Hate to break the news to you, I know this is news because I am smart and thought of this before anyone, but society is made up of individuals. Thousands, some even say billions. We're one big bell curve. There will always be outliers...some think the earth is flat, some think there's T3H B4RGE!!!1, some love conspiracy theories... hey they are kind of fun to think about, and if you're in a spot in life where it explains hardship by blaming something else, so be it. Society has always had these faith/blind believers against forces of power. Throw a worldwide epidemic that killed 7 million people (including half a million in the USA in the first year)... that'll get a few more folks talking about "they".

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I think my school did some of these things too. Those last weeks were celebratory. I, though, could not attend. It was determined I had the wrong PhysEd course for my university entrance (my credits were from another school), so in order for a mark to be submitted for the right course, the principal and PhysEd teachers had me doing all sorts of stupid stuff during grad week. One of my tasks was to have the grade 10s practice their golf drives in the field, another was chaperoning students to a local 9 hole course.

@Mik said in Interesting: On a later slide I learned that David Hogg is now a DNC vice chair. Jesus. How did you miss that? We talked about it here…

It's hardly going to MAGA

@AndyD said in Optical illusion: Every 5 seconds for me🤪 Yeah me too. I had to "force" myself to try and not let the shapes change perspective and even then most of the time it kept happening.

That looked like Max Verstappen in the Red Bull swamp buggy

I wonder if he used the same microphones and speakers in the broadcast booth as the ones he used in getting the opponents play calls back in the early 2000s?

Nah. I have had both. I see no reason to spend more money when I have two perfectly good Lenovo Yogas, one in the sunroom, one in my upstairs office. Both have been remarkably trouble free. Life is good. One I bought in 2018, one in 2022.

Love the Gibbs reference.

@LuFins-Dad said in Dress Code Violation: I mean, that’s a fact. As is his shirt. Actually not really. ‘There are only two sexes’, sure. But gender is made-up-and-agreed-upon.

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I hope he’s at least Quebecois. Then he could maybe pass for Cajun if you squint real hard.

Probably, but plastics are about to get the tobacco treatment and become public enemy number one.

@taiwan_girl said in Troons in female sports: @jon-nyc Dont have Twitter. Can you summarize what the Twitter was saying? The account is from HeCheated.org and tracks a few dozen cases of blokes dominating girls sporting events.

ChatGPT’s words: Trump’s framing of a “spinoff with guarantees” underscores the asymmetry: it would remove federal control while preserving federal support — a setup many critics view as “heads Wall Street wins, tails taxpayers lose.”

I have a friend who has a catering business in Champaign/Urbana, and it is one of her favorite restaurants. She recommend to me, but it was too crowded the night I went by there.

@xenon said in Social Media vetting for student visas: Stuff like this has such a chilling effect on tourism. I know a bunch of Canadians who just don't want to bother with the border any more https://fortune.com/2025/05/23/us-could-lose-23-billion-gdp-230000-jobs-foreign-tourists-trump-tariffs/ Tariff bluster, canceled visas, and enhanced screening at border crossings and other checkpoints may be pushing foreigners to put a pin in their plans to visit the U.S. this year. The impacts could ripple through America’s economy. A 10% drop in international tourism this year—based on the decline in foreign visitors to the U.S. by air in March—could cost America $23 billion in gross domestic product and the equivalent of roughly 230,000 jobs, according to estimates from Implan chief economist Jennifer Thorvaldson.