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Discrimination isn’t always black and white. People in wheelchairs shouldn’t be discriminated against for an office job, but they’re not going to be climbing ladders as a roofer. In your black and white world are you going to argue that people in wheelchairs shouldn’t have ramp access to offices? Or that because there are ramps into buildings they should be given specialist equipment to enable them to do roofing? As far as tangential characteristics, there’s a lot of evidence to show that a diverse group tends to have higher performance. But humans are naturally drawn to copies of themselves. So if you’ve got a company that only employs graduates from Oxford University because “it’s the best”, is discriminating. The lie that is told by the anti DEI believers is that diversity means accepting inferior people. There are many DEI policies and practices that are sensible and practical. 20 odd years ago in the UK it was fairly common practice to have a photo on your CV. These days best hiring practices remove names, genders and race from the CV’s removing innate bias. The only people it hurts are Uncle Fred’s nephew who knows someone and gets a leg up. Lastly sorry to say it but with bias involved I’m certain that your violinist will be perceived as mediocre no matter how good they are, if you’ve got people who believe that only blond white women can play well. You only need to look at your political views to see that there are those of who believe that Trump is “better” than Harris, because a woman could never be better than a man.

Well done,, those vids take a lot of work. Not sure what it will take to finally end the McCoy grift.. Facts don't matter.. Though he did get the tie particles tested, Josh has really disappointed... and gone for the low info audience.

I can remember doing so. Actually I remember that many people knew that all along. But once it became clear that he was going to run anyway everyone just grabbed onto the thin straw of hope that it would work out. Politicians are vain by nature. You have to be to go through what they must. Biden is no different.

10 minutes of tunnel time scheduled for today and ground school this Saturday. Let's GO!

We as a nation, we as a world. Social media and the need to make noise permeates our lives . . . To wish our Presidents get killed, our former President die a horrible death. Not a kind word from anyone, anymore.

The argument that Biden's selfishness gave us President Trump is probably valid. He never should have sought a second term. The field should have been open from his second year. Biden's crime was hanging on, Trumps crimes are different and worse. Even in light of knowing Biden's diminished state he would have still been a better choice and that sucks.

According to an article I read, no actual controllers were fired. Just everyone else. Because, after all, what does a man need besides himself in a giant organization that involves coordinating with others? Wendy P.

So you're saying that hiring and promotion in technical fields in results driven industries is not, in fact, done purely on merit? That it is always a subjective process driven by the personal preferences of the person doing the hiring? It's like you're so close yet still so far away from having a really important revelation.

Presented for your reading pleasure, Trump's speech in Qatar: =========================================== When you look at what's happening with Russia and Ukraine the drone is killing tremendous numbers of people. You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with fire. You don't have a chance and the tree comes down also by the way. It's so intense the— I mean you see these trees being knocked down like. . . .Like they're being sawed down by a top of the line, uhh, timberman like... Like... You know who? Sean . uh . Duffy. Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who's working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg was the head and he goes bicycling to work. He takes a bicycle to work, can you believe it? He's head— He's running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work. What a— And they say he's going to run for president, I don't see it. Who knows right? But I don't see it. But, uh, when I look at what they've done uh, it's so horrible what they've done and the work they did do they wasted billions of dollars. They tried to hook up air systems to... To copper. They tried to hook up copper to glass and the glass doesn't work with the copper and... uh . . .uh they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs and when they put it all together they spent billions of dollars. It didn't even come close to working and we're going to be giving out a brand new system. It's very important. We'll have the best system. And we think we know who that system is but we have a lot of bidding. But we want one check. We want a unified system. We don't have, uh, 5,000 contractors and all different places, some digging ditches and some not doing ditches because they want to go by satellite. Satellite seems to be the way to go. We're going to be giving that out pretty soon. But what people don't know about Sean cause I mentioned lumberjacks that Sean — you probably didn't know this that uh — I'm not talking about this Sean, this Sean no, not, this is not... This is a different Sean. Sean Duffy, the head of Transportation. He's a great Sean though, I have to tell you but Sean Duffy was the world champion for five years climbing trees and down, up and down, world champion! So that's what you call a serious a lumberjack. And he's doing a fantastic job too, a really respected guy and terrific guy and I mentioned the champion because when somebody's the champion — he's the world champion for a long time — he came down, when you come down those trees, coming down at a rapid... He said that started getting your back. You will often break your back! You... You miss... You miss a shot and you're coming down a lot faster than the human body was meant to come down. But he's doing a fantastic job at Transportation. But this has been a very, uh, historic trip. ================================================= So takeaways: Pete Buttigieg biked to work and therefore was a loser. But Sean Duffy is a lumberjack (or maybe a timberman, or something like that) and he climbs down trees faster than anyone - faster than humans are supposed to! - so he's great. He's like those drones that circle you with fire. The former guys tried to hook up air systems to copper and glass, but glass doesn't work with copper. The new system will have a lot of ditches all dug by one guy. Or one company. But they won't use ditches! They will use satellites.

Agreed. After all, this is pretty much how most of my family photos look. There are so many things that are so fucked up about this picture, even outside of the cringe inducingly tasteless decor. Barrons toy cars being mostly stretch limos, Melania either farting hard or they have a really strong fan just out of shot, the list goes on.

Yes, you claim to oppose discrimination in theory but in reality scream and shout and insult anyone who wants to reduce the amount of discrimination that happens. Why? Because the everyday racist reality of the workplace suits you quite nicely.

using them as cushions mostly

Oh my bad. Merican English can have odd miscommunications. In my world that is a Chartered Engineer (which I am), and PE is physical exercise.

I honestly don’t think you understand DEI or what it means. So now we get to see a glimpse of your biases. People with degrees are idiots, unlike the jocks who are good at PE. It makes sense that you would struggle with women like Harris being competent, as in your world deadlift weight is directly correlated to IQ. Trump on the other hand being able to lift 300lbs of lard is a genius

This Texan went to a blue buckle on the blue belt; western Massachusetts! Wendy P.

DEI is the opposite of discriminatory. Diversity - a skilled black candidate is more desirable than a less skilled white candidate. Equity - a skilled candidate in a wheelchair is considered because the place has handicapped ramps, so he can get to work. Inclusion - a skilled candidate who is a mother is considered because they get 10 minutes off every 2 hours to pump milk. Anti-DEI means you hire the boss's son, whether he has any skill or not.

Woke as it is embraced by many is too all encompassing. For example, I don't think allowing or encouraging gender bending among kids, especially the permanent stuff makes sense. I do think treating our gay friends and citizens with absolute equality is the right thing. I also believe that recognizing societal injustices and making some accommodations that help level the playing field is right. I don't think that as a matter of policy candidates with great ability should be sidelined simply because more people are needed in a different column. Too far is never good policy and too far is now where the right is going in the false belief that DEI is ruining the world.

Most of us here are insulated from Trumps new world by age or money. In reality it's been that way for a long time. We look at the better good in terms of societal fairness and a system that allows for economic success but without the sacrifice of equity. So much for the good fight. Unless it gets to where the Black Maria pulls into the driveway some night the fundamentals of my life won't change much except I'll pay less tax. Also, and I suspect this will be generally true for many of us, unless something really serious develops that makes the political landscape more interesting and less depressing I'll gradually check out.

Hi Mark & Joe, I think most of us realized Biden was old, but I also think we were somewhat dishonestly misled about how bad he was getting. Old and demented as Biden might be I still believe he'd be better than Trump. Unfortunately it is that shallow belief that blinded me to the reality that he is old and demented and no one I should have supported in 2024. I too think Biden would be better than what we have now; hell, just about anyone would be better. IMO the real crime is the cover-up of Biden's condition. I think the up-coming Jake Tapper book is going to be very interesting reading. And, when we talk about those who hang on way too long; let us not forget RGB, she got us Trump's three picks on the Supremes. Jerry Baumchen New book alleges Biden aides hid his decline : Consider This from NPR : NPR

The big difference I see, Biden was getting positive results. Some of us fully expected the shit show we now see, albeit I am surprised at the speed of the destruction. Trump and the republicans are nothing short of a total disaster for the WORLD, not just the US. I think most of us realized Biden was old, but I also think we were somewhat dishonestly misled about how bad he was getting. I had always thought it was important to keep Americans aware of the health of the POTUS (including the FOTUS I suppose). That, of course, is yet another "normal" thing we WERE used to seeing. The Felon administration is doing their damndest to destroy everything about America. Yay. Thankfully it would appear that The Felon can identify some animals on a chart. He's just the bestest at every thing.

Also, WE as in we self flagellating liberal reality denialists who easily could have been posting here a year or two ago that Biden was now too old and decrepit to run again instead of pretending otherwise. We who could have been writing our D representatives en masse again and again informing them that we had no intention of supporting Biden again in 2024. We who should have been clever enough to realize that our self serving, and already partially mummified, senior leaders like Pelosi, Cardin, Durbin, Blumenthal or Feinstein who hung on until she died of old age were never going to say Biden was too old to run again. The point I am remaking is that it's way too easy to blame dumb farmers who still have Trump 2024 banners on their barns instead of owning the major role we liberals played in seating this horrific administration.

Say what? People are still manufacturing, not just using but manufacturing 2-pin reserve containers with velcro flap closures and round canopies in 2018?? What the hell are you people doing over there?

The one commodity never in short supply is stupidity.

They got Hayden's two rigs. One of the rigs and both of the packing cards were left on the plane. Therefore any rig that was not Hayden's other rig, matching that other packing card, would have to be dismissed. Is that wrong?

Please be careful about how you use the word “we”.

We have lost any sense of common decency.

I'm not arguing that truth. Earlier here I said: "No. But he wasn’t a national disaster in term one. Who knows who said what about running again. Probably no one." To be clearer, I absolutely fault D's in power for standing by and doing nothing effective, if they did anything, to dissuade him from running. It's a hot mess of our own making, that's the bottom line.

If Walmart “eats the tariffs” doesn’t that defeat the purpose of them? I don’t understand. And apparently neither does the dotard.

Hard to believe it was nearly 10 years ago.

Why this mixup persisted boggles me. Sure, that night when phone calls are made and Cossey thinks he's volunteered his rigs... But the next day or whenever the next time he's at the dz and realizes they didn't take his rigs... And from the FBI's side, surely someone could have said, 'no we didn't take his, we got them from this pilot...' So why did they keep asking Cossey about them? Anyway, this Wednesday on Discovery, Josh Gates is implying he's going to name Cooper? Who's behind this?

I grew up listening to Mario Lanza and other tenors. In 1993, this untrained singer takes the stage with Zucchero and the opera world is buzzing. Bocelli comes out with "Romanza" in 1997. I am in shock. In my mind, no one could present as powerful a rendition of Nessun Dorma than Mario and I was wrong. There is no better evening than a firepit, glass of wine and putting my staggered playlist of both of them on and watching a sunset. All this to say, I finally get to see him in person next month.

Awesome! Wendy P.

As you so eloquently and, I must say, accurately pointed out I would have voted for a potato on a stick instead of Trump. Neither Biden or Harris were on my top 50 list but for sure Trump was at the top of my never list. I saw him for what he is and nothing since his reelection causes me to rethink that perception. However, if you didn’t see him for what he is or thought it was all a joke about destroying NATO or being a dictator from day one or if you were ignorant of the Supreme Court immunity decision, or thought that was a joke too, then for you it wasn’t a harder decision than one between a blowhard and a doddering old fool. We can blame Republicans all we want but history will show that we did this to ourselves and to our country and the world. It’s all now in retrospect but the truth is that he looked old and acted old. The truth is that we blew off the Hur report. The truth is that we should have known he wasn’t good for anything more than beating Trump one time. And we should have acted on that fact. Just the way it is, like it or not.

Admittedly, he and I thought someone outside the political circle would be good. It was about change, We were wrong. Except for my being a swiftie.

He needs to know the limitations of the satellites though, they're slow. You turn them on and you get nothing. The democrats have shut that down. But the glass, the glass is fast, it's like you've never seen, but nobody knows glass like Trump. We need to connect the glass to the satellites. It works like really quick. Trump thinks he knows who can do the satellite work too! No wasting money because no contractors to worry about either.

Clearly far more important for a next gen fighter is for it to be coated in gold leaf from tip to tail with a kind of Doric motif at the front. That always looks super classy.

Well Enola Gay wasn’t :)

Hi Keith, Here in Oregon, there is a political party named the Independent Party. I am not a member. Here, I am a Non-Affiliated voter. Jerry Baumchen

Somehow you expect more than snark in response. I wish I could.

Trump supporters have a thing for rapists, felons and murderers lately. It's their bag, baby!