The politics of life.

I always used the stairs as the point of no return for a potential intruder in my home. If you come up the stairs, then you’ve made the choice to risk your life. If you’re downstairs, I’m letting you know I’m awake and giving you an opportunity to bounce. You’ve already been on camera at that point, and perhaps I take the opportunity to tighten up the security on my home. I’d rather not kill someone, regardless of the fact they broke into my home. But yeah, if you come up the stairs, that’s that.

I feel for all ranch and bi/split-level homeowners. Tough choices must be made.

What if he gets the government to buy it all, in a roundabout way to provide services to the populace via the government. The rejig the taxis to mean robo trains and buses that are free for everyone. The robots can staff hospitals, doing menial tasks (cleaning, changing diapers), leaving the more important work for actual humans.

Maybe he was a socialist all along!

I dunno, I had a 2007 Nismo 350Z, #94, and that cr was sweet af. It may not have been representative of the brand as a whole.

Working for an organization is not a protected class. It’s not LGBTQ+ people, it’s people who work for those organizations, and more specifically it seems ones that work to medically transition children.

Yeah, what we got instead was a place selling lobster rolls for $23 a pop.

I am with you, there should be (a place selling dollar cheesies), but the fact that there isn’t is telling about how unfeasible that is.

Google was never good, totally agree. Hotbot and AskJeeves for life.

Didn’t the Supreme Court basically say that if the president says it it’s not illegal? Kind of a Catch 22 for anyone involved. Glad I got out!

Well, especially nowadays when the news is getting sued for reporting. Gotta be careful, and “lying” is slanderous/libelous, while “material factual” whatever, I can’t remember the third word, inconsistency, error, doesn’t matter, it doesn’t have the feel of an attack.

Jesus Christ, he bound a person and burned them alive. Over $200. Nothing about that screams able to be rehabilitated.

He lit them on fire.

And to me the whole story makes sense. I didn’t realize his tattoo was a Nazi tat. He got it in Croatia (I think) while he was on a MEU, just a dumb Marine who presumably saw a picture and was like “That looks neat,” in the same way I said “That looks neat” when someone linked the Wikipedia to the Nazi unit. The Nazis really had a monopoly on cool symbols, it really sucks.

I generally agree with you, but it flows both ways. And I know we hate this whole both sides thing, and I generally agree, but all news is propaganda these days, it feels like. The constant message I try to spread is to think micro. Stop taking on these world problems and try to solve a problem more locally, try to take an action that you can physically take with your own hands. I firmly believe that stronger communities make a stronger nation.

I live in a place where elections are upcoming, and I see signs of the opposition, but I try to think of these people first and foremost as my neighbors. I truly think that solves a lot of problems, because while the right is thinking of everyone on the left as criminals, the left is painting anyone on the right as Nazi fascists, and this in and of itself is a problem. The other side is not inherently wrong. There is no one correct way to do things. We’re all fumbling through life, nobody knows what theyre doing, lets try to do it without being afraid of each other.

I don’t think you realize that the US military is a pretty fair representation of the civilian populations. I served with dudes who came in all shapes, sizes, and affiliations. You’re talking about 3+ million active and reserve members, and the law of averages works the same in and out.

They can either resign publicly or be confined privately. This way we know about it, we see members of leadership taking a stand. And for each one that resigns I’m confident there are others who rebel secretly in whatever ways they can. We saw the commanding general of ORNG give his press conference about protecting the protestors. It’s a fine line they walk, and in this day and age, with the required credentialing for news agencies at the Pentagon, you might just not hear about Colonel So-and-so who defied an order.

People in his command see this. Shit, we see this here. But his resigning has an impression on people, which may unfortunately be the only effect he can make. The whole unlawful orders thing is a sticky situation at best, and what all of us here in this tiny echo chamber believe is not what is reflected in the real world, and so some stand he may take may end up unseen and unheard while he rots away as an O-1 in Leavenworth.

Same with when Mattis was fired back in term one. Sometimes the only statement you can make is your resignation.

You have an interesting writing style.

MIT will outlast the administration, is the idea. And if (and when) the pendulum swings, they don’t want to have tarnished their otherwise impeccable reputation by capitulating.

Yeah, as brazen as they are, I don’t think they’re murdering American citizens for breach of contract. Regardless of what they said, it would be an incredibly hostile act towards the US and would lead to sanctions at best.

My thought about the whole thing was that if someone went there and, in spite of the agreement they signed, teed off on the Saudis and whatever else they were forbidden from discussing, I’d have had respect. Was honestly hoping that’s what Burr was intending to do. I’d have donated to the GoFundMe for them to fight the inevitable lawsuit from the Saudis.

Obviously didn’t happen. We live in a difficult world, and when presented with the choice between fighting (hard) and rolling over (easy), people take the obvious choice. I don’t know if I’m doing it differently.

Are these sets even recorded and able to be viewed somewhere, or were they essentially private? If they’re private, I dunno, I get it.