A few months after Emily Applegate started working for the Washington Redskins in 2014, she settled into a daily routine: She would meet a female co-worker in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, she said, to commiserate and cry about the frequent sexual harassment and verbal abuse they endured.
They cried about the former chief operating officer’s expletive-laced tirades, Applegate said, when she recalled him calling her “f-----g stupid” and then requesting she wear a tight dress for a meeting with clients, “so the men in the room have something to look at.” They cried about a wealthy suiteholder who grabbed her friend’s backside during a game, Applegate said, and the indifference the team’s top sales executive displayed when she complained.
"When Paul Kay, then an anthropology graduate student at Harvard University, arrived in Tahiti in 1959 to study island life, he expected to have a hard time learning the local words for colors. His field had long espoused a theory called linguistic relativity, which held that language shapes perception. Color was the “parade example,” Kay says. His professors and textbooks taught that people could only recognize a color as categorically distinct from others if they had a word for it. If you knew only three color words, a rainbow would have only three stripes. Blue wouldn’t stand out as blue if you couldn’t name it.
What’s more, according to the relativist view, color categories were arbitrary. The spectrum of color has no intrinsic organization. Scientists had no reason to suspect that cultures divvied it up in similar ways. To an English speaker like Kay, the category “red” might include shades ranging from deep wine to light ruby. But to Tahitians, maybe “red” also included shades that Kay would call “orange” or “purple.” Or maybe Tahitians chunked colors not by a combination of hue, lightness and saturation, as Americans do, but by material qualities, like texture or sheen. "
I found this, as someone who devoted my career to a precise understanding of color, absolutely fascinating.
Yeah, color is weird. Thinking about it as a physicist, while each color may correspond to a specific frequency, the way they are observed by the human eyes depends on (more or less) the overlay of three different spectra - each is the perception of a color intensity that span a range of frequencies.
Now that I have typed this out, I am not so sure if this makes that much sense to anyone else.
color perception is very different from single wavelength color. not only the blending of the different spectra that your eye sees, but also the texture/reflectiveness/etc make a difference also.
I forgot that they called him that. I hope he can hook up with the Rams or some team that can use his talent, not riding the pine for the Jets or the Houston Texans.
Interesting that UM is the only D1 school in Minnesota. I guess I would've thought there was more than 1 but then realized that it's probably the only school large enough to be a possible D1 school.
a friend from HS whose daughter got into Duke says that she has decided to take a gap year since their impression is that colleges are not well prepared enough to deal w/ coronavirus
I suppose it depends on the school. Lady friend's daughter was all set to go to Davis and once she came off the wait list at UCSD, she opted to go there and subsequently applied for a gap year. UCSD told her they will hold her spot but she needs to reapply.
I think most of the private schools, whether they're doing it on purpose or not, are getting the students on campus so they can force them to pay tuition without any refunds, and then they'll send them home after a few weeks. Vandy has already stated that tuition and other fees are not refundable if they send students home for remote study but housing and dining costs will be prorated.
I think they know if from the beginning that if they say all classes are remote from the start, that students will opt out for a year or two. Which at places like Vandy will cause a problem because most students are on campus all 4 years. As students take a year off then they'll have to house the usual 4 years of students + the ones that opt out.
crossed the northern border three days ago to see my wife for the first time since march. we have a 14 day quarantine period, and then we can do the things. but we are painting our house, and it will take all of the 4 weeks this year plus probably another 4 weeks next year. yes, we have Cal colors on the house, but it wasn't even by design. she just did it. amazing.
also this is what a functioning society looks like. we are located on a corner in a little rural town. across one corner is the grocery store, and across the other is the local food joint. everyone wears masks and follows the current rules, not because following rules is good, but because it is simply what reasonable humans do to protect their families and even complete strangers during these trying times. i look forward to leaving that shithole dumpstre fire of a country known as amerikkka behind for good in a few years.
How spoiled and entitled are you? Is life that hard living in the most diverse, most inclusive, richest, freest, fairest and most tolerant country in the history of civilization? Are we perfect? No. I agree Canada's a cool place. But sorry, nothing even comes CLOSE to this country, warts and all.
" i look forward to leaving that shithole dumpstre fire of a country known as amerikkka behind for good in a few years."
As do I, and the total of my circle of family, friends, and acquaintances. Anything we can do to speed that process up? Maybe build you a decent university in your country?
The ol' "iF yOu DoN't LiKe It HeRe ThEn LeAve." Haha, ok dude. It's not that simple, and everyone knows it.
I was born in the midwest, live in the west, and my folks are in their 80s and just a few miles from Berkeley. I am working on getting the fuck out, and I have a plan. I intend to move to Canada within a few years, but because the Soros One World government has yet to be implemented, I must abide by current laws to get there. A process.
But on to the dumpster fire that is amerikkka. It's been decades in the making, and one has to do some rather creative thinking to spin it any other way. The current administration is only a symptom. For a few decades the world has kind of been looking at us out of the corner of their eyes and wondering what the hell is wrong with us. Now we are all being exposed for what we are; uneducated, unhealthy, misguided, bigoted, bible-banging idiots riding the coat tails of our ancestors from 70 years ago. (Idiot really is the correct word too, check it out.) amerikkkan exceptionalism is the idea that big gubbermint is bad but a massive, outdated military is good, science is cancelled and god is great, pick yourself up by your bootstraps that were made in a foreign country and are intentionally perforated at the heel so they tear right off, and my favorite one that regulations are bad for us, and yet we need law and order. Now imagine thinking we can vote our way out of this with our failed governmental system and a two party system. Hahahaha.
Of course Canada is not perfect. For starters it's waaay to close to amerikkka.
Thanks. I now understand you better. european/canadian socialism is absolutely necessary for the terminally offended and those incapable of accepting life on it's own terms. I had the privilege of being taught; "Whatever life throws at you give back more". Too difficult for the snowflakes in the world.
My older daughter used to get trumpet lessons from older kids and one of her former teachers went to McGill. Nice looking part of Montreal if nothing else.
only essential travel. my wife is a Canadian citizen and is up here as the power of attorney and caretaker of her 92 year old grandmother. that is my ticket. the border is otherwise quiet save for transport trucks. unfortunately we will be heading back south in august. hopefully i can hold my breath and not touch anything for 10 months.
while it is still a ways away, i am supposed to pay a deposit in Aug for some ski trip in the Canadian Rockies next Mar. i suppose it is anyone's guess as to what travel will look like 6 months from now
you can read all of the projections as well as i can. it's gonna be a mess for a while. we cant kinda sorta manage a pandemic. lunatical fascists run amerikkka, and because mostly browns poors and olds are dying AND getting permanent damaging effects, they are totally fine with it. i am not planning any "vacations" for a while. how many airlines will have gone under by then?
sometimes I think people should get tasered for complaints like this. 'ok you can have this BS excuse, but in order to come into our store I have to taze you'.
In the article the Karen said she wants to sue but can't afford a lawyer. She said she'll start a gofundme to pay for a lawyer so I went looking for it to see how much money she got. I couldn't find that one but there is one she started for her husband to pay for cataract surgery since they can't get insurance.
Do not confuse reckless abandon with insanity. He is a lying piece of shit and knows exactly what he is doing. Pandering to the base, pushing the propaganda, and vying for a position in the next Trump administration.
Crumbling? Not if you count the number of political emails I get per day, at least 25-30 from various democratic campaigns and now the occasional Trump one as well!
I just remembered that nearly all of the election volunteers are elderly. Oof. I am not keen to do it, but it may be my civic duty to be an election judge again as I bet they will be a severe shortage of trained volunteers on Election Day.
I've been debating whether I want to do it again or not. I am not really worried about exposure, since behavior here is pretty good and we hand things to citizens but we don't take anything back from them, but if I work it goes until 10PM PT with no exposure to results until I'm done (as the last few hours are way too busy to even check a phone) and I'm not sure my heart will be able to take that. I worked the midterms and it was a whole festive mood, with long lines of people who were super cheery and motivated and not minding the wait.
So, it turns out that Parscale and Hope Hicks seem to be in an entanglement. So HornyDaddy did what he does to all her boyfriends, he fired him. Hoo boy.
I'm not too worried about this. He'd need the support of the military and the court to pull off such a coup, but recent events have shown that he doesn't really have that.
It is infuriating to be living in GA right now. Later today the Gov sued the Mayor of Atlanta re mask mandate. Great taxpayer resource use in a pandemic.
No 1 was trying to find a place with an another person in his program that is ABD. She talked with her advisor that said he heard from the department or UPenn that even the grad seminars can't be in person, which was the only thing left that was in person. They haven't even told the grad students this, which pisses him off. She is going to end up staying with her sister in Chicago instead of rooming with him in Philly. I asked if maybe he'd go to Savannah to be with his GF instead now that he doesn't have to be in Philly and he said no way he'd live in Ga with the way they're handling this.
She works in Savannah at a museum. Most of what she does right now is online but once the corona is gone she'l need to be there. But I think she'd rather be in Philly than Savannah.
From dream job to nightmare
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/16/redskins-sexual-harassment-larry-michael-alex-santos/?arc404=true
A few months after Emily Applegate started working for the Washington Redskins in 2014, she settled into a daily routine: She would meet a female co-worker in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, she said, to commiserate and cry about the frequent sexual harassment and verbal abuse they endured.
They cried about the former chief operating officer’s expletive-laced tirades, Applegate said, when she recalled him calling her “f-----g stupid” and then requesting she wear a tight dress for a meeting with clients, “so the men in the room have something to look at.” They cried about a wealthy suiteholder who grabbed her friend’s backside during a game, Applegate said, and the indifference the team’s top sales executive displayed when she complained.
I can’t say I’m surprised
Update on Chuck Woolery from 3 days ago...
Son caught Covid 19
Deleted Twitter account
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/507663-chuck-woolery-deletes-twitter-account-after-announcing-his-son-has-coronavirus
He went to Parler
Life comes at you fast.
Trump says he just putting somebody's voice out there. He's not bright enough to realize some voices don't deserve to be heard.
/smh
Oh, that's a light fixture, not a photoshop.
"When Paul Kay, then an anthropology graduate student at Harvard University, arrived in Tahiti in 1959 to study island life, he expected to have a hard time learning the local words for colors. His field had long espoused a theory called linguistic relativity, which held that language shapes perception. Color was the “parade example,” Kay says. His professors and textbooks taught that people could only recognize a color as categorically distinct from others if they had a word for it. If you knew only three color words, a rainbow would have only three stripes. Blue wouldn’t stand out as blue if you couldn’t name it.
What’s more, according to the relativist view, color categories were arbitrary. The spectrum of color has no intrinsic organization. Scientists had no reason to suspect that cultures divvied it up in similar ways. To an English speaker like Kay, the category “red” might include shades ranging from deep wine to light ruby. But to Tahitians, maybe “red” also included shades that Kay would call “orange” or “purple.” Or maybe Tahitians chunked colors not by a combination of hue, lightness and saturation, as Americans do, but by material qualities, like texture or sheen. "
I found this, as someone who devoted my career to a precise understanding of color, absolutely fascinating.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-red-means-red-in-almost-every-language?utm_source=pocket-newtab
The Chinese word for green ranges from green to clear.
Yeah, color is weird. Thinking about it as a physicist, while each color may correspond to a specific frequency, the way they are observed by the human eyes depends on (more or less) the overlay of three different spectra - each is the perception of a color intensity that span a range of frequencies.
Now that I have typed this out, I am not so sure if this makes that much sense to anyone else.
color perception is very different from single wavelength color. not only the blending of the different spectra that your eye sees, but also the texture/reflectiveness/etc make a difference also.
Chad Hansen.
Excuse me, you misspelled his real last name, Handsome.
He's on the Chitwood Man-Crush Mt. Rushmore along with Ryan Reynolds, Matthew McCanaughey and Alexander Dreymon
I forgot that they called him that. I hope he can hook up with the Rams or some team that can use his talent, not riding the pine for the Jets or the Houston Texans.
Elsewhere in college
St. Thomas gets kicked out of DIII football, accepts D1 status. Becomes second D1 school in Minnesota.
https://footballscoop.com/news/its-official-d-iii-program-making-the-jump-to-division-i/
Interesting that UM is the only D1 school in Minnesota. I guess I would've thought there was more than 1 but then realized that it's probably the only school large enough to be a possible D1 school.
a friend from HS whose daughter got into Duke says that she has decided to take a gap year since their impression is that colleges are not well prepared enough to deal w/ coronavirus
Unfortunately since my daughter came off the waitlist she’s not able to do that, so we’ll see how all this goes.
I suppose it depends on the school. Lady friend's daughter was all set to go to Davis and once she came off the wait list at UCSD, she opted to go there and subsequently applied for a gap year. UCSD told her they will hold her spot but she needs to reapply.
Then what exactly are they holding?
The chicken.
Interesting. I didn't know she did. I guess i haven't checked FB in a while so I didn't hear this. I think you'll see quite a few students do this.
the lady friend's daughter is doing this as well.
I think most of the private schools, whether they're doing it on purpose or not, are getting the students on campus so they can force them to pay tuition without any refunds, and then they'll send them home after a few weeks. Vandy has already stated that tuition and other fees are not refundable if they send students home for remote study but housing and dining costs will be prorated.
I think they know if from the beginning that if they say all classes are remote from the start, that students will opt out for a year or two. Which at places like Vandy will cause a problem because most students are on campus all 4 years. As students take a year off then they'll have to house the usual 4 years of students + the ones that opt out.
Further argument for why paying to attend a private college is usually not worth it.
Well plainly I picked the wrong state - but I couldn’t quite bring myself to live in Virginia
Only worth it when your income is below a certain amount so you get just about all of it via need based financial aid.
Totally, if someone else is going to pay you to attend then by all means do it.
I suspect whether or or not that’s the intent, it will be the reality.
crossed the northern border three days ago to see my wife for the first time since march. we have a 14 day quarantine period, and then we can do the things. but we are painting our house, and it will take all of the 4 weeks this year plus probably another 4 weeks next year. yes, we have Cal colors on the house, but it wasn't even by design. she just did it. amazing.
also this is what a functioning society looks like. we are located on a corner in a little rural town. across one corner is the grocery store, and across the other is the local food joint. everyone wears masks and follows the current rules, not because following rules is good, but because it is simply what reasonable humans do to protect their families and even complete strangers during these trying times. i look forward to leaving that shithole dumpstre fire of a country known as amerikkka behind for good in a few years.
How spoiled and entitled are you? Is life that hard living in the most diverse, most inclusive, richest, freest, fairest and most tolerant country in the history of civilization? Are we perfect? No. I agree Canada's a cool place. But sorry, nothing even comes CLOSE to this country, warts and all.
" i look forward to leaving that shithole dumpstre fire of a country known as amerikkka behind for good in a few years."
As do I, and the total of my circle of family, friends, and acquaintances. Anything we can do to speed that process up? Maybe build you a decent university in your country?
Three of the global top 50, and distributed well geographically:
#45 UBC in Vancouver
#31 McGill in Montreal
#25 Univ of Toronto in ... Ontario
And, yet, here you are whining about having to live in my "dumpster fire of a country". Are you being held hostage, here?
The ol' "iF yOu DoN't LiKe It HeRe ThEn LeAve." Haha, ok dude. It's not that simple, and everyone knows it.
I was born in the midwest, live in the west, and my folks are in their 80s and just a few miles from Berkeley. I am working on getting the fuck out, and I have a plan. I intend to move to Canada within a few years, but because the Soros One World government has yet to be implemented, I must abide by current laws to get there. A process.
But on to the dumpster fire that is amerikkka. It's been decades in the making, and one has to do some rather creative thinking to spin it any other way. The current administration is only a symptom. For a few decades the world has kind of been looking at us out of the corner of their eyes and wondering what the hell is wrong with us. Now we are all being exposed for what we are; uneducated, unhealthy, misguided, bigoted, bible-banging idiots riding the coat tails of our ancestors from 70 years ago. (Idiot really is the correct word too, check it out.) amerikkkan exceptionalism is the idea that big gubbermint is bad but a massive, outdated military is good, science is cancelled and god is great, pick yourself up by your bootstraps that were made in a foreign country and are intentionally perforated at the heel so they tear right off, and my favorite one that regulations are bad for us, and yet we need law and order. Now imagine thinking we can vote our way out of this with our failed governmental system and a two party system. Hahahaha.
Of course Canada is not perfect. For starters it's waaay to close to amerikkka.
Thanks. I now understand you better. european/canadian socialism is absolutely necessary for the terminally offended and those incapable of accepting life on it's own terms. I had the privilege of being taught; "Whatever life throws at you give back more". Too difficult for the snowflakes in the world.
https://eand.co/how-the-american-idiot-made-america-unlivable-7531e917181b
My older daughter used to get trumpet lessons from older kids and one of her former teachers went to McGill. Nice looking part of Montreal if nothing else.
are they allowing crossing into Canada now to US citizens? i would gladly quarantine there
only essential travel. my wife is a Canadian citizen and is up here as the power of attorney and caretaker of her 92 year old grandmother. that is my ticket. the border is otherwise quiet save for transport trucks. unfortunately we will be heading back south in august. hopefully i can hold my breath and not touch anything for 10 months.
while it is still a ways away, i am supposed to pay a deposit in Aug for some ski trip in the Canadian Rockies next Mar. i suppose it is anyone's guess as to what travel will look like 6 months from now
I think it's pretty clear that the border with Canada will still be 'essential' only crossings.
It's ESSENTIAL that I leave this country and take a week off in Canada or I'll go bonkers.
Factual statement and in much agreement
you can read all of the projections as well as i can. it's gonna be a mess for a while. we cant kinda sorta manage a pandemic. lunatical fascists run amerikkka, and because mostly browns poors and olds are dying AND getting permanent damaging effects, they are totally fine with it. i am not planning any "vacations" for a while. how many airlines will have gone under by then?
I've come to the conclusion that it'll be at least a year until I move back to the US.
Why move back at all? I will always come back to visit and get some of that premium health care. (haha)
Horns
Make many songs better. E.g. Hey Jude cover by Wilson Picket
https://youtu.be/0y8Q2PATVyI
Today in CV19
Utah fun
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Utah-commission-postpones-vote-on-masks-in-schools-15413229.php
Karen wants a piece of the action
https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/woman-who-refused-to-wear-mask-wants-half-of-100k-donated-to-starbucks-barista/
I’m sorry that she had various ovary and uterine problems but I’m not sure why that means she can’t mask up 🤷🏼♂️
sometimes I think people should get tasered for complaints like this. 'ok you can have this BS excuse, but in order to come into our store I have to taze you'.
I think a super soaker would be sufficient
you misspelled guillotine, but i appreciate the sentiment
In the article the Karen said she wants to sue but can't afford a lawyer. She said she'll start a gofundme to pay for a lawyer so I went looking for it to see how much money she got. I couldn't find that one but there is one she started for her husband to pay for cataract surgery since they can't get insurance.
good heavens.
Our crumbling democracy
DeSantis is insane
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/16/florida-gov-ron-desantis-coronavirus-media-fact-check-nr-vpx.cnn
Do not confuse reckless abandon with insanity. He is a lying piece of shit and knows exactly what he is doing. Pandering to the base, pushing the propaganda, and vying for a position in the next Trump administration.
Heh, such a dumb statement and so easy to disprove.
Crumbling? Not if you count the number of political emails I get per day, at least 25-30 from various democratic campaigns and now the occasional Trump one as well!
I am signed up for precedent trump's camPAIN emails. Brutal. They send up to 7 per day from the whole family. Even Lara is in on the grift.
Rome burns and he sells beans
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrAzKiBFUQ/?igshid=eo6rxp3cgpi
People do need to stock up on canned goods as the country heads toward apocalypse under Trump.
Yeah we’ve been slowly adding a stockpile since supplies recovered from the initial panic. Would prefer not to get caught out this winter.
yeah, we've made some adjustments to the regular shopping to make sure we have enough of what we like to eat on hand when the winter shut downs hit.
I have more than enough wine & most spirits.
If anything I’ve been drinking less because we haven’t been socializing 😐
😍
So it's a PSA?
I just remembered that nearly all of the election volunteers are elderly. Oof. I am not keen to do it, but it may be my civic duty to be an election judge again as I bet they will be a severe shortage of trained volunteers on Election Day.
I've been debating whether I want to do it again or not. I am not really worried about exposure, since behavior here is pretty good and we hand things to citizens but we don't take anything back from them, but if I work it goes until 10PM PT with no exposure to results until I'm done (as the last few hours are way too busy to even check a phone) and I'm not sure my heart will be able to take that. I worked the midterms and it was a whole festive mood, with long lines of people who were super cheery and motivated and not minding the wait.
Trump demotes Brad Parscale as campaign manager. I not sure, but this may be the first role in this administration to have turnover
So, it turns out that Parscale and Hope Hicks seem to be in an entanglement. So HornyDaddy did what he does to all her boyfriends, he fired him. Hoo boy.
Demoted, not fired - he still has a pretty large portfolio.
he has to keep him on, rather than firing, since Parscale's company pays some of the kids/gf's a salary.
Right, there has to be a semblance of legitimacy to shoveling the donations into the pockets of the family and assorted hangers on
which is more concerning:
trump wins
trump loses
Oh, trump wins for sure, no question.
Phrasing!
When Trump loses then he will never leave office willingly, that is if there is even an election.
I'm not too worried about this. He'd need the support of the military and the court to pull off such a coup, but recent events have shown that he doesn't really have that.
Yeah, but poison will be his claiming it was "rigged" against him.
Rigged, invalid, with a decision punted to the Supreme Court. Who knows how that will end up?
Based on recent decisions, I'm thinking he doesn't have Roberts' or Gorsuch's vote, to say nothing of the liberal members.
nor does he have Garland on his side.
oh right, ...
On a social level, yeah, he'll continue to be poison.
what will the magats do in either scenario?
i will likely be in Canada on November 3rd.
Georgia bans municipalities enforcing mask wearing
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/507600-georgia-governor-overrides-all-local-mask-orders-in-the-state
It is infuriating to be living in GA right now. Later today the Gov sued the Mayor of Atlanta re mask mandate. Great taxpayer resource use in a pandemic.
I'll proudly wear my Cal mask whilst passing through this lovely state next month
jfc. we are all going to die of this mostly preventable disaster.
No 1 was trying to find a place with an another person in his program that is ABD. She talked with her advisor that said he heard from the department or UPenn that even the grad seminars can't be in person, which was the only thing left that was in person. They haven't even told the grad students this, which pisses him off. She is going to end up staying with her sister in Chicago instead of rooming with him in Philly. I asked if maybe he'd go to Savannah to be with his GF instead now that he doesn't have to be in Philly and he said no way he'd live in Ga with the way they're handling this.
maybe get the gf to move to safer Philly.
actually he could live here if he didnt mind driving our kids around to their activities
I did ask him what he planned on doing if he didn't need to be there and he said he'll probably stay there. I will let him know though.
maybe Canada. everyone is saying how nice it is there today.
And apparently there’s going to be a new university!
She works in Savannah at a museum. Most of what she does right now is online but once the corona is gone she'l need to be there. But I think she'd rather be in Philly than Savannah.
PRO
Go Bears
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Go Bears!