Harrison Bergeron

Got it (thanks all). I did not connect that Jimmy was "rodeoing" ... assumed he was doing his job and got shot off his horse.

Yes, but the concertgoers do not have large insurance coverage. The city and LiveNation should have responsibility to provide a reasonably safe environment (not a legal argument but a moral on), and of course Scott bears much of the blame for encouraging his fans to disregard reasonable security precautions. I would assume legally the question will be whether the city and LiveNation met their legal obligations in terms of security and safety. Not sure how true it is, but news reported that people were crashing the gates before the concert, i.e. the crowd likely exceeded capacity ... feels like that was the venue's responsibility to ensure capacity was not exceeded to unsafe levels. Terrible tragedy.

Yeah, but then jury will be a function of white privilege and a symptom of white supremacy, so they deserved it.

That SOB is to blame for my rabbit hole of obsession with The Great War! I loved his podcasts ... he got a little to much TDS for my taste but still good work. I started Supernova in the East but too much competition these days. Now that it is done need to go back and re-start. I also loved his older episodes on the history of Rome.

The anti-factual talking points that pass as "history" among the woke narratives may be worse than the artificial American jingoism of the 20th Century ... especially among people that ostensibly have an academic credential. Even the concept of "indigenous people." Whoever was there when Europeans arrived took their land from someone else. Despite the horrific treatment, still not sure there were not many American Indian tribes that would be relieved to see an American show up vs. some Apaches or Comanches. The world has been a brutal, violent place filled with oppression and slavery since Creation.

Like most of us, my history classes spent maybe one day on WWI and a week on WWII. During the last 10 years, I've really become fascinated with The Great War. I agree 100% - World War I had a much larger impact on on world history than World War II: I shifted the center of global economic power from London to New York The collapse of the Ottoman Empire removed the stabilizing force in much of Eastern Europe and the Middle East Catalyzed the Russian revolution and victory for the bolsheviks and led ultimately to the USSR, Cold War, etc. (Germans sent Lenin back to Russia in a train with the aim of destabilizing the empire) Cemented a Anglo-Franco alliance after centuries of war and rivalry Collapse or the Austro-Hungarian empire removed the stabilizing force in Eastern Europe and launched balkanization The re-drawing of the geographic maps in the Central Powers can be viewed as the start of both WWII and 9/11 And it is amazing that the war began on bicycles and horseback with soldiers dressed in 19th Century colorful uniforms and ended with massive slaughter in trenches from airplanes, machine guns, and long-range artillery.

Wouldn't be the first time it incorrectly made someone a paramedic for, you know, the misinformation narrative.

Can someone be kind enough to remind me what word he gave to Dutton? Was it to not ride?

Probably a stupid question, but have there been commensurate improvements in transmission technology, i.e. could we today more efficiently build more remote reactors without worrying about losing significant efficiency in the transmission process?

I have some sympathy for them. If one gets all information exclusively from partisan web sites, one would believe your alternate worldview is reality. It is always amazing when you read polling data or watch videos how there are enormous amounts of people in the U.S. that have strongly held believes about realities - not opinions but literally basic facts - that are completely divorced from the actual data.

One day I'll learn my lesson. I thought you were joking ... they should changed the name to the Projection Room.

FIFY.

That's why I'm generally not a fan of nationalizing local stories. In a perfect world, our cable news would actually dedicate time to things that actually affect our lives (domestically and especially internationally) as opposed to these stupid stories like this that just inflame already polarized morons.

He won't be because this never was about justice. It is political theater for twatter blue checks. In fairness, I am not watching the trial but just reading your reports ... I have a respect for Grosskreutz for being honest. I'm naive, but I would assume many witnesses would just lie (in cases where they could not obviously be charged with perjury). Okay ... maybe I should retract that given the "chasing" comment LOL. Do you think the defense will put Rittenhouse on the stand? I had heard it said it would, but at this point can it help or only hurt?

Same here. It will randomly neg more multiple times for no particular reason other than opposing whatever group think its prescribed to that day.

I love reading this thread and then the CR thread.

Not a lawyer, energy person, or cloak room expert ... in my lay opinion, we should rely focus on nuclear until another suitable alternative emerges. I feel like nuclear and renewables are the opposite side of the same coin - renewables are inefficient and not particularly good for the environment, but the average person feels good about it. Nuclear is efficient, but the average person is scared of it.

FIFY

We need to really focus our attention on key issues - was the basic tune of our school song ever played in a setting that might be construed as "racist" by today's wokies?

For a continent whose primary export was slaves. Pretty sure 90% of its GDP was from selling other humans to Arabs and Europeans.

Do you even systematic racism bruh?

it's called "what I repeated from twatter meets reality."

Rittenhouse was foolish, but his "heart was in the right place" if you will. He went there with the intention to keep peace and help people - he's even seen on tape trying to help a rioter. The brownshirts went there just to burn, loot, and murder and bring destruction on innocent, hard-working people. I get that has not real bearing on the facts of the case, but it is so weird to hear people who regular rely on "good intent" attack Rittenhouse as some sort of domestic terrorist bogeyman and excuse intentional criminals. #clownworld

Black Velma is hiding Scrappy and his twin under her sweater.