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BilalPowell posted...

Why though? Teachers have to do their lesson live which leads to inefficiency and mistakes. And they have to spend time answering questions of other students that you don't need help with. If you just sit at home and watch an edited video you'll get the most efficient educational experience.

Learning how to interact with people is part of education

Police kill far fewer white people in Europe

Now that's funny

What happened to your last account

What happened to your last account

That's not a feeling; it's quantifiable

K181 posted...

Basically everybody liked him until he ran for president, and then people got mad.

Everybody is cool until they have the power to influence your life

Don't like it, don't visit it. It's that simple

All I'm gonna say is that propaganda of the deed is a tactic with a proven track record of failure.

Good!

Wow this is a helpful tip, thanks TC

Its not hypocrisy: it's a consistent belief that the law should protect them and impose burdens on others.

Yesterday. It was fine

M0NSTER_ posted...

Is Courtney Lynn's comment true?

No! Hope this helps

Too capitalist for my tastes, imo

Her and her roommate recently had to spend a couple weeks out of the apartment while they took care of a maintenance issue. Initially they'd been told the workers would just have to go through my girlfriend's room, and it would take one week, and then it became both their rooms over two weeks. Which was annoying, but over and done with, whatever. They got back in on Saturday, and today got an email from the landlord, who apparently took it upon himself to go through the entire apartment noting things he'd like them to clean or otherwise take care of to his liking, a list of which he emailed to them.

They just signed a new lease prior to this maintenance situation, so she's stuck dealing with it for another year

WhisperWolf2005 posted...

I was thinking majority to the union head

It literally goes to the workers as backpay

The trick is: nursing home dishwasher. All the work comes at set times with each meal, no big surprises

"beep bep"

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I have some news for you about the people subscribing to Twitter Blue

Update: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1640502698549075972

What books are you making the kids read?

In addition to being poorly paid, restaurant workers are often younger, less experienced, and less knowledgable about what they are entitled to. In some areas, language barriers also pose an obstacle.

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-officers-shot-man-in-bronx-after-his-father-called-311-for-help-with-mental-health-crisis

Santo de la Cruz called 311 Sunday morning seeking medical intervention for his 42-year-old son, who he said was in the midst of a schizophrenic episode. Within minutes, his son was lying outside of the Bronx apartment building where his family lives, shot by officers responding to the call, de la Cruz told Gothamist.

The son, Raul de la Cruz, was in critical condition at St. Barnabas Hospital on Monday. Santo said doctors gave him a slim chance of survival.

The pair had gotten into an argument earlier in the morning on Sunday after Raul posted a video online goading police, who he thought were out to get him, the elder de la Cruz said in an interview Monday afternoon.

I told them [311] that I called them instead because I didnt want something bad to happen, de la Cruz recounted in Spanish, noting that his son would sometimes yell at people in public, provoking them when he was off of his medication. I told them I didnt want him to do anything bad or for him to end up killed. Thats what I told 311.

Raul's dad said he called 311, asking to speak to someone in Spanish. He asked for medical authorities to commit Raul before something went awry.

NYPD officials said on Sunday the father called 911, but a review of Santos phone logs shows he only called the citys non-emergency 311 line on Sunday morning. The call lasted 23 minutes.

A dispatcher for 311 told Gothamist that reports of someone in a mental health crisis with a weapon are automatically routed to the police. She said the NYPD then decides who gets dispatched.

Before the call was over, Santo, 67, said two white police officers arrived at his building on the Grand Concourse in Kingsbridge, yelling instructions at Raul in English. But Raul does not understand English, according to his dad and sister.

Raul asked, Que pasa? according to his dad, before pulling out a knife and approaching the officers.
The officers yelled at Raul in English to stop and drop the knife, firing four shots, Santo said. Three hit Raul, including once in the leg and others in the torso, Santo said.

Raul was shot down in a scene that lasted 28 seconds, according to Chief Patrol John Chell. Chell said the bodycam footage capturing the shooting was under investigation.

I thought they killed himI didnt call for them to kill him, Santo said on Monday in Spanish.

It was only after his son was shot that Spanish-speaking NYPD officers arrived on the scene, questioning Santo in his native language, he said.

We spoke with the doctor yesterday and he told us that [Raul] had a 10% chance of survival and he didnt think he would make it through the night, Santo said. Today, they have not given us any type of information.

Santo said he hasnt been allowed to visit his son at St. Barnabas Hospital, where hes being treated.
Gothamist confirmed with a hospital clerk that Raul is under police custody and that NYPD officers have jurisdiction over who enters and exits his hospital room.

Our hands are tied, the clerk said.

Flauros posted...

Wolfgang

When you're right, you're right

Federal labor law prevents companies from being fined punitive damages; the maximum they can be made to pay under current laws is back pay.

Well, traditional media, whose owners typically seek to make a profit, to give one example.

There's like, a long-running effort to get people to distrust medical and science experts. So no, they don't listen to science.

Devilanse333 posted...

A twitnews about one example of social media exposing users to propaganda?

Buddy this isn't news, just laugh at the funny hyperbole

I think this article is an interesting companion to the topic at hand
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-higher-education-outrage

The paper When a Name Gives You Pause: Racialized Names and Time to Adoption in a County Dog Shelter found that dogs in a shelter with names that were read as Black (e.g., Tyson) tended to be adopted more slowly than those with names that people viewed as White (e.g., Ben). The author explains the findings here.

Here is what I emailed to the reporter:

Here is why I think the study is interesting. There is a fairly substantial body of causal evidence that people discriminate based on names. These studies use experimental designs, so the causal effects can't be doubted. For example, they show that resumes with names that employers interpret as black are less likely to be called for an interview relative to more white sounding names. See, e.g. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1706255114 Another recent summary points to similar effects in rental housing, where equally qualified people are treated differently depending on their names. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3975770. There remains some question about why people respond to such names differently. Maybe they have had some prior negative experiences that provides some rationale for their responses. So I read the dog shelter study in that context. It takes away any such rationale: it's obviously silly to discriminate against dogs based on names, and so it points to an underlying bias that can't be accounted for by prior experience.

Of course, without this context, I realize it would be easy to caricature the paper as a "LOLZ these academics are studying dog discrimiantion." Which is why I tried to explain the context of a relatively sophisticated body of work in this area that needs to be accounted for to understand the contribution.

Compare/contrast
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/26/texas-observer-shutting-down/

https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-03-23/kansas-city-police-targeted-minority-neighborhoods-to-meet-illegal-ticket-quotas-lawsuit-says

Kansas City Police leaders allegedly ordered officers to target minority neighborhoods to meet ticket quotas telling them to be ready to kill everybody in the car and to only respond to calls for help in white neighborhoods.

Edward Williams, a 44-year-old white KCPD officer and 21-year veteran of the force, filed a discrimination lawsuit in Jackson County Court this week including those and other allegations. Williams said hes faced retaliation because hes been a whistleblower, is disabled and is over 40.

Williamss suit said that contrary to Missouri law, KCPD continuously and repeatedly told officers that if they didnt meet their ticket quotas they would be kicked out of the traffic unit and sent to dogwatch, an unpopular overnight shift typically worked by those with low seniority.

This directive came straight from the then-Chief of Police Richard Smith, he alleged in the suit.

Smiths rocky term as chief lasted from 2017 through 2022, when he was forced into retirement. Smith was criticized for stonewalling cases of excessive force against people of color and his militarized reaction to #BlackLivesMatter protests.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced an investigation into alleged racist hiring practices in KCPD in December 2022. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker earlier wrote a public letter saying KCPD had lost the communitys trust that excessive force cases would be stopped.

Current Chief Stacey Graves issued a statement Wednesday reacting to Williams claims, saying the department is dedicated to equitable and fair policing and that she would remind the traffic division to operate and enforce laws appropriately.

We do not direct enforcement activities based on demographics, Graves wrote. We do direct traffic enforcement in high crash locations as well as citizen traffic complaint locations.

Williams, a motorcycle patrol officer, said he made several complaints about the disabilities he acquired on the job including injuries to his left knee and back, 40 percent hearing loss in both ears and surgery on his left shoulder after he was hit by a car while on the job.

Williams is seeking monetary damages because he said he was discriminated against for his disability, age and race. Williams, who is white, said command staff felt free to say racist statements to him because of his race statements he said they would never make to minority officers.
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Williams lawsuit claims that in 2018, Smith held a mandatory meeting in the traffic unit because the command staff noticed a drop in tickets. Although leaders acknowledged that ticket quotas were illegal, they set a requirement of 1,820 tickets annually for each officer, the lawsuit alleges.

The suit alleges all KCPD cared about was the money generated by the tickets issued, and claims the practice continues today.

The lawsuit says that officers were told to go to minority neighborhoods to write tickets because it would be easier to write multiple citations on every stop. At the same time, command staff advised officers that they should approach every car with the mindset to be ready to kill everybody in the car, the suit says.

Command staff also allegedly told officers to only respond to calls in white neighborhoods in north and south Kansas City, because those are the folks who are actually paying for the police, the suit says. Officers were allegedly told to not respond to minority areas north of Bannister Road, west of Interstate 435 and south of the Missouri River, because those people do not vote the same way as the people out south, east, and north, the suit says.

https://twitter.com/maximillian_alv/status/1640353950644699136

https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1640379365384159232

Lol

Morning bump

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/26/2023/donors-could-steer-coverage-at-daily-caller-nonprofit

The charity arm of the conservative Daily Caller offered donors the opportunity to propose topics for coverage and news beats for reporters in exchange for financial contributions.

News or policy beats that you care about can be the focus of a new project, a document circulated by the Daily Caller News Foundation between 2016 and 2017 offered. It priced a single reporter on a beat at $200,000, adding: Together, we can decide on a specific area that you want to see covered.

Investors can recommend topics of interest for our editors' consideration, the document says.

The pitch also said the Caller maintains complete editorial control over the sites content.

The document is more than five years old, and it's unclear how closely it matches current practices. Before Semafor was able to authenticate the document, Daily Caller co-founder and publisher Neil Patel suggested to Semafor that the pitch document was fabricated, citing many inconsistencies in the document which make it suspect and appear false. After Semafor authenticated it, Patel didnt respond to a request for further comment.

The Daily Caller, co-founded by Fox Newss Tucker Carlson, remains one of the biggest names in conservative news, sharing red-meat culture, politics, and sports stories. Its also been the launching pad for many conservative pundits and staffers, and for journalists. But few understand that much of the content on the site comes from the publications nonprofit sibling.

The Daily Caller News Foundation is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that operates separately from the Daily Caller, but has often shared some of the same staffers, offices, leadership, and general editorial views.

The nonprofit creates a free wire service of articles, which the for-profit version then often syndicates, and sells ads against. Other digital news organizations also syndicated DCNF articles, and the pitch document boasts to donors that some of these stories could be picked up by partner sites at mainstream news outlets, including Business Insider and Yahoo.

But the Daily Caller relies heavily on DCNF articles. When I checked on Saturday evening, five out of the top six stories touted on the website were written under the Daily Caller News Foundation brand.

Tax experts interviewed by the Washington Post in 2017 said that the foundations structure appears to violate the spirit of a federal law governing nonprofits.

Other experts consider the arrangement acceptable as long as the articles are offered for free to all. The Caller weathered a complaint in 2020 from a watchdog group alleging that its for-profit and non-profit arms are inappropriately mingled.

I think the guardrails against improper donor or sponsor influence on reporting are found in journalist ethics, not in nonprofit law, said Benjamin Leff, a professor at American University who specializes in US federal tax law and nonprofits.

The groups donors also include conservative organizations and figures that receive regular coverage in the Daily Caller, the Daily Beast reported last year after obtaining a list of donors to the foundation.

ts not unheard of for nonprofit newsrooms to accept tax-exempt donations with the purpose of covering certain beats. Many nonprofit news organizations are explicitly ideological, and attract donors who agree with their organizing principles, and who wish to encourage certain types of coverage.

But the DCNF document details how agenda-driven donors could have granular influence over the organizations editorial coverage, down to the number of stories published on a specific topic, and the cost of running those journalists.

Donors have a say over the types of beats and stories they would like to see on the Daily Caller. And these articles wont just be on the website itself: Numerous websites publish the Daily Callers work, meaning some of the donor-suggested stories were likely republished by other outlets where there are no disclosures or hints about the financial links between donors and the articles.

So much of right wing media operates on an essentially similar model: bankrolled by billionaires for the purposes of furthering some pet aim or other. This article details how a right wing blogger named Rod Dreher (who is well-known in certain circles for, among other things, being a tremendous weirdo) lost his column at The American Conservative because his benefactor started finding his fixations too weird.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/rod-dreher-blog-weird-american-conservative

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That is precisely what I had in mind

Bump

Buddy, I live with some people I met on this website

WBC_Injury posted...

Weird how that didn't happen the first three times he announced his candidacy.

His only prior run was in 2000, years before he had a broadcast TV series, as a member of the Reform Party. You're doing a lot of omission to pretend that the only difference in the 16 years that followed was the creation of a forum populated mostly by young non-voters.

This is a gimmick with potential

WBC_Injury posted...

Revisionist history much? 4chan memed him into becoming an actual candidate.

No they didn't. He was near the top of or leading polls from the moment he announced his candidacy

You okay?

Agent_Stroud posted...

So does that mean CNNs official verified Twitter account is guilty of digital blackface then? After all, they did post a picture of Robert Downey Jrs controversial performance in Tropic Thunder, just sayin.

You have to have better internet literacy skills than to think that's a legitimate screencap

Lost_All_Senses posted...

They're wrong because they're clickbaiting by calling everyone rascist.

Is that what the article says?

https://bit.ly/3FV4fYm

Tens of thousands of Israelis poured into the streets of cities across the country on Sunday night in a spontaneous outburst of anger after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister for challenging the Israeli leaders judicial overhaul plan.

Protesters in Tel Aviv blocked a main highway and lit large bonfires, while police scuffled with protesters who gathered outside Netanyahus private home in Jerusalem.

The unrest deepened a monthslong crisis over Netanyahus plan to overhaul the judiciary, which has sparked mass protests, alarmed business leaders and former security chiefs and drawn concern from the United States and other close allies.

Netanyahus dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant signaled that the prime minister and his allies will barrel ahead this week with the overhaul plan. Gallant had been the first senior member of the ruling Likud party to speak out against it, saying the deep divisions were threatening to weaken the military.

But as droves of protesters flooded the streets late into the night, Likud ministers began indicating willingness to hit the brakes. Culture Minister Micky Zohar, a Netanyahu confidant, said the party would support him if he decided to pause the judicial overhaul.

In a brief statement, Netanyahus office said late Sunday the prime minister had dismissed Gallant. Netanyahu later tweeted we must all stand strong against refusal.

Tens of thousands of Israelis poured into the streets in protest after Netanyahus announcement, blocking Tel Avivs main artery, transforming the Ayalon highway into a sea of blue-and-white Israeli flags and lighting a large bonfire in the middle of the road.

Demonstrations took place in Beersheba, Haifa and Jerusalem, where thousands of people gathered outside Netanyahus private residence. Police scuffled with protesters and sprayed the crowd with a water cannon. Thousands then marched from the residence to the Knesset, Israels parliament.

Inon Aizik, 27, said he came to demonstrate outside Netanyahus private residence in central Jerusalem because bad things are happening in this country, referring to the judicial overhaul as a quick legislative blitz.

Netanyahus decision came less than a day after Gallant, a former senior general, called for a pause in the controversial legislation until after next months Independence Day holidays, citing the turmoil in the ranks of the military.

Gallant had voiced concerns that the divisions in society were hurting morale in the military and emboldening Israels enemies. I see how the source of our strength is being eroded, Gallant said.
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Netanyahus government is pushing ahead for a parliamentary vote this week on a centerpiece of the overhaul a law that would give the governing coalition the final say over all judicial appointments. It also seeks to pass laws that would grant parliament the authority to override Supreme Court decisions with a basic majority and limit judicial review of laws.

Netanyahu and his allies say the plan will restore a balance between the judicial and executive branches and rein in what they see as an interventionist court with liberal sympathies.

But critics say the constellation of laws will remove the checks and balances in Israels democratic system and concentrate power in the hands of the governing coalition. They also say that Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges, has a conflict of interest.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets over the past three months to demonstrate against the plan in the largest demonstrations in the countrys 75-year history. The State Department dismissed as completely false claims repeated by Yair Netanyahu, the prime ministers son, that the U.S. government was financing these protests.

Leaders of Israels vibrant high-tech industry have said the changes will scare away investors, former top security officials have spoken out against the plan and key allies, including the United States and Germany, have voiced concerns.

In recent weeks discontent has even surged from within Israels army the most popular and respected institution among Israels Jewish majority. A growing number of Israeli reservists, including fighter pilots, have threatened to withdraw from voluntary duty in the past weeks.
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Netanyahu is barred by the countrys attorney general from directly dealing with his governments plan to overhaul the judiciary, based on a conflict of interest agreement he is bound to, and which the Supreme Court acknowledged in a ruling over Netanyahus fitness to serve while on trial for corruption. Instead, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, a close confidant of Netanyahu, is spearheading the overhaul.

But on Thursday, after parliament passed a law making it harder to remove a sitting prime minister, Netanyahu said he was unshackled from the attorney generals decision and vowed to wade into the crisis and mend the rift in the nation. That declaration prompted the attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, to warn that Netanyahu was breaking his conflict of interest agreement.

Would someone evil play golf?

Between all the Forza games, it might be Microsoft

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1639015894570369027?t=Lexx4Im5Ra-j1e5lYW1M3Q&s=19
No. No they are not