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The DNC will of course appoint David Duke in the spirit of national reconciliation.

I lol’d.

I’m actually looking forward to the VP debate with an angry black woman and a white, male, Christian conservative Republican.

Despite having great distaste for the franchise, I decided to watch Terminator 3.

It’s subtitle should have been Fan Service Boogaloo rather than Rise of the Machines, and it did the same thing for the previous 2 movies as 2 did for 1 in my opinion, and made it completely irrelevant, and effectively retconned them.

There were also a number of internal inconsistencies that pained me, but whatever.

I’ll probably watch the fourth one tomorrow to extend my torture for some reason.

Well damn.

I wish I could draw. Hundreds of dollars a pop? Madness.

That was a silly read.

In Scotland, the education secretary (who also happens to be the deputy first minister) is facing a vote of no confidence from the Conservatives after the exam results fiasco. Basically, exams were cancelled for the first time ever, and the organization that deals with exam results adjusted the results of around a quarter of students based on the past performance of their schools, and folk got pissy for many reasons.

They changed the results for schools in lower prosperity areas more than higher property schools. They also, for some inexplicable reason, didn’t use the results of prelims* in the vast majority of cases, which kinda makes the prelims seem a bit pointless.

They seemed to have ignored teachers’ judgement of what grade their students would get too, which is sensible on the one hand (teachers get kudos for high achieving students, presumably) but not so sensible on the other (teachers see their students every day, and probably have a good grasp of what they can achieve).

The rest of the UK are getting their results on Thursday this week, so I’m intrigued to see how this fiasco affects that, and how those results affect the politics of the situation in Scotland.

*in Scotland, at least for Highers, you sit a prelim exam a few months before the real one, and if you get a lower grade in the real one than in the prelim or miss the exam or whatever, you can appeal to get the grade for the prelim instead. Coincidentally, I had to do this for one exam ‘cause my nose decided it was more important to incessantly leak blood instead of sit an exam.

This means that the question is answerable.

Not with the current means of measuring it, though.

That reminds me of a joke on Mock The Week by Frankie Boyle.

They must have been discussing gay marriage at the time.

It’ll be different in the playground with these arguments over who has the hardest dad:

“My dad could beat up your dad.”

“Oh yeah? Well my dad’ll shag your dad... and your dad’ll like it.”

Um.

Please elaborate?

I feel you’re being mightily unfair to Pelosi.

For example, Pelosi is willing to spend trillions of dollars on keeping people in the black during covid, Thatcher was willing to effectively fire 20k coal miners because their mines weren’t economical, resulting in a year long strike by coal miners in Britain. She later privatized coal mining, reducing the number of collieries in the UK, and losing upwards of 200k coal miners their jobs.

There’s a reason that when she died “The Witch Is Dead” was number 2 in the UK music charts.