Greggory Stevens

I was at a graduation for one of my family members at UM last year. A couple of students receiving their diploma waived Palestinian flags, bunch of them wearing keffiyehs, one student held the fist up the whole time. I can’t imagine being a Jew on an American campus right now. I wouldn’t feel slightly safe. Bunch of poorly educated, spoiled kids playing at revolutionary.

“The humanities are a waste of time!” “Wait, why can’t kids read, understand any kind of media, or explain the historical context of anything?”

I’ve got to give some praise to @Marriott. My 20 year old is traveling and would either be on the road till 5am or need to find a hotel tonight. Most American hotels require you be 21 to check in. There are some that allow 20 year olds, but in the area she’s in those were not great options for a single 20 year old female. The Courtyard by Marriott near where she’ll be driving was the only hotel that was willing to make an exception for her.

Most people who don’t work in schools can’t fully understand why teachers sometimes restrict bathroom use. From the outside, it gets framed as a “bathroom rights” issue, as if teachers are simply being unreasonable or dismissive of students’ needs. Here’s the reality: There are schools where students can use the bathroom freely with no problems. And there are schools where, if you allow unrestricted access, mayhem ensues. -Students leave for 40-minute stretches. -Student wander into other classrooms and throw water balloons. -Students vape. -Students meet each other and box in the bathroom (with gloves). -Students scream through the halls as they run past rooms. -I can go on with another 2,000 issues. What looks like a simple policy decision (from an adult's perspective) is actually quite complicated. Once again, if you are not working in a school--you probably don't get it, bruh.

It’s worse than “everyone just gave up on rules and decorum.” The adults gave up all their authority.

.@GovWhitmer tells graduating MSU students two major events happened during her freshman year here: the Berlin Wall fell, and the first couches burned at Cedar Village. "I may or may not have been at one of those events," Whitmer says. "Let's just say I didn't have a passport."

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

1) my fist varsity start came as a freshman because there were a bunch of juniors at prom. I had a hit and was on varsity ever since. 2) my graduation was on the same day as the senior all star game and beehive field against the best players in the state. I walked across the stage and left straight for the game. I’ve come to the conclusion it’s just a different generation now I guess but choosing a social activity over an athletic event (if you’re claiming to be serious about it) is pretty non serious unfortunately.

“like trying to measure atoms with a ruler” - Ryan Denton This is the best analogy I have heard for taking 4x100 splits.

NCAA Track and Field rules create some hilarious situations. I just watched some incredibly talented distance runners from UNM get PRs… in the Shot Put. Nothing could’ve prepared me for watching a couple sub-13:30 5K guys compete in the Shot Put 🤣.

My dad is 75 and lives in Iowa. He got the MLB Extra Innings package to watch the Tigers again this year - something he plans his whole day around. Tonight, Detroit (664 miles from his house) hosted Milwaukee (360 miles from his house). Couldn't watch. Blacked out. (1/2)

If you want to know why LAUSD is rolling back ed tech, it's because of a group of parents who started speaking out about what they saw happening with their kids I was the first to report on it back in December --> nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

Amazing: LA schools will eliminate personal devices in K and 1st grade, and limit use in grades 2-5, and give parents more options. I think this will catch on nationally:

Track teams need to stop giving their A and B relay the same seed times and meets need to at least give the team the options to use different seed times for said relays

We actually have some very close friends at the College Board and apparently the executive team is in full panic mode that this video is spreading on the Internet. Sorry, not sorry.

I would love to be Greg Kampe man Community icon, ice cold seat with no where near as much pressure as the high major guys, and still making a cool $350k a year Lifelong mid major guy: underrated

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

In the Bible, the Church is a gathering of believers led by pastors, learning the scriptures, practicing communion & baptism, holding each other accountable, making disciples, etc. Simply hanging out with friends at a park or ballgame & calling that “your church” isn’t Biblical.

Sasse: "At a policy level, I’m very conservative. At a dispositional and tonal level, I’m a moderate because I believe that American civics and the glories of being able to inherit a constitutional doctrine of anti-majoritarianism and restraints and a belief in pluralism — that stuff is so glorious"

“I had to get fitted for my prom tux” “I have to miss the next 3 Wednesdays to finish my community service hours” “I have Honors Society induction and need to leave early” IYKTYK