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this is correct...gorsuch tried to cover his ass here by saying that this case is unique because it applied to a job involving "expression." he's effectively left himself an out here to basically stratify businesses to say that "expressive" businesses (as opposed to essential worker businesses) are unique in this situation. it's too clever by half. guess who else's business is expressive? media. marketing firms. advertising. gun manufacturers. etc... "hey now, the lawnmowers i repair are bespoke works of art when i am done with them. i have expressed my artistic preference in my workaround designs." it is so dumb.

i have read enough of your posts to realize that you are too informed to actually believe this false equivalence is remotely relevant to the discussion. i am left wondering why you would post it.

100% agree with brickhorn and the actual underlying thinking from the ussc on this one. unlike his asinine opinions related to prince's abilities as a guitarist, he nailed this one imo. accepting the premise that higher education has become obscenely discriminatory and punitive over the last three decades, it is undoubtedly a serious crisis. however... the arbitrary and unilateral movement here is just so material and has legitimate objectors with compelling cases. this is one that is not black and white in terms of "doing the right thing" when viewed objectively. of course people burdened by student loans are feeling crushed by interest rates. but so were the people before them and the people after them. the person that paid their $100K loan off fully after 20 years and it just happened to be in 2019 has a legitimate inequity gripe...had the person simply repudiated the loan contract instead of performing, they would have been released from the obligation randomly because the president felt like it. moreover, after having paid their's off, now they are, as a taxpayer, contributing to paying someone else's off. people arguing that someone was uniquely impacted by the covid economy were also granted a very long interest holiday. i don't raise these arguments to advocate for one side or another...just to point out that there is a bit of antagonism and inequity in the application of a unilateral movement by a single person's desire with half a trilion dollars of impact. the materiality and significance to the overall nation and its economy rise to the level of needing to be decided and instituted by legislative process. the issue should become engaged by society and a centerpiece of voting. make it a question for the primaries and the elections. congressman, where do you stand on a specific package of student debt relief. that way, the people have a voice in it and advocates on both sides of the argument can vote with their feet. giving the power to the president to just wake up one day and say meh, let's spend half a trillion dollars today that benefits a targeted segment of the population to the detriment of others is similar to having the president be able to say hey, i woke up today and i want to invade iraq. wait... as for the 303-elenis case, congrats to bigots everywhere! you can finally now discriminate against the people you hate so much because a greek guy wrote some stupid shit he was thinking down a couple thousand years ago. it's really time for alito, thomas, and gorsuch to make a trip to big bend. they are genuinely such terrible, terrible fucking scumbags whose hypocrisy knows no bounds and whose shame is nonexistent.

someone who likes black beans in her breakfast tacos.

i don't disagree with madonna's songs being great pop songs. i still listen to them. but she did not write like 30 of her 80 singles and most of the others were co-written. relative to most anyone else, she is an all-time songwriter. relative to swift's catalogue that is mostly exclusively written by her as i understand it, i'd give the nod to taylor. my dad put this poster up in my room when i was like 6.

beyonce, madonna, tay tay are all phenomenons. i am conversant in madonna's 80's and 90's catalogues. beyonce's 00's and '10's catalogue, and taylor's '14-present catalogue. all have skills in their own rights. madonna collided with and engaged cultural barriers in a way the other two did not regarding sexuality and female empowerment just as a result of timing. the other two have benefited substantially from madonna's trailblazing. beyonce undoubtedly encountered both significant challenges and a few benefits from her being african american. bey is clearly the best dancer of the three. taylor is easily the most talented of them musically and the best actual songwriter between them by a long, long shot and in terms of numbers, she is ridiculous to a point that is hard to fathom. but despite her little dips here and there into controversy, she's fairly white bread though i suspect she would be the easiest to be around day to day...she seems like a class act unless you have been her boyfriend at any point. justify my love madonna was pretty hot for sure. i posted that video because 11 year old me probably discovered the pleasures of jerking it while watching that video and basic instinct in the early 90's. dangerously in love beyonce is all-timer stuff...unbelievably melt your cock off hot. taylor has been cute at times and will probably hold up best over time. all i got.

for research purposes, is it safe to assume from your experience that high-end escorts have a preference for hotels over short term rental arrangements? cameras and such? fwiw, i have also really soured on airbnb/vrbo of late as well. last few experiences have left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth despite being an OBSCENELY respectful guest (primarily because i am an obsessive compulsive clean freak) and usually peoples' places are in substantially better shape when i leave than when i get there...

is that ferdinand the shark? what the ever loving fuck?

JWST Update...a few really cool additions. First up is a mid-infrared image of the Fomolhaut stellar system. This is an incredible resolution of a baby star with the protoplanetary debris disk beginning to separate and take shape. once can observe a couple of pretty obvious rings (including never before seen inner belts) that will continue to refine and the inner belt will aggregate into planets the same way as our solar system. the outer belt in this image is about 14 billion miles from the star. in comparison, pluto is 3.7 billion miles from our sun. next is the now famous galactic protocluster shot of the earliest observed galaxies. the five highlighted galaxies have a measured redshift of 7.9 which equates to approximately 650 million years after the big bang. looking at light that left its source about 14 billion years ago. while this picture isn't all that inspiring...it is showing the saturnian moon enceladus expelling a massive plume of h2o vapor. we now can follow the water to see that it helps contribute to the planet's famous rings. pretty strong evidence that enceladus is pretty damned close to earth's oceans in terms of molecular makeup...it is saltwater. no word yet on rednecks with salt life bumper stickers roaming the area. here is a great zoom of orion's bar. zooming in with the mid infrared cam, you can make out a protoplanetary disk in the massive molecular cloud. however, it is all deformed because the orion bar is in the process of getting ripped apart by stellar radiation.

nascar is still a thing? christ.

I’ve never been so struck by the profoundness of a silly insta meme before. nails it for me.

my list for this category has sadly gotten pretty small over the years. sigur ros, i'll get the new p.g., max richter, ludovico eunaudi...not much else.

so what you're saying is...there have been a few backwards steps since this?

he's absolutely right. in a streaming world, the way these guys make money now is by touring. have to do it. even big time acts are coming up with unconventional ways to release albums one song at a time, etc... to drive up stream counts but ultimately, gotta tour and gotta get those gates to maintain the income flow.

jesus fucking christ.

Coming here to post the same thing. That was amazing.

fuck everything.

pretty meta...given that we're talking about people that were willing to risk a horrible death in a pretend submarine with harold hill in order to go look through a piece of glass at the 100 year old remnants of a horrific tragedy at the bottom of the ocean.

mine was not casual. it was very boastful and purposeful...and it was extremely validating. and we are long way from a cycle. no corvettes, no raydog and his thai ladyboys, no abortion, no one telling anyone else they should kill themselves, no mention of hydraulics, and we haven't even gotten close to steering an argument regarding the absurdities of fundamentalist christianity into a metaphysical debate over axiom 3 of godel's ontological argument. that said, we did get a mile long post from brisket and someone used the term "efficientnado" so we are well on our way. but my key takeaways have actually been that 956 revealed to me the best idea i've seen in years...ghost writing this century's confederacy of dunces by aggregating all of wulaw's posts on this site and turning them into a novel.

wait, not diameter?