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Anastasis

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  1. Your politics are responsible for where we are today. You’re too cracked up to recognize it though.
  2. It’s good polit It’s political fodder for our broken system. I know that you see this as a one side issue. It’s not. They all play the game. We have broken politics. It absolutely is a swinging pendulum. But maybe ALL CAPS WILL FIX IT.
  3. Must have been where you and Jacinda Ardern broke ways. Every nation must be able to control their borders. Our politics are too broken to land reasonable solutions so the pendulum swings. One way and then the other.
  4. I am sure you are tracking.
  5. Agree. It’s really amazing. I see the hoops that people have to jump through to work here. These are people with PhDs and MSs trained in US schools. They get in line and play the game and pay tens of thousands of dollars to lawyers and others to navigate. It’s all nonsense. But have you looked into the process in New Zealand?
  6. Our immigration system is broken. Has been for a long time. People that are here illegally should be sent home. At the same time the process is very stupid and needs to be changed. But until then follow the rules. Every country has rules wrt immigration. If you don’t follow them, you get sent out. This is like nation state 101.
  7. Caught a few minutes of some presser he was doing yesterday I think and the focus was on farmers and how partnering with farmers to close these kind of gaps was an essential component of the path forward. I think maybe he knows more about the details than you give him credit for. As always, RFK jr is like 80-90% spot on and 10-20% batshit crazy.
  8. Prasad was victim of a pharma hit job. Pay attention guys.
  9. You could have helped @Hank_Hill earlier.
  10. The uri reference may have been too obscure earlier. https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley. I fit the NPR mold. I’ll cop to that. So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI. It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding. In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population. If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way. But it hasn’t.
  11. It’s hilarious that this thread turned to criticism of academic accomplishment.
  12. Daniel the tiger and the trolley would fucking kill. ESP for genx parents of younger kids. But that window is mostly closed. Fred didn’t want the marketing to kids and that is certainly to be respected. So people should open they own pocket books to support the things that they want to promote. This is not hard. You don’t need government and the threat of violence to support the arts and media.
  13. I have a surplus of abandoned “in this house we believe in science” signs if anyone needs one. They are piled up next to the 2007 vintage “STOP WAR NOW” ones.
  14. There’s a new toyco heading to Sesame Street. Just Play is replacing Hasbro as Sesame Workshop’s master toy licensing partner for North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa starting in 2023. Sesame Workshop brands generate around US$1.2 billion in licensed product sales each year, according to the nonprofit. https://kidscreen.com/2022/03/04/just-play-takes-over-sesame-workshop-toy-licensing
  15. If you like your KUT you can keep your KUT, you might just have to write a check. It won't be the end of the world.
  16. I make the kids listen too, until sometimes the content is not age appropriate.
  17. I've done this. But is was a tomahawk and two couples and plenty of meat. I still felt bad afterwards.
  18. Carrots didn't come in this year, but got japs in bunches, so I use the fresh pickled japs out of the garden. They mellow out very nicely with a few weeks in the brine.
  19. fried pork and chicken cutlets, marinara, mozz, broc.
  20. KUT is literally the only ota radio I listen to. Your assessment is absolutely laughable.
  21. Surly trained AI would be funny as fuck.
  22. Too bad eskimo took over cause the collective bailed on much better content from the old site. Imma sitting on a goldmine if fn Reddit getting paid. AI trained off UT boards should be worth multiple of that crap.
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