I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Linkee-poo has no time to find a lyric

"It has been exhausting work that has often taken away from my own writing and time with my family, and as of March 1st I will no longer host and maintain the Sensitivity Reader database as part of Writing in the Margins." I can't argue with her reasons, but fuck. Look, be professional and kind to other people. That's really all it takes. (Grokked from DongWon Song)

"A good photo can let you see the world in ways you never dreamed of."

"On Feb. 25, that weather station remained above freezing for about 24 hours, which is virtually unheard of during February, when there is no sunlight reaching the ground there… Arctic sea ice in the Bering Sea and to the north of Greenland actually declined during February, a time when sea ice usually expands toward its seasonal maximum in early to mid-March." We're boned.

Sure there's no war against women being waged by the GOP. "Roy Moore, the Republican who lost the Alabama Senate election after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct when they were teenagers, is backing a Missouri GOP Senate candidate who calls feminists 'nasty' and 'snake-filled.'" I mean, it only looks like that from the outside.

"The American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government on Monday of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities, two time zones apart, after they sought asylum four months ago." What our nation has become. (Grokked from Laura J Mixon)

"Delta — now being pressured to reinstate its relationship with the NRA, or lose out on tens of millions of dollars in breaks from Georgia taxpayers — did not respond to a request for comment." Dear Georgia government and taxpayers, because of that action you've now opened yourself to a lawsuit where Delta may gain more from a settlement than they would have from the tax breaks. It's called "coercion". And using your state office to either punish or reward a company for behavior unrelated to government cooperation or for personal gain (or loss in the case of punishment) is illegal, as I'm sure you're about to learn (IANAL so I may be speaking out of my ass at the moment, but I seem to remember this as a part of my government training). So punishing Delta for not offering you an NRA discount, as stated in both social media and to other media outlets, is actionable behavior.

The scientists say the move toward beech-heavy forests is associated with higher temperatures and precipitation. They say their 30-year study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Applied Ecology, is one of the first to look at such broad changes over a long time period in the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada… Beech, often used for firewood, is of much less commercial value than some species of birch and maple trees that can be used to make furniture and flooring." We're boned.

"Automakers are watching closely as the Trump administration tries to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the latest round of talks is under way in Mexico City this week." Ending NAFTA could upset the American Car Industry? Why that's unpossible. "Even if the administration got everything it wanted, (Monica de Bolle, an economist with the Peterson Institute for International Economics) says, bringing factory jobs back to the U.S. would take several years. And if the jobs do come back from Mexico, she says, they would likely be done by robots."

"When it comes to Russia, Americans have more trust in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation than they do in President Trump's denials of collusion, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds." And it's pretty damn close on the question of if that meddling altered the outcome of the election. (Grokked from John)

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