The U.S. will fulfill its defense needs through contracts with Greenlandic businesses and with Greenlandic labor, whenever feasible.
This is technically an economic concession to Greenland. They have a client that's treaty bound to prefer them as suppliers, if they are able to fulfill the demand. Whether Greenlanders are able to seize the opportunity is doubtful, but it's an opportunity. If I were a Greenlander with some extra cash kicking around, I'd be looking at what supplies an american military base is likely to need.
I get why they would, because other definitions are fuzzy and open to interpretations, even though in practice most people I know can tell which one a place is by looking at what its core looks like.
To me no; town I would define as a locality that has most of the services needed for day-to-day life, a core that spans a few streets rather than one, but doesn't have the businesses and services that would truly make it independant. A town would have for instance pharmacies, supermarkets, maybe some chain stores like a walmart, a few restaurants, probably a high school, medical clinics but no hospital, no mall, no airport, no nightlife outside of local bars, minimal public transport. I expect people from a town make a trip to a city in a 1-2 hours drive radius a few times a year when they want to go on real "shopping" trip, need to go to a hospital, etc... There usually aren't any higher education institutions in towns either, so the kids often end up having to move when they start studying at that level.
A village, to me, has a handful of businesses, rarely spread on more than one street: a gas station, a local diner, a very small grocery store, maybe an elementary school, maybe a bar or two but everyone there goes to the nearest town in a 15-30 minutes radius for their real actual groceries every week, and to a city as often as the townfolks do.
I would even posit that the the village/town/city distinction is sometimes completely distinct from rural/suburban/urban. There are small cities in my province that exist essentially as service hubs for the surrounding countryside. They are a bit denser than a typical suburb but the economic engine is not the city. One of them, for instance, has a large veterinary hospital, the biggest agricultural school in the province, etc...
If 50% or more are employed in agriculture, it's a rural locality; Otherwise, if 50% or more of those not employed in agriculture work in a different locality, it's a suburban locality; Otherwise, it's an urban locality.
I don't think that works because there's plenty of small suburban or rural towns (in a way that we would definitely recognize them as such despite definitions) that are basically supported by a single big factory. People work locally, not in agriculture, but that doesn't make those tiny towns urban. And the tiny villages around them that supply some extra workers aren't necessarily suburban.
Outside of density, which could be used to make a hard criteria for analysis, but not necessarily capture the real spirit of the word, I would define the three as what proximity people are seeking there.
In urban localities, people want to be in proximity to other people. Density is a virtue here. In suburban localities, people want to be in proximity to the urban locality, but not other people. Density is not a virtue, but it will happen as there is a limit to how far people can be and meaningfully access the urban core. In rural localities, people want to be in proximity to open spaces (for economic purposes, like agricultural activity, for recreation or as an aesthetic preference).
pigeonburger
1d ago
That or correcting it ourselves. That said, homework doesn't count and I was in a high achiever school so the teachers probably figured if we don't do that correctly the only people we're cheating is ourselves.
She did try to bully the school into shape, she wouldn't call it "bullying", but this is pretty much what I imagine bullying a school into shape to sound like:
After lunch, I headed straight to the principal’s office to meet with her. Afterward, I sent a lengthy email about what I had witnessed and demanded the unsafe lunchroom conditions be addressed. In what had become a pattern when we raised concerns, it took several days before the principal responded and several more weeks of emails and calls before she announced a plan to address the lunchtime issues.
We had to stay and fight for the students who did not have options, and so we started to become a thorn in the principal’s side.
The article is full of the assumption that all these poor kids needed is a NYT writer savior telling the principal that maybe they shouldn't let kids act rowdy. As if it never occured to them.
All this to avoid accepting that, let alone admitting anything regarding genetics, some kids' early years and family environment set them up to fail and drag down others with them and that the damage caused to others by trying to act like they can be given the same chances is not worth it.
Turning your kid into a martyr against "school segregation" is plainly wrong.
Yeah, as they (should) say, the problem with communism is that eventually you run out of other people's kids, so at least kudos to her for testing her theories on her kid and not on other people's.
*EDIT: Though of course if she had her way, she would do it with both, as the lesson she's learned with this is that she should have let other people's kids go first so they could cushion her own's fall when she dropped her into the pit.
On the other hand, I do not think parents should feel obliged to take up a second mortgage to send their kid to a school or university they can't comfortably afford.
The answer is to have exactly what the author of the article is moaning about: public schools that do screening.
most of the highest-performing public middle (and high) schools use what are called academic screens — a combination of grades, interviews, portfolios and standardized tests that determines admission — to allot access to public schools that most public-school children can’t get into.
This systemic sorting of worthy and unworthy children is justified by saying that our “brightest” students deserve and demand more rigor. While many of the city’s Asian students have benefited from these screens, in reality the screens are part of a tawdry bargain to keep a dwindling number of white and wealthier parents from exiting the public school system.
Stopping short of calling it outright racism, but...
Because these public schools admit students based on a single entrance test, Faraji and I have long opposed them
This sentence had me yelling insults at my screen.
The thing about caring about getting good academic results is that you have to actually care about the actual academic results, not about celebrating the wonderfulness of being a minority. Trying to engineer the results from the ground up regresses a lot more middle class kids (and in this case, upper class kids) than it elevates working and welfare class kids.
pigeonburger
2d ago
I go to barber shops, went to one for a while enough to be quite familiar with the barber. The barber shop I'm going to now is italian, all the barbers and the clients seem to know one another except me, but dammit they're very cheap and they do a good job. The clients are, except me, pretty much all older men or younger immigrants, and they all seem to be there to hang out more than to get a haircut and a shave.
TPTB have been actively trying to kill it for about 30 years
More like almost 60 years, during his long reign Pierre Elliott Trudeau did everything he could to crush Canada's nascent nationalism. Everything modern Canada is, is the achievement of his project, which his son continued and no prime minister between them, even Conservatives, really tried to undo.
pigeonburger
5d ago
Yes, the talking in German I understand and it makes sense. It's the "dog isn't trained to be able to stop immediately on-command (in German by its handler)" part that is less straightforward and less true to the image of smart and obedient police dogs the public has.
pigeonburger
5d ago
I've been watching a lot of bodycam videos, many of which involve police dogs, and yeah, the image we're given in the media is that they are extremely smart and obedient, but it seems quite different from that in application. You see the officer yelling at the suspect, seemingly getting the dog excited and riled up, releasing the dog after giving a verbal order to bite in another language (I've seen german often) and then once the dog bites the suspect the handler tries to get him to stop with varying degrees of success. At the very least it takes several seconds, a lot of pulling and repeated yelling in german. The dog almost always look too excited to listen or care about orders and in multiple videos I've seen it switch to biting nearby officers when they assist in securing the suspect.
Now I'm sure the distinction is not because no one thought of training obedient, smart police dogs, or that such dogs are impossible. Seeing eye dogs are capable of calmly completing rather complex (for a dog) tasks in a much more controlled way, but maybe there's something about the expected duty that makes excitable, chaos monster dogs more suited for the job, maybe they're less easily convinced or redirected by the suspect? Maybe the police likes the intimidation factor of a very eager dog vs one that seems completely tamed; they want the suspect to think of what damage the dog the cops barely seem to be able to control will do rather than think of the damage a dog that will immediately stop when asked to can do.
pigeonburger
5d ago
me, her, her mother and our son
You have a son with your wife's mother? Like, your son is your half brother-in-law?
Your ring probably gets a bunch of useful information already, especially if it tracks SpO2; most of those I saw already had a feature to help in detecting it, but otherwise if it charts your SpO2 during your sleep, look for slow, gradual loss of oxygenation in your blood over many seconds/multiple minutes, dipping below your baseline %, until a sudden jump back to your baseline. You also said you got a girlfriend recently? Ask her to check when she's awake in bed while you're asleep if she notices you ever stop breathing for a while.
Of course, either one of those indicators should be a prompt to consult to get a proper diagnosis.
pigeonburger
5d ago
Do you also track sleep apnea? For me, not controlling it (still able to manage it by adjusting sleep position here) makes me wake up in a panic with my brain being filled with anxious thoughts about my own mortality. And I'm not an anxious person at all.
pigeonburger
6d ago
As the Rambo 3 misquote goes:
This movie is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan
(real quote from Rambo 3's end card is that it's "dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan", which well, has more plausible deniability now despite likely meaning the same thing in the people who wrote it's mind)
The Trax CAN use E85, but I cannot find anywhere that it MUST use it; it's a "flex-fuel", you can use normal gasoline in it just fine.
No option for the Hyundai Venue? Or Kia K4? That last one I think compares favorably to the Sentra on most metrics. The Venue is less of an apples to apples comparison, but if you are specifically not enthused by sedans, then a wee subcompact crossover might do it more for you.
Also, as an aside, are you planning on buying the car to ride it until it falls into rust? If not, the value retention should enter into your calculation I think. Buying "the cheapest car outright" can end up being a bad long term financial decision in a much more real and significant way than other purchases. A car that costs 20000$ but is worth 3000$ in 10 years when you want to get rid of it, vs a car that costs 25000$ but is still worth 10000$ in 10 years requires some thought. With that in mind, if you were able to stretch that initial budget a bit more to reach the Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla, you get a car that is known to hold its value much better than the Sentra, or the unknown of the K4 (likely bad on value retention, if we go by its predecessor the Forte). Of course, opportunity costs and inflation have to be taken into account here.
Even if you do plan to ride the car until it dies, you should keep in mind that this is likely to happen significantly later for a Civic and a Corolla than for a Sentra. And that's without counting also the expected repair bills over the lifetime of the car. A recent study looking at what percentage of a brand's cars make it to 250 000 miles shows Toyota/Lexus and Honda/Acura taking the first four spots, with a significant gap until the cluster of other brands.
And finally, of course, I imagine you have your reasons to want a new car specifically, but the depreciation that hits it as soon as you leave the dealership is immense. And that's assuming you want to spend the same amount of money on a used car as on the new one; the opportunity cost of buying new rather than a serviceable used car at half the price while investing the difference somewhere it will appreciate rather than depreciate is very significant.
pigeonburger
7d ago
One thing that celebrities should learn is just to keep their fucking mouths shut. Which the celebrities of pre social era managed to do. He is a servant whom I pay to sing to me. I don't care what he thinks about two countries that are just a speck on the map.
I want this so much. Celebrities' opinions are worth less than the median person's, their life is so different than that of the average person that any insight they have is alien and irrelevant to me.
pigeonburger
7d ago
Maybe they don't want to risk getting us all killed because they need some of us to survive for their CAPTCHA-solving farms.
pigeonburger
8d ago
I think the real bailey there is that women feel like men dismiss their inner experiences too readily, be it their feelings, physical pain, mental health... And that what Lindsay did is the loud scream of despair that cannot be ignored that they wish they could do (not the deadly result, in most cases, but doing SOMETHING that forces men to take notice of their inner experiences). And it pisses them off that men are trying to "sweep it under the carpet" as just the criminal acts that criminals do.
pigeonburger
9d ago
let us crush the foe beneath our feet so that their blood flows in streams
An understandable sentiment when the foes are, reportedly, planning to pull your wives and sons from your arms to slit their throats.
pigeonburger
14d ago
that someone could create this service to help teens remain "free" of parental "tyranny"
I mean, I doubt the people who made the service or accepted running the ads thought it was enabling anything? It can be just because getting news is way better for parents than none. And maybe, if you help create an indirect connection back to the parents like this, it can encourage eventually lead to a reconcilliation. At least I think the makers of this service and the TV stations can have the benefit of the doubt that this is how they thought about it.
pigeonburger
15d ago
Yeah, but that's kyokushin karate, ie: the one with all the madmen who do knockdown sparring all the time.
The early ruleset I believe only restricted biting, gouging and strikes to the groin. These techniques are likely effective, but also don't exactly reflect on a martial arts' effectiveness much, you don't need to be a god of fighting to know how to kick someone in the nuts or that kicking someone in the nuts works. Most of those are also not game changers, in the sense that they are not going to nullify effective techniques. For instance, you can bite and gouge try to hit the groin of someone choking you out, but they're unlikely to get him to relax his choke, so the result is that you still lost the fight, he could have still killed you if he had wanted but also now he also has to get medical attention for a gnarly bite mark. Early MMA competitions allowed even stomping, and the result was still that martial sports dominated, usually in the order of how unrestricted their allowed moveset was (ie: taekwondo, with its moveset heavily restricted to encourage acrobatic kicks (high kicks, spinning kicks), would do poorly compared to muay thai, which allowed puches, kicks, knees elbows and clinching). The problem with strategies that are too dangerous to practice on resisting opponents is that if they exist, they still wouldn't be "useful" because what you haven't practiced in a realistic environment you cannot hope to use with adrenaline flowing when it actually matters. And in effect, they don't tend to be really much more effective than those you can actually practice.
For instance, yeah, I'm pretty sure someone giving me a full power strike to the throat would be effective. But so is a punch to the jaw, and boxers practice punches to the jaw against people constantly, as opposed to the "too deadly to spar" karate master who only does his throat strikes in the air. And defending against both of them is pretty similar, a boxer defending himself from punches to jaw is not leaving his throat an exposed target either.
So tl;dr: In theory yes, but having techniques too deadly for sparring or competition is essentially an unfalsifiable claim, which is extremely convenient for charlatans. And some of these charlatans are very convincing. Some might even believe themselves.
Now that I think about it, I'm starting to get into a new hobby/recreational activity that is skewing pretty pretty old (canoe camping) and the entire thing is a logistics puzzle for old people. You have to balance preparedness and comfort with ease of travel (more gear means more painful portages). It's like life is too simple and you need to find a way to make a challenge out of it.
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