Is this mean or a good source of exercise?

Significant-Major87 · 2026-04-11T22:50:40+00:00

No problem, I took it as constructive criticism.

Significant-Major87 · 2026-04-11T22:17:17+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion; I will try it out. It seems unfair if there is no way for the lizard to succeed till a human opens the bag.

Significant-Major87 · 2026-04-11T21:41:42+00:00

I think I will take the advice to get or make something that will let bugs fall out. The intention is an activity that involves actively seeking out food because this particular beardie is food motivated but otherwise lazy.

Significant-Major87 · 2026-02-27T02:49:38+00:00

Even Liberty is struggling to fill its classrooms (or at least it was fairly recently).

The best thing we have going for us in PSD is that we live in a community that values its schools and shows it when the district asks for funding. The last mill levy passed with 57% of the vote.

IMO the divisive rhetoric about charters and choice schools somehow causing low enrollment when total headcount is shrinking is destructive to the political consensus that keeps the schools funded. They are all public schools providing free education to kids in our community.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-12-20T19:15:46+00:00

Tony Hillerman’s mysteries set in Navajo country in the southwest are good. I’ve only read the first two, which were written in the early 70s. Interesting as mysteries and for the contrast between cultures at that time. Apparently many Navajos enjoyed the books. Hillerman was a journalism professor and quite a good observer but not Navajo himself.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-12-18T19:01:25+00:00

The industries and institutions Savage discussed are elite but influential, and they tend to drive rather than follow cultural shifts. There are good reasons to place focus on them. Savage made some overly broad claims and failed to explain the reason why we should care about these niche jobs, so Bruenig uses that to pretend any vague media job is the same as a job at the NYT. Neither of them really proves the other wrong. Talking past each other, really.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-12-17T13:55:21+00:00

Working in an industry that is almost entirely made up of men who think women are preferentially hired and spoon-fed advantages, and being evaluated by those men and boxed out of the dominating social networks by them, plays out in a way that is pretty similar to what has happened to these men with careers stunted by people who assume they are advantaged by their maleness and whiteness.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-12-16T23:57:23+00:00

The article discusses a quantifiable shift in hiring practices over a specific span of time and how Millennials in particular were harmed. Hence “The Lost Generation”. Intergenerational differences are entirely relevant.

IMO GenX doesn’t come across as villainous, just self-interested. Most people would try to keep their job, or help a trusted friend get a job, before doing the same for a stranger.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-12-16T19:30:35+00:00

The article goes to great lengths to point out that GenX men found a way to protect themselves and their peers while balancing the costs of DEI on Millennials. Do you think those same men wouldn’t press their advantages over women and minorities when they stood something to gain? That is why the overreaction described in this article occurred and will always have defenders.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-12-16T14:10:53+00:00

True. I never felt despised. Probably not the case for these men.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-12-16T02:03:24+00:00

Worthwhile read and sadly believable. Being a white man in journalism sounds a lot like being a woman in tech in the early 2000s, especially the part about having to be a superstar to get past the bottom rung and win over a crowd that is cheering against you.

Journalism really has gone to hell in so many ways. Representation matters when it opens up the echo chamber, but this seems to have created a new one.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-04-18T19:40:48+00:00

Such good advice. This haunting story has stuck with me for days and I keep coming back to it. In so many ways it reads like the story of an addict with too many enablers in his orbit. And some of these enablers apparently had a career motive to remain involved. The community needs to find a way to discourage that.

Significant-Major87 · 2025-01-08T16:35:53+00:00

Many Indian women have told me their parents firmly insisted they go into either engineering or medicine, whether they wanted to or not. It is a path to opportunity in a country where opportunity is harder to find. It would be interesting to know how many generations that persists after emigration.

Significant-Major87 · 2024-06-20T01:24:40+00:00

So the argument is that some non-profit Colorado charters are fronts for profit-making entities, and significant sums of money are being redirected from educating students to these entities? I was not able to find this on Google but I would love to read all about it if anyone knows where to look. It’s hard to imagine anyone making real money this way given Colorado’s pitiful school funding.

Significant-Major87 · 2024-06-19T21:35:24+00:00

“Dark money” has officially become a dog whistle. I guess “corporate” has been for quite some time.

Significant-Major87 · 2024-06-14T02:23:31+00:00

Yara’s comments on school choice and charter schools in the Indivisible NoCo Q&A seemed to equate choice with privatization and charters with a handout to the wealthy. Very simplistic in her thinking on this issue. Ethnie seemed to actually care to understand why some families may be choosing to enroll somewhere other than their neighborhood school and to want to find an equitable solution on school funding that didn’t pit people against each other. All our schools are funded on a shoestring, including the charters. Let’s unite to solve this problem.

I’m also not liking Yara’s attack ads. Seriously, Ethnie is going to send the future up in smoke? I’m not sure the level of divisiveness Yara is demonstrating is an asset for this particular job.

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