Basketball at its finest. What a game. I really thought UCLA would do it, played with the spirit of an underdog. Absolutely stunning ending.

Black Irish, maybe...

@copper said in If at first you don't succeed....: Then 2 years later Atlantis was delayed by a hydrogen leak and sustained hail damage, and more delay, while being rolled back for repair. The pilot on that mission used to rent my plane at the flight school where I taught, small world. He later commanded the shuttle and the space station. One of the other instructors at our school was a former commander of the Air Force Thunderbirds. So we would have discussions about who was cooler. The Thunderbirds is about as cool as you can get, but the astronaut wins. Hahaha awesome. And yes, small world!

I learned this poem many years ago, I have no idea why, but I remembered it. The criticism was cruel, but it was true that McArthur had visited Bataan from Corregidor only once during the fighting, on January 10. The men now sensed that with him gone, they were expendable. Their feeling was summed up well by Frank Hewlett, the only US war correspondent left in the islands: We’re the battling bastards of Bataan. No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam, No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces, No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces And nobody gives a damn.

@george-k said in Master and Commander: As the video says, "If you're a fan of the "every frame is a masterpiece" school of cinematography, when you watch it with that frame of mind, it's amazing. It’s one reason I’m such a fan of the Mr Robot tv series. Every frame of every scene is a masterclass in cinematography and direction.

The brats are quite good. Local producer.

@lufins-dad said in Fourth Wave: Whatever happened to the tracker on the screen on every news station? Funny, that.

@horace said in Lifeguards in LA - nice gig: @loki said in Lifeguards in LA - nice gig: I know someone who was married to one. The retirement was 6 figures as well. In his 50’s. @loki said in Lifeguards in LA - nice gig: I know someone who was married to one. The retirement was 6 figures as well. In his 50’s. Yup. You can say that again.

Intelligent and good looking people still acknowledge that Trump is capable of making good points, regardless of his pop culture reputation. A reputation which apparently breaks the laws of physics by being as low as humanly possible, while ratcheting lower constantly.

️ I mean if you're going to go in for that kind of bullshit, the least you can do is listen to Alestorm. Link to video

@lufins-dad said in Biden's American Jobs Plan: With 680,000 unemployed, why do we need MILLIONS of new jobs!? That answers why they need to improve the teaching of STEM.

@taiwan_girl said in 100,000,000: acceptance Perfection!

@george-k said in Taiwan Train Derailment Kills 34: @taiwan_girl said in Taiwan Train Derailment Kills 34: They arrested the driver Wasn't the accident the result of his failure to properly engage the parking/emergency brake? Yes. That is what they are saying.

Those darned white people are appropriating Arab identity It appears to be a plot to get more vaccine for white people https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/arab-americans-covid-19-impact/index.html The whitewashing of Arab Americans impacted by Covid-19 is a catastrophic public health issue, experts say (CNN)Dr. Raed Al-Naser was on the front lines at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego when patients first started coming in with symptoms of Covid-19. "The hospital was packed and the ICU was at full capacity," the ICU pulmonologist told CNN. "And I saw a disproportionate number of Arab Americans in the ICU." This realization, and a lack of public health data on the Arab American community, motivated Al-Naser to conduct his own research based on the patients he was seeing at Grossmont Hospital and his own private practice. "There is a large Arab American community nearby in East San Diego, specifically in El Cajon county," Al-Naser said. "And because there is no identifier for the group, they're all being counted as White Covid-19 patients and no one was noticing how the virus was specifically affecting this population." Based on the standards set by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), there are seven categories for data on race and ethnicity: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, White, Hispanic or Latino, and non-Hispanic or Latino, according to the 2020 Census program memorandum. As a result, Arab Americans are forced to tick "White" or "other" on the Census and medical paperwork, which means that public health data collected on the community is largely anecdotal, according to experts like Al-Naser. Arab Americans trace their origins to the Middle East and North Africa, which is traditionally comprised of 22 Arabic-speaking countries. They are not a monolith and can be White, Black and brown. Los Angeles and New York City have the largest populations of Arab American residents in the country based on data from the 2015-2019 ACS Ancestry survey. Both areas have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected minority and immigrant populations.