https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/la-schools-vote-to-ban-cell-phones-during-school-day The Los Angeles Unified School District voted 5 to 2 on Tuesday to ban cellphone and social media use for its more than 429,000 students during the school day. And I think that the State of California is looking to do the same thing statewide.

He didn't climb. He slithered.

@Renauda said in Meanwhile, in Britain...: @Doctor-Phibes Indeed, the Conservatives have made quite a hash of it all. The rot started with that unparliamentary referendum over EU membership and has continued unabated to this point. Labour has quite a Herculean task ahead of itself. Similar has occurred here under the Liberal non Government of the past nine years. As a former colleague would say when political parties ceased to be effective, “Out’cha go!” I don't think I can remember a government as unpopular as the current one.

@jon-nyc said in Douglas Murray, Medhi Hasan on Gaza - Munk Debate: There was a Munk debate a few weeks ago on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It’s on the podcast channel Again too easily devolved into semantics. I do not care about verbal framings where something is or is not some top-shelf rhetorical impact word. (c.f. the "insurrection") These discussions become a battle over language and top shelf words, and ideas like "too much force in response to Oct 7" become secondary.

I saw Willie play live in candlestick as a giant and at shea as a met. I guess I’m old.

@Copper said in Proud - Day 19: celebrate and include Excellent point! The LGBTQ+ community is not being very inclusive, here…

I listened to a NYT podcast recently, a discussion between Ezra Klein and a right-wing Israeli. According to them, the "right wing" is 6 to 1 majority now in Israel, and Netanyahu is not as inevitably doomed politically as was told soon after 10/7. The notion that Bibi was doomed always sniffed to me of wishful thinking, but what did I know?

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Had 'em in Texas too.

I'd guess side effects. But it's like every single other weight loss 'miracle' - unless you change the way you live - permanently - the weight comes back plus more. We just started a somewhat less ambitious fasting program. Try to keep 1500- 2000 five days a week, keep to 800 two days. The two low days cannot be back to back. I'm doing a much more intense weight machine program now plus cardio.

Most British people of my age and older cannot hear a certain part of that song without immediately thinking of Formula 1 - it used to be theme tune back when the BBC had the rights to broadcast it. It's immediately Sunday afternoon at 2pm.... Link to video

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-income-tax-tariff-proposals/?fbclid=IwAR1WR6E_T-FqaUYDyY0Z_MI8gYM9RdUSuBL75vG4Dnk3yMMNVqE7ZZ9bo7k_aem__UaSkQxBuYD_DP6uRHq_lQ Policymakers drawn to Trump’s tariff and tax ideas should go back to the drawing board. Otherwise, they might squelch the opportunity for fundamental tax reform by pursuing unprincipled, economically harmful, and nonsensical ideas.

Wow! Looks rather well fed! Maybe that’s why our goose population has dropped to manageable levels!