Just to be on the safe side, better vote blue anyway.
Democrats all the way down the ticket, national, state, and local. The Democrats are the party of human rights. That means reproductive rights, the right to privacy, the right to free expression and bodily integrity, the right to be free from government interference in one’s person and home, the right to vote, the right to criticize the government, the right to be paid a day’s wage for a day’s work and the right to bargain collectively for it, and the right to believe and practice or not practice the faith of your choosing, even if it offends the fascists in your local church.
These are all really excellent questions. My son skipped a grade early in gradeschool, and I am fortunate enough to have a friend who had a similar experience as this young lady (albeit not to the same extent) being hyper-accelerated through school, so we were able to interview him about his experience when making decisions about how to handle our exceptional kiddo’s education.
It was not a fun conversation, and as a result we elected to just let our son take advanced classes when possible and not really push to have him skip additional grades or do any of the wacky stuff with enrolling in college as a child or what have you. Of course we’re going to push him to take stuff that is challenging whenever possible, and I’d love for him to graduate high school with as much college credit as possible–but I’m not about to steal his youth in pursuit of putting a PhD on his wall before he’s old enough to vote.
The short version is that our friend was a very miserable child. His advancement essentially meant he had no peers, and especially among teenagers, the acceleration just put a bullseye on his back, since the people who surrounded him either resented him or saw him as a target for bullying. Even professional educators at times resented him. He was adamant that it was a thing he would never put his own children through.
Is that a typical experience? I have no idea; after all, being a child in higher education is already well outside ordinary experience. But the story was enough to make me worry for the child whenever I read a headline like this.
Trailer’s fine–tells the story. This season was always supposed to be about correcting some of the unforced errors they committed on release. Still early to tell whether it will pan out (and this definitely isn’t everything that needs to be course corrected). I’m trying to give it a fair shake, and I’ve been having a good time so far, since I haven’t really spent much time with the game since launch other than to check in here and there. We’ll see if I still feel that way after another ten hours.
Washington Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson addressed recent developments in the state’s governor’s race Monday morning, days after two people named Robert Ferguson joined the ballot....
This is fantastic news, but they kind of buried the lede here:
A separate study looking at a new slimming jab has found that it could be much more effective than those already on the market. Retatrutide, a weekly injection, works by suppressing appetite and also by helping the body burn more fat, according to its phase 2 clinical trial.
The trial of 338 participants living with obesity showed that participants lost 24% of their body weight over a 48-week period. [emphasis added] Researchers say it is more effective for weight loss than Ozempic or Wegovy, which only work by suppressing appetite.
That’s a quarter of a person’s mass in less than a year. For persons with obesity, that’s absolutely insane. It’s better than gastric bypass surgery (and depending on your perspective, comparing risk of complications, long-term compliance requirements, and potential side effects, semaglutide already is). It would be like taking semaglutide and also taking meth for a year, but without ruining your life.
Now if only the taxpayers who paid for the research owned the patent. …
The nepo babies wouldn’t serve–same as always. And the political unpopularity of conscription has never changed. The last war draft is still in living memory, and US current military activity hasn’t been an improvement in terms of public appetite.
The US introduces conscription again, and there’ll be riots–and I don’t mean “some kids camped at college and the jackboots locked them up” protests; it’ll be government-building burning, widespread-looting riots.
If you want to do conscription, the kids have to trust the government not to kill them for oil.
So you’re not running then? Amidst the rampant, unchecked political corruption you claim to observe in every direction, the solution you in your wisdom have found most powerful is to complain about it on the internet.
I don’t have any medical debt at the moment, and I think there are probably some better long-term things we could spend our extremely valuable and limited political capital on, so naturally I strongly support this because I’m not a fucking inhuman monster.
The armed wing of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, which Israeli and Palestinian media reports said had resulted in Israeli casualties....
I think we can look at the Marvel shows to see some good examples of what works and doesn’t work. Star Wars, like Marvel and in some ways moreso, also has the problem of being expensive. Exotic locations, costumes, CGI–these shows cost as much as $250 million a season. You’ll probably make your money back, but the production on something that feels like it “fits” in the bigger SW canon can easily carry a lot of risk.
And I think that’s the real issue: for the price tag, I want Andor–a show that has something to say about the human condition and says it in a way that’s beautiful–but it’s very easy to just get “just more Star Wars” instead (and see also: superhero fatigue).
There’s room for light sabers in good stories, but the stories have to be good themselves. I think there’s an incentive to start from light sabers and then try to fit a story in, and that’s working backwards. Some stories are going to want space wizards–but a lot aren’t.
There’s a conversation I’ve seen in tabletop RPG circles and had with my table about this: “the Jedi problem”, that you simply can’t tell a story that has both Jedi and non-Jedi in it (and on screen together) without a great deal of contrivance to explain why the Force can’t immediately solve a lot of problems that could otherwise empower character development. The original Star Wars films really only work because Luke is a student and the other Jedi are either dispatched (Obi-Wan) or too old to hand-wave anything (Yoda). As much as I love watching Ian McDiarmid chew the scenery, the other two trilogies both suffer from having competent (sometimes) Force users basically making everyone else irrelevant by their mere presences. The power levels just aren’t compatible.
Oh make no mistake, I’m voting for Joe no matter what. The only alternative is Donald Trump, and Donald Trump wants to destroy the Republic. Joe could send American troops into Rafah to glass it today, and I’d hold my nose and go vote for him in November. That’s just facing reality.
Would I prefer things were different? Of course, but however much legitimate criticism might be laid at Biden’s feet for not doing more to stop the genocide in Gaza, Trump has already wholly endorsed completely annihilating the Palestinian people, and he wants genocide in the US besides.
You’re just as disingenuous with your argument as you are with your position. Anybody who wants to know what I legitimately said can read it.
Entertaining a terrible hypothetical to make a point is not the same as being okay with it–and I think you know that already. For example, I still engaged with you lot because I think there might be some benefit for someone reading this exchange to realize that these issues are complicated and nuanced, and they deserve critical thinking. That doesn’t mean I’m okay with you. Fortunately, unlike with global politics, the consequences of ending this engagement are nonexistent.
Texas judge orders new election after GOP lawsuit challenged 2022 election result in Houston area (www.yahoo.com)
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Teen walks at graduation after completing doctoral degree at 17 (abcnews.go.com)
Oh boy, they're both the same, I can't decide... (lemmy.world)
Diablo IV | Loot Reborn | Gameplay Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)
Jimmy Carter: Grandson says former president is ‘coming to the end’ (www.cnn.com)
2 Democratic candidates named Bob Ferguson withdraw from WA governor's race (www.komonews.com)
Washington Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson addressed recent developments in the state’s governor’s race Monday morning, days after two people named Robert Ferguson joined the ballot....
Weight loss drug could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic, could be biggest medical breakthrough since statins...
Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Trump-appointed judge halts Biden administration credit card late fee cap (thehill.com)
Fox News won’t bother mentioning this to their viewers.
Democrats make no promises about bailing out Mike Johnson again (www.axios.com)
Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’ (www.theguardian.com)
Biden Just Effectively Killed a Report on Israeli Actions in Gaza (newrepublic.com)
After calls for gun safety, Tennessee votes to arm teachers (www.npr.org)
A man tried to shoot a pastor during a church service but his gun wouldn't fire, state police say (abcnews.go.com)
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Hamas armed wing says responsible for Israel-Gaza border crossing attack (www.reuters.com)
The armed wing of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, which Israeli and Palestinian media reports said had resulted in Israeli casualties....
Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu's resignation (apnews.com)
1:21 video shows the scale of the protest....
Star Wars should learn from Andor and stop making Disney Plus shows that are so obsessed with the Jedi (www.yahoo.com)
Star Wars Disney Plus shows should move away from Jedi-centric stories and explore other aspects of the Star Wars universe...
Young Democrats face Gaza blowback as they try to mobilize students for Biden (www.cnn.com)