I suspect the ‘affirmative action’ trend also reflects the difference in ambition/drive between the low-income high achievers and the >70% high achievers. The low income group is smaller than the >70% group (look at the size of the ‘above average odds’ regios and the ‘below average odds’ regions). This is because most of the people in the low income group will never even apply for a private college – only the strongest applicants apply. But from the >70% group, basically every kid applies to college, and they are much more comfortable applying for ‘reach’ colleges (even if it costs their parents a few hundred extra dollars). They’ve also gamed their test scores.

Rich folk are also good at gaming all the other criteria (varsity sports, extracurricular achievements). “opportunity hoarding” I think is the term that’s been used, or resume padding. It’s also about being able to pay full tuition.

It’s apparently based on this painting (with apollo at the table, and bachus in the foreground) https://musee-magnin.fr/en/node/19

But more importantly, even if it were based on the Last Supper, I don’t think this performance would necessarily be mocking Christianity.

Nice!

Flesh-toned shirts always bother me

I think that violates the 8th amendment.

time and place man, time and place

live and let live

Privacy Badger has recently started blocking Twitter embedding for me (in the past few days). Does anyone know specifically what Twitter is doing to prompt this? For instance, see this thread on the Ukraine war on Daily Kos, which includes a lot of embedded Twitter posts https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/9/2204752/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-625-RU-may-experience-redeployment-issues

Thank you planters for protecting us from reckless drivers!

Food for thought @michael@yall.theatl.social

I found this comment on blocklist systems to be interesting: https://social.treehouse.systems/@adrienne/111043288202527510

How do we unblock any instance that got on Oliphant tier 0 but are later removed? Is that something that will be checked for?

Another thought – how does blocking and silencing affect the new search system? I guess blocking is obvious…but does silence block search? If so, I think that makes silencing much more impactful and we’d need to be more careful with it.

To make it “fair”, they can use it to build a new wing to hold Trump that will satisfy the secret service.

I’m pretty sure the federal government cannot copyright anything. It’s bizarre that state governments can…sometime it obstructs access to important documents. It’s also bizarre that a person would not have an implicit license to use their won likeness, regardless of who created it (unless they voluntarily signed it away)

Wow. This is exactly the wrong way to report on a BS from a known liar…the sentence reads as though this is a credible statement.

I get an XML doc here: https://roughdraftatlanta.com/rss

It includes a few paragraphs plus metadata for each story

Correction. There are a few trees around here that have dropped most of their leaves. One looks similar to that (growth and bark)… and I think it may be a cherry blossom tree.

Maybe water/heat stress given how bad the past couple of weeks have been. I haven’t seen any other trees dry out though.

I don’t have a strong opinion. The “news” community feed is a bit overwhelming to follow…so I could see the value of segregating the posts into separate communities. But on the flip side, that means there would be a bunch of news-bot communities that would be filling up the community list and obscuring the organic communities. It would be nice if there was some way to separate the communities into groups. That’s a general feature I’d like to see in Mastodon and Lemmy – better controls allowing inclusion/exclusion of posts based on a combination of criteria.

twitter is full of vapid partisan hacks. Like most other prominent media in our society…all about posers trying to get influence