@jolly said in Get ready for mowing this year. You'll want to mow with this!: Built y'all one...Nice mower... https://apps.kubotausa.com/configurator/BuildMyKubota.aspx?pgId=1&bmId=1001&sId=123 [image: f7233625-1e84-41a2-bbc3-969bf5fad780.png] With cab, belly mower, FEL, snowblower and backhoe, $59,461.00, list price.

Some people just think God will provide. I think He helps those.....

15% of the student population live in a culture that demeans and belittles academic success and accomplishment. Another 8% is put at an extreme disadvantage by not speaking English. We have an education system that is more focused inequity than individual success. American educators are now telling us that math is racist, and “getting the right answers” and “showing your work” are given as examples of white supremacy. https://katu.com/news/local/debate-emerges-over-racism-and-white-supremacy-in-math-instruction. I wonder why we are failing...

@george-k said in The Variety Show: @copper said in The Variety Show: What's stopping you? The guy spinning plates on a slick. And Topo Gigo, of course. That's what. Topo Grigio!

@loki said in US daily Covid deaths: So the one week rolling average of deaths in the US are at the lowest point of the pandemic with the exception of the period June 17 to July 10, 2020. I suspect Mothers Day will be a huge gathering this year and Memorial Day weekend a blowout. Probably a good idea to really start prepping for a return to normal life. I suspect for many there are going to be much mental anguish on many fronts. Operation Warp Speed should be Time’s Person of the Year. Nah, if they want to sell magazines, use a pic of Trump signing the EO.

Instacart has pretty big markups on a lot of things, as does Doordash. I think in both cases it is because the supplier doesn't want to eat all the Instacart fees. Here the Instacart selection is pretty limited. I cannot get what I want. I use Kroger Clicklist and Meijer online. Both pick and bring out your order to your car for free and I don't see any markup at all. Picked up at both this morning.

There is also balancing that against the civilians who would have been killed had we not struck. Hard to know, but surely not zero.

@axtremus said in Now you can test if you have free will: No support for virtual keyboard. It's blatant discrimination against the keyboard-less, I tell 'ya! It's also QWERTY-supremacist. F and D, really? Not every keyboard has those two arbitrary keys next to each other.

@klaus my bad. It was supposed to be a Wikipedia link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._George

@george-k said in Fair enough: @jon-nyc said in Fair enough: @brenda said in Fair enough: Maybe on the mailbox by the driveway, which is usually beside the road. That was my thought. You guys are so rural. And proud of it!!!

Good band. I can really picture them doing something like Prairie Home Companion in its heyday...

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For some reason, I hadn't watched this until now. Very disturbing and human. As I was watching, listening to him talk about the man-to-man fighting, I was thinking about how today's conflicts have become, in a sense, like video games. He addresses the same point at the end of the interview, how bombs, and shooting at a distance are impersonal. Yet, when you stab another man in the heart and watch him die, blood coming from his mouth, it's quite a different thing. However, I recall reading some stories about drone "pilots" who have a similar reaction - though impersonal, that kind of warfare takes its toll as well.

Well no wonder there's a chicken shortage.

sad story

I am not sure that overrated is correct. I believe that the main point of school is teaching you how to think. Having been around people and worked with people with very little education, there is a bit of "how to think" that is missing. Some of these people are quite smart, but I believe that there is a limit to what they can do due to the lack of education - I think that because they only went to school for a short time, they are "lack" how to think and approach problems. Of course there are always exceptions, and there are certain jobs that they can do, and can do them very well. But there limit is much lower than someone who has finished school. And really, isn't training another word for education?

I had never see that picture before. I guess it is like the equivalent of owning an old picture negative, though like Horace, I am not sure I completely understand it either. But I am not sure why these would be so much more expensive.