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Not to try and depress you right at the start, but the communists generally are right about how the world is currently arrayed. And if you would like more proof of that, understand that reality television is probably one of the last ways to study a culture and understand its underlying assumptions. That is, when the legal system isn't helping plenty, by sending a man convicted of raping his partner at home back to that same home to serve out his sentence.
Long-term weight loss is unlikely, but the article chooses to say "so the obesity crisis is awful!" instead of "so we should consider the idea of health at every size as our default". One can guess what the comments say.
For further anxiety, not only does research suggest that high school is, indeed, hell when it comes to the most important self-defining time in our life, but that the experiences gained during that time have profound and lasting effects on our adult lives.
Teaching children rhetoric may be a way of preventing fights with them down the road. Assuming that a parent is willing to lose to a well-crafted argument. And willing to explain from the depths of their knowledge where warranted</>.
Speaking of lasting effects, no, being family is not an automatic entry into the lives of children, grandchildren, our significant others, and especially not if that family has been abusive.
And of things in adult lives, the casting of opera roles, normally a matter of skill in singing, is trending very dangerously toward the idea of looks first, singing ability second.
The Dead Pool Disc Jockeys department claims Casey Kasem at 82 years of age, although more people may know him now as the voice of Shaggy on the animated Scooby Doo Mysteries than as someone who counted down the top songs of the week.
Hall Of Fame baseball player Tony Gwynn died at 54 years of age from cancer developed from the use of smokeless tobacco during his playing days. We realize, though, that not many people will look at that and choose to stop their usage of tobacco products.
An unfinished but still published commentary makes the point that many women writers rely on a second income from their husbands or boyfriends to make ends meet while they write. The intended attitude on display, and as one might see in the actual URL slug, is that women are taking advantage of their husbands to write instead of contributing with a "real job." Since that never appeared, not really, instead a writer chose to focus their response on the blithely-assumed heteronormativity in the incomplete piece.
The best way to combat that is for women to unlearn what has been taught to them about how they should behave. Getty Images is starting to help with that, by actively promoting and photographing active women doing cool things, of all body types, and not letting them be dead-eyed props. And to not accept crap excuses for objectification of women. And speak out when ye religious institutions censure you for asking questions and starting conversations.
Also, if you believe that the presence of other women, scantily clad or no, is an impediment to your happy marriage, rethink the priorities of your marriage. Most people do not stay married because they are solely interested in the body of their partner. And if you are worried about other bodies, have you thought about talking with your husband about other bodies? You may find it interesting to see what he will say when he sees that he can talk with you about those things and you won't come off as being insecure.
A couple years after the emergency financial manager ordered the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit closed, despite their proven track record at getting teen mothers through high school and into four-tear colleges, the school had to close from lack of enrollment as a charter school. Because the people that the school was serving wouldn't really be able to afford a charter tuition. And because the emergency financial manager and state leadership in Michigan are misogynist dicks.
Illegal drugs and sex work contribute approximately 10 billion GBP to the United Kingdom economy. The majority share of that 10 billion is in sex work. Imagine what would be possible for the economy if it were a licensed and regulated practice.
Even by conservative estimations, the benefits of the current Clean Air Act outweigh the costs by at least a 2x multiplier, and more likely, several orders of magnitude. Not that it stops complaining about how new proposed rules will bankrupt everyone and everything, despite that not having happened every time it was floated in the past.
The Transportation Security Administration's backscatter scanners, that produce a nude image of a person being scanned, are being relocated from airports to prisons, because while citizens can object to having nude pictures taken of them in the name of security, prisoners can't.
There is much less recoverable oil in a popular fracking destination than previously estimated, which should be obvious once it became known that the original estimate was based on industry calculations.
Google has released testing source code for an encryption plug-in designed to make email messages more secure. It's the tip of the iceberg on the need for privacy and anonymity. The Internet's current model for making money is mass surveillance, which doesn't actually make money but does allow for the centralization of data so that governments, companies, and hackers don't have to go very far or to very many places to get that data. So that things like credit card skimming and hacking, like at the P. F. Chang's restaurants most recently, becomes a lot less lucrative of a deal.
The increased visibility of minorities in our current times makes it possible for them to build a robust social network and to be able to rely on that network when problems develop. It's not a substitute for actual stability or the ability to live a comfortable life, but it is much better than what it was even a short time ago. That is, unless they are put into the justice system - as a consequence of the War on (Some) Drugs and the still-offensive idea that minorities and the poor are more likely to commit crime, courts are charging costs and fees to their defenders, especially those convicted, for things including the use of the public defender, their own mandated treatment or monitoring devices, or their own jail time and supplies.
Lightspeed Magazine has an issue entitled Women Destroy Science Fiction. Which is great! If you don't believe me, Seanan McGuire gives you plenty of good reasons. Why Seanan? Because she intrinsically understands the power a story (or many) can have on someone.
The pick-up artist culture embodies a lot of the worst aspects of toxic masculinity. But we knew that, even before the recent violence. Even though a lot of those same people would decry it as "gay", taking a page out of the ancient Greek playbook and building strong friendship between men could help.
The Secret Service is trying to develop a way for a computer to catch sarcasm, so as to filter serious threats against a President against non-serious ones. Which, if it succeeds, will mean the birth of the Singularity, among other things, because understanding sarcasm requires so much contextual and cultural awareness that you would need an A.I. to pull it off.
Bacteria resistant to the strongest forms of anti-biotics available have been detected in the food supply, which removes "last resort" protections for many with regard to possible infection by virulent superbugs. Beware the upcoming global pandemic, perhaps?
Suggestions from someone who is chronically ill about their own mental state, so that those around them can understand seemingly random events.
After being told there was'nt space for him on a transport to the beach where the Allied invasion of Axis Europe began, a veteran in a care home slipped out, found friends and hitched a ride to the 70th anniversary celebration. The care home called police after the discovery of the missing veteran.
Not everyone celebrates Father's as a celebration of a loving family. Some celebrate it as a reminder of their triumph in getting away from their family.
Texas Republicans refused to allow a booth at their state convention advocating for the inclusion of gay men and lesbians in the party, because the both conflicted with the party's current platform decrying the existence of homosexuality as anti-family. A nice Catch-22 there. The spokesperson said that gay and lesbian Republicans could attend as delegates and attempt to change the platform, but there would be no large visible space with which to get the delegates thinking about that issue available for them.
The last prisoner of war from the conflict in Afghanistan was returned in a prisoner exchange - five Taliban fighters to Qatar, one United States serviceman home. This was greeted with happiness and well-wishes. Right up until the point where they realized that a Democrat had achieved this. And allegations surfaced suggesting the prisoner had deserted or was responsible for the deaths of other soldiers. And so, the people who were happy thata soldier was coming home scrambled to delete their congratulatory social media messages as fast as they could. Not that the Internet forgets such things, mind. And it has sparked an interesting discussion as we see the normally hyper-jingoistic conservative side reverse themselves and decide not to support the troops, the decision, or anything else related to the return of this soldier.
Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader (the vice-captain for the Republicans in the House right now) lost his House seat to a one-track campaign decrying the evils of immigration reform. This is bad, in that it's the bad being beaten by the worse, and that this victory will likely reinflame the conservative movement for another several rounds of trying to invest those they consider too moderate for conservatism. This may be a gift to the Democrats - but it will depend entirely in how well the anti-immigration message does with the general voting population.
Think about introverts and how they react to things before inviting friends over, our, for that matter, responding to an invitation
Last for tonight - the love of books promotes the skill of reading, which your children's librarians have known for a very long time. It also promotes skills like critical thinking, so that when encountering a hypothesis that doesn't do the research, you can look askance at it.
Also, an actress enjoying her role, an excellent attempt to photographically recreate an iconic opening anime title, and The coup that Pearls Before Swine pulled by getting some panels drawn by Bill Watterson.
Long-term weight loss is unlikely, but the article chooses to say "so the obesity crisis is awful!" instead of "so we should consider the idea of health at every size as our default". One can guess what the comments say.
For further anxiety, not only does research suggest that high school is, indeed, hell when it comes to the most important self-defining time in our life, but that the experiences gained during that time have profound and lasting effects on our adult lives.
Teaching children rhetoric may be a way of preventing fights with them down the road. Assuming that a parent is willing to lose to a well-crafted argument. And willing to explain from the depths of their knowledge where warranted</>.
Speaking of lasting effects, no, being family is not an automatic entry into the lives of children, grandchildren, our significant others, and especially not if that family has been abusive.
And of things in adult lives, the casting of opera roles, normally a matter of skill in singing, is trending very dangerously toward the idea of looks first, singing ability second.
The Dead Pool Disc Jockeys department claims Casey Kasem at 82 years of age, although more people may know him now as the voice of Shaggy on the animated Scooby Doo Mysteries than as someone who counted down the top songs of the week.
Hall Of Fame baseball player Tony Gwynn died at 54 years of age from cancer developed from the use of smokeless tobacco during his playing days. We realize, though, that not many people will look at that and choose to stop their usage of tobacco products.
An unfinished but still published commentary makes the point that many women writers rely on a second income from their husbands or boyfriends to make ends meet while they write. The intended attitude on display, and as one might see in the actual URL slug, is that women are taking advantage of their husbands to write instead of contributing with a "real job." Since that never appeared, not really, instead a writer chose to focus their response on the blithely-assumed heteronormativity in the incomplete piece.
The best way to combat that is for women to unlearn what has been taught to them about how they should behave. Getty Images is starting to help with that, by actively promoting and photographing active women doing cool things, of all body types, and not letting them be dead-eyed props. And to not accept crap excuses for objectification of women. And speak out when ye religious institutions censure you for asking questions and starting conversations.
Also, if you believe that the presence of other women, scantily clad or no, is an impediment to your happy marriage, rethink the priorities of your marriage. Most people do not stay married because they are solely interested in the body of their partner. And if you are worried about other bodies, have you thought about talking with your husband about other bodies? You may find it interesting to see what he will say when he sees that he can talk with you about those things and you won't come off as being insecure.
A couple years after the emergency financial manager ordered the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit closed, despite their proven track record at getting teen mothers through high school and into four-tear colleges, the school had to close from lack of enrollment as a charter school. Because the people that the school was serving wouldn't really be able to afford a charter tuition. And because the emergency financial manager and state leadership in Michigan are misogynist dicks.
Illegal drugs and sex work contribute approximately 10 billion GBP to the United Kingdom economy. The majority share of that 10 billion is in sex work. Imagine what would be possible for the economy if it were a licensed and regulated practice.
Even by conservative estimations, the benefits of the current Clean Air Act outweigh the costs by at least a 2x multiplier, and more likely, several orders of magnitude. Not that it stops complaining about how new proposed rules will bankrupt everyone and everything, despite that not having happened every time it was floated in the past.
The Transportation Security Administration's backscatter scanners, that produce a nude image of a person being scanned, are being relocated from airports to prisons, because while citizens can object to having nude pictures taken of them in the name of security, prisoners can't.
There is much less recoverable oil in a popular fracking destination than previously estimated, which should be obvious once it became known that the original estimate was based on industry calculations.
Google has released testing source code for an encryption plug-in designed to make email messages more secure. It's the tip of the iceberg on the need for privacy and anonymity. The Internet's current model for making money is mass surveillance, which doesn't actually make money but does allow for the centralization of data so that governments, companies, and hackers don't have to go very far or to very many places to get that data. So that things like credit card skimming and hacking, like at the P. F. Chang's restaurants most recently, becomes a lot less lucrative of a deal.
The increased visibility of minorities in our current times makes it possible for them to build a robust social network and to be able to rely on that network when problems develop. It's not a substitute for actual stability or the ability to live a comfortable life, but it is much better than what it was even a short time ago. That is, unless they are put into the justice system - as a consequence of the War on (Some) Drugs and the still-offensive idea that minorities and the poor are more likely to commit crime, courts are charging costs and fees to their defenders, especially those convicted, for things including the use of the public defender, their own mandated treatment or monitoring devices, or their own jail time and supplies.
Lightspeed Magazine has an issue entitled Women Destroy Science Fiction. Which is great! If you don't believe me, Seanan McGuire gives you plenty of good reasons. Why Seanan? Because she intrinsically understands the power a story (or many) can have on someone.
The pick-up artist culture embodies a lot of the worst aspects of toxic masculinity. But we knew that, even before the recent violence. Even though a lot of those same people would decry it as "gay", taking a page out of the ancient Greek playbook and building strong friendship between men could help.
The Secret Service is trying to develop a way for a computer to catch sarcasm, so as to filter serious threats against a President against non-serious ones. Which, if it succeeds, will mean the birth of the Singularity, among other things, because understanding sarcasm requires so much contextual and cultural awareness that you would need an A.I. to pull it off.
Bacteria resistant to the strongest forms of anti-biotics available have been detected in the food supply, which removes "last resort" protections for many with regard to possible infection by virulent superbugs. Beware the upcoming global pandemic, perhaps?
Suggestions from someone who is chronically ill about their own mental state, so that those around them can understand seemingly random events.
After being told there was'nt space for him on a transport to the beach where the Allied invasion of Axis Europe began, a veteran in a care home slipped out, found friends and hitched a ride to the 70th anniversary celebration. The care home called police after the discovery of the missing veteran.
Not everyone celebrates Father's as a celebration of a loving family. Some celebrate it as a reminder of their triumph in getting away from their family.
Texas Republicans refused to allow a booth at their state convention advocating for the inclusion of gay men and lesbians in the party, because the both conflicted with the party's current platform decrying the existence of homosexuality as anti-family. A nice Catch-22 there. The spokesperson said that gay and lesbian Republicans could attend as delegates and attempt to change the platform, but there would be no large visible space with which to get the delegates thinking about that issue available for them.
The last prisoner of war from the conflict in Afghanistan was returned in a prisoner exchange - five Taliban fighters to Qatar, one United States serviceman home. This was greeted with happiness and well-wishes. Right up until the point where they realized that a Democrat had achieved this. And allegations surfaced suggesting the prisoner had deserted or was responsible for the deaths of other soldiers. And so, the people who were happy thata soldier was coming home scrambled to delete their congratulatory social media messages as fast as they could. Not that the Internet forgets such things, mind. And it has sparked an interesting discussion as we see the normally hyper-jingoistic conservative side reverse themselves and decide not to support the troops, the decision, or anything else related to the return of this soldier.
Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader (the vice-captain for the Republicans in the House right now) lost his House seat to a one-track campaign decrying the evils of immigration reform. This is bad, in that it's the bad being beaten by the worse, and that this victory will likely reinflame the conservative movement for another several rounds of trying to invest those they consider too moderate for conservatism. This may be a gift to the Democrats - but it will depend entirely in how well the anti-immigration message does with the general voting population.
Think about introverts and how they react to things before inviting friends over, our, for that matter, responding to an invitation
Last for tonight - the love of books promotes the skill of reading, which your children's librarians have known for a very long time. It also promotes skills like critical thinking, so that when encountering a hypothesis that doesn't do the research, you can look askance at it.
Also, an actress enjoying her role, an excellent attempt to photographically recreate an iconic opening anime title, and The coup that Pearls Before Swine pulled by getting some panels drawn by Bill Watterson.
