Do you want to dig up a T-Rex? -
Why didn't anyone tell me excavation kits are a thing?
Doing some maintenance. -steele
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Thursday, 27 November 2025
quote [ Facing the prospect of dropping out if she couldn't come up with $1,000, Scott was crying when her roommate, Jeannie Tarkenton, found her and got her dad to loan Scott the money.
Today, Scott’s net worth is around $34 billion, according to Forbes. Tarkenton started Funding U, a lending company that offers last-gap, merit-based loans to low-income students. A quarter century passed between the end of their sophomore year and Funding U's creation, Scott took an interest in her old friend's mission to help economically disadvantaged students finance school is unsurprising. Her unusual gifts — which she rarely discusses or discloses “It’s a really lovely story in a time when we’re not seeing a lot of kindness and generosity," ] Out of step with the mean spirited times
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Saturday, 8 November 2025
quote [ Tensions ran high in this year’s World Series between the Dodgers and Blue Jays. But the fiercely contested matchup has given way to a show of respect that has connected fans across borders and raised money for a good cause.
Donations totaling nearly $30,000 to SickKids, a pediatric hospital in Toronto, have flooded in from Dodgers fans since Los Angeles edged the Blue Jays … Calls for donations surfaced on the Dodgers’ Reddit page shortly after the club's Game 7 triumph over Toronto, inspired in part by the contributions Blue Jays fans made to Seattle Children’s Hospital following the Jays' American League Championship Series win over the Mariners. ] Out of step with the mean spirited times
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Sunday, 23 March 2025
quote [ It takes decades to grow a forest and a few minutes to burn it down. ]
A very loud 3 minute sound bite, to me, who misses the pundits that used to post on SE. Difficult to make sense of the world nowadays. Hit continue to destination button.
[It's a Youtube with timestamp that SE doesn't like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diITRaJgRqQ]
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Wednesday, 19 March 2025
quote [ we have a President who is actively trying to roll the clock back on the limited advances that we have made in inequality, inclusion, and diversity. So, you, you know, you sort of felt a little bit over my lifetime and made a little progress, much less than I had hoped. But then, to see this roll back is like, how can I say it? ]
SE used to have well informed political posters. In view of their absence, I feel in necessary to offer a calm listing of some of our misfortunes, what is notably missing are all the serious judicial malfeasances. I used to learn a lot from those civic minded posters (including steele) and feel this must be in the SE record.
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Saturday, 11 November 2023
quote [ In May of 1948, the British mandate ended, the British withdrew, Israel declared its independence and then was instantly attacked [by] Arab armies
During the war, there were massacres of civilians by Israeli forces. The most infamous was Deir Yassin, a village right on the outskirts of Jerusalem ...two Arab towns near Tel Aviv ? Lod and Ramle. ] In 2021, Israel recruited convicts and embedded psychologists with troops to ease trauma on orders to slaughter civilians. The slaughter continues in 2023.
An Israeli general said a military solution is not possible, a solution must give Palestinians hope. The existing Israeli paradigm of the forced occupation of Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem has a poor record of offering security to Israelis.
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Anxious -
Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
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Monday, 26 September 2022
quote [ In 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that women had no constitutional right to practice law...in a constitutional democracy, enduring power lies in the people who step into the fight.. by the book?s conclusion, the narrative is complicated; chapters that bring us to the present day reveal a reluctant but palpable doubt as to whether American constitutional democracy will, in fact, ultimately empower women.. ]
A way of connecting dots, including anti-Muslim laws, anti semitism Charlottesville, misogyny Kavanaugh's confirmation attack on Christine Blasey, women's rights Supreme Court Dobbs (repeal of Row V Wade) to say dignity, equality, justice, law, truth and reason are merely abstract words.
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Thursday, 8 September 2022
quote [ The Republican Party enabled Donald Trump, as he convinced his base that the election was stolen.
. McConnell chooses silence. [Pence] says to the President, ?I can't do it.? Liz had given a really compelling narrative about why we have to certify the election. . A great deal of American democracy relies on simple good faith. . If anything was revealed to us, it was just how fragile the system we have. . It was the lie that sparked an insurrection, existentialist threat to American democracy, created by decisions made over years, partisan warfare, moral compromise, warnings - ignored. ] Does anyone watch PBS?
Some would believe every word in this documentary, yet the very documentary techniques used on this program, broadcast falsehoods and are believed by others.
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Friday, 2 September 2022
quote [ It's really an academic bias that assumes that the reason is the thing that has this kind of special unique place in democracy. We think of our ideas about how democracy works are supposed to be founded on the idea that it's possible to have public discourse where reason to some extent prevails. ?I am, kind of, questioning that. ]
Towards a kinder, gentler politics.
Also a different way of discussing politics for Dems https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/trump-obstruction-enablers-with-mark-leibovich/
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Monday, 30 May 2022
quote [ Unfortunately, the one and only Hitomi Tanaka has now officially retired. ]
Succeeded in the Japanese porn industry for 15 years.
Apparently, cultural attitudes are different in Japan to the degree that sexual exploitation is "transactional". Official announcement https://twitter.com/hitomi_official?lang=en
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quote [ a Russian cyberattack downed Ukraine?s biggest telecom and broadband internet provider, Ukrtelecom, to disrupt the country?s connectivity.
(Nokia) announced cutting off the company?s ties with the invading nation as per the latest sanctions. According to the NY Times, Nokia would also leave behind some equipment crucial for Russia?s SORM surveillance tool. ] So Nokia is no better than Huawei for 5G. Cisco also supplied equipment.
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Manufacturing Consent -
The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
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