nice!Originally Posted by catherine
I was there in the 70s when North Sea oil was just starting to flow into Scotland. That was a game changer.
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I was there in the 70s when North Sea oil was just starting to flow into Scotland. That was a game changer.
I suspect the problem is that when there are only a handful of positions in your specialty that are available each generation, you have to weigh “principles” vs “a job” :-)
I’m glad she found a solution that works. In an ideal world, she’ll grab one of the positions at Cambridge or Oxford in a few years when one of the elders decides to open up a spot for the “younger” generation. But by then, she may be totally happy where she’s landed.
The other issue is her partner is a UK/Scottish lad, who is currently doing his post-doc/fellowship program at Oxford and in Rome. It is *very* difficult for them to find two academic positions at the same institution.
The stock market has been curiously resilient among all the predictions for recession, inflation due to tariffs, the bond market, and general unrest. Maybe not a sign of the economy, but investor speculation for future performance. I'm a buy and hold person, but even as a speculator, I'd certainly not want to add more equities to things. Maybe there are a lot of Trumpsters that are unfazed by the naysayers.
I have a tradition of watching the evening ABC news, supposedly one of the most watched news programs on TV. A couple of times now there has been a commercial as a scare-mercial on getting immigrants to self-deport. And a couple of times one from a source us taxpayers probably pay for saying how great the Trump economy is doing. It's filled with the usual unsubstantiated figures on how well inflation, the price of gas, and other indicators are doing. I have to say it's pretty strategic marketing. Seems like the dems could learn a lesson there.
"what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver
Nothing like last minute (4pm Chicago time) release of the EO about steel/aluminum duties doing to 50% at midnight eastern time. Having to stay late to get a customs clearance done. Of course there are issues so back and forth with customer in India.
Ugh. I simply cannot imagine the chaos this is causing…
All of these changes have caused chaos.
It seems that the markets are discounting many of Trump’s utterances based on his lack of follow-through. Call it the TACO factor.
Disgusting today to see Nat’l Guard deployed against our own citizens protesting peacefully… authoritarian regime in power. Thought republicans wanted states to have choice over matters. CA does not want guard there. Unwanted federal intervention.
https://apnews.com/article/insurrect...be274a6f266a7a
My thought is this is a precursor to next week when many protests are scheduled.
do you have any sense of irony at all that the article you linked shows in the first picture non-peaceful protest? I know another word for “non-peaceful “is “violent.” Multiple people are kicking and attempting harm to the vehicle. God only knows what they would do to the person inside.
I guess this protest will be like the entirely peaceful protests during George Floyd era when everyone was good, righteous, and peaceful. I guess the burning of buildings in St. Louis and etc. were a weird anomaly. They certainly weren’t reported on widely, St. Louis stuff. I told you all how a building in my will was on the receiving end of attempted fire destruction.
But that did not fit the favored narrative of legacy media.
I agree that it is a precursor, but designed to prevent another summer of "mostly peaceful protests" which destroy and harm communities.
I'm not in favor of federalizing state national guard units unless absolutely necessary but I think that whenever the allegedly peaceful protestors feel free to throw bricks, set fires and make every effort to subvert legal actions by federal agents, someone has to step up and support order and the rule of law. I don't find it disgusting at all to do so, nor does the vast majority of our citizenry in general or the specific citizens of the protest sites.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
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