Oh that’s cool. The condors at my local zoo (Los Angeles) aren’t visible to the public, because they’re being raised no-contact for release into the wild, but they had 10 chicks last year.

Supposed to rain today in Laguna Beach which makes this even stupider

In that weather a general strike is more sane than a march. It will also be harder for police/ICE to disrupt, what are they gonna run house to house ordering people to work? Every food venue should be closed, and especially anywhere they’re staying should have no employees that day. These are the guys who kidnapped the men who had just made and served them Mexican food.

I taught 3rd grade in the US, where kids are expected to have their printing correct and start to learn cursive. I’d say your writing is very neat and readable. It has some differences that most US adults develop when they’ve gotten used to cursive and then need to use printing. So nobody is going to have any trouble with reading this.

For instance, when little kids print, or US teachers teach it, the straight line on their e is horizontal. The stems on their a and m are straight and well-defined. Their v has a sharp point. Their f is tall, with a strong top hook and nothing below the sitting line. Their y and x made from two straight diagonal lines. And there’s no slant. But after writing in cursive for awhile, many adults form their printing similarly to you.

The only thing I’d suggest you change is to make the top part of the f stronger and more hooked. That’s the one letter that might cause confusion, even though your t has a tail to differentiate it. Your assignment doesn’t include a q, but I suggest you be sure to curve or point its tail below the line in the opposite direction from the tail on your g.

All in all, well done.

poke poke poke

“Here I stand”

Dude, there’s your problem

Having reread it a few times I think it’s a typo for car. Although such a misadventure could easily cause a person to be late returning to the vet to pick up their cat, having gone to get gas while a procedure was in progress.

However, here’s the first “Maru and boxes” video, because you deserve a little nostalgic joy. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhLQCYQ-nQ

Sadly, Maru died last September but he had a long and happy life with lots of love.

Everybody say MEOW!

Epstein Island 2, Electric Boogaloo

Do it.

I’m one of the ones who did vote against him but I live in Los Angeles. In LA County, 2.4 million voted for Harris, 1.2 million voted for Trump, and 1.9 million didn’t vote. (45 thousand voted for RFK, Stein or other fringe candidates.)

A million of those non-voters could have all voted one way, EITHER way, without changing the results. So what “tacit support” are you talking about?

The entirety of California’e electoral votes went to Harris. But the electoral college is unbalanced,

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/electoral-college-states-representation/

so our candidate got 9 fewer electoral votes than she would have if it were fair. And even if all 1.9 million Los Angeles non-voters had voted for her it wouldn’t have changed a thing.

Should they have voted anyway? Yes, if only because of the local elections and propositions they could have had a voice in.

And California is one of the easiest, most vote-supportive states, which mails a vote-by-mail ballot and supplemental information packets to every registered voter.

But if someone didn’t, I’m not going to ascribe some kind of blame or “tacit support” label to them instead of hearing their individual situation.

Yeah that’s why I chose Miriam Adelson rather than Melinda Gates. Noem would be fine with me too. Even though she’s not listed among “female billionaires,” she’s still very much a parasite.

Yes I think Jumbie mistyped, “anti-immigration” is correct for the right-wingers, or as I call them the Wrong Wing.

The only way they could be called “pro-Immigration” is if you’re using “Immigration” as a short name for ICE and US Border Patrol and Dept of Homeland Security together in general. As we in Los Angeles sometimes call them “la migra”. Because although they have different jurisdictions, undocumented people have to run/hide from all of them.

He’s never thought purely of anything, especially not Peace.

Correction: he’s always thought purely (as in only and exclusively) about “what’s in it for ME?” even when the motivation was impure in every way.

Yeah Alice Walton and/or Miriam Adelson if they want to include some women.

Yeah, sorry about that. No secret Montana subway.

They’re farmer. They live on the farm, and ride a tractor to work.

In addition to all the good answers previously given, a conductor interprets what the composer has written. And different conductors may create very different interpretations of the same piece. They can set the basic tempo faster or slower, they can get the orchestra to really lean in to a particular musical phrase or de-emphasise it, they can bring out the horns at one point or hush them a bit and let us focus on the oboe or piccolo… A good conductor has studied and notated the entire score for some time before they and the orchestra even begin to rehearse.

So, part of that bow at the end can be to say, “what do you think of this interpretation compared to all the other times you’ve heard this famous symphony?” Then they usually turn around and wave the orchestra members to stand, which means, “and didn’t these guys do a great job executing it!?”

Yes and also have you seen the real estate prices?

Isn’t the water used for cooling? If so, discharged warmed water can adversely affect local wildlife, including the fish people fish for and the animals people hunt.