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From the first article: “But her dedication had a downside: ‘My hair was almost falling out, because I was working so hard.'”
Poor girl, she’s so sensitive that she could tell that her hair was almost falling out.
The second article is a bit less clear. It’s very possible that the 84 year old professor is an old codger who has lost his fastball, and that the kids he’s teaching expect to be coddled. We have been on a long decline when it comes to academic standards and expectations for classwork. I taught a class a few years ago at a local college and, after the final exam, got a nasty note from an “honors” student who was angry that her performance on the final might put her “honors diploma” at risk. Kids are pretty entitled and empowered these days. It isn’t like it used to be.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think it can be true that structures can be designed to withstand a cat 5 storm, but at the same time you can’t protect land. The coastal erosion and restructuring that comes with a storm of this kind tend to re-establish the real estate goal line. When your cat 5 resistant vacation home is now stationed in the middle of a newly-dredged jetty you have few choices but to move.
A friend has beach real-estate near houston. One of the storms in the past two decades brought his house from being 6 rows back from the beach to being 2 rows back. It happens.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)While we are at it, why not ban residential air conditioning? It’s a huge and superfluous use of energy.
Hot water? Who needs it? Let’s all do cold showers. Fewer unwanted babies that way too!
In fact, we should ban industry from using electricity. They can just figure things out…maybe go back to water wheels. Anybody seen any good riverside manufacturing plants lately?
Once you go statist, you should go all in. You will be cold, dirty, and tired and like it.
Why? Because it’s California!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)They should just bump by 100 bps and get us moving back toward normalcy.
Oh, and they should rapidly shrink the fed balance sheet too.
The first one is more likely than the second.
You want inflation to cease? Take money out of the system. Oh, that will affect employment and housing? It’s only the chickens coming home to roost after trillions in stimulus to keep employment and housing intact.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Saw some posts that are calling this “human trafficking.”
Have to admit I chuckled at the flight to Martha’s Vineyard.
Let me get this straight: The feds allow people into border states and so the border states facilitate (not mandating) transportation to other states. I see no issue here. I could imagine that there’s some interstate commerce violation, but I’m not sure.
The politics of this are, frankly, kinda mean but brilliant. How is it any different from bussing folks to a supreme court judge’s house?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I always thought it was amazing that I got to know a few relatively conservative women at Stanford given how few there are statistically speaking. To run that gauntlet and not come out a complete liberal is impressive.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m sorry this hits so close to home. It’s amazing to me that someone can escalate from “workplace bullying” to murder so quickly. I get that his political ambitions were trashed but he didn’t deserve them. Tragic, tragic story for German, who appears to have fought the good fight for a long time.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The fed would be right imho.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This is nuts. The ACTUAL elected official he was investigating, a guy named Telles, appears to be the murderer. Guy did it himself it would appear.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/us/jeff-german-las-vegas-reporter-arrest-thursday/index.html
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)in a region where you basically can’t built without tens of thousands of dollars in environmental “studies” funding friends of the government the government allows human waste to flow to the bay?
Your tax dollars at work.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“He also noted that the department slowly gutted the course content by nearly 40% to solve that problem.”
a tragedy that is happening in almost every institution in America. Can’t pass the test? Ditch the test.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I do agree that our kids are way beyond me in education. But their work ethic absolutely sucks. I love my kids and think they will do ok in life, but am shocked at how willing today’s youths are to just sit around and do nothing.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This one is perplexing to the point of requiring conspiracy theories (your Russian jab).
However, what an awful story. How much duress must a man be under to take such action? I saw the ny post article on this when it first came out and was shocked. For a senior executive to be this far gone and still functioning in role is morbidly impressive.
Peace to his loved ones. This was the awful story of the weekend.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I agree with btd that EV’s are becoming the more attractive consumer item. I don’t think superiority of driver experience being in favor of ICE’s will last long.
I fear for the power grid. I can envision a day when EV’s are software programmed to only charge on certain days and to only give the driver a certain amount of charge by regulation. Think water rationing. It will be easy with Tesla’s over the air update model.
It will be just one more little nick in the tree of freedom.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Housing has a long way to drop. Maybe 15% on average but possibly 50 percent in some locales. There has been a lot of cash out there. Rises in rates, burn off of the fed balance sheet, high inflation on consumer goods, and an unsteady stock market all factor in.
Waiting for the next bailout with 3.5 percent unemployment.
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