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Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 03, 2024, 09:52:50 AMT1 work today, although I should probably start filling out the forms and stuff for T2, which should be back from the referee soon. Suppose I should sort out my one image permission, too (not hard, it's from the NPG).

Did a chunk of T1, completed my forms for T2 (including cover and image selections, and my permissions).

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day (and Star Wars Day).

https://www.freecomicbookday.com/

Quote from: dismalist on May 03, 2024, 03:39:15 PM"I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours."
--Lewis Carroll

I'm not so sure 'reality' is the right word, if that's what you think is going on.

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 03, 2024, 03:37:06 PM

Quote from: dismalist on May 03, 2024, 03:35:51 PMHamas is not Gandhi.

Who said they were? These aren't pro-Hamas protests, and I wasn't talking about Hamas's attack on Israel.

"I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours."
--Lewis Carroll

Quote from: dismalist on May 03, 2024, 03:35:51 PMHamas is not Gandhi.

Who said they were? These aren't pro-Hamas protests, and I wasn't talking about Hamas's attack on Israel.

Hamas is not Gandhi.

It may be worth reminding people that even the Civil Rights protests, protests which we widely acknowledge as good and non-violent, and models of good protests, were very unpopular. In 1961, only 27% of people thought sit-ins, freedom buses, etc. helped the Civil Rights cause. in 1968, fully 75% of whites disapproved of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Protests are disruptive, and that doesn't win them many friends. But that doesn't make them wrong, or less important.

I just found out one of the students in one of my classes recently turned 15 yrs old. So she was only 14 when she entered college.  She's quite smart and very cute and I hope she does not just wind up as jail bait for a senior football player or frat bro.

Sorry to hear that Artem U's leadership is continuing to put off tough decisions.  That will only make for tougher ones later.

As I said on another thread, I'm proposing to our Board of Trustees this coming week that we reduce service hours slightly, to recognize that we've reduced staff hours by letting a semi-retired staff member drop from full-time to part-time.  The savings will only amount to 2% of the budget, but it's a start on right-sizing our budget--and on what may end up being a greater long-term reduction in staff.  Doing some less painful things to save money now when we still have money in the bank will be better than using up all our reserves and then suddenly being forced into desperate measures.

Quote from: marshwiggle on May 03, 2024, 06:38:24 AMI would imagine at any sort of protest, from any part of the political spectrum, many (if not most) of the most violent agitators have little or no connection to the cause, but just want to steal and destroy.

What you describe above is clearly wrong, but just as clearly unlike what is actually happening in these protests.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/03/college-campus-protests-israel-gaza-student-journalists-00155672