I’ll recommend “The Warmth of Other Suns” if you want a beautifully written history of racial history across the families / time periods in the US. Definitely helped me personalize & put together a lot of pieces left out of my education.

In regions where heating load (20⁰F up to 70⁰F = 50) is usually substantially more than cooling load (95 down to 70 = 25), does that negate the argument?

Vemuri wore a Keffiyeh during the speech, and called out MIT for having research ties with the Israel army and “aiding and abetting” the country with its “assault on the Palestinian people.”

“MIT supports free expression but stands by its decision, which was in response to the individual deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and leading a protest from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony.”

I’ve definitely heard that line before: We are not retaliation for your criticism, just leveling major penalties for your minor infraction of an unwritten beaurocratic rule.

About Google:

The sackings followed a demonstration at Google’s San Francisco office on Friday, attended by more than 200 Google employees. Two of the four fired employees […] spoke at the protest. […] Google’s Security and Investigations team said the employees were routinely accessing information about other projects and employees inappropriately.

It was like overcrowded, literally maybe a dozen plus, 14, 15 people were lying on the floor and there was no space for me. That’s why they put me in a TV room. The TV would be on for 21 hours in a day. It will turn off between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.”

The cruelty is the point.

Also, we great and Badar Khan Suri, about Rümeysa Öztürk, but there are dozens of people in these gulags who we’re not hearing about. They need (obviously) to be shut down entirely.

Good call, time to block & move on.

Sounds pretty in line with “Controversies” on Wikipedia.

We need laws to pay reparations for wrongful conviction/imprisonment. Probably after we start dealing with wrongful murder by paid gangs.

The lawsuit was filed after 15-year-old high school sophomore (second year student) Blake Robbins was disciplined at school for his behavior in his bedroom.[6][14] The school based its decision to discipline Robbins on a photograph that had been secretly taken of him in his bedroom, via the webcam in his school-issued laptop. Without telling its students, the schools remotely accessed their school-issued laptops to secretly take pictures of students in their own homes, their chat logs, and records of the websites they visited.

Incredibly gross.

“The department’s silence in the face of widespread defamation has not only made my position personally untenable but has also created an environment where I can no longer effectively carry out my duties within the city of Dalton without fear of further backlash from the community,” O’Neal wrote in the letter.

What I hear is: publicizing and criticizing individuals’ actions works to stop them.

Is “largest” here just “most pounds of munitions”? Seems weird to compare it to “nuclear equivalent pounds of TNT”. Like, 1lb C4 != 1lb TNT anyway, right?

It’s the entrance to a school, the road and sidewalk loop around just to the right. The fence protects the grass.

Can’t tell if she’s suspicious or engrossed by a bug. How’d it go?

I’m just getting:

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Luckily now nobody will know about or want the shirts! /s

It’s still unclear if they had a backup anchor to the piton, which is a common practice for rock climbers, said Joshua Cole, a guide and co-owner of North Cascades Mountain Guides who has been climbing in the area for about 20 years.

Very curious if this is a case of missing safety practices, or of common safety practices not always being enough.

From the NY Times:

Mr. Alexander is an American Israeli dual citizen who grew up in Tenafly, N.J.

In 2022, during his senior year of high school, he joined Garin Tzabar, which prepares young people from around the world to join the Israel Defense Forces. He moved to Israel to serve in the military after he graduated and was assigned to the infantry.

Mr. Alexander was stationed near the border with Gaza in September 2023

From another article, he said something like “why should I pay for the Israeli government’s mistake”. Sounds like this falls into the ‘just following orders doesn’t protect you’ category; not feeling a lot of sympathy.

Grassroots Leadership the organization who has been working to locate & represent the family. (No connection or other knowledge of them, just looking to highlight folks doing necessary work.)

I’m not coming up with a lot, but Bali Wildlife says:

The eyes are located at the base of the antennae on flat papillae.

Which I guess we can see clearly on the photo.

This is the way. Being able to hire people is one of the top things that affect company policy.