February 6, 20214 yr @EagleJoe8 I think I figured it out! This whole time I was thinking his collar was his lower lip lol making him look even more like a human being lol.
February 6, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, EagleJoe8 said: You rang? If an Ent from Lord of the Rings were a dog.
February 6, 20214 yr 4 hours ago, NOTW said: If an Ent from Lord of the Rings were a dog. Not familiar with LoR, so I had to Google this to get the reference.
February 6, 20214 yr 57 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said: Not familiar with LoR How'd you manage that all these decades? That's impressive.
February 6, 20214 yr 21 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: How'd you manage that all these decades? That's impressive. It’s a special skill I’m proud of.
February 6, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, EagleJoe8 said: It’s a special skill I’m proud of. I'm with you man. There was only 1 time that I watched like 20 min of it and it was only because I was trying to like the same stuff that a girl I wanted to get with liked lol. I passed out after that 20min and she hated me for it thee END
February 6, 20214 yr 5 hours ago, EagleJoe8 said: Not familiar with LoR, so I had to Google this to get the reference.
February 6, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: Cool dog, lab schnauser mix? Labradoodle. The mom was the lab and from what I’ve been told, labradoodles tend to look more like the mom so he looks a lot more lab than doodle lol. Which is fine by us.
February 6, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said: Labradoodle. The mom was the lab and from what I’ve been told, labradoodles tend to look more like the mom so he looks a lot more lab than doodle lol. Which is fine by us. My brother had one too, looked a little more doodley. Super chill dog though, would always come sit right up next to you and then stare at you waiting for you to pet him. Such a ham.
February 8, 20214 yr Quote San Francisco School Board President Says Critics of School Renaming Are Undermining Anti-Racist Work "What I keep hearing is you're trying to undermine the work that has been done through this process." In Following the Equator, an 1897 book of social commentary, Mark Twain wrote: "In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards." He certainly could have been talking about San Francisco's current school board, which is now lashing out at critics of its idiosyncratic push to purge the schools of historical names deemed problematic: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dianne Feinstein, and 40 others. (Indeed, if there were any public schools in San Francisco named for Twain, the renaming committee might very well have jettisoned the acclaimed American author—an ardent champion of anti-slavery and anti-imperialist causes—because characters in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are historically accurate and use the N-word in a pejorative way.) In an eye-opening interview with The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner, SFUSD Board President Gabriela Lopez shrugged off perceptive questions about the decisions to rename Paul Revere Preparatory School, James Lick Middle School, and Lowell High School, each of which was based on faulty reasoning. For instance, the renaming committee charged Paul Revere with leading an expedition to colonize the Penobscot Native Americans in 1779; he was actually carrying out an attack on British naval forces during the War of Independence. Here's how Lopez responded to Chotiner's question about this: So, for me, I guess it's just the criteria was created to show if there were ties to these specific themes, right? White supremacy, racism, colonization, ties to slavery, the killing of indigenous people, or any symbols that embodied that. And the committee shared that these are the names that have these ties. And so, for me, at this moment, I have the understanding we have to do the teaching, but also I do agree that we shouldn't have these ties, and this is a way of showing it. Chotiner then again pointed out that the renaming committee was simply misinformed about the existence of these ties. Lopez did not appreciate his efforts to "discredit" the school board's noble work: So then you go into discrediting the work that they're doing, and the process that they put together in order to create this list. So when we begin to have these conversations, and we're pointing to that, and we're given the reasoning and they're sharing why they made this choice and why they're putting it out there, I don't want to get into a process where we then discredit the work that this group has done. Chotiner then pushed Lopez to concede that some of the work is obviously flawed. Lopez responded that she was open to seeing it that way, but nevertheless stood by it. She also suggested that people object to renaming schools because they object to any conversation about racism, both historical and ongoing. "The real issue is how we are challenged when we talk about racism," she said. The conversation continued: So none of the errors that I read to you about previous entries made you worried that maybe this was done in a slightly haphazard way? No, because I've already shared with you that the people who have contributed to this process are also part of a community that is taking it as seriously as we would want them to. And they're contributing through diverse perspectives and experiences that are often not included, and that we need to acknowledge. I'm not quite sure what that means when we are talking about things that did or didn't happen. I think what you're pointing to and what I keep hearing is you're trying to undermine the work that has been done through this process. And I'm moving away from the idea that it was haphazard. Ideally, the head of a school board would express more than a passing interest in correcting the significant, uncontested errors that undergird the renaming effort. But Lopez is essentially arguing that anti-racism takes precedence over accuracy, and that anyone asking too many questions about all this is a saboteur. It apparently has not occurred to her that if the school board's efforts are based on faulty assumptions, then the campaign to undermine them is in fact a public service. There are plenty of other issues with the renaming drive. The Atlantic's Gary Kamiya touched on several of them: The committee also failed to consistently apply its one-strike-and-you're-out rule. When one member questioned whether Malcolm X Academy should be renamed in light of the fact that Malcolm was once a pimp, and therefore subjugated women, the committee decided that his later career redeemed his earlier missteps. Yet no such exceptions were made for Lincoln, Jefferson, and others on the list. Since the San Francisco school board's bizarre priorities have become a national controversy, it's easy to forget that the underlying issue is the education of public school children. Are the public employees tasked with administering this education competent and trustworthy? That's what is at stake, and I think it's hard to conclude that someone who manifests this level of disinterest in historical accuracy is the best person to be in charge of the schools.
February 8, 20214 yr 18 hours ago, NOTW said: I thought she looked like one of the chicks from survivor. But she actually IS a chick from survivor.
February 9, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, paco said: Was she literally shaking? I think she got Covid through the television screen from some of the people in the crowd.
February 9, 20214 yr I have a really close friend who lives in Portland now. Really sad what’s happened there over the last 24 months. He told me the main arteries in town and key motorway are now big camps that look like garbage dumps. Buildings destroyed or boarded up. Much of the public art toppled or destroyed (including a centrally placed statue of an elk). The city is becoming a third world city. Note: This guy is a big liberal elite type. Great guy who has had enough of the far left. He used to be fully onboard with the activism.
February 10, 20214 yr Watch 5 minutes. Don't focus on the messenger here. Look at this from a perspective of principle. We are in big trouble. This is the NYTimes we are talking about not Evergreen State College.
February 10, 20214 yr Someone who thinks that the NYT acted correctly with regard to Don McNeil is welcome to explain their position. I'm no Ben S. fan per se but he's mostly correct here in at least the first 6 minutes of the vid. I didn't watch beyond that point in the vid.
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