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@AnthonyWMoll To be fair, we’re only two in but I’ve been impressed so far. There’s a neat one about time travel that surprised me for a cartoon. It does take itself seriously and the drawings are comically similar (except who my 9yo calls ripped Scotty)

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Star Trek The Animated Series is surprisingly complex and good.

But is it canon?

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@ianpowerOMG My fault…BCPS has become the filter with which I view all ed. My family in PA has been in school for a year or so and don’t wear masks to school and there is no testing. Their school district also hates books πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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@ianpowerOMG There’s been 0 community spread at my kids prvt school. Private schools are back in person because they have access to resources that have been squandered by BCPS incompetence.

Signed, 10yrs in BCPS

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The Placebo Button

Over the summer, a former student “interviewed” me over e-mail about placebo buttons. If you’re unaware, placebo buttons are buttons that don’t actually do anything and are instead used to make a person feel in control of the situation. The most commonly referenced buttons are elevator close buttons (they just close on their own) and pedestrian press-to-cross buttons at intersections. Patrick did a small, informal study that he wrote about at EXBERLINER entitled Idiot buttons: The brutal truth about Berlin’s pedestrian crossings. He found this:

@JoshClarkDavis Do you know if that’s city or metro?

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@eric_hontz @BaltCitySchools No. And no.

North Ave f’d up the whole response to the pandemic by being unprepared for this foreseeable scenario.

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