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  1. Policygenius seems to be working best for me right now. The best quote came in much lower than what the Knights of Columbus offered me last year, so I'm currently in underwriting with the company Policygenius recommended. (It was also lower than the same company via Quotacy.) Guess I'll see how that goes and if it holds up.

  2. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but to get an LTC in Texas you have to attest to several things, such as not having been diagnosed with certain mental conditions. (I assume in the case of a wrongful diagnosis, there was some kind of due process to prove that it was wrong.) Constitutional carry does away with that limit unless you’ve been adjudicated as mentally incompetent or committed and stuff like that. 

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  3. Had a long talk with my uncle yesterday. Abuelita is going downhill. She’s been living with him for at least a couple of years, but during the week she’ll stay at her house with a caretaker. He is at wit’s end, due her getting quarantined for a few days due to a fever, having to get a COVID test, and waiting for the results. He’s somewhat old-fashioned and very stoic. He was overwrought with emotion and damn near almost crying. After I asked about how close she was to needing to be in a home and reiterating that the rest of the family supports him 100% in whatever decision he makes at whatever point, he started calming down and we were able to talk about other stuff. (She’s at the still knows who everyone is, but can’t remember or learn things, thinks the world runs like it is 1960 and has trouble caring for herself stage.) 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Pancho said:

     

    Yes.  You're making my point, though.

    Not really; I'm just being charitable. Some readers will look at the juxtaposition and see no difference, except that the second version of the tenets makes explicit what (to them) is obfuscated in your version. Others will have more charitable reads, recognize legitimate variations within academia and so on. But if we collapse CRT into just the second set of tenets, it isn't hard to see the connection between certain tenets and the bad examples that run rampant in DEI and anti-racism efforts and the post-Protestant, performative liturgy of pop culture Wokists. It's a damn shame because some of the tenets, in either version, are interesting, albeit not as useful as other mental models.

    Discussion of CRT in groups is pointless; it is Covington scissors all the way down.

     

     

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  5. 3 hours ago, Pancho said:

    1.) Ordinariness - racism is difficult to address and cure because it's not acknowledged.

    2.) Interest Convergence - because racism benefits both elite Whites and working class Whites, large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it. 

    3.) Social Construction - race and races are products of social thought and relations.

    4.) Differential Racialization - The "dominant society" racializes different minority groups at different times.

    5.) Intersectionality - No person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity.  (Example: A White feminist can be Jewish, a Black activist can be male/female, straight or gay, a Latino can be a Democrat, a Republican, or even Black.)

    6.) Storytelling - Because of their different histories and experiences with oppression, a PoC can communicate to Whites the matters and experiences that Whites are unlikely to know.

    (Delgado & Stefancic, 2017)

     

     

    *This is the framework I used for my dissertation.

    There are different CRT frameworks. PSU Education Professor Uju Anya posted one on Twitter recently.

     

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    CRT tenet 1: Endemic racism. This principle says racism is predominant and very widespread in our thinking, interactions, systems, practices, institutions. Such that, inequality and unfair advantages whites have over POC are assumed natural, inevitable, and unchangeable.

    CRT tenet 2: Critique of liberal myths. This says the idea all are treated equally with same rights under law, education, housing, other institutions is a lie. So, liberal notions like meritocracy (even playing field), objectivity, race neutrality (colorblindness) are myths.

    CRT tenet 3: Whiteness as property. This says being white in US is a valuable commodity that gives those who possess this "property" (whiteness) unearned privileges like preference, authority, exclusivity, legitimacy, greater chance of survival (eg, police encounters), etc.

    CRT tenet 4: Interest convergence. This says POC can only advance on mass scale in US institutions, society when their interests converge with white people's (when whatever benefits POC also benefits whites). Eg, white women are greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action.

    CRT tenet 5: Counternarrative. This says personal stories (narratives) of Black people and other POC are legitimate authorities and evidence that counter (challenge) dominant white, elite, male voices society typically treats as sources of standard or objective knowledge.

    CRT tenet 6: Intersectionality. This says Black women (especially) and other POC experience racism in unique ways inseparable from and worsened by other oppression like sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia. So, women's policies, for example, don't affect us all the same.

     

     

    This may be more telling since she an education professor who publishes in the CRT area.

     

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  6. On 5/17/2021 at 3:34 PM, closetohumping said:

    Yeah, Cheers can't be ahead of Seinfeld.  

    There are a couple of  reasons to put Cheers ahead of Seinfeld:

    1) It repeatedly, and successfully, dealt with cast changes.

    2) It was good from the beginning.

    The best reason to put Seinfeld ahead of Cheers is that it was better, maybe much better, for longer.

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  7. The show's good enough that I binged the entire season over a couple of days. I'm not a comic fan, so it is hard for me to articulate the problems that seem pretty obvious. This article explains the issue from the viewpoint of a fan of the comic. It's like someone heard a cool story and then tried to relate it back to a third party while in a psychiatric drug-induced haze, overemphasizing all the wrong elements.

  8. It wasn't that bad. The Crosshair part of the episode was decent and answers the question of whether this is going to be a kids' show or more YA like Clone Wars. I could be wrong, but I'll call it: There is no redemptive arc for Crosshair. His brutality lives on in the regular storm troopers in Rebels, Ep 4, etc. There is no need for a push away from the clones. Their lives are too short and the Kaminoans' capacity for cloning presents a threat that will need to be wiped out.

  9. 13 hours ago, ztejas said:

    Shame then that it doesn't lick Seinfeld's jockstrap in overall quality. 

    Yeah, but Fleabag would have shown her licking Jerry’s jock, with him in it, on screen. Two completely different shows from two different eras and two somewhat similar nations. I’m not saying Fleabag was better than Seinfeld overall, but rather that its two-season run did exactly what Seinfeld purported, but failed, to do. Sure, Seinfeld could have run for a few more mediocre seasons, but did anyone have the sense that there was anything left for the show? Contrast that with Fleabag, where the audience is left wanting more. 

  10. 26 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

    A few random observations:

    Very surprised that Freaks & Geeks didn't make the list, especially with the list being curated by Sepinwal and other pop culture critics. I suppose it could be argued that they didn't have a long enough run with only one season and 18 episodes (a few of which never even aired on network TV, and were only accessible via the DVDs or through streaming services a little later on), but it had six more episodes than Fleabag. 

    I love Fleabag. Thought it was incredible. But at 12 total half-hour episodes, there's not enough meat on that bone to justify coming in at 21. 

    I loved Arrested Development, but 15 feels too high.

    Bojack Horseman cracking the top 20 is also surprising and hard to justify, imo. 

    I've literally never heard of "Review" until now. I guess I have to check it out. 

    Fleabag actually did what Seinfeld purported to do: Go out on top. Seinfeld had been coasting for a year or two before the end, maybe not for ratings, but definitely in terms of content. It wasn't as egregious as some sitcoms, (Modern Family or even Parks & Rec), but there was a downward trend.

  11. I don't have a problem with the top 10, just not in that order. Both Seinfeld and Cheers have very strong claims to the top spot. Don't think Sex and the City belongs on the list. Not sure about the rankings of Scrubs and Murphy Brown. Shocked at the lack of Married With Children, Family Guy, etc.

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