Captainant

Rex, don't you have some carcinogens or forever chemicals to dump into an elementary school or something? You're playing dumb and claiming that the consent of the governed doesn't matter in a democracy

I'm not talking about a single office, and neither was the linked Princeton study that you didn't read. Across the board, constituents do not set policy and their consent does not ever factor into its passage

Well my dad was an advanced Parkinson's patient of a couple decades in his early 60s so I guess I left that important detail out. I more meant to make the point that when you're older and your body is in worse shape, things that used to be minor can quickly become debilitating I'm saying that the number of people who want a policy or a politician to succeed doesn't matter anymore, and that it indexes more closely to the wishes of whomever has the most money. https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/ Said more plainly, were moving back towards caring more about land owners over the people living on that land. Granted, I'm sure that's how you prefer things

IIRC, the $13B number is the service life cost of the vessel, I think they're only $5B or so to build Edit: nvm I'm wrong holy shit those are expensive

People are overestimating genAI like they were with blockchain a few years ago. Businesses are adding into their roadmap because their investors are asking them to - not because there's an actual business problem they're trying to solve and think it's the right tool. I don't think it's gonna be as revolutionary as all the MBAs need it to be, but there's such big bets being placed because they think it can replace a ton of workers with compute capacity.

You're saying this just vaguely enough to fit in at Sunday school so they think you're talking about the evil gay agenda trying to groom their children, rather than the Sunday school teacher

In his last couple years before he passed, you could tell when my dad had a virus or infection - he would go from a pretty smart and clever dude to someone that would forget what he were saying as he was saying it. And he was a couple decades younger than Biden, so I can imagine the strain he was under. Unfortunate timing, but its a risk we are exposed to when an 82yo is running. It's a damn shame that money is what gets representation rather than citizens in America, but we're just gonna keep getting bidens and other olds for as long as dollars matter more than people

ATF just had a whoooooole bunch of rules go away too

Say more, please

being an 80+ year old with a cold is gonna do a fuckin doozie on you

No no, you're supposed to say your boat was out of wifi! 😛

Yeah I wonder why america was closer to russia while trump had the con....

Well it's a good thing they took their fucking time to start doing fucking ANYTHING about those crimes, then. I wonder what all the self-righteous surly law dawgs are gonna do when the legal system completely falls apart under their feet as the supremes continue to chip away at the foundation

So in summary, you didn't actually want to discuss - you wanted to propagandize and took your ball and went home when it didn't find an audience. Try texags, you'll probably find more your speed there

How is it that you still don't understand that it doesn't matter WHAT trump says or does, it's simply that he's getting oxygen and airtime that matters to him. His insanity is a feature, not a bug. It's not a surprise that a deranged rapist said crazy shit and lied through his teeth. You can't give people like that any platform. They'll just abuse it an shit all over everything.

I mean just look at his past work, in Fast Five he totally flip-flops the entire damn movie!

tastes like microplastics and PFAS

So now that bribery is legal, the judiciary is now solely responsible for regulatory oversight. Is this where all the lawyers come and tell me I'm overreacting and that this is how a healthy system actually looks?

Hell, the current PFAS innundation we're enjoying is in large part thanks to rule rollbacks and loopholes put into place by trumpco. Businesses don't have to report how much they're discharging, so they can dump until somebody notices

They could have at least pushed him out of the window of the car, jeeze

Whichever group holds the most money tends to get the most representation in our government.

It's often the case that there's no "right" answer when picking a set of tradeoffs, but rather which set of constraints incurred leave you the most design space available, or are most palatable to the stakeholders. However, there's absolutely cases where something is the "WRONG!!!" answer even when there isnt a single "right" answer.

I think the openness to drinking poison and lies from our enemies under the guise of #bothsides and a false notion of "the truth is ALWAYS in the middle" can lead to you getting taken for a ride by fascists. It's that good faith and tolerance for their intolerance and deceit that instigates the power imbalance and is a major contributing factor to why the justice system is so biased in favor of the wealthy and powerful. Because they'll always be able to throw out more grist for your intellectual mill than you can process. They'll drown you in a firehose of falsehoods if you give them the mic, you spend all your time debunking their lies so your message doesn't get out. We see it in action with how trump campaigns, and how cannon defends her client from the bench. But if you have brain worms that compell you to believe that everything is always done in good faith and there's always some reasonable middle ground, then you're gonna get taken for a fuckin ride.

I agree that how Biden looked was awful, but what do we expect from an octagenarian with a virus? I think it is dumb to run olds that are so vulnerable to stuff that someone under 60 could handle with more stamina and resiliency. But then again, when money directly equates to political power in our system, it's not terribly surprising that our political leaders represent that constituency of hoarding boomers more than the broad American public