@Doctor-Phibes said in Pig Heart Transplant:

@Axtremus said in Pig Heart Transplant:

Likely there are many other big problems, but I am curious about this: psychologically, how does the patient feel about being alive without having a pulse?

I feel weird just thinking about it. :man-shrugging

It beats the alternative

One alternative is "being alive and having a pulse."

"A cynic is someone who, when he smells flowers, looks for a funeral."

Now, ask yourself why the mayor of SF and Governor Hair Gel are doing this.

Could it be that they're trying to position themselves as the "Bad Cop" for the VEEP nomination?

Nah...

@Horace said in Adderal eyes:

images indicating otherwise were altered.

By Mr. Biden?

The rally in Butler was largely peaceful too.

Wasn't there a fatality there about 2-3 years ago?

@Mik said in "A Complete Unknown":

@Horace said in "A Complete Unknown":

Excellent. I've always wanted to watch Bob Dylan have sex.

How interesting. I'd pay not to see that.

I might have meant it as a joke about the amount of romance in the trailer.

I mean, this election is to save democracy! If somebody is defending and promoting Trump, then they are an enemy of democracy!

I was surprised to hear him brag about "putting a black woman on the supreme court". I don't really think this blatant DEI stuff plays as pure virtue to the electorate.

Just a general statement, made after 2 Xanax and nitrous oxide.

I will await the revised figures...

@Mik said in Trump admin to be tougher on corporations?:

Good ideas are good ideas, and monolithic industries are generally not very good for innovation. Banks, for instance. Economies of scale do not always serve the public's best interests.

Correct.

It chokes competition, innovation and often leads to poor customer service.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/25/gateway-pundit-bankruptcy-filing

A bankruptcy judge dismissed a bankruptcy case filed by the Gateway Pundit on Wednesday, saying the far-right outlet did not file the case in good faith.

“TGP remains both balance sheet and cash flow solvent. There is no present financial distress, no looming foreclosure sale, no prospect of a market crash. There is only the State Court Litigation in which TGP must defend itself. That’s not a basis for bankruptcy relief; it’s the justice system in operation,” Mora wrote.

Almost like at the end of World War 2, when it was just old men and young boys available.

It began with lots of military hero stories. After that, was very standard rhetoric that you will have seen before on twitter or even here. "People who say from the river to the sea can't name the river or the sea", "Gays for Palestine is like chickens for KFC". The weakest rhetoric was when Bibi said "practically no civilians" had been killed, then admitted that actually 24 people were killed accidentally by a bomb, then reiterated that "practically zero civilians had been killed".

I guess this is the stuff of political speeches, because this is the stuff that works best. Nobody is interested in hearing intelligent things, or not enough people are interested. Just ra ra rhetoric.

Well very late to the party but a Belated Happy Birthday to you, Bach! Glad you got to spend it in that bucket list state 🙂

As circumstantial evidence cases go, that looks like a very weak one.

In other news, is the dailymail the WORST "news" website out there? It's 99% disruptive ads blinking away and if you're lucky you can read the article from start to finish.

@jon-nyc said in I'm a steamroller, baby...:

Looks like they’re responding to rules the GOP is making up as they go…

In May, the DNC made a push for a virtual process because of Ohio's Aug. 7 deadline for major parties to submit the names of their certified candidates for the November ballot.

While Ohio Republicans passed a law that pushed that deadline to Sept. 1, because it does not go into effect until Sept. 1, DNC officials cited potential litigation from Republican groups as a reason to go ahead with the early virtual roll call vote.

"If we take chances with state processes and deadlines, Republican groups could make the argument to challenge Democratic votes on the post-election side, arguing that our nominee should never have been on the ballot in the first place," said DNC outside counsel Pat Moore. "We should not and must not give them that opportunity."

That line of reasoning was thoroughly debated and debunked by the same people pushing for the roll call now, back when Biden was the presumptive nominee. I believe Vox had an article on it and I remember Nate Silver having an online debate with one of Biden’s staff over it.

@jon-nyc said in Secret Service under fire:

How is that a criticism? More like mad props.

I dunno. I used to be pretty quick with a stick-shift rifle. I know I could shoot a slick bolt as faster than Oswald was purported to do. But Oswald wasn't shooting a slick bolt. The Carcano can be a little clunky. And the bolt is Mannlicher style and in the wrong place.

Link to video

Ideally, you'd like the bolt knob to be above the trigger, like a K98 or a 1903 Springfield. When you shoot, you rack the bolt with your palm, pull back and then rack it forward with the web of your hand and as your cartridge loads and you drop the bolt down, your index finger naturally drops to the trigger.

While the Carcano might have been fast enough to make the JFK shots, I've always wondered about the scope. It's horrendous. 18mm, which means crappy light transmission and the crosshairs in those scopes could get knocked off real easy.

So who knows? Maybe Oswald had a "good day".

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Stop the Fake Band":

It's a bit like having a 50 year old broom. You've replaced the brush 3 times, and the handle twice, but it's still the same broom.

That is the famous "Ship of Theseus" paradox

The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’ paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late first century. Plutarch asked whether a ship that had been restored by replacing every single wooden part remained the same ship.

The paradox had been discussed by other ancient philosophers such as Heraclitus and Plato prior to Plutarch’s writings, and more recently by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

https://open.library.okstate.edu/introphilosophy/chapter/ship-of-theseus/