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The text area goes light gray and the bear icon spins.
When I close the tab I get the message: "Changes you made may not be saved."
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I was able to post in my own thread.
But in another thread - I couldn't comment. For that failure - the bear icon spins but the the text area didn't go light gray. When I close the tab I get the message: "Changes you made may not be saved."
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Off-topic - sort of.
I can't make a new top level comment anywhere. But it seems I can reply.
[Tweet](https://nitter.snopyta.org/elonmusk/status/1671531280809304064#m)
There are more photos at the tweet. > Igor Vasilevsky's classic Druzhba Sanatorium (1978) in Crimea, designed so each room had a balcony view of the sea but privacy from the other balconies. > > The building was intended for discreet treatment of Soviet elites, not, as with some Soviet mental health facilities, forced treatment of people considered Undesirable. > > Like George Chakhava's transportation ministry building in Tblisi, Georgia, the Druzhba came from a period where Soviet architects were enchanted with the idea of building on steep land using massive columns to lift the whole structure. Creates a great hovering effect. > > it me, in the parallel life where i became an architectural historian but somehow still ended up in Peoria > > [Tweet](https://nitter.net/edburmila/status/1500574870375215109#m)
[Tweet](https://nitter.net/atomicthumbs/status/1490766798681096193#m)
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The year is 2122 and to get to a food distribution center - a brave American soul has braved the outside with its toxic atmosphere and skin burning UV rays due to the partial destruction of ozone layer by climate change mitigation efforts. It is 120 degrees outside. And it's much hotter inside her suit. She is at the center to get her monthly allowance of 10 units of food. "Food" is what it's called anyway.
"Hey, droid. You gave me 9 units."
"Incorrect. There are 10."
"Count them yourself: 9. A unit is clearly missing." Are even droids selling shit on the black market now?
"Dogs." Cyberdyne Systems cyberdogs are programmed to kill in 13 different ways. For control purposes there are 3 dogs in the room. There are dozens patrolling the center.
"Hey, you know what? 10. I made a mistake. There are 10 here! I am a happy citizen!" She doesn't want dogs escorting her home.
"Yes. Yes, you are. Next!"
> my 3rd grader came home with this today from school, excited to show me how he’d written his name in Chinese. I had to gently explain to him that this is, uh… extremely Not Correct > > [Tweet](https://nitter.net/fozmeadows/status/1488674526896349184#m)
**Sources** - [Nurses leave profession due to COVID burnout](https://www.wowktv.com/news/health/coronavirus/nurses-leave-profession-due-to-covid-burnout/) - [Survey: One-fifth of teachers plan to leave the profession](https://wcyb.com/news/local/survey-one-fifth-of-teachers-plan-to-leave-the-profession) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1482958613534711809#m) A reply... > [The teacher] stat was from before the 21/22 school year started. Now that we're back, between the kids definitely not being alright and tik tok challenges, what will the stat be at the end of the year?
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I like this tweet...
Lot of factors at play here, but I think we can't underestimate the possibility that "You folks will love the second faithful movie adaptation of a Broadway musical from 1957!" was not an enticing pitch to a 2021 audience.
[Tweet](https://twitter.com/THR/status/1469702438064111619#m)
I know it's like crazy sci-fi to think Biden ever would. I just want to know if the following article by Ryan Cooper is accurate. I find it nearly impossible to believe. > I've got a simple and easy solution for this. Biden declares judicial review null and void. > > [Tweet](https://nitter.net/ryanlcooper/status/1454222251600007169#m) > [Democrats have a better option than court packing](https://archive.md/ZD6GS) > > There has been comparatively little attention to the simplest and easiest way to get around potentially tyrannical right-wing justices: just ignore them. The president and Congress do not actually have to obey the Supreme Court. > > The weird thing about judicial "originalism" is that the explicit principle of judicial review is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. All of that document's stipulations on how the courts are to be constructed are contained in one single sentence in Article III: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." Actual judicial review was a product of a cynical power grab from Chief Justice John Marshall, who simply asserted out of nothing in Marbury vs. Madison that the court could overturn legislation — but did it in a way to benefit incoming president Thomas Jefferson politically, so as to neutralize his objection to the principle. > > Jefferson famously hated judicial review. In one letter, he said it is "a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so." But because of Marshall's canny political strategy, from that day forward Congress and the president have mostly deferred to the court's views and allowed it to strike down laws or establish entirely new legal principles even on completely spurious grounds. > > As Matt Bruenig argues at the People's Policy Project, it would be quite easy in practical terms to get rid of judicial review: "All the president has to do is assert that Supreme Court rulings about constitutionality are merely advisory and non-binding, that Marbury (1803) was wrongly decided, and that the constitutional document says absolutely nothing about the Supreme Court having this power." So, for instance, if Congress were to pass some law expanding Medicare, and the reactionaries on the court say it's unconstitutional because Cthulhu fhtagn, the president would say "no, I am trusting Congress on this one, and I will continue to operate the program as instructed." > > No doubt many liberals will object to this idea. It would be a fairly extreme step in terms of how America's constitutional system functions, and a lot of Democrats fear the idea of a Republican president not being hemmed in by the legal system. Big chunks of liberal political advocacy (like the ACLU) rely on pressing political cases through the courts. Conversely, conservatives have long advanced the idea that they are against "judicial activism," which makes liberals favor it more through negative polarization. > > [...] > > Most Americans are taught from a young age that the Supreme Court being able to strike down laws is what it means to have the rule of law. But this is not true. For one thing, as Doreen Lustig and J. H. H. Weiler write in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, judicial review is not nearly as intrusive in every other country as it is here. Some nations, like Austria or France, have a special Constitutional Court which rules on constitutional questions, but relatively infrequently. In others, like Finland or Denmark, judicial review basically never happens. In no other developed democracy does basically every piece of major legislation have to run a years-long gauntlet of tendentious lawsuits trying to get through the courts what parties could not get through the legislature. > > Moreover, simply refusing to agree to judicial review has happened before in American history. As historian Matt Karp writes at Jacobin, when the Civil War broke out, President Lincoln and Congress ignored the Dred Scott decision in a law banning slavery in all federal territories, and when Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled Lincoln did not have the power to suspend habeas corpus, the president ignored him. As Karp argues, storming the citadel of reactionary court power was necessary to destroy slavery.
> [Opinion | The Sexism That Led to the Elizabeth Holmes Trial - The New York Times](https://archive.is/JfDRs#selection-481.0-481.16) > > Ms. Pao is a tech investor and chief executive of Project Include, a diversity, equity and inclusion nonprofit. She is the author of "Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change," about her lawsuit against a venture capital firm and her experience running the technology company Reddit. The op-ed is shit. Pao throws in whataboutism and she doesn't even bother to explain how Holmes isn't actually a criminal and a con artist. ——— > [Elizabeth Holmes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes) > > Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American former businesswoman who was the founder and chief executive of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company. Theranos soared in valuation after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing testing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company. The next year, following revelations of potential fraud about Theranos's claims, Forbes had revised its published estimate of Holmes's net worth to zero, and Fortune had named her one of the "World's Most Disappointing Leaders".
The music generic and pathetic. But the lyrics really take the cake. Did he write them in five minutes? It's some lazy shit... *This has gotta stop* *Enough is enough* *I can't take this BS any longer* *It's gone far enough* *If you wanna claim my soul* *You'll have to come and break down this door* *I knew that something was going on wrong* *When you started laying down the law* [Eric Clapton - This Has Gotta Stop (Official Music Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNt4NIQ7FTA) > [Eric Clapton's 'This Has Gotta Stop' Appears to Take On Covid Vaxx - Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-new-song-this-has-gotta-stop-1217935/) > > In what appears to be his latest salvo against Covid-19 vaccinations and the lockdown, Eric Clapton has surprise-released a new single, "This Has Gotta Stop," with an accompanying animated video that also addresses climate change disaster. > > A bluesy shuffle, "This Has Gotta Stop" appears to reference some of the medical issues that Clapton said he experienced after receiving an AstraZeneca vaccination earlier this year with what he claimed were "disastrous" results: "My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning," he wrote at the time. As he sings in "This Has Gotta Stop," "I knew that something was going on wrong/When you started laying down the law/I can't move my hands, I break out in sweat/I wanna cry, I can't take it anymore." In the chorus he sings, "This has gotta stop/Enough is enough/I can't take this BS any longer." > > [...] > > The video includes images of people turned into marionettes or staring zombie-style at their phones; politicians or government officials addressing crowds; and others holding signs that say "Liberty" and "Enough Is Enough." It also includes an illustration of Jam for Freedom, the anti-lockdown UK street-performer group that Clapton supports, as well as imagery of a world on fire from environment disaster. > > [...] > > "This Has Gotta Stop" ties in with Clapton's recent and controversial comments about the pandemic lockdown. In July, Clapton announced he would "not perform on any stage where there is a discriminated audience present." Clapton's U.S. tour, which is confined to mostly indoor arenas in the South, is scheduled to start Sept. 13 in Fort Worth, Texas, before wrapping up Sept. 26 in Florida. --- **Edit** Oh, man - Van Morrison is shit too. Sigh. > [Eric Clapton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton#Anti_lockdown_songs) > > **Anti lockdown songs** > > In November 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Clapton and Van Morrison collaborated on an anti-mask, anti-lockdown single title "Stand and Deliver", the profits from which were donated to Morrison's "Lockdown Financial Hardship Fund".
> This really seems extreme and a harbinger of what is to come: veteran (and tenured) high school teacher and baseball coach dismissed from school after he assigned a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay and poem about white privilege. > > [Tweet](https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1413606113971421194) A parent complained that the Coates essay painted Trump in a negative light. --- >Sullivan County school board approves teacher termination charges, supporters outraged > >Posted: Jun 8, 2021 / Updated: Jun 9, 2021 > >UPDATE – The Sullivan County Board of Education Tuesday voted 6-1 that the charges of dismissal against teacher Matthew Hawn are true and warranted. > >Supporters and former students gathered at the meeting wearing light blue and holding placards voicing their support for the contemporary issues teachers. > >> Supporters of Hawn told me they were frustrated with the board's decision to continue the dismissal process against the Sullivan Central HS contemporary issues teacher @WJHL11 @ABCTriCities pic.twitter.com/HF8L68IOyo >> >> — Bianca Marais WJHL (@BiancaWJHL) June 9, 2021 > >During the meeting, only Board Vice-Chairman Matthew Spivey voted against the dismissal continuation. > >Director of Schools Dr. David Cox said during the meeting that he's been accused of racism due to these charges of dismissal against Hawn. > >"There has been a lot of talk online that accuses me of moving to dismiss Mr. Hawn because he taught anti-racism lessons. Let me be perfectly clear. Sullivan County Schools, and I in no way condone racism of any county. We have encouraged all of our teachers, including Mr. Hawn, to promote an environment welcoming to all students of all races of all backgrounds," Cox said. > >He added that he has been told that white privilege was the reason for his dismissal charges against Hawn. > >"This is also simply not true. In the charges I just read aloud in fact, I read that appropriate discussions around concepts like white privilege remain perfectly appropriate for a high school class, like contemporary issues. These charges of dismissal about Mr. Hawn refusing to provide his students with access to varying points of view, which is required under Tennessee law. And these charges are about Mr. Hawn, again, assigning inappropriate materials to his students," he said. > >Former students told News Channel 11 that latent racism was ever-present when they walked the Sullivan Central High School halls. > >> One student who graduated in 2018 from Sullivan Central High School, and attended Hawn's contemporary issues class for two years, said that he felt Hawn was a fair and balanced teacher. @WJHL11 @ABCTriCities pic.twitter.com/KPlJocQse4 >> >> — Bianca Marais WJHL (@BiancaWJHL) June 9, 2021 > >One student who graduated in 2018 and attended Hawn's contemporary issues class for two years, said that he felt Hawn was a fair and balanced teacher. > >"We talked about a lot of hot button issues in our class, we talked about white privilege, and he was very open and fair and balanced on both sides of the argument, and presented a like I said an open discussion we never saw any, anything that I believe would warrant a dismissal," Kyle Simcox said. > >--- > >BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – A Sullivan County school teacher and baseball coach is facing possible termination by the school district. > >The charges of dismissal come after two incidents pointed out by the school district. > >The first was after a parent who complained in early February about an opinion article Matthew Hawn assigned to his Contemporary Issues students by Ta-Nehisi Coats entitled "The First White President," which the complaining parent claimed painted the former president in a negative light. >Matthew Hawn. Courtesy of Laura Hawn. > >Hawn was issued an official letter of reprimand which passed unanimously at the March Board of Education meeting. > >Later in March, Hawn faced a second round of reprimands from the school district when, according to officials, he showed a video called "White Privilege," a spoken word poem by Kyla Jenee Lacey. > >The school district wrote to Hawn that though the concept of discussing white privilege and the like during a contemporary issues class is perfectly acceptable, the district administration did not believe some of the terms used in the video were appropriate for high school students. > >Hawn faces charges of dismissal at the Tuesday Sullivan County Board of Education meeting at 6:30 p.m. > >According to a Facebook group showing support for Hawn, roughly 50 people are expected to gather to show their support for the teacher at the meeting. > >It is unclear whether the public will be permitted to speak on this subject during the public comment section of the board meeting. > >He has been tenured at the Sullivan County School District since 2008 and has been teaching Contemporary Issues and coaching baseball at Central High School. > >Sullivan County Schools administrators sent News Channel 11 the following documents regarding Hawn: > >[a gallery of six images] >
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My question is: How long as he been an asshole? 10 years? 20 years? A lot longer? His entire adult life?
One reason Dawkins is the way he is - must be that he's one of those old people who gets worse with age and he's 80 years old.
He had a huge feud with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. Gould died in 2001. I know hardly anything about the feud other than they really hated each other. It was more than an argument about ideas. It was personal. I also don't know how religious Gould was. That might have had something to do with it too.
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I stumbled upon this a minute ago...
Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest is a book about the differing views of biologists Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould by philosopher of biology Kim Sterelny. When first published in 2001 it became an international best-seller.
The page is way too long for me to scan easily so I said the hell with it. I hate it when a Wikipedia page is exactly on the subject I'm interested in but the page is probably of little value. I'm interested in the vituperation not the science.
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I'm also an atheist. And if clarity is needed online I write "I'm just an atheist. I'm not a New Atheist asshole like Richard Dawkins."
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I can imagine Dawkins walking down an isolated country road. He gets started when he turns a corner and a woman in hijab runs up to him. She pleads with with him....
"My husband has had a heart attack. I have no phone. Please call 999!"
"If you admit God does not exist - I shall..."
>Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) > >Kafka's Metamorphosis is called a major work of literature. Why? If it's SF it's bad SF. If, like Animal Farm, it's an allegory, an allegory of what? Scholarly answers range from pretentious Freudian to far-fetched feminist. I don't get it. Where are the Emperor's clothes? > >[Tweet](https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1401239365678997506)
[Tweet](https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1397659057859801092) Follow-up tweet... > She’s now trending higher than stories about the mass shooting. --- >[Twitter will not free Palestine, but it will certainly make the world a more antisemitic place](https://archive.fo/gnGXX) > >by Eve Barlow • May 25, 2021 > >I don't know who crafted the first tweet that simply said "Eve Fartlow," but whoever it was—bot or human—started a fire. Over the past two weeks, Twitter has been littered with the words "Eve Fartlow." Every time I tweet, this title is the response I attract, and it is pelted at me irrespective of what I write. Hundreds of trolls, some with blue ticks and some without, just start responding to me "Eve Fartlow" (some people have recently switched it to "Eve Shartlow" but "Eve Fartlow" seems to be the one that sticks). If we donated a JNF tree to Israel for every time someone tweeted "Eve Fartlow," there'd be no Negev left. --- **Edit** [#2 now](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/k6nfiDpO3X.jpg)