Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 22

American liberals fetishize Canada because it's perpetually about as fucked-up as the US was ten years ago, but not significantly ideologically different.

#GospelToday (Mt 11:25-27)
At that time Jesus said in reply, "I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.

Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.

Photo of Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, on the day he died (April 18th, 1955).

#Einstein #Princeton #photo

We published a statement on our stance on neutrality of free software (and why we won't stay neutral in this case): https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

There's a bunch of new people here recently, so I think I'll say a few things that will scare off many of the sorts of people that we don't want here

It is the official policy of scholar.social that:

🍍 Nazis should have their speech curtailed at every opportunity
🍍 Supporters of Jordan Peterson or Milo Yiannopoulos—leave now
🍍 There is no such thing as "reverse racism"
🍍 Vaccines don't cause autism, and for that matter, autistic people are equally valuable!

Still the fact that "loanword" is a calque of German "Lehnwort" and "calque" is a loanword from French "calque" amazes and amuses me

New York Times map shows the Soviet Union's "vast storehouse of natural resources- both a tempting prize to the German invader & a bulwark of the Russian defense."

"Trump's tweets have always been tailored to generate a gut response.The trick--and I admit it took me months longer than it should have to take this to heart--is to allow yourself a brief cooling down period, consider his target audience and their gut response...ask yourself what was the purpose of Trump's tweet, and did he achieve it. Do that, and you'll find that while Trump takes a lot of flak for his tweets, it's almost always because he's directly over his target."

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/trump-tweets-ignite-firestorm-on-the-right/