Mark Taylor

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

In the 01940s, the Reber Plan proposed damming San Francisco Bay to turn it into two vast freshwater lakes. The Army Corps of Engineers built the Bay Model in 01956 to test the effects of the proposal. Before computer modeling, there was only one way to simulate a hydrological system as enormous and complex as the Bay Area: build it. 

The Long Now team recently visited the model, which remained an active research tool until 02000, and got to experience the “miniature” up close (it’s 1.5 acres!). It is housed in a cavernous warehouse on the Sausalito waterfront, and its tides still run on a compressed clock, with a full “day” passing every 15 minutes.

The Reber Plan was ultimately abandoned after the model showed it would completely devastate the ecosystems and estuaries. The Bay Model is a remarkable artifact from an era of slide rules and analog science. A reminder of what it looks like to test our largest decisions with patience before committing future generations to the consequences.

Learn more about this Bay Area hidden gem: https://t.co/gqUL0TkCYh
Amazing photos thanks to Cayla Sharp

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Thread with excerpts from Gail Heriot's "Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal". The argument is very simple: everything has disparate impact; therefore disparate impact doctrine gives the EEOC effectively unlimited arbitrary power.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

The only court case on the question also agreed disparate impact does not apply to white men, as did Congress when drafting the 1991 CRA.

[Aleksander Ætelmann @ArchitectOracle]

Real

[MKUltra Victim 🎃 @MKUL7R4V1C71M]

I don’t think I could make a funnier ending to this movie if I tried

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

This girl's family are in the Brazilian 1% and sent her to America and she ended up like this.

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Black student enrollment at Harvard has fallen nearly 50% since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in 2023, dropping from 18% to just 9.3% of incoming freshmen.

[Pericles @PerryALPHA]

"Cruise now, pay over time" was an AIDS prevention slogan in the 80s

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Combination of extreme neurosis and unreciprocated racial paranoia. Hmm.

[Pirri🧀 @pirruraglez]

Hitler

[Mark Taylor @Mark___Taylor]

@Black_Pilled Its going to be hard to have a white nationalism without whites.

[Gator Gang @WogStalker]

@KarlRadl @RealBlackIrish In the same era Dickens wrote the character of Mrs Jellyby, who left her own children to wander around the house unattended while she focused on “the African project.”

[Mr. Reply Guy @GenericSnarky]

If everything I want leads to Nazi Germany, then is Nazi Germany what I want?

[Department Of Deportations @DoDeportations]

There are over 10,000 doctors with fake degrees in America and the American Medical Association is defending them.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

UPDATE: There’s no clean national census of nurses and doctors using fake degrees, but we have spent two months investigating this, and the documented cases cluster into two very different magnitudes.

Nurses: roughly 7,600 fraudulent diplomas and transcripts, with about 2,274 people confirmed to have used them to sit and pass the NCLEX, then get licensed and hired. That’s a rock-solid number.

Physicians: upwards of 10,000 people in hospitals and private practice hold fraudulent foreign medical degrees.

[Mark Taylor @Mark___Taylor]

@Loganvl96 @autocorrect2_0 @diegrueneKatze Do Jews have the son? So then they don’t have God. Their God isn’t the one in the Bible. That’s comes from the Bible.

[Dr.Bryte @thedrbryte]

Dave Foley was ordered to pay his ex-wife $17,700 a month in child support. That was five times what he actually earned.

If he set foot in Canada, he would be arrested at the border.

When he asked the judge how he’d feed his daughter from his second marriage, he says the court’s answer was simple: “They can rot in hell.”

In 1997, Foley was starring on NBC’s NewsRadio and making about $1 million a year. That year, he separated from his first wife, Tabatha Southey.

An Ontario judge set his payments at $17,700 a month, or $212,400 a year after taxes, based on his sitcom salary.

Two years later, NBC canceled the show. His income dropped by nearly 80%.

He went back to court to lower the payments. The judge said no. The court ruled he had made $1 million once, so he should keep paying like he still did.

His ex-wife lived in a $2.5 million house on a park in Toronto. Foley rented a small loft in downtown LA.

By 2011, he owed more than $500,000 in back payments. Ontario threatened to pull his passport and issued a warrant for his arrest if he came home.

In the video below, Foley explains the math: “I’m paying about five times my income every month in child support, based on a show that hasn’t been on for 12 years.”

He couldn’t work in Canada again until he landed a new sitcom in 2014 and had his paychecks garnished at the source.

The case for the court: a parent shouldn’t get to slash support just because their career slows down.
The case for Dave: locking a canceled actor into 1990s sitcom money under threat of prison is extortion.
Should child support be tied to what you earn today, or the best year you ever had?

[⛄️ F r o g m a x x e r ⛄️ @anurarespecter]

The main concern for a local Church should be doing outreach directly in its community, not spending $30k to send 20 members to some other continent

[Yuengling Groyper @michigangroypa]

Meet Isa Casahuga.

I wonder what your mother would think about your disgusting mockery of a young man’s assassination?