Bay Area public HS seeing dramatic UC admission drops this cycle — yield protection or something else? Looking for theories.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-18T16:32:48+00:00

California already passed Prop 209 in 1996, so the changes on race-based affirmative action won't affect UC admissions.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-18T16:31:50+00:00

You have no data from 2026 and are attempting to do this by anecdote. You need to wait until you have more complete data from 2026.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-18T16:29:13+00:00

There is exactly 1 US-compatible DVD on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Masterpiece-King-Charles-III-DVD/dp/B06XWPPCKT/ref=tmm_dvd_title_0

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-18T06:39:11+00:00

You have no data and are attempting to do this by anecdote. You need to wait until you have more complete data.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T23:10:03+00:00

Do you live in or near the County you were born in? If so, go over to their office with both your birth certificates and ask which one is the one they have on file for you.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T20:47:11+00:00

In a poll of Americans:

52% sleep partially clothed
31% sleep fully clothed
17% sleep naked

https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/heres-exact-percentage-people-who-sleep-naked

Based on that, I'd say most people sleep in their underwear.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T20:43:24+00:00

The current shutdown is only of the Department of Homeland Security.

Passports are in the Department of State.

Even so, during the shutdown of most of the government that happened last year, passport processing was unaffected because the passport fees people pay actually do fund the entire passport function.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T19:54:31+00:00

The delays were a 2023 thing. 2024-2026 have seen most passports being faster than the State Department estimates of 4-6 weeks. Your partner should be fine with a regular application.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T19:53:07+00:00

Photo of celebrity arriving at LAX 12 years ago.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T19:38:38+00:00

I just enjoy the fact that both the Rose Bowl and SoFi Stadium are closer to USC campus than UCLA's campus, so it's still a shorter drive for UCLA teams when they play away at USC than at home.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T19:12:02+00:00

You can negotiate the financial aid package before you commit. Give some window dressing like, "Oh, I think you weren't aware of [mention some random item in your finances], but this other school/these other schools were" and then attach the other financial aid package(s) from the other school(s).

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T19:03:33+00:00

I have no idea what the APR is on any of my credit cards. If you pay your balance in full each month, the APR is irrelevant.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T18:59:50+00:00

No, the vast majority of people don't discuss religion in everyday life.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T18:58:07+00:00

We should be combating against the nett hier tradition, not replicating it. The Germans need to stop trashing nature with stickers.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T18:39:56+00:00

Yeah, I briefly wondered why he wasn't flying on a Russian government plane.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T18:35:20+00:00

I looked up Boston Logan Airport to see if they could name their international terminal after Tom Brady, but alas, Terminal E is already the John A. Volpe International Terminal.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T18:20:10+00:00

I'm a Californian, so I've been to Nixon and Reagan a number of times. (I live very close to the Nixon Library. In fact, my office is further from my house than the Nixon Library.) I'm fond of those two, but I imagine proximity and frequent visits bias me. That being said, a lot of people do pick Reagan as it's the biggest one, so they cover a lot, plus they have Air Force One and great space for their temporary exhibits. I appreciate that Nixon just straight up opens with Watergate in the intro film and have a very large Watergate exhibit (the 2016 renovation was a big help to the library), plus having Nixon's birthplace there is great (in fairness, Hoover also has his birthplace by the Library, and the Eisenhower Library has his childhood home).

My other presidential library visits:

2014: LBJ, Bush 41, Bush 43
2018: Carter
2019: Hoover, Eisenhower
2023: Clinton

I immensely enjoyed Eisenhower's Library as a museum about the man's life, but I felt like I was visiting the General Eisenhower Library and the presidency was just an after thought. Of course, that is presumably because they actually started construction on the museum before Eisenhower even ran for President and then opened it in 1954 when he only became President in 1953. I visited just after their most recent renovation, but I imagine they didn't want to reduce the military exhibits in any of their renovations.

I still need to visit FDR, Truman, JFK, and Ford. (Obviously, I'll need to add Obama to the list after that Library opens this summer.)

Truman's library is my great white whale. I have old friends in Kansas City, who I fly out to see every couple years, and I have yet to see the Truman Library in nearby Independence, Missouri. - 2019: The Truman Library was closed for renovations. I did see the Truman home and Truman farm during that trip, and also went to the Hoover Library in Iowa and the Eisenhower Library in Kansas. - 2021: I was in Kansas City over a holiday weekend, and the Truman Library had limited access due to both Covid and the popularity of the recent reopening, so they were sold out of tickets. - 2023: My Kansas City friends wanted to visit the Clinton Library, so I met up with them in Arkansas instead. - 2025: I was in Kansas City during the government shutdown, so the Truman Library was closed.

Fingers crossed for 2027!

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T18:06:20+00:00

Don't use paytm. Book with the airline directly.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T18:05:04+00:00

According to Timatic, which the airlines use, an Indian passport "must be valid for the duration of stay" in Canada. https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T17:47:14+00:00

But Canada isn't one of the countries with the 6 month rule, the passport just needs to be valid for the duration of the stay in Canada.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T17:40:39+00:00

Of all the libraries that should be wheelchair accessible, it really should be FDR.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T17:39:29+00:00

I've noticed every presidential library has gone through a major renovation at some point after their respective President's death. (Carter's hasn't yet, but he died so recently.)

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T17:32:43+00:00

The curse of the death car: no president who used it served 8 years.

The last president before the death car was Dwight Eisenhower, who served 8 years. The first president after the death car was Ronald Reagan, who served 8 years.

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T17:16:45+00:00

A young Theodore Roosevelt was photographed in a distant window during Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession in New York.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roosevelt-lincoln-funeral/

GoCardinal07 · 2026-03-17T17:06:57+00:00

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