@mcnees Forgive my ignorance, I am but an art major…. What makes it not a mathematical trick?

@Mary625 @housepanther @selzero

That’s not to mention the plantations in Mississippi and people we owned and abused, and fighting for the south against the north, and finally coming to California and discovering it was even cheaper to hire migrants to harvest your citrus than to feed and house and clothe slaves.

There was one shining light in the family, but they ended up perishing with Jim Jones. Life is nuts.

@Mary625 @housepanther @selzero

Nice. My grandpa was county administrator for the biggest county in the country during the 70’s and had a sort of “mandatory retirement” just as it was being discovered that he bought cheap land from the county under his mom’s name and sold it for a huge profit, knowing that it was illegal and the land was not approved for what the buyer bought it for. He got away with it.

My family has not been… the best.

@housepanther @selzero

Same!!

@Mary625 @housepanther @selzero

There are times when I wish I was raised in a progressive household, and other times I’m proud that I grew up in a Nazi household and managed to get out of it.

It’s also nice to be able to know what they’re thinking and how their logic works, so that I can more effectively counter it.