pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
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pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
23hr ago
I was an undergrad at UW Madison. I had an ATI All-In-Wonder card in my PC and a scheduled task to wake up the PC and turn on CNN every morning as my alarm clock. That morning, the news was about a plane having crashed into the WTC. I had heard about the plane crashing into the Empire State Building and figured this was a similar story. I went to breakfast in the student commons where CNN was also on TV, and as I ate my toast and eggs I watched the second plane come in. I instantly lost all appetite and went back to my dorm room, glued to CNN while I called a couple of people on the dorm landline and talked a bit. I didn't like the feelings of rage that were bubbling up, so I had a couple of shots of bourbon and headed off to my first class. I can't recall at all what took place in the classroom. IIRC the rest of the classes that day were cancelled via electronic mail shortly afterwards.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
Yes, this probably would have worked, broadly, but would not have achieved full integration due to the larger class disparity between blacks and whites. The Supreme Court therefore mandated the worst thing possible, bussing kids from low-class black neighborhoods into middle-class white neighborhoods and vice versa. The outcome was entirely predictable.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
We already do this for American Indian tribes. No reason we couldn't grant reservations to ADOS.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
Crime was undoubtedly a factor, but I think public school integration and the ham-fisted, obviously harmful way it was ordered implemented by the Supreme Court (putting aside the separation of powers overreach in that), was really the thing that started the mass exodus. You can avoid crime to a large degree even in a high-crime city by knowing where it is and is not safe to go, and when, but you couldn't (and in many places still can't) avoid sending your kids to a dysfunctional urban public school unless you got them into - and could afford - private school.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
That punchline was so good I suspect the rest of the post of being a setup!
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
3d ago
Do you use this description for any other category of people being paid welfare by the government to sit at home not working? Or only married mothers?
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
3d ago
Would people buy a non-shitty version of Wired?
Oh man, I happened upon a 1999 Wired stuck in an old box of papers last weekend. The thing was so thick it had a spine and while visually bold had content for hours. The list price was $5.95 which inflation calculator tells me would be about $11.99 today. Seems steep for a magazine but probably worth it!
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
6d ago
It gets tricky if you want to grid tie. In many places, the electrical interconnect can only be done by licensed electricians and must be certified and approved by the utility. The electricians have no real incentive to make things easy on the DIYer, especially if they are signing off on code compliance, and the utility has no incentive to make things easy on customers trying to reduce their utility consumption.
Currently working on Project Mars by Wernher von Braun. It's some of the driest science fiction I've read, with essentially no new science or engineering but filled with such an abundance of detail and explanatory calculations, it's obvious this was something he viewed as a serious proposal.
I wonder if he was a fan of Jules Verne.
ETA: According to AI inquiry, he was indeed well documented to be a massive fan, and considered Verne to be a foundational influence on his life.
It seems like a perverse outcome that strangers with a contract could have more rights to a woman's body than her husband. I wonder if people would feel more or less accepting of a husband who included such contractual terms in a prenup? Or is that actually common and I have no idea?
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