OT: 119th Obsequious Banter Thread: April Foods Day

[Embiid]

US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math.

apnews.com

 

[Embiid]

So prelim reports are that the co-pilot of the Blackhawk was a woman and the pilot was a male and that they were in a training environment with supposedly the pilot overseeing the co-pilot....

If confirmed ..that is going to go over real well in our current military "culture" "debate."

Edit: then you have this....can't wait for my air travel this year...

Live Updates: Control Tower Staffing Was ‘Not Normal’ During Deadly Crash, F.A.A. Report Says​

An internal report suggested that the controller on duty the night of the accident was doing a job usually handled by two people. The collision between a jet and an Army helicopter killed 67 people, whose bodies were being recovered from the icy Potomac.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/29/us/plane-crash-washington-dc

 

[Lord Defect]

Immigrants make up 70-75% of ALL Farmworkers with 45-50% being Undocumented/Illegal.

Farm Labor | Economic Research Service

The Farm Labor topic page presents data and analysis on the size and composition of the U.S. agricultural workforce; recent trends in the employment of hired farmworkers; farmworkers' demographic characteristics, legal status, and migration practices; trends in wages and labor cost shares; and...

www.ers.usda.gov

42%, but what I said was less than 3% of those that are illegals pick produce, meaning from the whole population of those that are not legally in the US not just farm workers.

 

[Rebels57]

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42%, but what I said was less than 3% of those that are illegals pick produce, meaning from the whole population of those that are not legally in the US not just farm workers.

Which is not relevant at all to the origin of the conversation...which was about how deporting immigrant farmworkers is going to cause massive produce inflation.

 

[Lord Defect]

Which is not relevant at all to the origin of the conversation...which was about how deporting immigrant farmworkers is going to cause massive produce inflation.

42% of our farm work force only being 3% of the total of illegal immigration’s in the country shows how bad the issue is.
I haven’t seen ice raiding farms for day laborers, but I have seen ice arresting murderers, rapists and pedophiles.
There have been people who’s only (known) crime has been entering the country illegally but that was due to their proximity to the primary targets.