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Birds Aren’t Real On Fox News

luxintenebris jokingly says...

Am neutral on this issue of robotic crows & such -but someone mentioned starlings.

Starlings are not natural.

1) The iridescent color is an illusion
2) They can and have spoken in English & other tongues
3) A pair raised a brood in a tree next to the house & rarely made noise

None of this is normal bird behavior.

1) am told their plumage (notably the ' iridescence') has no true pigment but the structure of their feathers. Could be that it's a cloaking device since we don't always see them around.

2) if they can speak in captivity, they must while in the flock, if only to keep their English (et al) sharp. it's proof that they hear and understand us. handy for data gathering.

3) Since the pair near us have raised littles & they only 'buzz' when ma or pa show up with Grub Hub - it suggests they are covert creatures. a trait common in spies. [also, mysteriously two of the house cats have gone missing just before they moved in.]

not saying ALL birds are bots - but if there is a place to start an investigation - Starlings are the best bet.

How do we know that they weren't behind this obvious attempt at propaganda. as if falling in love is akin to being in a murmuration...


Biden Smiden - investigate Starlings.

Teacher Fed Up With Students Swearing, Stealing, And Destroy

JiggaJonson says...

I disagree. Pinpointing the problem isn't very hard if you have some idea of where to look.

As someone who was 'coming of age' in my profession when No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its successor the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), I can provide some insight into how these policies have been enacted and how both have been detrimental to the public education system as a whole. The former is a GWBush policy, and the latter is an Obama policy meant to mend the original law, so both liberals and conservatives are to blame to some degree, but both are based on the same philosophy of education and teacher-accountability.

There are some other mitigating factors and outside influences at work that should be noted: gun violence, the rise & ubiquity of the internet, and universal cell phone availability, all mostly concentrated in the past 10 years that play a large role. Cell phones, for example, are probably the worst thing to happen to education ever. They distract, they assist in cheating, they perpetuate arguments which can lead to physical altercations, and parents themselves advocate for their use "what if there's an emergency?!?!"

The idea of "teacher accountability" is the biggest culprit though.

Anecdotally, I've caught people cheating on papers. A girl in my honors English class basically plagiarised her entire final paper that we worked on for close to a month. The zero tanked her grade, which was already floundering, and the parent wanted to meet. I'd rather not go into detail to protect both the girl and my own anonymity, but suffice to say, all of the blame for this was aimed directly at me. How? Well I (apparently) "should have caught this sooner and intervened." Now, the final in that class is 8 pages long, I have ~125 students all working on it at the same time. but my ability to check something like that and my workload are beside the point. I'M NOT THE ONE WHO COPY PASTED A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE AND DOCTORED IT UP SO IT COULD SQUEAK BY THE PLAGIARISM DETECTOR (shows she knew what she was doing, IMHO). Yet, I'm still the one being told that I was responsible for what happened.

Teacher-accountability SOUNDS like the right thing to do, but consider the following analogies

--Students are earning poor grades, therefore teachers should be demoted; put on probationary programs; lose some of their salaries; and if they do not improve their test scores, grades, and attendance; be terminated from their positions.

as to

--Impoverished people have poor oral hygiene/health, therefore their dentists should be forced to take pay cuts from insurance companies. If the patients continue to develop cavities and the like, the dentist should be forced to go for further training, and possibly lose his practice.

I have no control over attendance.
I have no control over their home life.
I have no control over children coming to school with holes in their shoes, having not eaten breakfast.

@Mordhaus the part about money grubbing could not be further from the truth.

I'll be brief b/c I know this is already too long for this forum, but Houton Mifflin, McGraw Hill, Etc. Book Company is facing a shortfall of sales in light of the digital age. It may be difficult to blame one entity, but that's a good place to start. They don't sell as many books, but guess who produces and distributes the standardized tests and practice materials? Those same companies who used to sell textbooks by the boatload.

When a student does poorly, they have to retest in order to recieve a diploma. $$$ if they fail again, they retest again and again there is a charge for taking the test and accompanying pretest materials. Each of which has its own fees that go straight to the former textbook companies. See: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/testing/companies.html

In short, there is an incentive for these companies to lobby for an environment where tests are taken and retaken as much as possible. Each time a student has to retest that's more $ in their pocket.

How can they create an enviorment that faccilitates more testing? Put all the blame on the educators rather than the students.

That sounds a little tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory-ish, but the lobbying they do is very real: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/30/report-big-education-firms-spend-millions-lobbying-for-pro-testing-policies/?utm_term=.
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That, combined with exceptions for charter/private schools where students have the option to opt-out of said testing is skewing the numbers in favor of all of these for-profit companies: http://sanchezcharter.org/state-testing-parent-opt-out/ << one example (you can't opt-out in a public school, at least in my state)

@bobknight33 idk if i'd call business-minded for-profit policies "liberal"

Mordhaus said:

Instead of focusing on who 'created' the problem, which I guarantee you cannot tie to any one specific group or ideology, we should be instead looking for a solution to the problem.

At some point we are going to have to quit beating our drums about 'bleeding heart' liberals or 'heartless money grubbing' republicans and work together. If we can't, then we deserve everything we have coming.

Teacher Fed Up With Students Swearing, Stealing, And Destroy

Mordhaus says...

Instead of focusing on who 'created' the problem, which I guarantee you cannot tie to any one specific group or ideology, we should be instead looking for a solution to the problem.

At some point we are going to have to quit beating our drums about 'bleeding heart' liberals or 'heartless money grubbing' republicans and work together. If we can't, then we deserve everything we have coming.

A Summary Of Steam's Stupidest Move Yet!

NaMeCaF says...

I mentioned that pretty clearly in the description. And it wasnt originally going to include pay what you want until the backlash started.

I also never said Valve gets the full 75%. They get their cut and the publisher of the game gets the remainder. Dont you think if their real intention was for the mod maker to make a living off their work the split would be 70-30 in favor of the mod maker? They're clearly shortchanging the mod-maker giving them only 25% and taking the rest. Which is of course going to make the mod-maker push up their price so they see more money.

Implementing built-in donations option for all mods on the workshop of which 70%-80% goes to the mod maker and the rest to Valve and the game maker makes much more sense. It doesn't close off or segregate the modding community and is a more democratic way of making sure the good, quality mods get promoted and get more money than shit, money-grubbing mods.

Bethesda has as much blame here as Valve do. And besides, both see they were completely wrong on doing this...

https://np.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3434it/paid_mods_in_the_steam_workshop/

"We missed the mark pretty badly"

ChaosEngine said:

First, it doesn't mention that paid mods are optional. It's up to the mod developer to decide whether they want fixed price, free or pay what you want.

Second, Valve doesn't get 75%, they get 30%. The remaining 70% is split at the discretion of the publisher (again, in this case, Bethesda, who decided on a 45/25 split). src

Bloom Boxes

newtboy jokingly says...

Ahhh yes.. these must be the "facts" that you can't, or refuse to show us, but continue to base your 'argument' on. I'm still waiting for the URL to the studies you seem to believe exist.
Turbines, were they not incorrectly seen by the oil and gas loving, money grubbing, climate change denying, pollution ignoring, petro-chemical brigade as 'financially' unsound, would be promoted by them for the same reason sane people promote them. They would not continue to make short term, misinformed, knee jerk reactions against a solution that will, ultimately, be part of a solution that will include numerous measures including wind generation.
Sadly that is not yet the case, as misinformation continues to rule their day.

Edit: This is the same, factless argument I heard repeatedly when I investigated getting a solar system, which amounted to 'they don't work, they cost too much, and they're only for tree huggers that ignore those facts'. All those claims turned out to be untrue. I bought mine for purely financial reasons, (since I don't have kids) and it worked out for me...I'm saving money already. I have a feeling the same goes for turbines... the arguments against them sound nearly identical to the arguments against solar, and never include actual data.

How do you mow with wind energy? Do you have a windmill/mower?!? NEAT! I wanna see!

A10anis said:

The facts back me up my friend. Turbines, were they not seen by the tree hugging, green peace brigade, as "ecologically" sound, would decry them for the same reason sane people do. They are a short term, knee jerk solution to a problem that will, ultimately, be solved by more scientific measures.
I'm done, and am mow off to solve the worlds energy crisis with wind energy..)

Pizza John's

lurgee says...

It is truely a finely tuned machine. Never had a bad experience. You can tour it also. There is only one(I would hate to see this Mecca become a chain). It has been a few months since I had their grub. Where I live now takes me 45 minutes to get there. I might tell the roommate to pic up my favorite, gnocchi with homemade italian sausage smothered with cheese. He works 10 minutes from it. Now I am hungry.

chingalera said:

Hell of a set-up in the dough department-How many locations in the greater Baltimore area and did you have one of these last night??

Monkey Buys Himself A Drink

halfAcat says...

That monkey seems ridiculously intelligent though. I wonder, if he just found some money in the road, would he be smart enough to take it to a nearby vending machine for some grub? Almost seems like he could get a job and participate in the economy. Or maybe he's just been trained to perform a very specific set of actions in order...

Ants In Silver Space Suits | Africa

Best Drive Thru Prank Ever

deathcow says...

Lots of places go single window at times. But these people usually appeared ready to hand over the grub didn't they.

RFlagg said:

Yeah, the guy at 2:50 was my favorite as well.

What I'm curious on is that he had to be there for the payment window (since there are no reaction shots of that window) so he had to get this costume on between the two windows. There isn't much room between the two... so how did he pull that off?

Gina Rinehart calls for a small Australian wage cut

Kofi says...

Now, I accept that this is just anecdotal evidence, however, as an Australian I can confidently say that in my personal dealings I have heard nothing but absolute disgust for this woman. No awe to be found anywhere except awe that she managed to get her father to change his will whilst on his deathbed so that she got everything (rather than his undeniably money grubbing whore of a wife Rose Portius) only for him to die the next day. Way to burn up the final moments of your dad's life. A truly vile human being.

Rick's Rant - Neverending Negative Ads

doogle says...

I would like to take a moment to fight the good fight. Let's get down to brass tacks: Idle hands are the devil's tools. That's why Rick Mercer spends his leisure time devising ever more money-grubbing ways to commit senseless acts of violence against anyone daring to challenge his vindictive wheelings and dealings. To use some computer terminology, his gang has an "installed base" of hundreds of disorganized renitent-types. The implication is that Rick thinks it would be a great idea to entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of the ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice of acrasial, gloomy finaglers. Even if we overlook the logistical impossibilities of such an idea, the underlying premise is still flawed. Although I can no more change the past than see the future, it's safe to say that I have a dream that my children will be able to live in a world filled with open spaces and beautiful wilderness—not in a dark, villainous world run by lecherous, obstreperous dissemblers. It should come as no shock to anyone that if you can make any sense out Rick's lackluster mottos then you must have gotten higher marks in school than I did. I could be wrong about any or all of this, but at the moment, the above fits what I know of history, people, and current conditions. If anyone sees anything wrong or has some new facts or theories on this, I'd love to hear about them

Ninja Turtles Are Anti-Christian

ChaosEngine says...

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

As I remember, Bart Simpson said, "Rub-a-dub-dub thanks for the grub"
sigh and Smithers tried to seduce Mr. Burns, not Homer.
Get your Simpson's info straight you idiots!


I think he also said "we paid for this, so thanks for nothing" (paraphrased). It was in the episode where Burns runs for governor.

Anyway, Bart was right

Ninja Turtles Are Anti-Christian

Overly Excited Baby Loves to Eat

Police Captain Ray Lewis at OWS before his Arrest

poolcleaner says...

Absolute bullshit. It doesn't matter if Occupy is dead wrong in all of their views, this goes against everything the lying liars of the past century have convinced us America stands for. Protecting our comfortable, money grubbing interests is all I'm convinced this country stands for. Greed is the ultimate morality.

But really, over the course of years we've created so many specific types of laws and the mentality that it's in our best interest, now we're fucking boxed in and open to corrupted, cowards that can turn these laws on the people.



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