Launches orbital rockets from two different hemispheres. Can’t spell “its”.
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Reuters reports:
Here is Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen addressing the Belize National Assembly in Belmopan on 2023-04-03.
Last week, Honduras broke diplomatic relations with Taiwan, opening relations with Red China. This leaves only 13 countries in the world which maintain full diplomatic relations with Taiwan, including Belize and Central American neighbour Guatemala. On 2023-03-15, after the announcement by Honduras of the forthcoming change, the government of Belize issued a statement, “Belize Declares Continued Recognition of the Republic of China (Taiwan) as a Sovereign and Independent Nation”.
Belmopan, March 15, 2023.
The Government of Belize declares its continued recognition of the Republic of China (Taiwan) as a sovereign and independent nation. Belize and Taiwan will work to strengthen their cordial bilateral relations based on shared values, the respect for the rule of law, democracy and human rights, and mutual interests. Belize believes that on the basis of self-determination, the people of Taiwan should be recognized as an independent country with full membership in international organizations.
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Extinct bison emerges from melting permafrost up to 9,000 years later.
I wonder if they’re good eating?
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The trailer seems appropriate for the next installment of Mad Max.
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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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