Yes, that is the silver lining.

No one cares.

@Loki said in Something I might agree with Biden about: I just looked at all our national holidays. They could for the most part all be put on the racist burn pile. How about Black History Month?

@Jolly said in The Spike: Why marry someone you can't stand? $$$

In the movies, the human tend to beat the machines.

So many people will be saying "good riddance" everywhere but out loud.

@Copper said in Wow: Stop spending ...our children’s money.

Good discussion, TG.

Yeah, we are driving around the same. I put just over 7K miles on the Murano. We drive so little right now that we decided not to buy something newer for the second car when we gave daughter the GMC. We're just keeping toe 2010 Camry with 145K. It runs fine, looks good and has leather, bluetooth, sunroof, etc. It is eeded about once a month so we have to deliberately drive it from time to time to keep the battery up. We'll drive more as things open up, but for now, gas mileage is not a factor.

Excellent. This needs to get out more. We can educate ourselves out of this.

I noticed they had a story about some number of cops having been killed in the line of duty over the past months. It's an interesting case in point about how difficult it is to define what is and is not "news". I would claim that that's essentially an editorial rebuttal to the editorial news cycles around every incident of a cop killing a black person. Neither one is news in a rational society familiar with the statistical expectation of some small number of outlier events which don't speak to gross systematic issues. And in fact we have exactly such a society, right up until some issue is found to be politically useful in that it can be used to move the masses, at which time we abandon our common sense understanding that sometimes shit happens, and it doesn't necessarily mean there are systematic issues that require an entirely new political structure to address.

I'm no racist. I love black people! I think every white man ought to own one. (Note. The above is a joke. Tasteless? Of course, but this racist stuff is to the point of being laughed at.)

@jon-nyc said in September is here: [image: 1599044843302-d1f06f0c-c7c2-4448-b290-f9710bf926f7.png] Actually...There's some pretty neat stuff floating around on dry canning. I know several folks who will can dried beans, etc...

@Mik said in To Destroy a Family: Assimilation in any society means becoming more like the dominant group. See the comments from the article in The Atlantic, where the statistics professor comments how "disparity in data" are now considered to be discriminatory.

You know, that's a good contrast. Would you prefer someone like Pence (Biden?) who is a skilled politician at what to say and not say, or Trump, who just pukes it out?

And that's why they make #9 shot...

I guess November 4th was too obvious.

@jon-nyc said in Andrew Sullivan: This is very Weimar: Both of you are essentially arguing that he couldn’t have prevented the outbreak of protests ergo how they ran their course was out of his hands. Like nothing else he could do or say could matter in how the protests/riots unfolded. I agree. Trump should have come out after Floyd was killed and said, "If I had a son, he'd look like George. I mean, if I had banged Omarosa."