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The dilemma for parents as school starts again is to take personal stock in your risk tolerance and decide to have your kids go to school or to keep them out and have them continue falling further behind. This isn't just a micro issue, but at scale, you are talking about potentially 15 years from now looking back and saying "this is why Generation Z Jr. are such deadbeats and suck at skills and live at home forever". I recall seeing some data points from Plano ISD I think and it was remarkable how badly test scores regressed from kids being "home schooled" while parents work or "zoom schooled" by teachers. We are talking about essentially kids being held back a grade for 2 or 3 years to catch up AND it's going to impact BIPOC disproportionately. It's a true dilemma in that there is no good answer.

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Speaking of Warnock, I read this this AM and depending on how cynical we have become this is either a sign of hope or it makes you angry: "In a rare moment of unity, the chamber broke out into spontaneous applause when Ted Cruz, a staunchly conservative Republican from Texas, and Raphael Warnock, a progressive Democrat from Georgia, made a joint highway proposal that got unanimous support. "

Penny, I understand. But show your contrition. Eh, just read the article: Some Cuomosexuals have responded with contrition. “I regret ever saying I was a Cuomosexual,” one man tweeted. Randy Rainbow deleted his tweet with the “Andy” video. For many of us, reading the A.G.’s report, and listening to the Governor’s cynical denials, spurs a kind of embarrassed clarity, similar to the feeling one experiences after running into an old ex. How could we have witnessed these same qualities—in Cuomo’s case, the narcissism, the bullying, the hackneyed paternalism—and found them attractive? In search of an answer, I contacted Virginia Goldner, a psychoanalyst who has written about sexual harassment (see: “Pleasure Can Hurt: The Erotic Politics of Sexual Coercion,” published last year, in an issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues). Goldner, a clinical professor at N.Y.U., co-founded an academic journal called Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and appears on the Showtime series “Couples Therapy.” She had some reassuring words for any Cuomosexuals who are in a shame spiral right now. The Governor was up to something in those press conferences. “He was radiating an erotized masculinity that has within it hostility and a little tenderness,” she said. “That combination of soft and hard—mostly hard, but also soft—is what so many women crave in some way,” she said. She called it the “retrosexual part of us”—the part that was raised with the image of a “big, square” daddy/lover figure, even if we’ve never actually had one. She noted that a lot of gay men respond to the fantasy, too: “That’s a figure that could easily be hot to a man.” Goldner went on to untangle some of the more baffling behavior in the A.G.’s report. Why would an eligible bachelor, who could presumably date any woman he wanted, choose to kiss, grope, and flirt with office underlings against their will? Why would a skilled politician risk it all to stroke the stomach of a state trooper, or to make lewd comments (“Gentle but accurate, I’ve heard that before”) to a doctor who was giving him a covid swab? Was he actually trying to seduce these women? Probably not, Goldner said. “Sexual harassment is not so much about sexual satisfaction. That’s not necessarily its goal.” Instead, it’s a kind of “sadomasochistic flirtation.” The harasser enjoys creating sexual tension in the workplace, but what he really likes is the psychological torment. The harassed subordinates are forced to live in a state of fear and confusion, wondering if today will be the day the boss crosses the line again. “They’re likely always thinking about him, worrying about him, and it’s ruining their lives,” Goldner said. “On the other hand, he might have no memory of these incidents. He gets an impulse, he tortures somebody—startles them, shames them, whatever sadistic game he’s playing that day—and then he goes back to running the state.” She quoted Henry Kissinger, noting that power is an aphrodisiac. That’s true, but it’s really “the sensation of power relative to powerlessness,” she said—power over someone else. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/diving-into-the-subconscious-of-the-cuomosexual

Be honest; who here was a (CRINGE) cuomosexual? What are we to make of the “Cuomosexual” phenomenon—of the fact that, just a year ago, much of blue-state America was lusting after Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has since been accused of sexual harassment by at least eleven women? The erotic interest was documented in a Jezebel article—“Help, I Think I’m in Love with Andrew Cuomo???”—written during the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, as President Trump was telling the nation’s governors to find their own respirators and ventilators, and an anxious city was finding solace in Cuomo’s daily press briefings. The term “Cuomosexual” was popularized in a song called “Andy,” by the comedian Randy Rainbow, set to the tune of “Sandy,” from the musical “Grease”: “Oh Andy, baby / you’re so strong and rational / from now on I / identify / as Cuomosexual.” (Rainbow’s video has been viewed more than two million times on YouTube.) The Governor presented himself as an alternative to Trump, and New Yorkers embraced the comparison, swooning over Cuomo’s Queens accent and his tough-guy schtick. (“Forget bodyguards,” he said, of Trump. “He’d better have an army if he thinks he’s going to walk down the street in New York.”) We basked in his awkward displays of affection (looking into a camera and telling New Yorkers, “I miss you. I love you. I’m thinking about you”), smiled at his onscreen banter with his brother Chris Cuomo, the muscle-bound CNN anchor, and giggled at his dad jokes about serving spaghetti and meatballs to his adult daughters and a boyfriend. Celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres and Trevor Noah announced their Cuomosexuality. The New York fashion brand Lingua Franca produced a four-hundred-dollar sweater with “cuomosexual” embroidered on the front, while other venders slapped the slogan on cocktails, underwear, and baby tees.

Also, I'm glad we are moving away from Nate the Gr8 being harsh to the new kit manager. It reeked of Jared harrassing the new assistant in Silicon Valley as a cheap, bad way to keep a character written in episodes where he's not part of the central story.

2nd.

Have not; will be doing so later this month at minimum. You?

The San Diego Zoo is the most overrated piece of crap. Nobody social distances, the tigers even have Delta, and who puts a zoo on the side of a mountain?

All of this ^. Back to the telly, and me actually like Roy Kent a lot as a character, but his voice is an affectation right? Oy, that’s not natural, innit? (Sorry, been watching w/closed caption. But the voice has a lot of Christian bale as Batman effort going into it, it feels like).

Alright, clearly I am the idiot here and everyone else is happy to be on the same page, so I'll be gracious and bow out here. Pods, anyone else who has lost someone due to Covid-19, I'm sincerely sorry for any losses you guys have had. The one thing I think will be good--or if not good, at least interesting-- is to see if our move to the SEC is going to force some of you people to engage with others who think and act a bit differently than you, as we get new posters. It would be healthier for a lot of you to attempt considerations and engage in the higher order thinking that is necessary to converse with those who have fundamental counter beliefs and points.

I'm on record as saying that while I would hate for the government to control or force something into a persons body, I think if you are NOT vaccinated then you should be means tested and if you CANNOT prove you have the insurance or the liquid means to pay for a worst case, extended stay (or death) in a hospital and NOT be a further drain on the tax paying community, you should be expected to undergo weekly testing or a vaccination. Your choice. That said, I took umbrage with someone saying "unvaccinated people are cramping my lifestyle, man! F off with their "its my body my choice argument"" when that same argument is being used to do a bit more than cramp unborn lifestyles. Perhaps that was wrong of me and I should have posted that conversation in a different thread. If I was wrong in cross-posting, I'm sorry. But I stand by my comments. In sum, I am NOT anti-vax. I don't want others to be anti-vax. I just wanted to call out a hypocrisy.

I'm fully vaccinated and get tested once a week at work. But tell me more why people like me (fully vaxxed and committed and submitting to weekly tests) are killing many more children than people literally killing babies. Under the same exact argument. (e.g. My body, my choice).

Why are people on an entirely different thread, picking on the fact that I didn't know the details of Emmett Till and just knew the name and knew there was a hate crime and got it confused with another more local hate crime, as a huge deal. I copped to it, I've learned something, and I won't make that mistake again. Did I commit some unforgivable sin here or something? I'll say it louder for those in the back: I AM SORRY.

And apparently you are an emotional wreck and besides you, I don't know who needs to hear this, but you are a good guy just having a bad day. I forgive you for your ignorance and foolishness.

Okay then...weird, but okay.

Haha, so you admit that I'm right and you are angry and wrong. Thank you for your honesty.

Troll!!!11111eleven

First off, every accusation is a confession and I see you are trying to troll. Nice, but no thanks. Secondly, funny how you call out that something is a myth and not true and people respond to being educated with "but you didn't even know about Emmett Till until you educated yourself and thanked someone for giving you a link to read!!! IDIOT!". Very funny and trollish. Thirdly, I am not wrong. Pro-Choice people are guaranteeing a death, at a 1:1 linear ratio. That's a sunk cost with being able to say "it's my body, I can do what I want". People who don't want to vax are potentially or theoretically killing people, I think the argument is, and that is potentially or theoretically somewhere between a linear and exponential ratio (though I've yet to see the hard data around what it actually is, as a theory). And these deaths are because of someone saying "it's my body, I can do what I want". If you aren't a troll, answer this: How is it different?

It's my body, I have the right to choose! - Abortions, that literally kill. It's my body, I have the right to choose! - No you don't! Pro-choice people.

Yes. It's fascinating how propaganda and certain "facts" burrow into the minds and consciousness and fabric of our country. I guess that's why it's called a mythology, because with time, oral and written history, stories and traditions are unreliably passed down and bleed into both apocrypha and hagiography. Here is a link below, but seriously, anyone with 10 minutes and access to Google can debunk this myth if they are an honest person. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/plag/5240451.0001.009/--did-the-us-army-distribute-smallpox-blankets-to-indians?rgn=main;view=fulltext

One thing I didn't quite understand: Ted and the good doc said...8 straight ties, 0 wins...(and not a peep from 3% owner Rupert, by the way again)...and then in the next scene it seems like a ton of time has lapses (changed seasons from like summer or fall to snow/winter and the doctor has been hired, etc.), and then Jaime makes his surprise debut. Is this still the season? Off-season? How much time did indeed lapse? And I'm not spoilering this; if you are clicking on this thread and haven't watched to current-- why are you clicking on this thread?

Agreed. If you are vaccinated, live your life. I don’t like the idea of a possibility where governments force a vaccination in your body, but I also feel like if you take the risk, you own the results. And we should means test who should be able to take potentially expensive risks and have an underwriter review if you have enough liquid cash or good enough insurance to pay for an extended hospital stay because you aren’t vaxxed.

Why would uninsured be vaccine hesitant? It’s free to them, and they can try and proactively not get something that will put them in a hospital and rack up real dollars and bills, saddling them with debt and being a further burden to tax payers. If anything, if you don’t have private insurance, you should be forced to get the vax. If you have insurance or have the money to pay out of pocket if the worst case scenario happens, then do you.

That’s a myth.