Okay it might be time to bring the Inquisition back. I don’t think 2000 in 20 years was enough.
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?Where are these weird Lutherans coming from. Once-upon-a-time, it was the Catholic Church that did all the crazy stuff (see Borgia’s times), but while there has been some financial scandal in the Vatican, and priests have been shown to be pedophiles, at least that is somewhat “mainstream” weirdness. This Lutheran business is simply beyond the pale. They aren’t just committing sins - we all do that. They are actively blaspheming the Lord. If they don’t want to believe, they should just go form a church of their own, with whatever deity they believe in. Just don’t keep insulting us Christians.
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Grass fed!
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A lot of buzz about this recent event:
…which reminds me of this case that didn’t get that much coverage in the afterglow of the BLM riots:
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The kids are all right.
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Steve Sailer looks at the consequences of the University of California’s banning the use of the SAT and ACT in college admissions.
The reason standardized tests are so important is because California’s countless high schools are extremely diverse, not just in student ethnicity but also in brainpower and grading rigor. While California’s schools and students are typically below national averages, some schools are among the most distinguished in the country.
According to the UC faculty’s study, the SAT proves extremely useful in distinguishing between, say, a 3.8 GPA at a hard high school and a 3.8 at an easy one.
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Back in spring 2020 (the Before Times), UCSD accepted 36.2 percent of applicants from upscale Los Angeles County public schools compared to 32.5 percent from downscale public schools. Obviously, students at upscale public schools are better on average than at downscale public schools, so it only makes sense that a higher percentage made the cut at UCSD.
But in 2022, only 22.3 percent of applications from the better public high schools were being accepted by UCSD compared with 29.5 percent from the worse schools, the reverse of what most every other college in America did before the confused 2020s.
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Ironically, emphasizing GPA uber alles has been bad for middle-class black and Hispanic families who strove to get their kids into better schools, where they seldom stand out academically but at least can escape pressure to join gangs. In 2022, only 2.6 percent of black applicants to UCSD from affluent public high schools were accepted, down from an already miserable 6.1 percent in 2020. In contrast, 11.6 percent of black applicants from poor schools got in.
Among Hispanics in better schools, the acceptance rate fell from 19.4 percent to 15.1 percent, whereas 28.3 percent of downscale Hispanics were accepted in 2022.
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Inside some University of California academic departments and colleges, an atypical idea is gaining steam: deemphasizing, or even ditching, the A–F grading system and rethinking how to assess student learning.
The future looks dumber and shoddier.
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Sounds like she should try going and rationalizing with a Lion about this.
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How much you wanna bet she picks one just-previously-sated with supermarket meat?
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Finally—a wild bear meat vending machine! In Japan, of course.
Vending machines throughout Japan offer everything from drinks, snacks and surgical masks to more exotic fare such as edible insects and whale meat.
“Bear meat isn’t very common so we want tourists who come to visit the town to buy it,” Sato said.
He sells seven to 10 packs of 250 grams costing 2,200 yen ($16.75) each in an average week.
Perhaps Prof. Nussbaum of comment #1820 would approve: if she’s unable to dissuade bears from killing other animals, then why not eat the brutish bruins?
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Were any of them “self-driving”?
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Class action lawsuit in 3,2,1…
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News you can use!
(c) The Postal Service is authorized and directed to permit the transmission in the mails, under regulations to be prescribed by it, of live scorpions which are to be used for purposes of medical research or for the manufacture of antivenom. Such regulations shall include such provisions with respect to the packaging of such live scorpions for transmission in the mails as the Postal Service deems necessary or desirable for the protection of Postal Service personnel and of the public generally and for ease of handling by such personnel and by any individual connected with such research or manufacture. Nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed to authorize the transmission in the mails of live scorpions by means of aircraft engaged in the carriage of passengers for compensation or hire.
U.S. Postal Service Publication 52, § 526.5 Live Scorpions
The mailing of scorpions is limited by the restrictions in 18 U.S.C. 1716. Under this limitation, scorpions are mailable only when sent for the purposes of medical research use or the manufacture of antivenin. Scorpions are nonmailable under any other circumstances.
Live scorpions are mailable only if EACH of the following conditions is met:
- Must be for delivery only within the continental United States.
- May be sent only by surface transportation.
- Must be sent only for special purposes of either:
- Medical research use.
- Manufacture of antivenin.
- Must be properly packaged prior to mailing, as follows:
- Live scorpions is packed in a double container system, with each receptacle closed or fastened in such a way as to prevent escape.
- Inner receptacle is made of material that cannot be punctured by a scorpion.
- Inner receptacle is marked “Live Scorpions.”
- Cushioning material is used to prevent shifting of the inner receptacle.
- Design of packaging is of sufficient strength, as required in 522, to prevent crushing of the mailpiece or escape of the contents during normal Postal Service handling and transport.
- Address side of mailpiece is clearly marked “Live Scorpions.”
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The following slide, from a U.S. Department of 2020 Defense Qualified Military Available Study, was obtained by Military.com in the September 2022 article “Even More Young Americans Are Unfit to Serve, a New Study Finds. Here’s Why.”
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Interesting slide. Only 12% of ALL YOUTH appears to be qualified to serve in the Armed Forces. That is a discouragingly LOW number. Kind of makes me think of the woes Russia is going through at the moment vis a vis the Ukraine War. ?Wonder how many would be unqualified were we to be attacked. You guys might be resting your future prospects on us old guys.
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If you’re interested in taking a look at the docs themselves: Leaked documents expose US-NATO Ukraine war plans - The Grayzone
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Not quite. That may be the case under the current Leftie-favoring rules where the privileged offspring of nomenclatura parents are partying at colleges. But those spawn constitute the 11% who should be first in line to serve their country, or at least to serve Zelensky and his 10% co-conspirators. With great privilege comes great responsibility.
It is a reasonable guess that the non-college student 12% Qualified-Available for Military Service are a crucial part of keeping the country going, such as it is. Those are the fit healthy smart young guys on construction sites and assembly lines. Keep them on the job, and let the college kids (transgendered, female, and male) go to the front lines.
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Oh, I don’t disagree with what you say. Trouble is, most of those mopes in school will be exempted from any draft were one to be imposed, and they would probably make poor soldiers if inducted. There has to be a certain amount of pluck to go to war, and I rather doubt they have it. Even in my graduating officer class there was one jackass who didn’t go with the plan and had family pull strings to get him assigned to an embassy in Europe - so he “missed” going to Nam.
There’s always one in the bunch.
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