"It’s not related to his arguments that we should primary useless Democrats in safe seats. It’s because he’s male."
It's amusing how women's concerns are just Karen-racist-TERF whining that should be ignored right up until we need to bounce a white dude who doesn't want to Get With The Program.
Kid doesn't realize that the Democrat Party is all about machine politics (always has been) and he's trying to kick back against that, and he'll get burned, because you don't go around doing things that make the bosses think they'll miss out on their Goodies.
" I have no idea what you’re even trying to smuggle past security because liquid is merely ‘a state of matter’ and thus is not inherently dangerous."
please tell me that you are not attempting to have a conversation about air-travel security without being aware of the basic facts regarding threats to air travel
"Target set up assessments that the government alleged ‘disproportionately screened out black, Asian, and female applicant’. And under Griggs v. Duke Power Co, the government doesn’t have to prove discriminatory _intent_ if those assessments were ‘not sufficiently job-related and consistent with business necessity’, which the government also alleged."
So why should have Target settled, other than "the government said so"?
Oh, because it would've been too expensive to take the case all the way through multiple levels of court and besides Target might have lost? Welp. That sure does seem like a statement that IQ tests are de facto illegal, doesn't it?
But, hey, between you and Clement, you've established that anyone who decides not to exercise their rights to the fullest extent is just a whiny wimp, and that anything done by a private entity cannot in any way be the result of government influence or threats.
Also it says "excess electricity" is involved in pumping the spheres down, which suggests that we could just build a battery farm and get the same benefit without involving the ocean at all.
"And under Griggs v. Duke Power Co, the government doesn’t have to prove discriminatory _intent_ if those assessments were ‘not sufficiently job-related and consistent with business necessity’, which the government also alleged."
So if I have a test that black people fail at a disproportionate rate, but I can show some evidence that the test is related to job function, then that's okay? You would accept that such a test does not constitute a Title VII violation?
I remember having to explain "All Your Base" to my mom. She didn't get it. I finally just said "it's an internet joke", and she still didn't it but at least she got why I got it.
also Leeroy Jenkins is 20 years old now.
******
Someone on Tumblr suggested, and I agree, that you could kill on TikTok just by recruiting a few reasonably-attractive kids and having them do Monty Python's Flying Circus material. Don't even update anything, just straight off the page, no reference or credit to the original at all.
(which goes neatly with my idea that someone needs to just start doing old Cosby material with zero credit or attribution, daring people to call them out and put themselves in the position of defending Bill Cosby...)
As I've said elsewhere, the issue is that we got used to the idea that "competently-written five-paragraph essay with only a few typos or run-on sentences, plenty of filler and light on analysis" means "B-minus". And now there's a computer that can produce that competently-written essay, grabbing bits and pieces from Reddit related to the subject so that it's not entirely filler, so what do we do about that B-minus? Obviously we could just raise our standards, but what does that mean for the people who came by their B-minus honestly? (It would have some serious effects on academic eligibility for athletics!)
Or maybe we say "screw it, use AI, what we want to see is you finding actual examples to support the argument instead of just giving me AI-filler". Which wouldn't actually be a bad thing, I think, because that's what is supposed to be happening here. It's like giving someone a box of Lego bricks and saying "build a structure", versus giving someone an unfinished log and carpentry tools and saying "build a structure". The latter does demonstrate a wider range of skills, but a lot of those skills are unrelated to the actual building of a structure; most of it's about prep work.
(On the gripping hand we'd have to address the fact that a lot of teachers probably aren't good for much more than "competently-written five-paragraph essay with only a few typos or run-on sentences, plenty of filler and light on analysis"...)
"Also I have a mental disorder that causes me to be unable to read documents, summarize, and code when subject to a time limit or specific measureable outcomes".
1) a criticism of "you're not strict enough to actually find all the things" is not an argument against attempting to find all the things.
2) the things the TSA actually does effectively filter for - articles hidden in shoes, liquids in quantity - actually could substantially affect an aircraft in a term short enough to be relevant.
3) the things they don't effectively filter for are addressed by other measures.
> Go to the Plagiarism Story Show
> Ask the ticket lady "is this for-real plagiarism or just using the same facts"
> She doesn't understand
> Pull out a chart and explain the difference between unattributed copying of substantial reasoning and analysis, and use of the same words to list facts
> She laughs and says "it's good plagiarism, sir"
> Buy a ticket, sit down
> It's use of the same words to list facts
*shrug* if your worry is that the security crew is not sufficiently picky and intrusive, well, there's a response to that!
"but it doesn't do anything, it doesn't do anything"
Sure it does! For one thing, if Richard Reid had put his homemade dynamite in a plastic bag he'd have been successful. And for another, it doesn't take all that much bleach-and-Windex to fill a plane with chlorine gas. As for knives and poky-tools, maybe the reason they don't care as much about those is just what was pointed out earlier--that locking the cockpit door leaves you completely protected from such items, at least for the time it would take to call in an emergency.
Sure but I don't see how that is something better addressed by putting a full structure (and budget) for "emergency education provision" in Department Of Education versus making it part of FEMA's remit (and having FEMA call in Education for support, and FEMA paying for that to happen.)
And boy it sure is a good thing you called it out here, because if there's one thing you can say about the Ordinary Times crew is that they definitely don't recognize how those cracker broads are racist as all hell.
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On “A Hopeless Semantic”
As Keillor wrote, the sort of thing that soon slumps to such rhymes as ‘sibylline/porcupine’ and ‘cereal/immaterial'...
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025”
"What Israel should be doing is letting the civilians flee the war zone and get aid in other places."
It's not Israel stopping Palestinians get into Egypt.
"
I remember someone saying "Wilkes-Barre is so white that the Italians and the Poles still had beef in like 2003", so that's a distinct possibility...
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"It’s not related to his arguments that we should primary useless Democrats in safe seats. It’s because he’s male."
It's amusing how women's concerns are just Karen-racist-TERF whining that should be ignored right up until we need to bounce a white dude who doesn't want to Get With The Program.
"
Which means it'll happen before the day is out.
*****
Kid doesn't realize that the Democrat Party is all about machine politics (always has been) and he's trying to kick back against that, and he'll get burned, because you don't go around doing things that make the bosses think they'll miss out on their Goodies.
On “The Department of Good Things”
" I have no idea what you’re even trying to smuggle past security because liquid is merely ‘a state of matter’ and thus is not inherently dangerous."
please tell me that you are not attempting to have a conversation about air-travel security without being aware of the basic facts regarding threats to air travel
On “From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College”
"Target set up assessments that the government alleged ‘disproportionately screened out black, Asian, and female applicant’. And under Griggs v. Duke Power Co, the government doesn’t have to prove discriminatory _intent_ if those assessments were ‘not sufficiently job-related and consistent with business necessity’, which the government also alleged."
So why should have Target settled, other than "the government said so"?
Oh, because it would've been too expensive to take the case all the way through multiple levels of court and besides Target might have lost? Welp. That sure does seem like a statement that IQ tests are de facto illegal, doesn't it?
But, hey, between you and Clement, you've established that anyone who decides not to exercise their rights to the fullest extent is just a whiny wimp, and that anything done by a private entity cannot in any way be the result of government influence or threats.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025”
I'd suggest they need similar minerals (and to the same degree) as the electric turbines these spheres are supposed to have in them.
And, honestly...you don't really get a lot of energy from flowing water unless you have "literally the Colorado River" kind of volume.
If someone wants to do wild things with ocean-based energy generation, I'd like to see them try OTEC at scale...
"
Also it says "excess electricity" is involved in pumping the spheres down, which suggests that we could just build a battery farm and get the same benefit without involving the ocean at all.
On “From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College”
(you're aware that this was the argument used in Griggs v. Duke Power Co, right?)
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025”
(might want to check your sources on that one)
(i know, i know, it's too juicy to wait, it's too moist flaky tasty-shortbread smooth-mouthfeel delicious to wait, it just feels so good to be First)
"
("boy" is a racist term for black men.)
On “From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College”
"And under Griggs v. Duke Power Co, the government doesn’t have to prove discriminatory _intent_ if those assessments were ‘not sufficiently job-related and consistent with business necessity’, which the government also alleged."
So if I have a test that black people fail at a disproportionate rate, but I can show some evidence that the test is related to job function, then that's okay? You would accept that such a test does not constitute a Title VII violation?
"
ah-ha, and I see I used nearly the exact same post here that I posted back then :|
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025”
I remember having to explain "All Your Base" to my mom. She didn't get it. I finally just said "it's an internet joke", and she still didn't it but at least she got why I got it.
also Leeroy Jenkins is 20 years old now.
******
Someone on Tumblr suggested, and I agree, that you could kill on TikTok just by recruiting a few reasonably-attractive kids and having them do Monty Python's Flying Circus material. Don't even update anything, just straight off the page, no reference or credit to the original at all.
(which goes neatly with my idea that someone needs to just start doing old Cosby material with zero credit or attribution, daring people to call them out and put themselves in the position of defending Bill Cosby...)
On “From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College”
As I've said elsewhere, the issue is that we got used to the idea that "competently-written five-paragraph essay with only a few typos or run-on sentences, plenty of filler and light on analysis" means "B-minus". And now there's a computer that can produce that competently-written essay, grabbing bits and pieces from Reddit related to the subject so that it's not entirely filler, so what do we do about that B-minus? Obviously we could just raise our standards, but what does that mean for the people who came by their B-minus honestly? (It would have some serious effects on academic eligibility for athletics!)
Or maybe we say "screw it, use AI, what we want to see is you finding actual examples to support the argument instead of just giving me AI-filler". Which wouldn't actually be a bad thing, I think, because that's what is supposed to be happening here. It's like giving someone a box of Lego bricks and saying "build a structure", versus giving someone an unfinished log and carpentry tools and saying "build a structure". The latter does demonstrate a wider range of skills, but a lot of those skills are unrelated to the actual building of a structure; most of it's about prep work.
(On the gripping hand we'd have to address the fact that a lot of teachers probably aren't good for much more than "competently-written five-paragraph essay with only a few typos or run-on sentences, plenty of filler and light on analysis"...)
"
I guess Target was wrong to settle here, then
"
"Also I have a mental disorder that causes me to be unable to read documents, summarize, and code when subject to a time limit or specific measureable outcomes".
On “The Department of Good Things”
1) a criticism of "you're not strict enough to actually find all the things" is not an argument against attempting to find all the things.
2) the things the TSA actually does effectively filter for - articles hidden in shoes, liquids in quantity - actually could substantially affect an aircraft in a term short enough to be relevant.
3) the things they don't effectively filter for are addressed by other measures.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025”
> Go to the Plagiarism Story Show
> Ask the ticket lady "is this for-real plagiarism or just using the same facts"
> She doesn't understand
> Pull out a chart and explain the difference between unattributed copying of substantial reasoning and analysis, and use of the same words to list facts
> She laughs and says "it's good plagiarism, sir"
> Buy a ticket, sit down
> It's use of the same words to list facts
"
hey, at least he's keeping his campaign promises and following up on the thing that got him elected!
On “The Department of Good Things”
*shrug* if your worry is that the security crew is not sufficiently picky and intrusive, well, there's a response to that!
"but it doesn't do anything, it doesn't do anything"
Sure it does! For one thing, if Richard Reid had put his homemade dynamite in a plastic bag he'd have been successful. And for another, it doesn't take all that much bleach-and-Windex to fill a plane with chlorine gas. As for knives and poky-tools, maybe the reason they don't care as much about those is just what was pointed out earlier--that locking the cockpit door leaves you completely protected from such items, at least for the time it would take to call in an emergency.
"
Sure but I don't see how that is something better addressed by putting a full structure (and budget) for "emergency education provision" in Department Of Education versus making it part of FEMA's remit (and having FEMA call in Education for support, and FEMA paying for that to happen.)
"
I don't see how it gets to be any less of an expensive regulations minefield if it's coming from the Department of Education instead of FEMA, though.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025”
And boy it sure is a good thing you called it out here, because if there's one thing you can say about the Ordinary Times crew is that they definitely don't recognize how those cracker broads are racist as all hell.
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