A review is certainly in order. On the other hand, I can see where split decisions could nullify the effect of all sorts of prejudices as well as promote them. I'd imagine in some cases you get a juror who will not return a guilty verdict despite clear evidence, or one that will vote guilty on the flimsiest of evidence.

Lol

Rachmaninov and Horowitz tried to talk Disney into putting them in a Fantasia sequel.

@jon-nyc said in From the land of the Neanderthals: @lufins-dad said in From the land of the Neanderthals: By the way, my Doctor’s office is now offering the Pfizer vaccine, which I distinctly remember being told was impossible somewhere... And they are administering 60 doses a day. The Walmart my son works at? Averaging 3... They discovered it could be stored for 2 weeks in a normal freezer. Before they thought it needed ultra cold temps unavailable at your average GPs place. I was being a little bit of a jackass with that comment. There was a small argument on here about the viability and importance of getting the vaccine out to family practitioners while you were on your partial hiatus.

She said it’s better than the frogs. But that was it.

Needs somebody watching over her with the assholes she’s hanging with. One thing I was adamant about for our wedding as no cake in the face.

@lufins-dad said in You have about a month left to get that stuff sold: Anybody need a copy of “I Was a Teenage Tentacle Monster!”? [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2F12S6DbUKXQ1y8M%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1&nofb=1]

@george-k said in $3000 per child economic stimulus: @lufins-dad said in $3000 per child economic stimulus: Time for Karla and I to go away for a weekend... Daddy needs a new Benz... https://www.truecar.com/mercedes-benz/c-class/lease/ $300 + $300 =

The EMP threat ties in with the grid threat. I think we saw what happened in Texas this past winter. Now, instead of fixing things or shifting power around as things thaw out, let's consider Achmed and a group of followers determined to take out a half-dozen large transformer stations in any highly populated area. You don't have 90% deaths, but you could wreck a large part of the economy for quite some time.

@aqua-letifer said in Hitler was an amateur...: @lufins-dad said in Hitler was an amateur...: All of three were paid salaries, so must be considered Professional. Good point, Ax! I said to myself while posting “This is totally an Ax type of post!”

In an end-state (theoretical) - where all cars could communicate with each other - you wouldn't need intersections. You could get a lot more usage out of the same amount of infrastructure space. It wouldn't make much sense for any individual to own a car. I know that sounds weird to us. I love driving. It's kind of like how having a horse is a rich person's thing now. No one would think of riding their own horse down the street, or think that's a socially desirable thing.

Read "Greenlights," his memoir. It's all right, all right, all right. “As I put the car in drive and slowly pulled out, I thought to myself, Well, I’ve got three out of four and I’m headed to get the fourth, then said aloud, alright, alright, alright Those three words, those three affirmations of what I, Wooderson, did have, were the first three words I ever said on film. A film that my character had only three scripted scenes in, a film that I ended up working on for three weeks.”

And yet less unsettling on some other levels.

You can thank me later.

Covid cost our economy 16-20 trillion dollars, and we just opened the economy wide open presumably because we know we will be paying the cost of that for a long time and we couldn’t survive another shutdown. So to me if you don’t get vaccinated and you die or kill someone that’s on you. The breakthrough stuff simply highlights future risks of spread and need for new vaccines or booster shots. We will be living with risk for years and I suspect many companies and businesses will restrict your behavior if you don’t get vaccinated.

I used to like Blind Melon. Too bad about Shannon Hoon.

This societal scourge of men approaching women needs to end.

@jolly said in Would somebody shut this idiot up?: Bullshit.. Get your head out of your ass. Well, I was just joking but sure, okay! I think you could make a case that there should be no career politicians, and qualifications should be sought elsewhere if one wants to run for an elected office. I believe that. So I don't care that Trump had no political experience prior to his being president. Here's the problem, though: you can't tell me that Trump was honestly interested in uniting liberals and conservatives. Quite obviously his thing was and always has been to play to his base. By doing that, he created a communication vacuum during the early months of the pandemic because about half the country—many of which aren't rabid liberals and simply didn't vote for him—didn't feel confident in his messaging. That's why we had a Fauci. The whole, "this is how you get more Trump" thing? Look in the damn mirror. That's exactly why Fauci was on the front page of every news site every day for the better part of the year.

Alcohol is the mother? So many progeny, it must be true.