In fourth grade, at age 9, we learned how eclipses work, and why the garbage at left is impossible. How sad that, a generation or two later, we live among morons.
From Newsweek:
Cracker Barrel has been targeted by a law firm seeking to defend President Donald Trump‘s policies amid allegations that the restaurant’s diversity drives are “discriminatory.”
America First Legal (AFL) has called for an official probe into the Southern restaurant chain “for potential violations of federal and state civil rights laws stemming from its discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.”
Some of Cracker Barrel’s initiatives to develop employees are focused specifically on supporting workers who are women, Black, LGBTQ+, or Latino, according to AFL. This means they “appear to offer employment benefits that are only available based on an employees’ race or sex,” the Washington D.C.-based law group said in a press release on Monday.
At my company’s high-water mark in the late 1990s, I employed approximately 115 people, and we were most definitely “DEI.” I gave explicit instructions to my HR people to hire, all other things being equal, women and people of color, because I thought that it was the best thing for the company, and the right thing to do for our world.
Of course, this was thirty years before the Donald Trump / Stephen Miller era of hate and stupidity. Moreover, my business was part of the public sector, and it never dawned on me that someone would challenge me here, given that I was the one writing the paychecks. I figured that had to count for something.
Today, apparently, all bets are off.
I’m trying to guess how many replacements for wood we have around us. For decks alone, there are at least eight. We don’t have “a” company replacing wood as building materials; we have many dozens.
If you’re an expert in the subject, and you think these people with their super-flamboyant “television personality” spokesperson is the very best, feel free to invest today.
Maybe you’ll be glad you did. Lol. I highly doubt it.
Being on some criminal’s “list” and writing letters about “beautiful secrets” are not crimes.
By contrast, statutory rape is a crime. How hard would it be to take this monster down for his actual crimes?
The strangest part about the Trump phenomenon in the United States is that, until very recently, this country had a profound reverence for its Founding Fathers and their perspective on how American government should function (see left).
The rest of the globe still can’t believe this has happened to the United States. Sure, it’s the type of thing that happens in developing countries constantly, but not here, where until recently, we were the envy of most of the peoples of the planet.
Now we’re an afterthought, a bare remembrance of the nation we once were.
It’s up to you and me to do what we can to put this back together.
Trump and his administration are working hard to control what Americans see and hear; they’re suppressing independent journalism, the only profession that’s specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
Destroying the free press is always among the first actions taken by authoritarians.
We’re living in very dangerous times.
Of course you can. It’s done by many millions of Americans on a daily basis.
We do all kinds of indefensibly stupid things, in case you haven’t noticed.
Yes, but it’s a very tiny number, and one that is extremely unlikely to go much higher.
Ocean wave energy is a subset of hydrokinetics, and, just a few years ago, it seemed that some flavor of extracting energy from moving water might play a significant role in our renewable energy future. That is, until the cost of energy via solar and wind went through the floor.
At this point, anyone interested in the subject are either hobbyists or owners of homes that happen to be in extremely rare positions.
Imagine your property abuts an ocean, and is located with no access to the grid and terrible solar irradiance. Places like the one shown below in the islands off Northern Scotland do exist.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be reorganizing, eliminating its scientific division, known as the Office of Research and Development, a move that will affect the career paths of many hundreds of its scientists.
This seems to follow the trend towards removing science from policymaking, something very few mentally healthy people would recommend on a planet that is rapidly baking itself.
