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Mole

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  1. If Russ isn’t in an Orville Redenbacher ad by next week, they’re missing a prime opportunity.
  2. If a group of sergeants major bought a time share together, would it be the sergeants major’s time share?
  3. https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819584210
  4. I was growing fond of the ... Also, it’s funny that the FitLump thread, which is a plainly political topic, manages to stay free of politics. Somehow everyone can play nice there, but a worldwide disease is just too much to discuss without losing our minds.
  5. I’m looking for supporting evidence that this is actually what the bill calls for. Besides the tweet referenced above, I can’t find anything that actually supports this. Everything I find suggests something notably different. If the tweet is accurate and true, it’s maybe the most horrifying bill in a long time, but saying and writing true things should matter. The tweet conjures up images of grieving women paying the miscarriage fine and having to fill out form 666misc or something. That’s far different than a healthcare provider filling out some paperwork and letting the woman grieve in peace. You can be against the political posturing of casting miscarried fetuses as people needing death certificates without resorting to possibly false imagery of the ultimate in bureaucratic cruelty. And remember, I have no idea what I’m talking about when it comes to this subject, but I do know that tweets that put me into a blind rage(which such a bill should do) are often trying to manipulate and distort the truth. To me at least, that sure looks like what’s going on.
  6. Do women currently have to pay for those and fill out the forms of it happens after 16 weeks? Or does the provider do this somewhat silently apart from the hurting woman? The tweet used very specific language to describe something horrifyingly cruel — fining women and them filling out paperwork after a heartbreaking and very private experience. My guess is it’s more designed to establish a stronger basis for the fetus as a person. However anyone feels about that agenda, it’s not the plain cruelty depicted here.
  7. I’m struggling to find anything that supports that interpretation of the PA miscarriage bill. A surface-level bit of digging suggests that comic book level cruelty of those death certificates is a pretty dishonest depiction of what is being proposed. Honesty is still more important than winning internet points. I could be wrong, but there’s nothing that I can find that supports that explanation.
  8. When I was in the Army, I would sometimes use the phrases staffs sergeant or firsts sergeant to make light of the correct yet ridiculous sounding sergeants first class and sergeants major. I also use RsBI for the plural of RBI.
  9. And yet the title is dated 2024. Time to merge this thread with the UFO thread.
  10. No one’s going to point out that this meeting is from 3 years in the future?
  11. Maybe. We all have gut instincts that can save us or make us look foolish. No one died or was hurt, so that’s good, but I’m just picturing some guy on the Centenary College message board telling the story of walking to get a Gordita Supreme from Taco Bell when some lunatic at a gas station pulled a gun on him. A hopeful run for the border diverted; shame and fear at the pump; forced to eat Jack in the Box tacos in indignity; hunger is not a crime.
  12. So we’ve reached the interracial violence statistics portion of the program. We’re a little behind schedule. Taken as a whole, this thread presents pretty compelling evidence that proponents of CRT have valid arguments.
  13. There is no way to avoid challenging the worldview of students and teach those subjects in any meaningful way. Maybe most of it wouldn’t raise the ire of the culture warriors, but it’s impossible to study these subjects without challenging worldviews or dealing with a morality beyond “don’t cheat.” Messy is ok.
  14. English class is now just reading television instruction manuals. No literature allowed. No writing allowed either, except for maybe instruction manuals. Art class is mixing colors and nothing else. Certainly no looking at or making art. Music? I guess you could study the harmonic series, otherwise you’re out of luck. Certainly no music making or listening allowed. History? Nope. Not even memorizing a list of dates. The idea of not exposing students to a worldview or moral instruction isn’t possible. Seeking to return to an older, “3 Rs” approach is more just stating a preference for teaching a preapproved worldview/morality.
  15. A few semi-related thoughts: 1. I've read a small handful of articles in my field that use a CRT approach. One of the articles was picked up and misrepresented by various right wing national outlets for a small bit of an outrage hit. I may not have agreed or followed every logical leap the articles made, but they all challenged my assumptions and thought processes, making me better at what I do. I shared some of them with my students and it made for lively discussion and they came away with an expanded understanding of their field and how they fit into it. There's a real value and power in the way that CRT approaches things, even if it can be frustrating at times. 2. My limited understanding of CRT is mostly in how it interacts with my field. It has its own technical language and approaches things very differently than most of us are used to thinking. I don't think the explanations you'll see on major media outlets are likely to be full or meaningful. 3. Most of this outrage is third hand. Parents are upset about something, but there's little explanation of what specifically they're upset about, or that explanation doesn't really make sense. Now the fact that parents are upset (which is absolutely true) is used as evidence of a problem. It becomes a self-perpetuating problem. Outrage over outrage, but what's the source? Giving lists of upset people who are upset about being upset isn't really evidence of anything other than our outrage-addicted culture. 4. Since this is mostly focused on education, my drive-by comment is that an education that doesn't upset you or make you uncomfortable (or your kids or whoever) isn't much of an education. If your education simply reenforces your pre-existing worldview, then you might not be learning very much.
  16. Mark him down as definitely not his brother’s keeper.
  17. Three state solution: Israel, Palestine, and Thunderdome.
  18. The pedant in me says, since these two players weren't eligible to play as college freshmen, I'm ranking them last in some order. With that, I'll go: Carmelo, on the strength of his tournament play KD Davis Chris Jackson
  19. Wildly different eras and cities and all, but in terms of complete dominance of their era, you can't have an all-time Laker discussion without mentioning Mr. Basketball.
  20. To be fair, Lindsay is correct here. That’s kind of the problem.
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