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RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell

Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act

Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?

MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!

FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.

RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?

Without the guide of others I assumed

That heat was merely added for the sake

Of expediting this solution’s brewing!

Half a decade I have spent, or more,

Not questioning this worldview I had made.

In fact, I am myself a bit surprised

That you might think that I, your dearest friend,

Might have a patience of sufficient stock

To wait until a pot of water boils.

FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?

The microwave will beep when it is done!

CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!

Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!

FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know

That I have not the patience, like our Root,

To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?

CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!

FROG: On what plate?

Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?

CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task

Of boiling but a single cup alone?

FROG: In minutes?

CATS'N: Yes!

FROG: I counted seven, once.

CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!

If on a middle heat you place the cup

You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.

Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate

Or even less, if you should have a pot.

FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?

You place upon the iron stove a mug?

A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?

How do these flames, though medium in height,

Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?

Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched

With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!

(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)

reading a love letter in

A Garfield Christmas.

Elon Musk’s "DOGE" team has gained access to the Treasury Payment System and is actively shutting down payments they claim are “illegal.” However, there is no indication they are following proper acquisition or financial procedures. There has been no coordination with awarding agencies, no legal determinations, and no adherence to FAR or appropriations law. The image shows a spreadsheet of the payments in question. If payments are being stopped without agency review, this could create contract disputes, funding violations, and serious legal issues.

Former social worker here- Lutheran Social Services?? In Chicago and the suburbs they run thousands of programs, from Adult Protective Services to homeless shelters to foster care to senior homes.  Along with Catholic Charities, they are the largest providers of social services in the state of Illinois. A lot of these programs, like Adult Protective Services are CONTRACTED THROUGH THE STATE specifically (for better or worse) to cut down on the amount of government employees- not unlike hiring Space X to build ships for NASA. ....do these idiots think it's like ....payments directly to the church for no reason? Holy shit. 

In Chicago they run hundreds of programs, from Adult Protective Services to homeless shelters to foster care to senior homes. 

Ah, well these are the exact groups that this corrupt administration wants to target for elimination.

No kidding. This is going to gut social services as badly or worse than the last time we had a Republican governor and he straight up refused to sign a budget for 4 years.  That's actually when I left the social work profession. This sucks. 

I can't stress this enough: Most Americans have NO IDEA how anything works. They THINK they know how things work. The notion that the government has been paying faith-based, charitable, and private organizations to do things typically associated with government social services since AT LEAST the George W Bush years is completely new information to them, and they don't believe it. That's how you get them confidently 'discovering' something like this and deciding it's just a boondoggle to get tax dollars elsewhere. You literally cannot tell these people actual facts, because they don't want to accept them, BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW OR CARE ABOUT HOW ANYTHING WORKS.

Perfect example of someone who does NOT know how government funding works is right here: Dr. Vinay Prasad.

I hope everyone is going to be okay with grandma and grandpa getting kicked out of nursing homes later this year because THE CULT OF ELON is totally okay with Elon and his minions cutting their funding!

Yes! They provide the only PACE Program in St Louis. My elderly mother begins the program tomorrow.

They'll literally be putting elderly people in danger. This is a nursing home care in home program.

There are no physical facilities for them to go to. This is truly frightening.

Check out the list tho.... Wisconsin, Florida, Carolinas, Central Ohio, Nebraska, South Dakota....

Yep. The subset of it all is to hurt the poor, old, immigrants and basically anyone who isn’t a top 10% white male. Sadly, we’re winding the clock back to 1933. Hopefully it doesn’t end the same way.

This is a fantastic linguistics paper – the researcher observed the artificiality and social pressure imposed on kids when they're asked to produce language on the spot, so instead had them talk to a rabbit in a room with a tape recorder. He found that when talking organically, without an adult authority figure around, their speech was exponentially more sophisticated, socially fluid, and creative.

As someone in the twitter thread points out, this has obvious implications for situations in which cued language production is used in diagnosis e.g. for autism. I'd add that (while this particular paper's remit is limited to children) it should also make us think about situations where adults are pressured to speak by authority figures: court hearings, police encounters, benefit assessments, asylum interviews, etc. If the presence of power hampers your ability to advocate for yourself, these are all rigged propositions.

Anyway, you can read the whole piece here (taken from a talk on his research, so it's very readable):