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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 162 points 2 years ago (1 children)

anyone got a link? I have… quite the meme library…

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

After our office consistently heard from student, parents, and teachers about objectionable curricula, policies, or programs affecting children, we launched the Eyes on Education portal.

Our kids need to focus on fundamental educational building blocks, not political ideology - either left or right.

Eyes on Education is a platform for students, parents, and educators to submit and view real examples from classrooms across the state.

The Office of the Attorney General will follow up on materials submitted to the portal that may violate Indiana law using our investigative tools, including public records requests, and publish findings on the portal as well.

To view examples or submit to the portal, select the school corporation and name of the school and upload your documents.

Upon submission, someone from our office may contact you for additional information or clarification.

Submissions to the portal will be reviewed and published regularly.

this is the most ridiculous rhetorical doublespeak I’ve seen in a while. kids need to focus on education, not political ideology, so let’s shove some political ideology down their throats? And, of course, the ass-covering BS logical absurdity that anything “objectionable” must, certainly, be unsafe for children.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm looking at some of the "legitimate" complaints on that page. Someone complained about inappropriate content... in Orwell's 1984.

https://www.in.gov/attorneygeneral/files/4_11_Parental-Concerns-Required-Reading-Sexual-Content.pdf

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Flood it with Chat GPT-3 content, super easy to generate, and it would probably create more unique content that would be harder to filter out.

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, that form doesn't verify any contact information. It sure would be easy to flood it with genuine concern in picture format.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No captcha, no contact info verification not even an old school forum "What's your favorite color" lmao

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[–] MooseLad@lemmy.world 119 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

And just when I thought my state couldn't get much worse, we're wasting time and taxpayer money for witch hunts.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago

I think you missed the time and taxpayer money that has already been spent on persecuting Dr. Caitlin Bernard for performing a legal abortion on a raped 10-year-old. Rokita has been doing witch hunts for a while now.

[–] dmtalon 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hello fellow Hoosier, I emailed our school superintendent last year when the stupid book banning bill thing was proposed, and then passed. I wanted to know if there would be a way to tell if people requested books to be banned, so I could go out and buy them for my kid to read. (because obviously they must be read worthy)

I followed up with him recently since the bill had passed. He did, at least, inform me that no ban requests have been made. So at least in our school there wasn't some crazy people waiting to start complaining and getting books removed. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to search for banned books though which I would like to see as an option.

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[–] einat2346@lemmy.today 23 points 2 years ago

Just as the Salem Founders intended

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 96 points 2 years ago (1 children)

topics deemed to be “political ideology” in schools

Don’t you dare pledge allegiance! Don’t you dare play the anthem! Don’t you dare promote capitalism!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I still very clearly remember reading Harrison Bergeron in school and having some idiot school teacher act like "that's that socialism kids!"

How the hell is that socialism? A reference to income based taxation? If anything, following the big scary Soviet and PRC model, they'd have pumped Harrison full of roids and told him to rip a capitalist pig dog in half for his landing.

And, of course, Vonnegut agrees it isn't about socialism, no matter what American school teachers have been ordered to teach.

https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/may/05/vonnegut_lawyers_could/

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[–] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 94 points 2 years ago (8 children)

We gonna have to Stonewall all over again nationwide, aren't we?

I'm not gay myself, but the math is simple: is it human?...then it has human rights.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well that's the thing, the haters don't think queers and non-white people are human.

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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's create an AI to call them and keep reporting the person pushing the bill. And calling them assholes.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's brilliant. Even better would be to use their voice too.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I vote we use Samuel L Jackson's voice.

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 74 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No end to the stupid things US politicians will spend money on.

[–] FewerWheels@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (30 children)

To be clear, this is a cristofascist Republican politician doing this.

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[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 25 points 2 years ago

But never healthcare.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can someone try to "Little Bobby Tables" them? Just put some SQL injection shit to make the servers more of a dumpster fire?

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've worked with a bunch of government agencies and the chances of a SQL injection are low. Not because they're good, but because they'll use some kind of framework to speed up development which will have injection prevention baked in.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago (11 children)

As someone who figured out my gender using calculus (mapped dysphoria over time and found the derivative. Yes that is way too much work) I may have to do a troll

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 55 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Is a “chicks with dx” joke acceptable here?

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[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And then what, send the teachers and kids to re-education camps?

Isn't this the same kind of thing some people get upset at China over?

Wtf.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well yeah but it's okay when Republicans do it because Murica.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Excuse me, but as a Hoosier, I expect you to always use the full title when discussing Mr. Rokita: Attorney General, Colossal Shitrag and Future Governor Todd Rokita.

Why yes, it does suck here.

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Our choices for governor are embarrassing.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

In Oklahoma we have Kevin Stitt who is an anti-vaaxer corporate shit who owns gateway mortgage company, which also just opened a new line of banks... This guy is a clown worthy of Barnum.

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In making the announcement on the Tony Kinnett show, livestreamed on YouTube, Rokita stated that investigators would pore over submissions and post any they believed to be credible onto a publicly viewable database.

In other words, they're not going to act on the ones that don't align with their own political ideology.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From the list of reports:

The script for Eurotrip, with a note not to tell Scotty

Scotty doesn't knoooooooooooooooow

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm thankful they included a link to the portal. I've got some urgent reports to send them.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I HOPE YOU FUCKS LIKE THE SCRIPT TO THE BEE MOVIE

edit-hahahaha the article mentions that

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[–] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago
[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

I may have a new hobby

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why do the hard stuff like work to materially improve the lives of everyone in your state when you can do the easy thing like whatever the fuck this is?

[–] einat2346@lemmy.today 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fear is the path to the dark side

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[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want to generate some random shit for the comments:

  • For email: https://maildrop.cc/
  • For address: 200 W. Washington St. Indianapolis 46204
  • For text: If you use linux: head --lines=99 /dev/urandom > random.txt then copy and paste. Or just use copypasta
[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://hipsum.co/?paras=5&type=hipster-centric&start-with-lorem=1

/dev/urandom can be filtered by a machine (entrophy), this should at least pass the entrophy test.

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[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

May the power of memes and the Internet trip the damn boomers.

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[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no louder way to telegraph that you are in the closet except by creating an anti-LGBTQ hotline. This is going to be the new Grindr.

[–] Velonie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...It's entirely possible for straight people to be homophobic. In fact it's shown time and time again

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[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 28 points 2 years ago

Why can't they use the recommended on PornHub like the rest of us?

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is like when a little boy has a crush on a girl but pretends they're disgusted by them and their cooties. I suspect there's more projecting going on here than a voice-throwing competition.

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