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amyreg
@amyreg
Children's librarian who must know and do everything, even Twitter. Talks too much about Supernatural and COVID.
Katılım Nisan 2009
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"Ohio regulators have blocked yet another major solar project because of local pushback, even though a significant number of public comments opposing the array appear to be fabricated."
Kathiann M. Kowalski@KMKowalski
One township member's flip shouldn't have swung a state siting board to block 94 MW of clean solar power, say critics. Crossroads Solar's case record also had a substantial # of apparently fake opposition comments.🧵 @CanaryMediaInc @EJTodayNews @ejtoday canarymedia.com/articles/solar…
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Today in *everything is political* ....there's a reason Ohio looks insane on this map. Our Republican-controlled Statehouse drained so much $$ from the Local Government Fund that communities started sending police out with ticket quotas to make money
Terrible Maps@TerribleMaps
Places you’re most likely to get a speeding ticket in
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DO NOT PUT YOUR WRITING INTO AN AI CHECKER.
IT DOESN'T WORK AND AND AND INCREASES ODDS WORK IS SCRAPED INTO AI VIA THE DUMBELL "CHECKER"
Isi Breen@isaiah_bb
Hate to think of how many students have suffered and job applications have been ignored because the software that does stuff like this basically doesn’t work.
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Christopher Columbus was so infamously cruel that the Spanish crown paid to send someone to Hispaniola in 1500 to investigate. This resulted in a 48-page report detailing the testimony of two dozen witnesses, and the investigator himself, of how Columbus had mismanaged the colony, cut off ears and noses, tortured colonists that questioned his authority, paraded women naked, and sold natives into slavery. He was arrested, tried, and stripped of his titles.
Some people that witnessed his barbarism, who had initially supported and participated in his colonization efforts, became so disgusted by Columbus's behavior that they also published accounts of his atrocities and began advocating for the rights of Indigenous populations. In particular, a contemporaneous Pope, and many other lesser Catholic figures, condemned Columbus explicitly, viewing his behaviors as grave offenses against G-d.
Matt, you are literally more of a cretin than people that died before 1600 BCE. I wouldn't call you a conservative, I would call you a barbarian.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
Christopher Columbus is the ultimate IQ test. You immediately know that someone is a retarded halfwit if they start screeching some nonsense about how Columbus was a genocidal maniac or whatever. Intelligent students of history understand that he is one of the great men of western civilization. This is an awesome move by the White House.
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Sponsoring a spouse costs US citizens up to $2,675 in fees alone, $675 to petition, $1,440 to adjust status, $560 for a work permit. The government is cashing those checks and then doing nothing. That's fraud not delay.
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not an unscuffed pair of knees in the whole joint.
Acyn@Acyn
Miller: What President Trump is doing is a national miracle that will be studied not only for generations but for centuries to come. Trump: Kash, see if you can top that. Patel: Mr. President, thank you for delivering the safest country on God's green Earth
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The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.
Both pilots are dead.
Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.
A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.
The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.
The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.
Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.
Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.
The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.
The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.
The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”
One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.
BNO News@BNONews
WATCH: New video shows Air Canada flight crashing into rescue truck at New York airport
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Let me explain what just happened 👇
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.
5 minutes…
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.
This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.
You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.
Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.
The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.
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Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart.
Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel.
A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states.
A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely.
Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help.
The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives.
A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently.
In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.
shree🪄@Goldensky0
reading books on a phone and reading paperback books are two different things
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The United States has just bombed Iran power plants, leaving hospitals and homes without electricity for millions of people. Thinking about dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others.
People will die. Innocent children will die. This is a crime against humanity.
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Ohio has a population of 11.88 million. 2500 temp jobs and 300-400 permanent isn't a material benefit to Ohioans.
This is a federal power grab to benefit the billionaire class orchestrated by the most corrupt administration in US history.
This needs to be loudly opposed!
Karen Kasler@karenkasler
Feds to announce huge natural gas plant, data center project in southern Ohio - my colleague @SarahEDon has details statenews.org/government-pol…
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This is the worst type of messaging, and further undermines trust in public health
🔸️Meningococcal meningitis absolutely spreads through respiratory droplets
🔸️Masks significantly limit transmission, especially via source control. I'd be wearing one if I were at Kent. 10% CFR
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Jeremy Pelzer@jpelzer
This proposed Ohio data center/gas power plant is on a scale that's hard to conceive: -Total spending >$1 TRILLION -Pike County would get more AI power than all current AI systems combined -The gas plant could power half of Ohio But will it become reality?cleveland.com/news/2026/03/m…
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Seems bad!
Jeremy Pelzer@jpelzer
This proposed Ohio data center/gas power plant is on a scale that's hard to conceive: -Total spending >$1 TRILLION -Pike County would get more AI power than all current AI systems combined -The gas plant could power half of Ohio But will it become reality?cleveland.com/news/2026/03/m…
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Lifeboats To Be Removed From Cruise Ships Because They Remind People Of Titanic Sinking
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This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame.
Ben Wieder@benbwieder
Rodríguez had never set foot in Mexico and had never heard of this city ... The deportees wandered in the dark until they found a park, where Rodríguez spent the first of what would be many nights curled up on the ground, trying to sleep via @katelinthicum latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.
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Planned Parenthood Ohio's @DanielleFirsich calls out Ohio State Rep. Josh Williams (R) for pushing a drag and anti-trans bill in order to "protect children" while allowing Rep. Rodney Creech (R), who is accused of gross sexual misconduct with a minor relative, to sponsor it.
"I also don't want to be lectured about when it comes to what is obscene or not to children. You have a man who has just put back on his committees, who was accused of sexual misconduct with a minor, who is a sponsor on this bill. You all let him have his committee privileges back."
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