I suspect the 'affirmative action' trend also reflects the difference in ambition/drive between the low-income high achievers and the >70% high achievers. The low income group is smaller than the >70% group (look at the size of the 'above average odds' regios and the 'below average odds' regions). This is because most of the people in the low income group will never even apply for a private college -- only the strongest applicants apply. But from the >70% group, basically every kid applies to college, and they are much more comfortable applying for 'reach' colleges (even if it costs their parents a few hundred extra dollars). They've also gamed their test scores.
Rich folk are also good at gaming all the other criteria (varsity sports, extracurricular achievements). "opportunity hoarding" I think is the term that's been used, or resume padding. It's also about being able to pay full tuition.
It's apparently based on this painting (with apollo at the table, and bachus in the foreground) https://musee-magnin.fr/en/node/19
But more importantly, even if it were based on the Last Supper, I don't think this performance would necessarily be mocking Christianity.
cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3357080
> Fixed that for you
cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3356775
> Dionysus wants you to know...
Atlanta is currently suffering from a major water main break that has put half the city under a boil-water advisory. The city government is reportedly bringing in pallets of bottled water, so there hopefully will not be any real crisis here. But I expect this will be a wake-up call for a lot of people who have not given much thought to prepping.
There are also major droughts in Mexico City and Bogota, threatening to dry out their taps.
Do you all have any tips for folk with how to prep for loss of water service, especially for folk in cities where they may not have a ton of storage space or land for collecting water?
I'll start off by referring to the US FEMA guidelines: One gallon of water per person per day. In my experience the best format is those upright 1-gallon bottles with the opening in the top middle (not the milk-jug style with the handle).
Privacy Badger has recently started blocking Twitter embedding for me (in the past few days). Does anyone know specifically what Twitter is doing to prompt this? For instance, see this thread on the Ukraine war on Daily Kos, which includes a lot of embedded Twitter posts https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/9/2204752/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-625-RU-may-experience-redeployment-issues
I understand the big picture for how mastodon works, but I am constantly running into edge cases where I don't know what to expect. Has anyone made a decision tree diagram (or flow chart) to show how Mastodon decides whether to show me someone's post, and where to show it?
A complete decision tree would cover at least the following settings:
- Post settings: Public; unlisted; etc.
- Individual connections: Individual follow, mute, block, etc.
- Boosts and replies
- Instance-level moderation (same server, suspended, silenced)
- timelines (home, local, federated), hashtag search, thread-view
DecaturNature @yall.theatl.social This is a sentence. There are many like it, but this one is mine.