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Land acknowledgements - we were spared these at UCSD and USC. UCLA was a short verbal one, Berkeley had a slide about it, and UBC is a giant continuous land acknowledgment with a small side business in education. O Canada!

They even had a segregated building just for natives that was a modern take on first (sic) nation design. And they had street signs in English and - not French - some lab-grown transliterated native language made up of Latin letters, typewriter symbols , and child-like drawings. It was all I could do not to ask ‘is this purely performative or is there even a single non-academic that uses this’. But I already knew the answer so I spared the boy the embarrassment. .

Jesus the mind virus is in full effect. I hope the boy doesn't choose to go there, I don't want to support this sort of discrimination financially.

They treat it as an intelligence function rather than a security function. Totally appropriate for them, but their approach doesn't scale. They have three commercial airports, we have 600.

Train barely misses school bus full of kids.

Driver arrested.

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Lines were shorter back when it was private.

I’ve always thought we overdo airline security. 9/11 taught us that planes can be used as missiles. Solve that by making the cockpit impregnable.

While it’s true that someone with a weapon could kill a bunch of people on a plane even if they can’t use it as a missile, that’s also true of every mall and restaurant in the US. We don’t put metal detectors in front of those.

What does the Iran debacle portend for Cuba?

Theory A: Trump is once bitten twice shy, doesn’t take any more chances with wars of choice.

Theory B: Trump needs a victory to heal his ego, like the bully who loses a fight and comes home and punches his wife.

I’m leaning toward B.

I suppose there’s still the possibility that the deal improves but it’s hard to imagine Iran making major concessions post ceasefire that it wasn’t willing to make with bombs raining down.

Hey @bachophile - what’s the mood like in Israel?

How about among the pundit class?

120-140 ships a day traverse the strait per day in peacetime. If Iran gets to charge each of them $2MM, that’s a billion dollars every four days.

Makes Obama’s palates of cash look like chump change.

This is being reported as the 10 point plan forming the basis of the ceasefire. Looks like a big L for the US.

@Doctor-Phibes said:

@Renauda said:

Stand down folks, it’s a two week ceasefire with conditions….

Story unfolding.

Pass the tacos.

It is Tuesday.

Not just democrats.

Rod Dreher, Candice Owens, MTG, Alex Jones.

I would have thought so. In fact I wasn’t worried about lesser calorie intake so much since o was burning less. But here I am.