StringTheory

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Gov. Abbott is now putting barriers along Texas border with New Mexico ( news.yahoo.com )

Isn’t this against the US constitution? Razor wire along the state border and checkpoints on roads that cross the state border are kind of nuts. I read a comment joking that the wire and road checkpoints were to keep Texan women from escaping to New Mexico, which got a bitter laugh out of me.

‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars ( www.theguardian.com )

In the environs of Phoenix, Arizona, on a 17-acre site that once contained a car body shop and some largely derelict buildings, an unusual experiment has emerged that invites Americans to live in a way that is rare outside of fleeting experiences of college, Disneyland or trips to Europe: a walkable, human-scale community devoid...

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300+ days a year of sunshine, all they need to do next is pop some solar panels up on those roofs!

You can rent a furnished studio short-term for 2 days minimum at $99/day, and you get the same transportation benefits as residents do during your stay. Honestly, I’m considering this for a vacation during the winter. This walkable community idea is fascinating to me and I want to check it out. culdesac.com

Bodycam video shows Ohio police fatally shooting pregnant black woman ( www.bbc.com )

Less than one minute. The police weren’t even called there for her, they were in the parking lot for an “unrelated call.” And why was an officer standing in front of her car leaning on the hood holding a gun in her face in the first place? There are so many things wrong with this.

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In a video statement a day after the shooting, Belford said two officers were helping someone get into a locked car when a supermarket employee told them several people were leaving with stolen items. pbs.org/…/police-fatally-shooting-a-pregnant-blac…

I have a hard time seeing a 7-months pregnant woman being part of a gang of thieves and running from a store with her arms full of bottles of alcohol.

And if she was part of the gang, you record her license plate and get the security camera pictures and call her in. What the hell are cops being taught?

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“Give people someone to hate, and they will follow you anywhere.”

(I don’t remember who said it, but it has proved true over and over again throughout history.)

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I have a friend with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. She’s a woman, has always been a woman, is married to a man, and has two adopted kids (AIS means she’s sterile). She has XY chromosomes.

Is someone going to walk up to her and say, “Sorry, ma’am, you’re male now”?

Her gender assigned at birth was female. She was raised as a girl, always identified as a girl, and had no idea anything was different until she started having health problems at puberty.

1 in 5 women report mistreatment from medical staff during pregnancy ( www.npr.org )

This is disheartening, on so many levels. The 1-in-5 is bad enough, but then the breakdown of race and financial status is shameful. The US needs universal healthcare, and also lowered student loan rates so more doctors can afford to go to med school. The US needs more doctors.

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Texas officials confirmed the bus was headed to Chicago as part of its “border bus mission.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is one of several Republican governors in southern states who have authorized the bussing of thousands of migrants to Democratic-run cities since early 2022 as part of an ongoing political battle over immigration policies. Critics have accused GOP leaders of using migrants as political pawns.

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“State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said of the practice in June.

Texas sure made a point with their stunt.

Not too sure it’s the one they wanted to make.

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Meanwhile, hundreds of immigrants a day are moved to reception centers all across the country.

You know what? They don’t need expensive charter busses paid for with state taxes - their travel is paid by federal taxes. And they don’t need expensive private security to force people to stay aboard at gunpoint. They aren’t lied to, and they know where they are going. And they aren’t dropped on a sidewalk unannounced - they go to a reception center that has resources for them and knows they are arriving, and they are documented every step of the way. They don’t miss their immigration appointments because their appointments are scheduled near the reception center they move to.

Abbot is spending huge amounts of his state’s money to do a terrible and illegal job of duplicating a TINY portion of what the federal government is doing efficiently every day.

Also, immigration is at the lowest it’s been in 20 years. All this crap Texas is pulling is utterly pointless. We need new people who are eager to work - we don’t need to make child labor legal again. …ucdavis.edu/20-years-declining-immigration-and-d…

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Bliss said extensive investigations by both the AATB and the FDA did not turn up anything wrong in Aziyo’s processing of the bone in 2021. She declined to comment on why a single company, of the many in the United States that process tissue, is involved in both tuberculosis outbreaks.

I would think they are not being precisely honest about where they are getting the cadavers from which they harvest bone material.

OPINION: Why US homeschooling surge should concern us all ( www.opendemocracy.net )

Blattert, a chemical engineer, was jailed for over 11 years for strangling one of his children and beating her severely with glue sticks, a belt, and his hands – open palms and fists according to the testimony of his brave daughter. Her use of a mobile phone to capture part of the incident is likely the only reason the...

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glorified babysitter centers

Or preemptive incarceration, like the Texas schools that fired their librarians and turned their school libraries into “behavior” centers.

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“Abbott’s buoys are like a trap set for migrants,” she said. “This is a terrorizing situation. You don’t stop migration by setting death traps….You treat humans like human beings, not like animals.”

Swim up to the buoys, decide not to risk it and instead swim back to shore, but now your legs are entangled in the razor wire (oh, excuse me “sharp metal strips” according to the article) you didn’t see under the water.

Imagine the nightmare of trying to dive under the buoys and getting your head and arms entangled in the razor wire.

What a horrible and cruel way to die. It’s like something a Guantanamo Bay torturer would come up with as a “deterrent.”

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Children don’t need librarians and books! They need in-school detention centers!

governorsfoundation.org/…/early-literacy-connecti…

2/3 of kids who aren’t reading at grade level by 4th grade end up in prison or on welfare. Why would Texas want to reduce literacy in their schools?

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2/3 of kids who aren’t reading proficiently by 4th grade end up in prison or on welfare.

Why give them books and librarians and reading specialists to bring them up to speed? Just gettin’ the lil’ buggers accustomed to their future conditions, dontchaknow!

governorsfoundation.org/…/early-literacy-connecti…

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With voyeuristic intentions?

Well secluded… they see all!

(great, now that song will be stuck in my head all day)

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That is pretty darn awesome.

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Children and teens in foster care across California will be able to attend state and community colleges free of charge under legislation signed into law this week.

Through the new Fostering Futures program, the state will allocate $25 million to cover tuition for foster youth attending a California State University, University of California or a community college, according to state Sen. Angelique Ashby’s office.

Yes, in California.

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What do you mean?

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First everyone bitches about how EVs don’t pay gas taxes to help cover road costs (which are mostly covered by other taxes anyway). Then they bitch when a more equitable tax option is suggested.

Just can’t win, eh?

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“I’m free! I’m free! Can’t get me now, suckaaaas! I’m so smart!”

<crosses DMZ>

“Ohhhhhh… shhhiiiiiiiiii….”

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TB is gawd awful. Follow the rules and take your meds; don’t breed superbugs or become a superspreader.

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“How dare my neighbor make six-figures from his land when I struggle to make ends meet!”

I don’t see any explanation in this article of why people oppose a farmer putting solar panels on his land. How can it possibly harm their land to have solar panels within 1/2 mile of their property line?

Is this just pure contrarianism?

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It’s the ol’ “Divide and Conquer.” Make the peons squabble amongst themselves so they are too distracted to band together against the 1%.

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So Texans are paying state taxes that are used to ship immigrants a couple thousand miles, and paying federal taxes which are already being used to ship immigrants to welcome centers (more efficiently) all across the country every day.

I would think they’d want their Texas state tax money to go toward solving some of Texas’ problems, like their abysmal maternal death rate or their ludicrously fragile electrical grid.

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