We have no suspects. No leads. No evidence. It would be a national security risk to review the surveillance tapes. Our plan is to delay any investigation until after the statute of limitations runs out. Whoops. Ignore that last part. What we need to focus on right now is the danger presented by these disinformation services that provide access to firefighter and police radio transmissions.
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“ While this will contribute to warming and make it even more difficult to avoid exceeding 1.5C in the coming decades, a number of other factors are likely contributing to the ocean heatwave.
These include a massive eruption of an underwater volcano in the south Pacific, an unusual absence of Saharan dust and a growing El Niño.”
?Ja think.
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The other nine-dash line.
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Britways:
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Travis Corcoran, now elected to the New Hampshire state legislature, has introduced a bill to allow students to test out of high school and receive an equivalency certificate at any age.
New Hampshire state representative Travis Corcoran has not lost his. He recently introduced HB 399, which would give New Hampshire students a way to test out of high school and receive a high school equivalency certificate. In an interview with The American Spectator , he called the state’s public schools “super expensive government-run schools that cater to the lowest common denominator and have a multi-decade-long track record of accomplishing precious little.”
Corcoran’s bill is the latest instance of a conservative education policy that sets itself apart by pledging to promote freedom. He emphasizes that his bill does not necessarily present the choice to drop out. Students are still free to choose to attend a faith-based school or no school at all after receiving the certificate.
The bill, he writes, is for “exceptional students who can prove that they have mastered all of the content expected of average students — and more.”
“The stakeholders who support the bill include tons of homeschoolers, gifted students, tutors who work with gifted students, and others,” he continues. He says that the bill’s opponents are “Democrats” and “public school teachers who live off of tax dollars.”
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What Corcoran calls “one-size-fits-all schooling” — mandating that students attend school at the same time and learn the same curriculum — no longer fits the needs of the students whose academic abilities are at either end of the bell curve.
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Sounds like common sense, rather than something crazy. Maybe the craziness is that something so obvious & common sensical is now so uncommon.
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Actually, if you extract, perspective correct, and threshold the SPQR code in the image, allowing the Android “QR & Barcode Scanner” application to decode it:
you get the URL http://mhmp.eu/, which takes you to a video of some primate who has tattooed the QR code on its leg and which, when it’s done playing, chains to a YouTube music video of Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
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Mary Beard would not approve 
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It is past time for banks to be subject to public accommodation laws. They ought be unable to discriminate (and close accounts) against any legal business enterprise or group holding accounts.
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There are a lot of other overlapping laws they are being allowed to get away with: false advertising; breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing; defamation; unfair competition; antitrust; contracts of adhesion/breach of promissory estoppel…
Enforcing a few of these would moot the public accommodations issues.
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Gender differences among the most talented, from this new paper https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2023/07/Article-GCQ-Lubinski-2023.pdf :
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So now the NYT likes expansive defamation laws:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/case-could-fox-next-dominion-120700345.html
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Funny how many stereotypes are supported by this analysis
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The link returns not found. Your charts don’t say which side is which, and making a logical guess could be sterotyping ( 
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