Jessi L. Roberts

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
why-bless-your-heart
cogentranting

The thing that almost never gets brought up in "banned books" conversations but that I think is essential to address, is the distinction between "students shouldn't be allowed to read this" and "students shouldn't be required to read this".

There is a wide gulf between removing a book from a curriculum list and removing a book from a library but I almost never hear that acknowledged.

jessilroberts

I think there’s also a wide gulf between removing a book from the library or bookstore and removing it from a CHILDREN’S library.

Certain materials are not appropriate for children. In my early teens, I once read a book about a character who had been raped because it got put in the children’s section by accident. I avoided the adult section because I didn’t want to read adult stuff. 

A lot of kids actually don’t want mature stuff, and they need to have some sort of ability to avoid it if they (or their parents) want it avoided. 

fictionadventurer
greater-than-the-sword

I have some pointless questions. If you aren't running for office but you win because people wrote your name in, are you required to serve? Where judge is an elected position, is a person who has no legal experience allowed to run for judge?

greater-than-the-sword

I just had an idea for a sitcom

greater-than-the-sword

"Judge Bubba". Setting: rural Florida.

Bubba, owner of Bubba's Diner, is renowned for his wise dispute resolution between the citizens of Swampville.

When Swampville holds an election for a new judge, and both candidates are known to be highly corrupt, Bubba's nephew stages a write-in campaign for his uncle as a joke. Bubba wakes up the next day to find out that he has won the election, and has to decide whether to accept the office. Wacky Florida Man hijinks ensue.

greater-than-the-sword

I want to emphasize that Bubba himself is not actually involved himself in any of the Florida man shenanigans, he's actually an intelligent, wise and empathetic dude who just happens to have weird mannerisms and his brilliant and correct ruling always comes as a surprise to the super professional and normal lawyers in suits

aslanscompass

America’s Population Distribution

coruscanttojerusalem

“At FiveThirtyEight, our favorite way to distinguish between urban and rural areas is based on using census tracts to estimate how many people live within a 5-mile radius of you. Based on this, we can break every person in the country down into four buckets:

  • Rural: Less than 25,000 people live within a 5-mile radius of you;
  • Exurban or small town: Between 25,000 and 100,000 people within a 5-mile radius;
  • Suburban or small city: Between 100,000 and 250,000 people within a 5-mile radius;
  • Urban core or large city: More than 250,000 people within a 5-mile radius.

As it happens, the overall U.S. population (including Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico) is split almost exactly evenly between these buckets: 25 percent rural, 23 percent exurban/small town, 27 percent suburban/small city, and 25 percent urban core/large city.”

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-senates-rural-skew-makes-it-very-hard-for-democrats-to-win-the-supreme-court/

I thought this was a fantastic way of conceptualizing what life is like in this big country, especially given that just under half of us live in the country/small towns and just over half of us live in suburbs/cities

jessilroberts

I live in a place where there are less than 25 people within a five mile radius. We need better classification. People who live in a town of 20,000 are not rural and their culture is completely different from those who live outside of the town.

aslanscompass
pervocracy

Fun statistical fact: Cows are about 300 times more likely to kill you than coyotes.

Minor sidenote to statistical fact: If it was common for people to keep several hundred coyotes on their property and routinely chase them into a corral and handle them, this statistic would be different.

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

this is a great summary of ‘conditional probability’, a statistical property many people grapple with 

friendlytroll

…I feel like this post just made me realize that both coconut trees and vending machines, items often quoted in wacky death statistics, are both things that people shake vigorously often.