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Biden gives interview to BBC

Trump appeasing Putin with pressure on Ukraine, Biden tells BBC​


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Biden BBC interview: Trump appeasing Putin with pressure on Ukraine

In his first interview since leaving office, the 82-year-old criticises his successor's handling of the war and is challenged on his own record.
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“… Biden dropped out less than four months before the November election, and when pushed on whether he should have left sooner and allowed more time for a replacement to be chosen, he said: "I don't think it would have mattered. We left at a time when we had a good candidate."

"Things moved so quickly that it made it difficult to walk away. And it was a hard decision," he said. "I think it was the right decision. I think that… it was just a difficult decision."
 
circlesky88 said:
This sounds like the equivalent of a pizza party that your boss thinks is a big deal. "Hey guuys, ya'll are doing great and we celebrate all your hard work! Take this 15 minutes and eat some bad pizza then back to work! "
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Or, worse, everyone is required to stay an extra hour at the end of the work day for a pizza party because it’s “team building.”
 
BlueSteel said:
I am so tired of having to endure this garbage on a daily basis. And from an American president no less. It's shameful.
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I wish every credible reporter would ask Trump at every press availability some version of, "Mr. President, do you ever get tired of whining about every single thing you experience in your role as the leader of this country?"
 
My son does not use AI to write. He wants to learn and had a good teacher for most of his life. At college, he's taking a 300 level humanities course for his distribution requirement. Got an A+ with the professor saying his paper was the best in the class. Maybe everyone else is using chatGPT so that's why his is so good? Anyway, this will create an opening for people who are willing to work.

People say: why learn to write well, given that AI will be improving and maybe AI drafting is out future. I respond: we think in language. Learning how to write isn't only about the words you put on a page. It's how you organize them in your head. I always say, "if you can't explain it well, you don't understand it well."

When I set myself to be a better writer my last year of undergrad, I started understanding the world a lot better. I got smarter in virtually every way. Also, it can be surprising how little there is to remember when you understand the internal logic of what you're studying. I barely had to study contracts for the bar exam because mostly everything follows a tight internal logic. I had to study torts a lot more because either a) torts has no real internal logic; or b) I don't get it. Then I realized I could bomb the torts section if I aced the contracts one. OTOH, that choice was sort of forced upon me by my own procrastination. When one studies for the bar in basically three days, compromises need to be made.
 
superrific said:
My son does not use AI to write. He wants to learn and had a good teacher for most of his life. At college, he's taking a 300 level humanities course for his distribution requirement. Got an A+ with the professor saying his paper was the best in the class. Maybe everyone else is using chatGPT so that's why his is so good? Anyway, this will create an opening for people who are willing to work.

People say: why learn to write well, given that AI will be improving and maybe AI drafting is out future. I respond: we think in language. Learning how to write isn't only about the words you put on a page. It's how you organize them in your head. I always say, "if you can't explain it well, you don't understand it well."

When I set myself to be a better writer my last year of undergrad, I started understanding the world a lot better. I got smarter in virtually every way. Also, it can be surprising how little there is to remember when you understand the internal logic of what you're studying. I barely had to study contracts for the bar exam because mostly everything follows a tight internal logic. I had to study torts a lot more because either a) torts has no real internal logic; or b) I don't get it. Then I realized I could bomb the torts section if I aced the contracts one. OTOH, that choice was sort of forced upon me by my own procrastination. When one studies for the bar in basically three days, compromises need to be made.
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nonetheless, the question remains...

" Is our children learning ? "
 


“… Since the Republican began his second term in January, seven migrants have died while in the custody of immigration police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Blaise and two other migrants died in Florida, while one died in Arizona, another in Missouri, one in Texas, and one more in Puerto Rico. The individuals ranged in age from 27 to 55, and came from different corners of the globe: Haiti, Honduras, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Ukraine, and Ethiopia.

… Last year, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) investigation found that between 2017 and 2021, during the first Trump administration and part of the Biden administration, 95% of deaths at ICE-operated facilities could have been prevented “if appropriate medical care had been provided.” …”

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The article does not address whether this rate of deaths in ICE Custody is consistent or a spike from prior years …
 
heelinhell said:
nonetheless, the question remains...

" Is our children learning ?
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The funny thing about that quote is that W's aides played it as if he changed his mind mid-sentence, which does happen to people. But I've never seen able to figure out what he was trying to say that would have started with the verb IS. "Is our educational system working" is the best I came up with IIRC, but that's pretty far from Bush's quote to be what he was thinking.
 
"Trump again teases a "very big announcement.""It's not about trade, it's about something else--but it's going to be a truly earth-shattering and positive development for this country and for the people of this country," he said in Oval. "And that'll take place sometime within the next few days."

His replacement for Obamacare will finally be ready. And his long-promised tax returns will be released (but only those from 1992-98)
 
superrific said:
The funny thing about that quote is that W's aides played it as if he changed his mind mid-sentence, which does happen to people. But I've never seen able to figure out what he was trying to say that would have started with the verb IS. "Is our educational system working" is the best I came up with IIRC, but that's pretty far from Bush's quote to be what he was thinking.
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If only Bush had you as his press secretary...well done sir (y)
 
nycfan said:


“… Since the Republican began his second term in January, seven migrants have died while in the custody of immigration police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Blaise and two other migrants died in Florida, while one died in Arizona, another in Missouri, one in Texas, and one more in Puerto Rico. The individuals ranged in age from 27 to 55, and came from different corners of the globe: Haiti, Honduras, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Ukraine, and Ethiopia.

… Last year, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) investigation found that between 2017 and 2021, during the first Trump administration and part of the Biden administration, 95% of deaths at ICE-operated facilities could have been prevented “if appropriate medical care had been provided.” …”

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The article does not address whether this rate of deaths in ICE Custody is consistent or a spike from prior years …
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Quick search, per the ACLU, 52 deaths occurred in ICE custody over five years (between 2017-2021), 70 from 2017-2024, including a COVID-related spike in 2020 — so 8 deaths in ICE custody in 100 days seems like a significant spike.

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95 Percent of Deaths in ICE Detention Could Likely Have Been Prevented With Adequate Medical Care: Report | American Civil Liberties Union

New study reveals persistent medical care failures in immigration detention facilities, examines 52 deaths from 2017-2021
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Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigrant Detention | American Civil Liberties Union

Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention, a new research report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), and American Oversight, provides a comprehensive examination of the deaths of 52 people who died in Immigration and Customs...
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