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Rowling complains about "cis" and Elon shows up.
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There are more photos at the tweet.
Igor Vasilevsky's classic Druzhba Sanatorium (1978) in Crimea, designed so each room had a balcony view of the sea but privacy from the other balconies.
The building was intended for discreet treatment of Soviet elites, not, as with some Soviet mental health facilities, forced treatment of people considered Undesirable.
Like George Chakhava's transportation ministry building in Tblisi, Georgia, the Druzhba came from a period where Soviet architects were enchanted with the idea of building on steep land using massive columns to lift the whole structure. Creates a great hovering effect.
it me, in the parallel life where i became an architectural historian but somehow still ended up in Peoria
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How making $300,000 in San Francisco can still mean you're living paycheck-to-paycheck
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tl;dr The expert's recommendation is "to make moving out of the region a goal."
How making $300,000 in San Francisco can still mean you're living paycheck-to-paycheck
Dec. 7, 2021
Editor's note: This story originally ran in 2019, but has been updated with 2021 figures.
With the median price of a home in the U.S. at $300,000, you can can achieve homeownership and the idealized middle-class lifestyle in most parts of the country making a salary just under or above six figures.
In San Francisco's land of $2 million fixer-uppers, the income needed to reach this status is obviously more. But how much more?
S.F.-based finance expert Sam Dogen pinned that number at $300,000, after surveying dozens of readers on his Financial Samurai blog and asking about their incomes and expenses living in the notoriously high-priced coastal cities.
With their feedback, Dogen broke down the budget of a couple with one to two children in San Francisco, Seattle or New York. He found $300,000 is the income necessary to put something away for retirement, save for your child's education, own a three-bedroom home, take three weeks of vacation a year and retire by a reasonable age.
"It's not an extravagant lifestyle," Dogen says. "It's a middle-class lifestyle if you consider a middle-class person should be able to afford a modest home, have at least one car, have a kid or two. There are no private jets in this budget."
Dogen has put together a detailed post where you'll find analysis and explanation on each expense, but here are a few points to note:
The $29,400-a-year childcare expense takes into consideration a babysitting rate of about $20 an hour, the standard charge in a city such as San Francisco. Preschool easily costs $18,000 to $20,000 a year in metro areas.
The mortgage is based on a $1.5 million, 1,750-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bathroom home on a 2,500-square-foot lot.
The car expenses are based on a single car that accommodates a family.
Entertainment expenses include everything from Netflix to tickets to an occasional ball game to date night, which easily costs $200 in San Francisco when you consider expense for dinner and babysitting.
Dogen adds that at $300,000, a family is still living paycheck-to-paycheck and not saving outside their 401K and 529 plans.
"We're in this perpetual grind in San Francisco, and it's a city for people who are willing to hustle," he says. "At one point in the past, $300,000 was a lot of money. Now at this amount, you're probably always going to end up working a long time and having a constant struggle to keep up."
His recommendation is to make moving out of the region a goal.
"There's a moving truck shortage in places like San Francisco because so many people are moving out of this expensive city and other expensive coastal cities," he writes. "If you live in an expensive metropolitan area, consider relocating to lower your cost of living or at least try and take advantage of the valuation differential by investing in Middle America.
"Thanks to technology, there's no need to grind so hard in cities where the median home price is over $1 million."
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Ellen Pao's Elizabeth Holmes take.
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Opinion | The Sexism That Led to the Elizabeth Holmes Trial - The New York Times
Ms. Pao is a tech investor and chief executive of Project Include, a diversity, equity and inclusion nonprofit. She is the author of "Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change," about her lawsuit against a venture capital firm and her experience running the technology company Reddit.
The op-ed is shit. Pao throws in whataboutism and she doesn't even bother to explain how Holmes isn't actually a criminal and a con artist.
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Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American former businesswoman who was the founder and chief executive of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company. Theranos soared in valuation after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing testing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company. The next year, following revelations of potential fraud about Theranos's claims, Forbes had revised its published estimate of Holmes's net worth to zero, and Fortune had named her one of the "World's Most Disappointing Leaders".
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Reddit condom joke...
At the Olympics it's always exciting when someone comes from behind.
"Organizers say athletes should take the condoms home as souvenirs..."
Athletes At The Tokyo Olympics Are Being Given Condoms, And Warnings Not To Use Them
Organizers of this year's Olympics in Tokyo are putting a new meaning behind "look, but don't touch."
The Games are ordinarily a place where many of the young athletes mix, mingle, and naturally get very close.
As they have since the 1980s, organizers ordered thousands of condoms for athletes to safely hook up in Tokyo. To be specific, Japanese organizers ordered 160,000 condoms to be handed out to athletes in the Olympic Village.
But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo organizers also want participants to refrain from any kind of intimate physical activity outside of their sport.
That means: Those condoms we gave you? Don't use them — at least not while you're inside the Olympic bubble.
Organizers say athletes should take the condoms home as souvenirs, and use them to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS. But under no uncertain terms are participants to use them, or engage in any one-on-one philandering, while they are in Japan for the Games, organizers said.
The topic may elicit a giggle, but the penalties athletes face if they violate these rules are serious, as are the reasons for implementing them.
Athletes are under strict coronavirus protocols, as Tokyo and other regions of Japan are under a state of emergency due to COVID-19. They must follow social distancing guidelines and abide by bans on handshakes, high fives, and other types of physical, close contact, according to the rulebook.
Any participant who violates the rules could face fines, disqualification, and the loss of Olympic medals if they're found to be repeat offenders. If athletes choose to flout the rules on intimacy, they'll also have to contend with the small cardboard-frame beds that are provided to Olympians.
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This really seems extreme and a harbinger of what is to come: veteran (and tenured) high school teacher and baseball coach dismissed from school after he assigned a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay and poem about white privilege.
A parent complained that the Coates essay painted Trump in a negative light.
Sullivan County school board approves teacher termination charges, supporters outraged
Posted: Jun 8, 2021 / Updated: Jun 9, 2021
UPDATE – The Sullivan County Board of Education Tuesday voted 6-1 that the charges of dismissal against teacher Matthew Hawn are true and warranted.
Supporters and former students gathered at the meeting wearing light blue and holding placards voicing their support for the contemporary issues teachers.
Supporters of Hawn told me they were frustrated with the board's decision to continue the dismissal process against the Sullivan Central HS contemporary issues teacher @WJHL11 @ABCTriCities pic.twitter.com/HF8L68IOyo
— Bianca Marais WJHL (@BiancaWJHL) June 9, 2021
During the meeting, only Board Vice-Chairman Matthew Spivey voted against the dismissal continuation.
Director of Schools Dr. David Cox said during the meeting that he's been accused of racism due to these charges of dismissal against Hawn.
"There has been a lot of talk online that accuses me of moving to dismiss Mr. Hawn because he taught anti-racism lessons. Let me be perfectly clear. Sullivan County Schools, and I in no way condone racism of any county. We have encouraged all of our teachers, including Mr. Hawn, to promote an environment welcoming to all students of all races of all backgrounds," Cox said.
He added that he has been told that white privilege was the reason for his dismissal charges against Hawn.
"This is also simply not true. In the charges I just read aloud in fact, I read that appropriate discussions around concepts like white privilege remain perfectly appropriate for a high school class, like contemporary issues. These charges of dismissal about Mr. Hawn refusing to provide his students with access to varying points of view, which is required under Tennessee law. And these charges are about Mr. Hawn, again, assigning inappropriate materials to his students," he said.
Former students told News Channel 11 that latent racism was ever-present when they walked the Sullivan Central High School halls.
One student who graduated in 2018 from Sullivan Central High School, and attended Hawn's contemporary issues class for two years, said that he felt Hawn was a fair and balanced teacher. @WJHL11 @ABCTriCities pic.twitter.com/KPlJocQse4
— Bianca Marais WJHL (@BiancaWJHL) June 9, 2021
One student who graduated in 2018 and attended Hawn's contemporary issues class for two years, said that he felt Hawn was a fair and balanced teacher.
"We talked about a lot of hot button issues in our class, we talked about white privilege, and he was very open and fair and balanced on both sides of the argument, and presented a like I said an open discussion we never saw any, anything that I believe would warrant a dismissal," Kyle Simcox said.
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – A Sullivan County school teacher and baseball coach is facing possible termination by the school district.
The charges of dismissal come after two incidents pointed out by the school district.
The first was after a parent who complained in early February about an opinion article Matthew Hawn assigned to his Contemporary Issues students by Ta-Nehisi Coats entitled "The First White President," which the complaining parent claimed painted the former president in a negative light. Matthew Hawn. Courtesy of Laura Hawn.
Hawn was issued an official letter of reprimand which passed unanimously at the March Board of Education meeting.
Later in March, Hawn faced a second round of reprimands from the school district when, according to officials, he showed a video called "White Privilege," a spoken word poem by Kyla Jenee Lacey.
The school district wrote to Hawn that though the concept of discussing white privilege and the like during a contemporary issues class is perfectly acceptable, the district administration did not believe some of the terms used in the video were appropriate for high school students.
Hawn faces charges of dismissal at the Tuesday Sullivan County Board of Education meeting at 6:30 p.m.
According to a Facebook group showing support for Hawn, roughly 50 people are expected to gather to show their support for the teacher at the meeting.
It is unclear whether the public will be permitted to speak on this subject during the public comment section of the board meeting.
He has been tenured at the Sullivan County School District since 2008 and has been teaching Contemporary Issues and coaching baseball at Central High School.
Sullivan County Schools administrators sent News Channel 11 the following documents regarding Hawn:
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