Yup, roll that tape again…
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I know that. But “grossly generalistic” didn’t make the soundbite.
But 1 week after that comment, I saw over a dozen hand made signs go up at businesses where I now live. That comment cost her places that she only had a narrow margin of potential victory.
The seeds for that comment was that people were desperate for the change that President Obama ran on, but never actually delivered on.
And it wasn’t just the fact that he didn’t deliver - in a lot of people’s eyes, he didn’t even try, because he was looking for a bipartisan unicorn that didn’t exist. He should have gone all in at the beginning, rather than starting out with what he thought the republicans would go for.
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Similar, yes.
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Yes, and it surprised me even at the time that she did not think it would.
Trump 2020: “We only killed 100,000 people, and lost 10 million jobs in two weeks!”
FIFY
I put a bow on it…
It shouldn’t have surprised anyone.
We saw this exact same behavior when she was working the Health Care project during the 1st Clinton administration. From what I can tell, she doesn’t learn from her mistakes.
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Many of us don’t.
But many of us also don’t ask complete strangers to put their hopes in our hands.
I’d say that life goes on – but it’s not something I’m taking for granted these days.
“Beginning of the end”? OMFG. That won’t age any better than the “experts” saying 100 US COVID-19 deaths vs. 18,000 flu deaths required us to put things in perspective. That was less than a month ago, and deaths have increased more than 50-fold.
What’s the source for this image? I’m going to tweet it.
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The trick nowadays is to find pure strains… Everything has been hybridized…
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Drum rolll…
1,000,177 global cases at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
I predict we hit 8-figues April 9th…
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Yeah…I tend to like hybrids actually…
Not too OT: one of my consulting colleagues just let me know that he and another one of our colleagues will be done at the client on 10 April. Apparently, they’ll be restored when the sequestration is over, but that pretty much guarantees I’ll get cut at some point. I know I have a client-side training session on 17 April (at 5:30 in the morning, it’s for South Africa), so maybe I’m safe until then.
I also have another gig that wants to bring me on that’s on hold until the sequestration is over. Should anything happen, I’d be ok for a few months.
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So much winning. . .
Now comes the whining.
Something to consider - the combination of shipping companies like Fed Ex along with the internet make it possible for small businesses to market and ship nationwide - perhaps your students could also consider non-traditional ways for small farms to make money.
Or, re-look old school ideas. During World War 2, I believe there were community kitchens in urban areas that let people do canning & preserving that they couldn’t do at home. Could community food processing, packaging and shipping “nodes” for small farms make a difference?
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Bakers Creek Seeds specializes in non-hybrid seeds. Seeds Savers Exchange is another source.
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My campus is in the process of starting up a “Community Gardens” initiative, with an aim to see how we can use technology to support non-traditional approaches. Think remote monitoring of the environment, remote or automated control of irrigation and other inputs, provision of local network access and wireless hotspots and a lot more. The pandemic response has isolated a lot of people, so this actually has helped focus the initiative even further. Look for some interesting things in this space in the coming couple of years…
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Unlike “hone in on,” that one is what aficionados call an eggcorn: A homophonic crime that “just makes sense” to its perpetrators.