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Politics / Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Last post by Ben on Today at 09:59:18 AM »
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2024’s got everything: Queers for Palestine, the leader of the free world pooping his pants on the White House Lawn, the CEO of a boner pill company issuing clarifications that he’s not an antisemite…
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Politics / Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Last post by Ben on Today at 09:57:57 AM »
I'm going to do everything I can to ensure I never see a doctor who went to Harvard Med.

https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/05/06/death-by-cringe-harvard-mds-song-n2395923
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The Roundtable / Re: Jeremy Clarkson, Gentleman Farmer
« Last post by Ben on Today at 09:52:04 AM »
Quote from: dogmush on Today at 09:38:18 AM
I did turn to Mrs. Mush most of the way through Episode 1 and say "If I were Clarkson I'd hire a couple lawyers whose only job is to sue the council and mire them in paperwork when they try to do ANYTHING.  Good, bad, whatever.  Just make everything impossible"

While recognizing that this is a semi-scripted TV show, I think they covered something like that in Season 2, but the attorney fees were even too much for mega-rich Jeremy.

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in the UK. The town council is the face of it, but all the farming rules from the UK government are just brutal.
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The Roundtable / Re: Bridge collapse in Baltimore
« Last post by dogmush on Today at 09:40:26 AM »
That's like 20% of CA's railroad bridge.  Kind of a decent value.
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The Roundtable / Re: Jeremy Clarkson, Gentleman Farmer
« Last post by dogmush on Today at 09:38:18 AM »
We started watching Season 3 last night.  Got through a couple episodes.  I still really enjoy this show.

I did turn to Mrs. Mush most of the way through Episode 1 and say "If I were Clarkson I'd hire a couple lawyers whose only job is to sue the council and mire them in paperwork when they try to do ANYTHING.  Good, bad, whatever.  Just make everything impossible"
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The Roundtable / Re: Bridge collapse in Baltimore
« Last post by WLJ on Today at 09:33:27 AM »
Quote from: K Frame on May 05, 2024, 03:28:02 PM
Up to $1.9 billion and 4 years.

In the end will more than likely cost the American tax payers $4-6B.
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The Roundtable / Re: Bridge collapse in Baltimore
« Last post by RocketMan on Today at 09:28:56 AM »
Would that be the George Floyd and Gazan Genocide Memorial Bridge?
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The Roundtable / Re: Lost on the Appalachian Trail
« Last post by RocketMan on Today at 09:22:31 AM »
Quote from: Northwoods on May 05, 2024, 09:54:19 PM
So, your house wears a tinfoil hat.

This sounds like a reasonable trade-off for the GPS app not working.
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Politics / Re: Chicago Teacher's Union contract demands...
« Last post by K Frame on Today at 09:21:43 AM »
The original article I posted mentioned that statistic in passing.

Apparently mathematics scores aren't much better.
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Politics / Re: Chicago Teacher's Union contract demands...
« Last post by Ben on Today at 09:14:15 AM »
Relevant to this, I just saw a news segment that said only 21% of Chicago 8th graders are proficient at reading. There was a time when the opposite of that, 21% NOT proficient, was an outrage. Chicago may be ground zero for the idiocracy generation.
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