Let us begin with the practice of snowshoe baseball, in August, in Wisconsin. Apparently, the fans are there for both seeing people try to play the game in sawdust and snowshoes, exactly as ridiculous and prone to falling over as one might think, and pie. Large amounts of large pies. Which makes me think if Bitty and the Samwell boys want some additional training in the off-season, and wanted to make the pilgrimage, they could learn a lot from playing in the league.
R. Danya Ruttenberg wrestles with the story of the conquest of the Holy Land as described in Bamidbar/Numbers, first by pointing out the story of the conquest is almost certainly an after-the-fact justification of some other act, rather than a historical narrative, noting the wars and deaths that have been prosecuted in the name of that retroactively-inserted item, and pointedly explaining that because the Israelites and Canaanites were basically the same people, just one of them went on a different religious and political tack, the Israelites and the Palestinians of our timees are similarly much more related to each other than they are separate peoples with nothing in common that would justify the current wars and deaths being prosecuted. If the most prominent bit of "God told us to do this" is a retroactive justification rather than a contemporaneous account, then there are a lot of people saying "God told us to do this" and relying on that retroactive justification for their war and death now who need to have those justifications knocked out from underneath them, both historical and contemporary.
Rooster Teeth is being shut down by Warner Brothers Discovery. This could mean the end of their flagship series such as Red vs. Blue and RWBY, although there's the possibility those IP itself might be sold or licensed to someone else. Rooster Teeth is the latest casualty of Warner Brothers eating up as much as they could and then believing they are magically going to turn a profit because they're Warner Brothers properties at the moment. (Volume 9 of RWBY is not a bad place to have to end the entire series, if it happens, but one more volume, even if it had to be the last one, would be better.)
Children find their reading choices questioned and dismissed by the grownups in their lives, and therefore are not reading for pleasure, same as it was, same as it will be for however many times we have entities that want to quantify reading into a neat little package and people who believe that some materials are less worthy and less real than others. Those who love to read and do reading are those who were given an adequate supply of materials and told "find what you like," without judgment and without worries. Because, in so many cases, when a child finds the thing they like, they read voraciously. And then often finds something else and reads voraiously there, as well. With the assistance of people who can get them materials to keep that fire fed, things usually turn out fine. It's when grownups start imposing their opinions on what their children should be reading that things get derailed.
( An overstuffed couch of material inside )
Last for tonight, the possibility that one of the most resilient craft ever built might finally have succumbed to something cannot be salvaged or fixed, simply because Voyager is old and very, very far away from all of us, and the information needed to potentially diagnose and fix the problem is not here with us back on Terra. Except that may not be true, as apparently Voyager managed to spit out a readout of its memory and therefore, it may be possible to find the offending issue and then transmit patches and software updates to get it to work properly again. Even as we all recognize that at some point, things will eventually give out and there will be no recovery for them. But it would be nice if that happened only when the power source itself finally gave out.
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R. Danya Ruttenberg wrestles with the story of the conquest of the Holy Land as described in Bamidbar/Numbers, first by pointing out the story of the conquest is almost certainly an after-the-fact justification of some other act, rather than a historical narrative, noting the wars and deaths that have been prosecuted in the name of that retroactively-inserted item, and pointedly explaining that because the Israelites and Canaanites were basically the same people, just one of them went on a different religious and political tack, the Israelites and the Palestinians of our timees are similarly much more related to each other than they are separate peoples with nothing in common that would justify the current wars and deaths being prosecuted. If the most prominent bit of "God told us to do this" is a retroactive justification rather than a contemporaneous account, then there are a lot of people saying "God told us to do this" and relying on that retroactive justification for their war and death now who need to have those justifications knocked out from underneath them, both historical and contemporary.
Rooster Teeth is being shut down by Warner Brothers Discovery. This could mean the end of their flagship series such as Red vs. Blue and RWBY, although there's the possibility those IP itself might be sold or licensed to someone else. Rooster Teeth is the latest casualty of Warner Brothers eating up as much as they could and then believing they are magically going to turn a profit because they're Warner Brothers properties at the moment. (Volume 9 of RWBY is not a bad place to have to end the entire series, if it happens, but one more volume, even if it had to be the last one, would be better.)
Children find their reading choices questioned and dismissed by the grownups in their lives, and therefore are not reading for pleasure, same as it was, same as it will be for however many times we have entities that want to quantify reading into a neat little package and people who believe that some materials are less worthy and less real than others. Those who love to read and do reading are those who were given an adequate supply of materials and told "find what you like," without judgment and without worries. Because, in so many cases, when a child finds the thing they like, they read voraciously. And then often finds something else and reads voraiously there, as well. With the assistance of people who can get them materials to keep that fire fed, things usually turn out fine. It's when grownups start imposing their opinions on what their children should be reading that things get derailed.
( An overstuffed couch of material inside )
Last for tonight, the possibility that one of the most resilient craft ever built might finally have succumbed to something cannot be salvaged or fixed, simply because Voyager is old and very, very far away from all of us, and the information needed to potentially diagnose and fix the problem is not here with us back on Terra. Except that may not be true, as apparently Voyager managed to spit out a readout of its memory and therefore, it may be possible to find the offending issue and then transmit patches and software updates to get it to work properly again. Even as we all recognize that at some point, things will eventually give out and there will be no recovery for them. But it would be nice if that happened only when the power source itself finally gave out.
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