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I posted recently about recording Tuareg music in the Tassili: this is what we went for: the prehistoric paintings found on sandstone rock faces. This image (my slide of 1969) is from the Round Head period thought to date from 6,000 to 4,000 B.C. The animals depicted in this period are mainly wild; figures often human-like, thought to have symbolic meaning. #archaeology #Algeria #travelPhotography #Sahara

We need to stop taking anyone seriously, that tell us to "tolerate" people who want to take away other people's civil rights. That's not what tolerance is.

So, one person who "just can't do math" turns out to be slow and inaccurate with arithmetic, a different person has trouble reading sentences and constructing the intended problem model from them. Another mixes up the huge quantity of precise and picky vocabulary. Yet another stumbles over algebraic rules of manipulation. One more struggles to sketch objects in 3D. Another has trouble synthesizing a set of givens into proof.

Happily nearly all of these things can be improved with practice.

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I just called Walgreens
& cancelled my Walgreens points account because of their abortion pill decision. I will no longer shop at Walgreens.
#BoycottWalgreens
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights

@paperdigits Faux politeness earns less respect than answering the question would have.

@paperdigits And what kind of activism did you do today, other than tone policing? Oh I know, it was after midnite and Walgreens was the only thing open, right? And if you got rid of cable, you'd miss your show. Wah. Activism is hard.

@KFuentesGeorge iT's really easy to talk about it, but I don't see anybody doing anything about it. And you avoided answering, didn't you? Tell me one thing, do you pay a cable bill? Or are you all talk?

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