Quoted from Rondogg:I can't think of a President in the last 90 years less suited to lead us during this crisis.
Jimmy Carter?
Seriously, most of you are old enough to remember how decisive he was with the Iran hostage crisis.
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Quoted from EJS:Here's some food for thought.
Have you ever had the media cover something you are an expert on?
Or see something technical (like a manufacturing process or computer hacking or medical machinery or suppressed sub-machine gun firing) depicted in a movie and think “it’s not like that!”
Does anyone know if there is a term or word for this type of realization?
Given the names for concepts like “Peter Principle” or “Occam’s Razor” or Dunning-Kruger Effect” I’m confident there must be a word that applies to the type of situation you are describing... and I would really like to know what it is.
Quoted from ForceFlow:So, with that perspective in mind, the point was to view articles written on other subjects in the same light. A lot of the significant items in the subject of an article are probably correct, but it's likely that there are minor errors that go unnoticed by readers who are not subject matter experts.
Yes, and does anyone know if there is a term for this phenomenon?
Quoted from pinstyle:Yea I'd never be able to deal with that. I don't want to go off topic so this is the last I will say on this subject. The US seems to be dog obsessed. Doggie dining? Dog days at the water park?
Check this out:
Not only dog friendly, the in-room showers have beer taps inside them!
Quoted from PantherCityPins:I try to not make ANYTHING I do harm another person. That's my line.
Sheesh... PantherCityPins takes this so seriously, you’d think he swore some kind of oath or something?
Quoted from PinJim:I’m growing a garden and setting live traps....
Better get your seeds now, Burpee and Gurney’s are already sold out of a lot of stuff. Local garden center is supposed to call when they have more vegetable starts in.
Quoted from Jaybird815:Tonight we boiled some brats in beer and onion and finished on the griddle
That does it, I am buying one of these. I have never liked propane grills, but having a griddle is a different story. My kitchen ventilation is crap unless I open the windows (getting a range hood when I get around to remodeling) so I don’t grill or fry as much as I would like inside the house. This will be perfect.
Quoted from mcluvin:One of your local Wal-Marts has the 36" Pro Series (last year's model) for $250 right now.
That’s cheaper than the one I planned on getting! Thanks, I will call them tomorrow.
Quoted from chad:Sadly, there will come a day where humans never leave their homes. Digital interaction only. Deliveries via drones or robots. I personally hope this never happens!!
The dream is alive!
4 weeks later
California State U. System Will Conduct Most Fall Classes Online
https://www.chronicle.com/article/California-State-U-System/248759
I suspect we’ll see more announcements like that from other colleges and universities once all the non-refundable deposits have come in.
Could be a good year for students who are still on the waitlist for their dream school since a lot of first year undergrads are likely to defer if they can’t have the true college experience. Should be less of an issue for returning students to do another semester online.
Stanford unlikely to bring all undergrads back in fall or delay quarter, admins say Administrators outline possible “new normal” of residential, academic life
The rest of the dominoes will probably start falling (though probably not until early June) now that they have the “cover” of “well, if Stanford with their world-class hospital, state of the art facilities, and $27 billion endowment says they are not taking a business as usual approach this fall semester, what are we supposed to do?”
1 month later
If anyone is wondering about the reasoning behind many colleges’s and universities’ reopening plans, this is pretty funny (and accurate)!
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR UNIVERSITY’S VICE PRESIDENT FOR MAGICAL THINKING by JULIANA GRAY
Our strategy is outlined below, but the short answer is this: Our university will proceed as if everything will be okay because we really, really want it to be.
Quoted from mcluvin:The reasoning is money.
Oh of course... but what makes the McSweeney’s piece fun is how it talks around that issue.
Having read several colleges’ and universities’ “real” reopening plans, some are “hand-wavy and hopium fueled” and some are “very comprehensive, forward thinking and solid plans.”
Regardless, the likelihood of successful implementation of either of those those types plans is a totally different issue. A lot has to go right vs. not much having to go wrong.
I wonder how many institutions that have publicly announced they are reopening this fall will back down by the end of July (in light of what is likely to be several weeks of increasingly dire news about resurgences, new outbreaks and rising death tolls)?
Even schools that stay the course are likely to have a lot of parents decide that their son or daughter is going to defer this year. I think grad, professional and returning undergrad students are more likely to attend than first-year undergrads. But if I were going to graduate in 2021 the prospect of a dismal job market might make me want to take a year off too.
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:There's been a long building "science denial" issue here in America that has downstream effects like this.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995
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Quoted from Joe_Blasi:And when the 3 Gorges dam breaks??
If that dam collapses, China’s coronavirus problems will look like a walk in the park.
4 weeks later
UNC Chapel Hill’s in person semester lasted 8 days...
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article245014185.html
Great headline on The Daily Tar Heel
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