“shifts its approach” sounds so cool and methodical

Here is the quote, I had to click through a couple links to get to it, really they need to be putting his quotes front and center because by paraphrasing they make him sound more nuanced and reasonable than he is.

“The FAA diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing,” Trump said, claiming the FAA wanted people “with severe disabilities, the most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want them in and they want them - they can be air traffic controllers.” Asked how he could blame diversity, equity and inclusion hiring for the crash, Trump said, "because I have common sense.”

Oh, yes, I think so. I have one about that size now, and when the cat knocked it off the table last summer the broken twigs were only a few inches long, but they rooted quickly in water and are doing fine in a new pot now.

When they shiver the fanned tail – crazy

My favorite houseplant! Just keeps blooming quietly away, easy to propagate by cuttings.

Saving this for someone special

Some people just want to be criminals. They are gamblers or just enjoy feeling superior

I think it comes from the idea that regardless of how we think of ourselves, most of what we do follows our own long term habits and the models we have identified with, often from a young age. A person can even believe they are rejecting the past or their parent’s influence and then behave exactly the same without noticing or even rationalizing afterward how this was not exactly what it looked like.

Your brain’s best trick is to make you think your view of the world is complete and that you are using all the powers of your free reason, when in fact you only have a narrow slice of human experience behind you and are often responding to circumstances before you have even become fully aware of them or of your alternatives. Your mind fills in the blanks to support your view of yourself.

People learn a behavior because it is safe or effective in a certain condition of life, and then just keep using it even when it isn’t suitable out of fear of changing something that works, however badly, or lack of imagination, or because they have identified with it as a part of their personality that they need to protect from real or imagined self-erasing forces. It feels weird and wrong and self-betraying in the moment to change how you do things, only afterwards you can maybe see the good side.

You care about these people, and it shows care to confront them when they are doing things they have said they want to avoid. But it will be a matter of many such confrontations and maybe better just saying Wow, that’s not what I would have done! I guess I’m just ____ and prefer to _____ in that situation. You can reinforce some alternative options they might not have seen a lot of modeling for and in the future these options may come to mind with greater force in the actionable moment. Also, take notice when they do things well and see if you can figure out why they are more clear-headed in those cases. It will help your own feelings to see some bright spots.

Just to make this even longer… For my part I see this when I go to the doctor’s. I always find myself very meek and even stupid in a doctor’s office, for personal history reasons, but the solution for me is not to give myself a stern talking to about why I should stand up for myself and think critically about this important stuff. Rather, I tell myself to “channel” my old friend, who is very salty about the whole medical establishment, and just hearing his voice in my head helps keep me properly engaged through the appointments and not mentally bowing the whole time. Without his real example, I’m not sure any rational arguments would be enough to change how I actually behave. I couldn’t even visualize myself doing it.

But, obviously I’m not super sure about free will, so I’m interested to see what other people say.

What does he think we’ve been paying them this whole time?

I think it’s pretty clear extreme fatness (and the resulting dependence) was either intentional to keep everyone basically sedated for 700 years, or the natural side effect of that sedation.

I think that’s true but even in suburbs of Seattle what you hear around town is pretty 50-50. Maybe just the reds are louder per capita.

Washington is not a solid blue enclave.

$100 million budget shortfall in $1.5 billion budget.

1st proposal: Closing 21 out of 73 schools => $70 million budget shortfall

Latest (rejected) proposal: Closing/consolidating 4 schools => $95 million budget shortfall

Dissenting viewpoint: Reduce administrative costs, not “teachers, principals, and staff” who have direct impact on kids.

New proposal: Lobby for more money

for your perusal I don’t have an opinion right now, I just want informed discussion

The first proposal for separate Jewish and Arab states in the territory was made by the British Peel Commission report in 1937.[3] In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a partition plan for Palestine, leading to the 1948 Palestine war.[4][5] As a result, Israel was established on the area the UN had proposed for the Jewish state, as well as almost 60% of the area proposed for the Arab state. Israel took control of West Jerusalem, which was meant to be part of an international zone. Jordan took control of East Jerusalem and what became known as the West Bank, annexing it the following year. The territory which became the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt but never annexed. Since the 1967 Six-Day War, both the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip have been militarily occupied by Israel, becoming known as the Palestinian territories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution

Basically from the beginning until 2014, that has been the basis of every proposal.

I’m something of a rewilder myself, and I have to say, even in the PNW, establishing native plants takes a lot of water the first few summers at least. Maybe not as much as a lush green lawn all summer, but that’s not the standard in my neighborhood anyway.

Plant in Fall and start from the shady areas, creating more shady areas as you go. Mulch with leaves if possible, or chip drop if not. Still a lot more fun than mowing.

6,000 Costco customers have signed a petition saying they will cancel their membership if the retailer starts selling the pills.

That’s not very many-- how do we sign up on the other side?

Lol I didn’t even see that, I was just upset about the sodas

The real answer

How many times did they remix that 42.5% before being like I’m just going to go be a clown?

Two Portland neighborhoods built on cleared forest are called Sellwood and Moreland. When I heard they were named after people, I thought it was a joke. Further, Moreland was a real estate agent.