Big Stick PhysicsSchools are a condensed version of the community. To stop school shootings, society has to change, and that’s difficult. It is more convenient for activists to use school shootings to their political advantage. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” The corollary is never solve a crisis if you don’t have to.
Everybody needs to grow up and act like adults.
Does anyone really want to stop school shootings? I ask because when there is a school shooting, even before the bodies have cooled, a legion of activists demand that guns are taken away from responsible gun owners.
Immediately after a school shooting, before the bodies are buried, political opportunists attempt to exploit the story to achieve their objectives. A few days later, most of the details of the tragedy are known. After a week, the commercial media has settled on a narrative that benefits their political interests or they move on to other news.
Looking at the actual poll, I don’t think it’s that bad. People haven’t lost faith in concepts, but have learned that the people in charge of everything are inept.
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is a series where the audio book is better than reading. The murderbot is a sentient robot who no longer has a compliance chip, so he fakes it so he can stay free. He hires himself out for security jobs. The murderbot is dark, witty and ambivalent about human life. The narrator sounds like a young Samuel L. Jackson. The series is not long, many of the stories are novellas, but it is just hilarious in parts. Definitely worth listening to if you don’t mind some cursing.
WSJ: Gen-Z yearns for stability
WSJ: Gen-Z yearns for stability
Not long ago, a friend who teaches a communications course at a Midwestern business school asked me to speak to her class. Her instructions were invitingly wide: “Just tell them about your career.” And so I did, trying to hit all the points that might be relevant to students about to enter the job market.
Unmentioned in the article, and presumably the address to the class, is that Suzy is married to Jack Welch.
Vincent was a new engineer hired into our Paris office. To get some field experience, he was sent down to Madrid to work with me on the Vetrotex project.
A course meant to inspire more Black students to take AP classes
I don’t encourage boys to go into engineering either. For individual students with the interest and aptitude to become engineers, I did everything I could to help them become engineers. I have recommended colleges, suggested specific majors and made arrangements for them to talk to people I know working in their intended field. The same things I would do for any of my students.
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Extrapolations is a bracing drama from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives.
Extrapolations is Green Porn with a great cast.
I watched a few episodes because this TV series was eagerly anticipated by swampies. They felt that when people see how Climate Change impacts regular people, then…I don’t know, we will all join their church or something.
