Clown World

[norman]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=k8XQL414H9U

[Bill Ryan]

I posted this on the Greenland thread, but it also belongs here.

Penguins are only found in the Antarctic, not the Arctic.

No-one in the White House knew that.

[Open Minded Dude]

"It's dead, Jim."

(Yes, BB is doing satire. But it is no difference to what actually happened to Star Trek. Woke DEI fanatics killed it for good. It's done.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rEUO2GINu8A

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BOcb-waTjXg

[grapevine]

Hero bus driver sacked

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SnqnwNFxMQA

[rgray222]

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them



n 2023, one month into my freshman year at Stanford University, an upperclassman was showing me her dorm room — a prized single in one of the nicest buildings on campus. As she took me around her space, which included a private bathroom, a walk-in shower and a great view of Hoover Tower, she casually mentioned that she had lived in a single all four years she had attended Stanford.

I was surprised. Most people don’t get the privilege of a single room until they reach their senior year.

That’s when my friend gave me a tip: Stanford had granted her “a disability accommodation”.

She, of course, didn’t have a disability. She knew it. I knew it. But she had figured out early what most Stanford students eventually learn: the Office of Accessible Education will give students a single room, extra time on tests and even exemptions from academic requirements if they qualify as “disabled”.

Everyone was doing it. I could do it, too, if I just knew how to ask.

A recent article in The Atlantic reported that an increasing number of students at elite universities were claiming they had disabilities to get benefits or exemptions, which can also include copies of lecture notes, excused absences and access to private testing rooms. Those who suffer from “social anxiety” can even get out of participating in class discussions.

But the most common disability accommodation students ask for — and receive — is the best housing on campus.

At Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where competition for the best dorm rooms is fierce, this practice is particularly rife. The Atlantic reported that 38 percent of undergraduates at my college were registered as having a disability — that’s 2,850 students out of a class of 7,500 — and 24 per cent of undergrads received academic or housing accommodations in the fall quarter.

At the Ivy League colleges Brown and Harvard, more than 20 per cent of undergrads are registered as disabled. Contrast these numbers with America’s community colleges, where only 3 to 4 per cent of students receive disability accommodations. Bizarrely, the schools that boast the most academically successful students are the ones with the largest number who claim disabilities — disabilities that you’d think would deter academic success.

The truth is, the system is there to be gamed, and most students feel that if you’re not gaming it, you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage.

That’s why I decided to claim my legitimate illness — endometriosis — as a disability at Stanford.

When I arrived on campus two and a half years ago, I would have assumed that special allowances were made for a small number of students who genuinely needed them. But I quickly discovered that wasn’t true. Some diagnoses are real and serious, of course, such as epilepsy, anaphylactic allergies, sleep apnea or severe physical disabilities.

But most students, in my experience, claim less severe ailments, such as ADHD or anxiety. And some “disabilities” are just downright silly. Students claim “night terrors”; others say they “get easily distracted” or they “can’t live with others”. I know a guy who was granted a single room because he needs to wear contacts at night. I’ve heard of a girl who got a single because she was gluten intolerant.

That’s why I felt justified in claiming endometriosis as a disability. It is a painful condition in which cells from the uterus grow outside the womb. I’m often doubled over in agony from the problem, for which there is no known cure, so I decided to ask for a single room in a campus dorm where I could endure those moments in private.

The application process was very easy. I registered my condition on the Stanford Office of Accessible Education website and made an appointment to meet an adviser later that week. The system is staffed largely by empathetic women who want to help students.

As I explained my diagnosis and symptoms over Zoom to one woman, she listened, nodded sympathetically, related my problems to her own life and asked a few basic questions. Within 30 minutes, I was registered as a student with a disability, entitled to more accommodations than I asked for.

In addition to a single housing assignment, I was granted extra absences from class, some late days on assignments and a 15-minute tardiness allowance for all of my classes. I was met with so little scepticism or questioning, I probably didn’t even need a doctor’s note to get these exemptions. Had I been pushier, I am sure I could have received almost any accommodation I asked for.

While I feel entitled to my single room, I would feel guilty about some of the perks I have — except that so many of my fellow students have gamed the system. Take Callie, a recent Stanford grad with ADHD and Asperger’s who agreed to be quoted under a pseudonym. Callie was diagnosed with her conditions in elementary school; in return, Stanford granted her a single room for all four years, plus extra time on tests — and a few more perks.

“In college, I haven’t had that many ‘in real life’ tests as opposed to take-home essays,” Callie told me. “When I did use the extra time, I felt guilty, because I probably didn’t deserve the accommodations, given the fact I got into Stanford and could compete at a high academic level. Extra time on tests — some students even get double time — seems unfair to me.”

But at Stanford, almost no one talks about the system with shame. Rather, we openly discuss, strategise and even joke about it. At a university of savvy optimisers, the feeling is that if you aren’t getting accommodations, you haven’t tried hard enough.

Another student told me that special “accommodations are so prevalent that they effectively only punish the honest”. Academic accommodations, they added, help “students get ahead … which puts a huge proportion of the class on an unfair playing ground”.

The gaming even extends to our meals. Stanford requires most undergraduates living on campus to purchase a meal plan, which costs $7,944 for the 2025-26 academic year. But students can get exempted if they claim a religious dietary restriction that the college kitchens cannot accommodate.

Full Story: https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-tod...bled-sw99r3k8c

[rgray222]

Universities are not only centers for hardcore leftist indoctrination, but they are also teaching students by the thousands that it is perfectly OK to be a [fake] victim. Standford in not an anomoly

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them

One of the most prestigious universities in the US offers perks to those who say they have ADHD, night terrors, even gluten intolerance. You’d be stupid not to game the system



In 2023, one month into my freshman year at Stanford University, an upperclassman was showing me her dorm room — a prized single in one of the nicest buildings on campus. As she took me around her space, which included a private bathroom, a walk-in shower and a great view of Hoover Tower, she casually mentioned that she had lived in a single all four years she had attended Stanford.

I was surprised. Most people don’t get the privilege of a single room until they reach their senior year.

That’s when my friend gave me a tip: Stanford had granted her “a disability accommodation”.

She, of course, didn’t have a disability. She knew it. I knew it. But she had figured out early what most Stanford students eventually learn: the Office of Accessible Education will give students a single room, extra time on tests and even exemptions from academic requirements if they qualify as “disabled”.

Everyone was doing it. I could do it, too, if I just knew how to ask.

A recent article in The Atlantic reported that an increasing number of students at elite universities were claiming they had disabilities to get benefits or exemptions, which can also include copies of lecture notes, excused absences and access to private testing rooms. Those who suffer from “social anxiety” can even get out of participating in class discussions.

But the most common disability accommodation students ask for — and receive — is the best housing on campus.

At Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where competition for the best dorm rooms is fierce, this practice is particularly rife. The Atlantic reported that 38 percent of undergraduates at my college were registered as having a disability — that’s 2,850 students out of a class of 7,500 — and 24 per cent of undergrads received academic or housing accommodations in the fall quarter.

At the Ivy League colleges Brown and Harvard, more than 20 per cent of undergrads are registered as disabled. Contrast these numbers with America’s community colleges, where only 3 to 4 per cent of students receive disability accommodations. Bizarrely, the schools that boast the most academically successful students are the ones with the largest number who claim disabilities — disabilities that you’d think would deter academic success.

The truth is, the system is there to be gamed, and most students feel that if you’re not gaming it, you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage.

That’s why I decided to claim my legitimate illness — endometriosis — as a disability at Stanford.

When I arrived on campus two and a half years ago, I would have assumed that special allowances were made for a small number of students who genuinely needed them. But I quickly discovered that wasn’t true. Some diagnoses are real and serious, of course, such as epilepsy, anaphylactic allergies, sleep apnea or severe physical disabilities.

But most students, in my experience, claim less severe ailments, such as ADHD or anxiety. And some “disabilities” are just downright silly. Students claim “night terrors”; others say they “get easily distracted” or they “can’t live with others”. I know a guy who was granted a single room because he needs to wear contacts at night. I’ve heard of a girl who got a single because she was gluten intolerant.

That’s why I felt justified in claiming endometriosis as a disability. It is a painful condition in which cells from the uterus grow outside the womb. I’m often doubled over in agony from the problem, for which there is no known cure, so I decided to ask for a single room in a campus dorm where I could endure those moments in private.

The application process was very easy. I registered my condition on the Stanford Office of Accessible Education website and made an appointment to meet an adviser later that week. The system is staffed largely by empathetic women who want to help students.

As I explained my diagnosis and symptoms over Zoom to one woman, she listened, nodded sympathetically, related my problems to her own life and asked a few basic questions. Within 30 minutes, I was registered as a student with a disability, entitled to more accommodations than I asked for.

In addition to a single housing assignment, I was granted extra absences from class, some late days on assignments and a 15-minute tardiness allowance for all of my classes. I was met with so little scepticism or questioning, I probably didn’t even need a doctor’s note to get these exemptions. Had I been pushier, I am sure I could have received almost any accommodation I asked for.

Full Story: https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-tod...bled-sw99r3k8c

[Open Minded Dude]

Dead/murdered and missing indigenous women are now part of the alphabet community.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MAJCdc_ZaE4

[onawah]

Clown World: Why Now?

Posted by onawah (here)
CLOWN WORLD: Why Now?
SpaceWeatherNews (S0)
839K subscribers
Apr 13, 2026

(Davidson doesn't mention a date for the finale of the current 12,000 year solar cycle disaster in this short video, but the general timing he has been predicting has been sometime in the 2040s.
However, the timing of the "killshot" from the Sun that could bring down the planetary electric grid is still "any time now", statistically, given that the Carrington Event of 1859 (which destroyed telegram equipment) if it happened now, would be enough to do it.
...And that could cut down the years remaining for Prepping for the cycle's finale considerably.
It makes news from the "Clown World" quite pale in comparison, but for those who prefer to remain in denial, there are still plenty of distractions being provided from that realm, and Ben cites a few here...

LEARN! • THE DISASTER CYCLE - The Evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=levsYok2ttw

SOCIAL MEDIA:
X (Twitter): https://X.com/SunWeatherMan

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3SsCLebz0Io

[Bill Ryan]

This has to belong here.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183023

Roman numerals are hard

[Open Minded Dude]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This has to belong here.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183023

Roman numerals are hard

I dearly hope we will never experience World War 33 then.

[kudzy]

You mean World War One Hundred and Eleven, lol.😂

[Paul D.]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This has to belong here.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183023

Roman numerals are hard

I don't know who she is so I'm in danger of saying something 'politically incorrect " but her smile of recognition at the end charmed me no end...beautiful 😍

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Paul D. (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This has to belong here.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183023

Roman numerals are hard

I don't know who she is so I'm in danger of saying something 'politically incorrect " but her smile of recognition at the end charmed me no end...beautiful 😍

That's admirably charitable.

It was US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota). Besides laughing out loud (I really did!), what I took away from this is that (a) someone else wrote her speech (of course), and (b) she probably rarely reads anything at all, and only listens to or watches videos. (It may be another indication of the decline of American education)

[Paul D.]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Paul D. (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This has to belong here.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183023

Roman numerals are hard

I don't know who she is so I'm in danger of saying something 'politically incorrect " but her smile of recognition at the end charmed me no end...beautiful 😍

That's admirably charitable.

It was US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota). Besides laughing out loud (I really did!), what I took away from this is that (a) someone else wrote her speech (of course), and (b) she probably rarely reads anything at all, and only listens to or watches videos. (It may be another indication of the decline of American education)

Ah, yes I've seen her before. I reckon,I have been politically incorrect from what I remember of her.
Nevertheless, I stand by my reaction , she's a beauty. 😃

[Ewan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This has to belong here.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183023

Roman numerals are hard

Mother of God!

[SilentFeathers]

This belongs in the clown world thread....

With all the high crimes that have happened and that are currently happening, Cash Patel expresses gleeful pride and extreme success for indicting James Comey for posting a picture of rocks on a beach arranged in the shape of 8647.

Just when you think things can't get more ridiculous!

https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/

[Ewan]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
This belongs in the clown world thread....

With all the high crimes that have happened and that are currently happening, Cash Patel expresses gleeful pride and extreme success for indicting James Comey for posting a picture of rocks on a beach arranged in the shape of 8647.

Just when you think things can't get more ridiculous!

https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/

I had to look that up, the significance of 8647.

8647 is a code used as a silent protest against Donald Trump, where "86" means to throw out or nix, and "47" refers to Trump as the 47th president. The code gained attention after former FBI Director James Comey shared it in a social media post, leading to controversy and accusations of inciting violence.

[rgray222]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
This belongs in the clown world thread....

With all the high crimes that have happened and that are currently happening, Cash Patel expresses gleeful pride and extreme success for indicting James Comey for posting a picture of rocks on a beach arranged in the shape of 8647.

Just when you think things can't get more ridiculous!

https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/

James Comey leaked unclassified information to his friend, only because he had declassified it before he let it go out the door. He violated FBI policy, which is bad but perfectly legal. Comey was as guilty as sin, but he covered his tracks exceptionally well. I understand Patel's glee, but it appears weak and so minimal that it is hardly worth the effort. Even if they get a conviction, the American people will think this is ridiculous. Patel's lack of awareness has left him looking foolish.

[rgray222]

This is really not appropriate for this thread because of the serious nature of the charge but I saw no other place to post it.



Italy expels Muslim leader [Imam] who defended marriage to 9-year-old girl.

Imam expelled in Brescia after statements about child marriage. The man was sent to Pakistan for posing a social danger.

Police in Brescia, northern Italy, expelled Imam Ali Kashif from Italian territory. The measure was taken after the religious leader declared on a television program that marriage with children as young as 9 years old was acceptable.

The decision was determined by commissioner Paolo Sartori. The police service escorted Kashif to the Malpensa Airport, in Milan. The man boarded a direct flight to Islamabad, Pakistan, according to the newspaper La Repubblica, this Friday (3)

The investigations began after a report was broadcast on the program. Out of the coreFrom the broadcaster Rete 4. A reporter used a hidden camera and pretended to be a student interested in the Islamic religion.

https://italianismo.com.br/en/italia...ina-de-9-anos/

[Open Minded Dude]

Posted by kudzy (here)
You mean World War One Hundred and Eleven, lol.😂

Yep. Thanks. Seems this lady also paralysed or blackouted my brain temporarily. Stupidity seems contagious sometimes if you are not careful enough in each moment.



WW 111 it would be, of course. Spoilt joke, my bad.

This being said, I also like her reaction to her own blunder, it's charming. So at least she noticed it a few seconds later, although it should not have happened to read it out loud in the first place, in a public speech.