The NFL had a C-R-A-Z-Y day yesterday what with all the trades and free agent deals. Lots of money being thrown at lots of guys. College basketball conference tourneys are underway, with the big conferences starting up play in the next couple of days. My Buckeyes are in need of a couple wins if they’re gonna get in the big dance. They probably won’t get them. And across the pond, four UCL round of 16 ties will conclude today, with Liverpool-PSG the showpiece. And that’s it for sports.
This is interesting. Does the ICC know what Islamist nations do to women who go on dates without an escort or get caught having premarital sex? Or do they simply not care, because this looks a lot like hypocrisy to me.
Let them grow, I don’t care. This isn’t a narrative war these Hamas-supporters are gonna win.
I hope they move toward peace. Too many men and women have died already.
Wait, what? The word “frivolous” comes to mind.
I hope the Biden and Obama regimes are happy. Because they’re the assholes who facilitated this.
Get on board or get out. This is pretty normal when a new admin comes in. So stop crying.
Shit, this sucks. I don’t know what else to say.
Who the fuck is CIVICUS anyway? See my statement about the ICC above for my feelings on this.
Good. They’re worthless, bird-killing pieces of shit.
Take that, elitist coastal snobs. I don’t want to hear another word about Texans, or southerners in general, not having culture.
Yee-haw! Slap that knee. And here’s an underrated one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Too bad a lot of them will fumble with their finances and come to tight ends trying to make things meet.
Morning, Sloopy! Morning all!
Do you think that at least one of them will get a quarterback in the end?
Swissy’s gonna come in and throw a flag on this whole thread.
I thought he was doing air travel — after he manages to touch down, he’ll probably be too tired and will just punt.
Yeah. A litttle financial training would keep them from getting hit hard in the pocket.
But now we can judge every player by how many Myles Garretts they’re worth.
Or how many baby mamas they can afford to pay child support to.
Ted S.:
I’m pretty sure the supply of baby mamas expands to match the size of the paycheck, with a negative correlation to the player’s maturity.
The players aren’t all a bunch of goons who are flakes with money. Many of them are quite centered.
Each team only has a couple of guys that know how to get the returns; a few that play it safety; and most that hold on to money like they hold on to the ball.
“This is interesting. Does the ICC know what Islamist nations do to women who go on dates without an escort or get caught having premarital sex? Or do they simply not care, because this looks a lot like hypocrisy to me.”
The globalist marxist cabal and agenda have far more in common with islam and deviancy in general, than with anything liberty related. That is why you get all the “Chickens for KFC” a.k.a. “Gays for Palestine” or other such insane efforts.
Shit, this sucks. I don’t know what else to say.
If you oppose the left, get your carry permit (if necessary where you live), and go to the range. They seem intent on using violence against the political opposition.
The left has been highly successful at accusing the other side of being violent or engaging in violence, all while practically holding a monopoly on senseless political violence like this.
I’m not sure it can be both senseless and political violence at the same time.
“Let them grow, I don’t care. This isn’t a narrative war these Hamas-supporters are gonna win.”
Concur. The more of this stupid shit we see, the more people will be forced to agree this shit is just downright idiots supporting evil.
Non-citizen supporter of evil, violent, hate driven terrorists commits crimes in our country and gets arrested – set to be deported.
I see “Free evil shitbird now!” signs in protest and judge blocks deportation. Also, the obligatory “He is a good boy” bullshit.
This is what we are up against. I see this and equate it to every “Free Soandso” sign I have ever seen. Rabble rouse, get a response, protest the response. It is basic disrupter 101 strategy. Fuck ’em. Send his ass home and round up the rest of them.
I think I don’t know how these “protestors” are different from any other terrorists.
They block passage, they terrorize Jews and others, they advocate genocide.
Yeah, they aren’t tossing bombs yet (just molotovs). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not sure if the Hamasniks have started throwing fireworks like antifa did, but those should count as bombs.
It’s the same people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don’t forget beating Harris. That is a huge threat to Democracy.
Huh, I didn’t realize there was a global human right to American taxpayers money.
How long will these fools keep telling us democracy is under attack as more and more evidence keeps surfacing that they completely and totally corrupted our republic and were basically running a criminal enterprise to grow and maintain the unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic monster that was selling the country away in order to achieve the globalist marxist single world government agenda. These people still believe they need to drop world population below 2 billion, and then create a system where the elite have everything, rule by decree – new aristocracy – and the people they deem useless are expendable.
All because they have decided that free systems, especially those where people are left to chase their own dreams, are seriously dangerous, because these people tend to be hard to control, and they prefer to have a totalitarian system to keep and wield power. They envy the CCP and think they can go global with that system, not understanding that the only reason for the CCP’s recent economic success has been the free trading partners the CCP basically raped and robbed.
Most of the CCP’s economic success, like everything else about the CCP, is an illusion.
Do you think the hooker has assets and insurance or the hotel? Welcome to our civil justice system! Funded in no small part by Team Blue and the trial bar.
This is why my company, a large national engineering and consulting firm, will not do any residential work. Because even if we do nothing wrong on a project, we represent the deep pocket that’s going to get hit.
“Frivolous Lawsuit”, the new American dream!
I got my professional start at third party property and casualty claims administrator.
My eyes quickly got opened to the transactional nature of our civil justice system. It really is cheaper to pay off the trial bar and it disgusts me. OTH, they absolutely play a vital role in keeping both people and especially businesses in line and accountable.
I come from a legal family so I have plenty of friends and family that work all parts of the legal profession, corporate of all kinds, defense and trial.
It’s cheaper in the short term to settle out. The plaintiff law firms’ economic model absolutely requires it to stay viable. Get a reputation for not settling out, and you will see the nickel-and-dime claims drop to almost nothing.
When I was with my hospital in West Texas, the board had a firm policy of never settling a lawsuit, period. The local plaintiffs firms knew it, and wouldn’t bring a claim against us. I don’t think we had a single nickel-and-dime claim in the 5 years I was there, and the two, maybe three, malpractice cases were brought by out-of-town firms.
R.C. Dean:
There’s a reason I prefer Newegg.
PimpCare isn’t like the insurance package of the square…
I don’t think Cackles McPantsuit ever expressed any remorse for Libya or stirring up the whole Arab Spring that laid the ground for a lot of this chaos — I doubt they’ll be sorry for this aspect of it. “More to bleed Russia dry!” most likely. Either ghouls or psychopaths…. wanting all the “little people” pawns to die for their grander visions.
I don’t think we stirred that up, but we certainly hoped to capitalize on it.
It goes further than that. That chaos benefits these people financially, even as it creates a burden on our nation. This practice of destroying countries to then plunder the tax coffers, is the definition of criminal evil.
Exactly how is the Trump crowd diminishing civil liberties? Give specific examples.
It is all going to boil down to “They aren’t giving us money”, isn’t it?
“assault on democratic norms and global cooperation,”
He’s not writing blank checks to the rest of the world and is pushing back.
“It is all going to boil down to “They aren’t giving us money”, isn’t it?”
Worse. It is more like: “They won’t let us do whatever evil and stupid shit we want.”
Worse. It is more like: “They won’t let us do whatever evil and stupid shit we want.”
…with American taxpayer dollars.
So you’re both right.
Talk about manufacturing we desperately need to get back in the US. We’re going to rapidly deplete the World’s Smallest Violin strategic reserve at the rate we must be shipping them out to play for all these multinational cryfests.
Yeah — but this is California. The generation is shifting to forcing orchards and dairies out of business and just plastering the land with solar panel farms (at least that’s what I see here in the Valley…) Because that’s better for the environment than trees or grazing or anything (or a simple much smaller nuke or even natgas plant).
Sen. Bong Go, a close Duterte ally
I just don’t know where to go with that.
Drum circle? Calypso band?
Phishing?
Bong rip?
No Idea, but $20 says they got USAID money.
Advocates for racism and spraying tax dollars at useless wastrels, it seems.
Beware them cheap CCP chips..
And people thought I was mad for worrying about malware in power banks
Wrap your Bluetooth sex toy in foil before you wear it on the subway.
Someone hijacked your teledildonics connection?
See, the WNBA made the mistake of thinking basketball was where all the stupid money was for players.
I expected that story to include the words ‘only fans’ somehow.
Still, hilarious.
How about someone start collating how many women go to watch that dumb shit and then points out the people supporting these fugly lesbians demanding higher pay never go to the fucking games in the first place?
I have had many angry lesbians lose it when I pointed out they never go to games to support them financially, so why should men be made pay for this shit?
Look, everybody! Alex hangs out with angry lesbians!!!
Girl watching with lesbians is more fun than girl watching with dudes.
Not Adahn:
Can confirm.
NA: Absolutely. A hundred times more fun.
Bill Burr already did that shtick – it isn’t men that let down the WNBA.
“Look, everybody! Alex hangs out with angry lesbians!!!”
I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, so sometimes I have to hang with the flannel wearing 5′ 2″, 300 lbs crowd with the colored hair…
flannel wearing 5′ 2″, 300 lbs crowd with the colored hair
Alex’s tips on picking your wingman!
“My Dinner at Uhaul”
Won’t anyone feel sorry for Angel Reese’s agent? There hasn’t been an agent with such a shitty client since Nancy Kerrigan.
Why?
Whyyyyyy
“After all the whining I’ve put up with about having to fly coach and sleep in a Holiday Inn, I am thrilled for my players to get to make what they have actually earned. Better gas up those Subarus, ladies!”
*chef’s kiss*
From the Dedthred:
Re: White Wolf games, as far as I can tell (ad I did do some minor research), Werewolf and Vampire were the origin of the supposed rivalry between the two monster types, as well as the use of them as symbols of rural and urban existence respectively.
It’s kind of wild to witness the birth of a narrative trope.
As I can’t figure which one is supposed to represent which, I don’t think that has infiltrated as far as you suspect.
Vampires = Urban. This is partially due to the nature of the beast since cities provide more prey opportunities, but also reflects on the reliance on urbanites on the work of other humans in order to sustain their own existence. Also the stereotypical vampire lifestyle of luxury, ennui, decadence and general bored rich person tropes.
Werewolf = rural. Again, wolves need wilderness to hunt in, but the game makes this a more explicit with the main themes being corruption/exploitation of the land and encroachment by corporations onto the wilderness.
except Vampires are old rural aristocracy.
Historically there are vastly different types of vampire, and a lot of overlap between “vampires” and other types of monsters-as-currently-classified.
I don’t think “rural aristocracy” is a thing. Yes aristocrats will have a country house, but the aristocratic lifestyle necessitates urbanites, if for no other reason than that’s where the fashionable tailors/cutlers/decorators are.
Rural aristocracy are those whose power base and income come from their largely agrarian landholdings, ie the French Noblesse d’epee, as opposed to the newer urban aristocracy (noblesse de robe, etc) whose power base and finances come from their connection to bureaucratic administration.
You only need to come into the filthy cities with those upstart newcomers when the social calendar is in session, and you can deign to be measured briefly but need never personally interact with mere craftsmen.
They are symbols of aspects of human nature and go back as far as time. Might as well toss Frankenstein’s monster in there as well.
They are parables about the evil that men do.
I especially like the vampire and the fairly recent singling out the seductive nature of the vampire as a separate entity – the emotional vampire. Hilarious because it is so very true.
Are y’all talking about some kind of video game thing? I dont get that.
While you’re not wrong, the Social Calendar is a kind of a core part of being an aristocrat. Otherwise, you’re just a rich farmer.
I believe the game system codified it, as I recall there being other references to the two tribes not getting along.
And of the White Wolf games, Mage: The Ascension was the best of them.
Mage was the only one of the games that had even the possibility of a happy ending. All the others have The Beast/Apocalypse/Oblivion as an inevitability.
Not Adahn:
Changeling and Mummy both had happy endings as a potential path as well. It was a lot of work for the GM, but I still love the magic (sorry Magick) system for Mage.
I am trying to remember Mummy. Wasn’t the core limiting mechanic in Changeling “banality” or “mundanity” or something?
I haven’t played since before Hunter was released, though I did read and was completely disappointed by Exalted.
Man there was a time I spent a lot of money on RPGs. I have a mostly-complete collection of BECMI and AD&D 3.0/3.5. Then I played WoW and started shooting.
Also probably more than half of the Battletech stuff published by FASA.
Not Adahn:
Mummy got a limited release (basically an expanded splatbook). Changeling had Banality countered with Glamour, with Banality being embracing the mundane world, and Glamour fueling and embracing the fae world. Banality gets high enough, you become a normal mortal adult, with memories of your childhood imaginary adventures. I don’t believe there was a way to get your Glamour high enough to go full fae, but I could be remembering that wrong.
Lately I’ve been playing D&D with my gun friends, and shooting with my D&D friends. It’s very convenient.
Man there was a time I spent a lot of money on RPGs.
#metoo
D&D (BECMI), some AD&D 1st edition, some AD&D 2nd edition, MERP, Battletech, Call of Cthulhu.
Occasionally I’ll still pick up a supplement or two on eBay.
And there are guns and cars too….
A real cripple fight
I am still not getting X to load anything.
Me neither.
Yeah. Seems like direct links fail. I can remove everything pointing to a specific link and just get to a person’s main feed.
After the DDS attack yesterday, they reverted to only allowing people logged in (i.e. with an account) to currently use it.
Same here.
Oh, well. *sips coffee, moves on*
Uffda. Sorry. I pulled the link from another dude’s feed.
It was a tranny and a guy in a wheelchair with MS(?) insulting each other in a comedy club. Actually pretty funny and they seemed OK with it.
*The MS guy won it (IMO).
The MS guy won it
I don’t know – “The only person who’s ever fucked Joe is…. God” was pretty good.
Works for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah they are probably blocking something and maybe my ad-blocker isn’t having it.
That was perfect!
I have MS, and I approve of this.
Obama’s Operation Sycamore Timber finally finished in Syria. All those years of terrorist sponsorship while U.S. troops occupy the oil and grain producing region of Syria – effectively stealing the national income.
I hope the Christians and Alawites can carve out a safe zone on the coast.
Maybe the brave Islamic warriors can go fight the Israelis who are occupying southern Syria.
What’s a Leppo?
southern Syria
Now there is a man who knows how to insult a Palestinian.
Sycamore Timber? Not the choicest wood. That was Obama? Of course it was.
I hope the Christians and Alawites can carve out a safe zone on the coast.
Lebanon, circa 1950. Didn’t work there either.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Speaking of insane amounts of sports money, I see tPSU is going to spend $700 million to upgrade a perfectly good stadium. Then 100,000 fans can watch the Nits lose to tOSU every other year in comfort.
Jobs! American jobs!
If it is alumni money I don’t care.
It’s a mix of donated money and debt. The debt is to be paid off by the Athletic Department, so I assume ticket and merchandise sales. The Board of Trustees claims no tuition or tax money will be used in the stadium renovation.
How much of the budget is for private showers stalls?
OMWC needs to get his act in order and stop letting the kids have cell phones
Well the Trump honeymoon is over. Back to being an asshole half the time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pledges-lead-charge-against-massie-likens-him-liz-cheney
He should be endorsing Massie to fill McConnell seat, not trying to primary him because he won’t vote for Continuing Resolutions or fund Israel.
If Trump had half the brains that he does ego, he would be a serious man.
Considering the complete clusterfuck that the ‘smart’ and ‘serious’ people have created and Trump’s tendency to bumble into fixing things….
What does it say about the rest of them that Trump is ‘stupid’ and ‘not serious’?
Wife complained that she had messed up something with the Sheppard’s pie she cooked. It was the most delicious I can remember having.
“What did you do wrong?”
Something about the potatoes and the thick layer of perfectly seared cheese
“Yeah? Well, next time please make the exact same mistake.”
Massie is a serious guy, Trump is an egomaniac (as are most other politicians). Which do we really need more of?
He’s mad because Massie and Paul are insisting that Congress actually cut the budgets of the agencies where DOGE is discovering waste and fraud.
Which is doubly stupid when you are also promising to cut taxes. Of course Trump doesn’t want to really cut spending, he wants to feed other greedy little paws.
Spot on ji.
That happened with the tariff chaos. Even if you support them (which I don’t) the chaos is unnecessary. But that is Trump’s MO.
I’m with you on that one. They’re on, they’re delayed, on again, delayed another month. Meanwhile I had a ton of driving to do last weekend and gas prices went up 50 cents, then back down on Monday.
Well he is known to step on his own dick most of the time. Massie isn’t the one to go after you fool.
Funny how fast Trump caught backlash on this one.
This.
He isnt realizing that his base isnt for him, its more country orientated I believe and Trump is just a conduit
OBE: And This. Make America Great is not at all the same thing as Make Trump Great.
I recently talked to a prog scolding me about Rand Paul. They were making vicious ad hominids about him, which I find more than a little bit puzzling.
I explained that I dont give a shit whose name is on the office door. I gauge pols on their policies and the practical outcomes of implementing them. I have no loyalty to a person and dont give a shit about their personality.
She instantly scoffed and told me that I had things exactly backward. How do you respond to that?
I dont think the differences we have amongst us here are about where to go, just about how to get there. When it comes to progs the dispute is definitely about the destination.
Yeah I notice like 3 in 4 people are pushing back on Trump for this one.
Although I understand why republicans think cr and making adjustments later is so much easier (but prone to potential failure).
Suthen, don’t ever confuse real serious people with people who claim they are serious. Progs claim they are serious and rarely is that true – they are emotional idiots, easily led around by their emotions. Trump’s first term was much the same – even when he was right about something, he’d get talked out of it. This tariff bullshit is more of the same, and if he isn’t really down with cutting spending, then he’s a total fucking disaster.
Trump has his Messiah complex and seems to be believe his own BS.
Suthen- fire up Cult of Personality.
I will say the response to this has been more positive than I expected.
Even the most loyal Trump apologists are… on massie’s side?
This gives me an unusually positive take on the republicans. Be like massie, and you win every election.
Surprising but… good?
So, I think in this case I am going to disagree with you all about Massie. I think he is correct and principled on his stance that this bill cuts nothing. But if he denies the current effort to pass this bill, using the reconciliation process, which only needs a majority vote to pass, and allowing republicans to avoid the need to bargain with democrats to get the needed 60 votes to have the Senate pass any bill otherwise, we will end with a bill that will have MORE pork in it so they can get democrats on board. And without this CR passing by reconciliation now, we will NOT be able to get FUTURE bills that will have any cuts.
So dying on principle here, as noble as it may seem, is not the best move at all.
Is that a Pringles can, or are you just
happy to see mecrazy and violent?I guess you could say she had a chip on her shoulder.
“Once you pop, you can’t stop!”
Stay classy folks.
That implies we had class to begin with.
Oh no. This makes a resurrection of the Honda deal a real possibility.
Nissan Replaces CEO After Failed Honda Merger
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/nissan-motor-names-chief-planning-officer-espinosa-as-new-ceo-e4ae9acc?st=SaKd7Z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Maybe. What other option do they have?
Get Carlos Goon pardoned?
BK and I don’t mean Burger King.
Back in the 80s I really liked Nissan – my mom drove an ’84 Nissan truck, my old man drove a ’87 Stanza. The former was the family wood hauler, the latter a 40k a year machine that I ended up driving in college with 210k miles on the clock.
After college I bought a ’94 Truck for myself and ’97 Altima for EF. The ‘tima felt so cheaply made compared to the Stanza. I got out of that brand afterwards and never went back after trying to get parts for my truck.
I have an ’18 Frontier, and would put as an equal to any Tacoma, both in reliability and ability.
I cannot speak to the newest model though. It would be sad to see such a historic auto maker be absorbed in the Honda bleg.
Too many CVTs in their line-up.
Oh and where will the vaper/low credit customers go after the Altima is gone 🙂
KIA!
Is Pie around?
https://x.com/daily_romania/status/1899448341353607391
Big crowd in Romania waiting for the Constitutional Court decide on Georgescu’s appeal on being banned from running for President.
I am hoping he is OK. No word lately. Even if he doesn’t head to the courthouse, the security situation for everyone is going to deteriorate. And spying/snooping is going to really ramp up.
He was on earlier this week complaining about being in the wrong time zone or something.
Romania is mistakenly on EET instead of EDT.
Even if he doesn’t head to the courthouse – oh fuck no why would I do that
the security situation for everyone is going to deteriorate – I dunno about that
🤨
It’s supposed to reach nearly 70 today, and snow tomorrow night?
Welcome to Minnesoda!
Spring is in the air!
Everywhere I look around….
So, dead within the week?
We can only hope that the near death experience has turned him toward religion.
I am sure commie pope saw the special room full of red delight Satan has for him in hell.
Biden’s available.
Cardiff University Communists
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1899249326494208479
your guns will not help you when they come after you.
I have heard that a zillion times.
Fine, if having them is useless then you dont mind if I have them.
I fully expect that my fat, old, tired ass will die if they come for me. But I won’t die alone, and if enough of us do the same, maybe we weaken them enough so someone else can stop them.
I think that is what the left misses.I don’t expect to live if a squad of commies come to get me. So I will ensure there are consequences for any jackboots.
that was a joke
“I could literally smell that video.”
LOL
Soap is for capitalist pigs.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
In East Berlin you could have any car you wanted — as long as it was a Trabant 👍🏼
Photo: Rolph Hansen, 1983
https://x.com/slowberlin/status/1899055222166622448
What? No Lada?
Every direct link to a post remains broken for me.
Works fine for me.
Strange. I wonder what it going on? Probably some kind of smart phone issue.
Links are not broken. X will not let anyone without an account (and that is logged in) see the posts at this time. They did this to break the attack vector used by the DDS attack which was using bots without accounts to kill X.
Thank you Alex! I was wondering.
I was banned for inauthentic behavior four days after I got my account, so even if I log in it won’t work.
I don’t have an account and I can view posts.
Our names both start with “R.” That must be the problem.
Same here. I erased all cookies and history, rebooted…still no X working for me.
Shouldn’t you be out rioting?
I do not riot that is for the lower classes
And you can wait six months or a year for it.
lol in Romania towards the end more like 5 6 years
Latte liberals and coffee’s conquest of Britain
Out-of-touch metropolitan elites need to stop liking nice things
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/latte-liberals-and-coffees-conquest
“Urban liberals tend to have better tastes the closer the end result impacts on them, which is why their taste in politics is terrible and their taste in coffee, food and beer is good.”
If anything, latte is déclassé because it’s so fattening, up to 300 calories for a cup, while real coffee ponces – like me – drink flat whites or americanos.
It’s canadianos now.
Coffee conquered England because it is a 1000 x better than tea.
you never tried that Chinese white tea that is only picked by virgin women using only their lips, leaf by leaf
Japanese genmaicha or sencha-matcha is the good stuff.
With the popped sorghum in it, mmm.
The wife keeps some of that around, ROAT, and it is OK. It still isn’t a coffee substitute.
TW: “Scientific” “American”
You-know-who hardest hit
The turbulent times took a massive toll on the U.S. education system, with student support varying dramatically among states, school districts and communities. Five years later, the pandemic’s emotional and educational scars are still felt by kids who are reaching their teenage years or early adulthood, leaving experts wondering about lasting effects.
“The decisions [to close schools] were made to protect society, and there was going to be a cost,” says Candice Odgers, a quantitative and developmental psychologist specializing in adolescent mental health at the University of California, Irvine. “There was going to be a cost to children’s learning, and that seemed to be part of the calculus that was being made.”
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Discrepancies in math and reading weren’t felt equally among communities, however, Odgers says. “What we really saw with COVID was a hit for the entire population on learning,” she adds, “but children in the least-equipped and least-resourced schools were hit the hardest.”
In a 2023 study, Odgers and her colleagues surveyed elementary school teachers in the U.S. and Canada about student performance during the 2020–2021 school year. In classrooms with high-income students, 40 percent of teachers reported a performance drop. In those with lower-income students, the proportion was more than 70 percent. The study also found that students from lower-income households were nearly twice as likely to lack teachers with prior online instruction experience and adult learning support at home.
We sacrificed the children to appease our hysterical cargo cult superstition. It was a fair trade.
They would have died if not for the closures …
This is contrarian of me, but..
Although I hated Covid lockdowns, one positive is our children not having to spend 6 hours a day in oppressive time-wasting schools getting low value education.
They’ll all be absolutely fine.
“How COVID Shaped a Resilient Generation of Kids”
Higher rates of mental health issues and suicide is hardly “Resilient”.
I thought a bit of childhood trauma build character
So this to me means we are underrating the social aspects of going into a school (or other places) significantly.
Since our beloved Pie has checked in safe today, here’s a song for him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIQo1OHkTI
Safe. The ruyskies are not here yet
You’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.
The academic performance data are alarming, and they’re interlocked with another challenge: youth mental health.
“If we don’t concentrate on social-emotional learning, then we’re probably not going to see as fast of an improvement in academics as we want,” Wyss says. “Trust me, if a child is upset sitting in the classroom, they are not going to be listening to math.”
Young people’s ability to cope with the emotional and social stress of the pandemic varied among age groups. Students who were in kindergarten when the pandemic began are now on the cusp of middle school—and adolescence. “Our [current] fifth graders lost about two years of social-emotional learning,” Wyss says. Among this group, she says, she has observed behaviors more commonly seen in younger grades. For instance, Wyss has noticed an increase in sensory-seeking behavior (touching others more frequently), a lack of self-awareness (not noticing they’re wearing a shirt inside out) and difficulty with reading social situations. “They lost those two super important years [of peer interaction] in the first and second grade, where they were learning what’s socially acceptable and what’s not,” she says.
Genius. And just skip over that whole business of teaching children to be paranoid and terrified.
It’s looks like Liberty Magazine is now totally dead.
A few months ago, Stephen Cox, who took over after R. W. Bradford died, died. I’m going to guess no one has taken over since Cox died, and so the hosting bill hasn’t been paid.
Saw that. No new content lately either.
n the left, you can see child autism diagnoses.
On the right, you can see states with policies that give schools more money when their students are diagnosed with autism.
When these policies pass, autism diagnoses increase by almost 25%!
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1899219641605423110
See “War on Poverty”, “War on Racism, a.k.a. DEI”, and all such other efforts to “root out” any kind of shit, and the results they produce.
If I am paid to find assholes, I am gonna fine assholes everywhere!
When demand outstrips supply …
When I reply to large leftwing accounts with data, I get blocked a lot. When I reply to large rightwing accounts with data, I almost never get blocked, but I do end up with lots of their followers coming into my replies with low-res GIFs and grammatically-incorrect insults.
It just occurred to me: Is this a fight-or-flight divide?
Libs prefer “flight” and conservatives prefer “fight”?
https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1899471812615979310
“When I reply to large leftwing accounts with data, I get blocked a lot.”
What does a vampire do when exposed to sunlight, holy symbols or water, or garlic? It tries to kill you, right? Same with the left and facts.
Muh privacy!
Some federal agencies store information that many people don’t share even with their closest friends and family: Medical diagnoses and treatment. Notes from therapy sessions. Whether a person has filed for bankruptcy. Detailed income information.
And now, Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has accessed heavily safeguarded databases that store such personal information, raising deep alarm among federal workers and privacy advocates.
Musk says he is targeting waste and fraud. The executive order establishing DOGE says its purpose is “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity” and it instructs agency heads to ensure DOGE “has full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems.”
But Erie Meyer — who resigned last month from her post as chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after the change in administration — doesn’t trust DOGE.
“Part of what is unnerving and is scary both to companies whose data is involved and also Americans whose most sensitive financial information is at risk, is that we don’t know what they’re doing,” she says.
They need access to that stuff so they can know which camp to send you to.
Yes, the CFPB’s noble purpose of extorting money from financial companies and funneling it to Democrat connected groups, all paid for by the consumers it’s “protecting”.
In local news, Romania now has 32 F16 planes forming two full squadron after buying a Norwegian SH F16
Ah, the F-16V Fighting Hemovore variant.
Does it have enough pilots?
Sean,
I just saw that Xdemvy commercial… hilarious… Now last year I had an eyelid lesion… Derm said.. see Ophthalmologist, Optho didn’t like it, referred me to a Opto plastic surgeon. Opto, said no it isn’t a lesion, but Blepharitis, compresses and other washes didn’t take care of it.. So we tried Xemivy (new treatment) … completely cleared.
<emAt the same time, they upgraded their view on China to "overweight" from "neutral".
Time to load up on Temu and Alibaba, I guess.