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@Aqua-Letifer said in Bell to bell:

But she loves drawing, so we throw a ton of art stuff her way. Easels, watercolors, dry erase boards, slates, sidewalk chalk, etc., etc. She has literally buckets. This has been an entirely deliberate move on our part to (1) keep her off of those mother fucking screens while (2) not relying only on restriction, which we see as a failed strategy. Art in this case also provides practice in concentration, which she sure as hell isn't getting in class.

Good for you, dad. Art is a great win, on so many levels, especially at that age.

@taiwan_girl said in Bell to bell:

@89th said in Bell to bell:

Yes phones are helpful, but required.

I think you meant, "not required". If that is what you meant, then I agree with you.

Oops yes, LOL. Thanks! I edited it.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Your household’s grocery habits:

We have about 3 months of emergency food and water stashed because yeah that's right, I'm one of those people.

Ha! I have a bin in the basement with a similar thing... emergency food, water, as well as some basic survival things that'll get us by for a few weeks at least. Crank-radio, chargers, lantern, tools, blankets, etc.

To continue, Sullivan is living in the Present (what do we do now) and the panel is living in the Past (look at all of these sins), so they aren't on the same page. Further, the stupid clips of the lady saying "white men had 400 years to figure how to make things right and haven't done anything" (to the lemming applause) is so false...White men freed the slaves, and white men put in place Affirmative Action, and white men put in place hiring quotas.

@Horace I finally got around to watching that. I should've done it after lunch as I lost my appetite a bit. They were rude to Sullivan, the "woo-ing" from the crowd was annoying, Stewart saying Sullivan has done a good job showing his racism (half way through the clip) was uncalled for considering Sullivan had made cogent points so far, and what's funny.... Sullivan predicted exactly what would happen. If the panel kept on about the white supremacy and guilt and all that... all it's going to do is turn off regular Americans to the idea and result in electing people that will sweep even the valid points under the rug due to the backlash. Aka this election.

Ok, don't get too far ahead of yourself. But I was thinking this morning... you called Trump coming back into office year(s) ago. Also, you know my disdain for how he handles the truth, his election loss tantrum, and all the various levels of crimes and unethical behavior, etc, etc, etc...... but damn it if I'm not smiling with lots of these headlines since he took office. Even the title of his EO about trans is great: DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

@Jolly said in Declassified.:

@Horace said in Declassified.:

There are some very, very, very excited people today.

Btw Trump promised to do this on "day one". Another lie. Chalk it up.

89th is busy furiously typing.

No, his lie'o'meter didn't start until he took the oath on Jan 20th, so this was just a lie he said before we started keeping count again. I'm still looking forward to the 100,000 jobs stargate immediately created.

@George-K said in Declassified.:

I haven't read about this more than your post, but most of that shit happened 50 years ago... aka a common limit for how long things can be classified.

@Copper said in Declassified.:

Doesn't day one last for a few months?

It will when Trump redefines how many hours are in a day. "We orbit a beautiful, some say golden, sun. The idea that one day is 24 hours is an Arab invention, many people have told me that a day has multiple sunsets. Beautiful sunsets, like the ones in Florida."

@NobodySock said in Return to Office EO:

Every agency has their own telework agreements and mine has an agreement made with our union stipulates one has to show up at the office two times per pay., Or once a week. In my situation, I have a seven minute drive to a fairly new building that was built just a few years ago to accommodate the closing down of our 40 Year Service Center building in Fresno. Anyways, my designated area is a cubicle in a room called hoteling. I like to come in every Friday and like TG said when people were all working in the office every day, the local economy benefited as we would all shop or eat lunch or whatever down in the city and that was a win-win for a local business. This room that I work in Fridays has over 100 cubicles and I am the only one there. There really is no purpose served by having me do this, but rules are rules and that’s how it is. To answer LD, yes, we are not working on personal computers at home. We have government issued laptops and we remote Into the network in the most secure of manners which include our own piv cards. We use Microsoft teams for meetings in my colleagues are strung out throughout the nation, my boss is in Memphis and another guy is in San Antonio and another guy is in St. Mary’s county in Southern Maryland where I used to live long ago

Good post. Again I'm biased, but that's mostly how I work as well.

@George-K Excellent clips, good sleuthing even with only one good hand!

@kluurs that is funny

@jon-nyc said in Bell to bell:

Governor Hochel to implement a statewide ‘bell-to-bell’ cellphone ban in NYS schools starting next year.

I've mentioned before how I'm stubborn about the idea that... people survived before cell phones. They are helpful but not needed. Plan ahead, slow down a bit, wait to be picked up. I'm youngish but I survived high school (and the first 3 years of college) without a cell phone. It's not critical in the least bit. Yes phones are helpful, but (edit: NOT) required.

@Horace said in Bell to bell:

It'll help learning, and that's good enough, but it's probably also the only time the kids will be parted from their phones in their lives, which is also a good thing. Remind them what it's like.

Yes, excellent points. The need to learn to be apart from your device. Parents are no better, most of them. At playgrounds or even out to dinner, I see more parents on their phones than those interacting with their kids, and it hurts to see. A mild form of child abuse.

For example, my wife needed to take down some Christmas stuff, so I took my 3 kids (6, 4, and now 2) to a local cafe for breakfast. While we waited for food, we stayed entertained by talking about the pictures on the wall, then later stacking those little packets of jelly into pyramids. No phones, no iPads. Meanwhile, the table next to me is another dad with two young sons, and the entire time (anytime I looked) he was glued to his phone as his boys ate in silence. As we left, a large family came in with like 4 kids and what looked like two parents and a grandparent...who was holding a STACK of iPads to keep the kids entertained. WTF

@Horace said in Less disease to report already!:

Turns out, the DEI department had been doing all the work.

This made me chuckle, nice.

I bet Jon would do some insider trading with her, amirite

@jon-nyc said in The Never-ending Grift:

Earlier today, the president’s daughter Ivanka warned her social media followers not to fall for a scam crypto coin called $IVANKA that, she said, “is being promoted without my consent or approval.”

I would love to hear someone articulate why it would be any less of a scam if she were the one promoting it.

Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been ‘this is someone else scamming you, not me’.

Hahaha, so true.

Also, do you think Barron was named after the Robber Baron? Sure would make sense.

If it is true, it might be the result of the Accessibility folks getting bundled up with DEI (or DEIA). Accessibility (508) standards overall are very good and I can't imagine they'll be going away.

All of that being said, why do the videos need ASL if you have closed captioning?

@LuFins-Dad said in Oscar Nominations:

It ran away with the Golden Globes and is the front runner for the Oscars. Seriously.

Honestly this is blowing my mind. That video is worse than stuff middle schoolers try to sing, choreograph, and videotape. W...T...FFFFFFFFFFFF

For me, I used to love the Oscars. I guess because as a dumb kid in high school I wanted to direct films when I got older. Even made some short films for competitions, but I learned during the process I (selfishly) just enjoy watching films and not knowing how they are made. Anyway...certainly a few years ago the Oscars became a tired platform of rich celebrities giving their political opinions and it turned me off. I used to watch it each year but not anymore... although it does give me a somewhat decent list of movies to add to my Netflix queue.

Could kill two birds by selling the naming rights. For example, for $1 billion it could be Gulf of Pepsi.

@LuFins-Dad said in Oscar Nominations:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present your betting favorite for the Best Motion Picture Academy Award

Link to video

Is that a joke????

Seriously, is that bad dubbing? A comedy sketch? WTF did I just watch and listen to?