74-year-old #Nebraska woman pronounced dead, found to be alive, breathing at funeral home
A woman who was pronounced dead at a Nebraska nursing home was found to be alive after she was taken to a nearby funeral home in Lincoln, Nebraska Monday, according to local law enforcement.
pope complaining that things around the vatican are suddenly getting too gay like we're just supposed to forget these guys have been the security guards for 600 years
One: Education doesn't necessarily correlate with intelligence. We all knew that rich airhead who took 6 years and 3 majors to scrape by with a D average to get a degree.
Two: Educated people who are sharp and crave power and influence, can be sly and cynical and exploit the rubes, using conspiracy theories and the like, when it suits them. The current cultural climate suits it perfectly.
It's disingenuous to see education as any bulwark... People are nuts, educated or not...
I have mixed feelings about the whole French immersion school concept. I think the results are iffy, and the theoretical purpose (fluent bilingualism) doesnt match the reality (parents use the system for socio-economic class segregation).
I’m from New Brunswick, and my father was a francophone Acadian; mum was anglophone, and I was raised Anglo in a small, almost entirely Anglo city. There was no push for bilingualism back then. French immersion was new. 1/n
French immersion quickly became a status thing. It was only available at certain schools. (Not at lower class schools like my Catholic one.) It tended to draw kids who had parents who were teachers, doctors, lawyers, managers, white collar types.
The kids left French immersion with iffy French, and they sure as heck weren’t taught Acadian French. It seemed performative, at worst. But, it was a popular way for parents to stream their kids according to social class. 2/n
I wonder how this new strategy will work out in Ottawa schools. The social class streaming is a well-known issue, now.
Will this new strategy eliminate that problem? Will kids leave school with fluent Canadian French skills? Will newcomers leave with English and French fluency?
The state I live in (South of the US) is pushing a law to ban the mask in public for "health reasons".
This spring I have been so miserable because of the allergies that by necessity I decided to wear a #mask outside again despite taking strong medicine that won't allow me to be safe outside.
There is also a deadly pandemic going on but who cares I guess.
If I wear a mask that is to protect my health and also others.
@compost It seems like a great opportunity for some civil disobedience. It would take a group of people with stage 4 cancer, organ transplants, heck - allergies will do; stage a public protest, all masked up. Would they round up and drag terminally and chronically ill people into the court system for masking???
Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?
Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.
@RickiTarr I have relatives who were in foster care in another era. They moved into their adults lives relatively successfully, for a few reasons.
They got lucky in having foster parents in their teens who were supportive, not abusive. A post-secondary education wasn’t required to get a job with a future and upward mobility opportunities. They were white, and didn’t face an added burden of racial marginalization.
“Aging out” of care these days means being cut loose, maybe no support.
Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.
I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.
Pros:
This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.
Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.
It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".
I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.
We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.
Cons:
Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.
While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.
We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.
@RickiTarr I worry more about polarization. The city core has always been somewhat of a hippie hollow vs the burbs. The Ottawa Valley and other outlying areas were very old school rural, insular, when I first got here.
Now the new burbs are still right-leaning, but with a lot of newcomers adding to that mix. Since I don't live in the burbs, I am not sure how all of that gels.
The core's gone gentrified. I suppose the burbs will become diverse with more renters, eventually. Fun future! 2/2