BrickHorn

You have no fucking clue what you’re talking about. See, e.g., Pickering v. Board of Education and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.

Hat tip to Rex and Euro for executing an all-time great moron-to-moron alley-oop.

The proposal that humans will ever sustainably colonize Mars (much less in the next 30 years) is painfully stupid. Never mind the obvious issues that Mars has no food and virtually no oxygen or water, so we would need to haul all that shit out there just to set up a small enclosure that could support life. The bigger problems are geological. Mars has no global magnetic field. Couple that with the thin atmosphere, and the sun would bombard any human on Mars’s surface with ionizing radiation. Even assuming we could eventually set up a colony there, its inhabitants would need to be artificially shielded (in spacesuits, under ground, etc.). And Mars has only 38% of Earth’s gravity. Living in reduced gravity long term could have all kinds of negative impacts on human health and could potentially fuck up our ability to reproduce. And the low gravity coupled with the lack of a magnetic field means any attempt to terraform Mars (i.e. create an Earth-like atmosphere) would be doomed to failure - the Sun would eventually blast it away. Can we solve this problem? Not in our lifetimes. You’d have to somehow slam Mars with asteroids or some shit for millennia, and wait for it the resultant composite to form a solid planet of sufficient mass. We’re talking about geological time scales here. And even then, there’s the problem of how to get a global magnetic field going on Mars. And further: even if we could do all of that, compared to Earth, Mars is 50% further from the Sun. Which means we can’t just add an atmosphere and some water and hope to replicate Earth’s climate there. (This problem would be exacerbated if we don’t go to the trouble of scaling Mars up to Earth’s size and mass). It’s fun to ponder extraterrestrial colonization and space exploration is important if for no other reason than it expands our knowledge. But talk of a near-term sustainable colony anywhere outside of the thin little habitable shell on our home planet is fucking idiocy.

Yes, in the case of public employees the analysis is a bit complicated. For example, courts have to balance first amendment rights against the government’s interests in functioning efficiently and maintaining legitimacy. My point is more broadly about the nature of freedom of speech - it’s just freedom from (some, but not all) consequences.

I often see this point made, but it reflects a misunderstanding of the first amendment. Freedom of speech is freedom from consequences. In fact, that’s pretty much all it is. The state cannot enforce consequences against someone on the basis of their speech.

25 years, at least.

Maher has the most annoying combination of personality traits: he’s both condescending and extremely dumb.

One guy single-handedly dropped two points. Hard to pin this on the entire team. Seemed like everyone else was doing their jobs.

Worst single game I’ve seen from a Pool player since Karius in the 2018 CL final. He’s been dreadful and the last two goals are entirely on him.

Let’s stop talking logic and discuss actual data. This article claims the 400 richest families in America mad $1.8 trillion in income between 2010-2018 (the chart posted above is actually from 2018). That equates to an average annual income of $500 million. Stop wasting everyone’s time with bullshit distractions.

Your view is that it is possible that, on average, the 400 wealthiest Americans earn less than $75k in annual income? And you believe that view is not fantasy? Okay.

And you and 399 other randos could all fuck Sydney Sweeney, but the chances of that happening are vanishingly small. Your point is based on an irrelevant fantasy world.

That’s unrealistic and you know it. If you have $4.5 billion and aren’t making at least $200 million in annual income just off investment returns, dividends, rents, etc., you’re an idiot and don’t deserve your money anyway. And no billionaire should ever be in a situation where their annual income only qualifies them for the bottom 50% on that measure (which would mean less than $75k), much less the 400 richest Americans as a class (which is what that chart measured). Your criticism is pedantic and ultimately meaningless. It’s a pure red herring.

What a ridiculous red herring. Do you honestly believe that any billionaire, as measured by wealth, would even remotely approach the bottom 50% annual income bracket? Even assuming a modest 5% annual return on their wealth, the least wealthy billionaire would rake in $50 million, placing them somewhere within the top tiny fraction of a percent income wise. Other than weird one-offs where some mega billionaire has to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock at a paper “loss,” of course. And do you think anyone in the lower half income wise has anywhere approaching a billionaire’s accumulated wealth?

That will teach Prof. Heyman to speak freely on the UT campus outside of Free Speech Week!

The Cryptobro flavor of this is even more amazingly stupid. “The world will collapse and all critical infrastructure with it. No power, no telecommunications, no internet. Fiat currency will be worthless. Worthless! The only usable money will be entries on a digital ledger that can be exchanged only by running computationally intensive algorithms running on massive, power-guzzling data centers accessed over the Internet.”

BriskittishTexan, imo

The least shocking part of that video is that the argumentative douche was wearing sport specs.

We made too many charity substitutions too early.

I missed the first half but Harvey is crushing it in the second. Great effort on both his assist and goal.

You’re right. I confused you with some of the fascist dipshits who post here. The implication was unwarranted. My apologies.

This is what fascists do. They lie. And they do so preposterously. Orwell was a god damned prophet. The implication that “silencing Jewish students” was a goal of the protests is a lie. There were of course counterprotests which, although smaller, were not “silenced” or otherwise harassed by those protesting against Israel. And stating that the university upheld its values and mission statements is another absurd lie. This is the same university that, just last year, couldn’t shut the fuck up about how committed it was to free speech on campus. Self-congratulatory puffery about that supposed commitment is all over the UT website. But maybe I’m being too narrow minded. Maybe UT truly is committed to its core values, which only last week became obedience, capricious order, and selective rights. And maybe Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Good God. Kewpie dolls have come to life and they’re posting Nazi shit on Twitter!