WTAF? I can’t not know more about this. Jesus.
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They turned out the terminal lights on her.
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That is so shitty! I’ve had to use the wheelchair service in an airport one time (foot injury while on a work trip) and it was so dehumanizing just with the regular service, being treated pretty much like inanimate baggage. I can’t even imagine how this woman felt, being left behind, in the dark like that. 
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it also speaks well of airport security. people can just be wherever, whenever apparently 
that must have felt just horrible.
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Houston police in a statement said they do not know the possible motive of the firing
Arianna was one of the two children and four adults who were sleeping inside the second floor of their south Houston, Texas apartment when a shooter opened fire at around 3am on New Year’s day.
The family has accused the police of a delayed response and said officials did not arrive until 7am.
Gee, I wonder at the “whys” of these. Gotta just wonder…
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His comparison is perhaps Bill Cosby.
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“ The Philadelphia Housing Authority owns the rowhome, which had been converted into two apartments. Philadelphia Fire Department officials said a heavy fire came from the second floor. The PHA duplex contained four smoke alarms but none were operating at the time of the fire, officials said.
“I’ve been around for 35 years now, and this is probably one of the worst fires I’ve ever been to,” Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said at the scene Wednesday morning. “I don’t have the words for how we’re feeling right now.”
Edit:
The location for those who know Philly.
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cannot click “like” on that. the only good news is that she’s recovering.
She survived the attack and is recovering after an emergency surgery for a punctured lung and liver. She also suffered three broken ribs.
people often say if guns were banned people would just use knives or other weapons. im trying to imagine a drive-by with knives and failing
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Welp, my spring class did not make, so I am jobless for the semester. 
Enrollment is low across the university, so…
But at least I have other things I can work on.
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Oh fuck. I’m so sorry. We’re lucky that we’re essentially flat. We’ve stopped hiring a few adjuncts, but in truth most of them seem to have been “old crony white guys” that their-friends-the-chairs would call up and give low-enrolled sections to. I’m not weeping that Mr. Pompous Lawyer isn’t teaching low-enrolled Legal Studies this semester.
But in our important core classes (history, english, comm, etc) we are hopefully-flat.
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Yeah… it’s not a great scene across academia, honestly and those of us in the humanities/social sciences have been feeling it more for longer than our colleagues in the STEM fields… I don’t know that anyone has really done anything to address the reason for that (which is the corporatization of the university in general, I’d argue). The job diversity hand waving is nice, I guess, but once the marginal workers are pushed out, they’re coming for the tenure track/tenured folks, and that’s already started, i think. There have been several universities that are basically either closing down or merging history departments.
I don’t know. It’s a big fucking mess.
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Our neighbor is getting her occupational therapy degree, and she’s working in an elementary school this semester. She says that the kids are having all sorts of behavioral problems due to last year’s isolation - as expected. What they didn’t expect - these kids don’t have the finger strength to hold a pencil.
I suppose they could just text their homework.
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So while they were home, they were hardly getting to draw or color or write…
Another thing I haven’t seen covered as much as I wish it would be is the multiple causes of depression in the older kids. Everyone talks about the isolation, which is definitely a thing, but in my circles, the teens and tweens are world weary from hearing about and seeing the way the adults are acting through all this. I have yet to see that discussed in an article on the topic.
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