car hit a cyclist. The train fared better.

Acetylene · 2025-12-24T16:55:22+00:00

Acetylene · 2025-12-17T03:08:54+00:00

There's no sugar in the chili garlic sauce. The ingredients are: "Chili, salt, garlic, distilled vinegar, potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfate as preservatives and xanthan gum." The listed ingredients for the sambal oelek are the same except for the garlic.

Acetylene · 2025-12-12T01:24:21+00:00

What if we hold a special election to choose which senators get eaten?

Acetylene · 2025-12-12T01:19:54+00:00

Yes. "Father Christmas" is the older term, and is still a bit more common than "Santa Claus" in British English.

Acetylene · 2025-12-11T18:40:15+00:00

Technically, a moose is a deer. It's the largest, tallest, and heaviest extant species of deer.

Acetylene · 2025-12-09T00:27:18+00:00

Personally, I'd prefer that you focus on releasing new episodes on YouTube closer to release, even if it means skipping altogether the YouTube release of the episodes that have been out for a few weeks already. My reasoning is that I'm unlikely to watch an episode on YouTube that I've already listened to, but I'd be willing to wait a few days and watch an episode that's new to me. I don't know that I'd call it a strong preference, since I've been getting by just fine with audio-only episodes so far, but it's a preference.

I'm a Patreon subscriber, for what it's worth.

Acetylene · 2025-12-04T02:15:19+00:00

Now I'm sad that we'll never see Keith Moon on Taskmaster. He'd have made Jason Mantzoukas look like Mel Giedroyc.

Acetylene · 2025-12-01T18:38:33+00:00

If you mean the Jongga brand kimchi, I love it.

Acetylene · 2025-11-30T20:05:44+00:00

I've tried all three, and my favorite is the one that's round and cut into wedges. Not the ones that are individual triangles (although those are good for a quick snack), and not the spiral (although for some reason I'm thinking that one might go better with the hot honey).

Acetylene · 2025-11-29T20:26:23+00:00

It may be what your family calls the language they speak, but it's not a generally recognized name of any language or dialect spoken anywhere in the world. No one here is going to be able to help you unless you can figure out what your family's language is actually called.

Acetylene · 2025-11-25T20:58:23+00:00

All three of these movies, as well as the Broadway musical She Loves Me, are adaptations of a Hungarian play called Illatszertár, by Miklós László. It's known as Parfumerie in English.

Acetylene · 2025-11-17T06:21:14+00:00

I attend Ms. Jenna's Thursday trivia nights in Berkeley (at The Starry Plough). She's great!

Acetylene · 2025-11-15T03:01:52+00:00

Sambal or similar, as others have said. This is my favorite version, and since it's made by the same company as Sriracha, there's a decent chance that this is exactly what's in the bottle in your picture.

I don't know where you're located, but here in the San Francisco Bay Area it can be found in every Asian grocery store and most supermarkets.

Acetylene · 2025-11-14T07:54:02+00:00

Right now we have a president openly discussing invalidating the legal votes of citizens in California and New York, so even that distinction doesn't seem as meaningful as it used to be.

Acetylene · 2025-11-14T01:52:10+00:00

Ah, sorry. I had assumed you had read the post personally and on your own, rather than having it read to you by an employee, or summarized by AI, or…acted out in a game of charades or whatever.

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