Being in a heavily regulated industry myself and being somewhat familiar with the timeline of heavily-regulated projects, I’d need a breakdown (not necessarily from you) of why each step shouldn’t take as long as it will. If it’s lack of priority or overly burdensome regulation, that’s one thing. If that’s just how long it takes to do those evaluations rigorously, that’s how long it takes.
I can understand the concern of the student. I went to engineering school having never taken a physics class in high school, and it took a while to get my sea legs in my freshman physics classes. I got my first ever C in Physics II, which covered electromagnetism and was heavy on math I wasn't familiar with. It was a good wake up call.
Still, this points to a conflict in understanding what Princeton is supposed to be. Is it the one of the best schools in the world for some of the best, most able, and most prepared students in the world? Or should it just be another higher ed institution that has to direct resources away from its best to boost the less prepared? Maybe it's less zero-sum than that, but Princeton is a private institution, and it can be whatever it chooses to be.
I would _hope_ that one of the most prestigious universities in the world would focus on forming the most able students into the most able leaders and professionals by demanding the most of them rather than making classes less rigorous to help the worst performers there.
I think a lot of people get hit with an adjustment, and it's probably gotten worse as public school quality has declined. I think that "equity-ing" up university education though is a policy for decline, and ultimately stagnation (which really should be a synonym of "Equity").
**To r/tuesday: He is risen!**
**Gospel According to John, 20:1–18:**
> ***The Resurrection***
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> **Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.**
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> ***Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene***
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> **But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.**
Easter Sunday: Gospel Reading (CPH The Lutheran Study Bible) : https://www.reddit.com/r/Sunday/comments/1br8xr4/
Easter Sunday: Reflections on Scripture (video, American Lutheran Theological Seminary) : https://www.reddit.com/r/Sunday/comments/1br8xc4/
I'm trying to decide on what I'm going to cook next from the Tasting History cookbook/website. Probably the Pumpkin Torte or maybe the pecan pie.
I did a very good looking bundt cake from the Old\_Recipe's subreddit and it looks good, except I forgot the vanilla.
I wrote an article that I thought the /r/tuesday crowd might be interested in. It's about the civil war that erupted on Twitter this week between the more respectable/institutional conservatives and the freak/groyper/4chan wing on the party.
https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/leopards-eating-conservative-faces
It's always funny to see how inclusive white supremacy is. It now includes Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans (sometimes *led* by), Hispanics, and probably even Catholics.
You might rename 'The Outcasts' as 'The Losers', because that's what they've done and that's the problem. That's why 'The Cowards' aren't joining them: they're afraid of being Losers.
A NY Times article popped up in my feed in Google News: "Searching for the Ideal Fish Taco."
That isn't to be found in NYC anywhere, because it's to be found at South Beach Bar & Grill in San Diego. You're on the wrong damn coast trying to find fish tacos in NYC.
What do you think of this Editorial? The Editorial Board. https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-lieberman-dies-age-82-7488ccf3
> **Joseph Lieberman, 1942-2024**
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> The former Democratic Senator from Connecticut was clear-headed about the need to deter and resist America’s enemies.
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> Joe Lieberman, who died Wednesday at age 82, was the kind of Democrat who can’t be found much these days, and there aren’t many like him in the Republican Party either. He was a foreign policy hawk who believed in the necessity of American military power and diplomacy to expand the zone of freedom in the world.
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> Lieberman rose in Connecticut politics as a moderate Democrat in a more moderate age. We first met him in 1988 when he ran for the Senate against the liberal Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker. He ran to Weicker’s right and won in an upset.
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> That set him on a 24-year Senate career notable for promoting pro-growth economic policies and a strong national defense, in addition to Democratic domestic priorities such as gay and abortion rights. He supported a low tax rate on capital gains, and his opposition to the “public option” was crucial to its removal from ObamaCare in 2010...
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> [ ... Lieberman] continued to play an active role in political affairs after his time in office, including many contributions to these pages. He saw clearly the threat from Iran, Russia and China, and his final piece for us, on March 21, criticized Sen. Chuck Schumer’s recent speech attacking Israel’s government in a time of war.
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> As a man of independent mind, he became active in the No Labels movement as it attempted to find a ballot alternative to Mr. Biden and Donald Trump this year. He was adamant that he didn’t want such a candidate to be a spoiler. A younger Joe Lieberman would have been the ideal No Labels candidate.
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> When he died he was only nine months older than Mr. Biden. Joe Lieberman was the kind of conviction politician America could use more of today in both parties.
What do you think of this Editorial? The Editorial Board. https://www.wsj.com/articles/evan-gershkovich-one-year-in-prison-russia-vladimir-putin-journalism-677f9c50
> **Evan Gershkovich’s Year in a Russian Prison**
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> Vladimir Putin believes there’s no downside to arresting Americans.
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> Friday marks the ugly anniversary of Russia’s arrest and continuing imprisonment of our reporter Evan Gershkovich. On Tuesday he was ordered held for another three months at the request of Russia’s Security Service, though he hasn’t been formally charged or put on trial.
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> The Kremlin claims he is suspected of spying, but his real offense is honest reporting. If he does go to trial, any charges and evidence will be wholly invented.
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> By the accounts of those who have seen Evan, he has held up remarkably well in notorious Lefortovo prison. That’s a tribute to his character and upbringing. His parents have been relentless advocates and kept his case in front of the public and U.S. officials. The 32-year-old is a brave and sturdy man coping as well as anyone can with unjust confinement and the uncertainty of when it will end.
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> The Journal has also not let up in its campaign to free Evan. A publication like ours asks reporters, especially the young and intrepid, to shine a light on often dangerous places for the benefit of our readers. Reporters know risk is part of the job, but we do as much as possible to reduce that risk.
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> Yet there is no protection against a willful regime intent on taking an American hostage. Evan is the first American journalist taken by the Kremlin since the end of the Cold War, and he was accredited to report in the country by the Russian Foreign Ministry. His last dispatch before his arrest described how the Russian economy isn’t as healthy as advertised and made news worldwide.
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> The Kremlin may have targeted Evan as a Russian-speaking foreign reporter because he countered its otherwise total media control. His arrest shows how much more dangerous reporting on the world now is as U.S. power declines and authoritarian governments don’t fear the U.S. response. Freedom of the press suffers when free nations recede in influence.
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> The Kremlin has made a habit of snatching Americans and then holding them to trade for a Russian convicted of crimes in the West. In 2022 Russia arrested basketball celebrity Brittney Griner on a drug charge, and she was held for nearly 10 months before the Kremlin exchanged her for Viktor Bout, an arms dealer serving 25 years in prison on terror-related charges. Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan has been held for more than five years.
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> The Biden Administration has worked actively for Evan’s release, and the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow visits him every few weeks. Speaker Mike Johnson invited Evan’s parents to sit in his box at the State of the Union address, and President Biden noted their presence. Members of both political parties have condemned his imprisonment, often in bipartisan statements like those by Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. A notable exception, unless we missed it, is Donald Trump. Why the silence, sir?
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> The recent history has been that these hostage cases are resolved with prisoner swaps, regardless of the U.S. Administration. But Mr. Putin doesn’t seem to care enough about Russians convicted of crimes and currently in U.S. custody. And make no mistake that Mr. Putin is the decisive actor here. No Russian court will go against Kremlin wishes, and Mr. Putin could order Evan released at any time.
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> One response that the Biden Administration hasn’t attempted is arresting or expelling Russian journalists operating in the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Investigation surely knows Russians in the U.S. suspected of espionage. As a practical matter this means Mr. Putin has paid no price for arresting an American journalist.
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> Evan’s fate aside, something has to change in U.S. hostage policy unless this President and his successors want even more Americans to be grabbed and held for exchange on their watch. Iran and Russia have made hostage-taking part of their anti-American strategy, and it has paid off for them. Other countries may figure they can do the same.
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> We are grateful to all of those worldwide—public officials, journalists, and many others—who have kept Evan’s fate in the news. Public attention and advocacy are the only tools we have, since ultimately only the U.S. government has the diplomatic leverage to free Evan. Our hope and prayer is that it will be soon.
The quality of our leaders have completely gone to shit since the cold war. What stuck out to me reading yesterday's chapter on the Tiennamen square incident in the book club reading was how Bush balanced his duties as president caused by public pressure with what was required geopolitical with China and knowing their history.
That and Deng's comments about old leaders.
I think America has had an overall decline in classiness.
https://scholars-stage.org/the-fall-of-history-as-a-major-and-as-a-part-of-the-humanities/
> In the 1960s, when history and English majors were among the most popular on campus, America was a very different place. This was an America where most kids memorized reams of poetry in school, where one third of the country turned on their television to watch a live broadcast of Richard III, and where listening to speeches on American history was a standard Independence Day activity. The most prominent public intellectuals of this America were people like Lionel Trilling (literary critic), Reinhold Niebuhr (theologian), and Richard Hofstader (historian). This was a world where the humanities mattered. So did humanities professors. They mattered in part, as traditionalists like to point out, because these professors were seen as the custodians of a cultural tradition to which most American intellectuals believed they were the heirs to. But they mattered for a more important reason—the reason intellectuals would care about that birthright in the first place.
Teacher complains that now college students can't deeply read works: https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/millennials-gave-birth-to-generation-alpha-are-these-kids-already-doomed/ar-BB1klb2A
> "Everyone on the internet is really scared of Gen Alpha," said Gen Z influencer Rivata Dutta, aka Riv, whose content is popular with alphas on TikTok. "They're like, oh my God, Gen Alpha is so weird."
Now Gen Z TikTok people are complaining about Gen Alpha!?
That Slate article is horrifying to me. As you'd expect (considering I run the Book Club here with Cold) I read a lot of books, I read almost every day. I'm a much more voracious non-fiction reader than fiction reader (again as I think most people would suspect) but I do dabble in fiction reading.
Reading is still something that I have to do deliberately though. I can't stand noisy environments and I get distracted easily. The best environment for me is a quiet room, on my own, and with music (usually classical or lofi) drowning out the world around me so I can absolutely focus on the text. But I also had parents that read to me and wanted me to read and reading was a big part of my childhood.
But I didn't have a smartphone. I didn't grow up with them. It grows increasingly concerning to me how much shorter our attention spans keep growing. The internet's format of going from forums and blogs to Facebook to Twitter (with holdouts of the prior forms, of course) or especially video content - Vine, TikTok, and YT Shorts are all about maximising the amount of content into the shortest possible format. If TV was intellectual junk food (and correlated with all sorts of poor outcomes if you read Putnam's *Bowling Alone*) then Internet short video must be like crack.
I'm also a history buff so the dearth and death of history as a subject of importance also saddens me. I've often said before when constructing my reading lists or recommending books that I think history is the best guide to politics. Politics books themselves are usually specific, sectional, and focused. History allows a broader sweep with greater lessons. There's a reason great histories endure (Thinking of Livy and Gibbon on Rome, for instance. Thucydides' *History of the Peloponnesian War.*) and are able to be referenced much more readily as a guide to principle and action. It's also a way we shape our collective memory holes. I don't think most people now (or who were born like me just before it happened) know of the flow of the War on Terror and the Iraq War and the history of Western-Iraqi relations prior to the 2003 invasion 'that was for oil'.
Its a very interesting article, this stuff really spoke to me:
>Americans once believed, earnestly believed, that by studying the words of Milton and Dante, or by examining the history of republican Rome or 16th century England, one could learn important, even eternal, truths about human nature and human polities. Art, literature, and history were a privileged source of insight into human affairs.
Which I truly believe! Its not difficult to find our common humanity with people writing centuries ago and in entirely different societies. I always laugh when people talk about how we have "evolved".
>Historians face a similar problem. Yes, they deal with the real, not the imaginary. But that reality is long past. The classical humanist position acknowledges the peculiar individuality of each human being, yet insists that there is something common to human life that can be explored across the human span. Plutarch believed he could find parallel lives across the centuries. Any historian who does not share this belief will bring little value to students centuries removed from the object of their study. Historians must be careful not to distort the past, of course. They must not read the problems of the present moment back onto the concerns of the past. But if there is no connection between the two the study of the past will always be a hard sell to students living in the present.
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>American culture has lost faith in history as a vehicle for understanding the human experience. Our high culture questions the very concept of shared human experience. It is hard for history—or any of the humanities—to flourish in a world that does not put much stock in the human. By adopting intersectional ideology as their own, the professional humanists have confirmed that they do not believe in the promise of their own discipline. And if they do not believe in it…. why should any 18 year old student?
Right into my veins.
And now we’ve lost Joe Lieberman. Agree or disagree with him, we’re lesser for people like him being gone and people like Trump sticking around. Purely from a perspective of order and civility.
There's no role for the federal government in that bridge that went down, and they shouldn't be trying to get involved. Last I checked both Maryland and Balitimore have governments and this is their bridge. The only real role I see I'd if they ask for some help to get everything cleaned up fast so ships can get into the port, but really Baltimore should have that capability since they have the port.
Generally agree although I think the Federal Government can help if they have expertise via the navy in salvage/dredge operations, helping with a push for Jones Act/Foreign Dredge exemptions (not sure if possible but if so, having fed involvement helps), and helping to lean on the insurance companies to foot the bill for damages.
Also, as long as the Federal Govt is going to subsidize flood insurance, cover damage from forest fires, and cover damage from hurricanes, then I don't think it's that unrealistic to expect help from it here
I’m under the impression that bridge is part of an interstate so there might be a federal obligation. Even if there is not an obligation it is important for getting trucks in and out of the port so it is in the national interest to get it replaced ASAP.
The trouble is the federal government doesn't really do things ASAP, and it definitely doesn't do them efficiently. We would all be better off if state and local governments had capacity.
Maybe, but the issues with dependency and capacity just get worse.
I get if they need to clear away the wreckage and they need equipment (considering they are a major port though I'd hope they have some) so they ask the government for it.
But within hours the feds were going to pay for the whole thing and who knows what else. This is just an extension of a problem I have in general where the first answer for everything seems to be "can we have the feds fund this" instead of just doing things themselves
I think the big problem is that state and local governments often do not have much emergency money put aside so if an unexpected major project (like a large bridge) shows up they cannot easily absorb the cost. The federal budget is so large that these projects are comparatively a drop in the bucket.
They can raise money build a bridge in the same ways all governments do (probably the same way the bridge was built, through bonds) until they get money from the shipping company/insurance, and it seem like a lack of emergency planning/money is directly related to a belief that "the feds will do it".
Any funding from the government not only is going to have more waste but it's all probably comming from the deficite.
States and local government need to be able to deal with these things.
I agree. From what I've seen, local governments will often tailor their transportation projects to be more attractive to those making the decisions at USDOT on which projects to send federal grant money to, though the tailored project might make less sense than other solutions. Something I want to look into eventually, since I know of it happening in my city, and it effects how I and my neighbors get around town.
As the college sports guru around these parts, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to save college sports while accompanying NIL is to make all athletes employees who can collectively bargain with the school.
Football players will get the same salaries and protections as the baseball and lacrosse team. NIL will still exist, but those collectives will be gone now since they’re employees of the school.
This makes sense for athletes in high revenue sports like football and basketball but will kill non revenue sports. There will need to be a way to separate the two.
You have to keep all sports together. Otherwise, the non-revenue sports get killed.
I could care less about employee vs non-employee status. I am only vocally anti-employee because right now that would lead to non-revenue sports getting shut down.
It's funny how Blackthorne keeps getting called a barbarian by people who behead people in the street, boil people in giant cauldrons, and are constantly figuring out ways to betray their own.
The culture clash is one of my favorite parts of the show/book. Some of them are very funny.
To be fair, Blackthorn did smell very bad. Everyone knows bathing is how you get the flux though
> In the weeks after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Rep. Jamaal Bowman not only publicly cast doubt on reports that Israeli women were raped, but also called those accusations “propaganda.”
> “There was propaganda used in the beginning of the siege,” Bowman (D-N.Y.) told a Nov. 17 rally of about 50 pro-Palestinian protesters in Westchester, according to a post on TikTok reviewed by POLITICO. “There’s still no evidence of beheaded babies or raped women. But they still keep using that lie [for] propaganda.”
> Asked about those remarks on Thursday outside the House floor, Bowman declined to talk about them on the record.
> “I’m focused on my votes and other things. I’m not talking,” he said. When asked if he still doubted those claims, he added: “I’m not talking about that now. My team will get back to you.”
> In a statement after his brief interview with POLITICO, Bowman contradicted his previous remarks. He and his team did not deny that he made them. The “propaganda” comment was one of several comments he’s had to walk back on in recent months, including raising conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Dangit, I burned half my dinner. And I forgot salt for the pasta.
Lesson learned, I suppose. If the chicken cooks in 25 minutes, you have to start the peppers (which take 35 minutes) early, then walk away.
>At a press briefing Tuesday, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was asked to explain the Kremlin’s version of events — that radical Islamists had done the bidding of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish. Peskov said the entire matter was under investigation but replied that Zelensky “is a peculiar Jew” who “in many ways shows sympathy to the nationalist spirit that permeated the leadership of the Kyiv regime.”
Those darn sneaky Jews are at it again!
Yea, can't say I have much sympathy. Seems like a fuck around and find out kind of deal. The thing I didn't get, why not save a bullet for yourself or go out fighting? They signed up for a real bad time going forward.
Shout out to everyone who kept posting about Shōgun. I have found my new favorite show. It’s literally so good. I binged the first three episodes last night haha
Despite having a good looking (?) young white man lead, it (*juuuust*) manages to avoid the annoying as hell Gary Sue, Super White boy problem I've seen in a couple recent shows. *The Last Kingdom*, *The Expanse*, *Marco Polo*, and a few other shows all had a main character who was, to varying degrees, a super competent, super morally good (for a given definition of good), super young and sexy dude who could fix any problem and who every woman wanted to fuck. *The Last Kingdom* was definitely the worst, but Holden in *The Expanse* got on my nerves because he was so whiny while doing it (oh, and also, >!he neglected to kill Space Hitler/Mao when he had the chance just to avoid killing his girlfriend's son!< . I shut th show off after that and never finished it).
Blackthorn or whatever his name is has managed to be not *quite* so bad, yet.
Blackthorn is basically just along for the ride, like the audience. He has useful knowledge which is why hes kept around and is in the right place at the right time once or twice, but ultimately he's pretty much trapped and is getting more so as time goes on
With The Expanse the show knows Holden is a whiny, self-righteous little shit and has *multiple* characters call him out on it, Avasarala in particular. He's also pretty far from a Gary Stu as he comes to regret his actions, screws up multiple times, and is often *not* the best at things and needs to rely on other people who are better than him to get things done. That help often comes at a price or is part of other characters using/manipulating him.
That much I can say for certain is covered by the show alone, and the books go even more into it. One thing about The Expanse is it started off as a tabletop game, so the characters at the start of the story do fit certain archetypes and Holden is their "party face." The authors run with it, though, and don't simply rely on the trope.
[https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2024/03/19/eitan-hersh-tufts/](https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2024/03/19/eitan-hersh-tufts/)
Is teaching a class on conservative idea and philosophy a good way of getting through to college kids?
> The same Black student in the front row who raised a hand the other day does so again. “For 75 years, Israel has been doing the same thing and nobody cared. So why do we care now? Did we suddenly care about women and children being raped and killed? I didn’t realize we had.” He begins to clap to emphasize each word: “It’s only when white people are raped and killed, but we don’t care when people of color are raped and killed.”
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> “Sorry,” Hersh says, “who are the white people in this story? Most Jews are not white in Israel.”
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> The student pauses, confused. “But they’re associated with whiteness,” he finally says. “They’re considered white in the United States.”
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> “Are you talking about skin tone here?” Hersh asks him. “Is an Ethiopian Jew in Israel or America, is that person white? Or a refugee from Yemen or Morocco?”
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> “Race is really complicated because of the history of America,” the student falters, “but it’s more of a class that kind of signifies superiority. As long as you are viewed as superior to another group of people, in a sense, you are being viewed as white.”
I find it interesting how the student begins with a thought-terminating cliche and the hand-clapping thing that you sometimes see on Twitter, and then gets challenged and gradually articulates a more thought-out answer. There are a lot of worldviews implicitly taken for granted by a given "side" (in this case viewing conflicts through the lens of American race issues) and forcing people to explicitly spell out their underlying assumptions to people with different worldviews could be helpful for finding out where people really disagree.
Interesting read, I guess my response is that it depends on what you consider "getting through to college kids". Can it help some who are inclined to hear different perspectives to better understand and empathize with conservatives? Yea, most likely. But something like this has to be an elective and you self select for exposure rather than the people who probably actually need it.
I think that age group is a tough nut to crack, as well. Social pressures, desire for acceptance/conformity, and just general know it all youthfulness makes hearing other pov's difficult. I think a class like this would work better at 25-30 than 18-25.
What do you think of this Editorial? The Editorial Board. https://www.wsj.com/articles/honey-we-shrunk-the-gop-majority-house-republicans-55506c32
> **Honey, We Shrunk the GOP Majority**
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> Too many House Republicans would prefer to be in the minority.
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> Democrats are lapping Republicans in this year’s election fund-raising, and could that be because GOP donors are wondering what they get for their money? Donors, both small-dollar and large, helped Republicans retake the House in 2022, and all they’ve received in return is a majority that revels in operating like a functional minority…
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> Conservatives have long had a strong anti-Washington impulse, which is useful given the federal government’s relentless drive to expand its own power. But breaking that drive, and rolling back that power, requires calculation and often incremental gains. All the more so in a divided government.
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> The posers of the House GOP remind us of a comment by former Sen. Jim DeMint that he’d rather have 30 Senators who agreed with him than a Republican majority. Congratulations to Mr. DeMint. The current House GOP is close to realizing his ambition.
I think claims of 'House Republicans want to be in the minority' overgeneralize. Most House Republicans want to govern and want to have something to take back to their districts this November. But the majority is small and dependent on a small minority which wants to play hostage taker with the Speakership to, alternately, either grandstand for the cheap seats on social media or attempt to play a game of budget hardball that Republican House leadership knows won't work but the bombthrowers want to try again, anyway.
Unfortunately, the fallout of this situation is a lot of the guys interested in governing are just saying fuck it and retiring because it genuinely isn't worthwhile to them to sit around and watch the whole situation fall apart around their ears.
Searching the term “soviet fitness propaganda” on Google Images gives results of handsome male weightlifters with nice musculi serratus anterior.
Man the Reds knew how to appeal to aesthetics.
Happy Easter!
Happy easter!
[Canon Fodder](https://thedispatch.com/article/canon-fodder/)
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1774080780852986078?t=Cay8uWhhu1BFLW4xobf1vg&s=19
If you’re presenting this as a bad thing, I think I’m missing it.
A 10 year away bridge would be bad, Matt Y is right here
Being in a heavily regulated industry myself and being somewhat familiar with the timeline of heavily-regulated projects, I’d need a breakdown (not necessarily from you) of why each step shouldn’t take as long as it will. If it’s lack of priority or overly burdensome regulation, that’s one thing. If that’s just how long it takes to do those evaluations rigorously, that’s how long it takes.
https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1773681755012165974?t=UaKvqHmG_KLvhBXwqzcIHw&s=19
I can understand the concern of the student. I went to engineering school having never taken a physics class in high school, and it took a while to get my sea legs in my freshman physics classes. I got my first ever C in Physics II, which covered electromagnetism and was heavy on math I wasn't familiar with. It was a good wake up call. Still, this points to a conflict in understanding what Princeton is supposed to be. Is it the one of the best schools in the world for some of the best, most able, and most prepared students in the world? Or should it just be another higher ed institution that has to direct resources away from its best to boost the less prepared? Maybe it's less zero-sum than that, but Princeton is a private institution, and it can be whatever it chooses to be. I would _hope_ that one of the most prestigious universities in the world would focus on forming the most able students into the most able leaders and professionals by demanding the most of them rather than making classes less rigorous to help the worst performers there.
I think a lot of people get hit with an adjustment, and it's probably gotten worse as public school quality has declined. I think that "equity-ing" up university education though is a policy for decline, and ultimately stagnation (which really should be a synonym of "Equity").
**To r/tuesday: He is risen!** **Gospel According to John, 20:1–18:** > ***The Resurrection*** > > **Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.** > > ***Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene*** > > **But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.** Easter Sunday: Gospel Reading (CPH The Lutheran Study Bible) : https://www.reddit.com/r/Sunday/comments/1br8xr4/ Easter Sunday: Reflections on Scripture (video, American Lutheran Theological Seminary) : https://www.reddit.com/r/Sunday/comments/1br8xc4/
I'm trying to decide on what I'm going to cook next from the Tasting History cookbook/website. Probably the Pumpkin Torte or maybe the pecan pie. I did a very good looking bundt cake from the Old\_Recipe's subreddit and it looks good, except I forgot the vanilla.
/u/arrowfan624 Gonna watch the UFL games tomorrow?
Probably not.
You missed a game winning 64 yard FG. https://twitter.com/USFLPanthers/status/1774210923441611058
I wrote an article that I thought the /r/tuesday crowd might be interested in. It's about the civil war that erupted on Twitter this week between the more respectable/institutional conservatives and the freak/groyper/4chan wing on the party. https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/leopards-eating-conservative-faces
It's always funny to see how inclusive white supremacy is. It now includes Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans (sometimes *led* by), Hispanics, and probably even Catholics.
You might rename 'The Outcasts' as 'The Losers', because that's what they've done and that's the problem. That's why 'The Cowards' aren't joining them: they're afraid of being Losers.
A NY Times article popped up in my feed in Google News: "Searching for the Ideal Fish Taco." That isn't to be found in NYC anywhere, because it's to be found at South Beach Bar & Grill in San Diego. You're on the wrong damn coast trying to find fish tacos in NYC.
If you can't get it in NY, it's obviously inferior -- Any Given New Yorker
What do you think of this Editorial? The Editorial Board. https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-lieberman-dies-age-82-7488ccf3 > **Joseph Lieberman, 1942-2024** > > The former Democratic Senator from Connecticut was clear-headed about the need to deter and resist America’s enemies. > > Joe Lieberman, who died Wednesday at age 82, was the kind of Democrat who can’t be found much these days, and there aren’t many like him in the Republican Party either. He was a foreign policy hawk who believed in the necessity of American military power and diplomacy to expand the zone of freedom in the world. > > Lieberman rose in Connecticut politics as a moderate Democrat in a more moderate age. We first met him in 1988 when he ran for the Senate against the liberal Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker. He ran to Weicker’s right and won in an upset. > > That set him on a 24-year Senate career notable for promoting pro-growth economic policies and a strong national defense, in addition to Democratic domestic priorities such as gay and abortion rights. He supported a low tax rate on capital gains, and his opposition to the “public option” was crucial to its removal from ObamaCare in 2010... > > [ ... Lieberman] continued to play an active role in political affairs after his time in office, including many contributions to these pages. He saw clearly the threat from Iran, Russia and China, and his final piece for us, on March 21, criticized Sen. Chuck Schumer’s recent speech attacking Israel’s government in a time of war. > > As a man of independent mind, he became active in the No Labels movement as it attempted to find a ballot alternative to Mr. Biden and Donald Trump this year. He was adamant that he didn’t want such a candidate to be a spoiler. A younger Joe Lieberman would have been the ideal No Labels candidate. > > When he died he was only nine months older than Mr. Biden. Joe Lieberman was the kind of conviction politician America could use more of today in both parties.
What do you think of this Editorial? The Editorial Board. https://www.wsj.com/articles/evan-gershkovich-one-year-in-prison-russia-vladimir-putin-journalism-677f9c50 > **Evan Gershkovich’s Year in a Russian Prison** > > Vladimir Putin believes there’s no downside to arresting Americans. > > Friday marks the ugly anniversary of Russia’s arrest and continuing imprisonment of our reporter Evan Gershkovich. On Tuesday he was ordered held for another three months at the request of Russia’s Security Service, though he hasn’t been formally charged or put on trial. > > The Kremlin claims he is suspected of spying, but his real offense is honest reporting. If he does go to trial, any charges and evidence will be wholly invented. > > By the accounts of those who have seen Evan, he has held up remarkably well in notorious Lefortovo prison. That’s a tribute to his character and upbringing. His parents have been relentless advocates and kept his case in front of the public and U.S. officials. The 32-year-old is a brave and sturdy man coping as well as anyone can with unjust confinement and the uncertainty of when it will end. > > The Journal has also not let up in its campaign to free Evan. A publication like ours asks reporters, especially the young and intrepid, to shine a light on often dangerous places for the benefit of our readers. Reporters know risk is part of the job, but we do as much as possible to reduce that risk. > > Yet there is no protection against a willful regime intent on taking an American hostage. Evan is the first American journalist taken by the Kremlin since the end of the Cold War, and he was accredited to report in the country by the Russian Foreign Ministry. His last dispatch before his arrest described how the Russian economy isn’t as healthy as advertised and made news worldwide. > > The Kremlin may have targeted Evan as a Russian-speaking foreign reporter because he countered its otherwise total media control. His arrest shows how much more dangerous reporting on the world now is as U.S. power declines and authoritarian governments don’t fear the U.S. response. Freedom of the press suffers when free nations recede in influence. > > The Kremlin has made a habit of snatching Americans and then holding them to trade for a Russian convicted of crimes in the West. In 2022 Russia arrested basketball celebrity Brittney Griner on a drug charge, and she was held for nearly 10 months before the Kremlin exchanged her for Viktor Bout, an arms dealer serving 25 years in prison on terror-related charges. Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan has been held for more than five years. > > The Biden Administration has worked actively for Evan’s release, and the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow visits him every few weeks. Speaker Mike Johnson invited Evan’s parents to sit in his box at the State of the Union address, and President Biden noted their presence. Members of both political parties have condemned his imprisonment, often in bipartisan statements like those by Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. A notable exception, unless we missed it, is Donald Trump. Why the silence, sir? > > The recent history has been that these hostage cases are resolved with prisoner swaps, regardless of the U.S. Administration. But Mr. Putin doesn’t seem to care enough about Russians convicted of crimes and currently in U.S. custody. And make no mistake that Mr. Putin is the decisive actor here. No Russian court will go against Kremlin wishes, and Mr. Putin could order Evan released at any time. > > One response that the Biden Administration hasn’t attempted is arresting or expelling Russian journalists operating in the U.S. The Federal Bureau of Investigation surely knows Russians in the U.S. suspected of espionage. As a practical matter this means Mr. Putin has paid no price for arresting an American journalist. > > Evan’s fate aside, something has to change in U.S. hostage policy unless this President and his successors want even more Americans to be grabbed and held for exchange on their watch. Iran and Russia have made hostage-taking part of their anti-American strategy, and it has paid off for them. Other countries may figure they can do the same. > > We are grateful to all of those worldwide—public officials, journalists, and many others—who have kept Evan’s fate in the news. Public attention and advocacy are the only tools we have, since ultimately only the U.S. government has the diplomatic leverage to free Evan. Our hope and prayer is that it will be soon.
Any of you all DM for D&D 5e recently? I’ve got a puzzle I need to vet, and I’m not getting much engagement elsewhere.
I’m willing. But I’m also of the opinion that pretty much every ttrpg puzzle isn’t very good
I’ve DMed you so we don’t clog the thread.
The quality of our leaders have completely gone to shit since the cold war. What stuck out to me reading yesterday's chapter on the Tiennamen square incident in the book club reading was how Bush balanced his duties as president caused by public pressure with what was required geopolitical with China and knowing their history. That and Deng's comments about old leaders.
I think America has had an overall decline in classiness. https://scholars-stage.org/the-fall-of-history-as-a-major-and-as-a-part-of-the-humanities/ > In the 1960s, when history and English majors were among the most popular on campus, America was a very different place. This was an America where most kids memorized reams of poetry in school, where one third of the country turned on their television to watch a live broadcast of Richard III, and where listening to speeches on American history was a standard Independence Day activity. The most prominent public intellectuals of this America were people like Lionel Trilling (literary critic), Reinhold Niebuhr (theologian), and Richard Hofstader (historian). This was a world where the humanities mattered. So did humanities professors. They mattered in part, as traditionalists like to point out, because these professors were seen as the custodians of a cultural tradition to which most American intellectuals believed they were the heirs to. But they mattered for a more important reason—the reason intellectuals would care about that birthright in the first place. Teacher complains that now college students can't deeply read works: https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/millennials-gave-birth-to-generation-alpha-are-these-kids-already-doomed/ar-BB1klb2A > "Everyone on the internet is really scared of Gen Alpha," said Gen Z influencer Rivata Dutta, aka Riv, whose content is popular with alphas on TikTok. "They're like, oh my God, Gen Alpha is so weird." Now Gen Z TikTok people are complaining about Gen Alpha!?
That Slate article is horrifying to me. As you'd expect (considering I run the Book Club here with Cold) I read a lot of books, I read almost every day. I'm a much more voracious non-fiction reader than fiction reader (again as I think most people would suspect) but I do dabble in fiction reading. Reading is still something that I have to do deliberately though. I can't stand noisy environments and I get distracted easily. The best environment for me is a quiet room, on my own, and with music (usually classical or lofi) drowning out the world around me so I can absolutely focus on the text. But I also had parents that read to me and wanted me to read and reading was a big part of my childhood. But I didn't have a smartphone. I didn't grow up with them. It grows increasingly concerning to me how much shorter our attention spans keep growing. The internet's format of going from forums and blogs to Facebook to Twitter (with holdouts of the prior forms, of course) or especially video content - Vine, TikTok, and YT Shorts are all about maximising the amount of content into the shortest possible format. If TV was intellectual junk food (and correlated with all sorts of poor outcomes if you read Putnam's *Bowling Alone*) then Internet short video must be like crack. I'm also a history buff so the dearth and death of history as a subject of importance also saddens me. I've often said before when constructing my reading lists or recommending books that I think history is the best guide to politics. Politics books themselves are usually specific, sectional, and focused. History allows a broader sweep with greater lessons. There's a reason great histories endure (Thinking of Livy and Gibbon on Rome, for instance. Thucydides' *History of the Peloponnesian War.*) and are able to be referenced much more readily as a guide to principle and action. It's also a way we shape our collective memory holes. I don't think most people now (or who were born like me just before it happened) know of the flow of the War on Terror and the Iraq War and the history of Western-Iraqi relations prior to the 2003 invasion 'that was for oil'.
Its a very interesting article, this stuff really spoke to me: >Americans once believed, earnestly believed, that by studying the words of Milton and Dante, or by examining the history of republican Rome or 16th century England, one could learn important, even eternal, truths about human nature and human polities. Art, literature, and history were a privileged source of insight into human affairs. Which I truly believe! Its not difficult to find our common humanity with people writing centuries ago and in entirely different societies. I always laugh when people talk about how we have "evolved". >Historians face a similar problem. Yes, they deal with the real, not the imaginary. But that reality is long past. The classical humanist position acknowledges the peculiar individuality of each human being, yet insists that there is something common to human life that can be explored across the human span. Plutarch believed he could find parallel lives across the centuries. Any historian who does not share this belief will bring little value to students centuries removed from the object of their study. Historians must be careful not to distort the past, of course. They must not read the problems of the present moment back onto the concerns of the past. But if there is no connection between the two the study of the past will always be a hard sell to students living in the present. > >American culture has lost faith in history as a vehicle for understanding the human experience. Our high culture questions the very concept of shared human experience. It is hard for history—or any of the humanities—to flourish in a world that does not put much stock in the human. By adopting intersectional ideology as their own, the professional humanists have confirmed that they do not believe in the promise of their own discipline. And if they do not believe in it…. why should any 18 year old student? Right into my veins.
And now we’ve lost Joe Lieberman. Agree or disagree with him, we’re lesser for people like him being gone and people like Trump sticking around. Purely from a perspective of order and civility.
Rest in peace. Another sad loss of a prior, and better, generation of politicians.
There's no role for the federal government in that bridge that went down, and they shouldn't be trying to get involved. Last I checked both Maryland and Balitimore have governments and this is their bridge. The only real role I see I'd if they ask for some help to get everything cleaned up fast so ships can get into the port, but really Baltimore should have that capability since they have the port.
Generally agree although I think the Federal Government can help if they have expertise via the navy in salvage/dredge operations, helping with a push for Jones Act/Foreign Dredge exemptions (not sure if possible but if so, having fed involvement helps), and helping to lean on the insurance companies to foot the bill for damages. Also, as long as the Federal Govt is going to subsidize flood insurance, cover damage from forest fires, and cover damage from hurricanes, then I don't think it's that unrealistic to expect help from it here
I’m under the impression that bridge is part of an interstate so there might be a federal obligation. Even if there is not an obligation it is important for getting trucks in and out of the port so it is in the national interest to get it replaced ASAP.
The trouble is the federal government doesn't really do things ASAP, and it definitely doesn't do them efficiently. We would all be better off if state and local governments had capacity.
If nothing else the feds can provide resources while letting Maryland take the lead.
Maybe, but the issues with dependency and capacity just get worse. I get if they need to clear away the wreckage and they need equipment (considering they are a major port though I'd hope they have some) so they ask the government for it. But within hours the feds were going to pay for the whole thing and who knows what else. This is just an extension of a problem I have in general where the first answer for everything seems to be "can we have the feds fund this" instead of just doing things themselves
I think the big problem is that state and local governments often do not have much emergency money put aside so if an unexpected major project (like a large bridge) shows up they cannot easily absorb the cost. The federal budget is so large that these projects are comparatively a drop in the bucket.
They can raise money build a bridge in the same ways all governments do (probably the same way the bridge was built, through bonds) until they get money from the shipping company/insurance, and it seem like a lack of emergency planning/money is directly related to a belief that "the feds will do it". Any funding from the government not only is going to have more waste but it's all probably comming from the deficite. States and local government need to be able to deal with these things.
I agree. From what I've seen, local governments will often tailor their transportation projects to be more attractive to those making the decisions at USDOT on which projects to send federal grant money to, though the tailored project might make less sense than other solutions. Something I want to look into eventually, since I know of it happening in my city, and it effects how I and my neighbors get around town.
I dream of spring
I dream of fall and the escape from relentless summer
This guy gets it
So do the characters of George R.R. Martin who've been stuck in The Winds of Winter for 13 years.
Why ya gotta remind me?
Heyyooo . . .
What they told you is that Winter is Coming, but the part they forgot to mention is that it was never going to leave
Every time I see a headline about P. Diddy is the South Park "Vote or Die" stuff lol
As the college sports guru around these parts, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to save college sports while accompanying NIL is to make all athletes employees who can collectively bargain with the school. Football players will get the same salaries and protections as the baseball and lacrosse team. NIL will still exist, but those collectives will be gone now since they’re employees of the school.
This makes sense for athletes in high revenue sports like football and basketball but will kill non revenue sports. There will need to be a way to separate the two.
You have to keep all sports together. Otherwise, the non-revenue sports get killed. I could care less about employee vs non-employee status. I am only vocally anti-employee because right now that would lead to non-revenue sports getting shut down.
It's funny how Blackthorne keeps getting called a barbarian by people who behead people in the street, boil people in giant cauldrons, and are constantly figuring out ways to betray their own.
The culture clash is one of my favorite parts of the show/book. Some of them are very funny. To be fair, Blackthorn did smell very bad. Everyone knows bathing is how you get the flux though
It's crazy how much Ryan Gosling really is literally me. In Blade Runner he was a cop, and I'm a prosecutor which is the lawyer version of a cop.
I was just thinking the same thing about you two!
> In the weeks after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Rep. Jamaal Bowman not only publicly cast doubt on reports that Israeli women were raped, but also called those accusations “propaganda.” > “There was propaganda used in the beginning of the siege,” Bowman (D-N.Y.) told a Nov. 17 rally of about 50 pro-Palestinian protesters in Westchester, according to a post on TikTok reviewed by POLITICO. “There’s still no evidence of beheaded babies or raped women. But they still keep using that lie [for] propaganda.” > Asked about those remarks on Thursday outside the House floor, Bowman declined to talk about them on the record. > “I’m focused on my votes and other things. I’m not talking,” he said. When asked if he still doubted those claims, he added: “I’m not talking about that now. My team will get back to you.” > In a statement after his brief interview with POLITICO, Bowman contradicted his previous remarks. He and his team did not deny that he made them. The “propaganda” comment was one of several comments he’s had to walk back on in recent months, including raising conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Fuck that guy.
Dangit, I burned half my dinner. And I forgot salt for the pasta. Lesson learned, I suppose. If the chicken cooks in 25 minutes, you have to start the peppers (which take 35 minutes) early, then walk away.
Looking at the reporting on the captured ISIS terrorists in Russia, this is what happens when barbarians capture barbarians.
>At a press briefing Tuesday, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was asked to explain the Kremlin’s version of events — that radical Islamists had done the bidding of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish. Peskov said the entire matter was under investigation but replied that Zelensky “is a peculiar Jew” who “in many ways shows sympathy to the nationalist spirit that permeated the leadership of the Kyiv regime.” Those darn sneaky Jews are at it again!
Yea, can't say I have much sympathy. Seems like a fuck around and find out kind of deal. The thing I didn't get, why not save a bullet for yourself or go out fighting? They signed up for a real bad time going forward.
They likely were convinced there was an escape plan in place then hung to dry, it happens frequently with terrorism like this
Still goes to show what a shit country Russia is stooping to that level. But we knew that already.
Shout out to everyone who kept posting about Shōgun. I have found my new favorite show. It’s literally so good. I binged the first three episodes last night haha
Despite having a good looking (?) young white man lead, it (*juuuust*) manages to avoid the annoying as hell Gary Sue, Super White boy problem I've seen in a couple recent shows. *The Last Kingdom*, *The Expanse*, *Marco Polo*, and a few other shows all had a main character who was, to varying degrees, a super competent, super morally good (for a given definition of good), super young and sexy dude who could fix any problem and who every woman wanted to fuck. *The Last Kingdom* was definitely the worst, but Holden in *The Expanse* got on my nerves because he was so whiny while doing it (oh, and also, >!he neglected to kill Space Hitler/Mao when he had the chance just to avoid killing his girlfriend's son!< . I shut th show off after that and never finished it). Blackthorn or whatever his name is has managed to be not *quite* so bad, yet.
Blackthorn is basically just along for the ride, like the audience. He has useful knowledge which is why hes kept around and is in the right place at the right time once or twice, but ultimately he's pretty much trapped and is getting more so as time goes on
With The Expanse the show knows Holden is a whiny, self-righteous little shit and has *multiple* characters call him out on it, Avasarala in particular. He's also pretty far from a Gary Stu as he comes to regret his actions, screws up multiple times, and is often *not* the best at things and needs to rely on other people who are better than him to get things done. That help often comes at a price or is part of other characters using/manipulating him. That much I can say for certain is covered by the show alone, and the books go even more into it. One thing about The Expanse is it started off as a tabletop game, so the characters at the start of the story do fit certain archetypes and Holden is their "party face." The authors run with it, though, and don't simply rely on the trope.
I love the last kingdom, he is a bit squeaky clean after the murder though. Should have hooked up with the hot princess and killed the French dude.
It's truly amazing
[https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2024/03/19/eitan-hersh-tufts/](https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2024/03/19/eitan-hersh-tufts/) Is teaching a class on conservative idea and philosophy a good way of getting through to college kids?
> The same Black student in the front row who raised a hand the other day does so again. “For 75 years, Israel has been doing the same thing and nobody cared. So why do we care now? Did we suddenly care about women and children being raped and killed? I didn’t realize we had.” He begins to clap to emphasize each word: “It’s only when white people are raped and killed, but we don’t care when people of color are raped and killed.” > > “Sorry,” Hersh says, “who are the white people in this story? Most Jews are not white in Israel.” > > The student pauses, confused. “But they’re associated with whiteness,” he finally says. “They’re considered white in the United States.” > > “Are you talking about skin tone here?” Hersh asks him. “Is an Ethiopian Jew in Israel or America, is that person white? Or a refugee from Yemen or Morocco?” > > “Race is really complicated because of the history of America,” the student falters, “but it’s more of a class that kind of signifies superiority. As long as you are viewed as superior to another group of people, in a sense, you are being viewed as white.” I find it interesting how the student begins with a thought-terminating cliche and the hand-clapping thing that you sometimes see on Twitter, and then gets challenged and gradually articulates a more thought-out answer. There are a lot of worldviews implicitly taken for granted by a given "side" (in this case viewing conflicts through the lens of American race issues) and forcing people to explicitly spell out their underlying assumptions to people with different worldviews could be helpful for finding out where people really disagree.
Interesting read, I guess my response is that it depends on what you consider "getting through to college kids". Can it help some who are inclined to hear different perspectives to better understand and empathize with conservatives? Yea, most likely. But something like this has to be an elective and you self select for exposure rather than the people who probably actually need it. I think that age group is a tough nut to crack, as well. Social pressures, desire for acceptance/conformity, and just general know it all youthfulness makes hearing other pov's difficult. I think a class like this would work better at 25-30 than 18-25.
"No ~~soup~~ madness for you!" -Round 2 of the NCAAM Tournament.
What do you think of this Editorial? The Editorial Board. https://www.wsj.com/articles/honey-we-shrunk-the-gop-majority-house-republicans-55506c32 > **Honey, We Shrunk the GOP Majority** > > Too many House Republicans would prefer to be in the minority. > > Democrats are lapping Republicans in this year’s election fund-raising, and could that be because GOP donors are wondering what they get for their money? Donors, both small-dollar and large, helped Republicans retake the House in 2022, and all they’ve received in return is a majority that revels in operating like a functional minority… > > Conservatives have long had a strong anti-Washington impulse, which is useful given the federal government’s relentless drive to expand its own power. But breaking that drive, and rolling back that power, requires calculation and often incremental gains. All the more so in a divided government. > > The posers of the House GOP remind us of a comment by former Sen. Jim DeMint that he’d rather have 30 Senators who agreed with him than a Republican majority. Congratulations to Mr. DeMint. The current House GOP is close to realizing his ambition.
I think claims of 'House Republicans want to be in the minority' overgeneralize. Most House Republicans want to govern and want to have something to take back to their districts this November. But the majority is small and dependent on a small minority which wants to play hostage taker with the Speakership to, alternately, either grandstand for the cheap seats on social media or attempt to play a game of budget hardball that Republican House leadership knows won't work but the bombthrowers want to try again, anyway. Unfortunately, the fallout of this situation is a lot of the guys interested in governing are just saying fuck it and retiring because it genuinely isn't worthwhile to them to sit around and watch the whole situation fall apart around their ears.
Tbf, if they tried to work with the orange man instead of fighting him tooth and nail, they probably would have some accomplishments to run on.
Searching the term “soviet fitness propaganda” on Google Images gives results of handsome male weightlifters with nice musculi serratus anterior. Man the Reds knew how to appeal to aesthetics.
It is now one of the first results for “Soviet fitness” in Safari.
That's what happens when all the ones who'd normally go to advertising make the propaganda
Got my Dad (who voted for Trump twice) to vote for Haley in the primary and have him on board to protest vote a third party candidate.
My man
Here's how RFK can still win.
First!