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వీరిచే పోస్ట్ చేయబడింది Ann Althouse వద్ద 6:10 PM
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Ann Althouse చెప్పారు...

Open thread. Write about anything.

16-08-26 6:11 PM
tcrosse చెప్పారు...

This morning I googled one of the terms in Connexctions. AI came back with the other three terms it was connected with, in the purple. Of course, I recused myself. I never would have gotten it anyway

16-08-26 6:23 PM
Disparity of Cult చెప్పారు...

https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2088725218181222499

Aseem Malhotra jumps the shark.

16-08-26 6:29 PM
Curious George చెప్పారు...

Yesterday Josh Baez of the St. Louis Cardinals was playing his first MLB game. He hit the first pitch he saw for a HR to center in Wrigley Field. Cool, but lots of players have homered in the first big league at bat. In his second at bat he hit a home run to left. Ok, super rare. Only two other players have done that. Third at bat, homer to right. Johs is the first player in MLB history to hit a homer in their first three at bats.

There have been about 23,000 players to play at least one game in the show. Incredible.

16-08-26 6:35 PM
john mosby చెప్పారు...

Interesting case in England, showing that public safety issues are not limited to the US: Britain is early-releasing thousands of prisoners because of limited capacity. Among the people scheduled for early release are the men who dragged PC Andrew Harper to death when he got caught in their car door. By the way, the killers are Roma, so white, and born in UK. So a lot of the usual issues around policing are absent here.

Starmer blubbered that you can't single out individuals to stay in prison if they fit in a category that's getting a general release. There also has been some criminological data that say releasing minor offenders doesn't relieve overcrowding, because they minor-offend again straightaway. Burnham has been noncommittal so far.

The most interesting part of this is that every single chief constable in England and Wales, including the commissioner of the Met, have signed onto a letter urging the government to figure out a way to keep these guys locked up. This is an unprecedented display of backbone by senior police officials.

The chief constables are appointed by and responsible to their mayors or other local-level elected officials. So either the chiefs feel this is an existential issue and if the mayor fires them, oh well, or the mayors agree.

Quite a turnaround from recent trends. Or maybe the cops are just worried that Tommy Robinson's boys will start killing them in the cause of freedom, if the prison time seems doable. CC, JSM

16-08-26 6:45 PM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...

After reading the comments in previous post about Madison and college games, I think I'm the only one in here without a college degree. Don't feel bad. Doing what you are told keeps you out of jail., and that's a very good thing. I didn't listen, and yes I did go to jail. They told me I would I have to stay if I didn't tell them who I was, and what I was doing, but I didn't do that either, and they let me go. Never trust the man.

16-08-26 6:52 PM
Disparity of Cult చెప్పారు...

The New IRA taking on the migrant crisis in Ireland?

16-08-26 6:53 PM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...

"Johs is the first player in MLB history to hit a homer in their first three at bats."

Wow! If would have just told them "let me play one game and then we discuss the contract". I'm sure he'll do well before long.

16-08-26 7:18 PM
Curious George చెప్పారు...

"bagoh20 said...
After reading the comments in previous post about Madison and college games, I think I'm the only one in here without a college degree."

Nope.

16-08-26 7:28 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper చెప్పారు...

He was already in their farm team.

Báez's arrival from Class AAA Memphis.

When does (re) negotiating begin

16-08-26 8:06 PM
Jaq చెప్పారు...

Israel is dropping white phosphorus on Lebanon and setting it ablaze. They are just taking Lebanon for lebensraum, I guess,because Lebanon has an actual source of fresh water, and gas fields offshore which the Israelis have been preventing them from developing.

16-08-26 8:29 PM
wildswan చెప్పారు...

The man who proved Jason Arday's plagarism, Nathan Cofnas, was a supporter of the eugenic positions of the late 20th century. He believed that blacks had a genetically-based IQ deficit. He based this position on the work of Eugenics Society/ American Eugenics Society members. For example, consider the article: Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry. 2020 Nathan Cofnas. Philosophical Psychology 33, 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/. This article used the work on race and IQ of Arthur Jensen, Sandra Scarr, Richard Lynn, JC Loehlin, Linda Gottfredson, Spearman, AWF Edwards, JP Rushton, Richard Lewontin and Plomin who were all members of one or the other or both eugenics societies. These references were used to back up Cofnas's arguments that race and IQ should be investigated again because, he said, it was true that blacks had a genetically-based IQ deficit. Cofnas though that no black legitimately held an academic position at Harvard and that very few held their positions legitimately at Oxford/Cambridge. These positions led to Cofnas being forced out of Oxford as a racist - which he is. And Cofnas is a supporter of eugenics as well. It could not be more unfortunate that it was left up to a man known for supporting these false and outdated theories to expose the frauds of Jason Arday, that no one else was willing to face the storm which would swirl about the man who exposed a black charlatan. Yes, the only one who spoke up was the man who thinks almost all black academics are charlatans and who lost his job for saying so. And now it is this racist who has exposed this huge scandal. Others should have spoken up. Look at the damage their silence has done.

16-08-26 8:51 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

Far-right Israeli minister advocates killing ‘30 to 40’ Gazans each night ~ FT
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/22061c4a-9084-434e-b6dc-d825d58e8626

"Itamar Ben-Gvir also calls for re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave"

“I think we should be doing 30 to 40 targeted assassinations per night,” Ben-Gvir said. “Not just those who pose an immediate threat. There are people there who don’t deserve to live . . . They are not even people.”

16-08-26 9:53 PM
Milwaukie guy చెప్పారు...

Only a moron would suggest that Israel's fight against Hezballah is about lebensraum.

16-08-26 9:57 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

If the Israeli army treated settlers the way they treat Palestinians, this would be over in two weeks. The settlers have been out of control for decades. Deal with them....but we know that wont happen and this is on the Israeli government.

16-08-26 10:00 PM
Gospace చెప్పారు...

Too be honest, I'm all in favor of the Roman solution to the Gaza problem. Kill them all, men, women, and children. Start at one end, then roll the tanks, artillery, and infantry to the other. Flee ahead of them or die. Allow other nations to fly planes in and take in Gazan refugees to their own countries. There won't be any doing that, but offer them the chance to do so.

Doing that may shock the west bank Palestinians to seek actual peace with Israel's existence. Probably not, but we can hope.

Genocide has been successful in establishing peace between enemies many times throughout history by the simple expedient of removing one of them from the board. Don't believe it? Ask the Carthaginians what they think about the premise.

Israel is living next door to a population that wants to kill them. Not just the crazy insane leaders, the population. Should they compromise with them? What exactly is the compromise position? "Well, okay, we won't bomb the crap out of you if you limit your killing to 100 Israelis a year." an acceptable compromise?

16-08-26 10:11 PM
Milwaukie guy చెప్పారు...

The Israelis should treat the Gazans like they did the Jewish Gaza settlers in 2005? I'm confused.

There are occasional clashes in the West Bank. I don't think the settlers are randomly firing rockets into civilian areas or flooding into settlements murdering and raping.

16-08-26 10:28 PM
n.n చెప్పారు...

Planned Palestinianhood (PP) is an ethical Choice... and a moral response to social justice. Injustice committed through murder, rape, torture, etc.

16-08-26 10:34 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper చెప్పారు...

https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-psychological-origin-of-the-1300-year-old-arab-israeli-war-how-history-must-guide-policy-making

16-08-26 10:39 PM
Jim at చెప్పారు...

*I think I'm the only one in here without a college degree.*

Nope. I got my AA degree after I 'retired' just because it was fun to go back to school in my early 40s.

16-08-26 10:48 PM

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