@exage03040 I have it on fairly good authority that our firm, a national company, would love to mandate it, but we'd lose to many people in small town prarieland/flatganistan that it would cripple us, since our company has a lot of branches.

@forsweden said in Chappelle: The Closer:

know your place in the progressive stack

This is my take as well.

@davesaddiction I thought it was a brilliantly and subtly written piece of comedy genius. It touches on so many nuances of our current culture.

@dipodomysdeserti lazy can be hard to judge - perceptions shape the accusations, and people always overestimate their lack of it.

There's that faltering mobility again. I'm sure a few more trickle down tax cuts will fix it.

@dipodomysdeserti And it was a moronic word choice unbecoming of his ex-office, and a line that will be mocked for some time. I mean, just more real talk from a legit alpha male, a brave warrior for truth justice and freedom who was just telling it like it is.

I'd rather live in the leafy wealthy environs where 45 got his silver spoon than methlandia or hills have eyes territory.

@kingt "Traffic is terrible south of 125th Street in Manhattan, so cars should be banned everywhere. I am very smart."

@pip-bip Hot take: he made a career out of carrying out people's deaths. Might have been necessary. Maybe just got caught on the last go of it.

@bison78 said in Ban Archery:

@dipodomysdeserti

My point is that the courts have already decided that there is no absolute and unfettered right to own guns.

Kind of an irrelevant point to make. I think everyone realizes the state can strip your rights away if you commit or threaten to commit acts of violence (or any other crime). Otherwise incarceration would be banned. The issue is how long can they take them away for after you’ve paid your debt to society, and if it’s ethically acceptable to restrict basic human rights while incarcerated, which the US doesn’t seem to have a problem with.

It sounded like you were insinuating people with mental illness can lose constitutional rights without due process (you made a very vague statement), which is not true. The SC, in recent years, has been trending towards reducing the ability of the state to restrict the 2nd Amendment, and has ruled that it is an individual right, and not reserved for militias (this overturned handgun bans in several states). They’ve already reduced the ability of states to restrict gun ownership, and will be tackling the issue of allowing people to carry said guns this Fall.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990846329/supreme-court-to-take-up-first-major-gun-rights-case-in-more-than-a-decade

@nickhasanexocet said in Small engine gasoline engines will be illegal in California starting in 2024:

If I had my 2021 income in 2013 when I moved here, I MIGHT have had a shot but I was making less than half what I make now.

When I had the chance, I went for it, even though it meant that I was very stretched at the time. It worked out very well for me.

@dipodomysdeserti Must be the Praetor holster? https://patents.justia.com/patent/D651792

I remember that being in the news, that shit was a trip.

At his initial sentencing in August, Holiwell said he had lost everything. The court found him indigent and waived all non-mandatory court fees. King County prosecutors later learned that he cashed in his retirement for more than $180,000.

Prosecutors filed a successful motion to vacate the judgment based on fraud and misrepresentation.

That last little bit tacked on the extra 5 months to his initial sentence.

He seems to trade on his first and middle now, seems smart.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrion-keith-258abb143/

Recent stuff about his Cultivus Group Consulting.
https://ewm-insights-love.captivate.fm/episode/ewm-insights-with-special-guest-darrion-holiwell

"where he presently advises customers on safety strategies at home and the workplace."

"safety strategies at home" You know, like how to defend yourself from shitbags like himself.

@forsweden said in How reliable is your pathologist?:

@bison78 my pathologist never contributed to our LeMons team. Totally unreliable

That’s shocking. I volunteered in a pathology lab at the VA, and they were the strangest group of people I’ve ever met. Unadulterated weirdos. LeMons seems right up their alley.

@davesaddiction Easiest way for an R to commit political suicide right now is to bash Trump. Speaks volumes. I suspect a person could come out favoring both Hitler and Stalin and still fare better than a Trump-basher.

@bison78 It seems more like he’s bragging for the next job than truly whistleblowing. Pretty disgusting stuff to be involved in.

@davesaddiction said in Tell Me You Don't Have a Space Program Without Telling Me You Don't Have a Space Program:

@smallbear

But the law is on their side.

Just hypothetically, how would this play out, in a modern setting, if both sides were intransigent? Short of physical violence to the monarch and all heirs, what legal way do "the subjects" have out of the current situation if the monarch doesn't want to cede power, and refuses to approve any laws attempting to change things?

If 100% of the citizenry is against the law, the law has already lost.

As far as how it would play out, IMO we have two historical examples in the French Revolution and the Magna Carta. If it's just the lower classes and nobody will listen, you get violence and the power of the monarch is slowly eroded to the point where they can be eliminated without causing any additional uproar. If it's everybody, the monarch is essentially getting told "sign this or remain a figurehead with reduced powers, or you're going to be in a forced retirement". Heck, iirc that's kind of how even the Russian revolution was going until the White armies became dangerously close to freeing the Tzar and restoring his power... though in that case they were just itching for a chance to kill him anyway

@qaaaaa literally anyone with an IQ above room temperature.

Did you know that Donald Trump's real name in Donald Drumpf?

haha got 'em!

@forsweden said in media negativity, non-profit news sources, and media veracity/bias:

American News: Here's why you should be mad!
British News: Turn to page 3 for naked ladies

We really fucked up by separating from them

@darkbrador

This is good OPPO.

@davesaddiction I think you've probably hit on part of it. If unions make a stink about this (inevitable) thing, they may be able to get some concessions down the road somewhere else.

Also, in my very limited experience, union officials feel the need to act in opposition to everything to help justify the union's existence.

@carsoffortlangley said in DOTS: An F-150:

@dipodomysdeserti lol, fair. Like I said it's not without it's issues, but it is amusing knowing people who believe in this can't dine out, drink out, go to any shows or rec centres

I trust the vaccines based on the data I’ve researched, but I’m not amused by any of this, and I don’t think it will help in the long run.

@bison78 said in USA: Hold my beer:

@dipodomysdeserti said in USA: Hold my beer:

I think everyone, of all political stripes, needs to chill out.

Chilling out and ignoring the fact that there was an attempt to overthrow a democratically-elected government? Is that really what you want?

No, as I never said a thing about ignoring anything. Those people should all be prosecuted along with anyone that was inciting violence. It’s Biden’s DOJ now, so the ball’s in his court. Kind of weird they haven’t filed charges against any of the politicians involved in that event.

But if that’s the group of people that we have to worry about overthrowing 250 years of democracy, then yes, people need to chill out, and probably inform themselves better about the various institutions that have made our democracy the oldest still in existence. Hint: there’s a lot more powerful people and institutions that have been eroding our democracy through legal means.

@nickhasanexocet
Early run boomers were buying houses (for relatively little) en masse by the early-mid 70s, and knew they'd benefit from such legislation, and indeed they have.

Look at the exclusions and exemptions for the estate tax. I'll wager it's not relevant to your situation, and I know it isn't to mine. "Death tax" is more right wing alarmist wording. A smart person can manage their estate to avoid such problems, as smart wealthy people do today (as we already have an estate tax/"death tax"). Might be moot anyway, as I've read Biden's earlier proposition might be scaled back or abandoned altogether. But really, for infrastructure, maybe it should be funded like when America was "great", before trickle down and Randian fantasy warped so many minds (but did allow fortunes to be kept in the hands of people, who hoarded it instead of putting it back into the economy as theorized/lied about).

The US has lost its lead in economic mobility, and the socio-economic gap is at Gatsby-era levels (waiting for it to hit Dickensian levels). Something broke, and as the US has no politically powerful bonafide left wing, lefty economics are not behind it.

I've spent a significant amount of time in Europe - not just on sheltered business trips or on a military make work project, either. I know that some parts of a social democracy work better than what we call capitalism, which in some facets as wealth consolidates has become kind of an oligocracy, and the prior regime was heading for kakistocracy. There is no perfect place, but there is always something to learn from your peers.

@dipodomysdeserti our foreign relations secretary calls them "economic refugees" and I find a lot of truth in that. If violence was a precursor to migration, Mexicans would also be leaving in droves, but our economy has gotten stronger over the last 50 years even if there's more violence now.