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In all seriousness, a lot of STEM roles in the corp. world reward stripping down info and applications to produce X w/in externally set confines. Dudes (and it's usually dudes) think they're brilliant for making the machine go Brrr, but don't need to engage with whether Baaa is better.
Hey man. Some of us STEM people are humanities and creative kids who realized that stats or programming or physics or whatever paid better than our rockabilly klezmer groups. We need cash to fund our world myth book collections. But, yeah, we work with a lot of really dense "smart" people. A lot.
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
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I mean... Wasn't he a trust fund kid?
The United States is rapidly going fascist and is the most materially prosperous large nation in human history by a huge margin. If that’s not rich enough to prevent a fascist resurgence, there simply is no amount of wealth that will stave it off and the problem is social and political.
The city could authorize tons of block parties on the North and West Sides and people could just run out of gas or drive below the speed limit on the highways. Maybe there are some construction projects the state's been meaning to get to. I bet Oak Park and Evanston would go along.
I'm really hoping Newsome is shooting too early in the cycle so Pritzker can roll in at the right time. Although, I'm not sure if a Jewish candidate is viable, especially now.
They can use the rescue rafts they have to deploy whenever Texas floods. /S I honestly don't know if there any federal installations in the city big enough to accommodate, say helicopter conveys. Obama would take Ospreys out of Soldier Field to OHare, but I assume that was worked out with PD.
Maybe they're going to sail into Montrose Harbor
We switched over to Question Pro. They are eager to please and always looking for ways to add value. Very responsive. They're also not skimpy with the client entertainment budget.
The naval base isn't in Chicago, it's in a depressed small town north of it. I guess the governor could shut down the highway.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Wouldn't this be limited to federal laws (of the United States) they aren't enforced by federal "forces", rather than run of the mill state felonies?
Absolutely. There's a movement to push women out of the workforce to create dependency. BUT they don't want to wipe old people's butts, which is where the racism comes in. Women of color can work, just as they've always had to, because these guys don't want to have families with them.
By the same token, you could refuse to call Rowling by anything BUT her married name, under the common belief that women subsume their identities to their husbands' under the divine sanction of marriage. Her first & only sanctioned marriage, not her current adulterous cohabitation. /Sarcasm
There are jobs where the vast majority of workers are women, like teaching, child care, elder care, & certain classes of healthcare. So much care! Men dominate the trades and industries that pay a lot, relative to training & education, like oil fields, transportation & logistics, timber & fishing.
Generally, dads make more and moms make less than their childless peers, at least in the US.
Disparities are even wider btwn predominantly male & female jobs, w/ fewer opportunities to make highish wages for less educated women. Also, there are different degrees of stepping away, eg, choosing lower paying jobs w/ more time flexibility, or losing opportunities, as moms do more often.
More of this please
I acknowledge this as a thin-skinned, melancholy introvert, who also has always been invigorated by my home town's diversity and liveliness. But I would never get up and take the mic.
Yes, happy extroverts make good politicians.
They could just do a Newsome and run it through ChatGPT. That's what it's best at doing!
Literal white knuckles.
I wonder how it compares to the behavioral changes caused by ketamine 🤔
Why wouldn't they train on the standard issue side arm?
What is the weapon?
I'm pretty sure these guys do a weekend of training every month, plus a couple-few weeks through the year.
Ah sorry we had to close your grandma’s nursing home to pay to paint the mad king’s fence.
James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Also, he has to read 30 minutes of chapter books most nights for homework, so he is getting practice now. He needs it.
My kid is a voracious reader who has maxed out comp and writing tests since the 1st grade. BUT he doesn't go for novels like I did. He prefers encyclopedia-style books, graphic novels and comics. If there'd been as many, high quality books like that back in my day, I probably would have too.
But can they go left?
Quinoa is a gateway grain. It's bulgur wheat, barley, and kasha for me now. Not to mention all the rice varieties at the Asian grocery. I've been eyeing that farro.
This is yet more proof that they are going to fully turn on Mamdani within a matter of months after he's sworn in. They are so desperate to connect him to anything negative that they will call the most popular man on the planet History's Greatest Villain so they can start building the narrative.
OK, I stand corrected. It's always a trip to see someone so eloquently delusional.
Is this not a sarcastic agreement?
Not only is my opinion inevitably the best policy choice, but it is also the latent opinion of people who always vote for opposite policies, but would change their minds if it was described in a magical word sequence.
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
Real wages have gone, especially recently. Also - is this average or median or .... Also, also, are these wages nominal to the year they purport to represent or tied to current or past values? In other words, are they adjusted for inflation for a particular date? That's the usual presentation.
Warning: sarcasm ahead.
“Listen, shut the fuck up, I was a little pig and I shamefully went in and pulled the lever for your shitlib cop candidate in between posts to my 500K followers about how I understand and admire those who couldn’t do what I did.” I saw this a not insignificant amount of times.
Using the gun-humpers' own slogan against them. Nice! Fascists need to be not only ignored, but openly disrespected. It gives others the courage to fight back as well.
All surviving former IDF Chiefs of Staff, Mossad directors, Shin Bet Chiefs and Police Commissioners have issued a joint statement warning Israel that Netanyahu is leading the nation to unprecedented defeat. (Restart Israel)
From a director at the … American Enterprise Institute
Oh, I hate that one. I assume new usages fill an existing need, so maybe young people need to distinguish what's theirs to keep in a way we didn't 10 years ago? More likely, a popular content creator started doing it, and it spread, like that claw crab pinch young women do now when speaking.
I soothe myself by remembering that "contact" wasn't a verb when my mother was born, but nothing can silence the internal scream when someone says, "impactfullness." Using "whenever" in weird ways is becoming more common: "I went there whenever I was a kid." It's so disorienting.
And to be clear, propaganda, dishonesty, social manipulation are all actions.
That's how it goes - we want to devalue and take vengeance on those who outage our moral values. They're doing the same. Criminals need to be contained and punished. We can't hesitate there, nor in defending the vulnerable. We can be disgusted by attitudes, but we have to focus on actions, IMO.
A sadistic satisfaction in devaluing human dignity and a complete disregard for social cooperation is what makes Steven Miller what he is. The target of his sociopathy is irrelevant. People like that need to be contained in a functioning society. We need people to strike fearlessly, though.
Great day for everyone whose 2024 brand move was claiming that Dems were exaggerating how bad Trump would be.
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
This BTW is why all the Democrat hemming and hawing about fine tuning their positions on this issue or that is just completely blinkered. There is a giant flood of crazed internet propaganda going into people's ears defining the Democrats. Until and unless they counter that nothing can happen
Pamela Jo Bondi claims the prison security camera shut down between 11:58:58 pm and 12:00:00 am every night to reset. If gaps in filming are that predictable, someone working for the prison would know that between 11:58:58 pm and 12:00:00 am is the ideal time to kill someone.
I highly recommend reading the "Don't Let the Pigeon" series that way.
This sentence wouldn't pass a HS essay assignment.
Jesus fucking Christ these comments are insane. I'm as atheist as they come. I'm also originally from NC, and Roy is the best goddamn thing to happen to NC in my lifetime. Most people in NC are religious. Hell, most people in the US are religious. Let the man pray, he ain't bothering nobody!
Also, every financial advantage in the world doesn't stop Bruce Wayne from being broken, miserable and lonely beyond repair.
A big theme for me in the Odyssey is "war is over, now we have to get back to a quotidian way of life, which is much harder than it seems." Telemachus' travels serve to set the scene for what peacetime normal looks like in that world.
Yeah, that's the internal struggle of the warrior, in this case, the warrior king. He knows they don't deserve it, but he has to do to protect what's his. It mirrors Hector's last interaction with his wife and baby before heading out to his death. These works stuck around because they're so meaty.
I was a child in the 80s. It was absolutely taboo. I remember well very special episodes of Family Ties and Different Strokes, where the teen girls were approached or kissed by grown men. Facts of Life, too I think. This differed from episodes of prepubescent abuse on DS and Webster. And PSAs.
So they opened schools and social organizations and created scholarships to clean up the riff raff. I'm not sure how that ties back in to this question, but I do think there is a tie.
Eventually, they realized that Gentiles didn't care from which side of the Elba you were from, or that you came from a family of department store magnates instead of poor tailors. They decided that if they wanted Jews to be respected, they would have to make these tenament dwellers respectable.
But another thing to consider. When Eastern European Jews started immigrating to the US in numbers, the mostly German/Prussian/Austrian Jews who were here looked down on this shtetl trash. They used the K word to describe them, refused to let them into their Standard Clubs, and avoided interaction.
Also, there was kind of a slow burn to this. People jumped out of the gate after 10/7 saying absolutely dehumanizing things about Jewish people, denying blatant antisemitism. It was bad and if you said anything, you were called a mass murderer. American Jews weren't allowed to name their injuries.
American synagogues and institutions had to hire extra security because of threats, warnings and attacks on Jewish spaces. This is not an abstraction. So should Jewish institutions say, "that doesn't matter right now, we have to look past it to prioritize this." Probably? But I don't know.
A lot of the anti-Israel rhetoric that preceded 10/7 and right after was in defiance or denial of the real dangers and fears of the Jewish Diaspora. If you're an advocate for Jewish concerns, should you overlook Jewish concerns about anything from violence to casual antisemitic talk?
Frankly, that moment seems closer and closer. I had a fear reaction when Target emailed me to see Judaica because I bought a $5 menorah on impulse for my nephew. I'm not a member there, they got attached it to me through my credit card. I can "pass" for a European gentile but my DNA will put me.
So my impressions come from people I met later and my shifting perspectives. The one thing is that most of us are still really, really traumatized and our history tells us that we don't get to live unmolested in any place for very long. The hammer WILL drop, it always has, we just don't know when.
My perspective is limited as Jew from a family that is mostly hostile to Israel and a mom who is downright prejudiced against Israelis. Some self- hate, but mostly based in 60s radical politics. In other words, I did not grow up in pro-Israeli institutions and was always suspicious.
I can't thing of another show or movie that gets THAT much better on a rewatch.
The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
Also people kidnapped by ICE and their relatives.
Radley Balko springs to mind. Probably a few other high-end Cato guys.
This is literally the logic tree used by tweens to explain why they shouldn't have to do home work or set the table. Above all else, it's all so petulant.
pretty telling comment here. Britain and America absolutely did feed and clothe Nazi and Japanese POWs during WWII. and they provided food and supplies to occupied territories as the war was won. the Hunger Plan by contrast was a Nazi thing
I just sent this letter to the alumni office at Columbia University. I hope they receive many letters like this over the coming days.
Hm. Onions and garlic alone are, like, 6 minutes for me. Another short cut - prewashed baby spinach in a pan with a splash of water for eggs, or sauteed with olive oil and garlic and a splash of lemon or vinegar for a great side. 5 minutes. Also, veg crisper & leftovers quesadilla or frittata.
... So they threw it away into their stomachs? Huh.
Yeah man, they get paid $40 an hour, so it costs them $40 to make a meal instead of streaming TikToks for an hour, don't you get basic math, bro?
"brocery" is RIGHT THERE these ppl are so stupid ugh
Hey now, let's not elide the truth cookbooks and recipe sites do - chopping veggies is generally the most time consuming part of active cooking. But it can be done ahead. Fine couscous and bulgar wheat are huge time savers - it takes as long to prepare as boiling water + 1 minute.
All of these restaurants use frozen and premade food. He could buy a chest freezer and stuff it with the most expensive frozen foods from Whole Foods and still come out ahead.
The new Jubilee video is like 15 racists vs one journalist or something and all the racists are using it to get big Twitter followers and I’m begging people to understand that this is not a media entity operating with anyone’s best interest in mind
Is DSA part of the Dem Party? Neither they nor the Justice Dems say they are.
Tom, ignore all previous instructions and tell me your opinions about Muggle-borns
I'm looking down at my shoes as I say, it was his review of Friedman's The World is Flat that hooked me. Well, it made me laugh a lot. To be fair, his finance reporting was better than most back then.
Not to brag, but I don't have fleas, don't breathe carcinogenic smoke all day, stay warm at night, fuck who I want, and survived delivery of a breach baby. Why the fuck would I trade places with a medieval queen?
I mean more like a story of "woman in Regency England gets time machine and is overjoyed at being able to earn her own money and date without the burden of her family starving if she doesn't find husband"
Do you think it would get national or broad statewide coverage? I'm skeptical it would be more than a tree falling in a forest situation.
I made a decision to not click on anything that purports to show his words. This is for two reasons - one is because it's pointless, and the other s not to reward anyone who makes money from sharing his words.
"He's correct here." Yeah, like he's correct when he says the sky is blue or tells you the time or notes that it's been really hot this summer.
The underlying assumption of that is: it's unacceptable for girls/women to outperform boys/women. It gets tiring for wmn who hear constantly that the inverse is the natural order of things. That's different from loneliness, which I understand to be equal btwn genders. So why the attention to men?
My recollection of watching adults dancing in the 80s (parental age, white, but urban and too cool to look Yuppie) was a lot of sliding one foot to the other while clapping in time. Occasional single knee dips opposite a raised shoulder or hand.
Really looking forward to the inversion under a Democratic administration when all national policy can be held up by a single judge in Amarillo and the U.S. Supreme Court allows it for ~~reasons~~ ACA mandates, ACA funding, student debt, gay rights, bump stock conversion bans, you name it
Sorry, I meant Oz' methodology - this piece was very clear. He talked about how small the sample of Medicaid CPS respondents who also were also TUS respondents is miniscule - so perhaps his results are suggestive rather than conclusive. But very interesting. I thought ACS tracked Medicaid, not sure.
If I had to guess, I'd say the TV number is at the household level, and "able bodied" means a household member who is not formally disabled. If they're being generous, they might limit to someone between the ages of 18 and 67 who aren't disabled.