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  1. The SSA Service Center that they just closed ten of? Nice.
  2. Good stuff. Between a move and the weather, I just haven't ridden much in the last year. NX is perfectly fine. I will suggest, however, that GX is usually not much more expensive and is better constructed (screws instead of pins, bearings instead of bushings, that sort of thing) than NX. One bummer about most SRAM offerings, although I think they're addressing it with T-Type is big jumps at the low (gear) end of the cassette. Might check your existing ratios (Shimano tends to be better about it) and compare to what you're getting so you don't get kind of a rude surprise. Where we ride, to my mind, those last couple of gears before the big granny gear are much more useful. Also might price out DeOre. It's heavy, especially the cassette, but I have been very happy with mine. You may need to stick with NX for the driver, though.
  3. And not "it won't pass because it's fucking crazy," but "it won't pass because they won't get to it this session."
  4. Curiously, or not, that just says the bill is procedurally unlikely. It doesn't say a goddamn thing about how fucking crazy it is or how crazy the lege is. It was introduced by a Jersey Village anesthesiologist, not some small-population west or east Texas crank.
  5. Can't edit, but a good article from Vox summarizing many of his views. https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%3A//www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarvin-neoreaction-redpill-moldbug#content He's also wrong that the executive has lost power. It's Congress. Far preferable, in his view, would be a government run like most corporations — with one leader holding absolute power over those below, though perhaps accountable to a “board of directors” of sorts (he admits that “an unaccountable autocracy is a real problem”). This monarch/CEO would have the ability to actually run things, unbothered by pesky civil servants, judges, voters, the public, or the separation of powers. “How do we achieve effective management? We know one simple way: find the right person, and put him or her in charge,”
  6. We probably won't see a reduction in defense spending, but this is gonna put a hurt on our defense industry. All the negative without the positive.
  7. He is. The amusing thing is, for all his pro-authoritarian writing, he candidly admits that there is a shit ton of adverse risk associated with an authoritarian. Risk than sensible people don't want to take.
  8. Oh, I am quite sure Elmo will touch it. He'll put his fucked-up dick right on it unless someone stops him.
  9. One sort of bizarre thing I stumbled across is the "post-graduate year" at eastern boarding schools, like Lawrenceville, etc. The aim of this seems to be raising the profile of a student athlete for recruitment to college athletics. Fairly obviously, this is not for P5 schools, but for lower tier schools. The boarding schools themselves are astronomically expensive and have competitive admissions, but, if a coach is interested, kind of like actual college, things can happen.
  10. Also, Greenland voted against annexation or similar by the US.https://www.politico.eu/article/greenlanders-say-no-donald-trump-key-election-independence/ Soooo, JD, you gonna listen to the voters, a majority of the voters? Or is that only for disgusting right-wing minorities in Europe?
  11. Raise you a Yeats. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? That is uncannily on point.
  12. Yeah, tariffs to protect domestic industry, unless targeted against specific misbehavior, like dumping, is a very long game. It probably hasn't ever brought jobs back to a nation, but if it did, it would take 20 years. Twenty painful, costly years. And, as Bates wisely points out, the timeframe and (un)certainty is such that the required domestic investment just isn't going to happen. It's gonna be whack-a-mole for foreign manufacturing.
  13. If there was any doubt that Elmo is a completely self-interested prick: https://gizmodo.com/democrats-expected-to-pass-a-bill-drafted-by-elons-lawyers-that-threatens-your-retirement-fund-2000573901 Law firm Richards, Layton & Finger, a prominent Delaware corporate firm has introduced a bill to eliminate shareholder protections against ridiculous executive compensation packages. Delaware, in the corporate race to the bottom, is expected to pass it.
  14. Do it motherfucker. I hope you're vaporized in a cloud of LOx.
  15. If I did that, I have zero doubt the wires would pull out of the connector and then I'd get to drive it, probably running like hammered shit to the shop.
  16. Extensively. There's exactly one video and it blows right past the connector. 2017 Cadillac ATS 2.0T
  17. All we needed to know, right there.
  18. Just an update, this didn't happen either. Apparently, Free Speech Systems was dismissed from bankruptcy and the assets were actually FSS's, not Jones' personally. As a result, only Jones' ownership of FSS, the shares or equity, can be auctioned. However, the judge did indicate some receptivity to reopening the FSS bankruptcy. I think it was @Gladeite that explained how the two were tied together to permit basically simultaneous liquidation of both. The families can still chase them in state court. Really good question which is a better option.
  19. And what the fuck is this shit?
  20. But. you see, none of us ever quibbled with your fundamental causes, just the way you went about asserting them. And, your, uh, vehicle. And you got real huffy and left when we told you how your case was going to come out due to qualified immunity.
  21. Jesus Christ, Howard, I was given to think you had a brain. Of all the various justifications for tariffs, the notion that domestic goods get cheaper is absolutely not one of them. Ever.
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