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There have been times I really wish I'd had children. And even more when I thankful I didn't. The world we live in these days makes me lean more to the latter.

I love built in bookshelves

Hey you're right! It takes FOUR books!

It's been a couple of years since I last had a sip of bourbon. I haven't really missed it but things going the way they have been lately.... getting sorely tempted!

Disgusting. It makes Pelosi's admonition not to upset the CCP all the more vile. If I were an athlete in the games I'd hope I had the courage to speak up.

Looks like Spring Training will be delayed. In a week exhibition games will be cancelled. The two sides are not very far apart on the issue of arbitration. The players want arbitration after two seasons. The owners want it after three except for the "super twos". Each has apparently decided this was a hill worth dying for,

In today's edition of the stupid and absurd news of the world: Texas butterfly sanctuary shuts citing threats from Trump supporters Politics is a cancer. So are politicians.

Oh my God now THAT is funny!

You are right about that one. The Grand Canyon & Vermillion Cliffs are definitely on my to do list. But I have been to Tucson, Saguaro National Park (which is amazing) and Kitts Peak. New Mexico is a state I'd love to visit more. All I have seen of it was along I-10.

@Hurlshot

I'm tentatively planning on taking G on a trip for her birthday. Covid may screw that up of course. It seems intent on never f----g off to wherever irrelevant viruses go once folks are basically immune. If that ever even happens. I was thinking of Spain. I've always wanted to go, I can speak the language well enough, and she has never left the US. I was thinking Seville or Barcelona. It would only be for a week so I'd rather spend it in ONE place and see all of that place rather than rush around the country trying to cram everything in. I'm leaning towards Seville though. Any suggestions?

Not unless you WANT the engine to seize.

I spent the better part of the day explaining things to idiots with money. Some things can only be stupided down so far. However, if I want the idiots to spend their money, and I've been told I do, then their questions must be answered. My patience as self restraint were a sight to see today.

Raising interest rates is the right move and it should have been done a year ago. Yes it will make credit more expensive. It will make debt a bigger burden on everyone, states and people alike. And t will slow down the economy. Which, actually, is kind of the point. It's the first step to dealing with inflation. It would be helpful if our governments would stop spending non-existent money. But that is like expecting a bad heroin addict to stop because you told them it's bad for them.

MLBPA to present counter offer during in person bargaining session today

OK that is a fair criticism. My memory is not what it used to be and I probably rely on it too much when making such an argument. But when a published news source states a thing as being categorically so you can be reasonably sure that is is. Not saying that is the case here but just that news sources, while always biased, are seldom outright false. Real news sources. Not Newsmax or Mother Jones. Besides, if I remember correctly the criticism of CRT are reports as just that. Not that "CRT is this or that". Every idea has it's detractors. But, like I also said it's a tempest in a teapot because almost no one is actually teaching it in public schools. At least in the places that are the most afraid of it anyway. It's just another boogeyman to scare people into voting one way or another. All I was saying was IF the criticisms of it are accurate then teaching it would be, in my exact words, self defeating to the ends it wants to reach. And I really don't care if it's taught or not. It's just something to talk about on the internet.

The problem with being a cop is if you are doing it well no one knows you're doing it. It's the bad ones that get all the press.

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In the US all engineering disciplines start with a core set of classes that everyone takes before the classes of whatever discipline they picked. Statics, Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Strength of Materials 1 & 2, and a programming language. For me that was Fortan so that tells you how old I am. Calculus 1 & 2 and Differential Equations are a prerequisite for all of them. And you will not get past them without that knowledge. And it only gets more in depth from there. I have a BSEE and my specialty in antenna design and RF network design. Fourier transforms are a big part of my profession and if you don't know integrals and diff eq you can not do my job. What you said, suggesting that higher math is some kind of gatekeeper holding kids down it way off the mark IMO. I wouldn't go so far as to suggest everyone be made to take it. There is no benefit in that. especially if their career plans don't need it. But if they do not the doors to STEM will be forever closed to them. And they definitely should be.

In my case that some people is The NY Post, Brookings, The Nashville Tennessean AND the Commercial Appeal (neither if which is "right wing") and other places of the like. The theory DOES have detractors other than angry parents, Republican politicians, and nutjobs wearing Viking helmets and painted faces running through the halls of the capital. Personally I do not give a f--k about it. Teach it in college. Teach it in kindergarten. Do. Not Care. When multiple informed sources I find credible (meaning not the types I listed) make the same observations I figure there is at least a grain of truth in them. I have less than zero interest in actually learning the details so I'll take the word of credible sources and rephrase my comment thusly: If the criticisms of CRT that have been reported in multiple media outlets that I personally find credible are true then I do not think that history should be over dramatized and I definitely do NOT think anyone alive today owes anyone else an apology for deeds done by people long dead. Nor do I think it's healthy to tell people they are victims and it's all stacked against them. Better? I'm sure the CRT program makes for interesting reading but right now all my time is dedicated to resolving non-linear interactions caused by slit diffraction on the cheap chinese antennas this company wasted it's capital on.

I don't know, or care, enough about it to formulate an informed opinion of CRT as a teaching program. If I had kids in school I guess I would care. Or if I actually gave a damn about the future of this society after I've shuffled off this mortal coil. I do absolutely think the inequalities and terrible treatment of our fellow humans both by individuals and systems of governance should be taught in full and brutal detail with no sensibilities spared. The whole "Lost Cause" alternative history of the Civil War is rooted in sparing the feelings of people alive to today by finding virtue someplace there was little to be had. People who believe it are basically good and grab onto it because they do not want to believe their ancestors were not. But at the same time I do not think that history should be over dramatized and I definitely do NOT think anyone alive today owes anyone else an apology for deeds done by people long dead. Nor do I think it's healthy to tell people they are victims and it's all stacked against them. All of these criticisms have been made of CRT.