Oh hell. :.-(
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A bigger asshole that Doug Ducey?
Theyâre probably in on the kayfabe together.
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Between 1950 and now our wise and beneficent leaders decided housing people was optional
The market will provide, or not, and certainly not in MY neighborhood, go look somewhere else
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The unthinkable!
About 75% of the staff in are department (also non-academic, different U) have been laid off, and the rest of us are in reduced hours. I donât imagine athletics is in the same boat here, or many places.
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Long, grim.
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Not a headline Iâd have expected a year ago.
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The best of both worlds!
The dismissed students will not be allowed to take courses from home this semester but will be permitted to return in the spring, Nyul said. They were part of a special one-semester program for freshmen that was prepaid and cost $36,500. That money will not be refunded.
K-ching!
The students were asked to move out immediately, be tested for COVID-19, enter quarantine if they test positive, and then leave. Their university housing payments will not be refunded, per university rules.
Double k-ching! All the money, responsibility theater and they donât have to work for it.
Also $36,500 for one semester of tuition? Jesus fuck. Hope my kid likes the army.
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Add that to the list of advantages many European countries have over the US. Besides a better SARS-CoV-2 response.
And of course, on those counts, the UK also sucks, doesnât it?
Makes me wonder if the attitude towards education and the response to a pandemic are correlated, or if this is somehow causal. And yes, Iâm looking at you, France.
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UA wants in on the action!
But good old Steve Kozachik pokes straight through their bullshit:
Tucson Ward 6 council member Steve Kozachik expressed concern in his weekly newsletter about the large student housing apartments located near Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard. He said that nearly 2,000 students have arrived from out of town and checked into their rooms without any COVID-19 testing or wellness screenings.
âThatâs a lot of bodies, from all over the country, crammed into a pretty small area, none of whom were tested, and no game plan for isolating sick people or tracing their contacts,â Kozachik said.
Great Reopening Fever plan, oh-so-responsible UA administrators.
He reached out to a private urgent care business called Rescue Me Wellness to provide free COVID-19 testing in a parking lot adjacent to the apartments. In a three-hour period last Saturday, Aug. 30, more than 100 student residents were tested and of them, 36 reported having active COVID-19 symptoms or have been in contact with someone who is sick.
Wow.
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Thatâs not exactly the word I have in mind.
Howâs that positivity rate doinâ, may I ask?
What a cluster. Fuck.
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Woo-peddling slumlords illegally evict a buildingâs tenants in the middle of the outbreak:
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Effing Monroe county
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After a memorial via Zoom last week, I was chatting about it with some of my relatives who attended the service. They started swapping stories about pastors in the area who have died or are currently sick (with congregations meeting a rotating list of temporary pastors). 
I keep warning them to stay away from church and tune in to services on TV or online instead. Hopefully, theyâll listen.
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This is the situation regarding protests in the UK
Take Home Messages:
Protests involving more than 30 people are still legal provided that the organisers â
(a) Are a person or group undertaking activities which promote changes in law or government policy.
(b) Perform a âsuitable and sufficientâ assessment of the health risks, not only to participants but also to those affected by the demonstration.
(c) Take all reasonable measures to limit the risk of transmission of the coronavirus (such as promoting social distancing, the wearing of masks etc).There is no legal obligation for organisers to share with their risk assessment with the police before, during or after a demonstration.
The police are frequently denying or ignoring point 1, instead claiming that all protests involving more than 30 people are illegal.
This is not what the law says but that doesnât mean the cops wonât arrest or issue fines to organisers and/or participants.
If you are arrested or issued with a fine at a demonstration, you should seek legal advice from a Netpol recommended solicitor as soon as possible.
If you are involved in organising a protest and the police threaten you with arrest or fines, you should also seek immediate legal advice.
While these regulations are in force, anonymously organised protests will probably be subject to increased police repression, and officers will be working hard to identify those they believe to be the âtrueâ organisers.
It looks like the Met Police did a fascism when they forced the cancellation of yesterdays Trans Rights march
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So this is the latest bullshit story we are dealing with
In short, no. If you are being hit with sufficient energy to bore through you skull and halfway through your brain, your pineal gland is the least of your problems.
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Well, it is the only part they were usingâŚ
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Maybe we should start a rumor that they are more accurate and less dangerous/toxic than the old mercury thermometers. 
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I suggest that people can opt-out of the new infrared ones, and alternatively can get a real big one with lots of mercury where the sun does not shine.
It of course has to stay there for a while, given that it has to warm up from being cooled to about 0° before. Oh, and of course local units of measurement must be applied. Wouldnât want this SI unit multilateralism getting into the way of a solid measurement, would we?
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