Finally! I get to write about what I really want! Okay fine, nobody was going to stop me from ranting about anything.
This is my review of Columbus Brewing Company Tracksuit Santa Holiday Spiced Ale:
Is there any profession more needlessly revered by society than teachers? I suppose cops might fit that bill from time to time, but I am guessing the number of parents here suggest the bureaucracy youโre going to put up with most likely will come in the form of a school. Unless of course you were crazy enough to live under a HOA.
Its not that theyโre providing a product or service without value. Education is valuable after all to those that wish to obtain it. The trouble is the result of their services is a mostly illiterate population, that apparently is not up to par with tech companies that will have no choice but to import H1B workers. Americans are simply too dumb.
So the obvious solution is to eliminate the school system, fire all the teachers, and allow the chips to fall where they may. Wait, this is not Ancapitstan, this is New Jersey (TW: Daily Caller):
A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.
The law, Act 1669, was passed by Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy as part of the stateโs 2025 budget in June in an effort to address a shortage of teachers in the state, according to the New Jersey Monitor. Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass a โbasic skillsโ test administered by the stateโs Commissioner of Education.
We need more teachers,โ Democratic Sen. Jim Beach, who sponsored the bill, said according to the New Jersey Monitor. โThis is the best way to get them.โ
This was a long time coming. The law was signed last July but previous versions of this requirement rolled out in 2023. Thereโs a shortage of teaches, so naturally the problem isnโt the terrible pay, the crippling bureaucracy, the unions hellbent on keeping every aspect of the system in place, etc. No, clearly the basic standard the teacher be literate is far too high. Not a surprising decision given the number of sex-offenders in the profession. I look forwards to more memes like this:
Let the cyberpunk dystopia commence!
Another festive holiday ale, but one I was probably better served to hold out for a low level controversy involving Eastern Europeans. I have a few of these to go through so you will just have to forgive me for putting this one out while its still on the shelves. Made with heavy notes of ginger, cinnamon, and orange peel this may strike some as the flavor profile for a good turkey brine but you would be wrong, because turkey brine also requires fresh cloves. Its malty and well made. Do recommend while you can still find it at your local intoxication station. Columbus Brewing Company Tracksuit Santa Holiday Spiced Ale: 3.9/5 7.8% ABV 34 IBU
Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass a โbasic skillsโ test administered by the stateโs Commissioner of Education.
We need more teachers,โ Democratic Sen. Jim Beach, who sponsored the bill, said according to the New Jersey Monitor. โThis is the best way to get them.โ
Think of “teacher” as an alternate spelling for “babysitter” and it makes perfect sense.
maths is the difference: people who don’t understand the maths and use it as a significant part of their work are, essentially, just talkers
bono fide or not, a high threshold of maths competence is the most straightforward way to hire, to vote, to save a company, to save a culture: it keeps the talkers at bay
The remainder go into law and marketing.
I do enjoy the engineer mindset having worked with a few. Iโve also learned valuable critical skills from them.
Of course Iโm a financial service finance guy. We are even more hated. But we can generally use algebra and the application of calculus.
my son’s u/g was in chemistry; even at a private university, he found his law school peers to be barely competent adults
my sonโs u/g – for some reason I read this as my sonโs ugly . I assume it means undergraduate degree?
Bean counters are the apex above which math matters less (and those above resent the hell out of math not being subservient to them like all of the people are).
Math can be taught. Being able to talk to people is an art.
again: whether it’s a bona fide or not…because it’s a question of perspective………and experience: the math guy has been a logical observer for a long time; nothing I can teach you today replaces the decades you went without that perspective; this has absolutely nothing to do with the tasks at hand
just look surveys: engineering professors are the most conservative; hell, I am absolutely the only American engineer I know who isn’t a conservative; linear people are an order of magnitude less likely to get sucked into leftist horseshit
Don, one my good friends and former coworkers is a FCAS.
Math major at University of Wisconsin Madison. Also a lefty, but a rational one. The rare kind where we can discuss things from first principles. He feels the same about me. I moved him much more libertarian. In return he has helped me immensely in how quantitatively analyze problems a derive solutions.
The only portion of math that I use in my work is basic boolean logic and arithmetic.
quantitatively
Similar game: I spent two years in warranty and really enjoyed it; it might even be worth an article because there are more than a few factors going on that I think almost no one much thinks of. Indeed, the models I created (~2003) were somewhat novel….certainly nothing management was considering much less navigating to.
I had a few insights in that role that made very new and very deep wrinkles in the old brain, but the only big impact on my real life was to adjust my game theory to realize that I have less time than I had thought to make certain decisions: after some milestones pass, lots of details just don’t matter any more. The other one, and this goes a bit to our discussion of renting cars overseas, is that the engineering drive to figure out the last detail and invest very heavily up front for durability is sub-optimal: minimize expense, get to market quickly with something robust, and then immediately start designing improvements into the next tooling launch with what you learn from the real world, not from what you thought you knew during R&D.
Being able to talk to people is an art.
Talking to people is one of the finest means to manipulating them. Art, sociopathy – po.tay.toe, po.taht.uh
And no one has ever lied with statistics before…
Trying to assign a positive moral value to a skill one already has is not the domain of a fool, but of a charlatan. The sheer number of people with math skills, from PhD to the ability to add and subtract, is matched by the sheer number of liars, cheats and thieves. To say that those with that skill set see clearer, are more observant and so on, is simply a matter of flattery; as just as many artists, writers and orators can see the world clearly, simply from another vantage point.
Fair point, statistics is the liar’s branch of math.
Darn. I thought this was going to revive the debate over wedge-cut vs. square-cut pizza. ๐
Square-cut 4evah!!! โ
“Better cut it into four slices: I don’t think I could eat eight.”
You weirdos and your pineapple topped, square cut pizza.
Pub cut pizza is just a bad way of serving pizza, how are you supposed to pick up the squares in the middle?
With yer bare hands, ya big sissy!
Help make your immune system strong like bull.
Cassanos4Lyfe!
(not really since I got into it with Lori Cassano once, not knowing that she’s Vic’s daughter…but still)
Donato’s >>> Cassano’s.
I concur, but growing up, Cassano’s was the only one around that I remember cutting into squares.
Other then Noble Romans, where the whole damn pizza was a square.
Get ready for the disparate impact federal lawsuits.
She doesn’t even pay attention to the terms of the question. Ain’t she got a teacher’s edition?
“What are you people? on dope?”
teacherโs edition
The Simpsons called them out decades ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uc9Oc8N9tc
Classic large-pupils (NPI) era!
I never wondered what went on in the teachers’ lounge. Maybe I should have.
That would require her to be able to read the teacher’s edition.
That was so stupid I must have completely pushed it out of my brain.
Modern racism in a nutshell – now with more bend over.
That one is going over to FB where I post them as “Not The Bee”.
Not the Bee might send s cease and desist for that.
I think I’ve been doing it before they stood that up – straight news that should be satire.
I trust your judgment
So the obvious solution is to eliminate the school system, fire all the teachers, and allow the chips to fall where they may. Wait, this is not Ancapitstan, this is New Jersey
It would be way cooler if it was Ancapistan.
Another festive holiday ale, but one I was probably better served to hold out for a low level controversy involving Eastern Europeans. I have a few of these to go through so you will just have to forgive me for putting this one out while its still on the shelves. Made with heavy notes of ginger, cinnamon, and orange peel this may strike some as the flavor profile for a good turkey brine but you would be wrong, because turkey brine also requires fresh cloves. Its malty and well made. Do recommend while you can still find it at your local intoxication station. Columbus Brewing Company Tracksuit Santa Holiday Spiced Ale: 3.9/5 7.8% ABV 34 IBU
Hmm… this looks interesting.
The Christmas spiced beer is huge in Ohio. Thank Great Lakes for that.
I had one of the barrel aged Christmas ales from Great Lakes. It was good.
7.8% – pass
Too spicy?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/not-incredibly-popular-blue-state-primed-to-clear-cut-hundreds-of-acres-of-forest-to-make-way-for-solar-panels/ar-AA1wXkrB?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=28ccb617cf65467e865956d24ef1cbe6&ei=32
Notably, one study published by Harvard researchers found that clearing forests to replace with solar panel developments may actually lead to an overall increase in greenhouse gas emissions, and a paper published by Chinese researchers also reached similar conclusions. There are also oil and gas wellheads in other areas of the woods that remain forested, according to MLive.
โThis is pretty amazing. Michigan is not like California, itโs not like the sun is always shining there,โ Dan Kish, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. โThis is the theater of the absurd, and itโs all driven by tax credits and giveaways from the federal and state government, and by mandates that the governor there has implemented.โ
We had a proposed high power corridor we fought here a couple of years back, it was redundant to another one tracing roughly the same path, but the grid operator insisted it was different and the existing one couldn’t just be upgraded. As far as I can tell it was only necessary in order to capture some federal tax credit.
โThank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. […]
“But we have also,” continued the management consultant, “run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying on ship’s peanut.” […]
“So in order to obviate this problem,” he continued, “and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and…er, burn down all the forests. I think you’ll all agree that’s a sensible move under the circumstances.โ
โ Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhikerโs Guide to the Galaxy
The man understood humanity.
Sorry, but I posted this on ded thread so late, there wasn’t a lot of feedback. (good comments notwithstanding).
Just wanted to leave it up a bit longer.
Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like it’s not too tough to turn off the safety notes – and doesn’t sound as though they’re as much of an issue on EU roads as some US roads. There’s also an option for ceramic undercoating – which was recommended as an option due to the high lime content of the water here, etc. No salt on the roads down here.
Buy a Dacia Duster
@Pie: “Buy a Dacia Duster”
You are James May’s spirit animal.
“Great news!”
why not just lease when overseas ?
Not sure they even have leasing as an option here – but why not just buy and pay off and keep the car till it stops running?
My fear is that most modern cars are so disposable that economic proposition becomes less and less likely to reach breakeven.
That’s a gut level calculation I don’t have hard evidence to support it. But on luxury cars I feel that you want to be especially careful in that regard. They are far more likely to be mechanically totaled because of of some module that is no longer obtainable.
Agree with Sensei. Pay the thing off, but be prepared to throw it away somewhere down the line.
If you were looking at an EV I would say lease 100 percent. Between depreciation and the great electronic unknowns it isn’t worth the outlay.
FWIW it is virtually impossible to buy a higher end vehicle that is not a hybrid. The future is 2.0 liter, turbocharged and mildy hybrid. Just the way it is.
Background: I’m a mechanical engineer who worked decades on automotive projects all over the world, and I grew up hands-on: DIY restoring and driving old stuff into my thirties……..and, until recently, I usually drove a car 100 to 200k because of total cost…..and I’ve never rented a car for more than a month, BUT
that’s all ben in a known-risk environment: I knew the technologies, the costs, the laws, the fees, the taxes….and could weigh mechanics’ advice. For the entire 200k miles, the chances that I would get blindsided by something way out of forecast and then not bring home 90% of the savings while achieving the uptime I expected was remote.
But buying and shipping and importing and all that jazz moves you to the side of the risk/reward slope that I would not take on or wish on a friend. The enemy isn’t the car, it’s all the unknowns in overhead, nonsense, paperwork, and fees….so many places for the freight forwarder to smash a fender, a mechanic in Elbonia to screw you and hide behind some local business laws, little niggling details that nibble you to death like ducks….and, in the end, for a car that isn’t necessarily the deal of the century, a keeper, an amazing value. You do you, but I worry that the ups are not as up and the downs could easily be more down that you weigh them.
While, OTOH, a lease is a simple arms-length transaction, you know exactly how much (or at least worst case) of a screwing you’re in for…and you will get a car (cars….new deal at each posting?). You’ll have local equipment with local service (no hunting for a good garage for precisely your badge). You’ll get a car of some sort….probably new to newish. And you can go downscale: you’re not marrying this car, so lease the cheapest thing that will work and forget about it when you move.
Admittedly, I’m not an adventurer: to narrow the range of outcomes and be able to manage it well is very attractive to me emotionally. It sounds to me like your starting the part of your life where a car is just a commodity, and you should invest as little of your money and yourself in it as you can.
This is the 2.0 hybrid 247 HP + 11 HP electric motor (integrated starter generator).
The full 3 years of complimentary maintenance – appears to be a volvo standard – all routine stuff – handled by Volvo in Naples is pretty handy given the standards of local mechanics (or so I’ve heard).
The guy had some pics because Volvo does that thing like BMW where you can go to the factory in Sweden and Volvo puts you up in a hotel before you pick up your car, drive it across Europe and then ship it back to the US. NOT doing that. (this time). 4 year, 50000 mile warranty.
I’ve previously shipped my rav4 to and from Hawaii without any noticeable issues. In this case I could either have the Navy ship it back or have Volvo ship it to the states – within 5 years of purchase – for free.
As I’ve noted before….expecting to be here for a full 3 year tour (more or less), rather than a shorter 1 year reserve billet or something similar – does give me some peace of mind. But I am very aware of some of the issues you’ve referenced. The reviews for this specific model do seem pretty good across the board – Consumer Reports, Top Gear, etc.
Are you not in a position to buy a real Hilux and import it back to the US?
Not US specs mean can’t register it on base – the same reason I can’t get a Corolla Sportswagon.
Lame
I saw so many in Mexico. Manual with the turbodiesel. A half million miles just waiting to happen.
Can’t import vehicles less than 20 years old that don’t meet US safety/emissions standards.
And the fucking DMV administrators trade group is trying to back door prohibit all import registrations of non-FMVSS vehicles.
Yeah, Iโm familiar with that after a conversation with my parentโs neighbor. He has a S. Africa spec Defender rotting in his front yard.
exactly
is trying
That’s the other thing: the longer the deal, the more time everyone has to move the goalposts; the regs today may not be the regs later
now that I’ve been a good boy for decades, I can’t wait to be fucked by some new 401k taxing scheme; I have spent a life being punished for following the rules, while the ass-clowns and cheats went to the front of the line
Rule of law
It will be punishment by soundbite. Trump will become the first convicted felon to be sworn into office, a historical footnote that will be repeated mantra-like in the media.
Merchan seems at points to be writing the actual talking points for the talking heads. In his order, he states grandly that the jurors found that this โwas the premediated and continuous deception by the leader of the free world.โ He then adds that he could not vacate the conviction because it would โฆ constitute a disproportionate result and cause immeasurable damage to the citizenryโs confidence in the Rule of Law.โ
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The sentencing, however, will have another impact. Trump will finally be able to appeal this horrendous case. It has always been a target-rich opportunity for appeal, but Trump could no[t] launch a comprehensive appeal until after he was sentenced.
Those appellate issues include charges based on a novel criminal theory through which New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg not only zapped a dead misdemeanor into life (after the expiration of the statute of limitation) but based a state charge on federal election law and federal taxation violations. So, after the Justice Department declined to prosecute federal violations, Bragg effectively did so in state court with Merchanโs blessing.
The issues also include Merchanโs absurd instructions to the jury. The novel theory demanded a secondary offense, the crime that Trump was seeking to conceal by listing payments as legal expenses. Merchan allowed the jury to find that the secondary offense was any of an array of vaguely defined options. Even on the jury form, they did not have to specify which crimes were found. Merchan did not require even a majority, let alone a unanimous jury, to agree on what actually occurred.
The end justifies the means.
โTrump will become the first convicted felon to be sworn into officeโ
โConvictedโ is carrying an awful lot of weight, there.
It’s almost like nabbing that soundbite for ad nauseum repetition was the entire point of the trial, rather than addressing whatever piddling “crimes” of which he was accused.
Exactly right
In a just society, Merchan would be marched from the bench in his robes to the nearest lamppost outside the courthouse.
โThis is the theater of the absurd, and itโs all driven by tax credits and giveaways from the federal and state government, and by mandates that the governor there has implemented.โ
Their god is a vengeful, wrathful god who must be obeyed.
From the ded thred: Pat you’re going to have to come with a new insult. Self service is legal in Oregon statewide.
And some of us still get it pumped!
I shake my head when the attendant line at Costco is backed up but self serve is available.
NJ was till having none of that.
Speaking of sex offenders in the profession, I had a room mate back in college who became a teacher. A real POS, fecker burned down our house while drunk, and last I heard of him he had been fired from teaching in LA as he had gotten caught sleeping with a student for a second time.
Who knows how many others.
Corey DeAngelis regular tweets about teachers who are sex predators.
A high-elevation ice patch in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem melted, exposing a stand of whitebark pines, about 180 m above todayโs treeline. The frozen forest dates from about 5,500 years agoโbut as the climate warms, trees may return.
https://x.com/PNASNews/status/1875331396081758471
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Youโre saying that 5500 years ago it was warmer than it is now? Thatโs not what Teh Science(tm) told me!
Just a ‘temporary’ cold spell on the inexorable march to Venus-like climate (hey, weren’t we all neolithic (or damn near it) at the time? Then how did we make the climate get so warm, when there were so few of us? Oh, yes, agriculture (especially those damn rice paddies!)
When the sentence is imposed on Jan. 10, it is likely to feel comically downsized given the effort. After years and millions spent in the various Trump cases, Trump will likely receive an unconditional discharge and sent along his way . . . to the White House.
As predicted, the two federal cases never saw a trial in Florida or Washington, D.C. In Georgia, Fani Willis was dropped from her racketeering case, which has gone nowhere due to her own misconduct. It is like the Allied forces launching the Normandy Invasion to capture Monaco.
“We bulldozed the house, but the mouse somehow managed to get away.”
Perfect.
๐ถ But the cat came back / They thought he was a goner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck0jwS0CvKk (Skip to about 5:35 if impatient.)
Insanely high KPI with beautiful auroras over Iceland right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19eV9FW5e6M
LCDR_Fish-
Do military personnel no longer buy a car to use while based in Europe and then sell it to another American when they leave? I have heard stories…
I am admittedly the last person qualified to speak on this topic, but I was under the impression the single best reason to buy a European car in Europe was to get something not available n the States. I would be looking for something unspeakably cool, like a late ’70s BMW 323 (a first gen 320i with a six cylinder, Euro only), or maybe a Peugeot 205 hot hatch.
If you’re just looking for a generic transpo appliance, why not lease and avoid the potential headaches?
The Air Force does, called the lemon lot. A friend of mine has a fetish for German cars for this reason.
They have the lemon lot…but again…3 years and I’ve never been up on doing my own maintenance (maybe something to work on at some point post-mil-retirement).
Also…since Volvo will ship this car, I *could* buy a classic euro car if I really wanted to (extremely unlikely) and have the Navy ship that back for me….
We are talking about a Euro car that’s essentially a US car – in Europe. Apparently one of the only car factories still in Italy is one that makes Dodge Avengers to ship to the US…anyone heard any stories about current models of that one?
Thereโs nothing wrong with Volvo, other than they didnโt hire the psychotic engineers from Saab.
the krauts I worked for stateside did that;
we were working on state-of-the-art Volvo, Daimler, and BMW projects, and the GM was issued a 5-series,
but the engineering manager and the interns had a couple of huge old Cadillacs they adored handing down to each other
also: they had all their opinions about the defects in America, but every last one of them hated leaved the States
The correct answer is VW GTI..
one of the only car factories still in Italy is one that makes Dodge Avengers to ship to the USโฆanyone heard any stories about current models of that one?
In three years Dodge will probably be pickups only.
Dodge split off their trucks to Ram branding (when they expected to sell/spin it off) and never folded it back in.
Theyโre bringing back the SRT teamโฆ
I read in the morning lynx that its “World Braille Day”.
This seems appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYIsrZf4GcY
Speaking of cars – how about some brave new OBD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE9IGgAS-lE&ab_channel=D%26EInTheGarage
commentor (sic): The harder we try to create a utopia, the closer we get to a dystopia
woof….that’s good
Well, you know the saying:
Canโt make an omelette without breaking a few skulls.
Tina Feyโs spot in a booking.com ad includes what suspiciously looks like a Steve Smith sighting. Iโll let yโall sort that out.
โI look forwards to moreโ
Thank a teechur, Mexi.
Who the hell do you think you are? TedS?
“Is there any profession more needlessly revered by society than teachers?”
Truckers
Are you unfamiliar with the term “revered”?
…thinks it derives from the fabled night ride and means “rode hard at night and put away wet”?
Is that where you tell someone that they are “The life-blood of America and without you we would all starve to death”*
*paraphrased from any number of talk radio hosts whenever a trucker calls in.
Whenever an alleged trucker calls in, that is.
(Ozy! ๐ค)
I would agree that teachers are indeed enormously overrated. Most are mediocrities at best, whose every action belies their claim to be sainted devotees of the churlen who make so many sacrifices for the liโl darlings. Professional standards are nonexistent, as is accountability, so it should be no surprise that performance is uniformly terrible.
I had some decent or better ones. I don’t know what in hell happened.
I think I remember reading (probably re Ridgemont High the novel) about a teacher shortage around that time. So, varied backgrounds.
I had more good than bad ones. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
Maybe a matter of time and place.
I will say this.
Really knowing your stuff is one thing.
Being able to teach it is am entirely different skillset.
Had a biology prof who seemed to be a wonderful man, caring of his students, etc. He LOVED his subject and he wanted everyone else to love it too. He was so passionate. He couldn’t teach it for shit.
By happenstance, that same semester I had an equally passionate college algebra prof who really knew how to teach it. With him, I passed it with ease, whereas I had failed it twice already.
I know lots of stuff well, but I cannot teach anything at all.
Good point, Mo. It is certainly a skill. I am not sure it can be taught, though.
Thatโs fair. Its going to be eliminated by AI. Just like teachers.
Pub cut pizza is just a bad way of serving pizza, how are you supposed to pick up the squares in the middle?
Chopsticks.
I thought you were just supposed to stick your face into the pizza and eat a square-cut slice right off the tray.
Is that wrong? Should I not be doing that?
Don’t let anybody change you.
I don’t think this is the threat she thinks it is.
No, but it’s interesting that her “brothers” are more useful to her in the United States than in her own country.
Sweet, sweet remittances.
Ban all transfers of money out of the country.
Especially those to foreigners.
Yes, this means imports will have to be paid for by exports. But that’s a small price to pay.
Or tax the living shit out of them, like 80%.
Had you not found the story, the tagline would be this:
Here’s a lovely example of how ‘Education’ + ‘Journalism’ + Short attention spans –> The endumbening of the populace. AP is talking about the woman immolated in the NYC subway: ‘โJust because ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ does not mean that thereโs not going to be family devastated by the tragic way she lost her life,โ he said.”
Homeless. Just say that. I won’t even push for “vagrant.”Two of the biggest cultural sins of Washington — a) Money going out to mothers per child, IMO+Sowell’s, giving rise to Baby Mamas, often with one Baby Mama having multiple fathers. b) The fucking dreadful public school systems, doing no favor to any students, and only being fancy-sounding daycare dens. I believe an LBJ staffer said the Prez said the Civil Rights act would buy black votes for 200yrs. Worked perfectly, though seems tables may’ve turned. Obama chastising young black men was adorbsables. Keeping people compliantly dumb is remarkably evil.
Omit needless words.
That’s not even endumbening, it’s the fear of giving offense that rules everything now.
The homeless are venerated – the only acceptable way to talk about them is to dance around the issues in the blandest way possible.
“Thatโs not even endumbening, itโs the fear of giving offense that rules everything now.”
That’s mostly my point, here. “Homeless” is nasty and can’t be said. Like Voldemort, the word has been imbued with totemic power and is ‘unutterable.’ Talking about everyday difficulties is verboten and must be whispered about in made-‘polite’ language. Expanding this, whole chunks of human history and humanity can’t be discussed, and after not-too long, the ‘antiquated’ language is forgotten, all lessons lost. The dumb husks of children left are easier to manipulate. They’re more accepting of bullshit cuz they haven’t learned the reality to compare it to.
The proper term is “residentially challenged”.
“Alternate Residence Persons”
I think it was Boortz that used “urban outdoorsman”
I’ll stick with “bum”.
Bum is an aesthetic. Homeless is a state of being.
This. They are bums.
Legacy
U.S. Steel has argued that not letting the deal move forward could actually imperil the future of the domestic steel industry. The company threatened to move its headquarters out of Pittsburgh if Biden blocked the deal and curtail production at key facilities in Pennsylvaniaโs Mon Valley and Gary, Indiana, which are represented by the United Steelworkers.
In recent months, workers at those facilities have openly supported the deal, despite the strong opposition of USW President Dave McCall to the transaction.
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โBiden constantly talks about protecting the U.S. steel industry in the abstract, but thereโs zero thought about the future, about how to make the American steel industry productive through investments in technology,โ Chou said.
Instead, Biden seemed intent with the decision on securing his legacy as โthe most pro-union, the most pro-worker president,โ Chou said. โWhat heโs really doing is just catering to the demands of union leadership and ignoring the workers.โ
Bitter, venal, self-obsessed old man.
Trump is against it too and for the same reason.
Both don’t give a shit that someone was willing to inject the money the industry needs to stay afloat in America.
Neither understands basic economics. Biden because he is cognitively impaired (before he was just dumb) and Trump because it’s inconvenient.
Welp. Once again in the ER. With mom this time. My aunt called me sort of panicked. She just turned 81. Lots of little things that are concerning in the aggregate. I’m absolutely positive they will admit her.
We are in the collecting urine and blood stage, so we don’t know what’s wrong yet.
She is a hard stick.
๐ค
Best of luck, Moj.
What Zwak said.
Trump is against it too and for the same reason.
Of course he is. Biden just wants to take credit.
Trump could conceivably be talked out of it.
WP headline is awesome.
D.C. on high alert going into unprecedented period of prominent events
*Clears throat
STEVE SMITH HAVE PROMINENT EVENT. ALSO UNPRECEDENTED!
NOT CARE ABOUT PERIOD EITHER!
Take care of your tickers, folks
1st cousin died this morning from cardiac issues- seems he went to UC hospital with an aortic dissection. But other clogged stuff made surgery impossible.
My family historically has heart problems beyond a certain age, and I’m certain he didn’t take care of himself. He was 64.
Sorry Tres
Oof. Sorry Tres.
Thanks. We weren’t necessarily close. Its just a reminder to me that I’m aging into that cohort, and I need to seriously look after my health.
I didn’t have a resolution for the new year, but this wake-up call may make me change some things.
Thanks to my inbred Mennonite genes, the rule (until my Father who has been re-plumbed) is that no male on Dad’s side of the family makes it past 65.
My brother had his 4X bypass at 53 years, my Uncle received a chest full of stents at 60. So its not really “if” but “when” for me.
With q-ette turning 4 in a couple of months, this discussion about school is becoming less theoretical by the day. I know everyone here is balls deep on homeschooling, but I don’t think that’s in the cards for us. I’m pushing hard for charter schools and Mrs. Q is on board. Fortunately, one of the few ways in which Colorado is non-retarded is being big on school choice and charters so there are many to choose from. I think I can find one that will be ok.
That’s a good idea if a quality charter school is available to you.
Neighbor kids go to a Catholic school. Sounds pretty based, but the number of charters is intriguing too.
Can’t believe the critter is 4!!
I’m getting downright angry at the information being demanded by the local PD on their suppliemental permit form that they have ni right to ask for.