Likewise, #Mississippi State University (Starkville, #MS) suddenly added me to their sports supporters lists. One list seemed to be about the latest things on their paid "HailState Plus" service and the other was just a daily update of athletics department happenings. I tried to unsub from the HSP messages, but I think it got all messages, and I'm okay with that. If I'd known, I'd have waited, because MSU is one of the campuses where both the men's and women's basketball teams are in the tournament.
Honestly, the main list was okay, if overwhelming. My biggest issue is that they suddenly started sending me stuff years after our last contact, with not even an opt-in "Hey, we see that you formerly contacted us and we would like to send you daily updates on our sports programs" message first.
Official poverty rates fell last decade across the US, but the *asterisk* is that 2009-2011 rates were affected by a severe and long-lived recession. 2019-2021 rates were affected by #COVID-19 and its related economic slowdown, but also by stimulus packages.
#MS had the highest previous rate, at 21.0%, the only state above 20%. #NH had the lowest previous rate at 7.3%. Ten years later, #Mississippi's rate fell to 18.1, which still appears to be highest; #New_Hampshire's rate reached 5.6%, which likewise appears to still be the lowest.
In Irwindale, the water came out looking like diluted milk ... and stayed that way several minutes later. It is an old rock quarrying town, so I suspect it was just rock debris suspended in the water.
In Mississippi, the water came out yellow for a few days before getting clear again. The same thing happened in #Baton_Rouge, but it was only one or two days and it only happened once.
Advance teams from another agency have shown up, but they (and most of around 50 other federal agencies) are preoccupied with #Louisiana right now. And I guess parts of #Texas, #Mississippi, #Alabama as well.
So far, no familiar faces from other agencies, but I seeing people from $EMPLOYER that I haven’t seen in person since 2015, 2017, 2019.
Ida lands as a category 4 hurricane with estimated sustained winds of 150MPH and gusts of 185MPH. #LA is getting torn up from the winds and the flooding. (I saw storm surge forecasts of 15ft last night, I’d guess even more ocean water than expected got pushed onshore with this higher wind speed.)
I really hope most people got out of Dodge before the storm arrived. Otherwise, this is conversation with your Maker time in #Louisiana and probably #Mississippi ( #MS ) and #Alabama ( #AL ) right now.
#Daddy_A lived in #AZ for a year or two. When I told him how hot it is today, he immediately told me how glad he is to have left #SoCal and #Arizona to move to #NE ( #Nebraska gets both hot and humid, but not as hot as AZ or as humid as #Mississippi ).
> ... the [US] South and China, two places where people know how to eat.
I haven't been to #China, so I have no opinion on their food (except I know it differs from what we know as #Chinese_food in the US). However, I have worked in #Alabama, #Mississippi, and #Louisiana.
Overall, I was not impressed. #LA had the best food of the three, but it was usually so highly salted that I quickly went back to putting some rice, meat, and beans in a slow-cooker.
The exception was lunchtime: whenever I could make it there, I went to a particular gas station in Baton Rouge to buy lunch. Imagine Popeye's Famous Louisiana chicken, but turned up to 11! (Or maybe Popeye's took the gas station recipe and dialed it down a notch or two.) Anyway, that was good, though that much fried food is naturally unhealthy.
@alpacaherder ESR's remarks might be reasonable if he read https://nu.federati.net/notice/492103 and let his position moderate a little. As his position stands now, the local Black population in #Mississippi must continue to see these symbols of injustice standing in places of honor whenever they seek justice in court.
Sure, there are extremists on both sides, and those extremists endanger our nation's survival more than hostile foreign nations do. I just don't think his position (blaming everything on those who'd like to see the statues removed) is either reasonable or workable.