@jolly said in Maskless: In the meantime, it's time to live life I never stopped.

@doctor-phibes said in Firearms Training (with commentary by Steve Inman): You laugh, but those two planned the Afghanistan withdrawal. I thought we were watching actual footage of the whole thing.

Damn little science involved in a lot of this...

@aqua-letifer said in Peterson speaks with Prager and the Man Show Guy: @jolly said in Peterson speaks with Prager and the Man Show Guy: @aqua-letifer said in Peterson speaks with Prager and the Man Show Guy: @jolly said in Peterson speaks with Prager and the Man Show Guy: Bias showing much? There's no one on this board who could make that comment more hilarious, considering the source. Hat's off. Oh, you're biased as hell. You just don't like to admit it. Prob'ly. A very abridged and completely hamfisted summary of where I stand. Prepare to be triggered. COVID Stimulus: keep people off the streets, but not at the expense of bankrupt companies and landlords. GLBT & Minority issues: There's a shitload we have to actively dismantle here, but equality of opportunity needs to be defended, and new loopholes need to be filled in. Police reform: Dampen union influence, support local jurisdictions, throw a ton of money into community outreach because the rift is getting terrible. War on drugs: Just stop. Decriminalize addicts, give them multiple avenues to re-enter society. Offer needle exchanges for junkies. Education funding: How might we go about revoking accreditation for schools who practice CRT training or curriculum? Also, no safe spaces or university-imposed kangaroo courts. Education reform: More actual diversity in K-12. Don’t hold high achievers back. Provide tons of alternatives for kids who suck at STEM but have other marketable skills they don’t even know they have. Music programs, art programs, trades, etc., etc. Revamp home economics to train kids how to work for themselves because my God, nearly half the country falls into that. Environment: I don’t see how you can rationally argue that environmentalism harms society, or that innovations in environmental technology is bad for business. Foreign policy: H.W. did a pretty decent job. Government reform: Get a shitload smarter about our defense budget. More weird shit like the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Farm Security Administration’s documentary projects. Put more money into programs that have a high societal return on cost. Gun control: What good are new laws when we don’t even use what we have? Health care: Obamacare sucks. Socialized medicine. Right now today. Homeland Security: completely expose domestic surveillance programs. All of it needs to be public. The southern border: provide flexible options for foreign workers and see how that goes for awhile. Jobs: No minimum wage hikes, no legislation restricting pro bono work, but remove the Fair Pay amendments for salaried employees. Religion: I don’t see how you can pretend to offer an education system that adequately prepares children to enter the world without a comprehensive religion curriculum. Abortion: Very much against both abortion and telling anyone facing that option what they should do. Capital punishment: Against. Taxes: I really don't care. If I pay 60% in taxes but that money goes toward things I no longer have to pay for so that the net income/expenses even out, what the hell do I care so long as I'm not funding something stupid. We think quite a bit alike.

@lufins-dad said in Telosa: I love the Billionaire from Walmart railing against the current distribution of wealth. I think wokeness coming from people who inherited wealth makes a lot of sense. (Real privilege) The problem is when they try to generalize their luck to all white people.

@doctor-phibes said in Effective: @copper said in Effective: No right-thinking person would accept a treatment touted by Mr. Trump. Well, he pushed the development of the vaccines, and plenty of his own folks are refusing to take those. Mr. Trump controls the behavior of most people in this country, but not all. Mr. Fauci controls a small minority.

This is why so many urban areas no longer have local shopping. DC is known for not being able to support stores like this.

But Global Climate Change Warming! More scary storms than ever!

@jolly said in The Wuhan documents: Fauci lied. Senators Cotton and Paul were right. I wonder if anyone has thought to stop this funding yet.

The officers face termination “because they’ve either not received the jab or would refuse to hand over their private medical data,” according to a report cited by Fox News on Tuesday. Doesn't Roe v Wade say medical data is private? That should cover it.

With good reason. A little surprised Barrett did not do better with you guys, but he doesn't seem to do very well anywhere. Have a feeling it's more personality than skill but I don't know.

@mik said in Baltimore?: Not For Long. Yeah, Bell's day has come and gone. Honestly, the Bengals could use Murray too, but he likely wants too much money. We have to have a good running game to protect Burrow. Murray is a North/South guy, runs very upright, but does have power and can do pretty well if you can get him a yard past the line of scrimmage. But guys...Anything past 30 is oooollldd for a running back.

Suicide rates are surprisingly low, IMO.

The guy is actually wrong on a few details...For instance, I have a 2011 GMC with the 4.8 engine. It does not have the cylinder deactivation. So double check stuff he says, as sometimes it is more engine or transmission dependent than year dependent. But he's dead on about the Ford V8's, the new GM V8's and the Dodge V6 motors. GM is sooo bad, that a factory option is to delete the active cylinder deactivation on a new truck. Before, guys would buy them, deactivate them and voluntarily void the warranty. If I had a dollar for every person that has wanted to buy my truck (including my mechanic), we'd all go have a three martini lunch...

@axtremus said in A well regulated: Had my piano voiced a month or two ago. My piano had great regulations (if not objectively great, at least it was at a spot where I liked it very much), so I did not ask for regulations to be done. But the technician claimed that he touched up on the regulations anyway. I know he meant well, but I wish he had not, for afterwards I noticed unwanted mechanical sounds from the action in some places. Not noticeable in louder passages and noticeable in soft passages. :man-shrugging: Why would you bother having it regulated when you never tune it?

[image: 1631077475481-198ef583-ce0c-4881-8adf-2b6465538526.png] It’s there because that’s what I the composer wrote in the original. From wiki In chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers of the Baroque, the fermata often signifies only the end of a phrase, and a breath is to be taken. In a few organ compositions, the fermatas occur in different measures for the right and left hands and for the feet, which would make holding them impractical. "In the older music the sign for the fermata is used, as frequently by Bach, merely as indicating the end of the piece, after a Da Capo, when modern composers usually write the word 'fine.' It does not then imply any pause in the music between the first and second part of the number."

@doctor-phibes said in Good pay...: Far be it from me to be cynical, but "up to" is one of those terms that gets used a lot by hiring folks when talking about money. Yup, and retail stores too. “Up to 90% off!”