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Nashville Sit-ins Begin (1960) - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-19th of February 2026
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The Nashville Sit-Ins were among the earliest non-violent direct action campaigns that targeted Southern racial segregation in the 1960s. The sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, sought to desegregate downtown lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. The protests were coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council (NCLC), primarily consisting of students from Fisk University, Baptist Theological Seminary, and Tennessee State University. Diane Nash and John Lewis, who were both students at Fisk University, emerged as the major leaders of the local movement.
On February 13, 1960, twelve days after the Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins began, Nashville college students entered Kress (now K-Mart), Woolworth’s, and McClellan stores at 12:40 p.m. After making their purchases, the students sat down at the lunch counters. Store owners initially refused to serve the students and closed the counters, claiming it was their “moral right” to determine whom they would or would not serve. The students continued the sit-ins over the next three months, expanding their targets to include lunch counters at the Greyhound and Trailways bus terminals, Grant’s Variety Store, Walgreens Drugstore, and major Nashville department stores, Cain-Sloan and Harvey.
The first violent response to the protests came on February 27, which James Lawson, Jr., another protest leader called “big Saturday.” The protesters that day were attacked by a white group opposing desegregation. The police arrested eighty-one protesters but none of the attackers. Those arrested were found guilty of disorderly conduct. They all decided to serve time in jail rather than pay fines.
As racial tension grew in Nashville, Mayor Ben West appointed a biracial committee to investigate segregation in the city. Despite the committee’s numerous attempts at a compromise, the students declared that they would accept nothing less than the acknowledgement of their rights to sit at the store lunch counters along with white customers. On April 5, the committee suggested that the counters be divided into black and white sections. The NCLC and the Nashville Student Movement rejected the proposal, arguing that segregation of the counters was no better than black exclusion from them.
On April 19, a bomb destroyed the home of Z. Alexander Looby, the defense attorney representing many of the protesters. The bombing of Lobby’s home triggered a mass march to city hall where 2,500 protesters demanded answers from Mayor West. Diane Nash pointedly asked Mayor West if it was wrong for a citizen of Nashville to discriminate against his fellow citizens because of his race or skin color. The mayor admitted that it was wrong, giving the students an important symbolic victory in their campaign. Nash then asked the mayor if the lunch counters in Nashville should be desegregated. They mayor said they should.
After weeks of secret negotiations between merchants and protest leaders, an agreement was finally reached during the first week of May. On May 10, six downtown stores opened their lunch counters to black customers for the first time; the customers arrived in groups of two or three during the afternoon and were served without incident. With that agreement, Nashville became the first major southern city to begin desegregating public facilities. The Nashville campaign became a model for other civil rights protests in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I really don't know what to do here. My son is 16 and he's always been the funny one in the family, cracking jokes, doing impressions to make us laugh. But lately it's like that's all he does and it's getting out of hand.
A few months ago he started saying "jestermaxxing" constantly. Before school he'll go "time to jestermaxx today" or when he's on his phone he'll laugh and say "that was peak jestermaxxing right there." I figured it was some stupid meme at first but he literally uses it for everything now.
He'll come home from being with friends and tell me "Mom I jestermaxxed so hard at lunch, everyone was losing it." Then he practices these over the top faces and dances in front of the mirror while saying stuff like "gotta keep the jestermaxx energy up." It's weird.
I asked him straight up what it means because it sounded off. He got kind of mad and said it's about being entertaining so people actually notice you and "serious dudes just get ignored but jesters get the clout." He showed me some videos of this guy dancing like a maniac in a club and people in the comments calling it "jestermaxxing god tier." It honestly looked humiliating.
Now he's doing it at home nonstop. He'll just interrupt us at dinner with some loud random joke or impression then stare at everyone waiting for a huge reaction. If we don't laugh enough he gets quiet and says "yall don't get the jestermaxx" and walks off. Family time is exhausting because it's like he's performing all the time instead of just talking normally.
I'm starting to worry this is connected to some bad online stuff. I looked it up a little and it seems related to those looksmaxxing groups where guys fixate on their appearance and social rank but this version is just about acting like a clown for attention. He used to talk about girls like a normal teenager but now he says things like "foids only respect you if you jestermaxx correctly" which I had to search and it made me feel sick.
Has anyone dealt with their teen getting really into this kind of thing? Is it just a dumb phase he'll grow out of? Or should I be more worried that he's falling into some toxic corner of the internet? He's still a good kid at heart but I hate seeing him put so much effort into being the joke instead of himself. It feels like if people ever stop laughing he'll be crushed.
Any advice would help a lot. I'm lost here.
This may be a weird gripe for a lefty, but I have serious California envy as an Ohioan, and it’s a little sad how even under capitalism how the state got floundered.
The high speed rail idea is a good idea, and I don’t think I need to convince anyone here that CAHSR’s failures are a result of HSR being bad, but weaponized incompetence. Could you imagine how great it would be if San Diego and LA were built to be highly walkable and mixed use around HSR, you can live and work with some of the best beaches on earth really close by?
Prop 13 and its consequences. If we live under capitalism, a homeowner saying ‘property taxes are getting too high for many of us to stay, can we lower them’? is a totally reasonable statement. But how they went about it was a total scam, literally “what if us homeowners were tax exempt, but just OUR generation?” Now nothing can be funded because the landed gentry had to be created and all of that is offset on income and sales taxes. Literally the whole thought of the boomer generation is “we’ll keep partying and I’m sure the millennials won’t mind paying for everything!”
Love it when a tummy ache pulls me out of bed and onto the toilet in the wee hours of the morning
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How about instead of jestermaxxing you Chestermaxx and tell me what the fuck is wrong with MEEEEEEEEEE 
I just realized that one of my uncles kinda looks like Alex Jones lmao
Of course AI will replace white collar jobs, management loves a sycophant that confidently makes up numbers.
Oh come on now! It's a decisionmaking system where there's no actual thinking involved, just mindless algorithmic responses using half-baked processes and crap input data. I don't see how AI can replace that system anytime soon.
Every valorant character tries to act nonchalant cool and aura farm hype moments and aura ass writing
This 'Carl' guy has some good ideas, should I watch Jimmy Neutron?
What would an Iranian attack on Israel look like?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=llW5RUMkZLo
Note: the MIT professor uses an Iranian CEP of 1000m due to the 2024 strikes. From what we saw in 2025, I believe Iran has 50m CEP missiles. Perhaps those are the more expensive ones, idk.
It did appear that Iran used its older stockpile in 2024 compared to 2025.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
What the fuck is wrong with the NYT lol
Just discovered a cool trick
Apparently if you go to a toilet and let a lot of yellow stuff out of your junk, your bladder stops hurting.
Do NOT try to drink it tho.
how does all that piss get in there anyway, i never drink the stuff
Teleportation.
Doc Brown in the all owl remake of Back to the Future
Working for yourself:
PROS:
- No boss!
- Set your own schedule!
- No quarterly PRs!
- No middle managers!
CONS:
- I am completely broke on Valentine's despite working all week because I have a ton of pending contract payments that my bank probably isn't going to process until Tuesday or even Wednesday if I'm really unlucky there is no excuse for society still working this way Uber and Lyft both pay you instantly after giving a ride so why aren't bank transfers handled by an automated system if there needs to be a real person then at least make the money available and then have a person review the transaction when they come back to work don't leave me hanging like this damn
I cannot believe how well Valentines day went at work. We were fully booked up. The chef and I wanted a new strat for service called Having Any Plan At All and Sticking to It. We tried it out last night, went great. Instead of 2 people doing pizza one stayed in it ans the other's primary concern was cold side and watching the oven when I was busy with expo and only helping with getting more pizzas fired when I had cleared things up enough to be free. That way there arent 3-4 people all clustered on the pizza line and making it all back up on my window. They can only get stuff to the tables so fast anyway, so just set a slower and more deliberate pace and aside from one guy who just couldnt get this new and much easier program into his head and kept trying to do every station whether anyone asked for help or not. I guess he ended out kinda mad at me and chef for keeping him on the correct task, but like...if you can't figure out the right thing to do yourself and get mad when people tell you what to do, I dunno what to tell ya man. I dont want takeouts that arent due for another 20 minutes prioritized over more immediate concerns and i'm gonna have to say something about it like 'can you do X instead, we dont need what you're working on for 20 minutes.'. It is literally part of my job to tell other people what they should be doing, I really dont know what he wants.
Anyway, slow and steady won the race, nothing got confusing cause I wasnt trying to sort 6 different tickets at a time with everything just fired as soon as it's ready and instead got things in the order they came in, so if there were mistakes I could identify which ticket it's for pretty fast ans could more often than not re-arrange things to keep things flowing.
Edit: homie is texting me that we was upset that 2 other people kept stretching coughs while he did toppings by himself for a bit. My reply was "did you ask for help building pizzas?" He didn't. Using your words in an industrial setting is useful.
I have cooked homemade tortillas.
I am now seeing if they really can be stored at room temperature like the recipe says. My gut says "no that's stupid" but I did add salt to them so maybe?
I walked to work today because I didn't put my car back together correctly. It intresting to think about how privileged I am to be able to do this. Like, I am walking though town. I ate a fruit and left the scraps for a raccoon. I get to appreciate the scope of everything. It is wild how much car dependency alienated and diminishes us as people.
It is wild how much car dependency alienated and diminishes us as people.
I went back to uni (adult learning whips!) and got my degree in biology and enviro science, and instead of a car I bought an ebike - it's nearly 20km each way and I'm fat and approaching middle age, I couldn't ride it for real - and it is incredible how pleasant it was to just cycle an hour each way every day, listening to my podcast and/or thinking about my assignments. Simply going places in a slower, more intentional way is wonderful and a more effective antidote to alienation than I ever would've thought.
Are there recommended reading leftist/marxist takes on AI? Varoufakis touches on it. Seems quite a lot to analyse there: US is betting the whole economy on it, with big labs hoping to replace half of white collar jobs but how do they maintain a monopoly to extract value with oss Chinese models only 3-6 months behind
Stargate posting:
They brought back the holographic disguise devices, three entire seasons later. I really like the consistency of this show, the only thing they really retconned was the third zat shot. And the plot they're using the holographic disguises for this time is amerikkkan billionaires and the ~~CIA~~ NID doing a false flag assassination of a presidential candidate.
Further Stargate posting: The mad lads, they made a clip show episode with a cast of extras sitting in a single room into one of the most important episodes of the season because the extras are playing world ambassadors getting briefed about the existence of the Stargate program.
I’m sure this is the case with any combination monster-of-the-week and plot based show in the 90s and 00s, but I think Stargate shows always had those briefing clip shows before a major plot point came together, and they always had a bottle episode before an episode with an expensive set piece.
it is february 14 and stalin saved the world from fascism
Bring him back so he can save the world from liberalism
Youtube shorts has given me too much tcg content and now I'm thinking about getting into one or creating my own. Any recs?
Do not begin a gambling addiction
Lol, I know I played yu-gi-oh as a kid. Its actually not a worry to me, I am strangely resistant to gambling addiction. Casinos, Gacha games, betting. I've inbibed and enjoyed them, but I have no issue stopping and not spending too much.
I keep seeing ai slop pet videos and it’s wild that there are people who think it’s hard to get pets to do something funny or cute
Is Catholicism the first example of enshittification on a civilizational scale? All those cool and interesting religions all over Europe (and the places European later conquered), all getting flattened into one big all-purpose replacement that kinda sucked.
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