LaceyLou

I would hope they'd put back the footage of the women WWII pilots also. I they don't, that says a lot.

It's worth noting that a big part of the lack of affordable is that in many areas, not enough is being built. Unfortunately zoning laws and NIMBYism has made this problem worse. If I didn't own my condo, I wouldn't be able to afford one in my neighborhood today-lowering the interest rate to 3.5% from 7% is never going to make a 1.4 million condo fit into my budget. I'm starting to see more people open to new housing, and multi-family housing in particular, but we have a long way to go.

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll look for it.

Well, we can't have African Americans and/or women aware of any of the contributions they've made to this country, now can we? In recent years, I finally learned about the AA women who worked with (and played a big role) in NASA, and women who made contributions in the field of astronomy. I think there's a small but loud group of people who don't want certain people to have role models.

My guess is he's hoping for another housing crisis so that when people lose their homes his rich buddies can swoop in and buy them all up.

Let's not forget the pause on anything coming out of the NIH, CDC, and FDA...

That's when it began, yes. I'd blocked it out, but I seem to remember him claiming that they cause cancer.

Exactly. This is one reason why noted right winger Ted Kennedy opposed windmills that were going to be too close to the Kennedy Compound in Cape Cod.....

I'm so glad that we have somebody to tell us what we like and don't like... I actually thought I liked those things!

Plus if they aren't tracked, then diseases don't exist.

My guess is that most people don't realize how many jobs are supported by NIH funding-not just researchers but their technicians, admin staff-even doctors and nurses when the organization is a healthcare provider as well as a research institute.

My guess is that funding will come with more conditions... certain types of research will be banned if it doesn't fit the current regime's agenda in some way. We've already seen scopes of research become narrower since about the mid 90s (must study acute forms of disease, etc) but we might see (I hope I'm wrong) certain types of study banned or given strict limits on what they can or can't do. If I were another country's government, I'd be looking to take advantage of this-by recruiting talented scientists and their studies/discoveries that might otherwise have worked in the US.

"All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others."

Same.

He doesn't believe in it anyway, so not a surprise if true.

Truth often hurts.

One quote I heard recently that will stick with me (credited both to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr but the quote is still good) is that, upon hearing that somebody else was making considerably more: "I have something he doesn't have-I have enough." It's a paraphrase, actually but you get the drift. People like Drumpf, Elon, et al will never be satisfied with what they have, and most likely can never truly enjoy it.

Debating is definitely a skill that's hard to find... especially the ability to debate calmly. It's far more common for 'debaters' to try to 'win' by shouting each other down. It's a shame because I really do love a good debate.

Working with customers is often not fun, especially the general public.

This makes me think of a cartoon I saw many years ago when a man is complaining about how stressful his job is, and the reason he gives for being unhappy is "All day long I have to be NICE to people!"

Definitely.

I know a fair number of liberals who own guns already... and they're excellent shots.

Some of the transit accounts I follow/ed on twitter have joined Bluesky, and a few metro transit systems have stopped posting updates on twitter. My hope is that they all make the move completely to Bluesky at some point-I see MBTA alerts on Bluesky but not general posts as of now.

I try not to feed them... I still get caught into it sometimes though.

Gotta love how things like smoke detectors tend to fail in the middle of the night-and naturally on a weekend and naturally when my electrician boyfriend is out of town. Luckily I have another one so I just disabled it until I can get somebody to look at it. I have a bad feeling that it keeps getting dusty.