A bunch of smart people learning the hard way. Normally I would chuckle, but this just goes to show that you can't ever give people like Trump an inch.
its right out of the argumentative toddlers play book though. they pick an argument that they think no one can oppose 'hating jews is bad' (which is it, don't get me wrong) and then use that argument to do a bunch of bad shit that has nothing to do with preventing the hatred of jewish people and when you kick off about it they think they can pull you back into line by calling you a 'hater of the jewish people' - they are using a group of people who have suffered a lot of hate as a fig leaf, and don't have the maturity to realise that everyone can see right through them - guess they should have paid better attention in school
Here's where the fun begins. And by fun, I mean all the scary stuff we've been trying to avoid, because it usually ends up with someone losing an eye.
Republicans never have a Plan B. Never. There's no secret document that they were disciplined enough not to blab to the world titled "Project What To Do If There's Any Resistance Whatsoever To Project 2025."
Their world is Might Makes Right. If you don't get what you want, add more Might.
One thing 45/47 is good at is forming alliances against his admin. Universities, law firms, the EU, unions, environmental groups, scientists/researchers, Canadians, etc. Pretty soon, he and his cabinet (and corrupt appointees) will be facing a tsunami of opposition on all sides.
I always say that Scott Walker former Governor of my state of WI. was the canary in the coal mine. Back in 2015 he tried to change the Wisconsin Idea that governs UW ‘s philosophy from “the search for truth”and “improvement of the human condition “ to be replaced with “meet the state’s workforce needs”.
The Orban playbook is have your buddies buy up the press, bully the non-sycophant press into submission, co-opt the universities, and eliminate the NGOs. The corporations will go along because “it’s cheaper to collaborate” plus those juicy tax cuts.
Do corporations still pay taxes? With all the holes in the tax code, they would have to be mind numbingly stupid to still be paying taxes. .... I think I see the problem.
Oh please oh please let my alma mater be on the list - it's not. FUCK. I can feel the value of my degree sliding even faster than MTG's horrible example of alumni.
well, fox news was claiming something like 384,000 jobs created since trump took office yesterday. . . i assume "created" means they're choosing to ignore net job losses.
Its an average of the quarter, the real slide was only in the last ~month.
If you assume growth was roughly consistent before he announced the tariffs, then its not a 0.4% contraction for the quarter, its 2 months of 2.4% growth, followed by 30 days where the economy shrank ~5%
*I have not actually looked up and confirmed the numbers, I'm going on memory. But this is bad. Very bad.
"The US Government has revised the first quarter GDP based on new data. The revised GDP was -4.8. But coming up next - OUR TOP STORY KIM KARDASSIAN JUST BOUGHT A PINK TESLA"
My wife expects to get fired when she is eventually asked to remove all DEI references from the department's web site. Fortunately, our middle of nowhere school is not being targeted yet, and nobody there seems to be in a big hurry to submit in advance.
Great! That's the sort of evidence that plaintiff's-side employment lawyers like me love to stack up in front of a jury when employers like yours get sued.
Actually, not worried. I've been on some hiring committees and have taken the required training.
Criteria must be identified up front and listed on a grid. Applicants are chosen to interview and interviewed by committee. Grid completed by each committee member separately. Hiring decision made by committee and justified in writing. Reviewed by several levels of administrators after that.
Every time I have seen some racial or gender bias coming from a committee, the Dean's office has intervened successfully.
Don't researchers and political scientists have computer models that they can run to demonstrate just how bad Trump's Project 2025 program is and will be?
No? Why don't they contact that "Sid" guy – the one who has done the "Civilization" game for the last 25 years. (no, no, NOT 'Sid Barrett' 😃 )
(I'm old enough to remember the game "Doom" – and how people were able to make "wads" for it to customize game. I remember playing a "Simpsons" wad (wad = mod). I'd play a "Doom Trump" version . . . )
As an aside: id Software (the company that makes Doom games) has been pretty generous with their games' source code, which has led to a strong modding community and has extended the life of Doom by decades. The game still has active players and modders now.
Probably the funniest instance of them sharing their source code was when id gave Wolfenstein's source code to Wisdom Tree, which was a Christian company that made these shitty Bible-based video games. Wisdom Tree had been a thorn in Nintendo's side for a while, because they made these unlicensed video games, and Nintendo couldn't shut them down because they sold the games in Christian book stores that didn't sell other licensed games.
id gave Wisdom Tree Wofenstein's source code because they were angry at Nintendo for trying to censor Wolfenstein's violence (if you don't know, Wolfenstein is a game that's all about gunning down Nazis). Wisdom Tree took the code and made Noah's Ark 3D, a game where you shoot food at animals to make them fall asleep so that Noah can put them on the Ark.
A bunch of smart people learning the hard way. Normally I would chuckle, but this just goes to show that you can't ever give people like Trump an inch.
Ta, Dok. Shades of Mao's Cultural Revolution, where people were denounced and sent to re-education camps for wearing eyeglasses.
its right out of the argumentative toddlers play book though. they pick an argument that they think no one can oppose 'hating jews is bad' (which is it, don't get me wrong) and then use that argument to do a bunch of bad shit that has nothing to do with preventing the hatred of jewish people and when you kick off about it they think they can pull you back into line by calling you a 'hater of the jewish people' - they are using a group of people who have suffered a lot of hate as a fig leaf, and don't have the maturity to realise that everyone can see right through them - guess they should have paid better attention in school
1) Worm yourself into a position where you can interfere with someone or something's funding.
2) Use that for extortion.
These people use the same fucking play, over and over.
Any pushback from Liberty U or Oral Robbers U? I guess those two aren't Ivy League.
The president of the university I am about to leave is on the list of signatories. I was surprised: I had no confidence whatsoever in him.
Glad to see all the push-back.
It's about time!
Here's where the fun begins. And by fun, I mean all the scary stuff we've been trying to avoid, because it usually ends up with someone losing an eye.
Republicans never have a Plan B. Never. There's no secret document that they were disciplined enough not to blab to the world titled "Project What To Do If There's Any Resistance Whatsoever To Project 2025."
Their world is Might Makes Right. If you don't get what you want, add more Might.
Ooooo!
I can't wait to see what happens!
(gleefully rubs hands together)
One thing 45/47 is good at is forming alliances against his admin. Universities, law firms, the EU, unions, environmental groups, scientists/researchers, Canadians, etc. Pretty soon, he and his cabinet (and corrupt appointees) will be facing a tsunami of opposition on all sides.
He is a uniter.
I always say that Scott Walker former Governor of my state of WI. was the canary in the coal mine. Back in 2015 he tried to change the Wisconsin Idea that governs UW ‘s philosophy from “the search for truth”and “improvement of the human condition “ to be replaced with “meet the state’s workforce needs”.
The Orban playbook is have your buddies buy up the press, bully the non-sycophant press into submission, co-opt the universities, and eliminate the NGOs. The corporations will go along because “it’s cheaper to collaborate” plus those juicy tax cuts.
Do corporations still pay taxes? With all the holes in the tax code, they would have to be mind numbingly stupid to still be paying taxes. .... I think I see the problem.
“viewpoint diversity” ..Nazi's weren't ALL bad or some other insane shit.
And don't you call them antisemitic!
Oh please oh please let my alma mater be on the list - it's not. FUCK. I can feel the value of my degree sliding even faster than MTG's horrible example of alumni.
"The group includes ... “leading private research universities, mostly in blue states,”
Duh, where else would they be?
well, most of the Texas universities were already rolling over and showing their bellies just for greg abbott. . .
Rock and a hard place. So far mine is trying to just stay off of Abbott's radar.
Why do I have a feeling that the GDP is a LOT WORSE than what those "official" figures are saying today?????
well, fox news was claiming something like 384,000 jobs created since trump took office yesterday. . . i assume "created" means they're choosing to ignore net job losses.
Its an average of the quarter, the real slide was only in the last ~month.
If you assume growth was roughly consistent before he announced the tariffs, then its not a 0.4% contraction for the quarter, its 2 months of 2.4% growth, followed by 30 days where the economy shrank ~5%
*I have not actually looked up and confirmed the numbers, I'm going on memory. But this is bad. Very bad.
Wait'll June!
Will be wild.
In 3 months:
"The US Government has revised the first quarter GDP based on new data. The revised GDP was -4.8. But coming up next - OUR TOP STORY KIM KARDASSIAN JUST BOUGHT A PINK TESLA"
What???? Our government LIE?!
You can't afford the truth.
There are too many things tumbling all over the place, in order for things to be smooth.
We were told to remove Equal Opportunity Employer from our letterhead this week. Poof! It's gone.
Of course we still are an EOE, we just won't advertise it.
My wife expects to get fired when she is eventually asked to remove all DEI references from the department's web site. Fortunately, our middle of nowhere school is not being targeted yet, and nobody there seems to be in a big hurry to submit in advance.
Great! That's the sort of evidence that plaintiff's-side employment lawyers like me love to stack up in front of a jury when employers like yours get sued.
Except we are "complying with a Trump administration requirement" for higher ed. Certainly wouldn't do it voluntarily.
That won't help you one bit in a lawsuit. Not even one tiny bit.
Actually, not worried. I've been on some hiring committees and have taken the required training.
Criteria must be identified up front and listed on a grid. Applicants are chosen to interview and interviewed by committee. Grid completed by each committee member separately. Hiring decision made by committee and justified in writing. Reviewed by several levels of administrators after that.
Every time I have seen some racial or gender bias coming from a committee, the Dean's office has intervened successfully.
Good. Let's hope that continues.
Equal rights . . . given out of the back of the store.
"Yeah ma, these civil rights just fell off the truck, honest!."
Some rights are more equal than others...
Don't researchers and political scientists have computer models that they can run to demonstrate just how bad Trump's Project 2025 program is and will be?
No? Why don't they contact that "Sid" guy – the one who has done the "Civilization" game for the last 25 years. (no, no, NOT 'Sid Barrett' 😃 )
(I'm old enough to remember the game "Doom" – and how people were able to make "wads" for it to customize game. I remember playing a "Simpsons" wad (wad = mod). I'd play a "Doom Trump" version . . . )
As an aside: id Software (the company that makes Doom games) has been pretty generous with their games' source code, which has led to a strong modding community and has extended the life of Doom by decades. The game still has active players and modders now.
Probably the funniest instance of them sharing their source code was when id gave Wolfenstein's source code to Wisdom Tree, which was a Christian company that made these shitty Bible-based video games. Wisdom Tree had been a thorn in Nintendo's side for a while, because they made these unlicensed video games, and Nintendo couldn't shut them down because they sold the games in Christian book stores that didn't sell other licensed games.
id gave Wisdom Tree Wofenstein's source code because they were angry at Nintendo for trying to censor Wolfenstein's violence (if you don't know, Wolfenstein is a game that's all about gunning down Nazis). Wisdom Tree took the code and made Noah's Ark 3D, a game where you shoot food at animals to make them fall asleep so that Noah can put them on the Ark.
"But will it run Doom?" is still the first question people ask someone who managed to hack into any piece of technology with a visible screen.
A pdf file can run Doom.
https://kotaku.com/doom-running-on-pdf-weird-port-id-software-fps-pc-mod-1851739634
Wads got their name because the data files the original Doom game used for levels, textures, etc., all ended in .wad.
Also, Sid Meyer is the guy known for the Civilization games.
Sid Vicious had a more functional grasp of the situation.