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This isn’t true. There are other criticisms you can make but FEMA never froze funds to CA.

The New Yorker house style is that everything has to be told chronologically. They want their articles to be narrative, not news reports, where they give the big picture, then go over it again with more detail, then again with the most detail. It’s a nice idea but it can be taken to extremes lol.

I would phrase it in a nicer way, I’d be like “what’s the backstory behind this?” Or “who are the most important people you want to reach with this?” They still hated it.

When I was a science writer, whenever a scientist would email me an assignment, I would always call them and ask them to tell me again what they need and why. Some of them really hated this, they would be like “it’s all in the email”. It was NEVER all in the email.

It does perfectly reflect working as a writer for science and engineering firms. The higher ups don’t want to think for a moment about who the audience is, what they already know, and what’s important to convey to them. They want to see something and then say the first feedback that comes to mind.

Facing a blank page alone can be tough, but being a good editor for someone or something else’s writing is actually tough too

Lot of ambitious writer types who don’t have a clear sense of their own POV but do have a collection of tics, grievances, and theories that they haven’t fully unpacked

It also turns out that a lot of political reporters need editors and institutional standards to keep them on track, once they go independent or get put in charge they come unmoored before long

Youlube • • • Q Comments 172 X @AmandaJordanRealty 5 years ago The guy fighting Jackie Chan was my ex. I was engaged to him. We shared 7 years together. Sadly he passed away in 2001. He was a great Marshall artist. We went to Thailand and he did thai boxing. I miss him Brett Arthur g I wonder what your life would have been if you had been with us these 19yrs B 186 @constantinc.2875 5 years ago wow okay, how tall was he ? like 6'8?? if Jackie Chan is like 5'10 or something like that

Love everything about this entire interaction in the youtube comments

Please enjoy this clip of Jackie Chan vs Henchman vs Sea Urchins

He’s 7, which is either the absolute best or absolute worst age to show a kid a movie where someone gets killed by landing in a tub of deadly sea urchins. Either way I think he will be telling the kids at school about it.

About 2/3rds into the movie he asked me “what is this movie about”?

Now someone is trying to run him down in a car and he’s still wearing stilts, don’t you want to see what happens?

I showed my kid a Jackie Chan movie for the first time, it mostly went over very well, but he had a lot of questions like “why do the police think Jackie Chan is bad” and (pointing at henchmen #17) “why is he helping the bad guy?”

I dunno kid, Jackie Chan just used stilts to kick a guy on a balcony

The president says to start buying pencil loosies. The days of the pencil pack are over.

You don’t see a lot of shows about someone who’s a little dour in that way, but she reminds me of a lot of people I know in real life. I bet that *really* set some people off.

And you jumped into a conversation specifically about ethics and tried to tell people the definitive and only answer is found in statutory interpretation because…

Never, in all my years on this Earth, would I have thought "Tireless Godfather Part III Apologist" is a type of guy out there at all. And not only is he real--flesh and blood, walking around--but he is insanely mad at me. What other wonders does this universe hold, hidden in its cosmic shadows?

?? There are lots of times when patient confidentially conflicts with other ethical obligations. That’s why HIPAA has emergency exceptions. You can say that this doesn’t rise to that level, but that’s a legal argument, that doesn’t mean the conflict doesn’t exist.

Roman inscription on Trajan’s Column, in Roman lettering, all upper case, serifs, no spaces between words

I’d heard that serifs were came from engravers using chisels to square off ends with a flourish. Who knows if that’s true. But serifs definitely go back before print.

Also true of the Barkeeper’s Friend powder, except that it’s not melamine plastic, which maybe makes it better? Still, be careful with it.

This isn’t a solution to what you talked about, but for kid wrangling while camping in general we got a big multipack of light up arm bands and put them on all the kids when the sun goes down. It’s a huge help.

Airtags work by being detected by the iphones of random people who happen to pass by them. It’s the phones that have the gps trackers and cell and wifi networks and everything else needed to make the tracking happen. They don’t work in the wilderness.

It’s only related to one half of your post but I saw this tiktok the other day, which I expected at first to be calling someone a dumbass but turned out to be way more interesting. Especially the aside about how many have tried to study attraction clinically but they’ve found few answers.

Posing for a glamor photo on the train tracks entering auschwitz

Posing for a glamor photo on the train tracks entering auschwitz

She said she had a surprise and it’s true, I was extremely surprised

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

A log in a vice

The start of the upper part of an octopus

Eye and tentacles starting to emerge from the log

Yesterday and today progress