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Beginning May 12 until the money's gone, household in the United States can apply for cost relief of residential broadband services, if one of a handful of criteria are met by someone in the household or the household itself. The credit is for up to $50 for non-Tribal households, so it won't buy a very high-speed tier, but it should be enough to get some people online. Assuming that your local monopoly participates (or, if you are in one of the places where you don't have a de facto monopoly on broadband services, if one of the competitors participates). It also provides a discount on a purchase of a device to take advantage of the new broadband services.
This is your regular reminder that running for the school board is probably going to produce more meaningful results in your lifetime than running for President, because the people who oppose changes to curricular standards and incentives that would tell a true(r) story of the history of the United States all learned a version of history that is specifically intended to perpetuate myths like happy slaves and that the Civil War wasn't primarily fought over abolition of slavery and other such things, when they're talking about those things at all instead of glossing over them completely. In addition, being on the board will give you the opportunity to directly deal with the parents concerned that there's some sort of "wokeness" substitution of curriculum and that "the classics" will summarily be cast down in favor of some newer, lesser material.
Brexit continues to produce difficulties for the UK, as they send warships out to try and protect what they think is a possible blockade.
A Glaswegian who noticed neighbors being taken away by immigration authorities mobilized a successful public protest that eventually resulted in the men being released and no immigration action taken at the time. The protest appeared swiftly enough thanks to a swift communications network in place formed after some earlier immigration decisions and a community that cared about its people. I wouldn't be surprised at this stance coming out of a Home Office that believes they need to do things about the "damn furrners" now that there's been a successful Brexit, and they think that brown people are the easiest and softest targets to enforce that on.
Not all of the large amounts of anti-trans bills introduced in conservative legislatures this year succeeded - the one in Louisiana, for example, garnered a significant amount of opposition and no support, and so was dropped.
Bangor, Wales, elected the first openly non-binary mayor, as best we can tell.
Languages with gendered pronouns continue to struggle over how to avoid privileging the generic masculine, with the obvious amounts of backlash happening about changing the language at all and denunciations that all of this language talk is fascism from the left-wing designed to destroy the perfect society that has already been built. Neopronouns are starting to come back into the Discourse, and as with many things, it can be hard to tell who's being serious, who's being ha ha only serious, and who's being trollish. And, well, usage acceptance is usually more of a personal matter than an institutional one, even if usage changes over time and audience. And there's the perenial problem of when using a loanword, do you pronounce it like the language it originated from (and if so, which one?), or the language it's been imported into? And do you need to care that much about it?
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Last for tonight: the narrative that gymnasts must be young and relentlessly abusively trained to achieve world-class performance needs to be changed, and there are at least some athletes who are, by gymnastics standards, "old" who are showing that they might still be able to perform sufficiently difficult routines to return to the elite. Part of this comes from the uncovering and starting to take seriously the abuse that women gymnasts have suffered for decades, part of this comes from the fact that gymnastics for women is beginning to acknowledge that power is the favored attribute for building sufficient difficulty value to compete. (Thank you, Simone Biles.)
This is your regular reminder that running for the school board is probably going to produce more meaningful results in your lifetime than running for President, because the people who oppose changes to curricular standards and incentives that would tell a true(r) story of the history of the United States all learned a version of history that is specifically intended to perpetuate myths like happy slaves and that the Civil War wasn't primarily fought over abolition of slavery and other such things, when they're talking about those things at all instead of glossing over them completely. In addition, being on the board will give you the opportunity to directly deal with the parents concerned that there's some sort of "wokeness" substitution of curriculum and that "the classics" will summarily be cast down in favor of some newer, lesser material.
Brexit continues to produce difficulties for the UK, as they send warships out to try and protect what they think is a possible blockade.
A Glaswegian who noticed neighbors being taken away by immigration authorities mobilized a successful public protest that eventually resulted in the men being released and no immigration action taken at the time. The protest appeared swiftly enough thanks to a swift communications network in place formed after some earlier immigration decisions and a community that cared about its people. I wouldn't be surprised at this stance coming out of a Home Office that believes they need to do things about the "damn furrners" now that there's been a successful Brexit, and they think that brown people are the easiest and softest targets to enforce that on.
Not all of the large amounts of anti-trans bills introduced in conservative legislatures this year succeeded - the one in Louisiana, for example, garnered a significant amount of opposition and no support, and so was dropped.
Bangor, Wales, elected the first openly non-binary mayor, as best we can tell.
Languages with gendered pronouns continue to struggle over how to avoid privileging the generic masculine, with the obvious amounts of backlash happening about changing the language at all and denunciations that all of this language talk is fascism from the left-wing designed to destroy the perfect society that has already been built. Neopronouns are starting to come back into the Discourse, and as with many things, it can be hard to tell who's being serious, who's being ha ha only serious, and who's being trollish. And, well, usage acceptance is usually more of a personal matter than an institutional one, even if usage changes over time and audience. And there's the perenial problem of when using a loanword, do you pronounce it like the language it originated from (and if so, which one?), or the language it's been imported into? And do you need to care that much about it?
( And More Inside )
Last for tonight: the narrative that gymnasts must be young and relentlessly abusively trained to achieve world-class performance needs to be changed, and there are at least some athletes who are, by gymnastics standards, "old" who are showing that they might still be able to perform sufficiently difficult routines to return to the elite. Part of this comes from the uncovering and starting to take seriously the abuse that women gymnasts have suffered for decades, part of this comes from the fact that gymnastics for women is beginning to acknowledge that power is the favored attribute for building sufficient difficulty value to compete. (Thank you, Simone Biles.)
