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@ShiroKuro said in Learned some stuff:
@Steve-Miller we all have Face ID activated on our phones, so that’s something at least.
Am I right in guessing that Sharon’s wallet and phone were taken from her purse? Where was her purse?
So, my son asks me if I really want the police, or whoever is holding me, to have access to my phone simply by holding it up to my face. I don't have facial recognition activated.
@Mary-Anna said in Grand Obsession:
I believe the video of Muffin and me was made at Plays88Keys' piano party. Jon was there and he's in the video. Do you recall, Jon?
She had a Steinway at the time, so you're probably right that it was a New York Steinway.
I agree. I was there with Anthony at that one, in Richmond.
I've done #5. It's in Santa Fe. Did it last year when eldest and his fiancee (now wife) and her two kids were in town. 'Twas fun.
Might do this one this year when we're in Vegas with the fam.
https://www.boulderrailroadmuseum.org/event/boulder-city-santa-express/
I have been on BlueSky for a little while. It's a lot better than Twitter (X). No bots. No trolling (so far). I got on some "starter packs" so my follower count is moving up nicely among the people I really want to talk to .... reporters, economists, and people who study higher education in general.
@Cindysphinx said in Fetterman's thoughts:
No, Dems haven't made it a campaign issue. Republicans have, by exploiting the fact that these are things Progressives champion. The Trans issues are one example of this. Dems love to get outraged about benign policies or actions that happen to disadvantage a group viewed as downtrodden.
I think we should champion the downtrodden. The downtrodden is everyone who has to sign away their right to sue a corporation that harmed them because they signed terms and conditions on a web site.
Yes, it's a GOP tactic that has worked. They have associated progressivism with all of the niche concerns about language and they have elevated in the public mind the horrors of allowing a trans into a particular bathroom. This has energized their base while diminishing the consequences of their inaction on gun control and on their abortion policies that leave women dying of sepsis while physicians watch from the sidelines. They have masterfully taken control of the agenda.
Once you have convinced lower income people that tax cuts that go to the top .1% of the income distribution somehow are good for all of us it's only a short step to convincing people that allowing a trans girl on a high school volleyball team is so important that we must double down on this tax (and now tariff) policy in a way that will screw 95% of Americans.
Do you think your university would defend you against outsiders trying to use you to advance their agenda? You're in a red state, so that's an additional layer of worry.
This is only a hypothetical risk, of course, but we have seen scholarship in the humanities used as a political football.
Once again, it could be tile or it could be some form of marble (Turkish / Chinese). If the latter, it won't take much of a pounding before it shows a lot of wear.
We put tile like that in our remodeled bathroom, but in a shower it's fine (as long as you don't use chemical cleaners) and it's fine on a bathroom floor that has little spot rugs and isn't highly trafficked.
... at going on Fox News, making his points, and coming away completely unscathed.
Both are well known (about the residents, and about Texans traveling to NM). It's creating a problem for women in NM who are competing for limited physician time.
A reasonable woman should ask any new (young) OB/GYN if they were trained in a state that prohibited them from learning standard of care. If the answer is in the least bit equivocal (well, I did some reading on my own blah blah), seek care from someone else.
The ad is a tactic, of course, and it's overwrought. It's designed to be visceral and grab at the emotions of a few persuadable undecideds. But the underlying message is true. Doctors (and hospitals) are refusing to treat people for normal things that would have been treated before but for ...
New ad ...
Given the cases of women dying of sepsis because ERs won't treat them, ...
