Housing.

DEFCON runs from 5 (a hangnail) to 1 (you’re already dead). There’s no such thing as DEFCON 12.

Why does the government love to make the most urgent rating the lowest number and the least urgent the highest number? Expanding the list then becomes cumbersome.

For example, I recently took a FEMA-sponsored class on emergency food distribution: i.e., how to set up and run a POD (point of distribution). The largest POD is a Type 1 (feeds 20,000 per day) and the smallest is a Type 3 (feeds 5,000 per day). Now, if you want to expand the number and scope of the POD types, you can't add a 4 without changing the definitions of 1-3.

Wouldn't it have been easier, and more logical, to make the Type 3 the largest? That way, if you need to add a type that, say, feeds 50,000 a day, you simply make it a Type 4. Nope, now you have to re-jigger the types, reprint the training and operations manuals, and promulgate the new type codes instead of just sending out an update notice with the new, larger type.

Government logic frequently isn't.

A new "adversity score" assigned by the College Board on the SAT exam will reportedly reflect students' family income, environment and educational differences in an effort to level the playing field in the highly competitive college admissions process. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that 50 schools used the new indicator as part of a beta test last year and the College Board plans to bring more than 150 schools into the fold this fall.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sat-adversity-score-college-board-will-use-sat-exam-to-give-students-adversity-score-in-bid-to-level-playing-field/

Somebody called the cops over a joke.

https://twitter.com/ahmedcomedy/status/1127917783759691777

Grumpy's dead!!

https://twitter.com/RealGrumpyCat/status/1129310647458467840

Remind me again how terribull capitalism is.

https://twitter.com/countcarbon/status/1126055688180989952

England is no longer free.

https://twitter.com/JamieJBartlett/status/1128657365090361344

For your enjoyment.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/47309/emily-ratajkowski-poses-nude-punish-old-white-men-amanda-prestigiacomo

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1129042825432240128

I hope you've got plenty of corn for popping. Or better yet, remember Steve's Second Law of Holes: When your opponent is in one, get him a bigger and nicer shovel.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/the-coming-democrat-civil-war/

Fire sale or dumpster fire? I link, you decide.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/14/salon-media-in-talks-for-5m-fire-sale-in-last-ditch-effort/

Terribull white supremacist.

https://spectator.us/racist-incidents-down-trump/

Just yesterday I found Microsoft wanting and chose an open-source solution instead.

And now I can say good timing, sir, without interference from the Redmond Office of Woke Censorship.

Just yesterday I found Microsoft wanting and chose an open-source solution instead. ~ Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 17, 2019 3:31 PM

I guess all those White Power manifestos and Klan newsletters will have to be written by hand now.

Priorities

https://twitter.com/AbuYoshi/status/1126305972060708865

Did all the editors die off or something?

" ... have found a way to cryogenically cool hydrogen cells so they can be condensed into a liquid and used as fuel."

You had ONE job. ONE.

Life: it's a beautiful . . . oh, never mind.

You shall EMBRACE TRANSGENDEROIDISM!

More child abuse. #USSA

I R A Darth Aggie at May 17, 2019 12:52 PM:

I'm an old white man, but I support abortion. Will Emily Ratajkowski still punish me, please?

mpetrie, many would say that the alternative is allowing kids to keep doing what they've been doing since the 1950s or so - that is, manipulating parents into buying all the things that are truly bad for the planet - and for the kids' health. We could be talking about kids' drinking Coke for breakfast because they don't like anything more healthful; we could be talking about all sorts of fad plastic items that kids will get tired of in two days; the list is endless.

While I agree with columnist Ellen Goodman, who wrote, in the early 1990s, that: "It isn't that they can't say no. It's that there's so much more to say no to," there IS a remarkable shortage of parents who don't really believe in saying no in the first place.

So I don't blame some people for using kids' manipulation skills for good - when they do. Some have bad intentions, of course. Or bad results.

Jeez. I meant, of course:

there IS a remarkable shortage of parents who really believe in saying no in the first place.