Daniel

^^ THIS. False equivalencies are easy but rarely helpful, usually ammo for the circular firing squad.

Thoroughly worrying that his immigration performance is still close to 50% but the Garcia case is 31%. (A) We have 31% of the populace who don't care about our due process anymore and (B) his immigration policy IS the Garcia case and half the country is too brainwashed to see it.

Ruthless, relentless, organized, subsidized, misogynistic online attacks that generally drained energy and intentionally exacerbated natural fissures – I'm guessing all that did not help.

Countdown until prezidential pardon?

Lovely day for a teach-in on the threats to intellectual freedom, encroaching and increasing. U of Iowa has been OVERcomplying; brain drain will increase. #AAUP #COGS

I wish whoever controls his brain-worm would switch to "Devour" setting.

Might as well; they can just go do it in AI now.

I had a very reassuring meeting with my financial advisor yesterday! It is important to stay big picture. Granted, he did not address what will happen to the USD if our nation splits into 4 different countries.

Gross

That is helpful; thanks. I think in my text I was able to make it clear that sustainability is largely a human concern/duty while leaving it open that an ecosystem has non-human sustainability factors to consider (just out of scope for this lesson.)

Yes, I still regularly bless the slightly cranky Polish guy who taught me how to change my dishwasher door spring.

I.e., once biodiversity and stability are related in a natural system, I don't see a need to define "sustainability," except in terms of how humans extract resources or affect the habitat. I'm not seeing a meaningful distinction out there between sustainable and stable in purely natural terms. 2/2

Help me parse this standard: "biodiversity contributes to the stability and sustainability of an ecosystem ...". In this context, sustainability refers to human resource management, right? 1/2 🌎

Resplendent!

I was just taunting you. I had a swear-free tofu curry.

Mmm, I'm gonna enjoy the SHIT out of a grilled cheese today!
Bless you.

From the awful Texas science standards: "Analyze the beneficial and harmful influences of human activity on groundwater and surface water in a watershed"
What possible beneficial influence could the committee be thinking of? Jet ski ramps? I'll only be writing about mitigation, no benefits.
🌎

I'll play. You've not seen Spotlight, CODA, Green Book, and ... Anora?

That is 100% my current career mantra/goal

My mood while writing about tide patterns

ermagerd richard!

And this, of course, is "first 100 days" type important stuff for the new NSA director. Root out the dirty talk!

It is 5% fascinating, 95% sickening to see how revisionist history-writing is just the macro level of gaslighting. (Apparently poor Russia just had to invade Ukraine because Blackrock? Was buying farms?)

Makes me sick-up in my throat a bit. It's the equivalent of angry boys nailing up a "no girls allowed" sign on their clubhouse.

I watched it years and years ago, late night, on Kirkwood public access, very grainy. I felt really proletarian.

+1 Battle of Algiers! Intense. I'd add The Wages of Fear (1955 – not the atrocious-looking remake from 2024 that looks like it politely rinsed all class-warfare out of it and replaced with studs and babes).

And Iowa GOP is instructing our schools to rename it and Denali in classroom materials. (I'm not seeing any overtime pay proposed for this work, either.)

Just call it the blood-brain meritocracy.

I’m glad you got to be here for it!

I did not click through. But note the "putative" in the tease. Side research shows a slick, anti-science outfit at work.