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Well, FWIW for a little while, unions for rideshare workers and minimum wage for tipped workers pass as didProps 7 and 8. (Prop. 6, about the new fire station did not pass. 7 and 8 were school funding.)Comments
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Ukraine, Palestine, and Lebanon are also fucked now.Comments
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Ah, fuck.Comments
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OK, that was a good workout. There was another green belt that had just come back from a fifteen-year break!Comments
The only problem with the people at tonight’s class was that most of the dudes are 20-40 lbs. bigger than me. Besides the randori challenge, it made bridging my partner off of me really hard, and I pulled some weird rib muscle that I didn’t even know existed (the inner intercostal rib muscle, apparently). It was so foreign that I thought I broke a rib for a second? But it was OK, if sensitive, later.
Then in uchikomi (where you do the hauling up part of the throw, but not the dropping part) and nagekomi (where you repeatedly throw each other), I eventually strained my groin (the adductor longish, maybe?) holding up a big dude on one leg doing harai goshi and had to bail on those a little before the end, too.
I did get a couple rounds of randori in without incident.
Well, mostly. I went with a tall white belt that was really hard to move, so I ended up throwing him with kouchi makikomi and tani otoshi, then was reminded they said not to do that to white belts. In my “WTF can I do against this guy” state, I forgot.
I made myself do another round even though completely gassed so I hope to do two rounds next time. I went with a green belt that wasn’t as large and actually got a counter osotogari in, and he threw me with a drop seoinage that was slow, yet I couldn’t stop it. That round felt better because I didn’t have to try to work around a stiff arm.
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I feel myself getting depressed in advance. Time to head to judo!Comments
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Bomb threats linked to Russia briefly close polling stations in GeorgiaComments
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Firearms were the *leading* cause of death for US children in 2020, passing motor vehicle crashes. Obviously, that's fucking nuts.Comments
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If you want something absorbing to read (though also disturbing), check out elan.school, a biographical webcomic about a kid whose parents sent him to a “troubled teens” school that was a cult/prison.Comments
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On Monday and a day before Election Day, tech workers for the New York Times went on strike seeking to secure a contract with fairer pay and just cause job protections. In response Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of AI search engine Perplexity, tweeted that the chairman of the New York Times company AG Sulzberger should contact him for assistance during the strike.Comments
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I heard an owl several times yesterday, but never started recording it in time. I probably wouldn’t have done it justice, though. An owl in the woods sounds like it’s coming from several places at once and has a surprisingly deep sound.Comments
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Soren Johnson on the election.Comments
Consider that over the last 36 years, Republican presidential candidates have only ONCE won the popular vote, and that was DURING A WAR. If presidents were elected democratically, the GOP would be forced to adopt more popular policies, or they would cease to exist as as a viable national party. As a game designer, I am well aware that water finds a crack; the Republican party is taking a rational approach to how our system works. The answer is not to hope that the GOP magically starts to care about what the American people want; the answer is to change the system, which may sound hopeless, but there are always little changes that could make a difference. Ranked-choice voting, for example, is at least a stab at avoiding ideologically extreme choices.
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Furthermore, as William Goldman said, “Nobody knows anything.” Biden’s withdrawal from the race in favor of Harris is the obviously correct move in retrospect, but what political scientist possibly could have predicted this sudden 16-point favorability swing immediately after she became the nominee, which was also a much smoother process than anyone could have predicted. -
I hoped to get some project work done and/or some wall liner up this weekend. Going to math circle, seeing the marching band, making dinner, running through the guy’s judo strategy, going to the rally, canvassing, then going to the bog took up the entirety of the day times. The guy was saying to me that very few events happened. In some sense, it is a low number. But 3-4 events turns out to be an entire day.Comments
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I figured out how to do the bridge and torch problem in a few minutes, then told the guy about it. Then, he had trouble getting it, and I forgot how to do it.Comments
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