Cygnia Posted March 29, 2023 Report Share Posted March 29, 2023 Tom Cowan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 29, 2023 Report Share Posted March 29, 2023 This isn't explicitly political, but goes there in a hurry. Life expectancy in the US drops again for the 2nd year in a row Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 29, 2023 Report Share Posted March 29, 2023 If anyone's interested, here's the Fresh Air episode I mentioned: https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2021/11/22/1057244756/fresh-air-for-nov-22-2021-gunfight-author-ryan-busse Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 29, 2023 Report Share Posted March 29, 2023 5 hours ago, DShomshak said: following the model set by anti-abortion activists I still can't embrace that kind of thinking. Garbage laws impact the wrong people negatively, and ultimately solve nothing. We'll have to agree to disagree on this point, though I do understand that kind of frustration that drives this kind of approach. Iuz the Evil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 The enemy of my enemy is my friend: Outgoing Disney district board signs away all rights to Disney one day before being replaced by cronies of Ron DeSantis Quote Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handpicked board overseeing Disney World’s government services is gearing up for a potential legal battle over a 30-year development agreement they say effectively renders them powerless to manage the entertainment giant’s future growth in Central Florida. Ahead of an expected state takeover, the Walt Disney Co. quietly pushed through the pact and restrictive covenants that would tie the hands of future board members for decades, according to a legal presentation by the district’s lawyers on Wednesday. ... That declaration is valid until “21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England,” Ternaugh, Cygnia and Hermit 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 Dr. MID-Nite 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 I remember drills to hide under our desks in case of nuclear attack in grade school. Maybe one of these days, we'll have a generation that doesn't have to drill to futilely hide under desks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lectryk Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Pattern Ghost said: I remember drills to hide under our desks in case of nuclear attack in grade school. Maybe one of these days, we'll have a generation that doesn't have to drill to futilely hide under desks. I did those, too. We have had a generation didn't have to, though. Millenials at least didn't come up under the cloud of potential nuclear annihilation and were out before school mass shootings became a regular thing. Is that a win? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 10 hours ago, Lectryk said: Millenials at least didn't come up under the cloud of potential nuclear annihilation and were out before school mass shootings became a regular thing. Is that a win? They had Columbine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 My first bomb scare happened when I was in first grade, in early 1963. Now, at the time I was in the American school in West Berlin.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 Gen-Xer here, never did a bomb scare drill during school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Walsh Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 (edited) I'm Gen-X and grew up in California, so we had fire, earthquake, and nuclear bomb drills. For fire you'd line up and go outside, and for the other two you'd get under your little feeble school desk, cover your head with your hands, and hope for the best. Edited March 30, 2023 by GM Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 (edited) Never had a drill. Late age millennial - though all my schooling was Canadian Edited March 30, 2023 by TrickstaPriest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 Never had a drill. Swede. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/europe/turkey-vote-finland-nato-membership-intl/index.html Finland will be admitted to NATO, Sweden pending approval but hopefully soon. Cygnia and Pattern Ghost 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cowan Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 Well, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/urgent-trump-hit-criminal-charges-212734615.html Hermit and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 DShomshak, Grailknight, Hermit and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 30, 2023 Report Share Posted March 30, 2023 A welcome bit of good news: What Bangladesh is doing to adapt to climate change. (Though it remains aggravating that *acknowledging reality* should be political.) https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/03/26/1165779335/facing-floods-what-the-world-can-learn-from-bangladeshs-climate-solutions Dean Shomshak tkdguy and TrickstaPriest 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 31, 2023 Report Share Posted March 31, 2023 My state has decided to take away background checks for pistol purchases. The state government overrode the Governor's veto for this. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 31, 2023 Report Share Posted March 31, 2023 I'm surprised nobody has posted this yet. Maybe waiting for confirmation, but it has been announced in the major news organizations. New York Grand Jury Indicts Donald Trump MrWolf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted March 31, 2023 Report Share Posted March 31, 2023 5 minutes ago, tkdguy said: I'm surprised nobody has posted this yet. Maybe waiting for confirmation, but it has been announced in the major news organizations. New York Grand Jury Indicts Donald Trump Tom Cowan did, right above the Bernie Sanders video (which is awesome). tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 31, 2023 Report Share Posted March 31, 2023 How did I miss that? Sorry, Tom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 31, 2023 Report Share Posted March 31, 2023 On 3/29/2023 at 9:32 PM, Old Man said: The enemy of my enemy is my friend: Outgoing Disney district board signs away all rights to Disney one day before being replaced by cronies of Ron DeSantis Even more ironically, by Florida law the negotiations and conditions of the agreement between Disney and the old district board had to be made public before the deal was signed, to allow for objections. If DeSantis or any of his flunkies had been paying attention, they might have stepped in to try to prevent it, but they certainly wouldn't have been blindsided. Side note, I was listening to a YouTube commentator who claimed to have interacted with Disney's lawyers, in a social capacity. He described them as the likely inspiration for the villains in Disney's animated movies: cold, calculating, and thinking long term. And that was when they were on vacation. Ternaugh and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 31, 2023 Report Share Posted March 31, 2023 DShomshak and Hermit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 31, 2023 Report Share Posted March 31, 2023 That's the culture wars in a nutshell. There are indeed those whose views are so fragile that the mere existence of other people with different behaviors and beliefs feels threatening to them. A great deal of their self-image, their definition of their identity and sense of worth, is tied to their beliefs being the "one true way." Knowing that there are others who believe differently threatens their certainty of their rightness. That's why they try to force such people to be invisible, so they won't be reminded they exist. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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