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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 15, 2020, 08:54:11 PM »

Only Larry would see someone encouraging him to cope and get help for his anger issues as a threat.


I've worked as a counselor.   What you're doing is neither encouraging nor helping,  but rather engaging in a passive-aggressive attack that condescends.  And asserts your sense of superiority.   The technical term is "being an asshole." 

2747
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 15, 2020, 05:03:11 PM »
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-representative-mike-johnson-thinks-that-the-election-isnt-over

This guy actually seems reasonable and smart,  which is what makes the interview so surreal to me.   He truly believes Trump is all about protecting the Constitution and our election process.   

2748
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 14, 2020, 05:41:32 PM »
Heh!

Beth Moore is how I would have thought any evangelical who had actually read of the teachings of Jesus would react to the Trump beast.   

And right on, Paul Mitchell. 

2749
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 14, 2020, 11:02:24 AM »
Could we dial down the personal attacks?   

2750
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 13, 2020, 09:23:00 PM »

The graphic underscores two misguided notions implying government activity in any part of of society is considered socialist or that private activity could be considered socialist if it produces a result of which socialists approve.

None of the graphic examples are socialism.
As in NONE.

So once SS became untouchable, the conservatives decide it isn't socialism.   I'd say the government collecting money,  then controlling the distribution of that money as pensions to workers, is socialism.   So is public education -- government produces a thirteen year course of training for children,  mandates everyone pay into it,  and controls every aspect of its operation.   Once most people decided that was an essential system,  conservatives decided "not socialism. "   

Once again,  fools will conflate democratic socialism with some totalitarian boogeyman. 


2751
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 12, 2020, 11:12:57 AM »
Dems,  Luee?   Against coal?   You mean the failing industry that's now more costly to build/repair infrastructure, leading Dems and rational Repubs to back other bridge fuels and promote new jobs in green energy networks?   The Dems are the ones who care about what happens to coal workers when the last coal plant is decommissioned.   

2752
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 10, 2020, 09:31:56 PM »
That's cute.  But the usual idiocy of headlines (see Josh and his "Guiliani infects 30 in Michigan")/cute talk leading astray

Who is against masks in Walmart!

Pretty much all the anti-mask crowd.   You should read the news links posted here sometime.   It would be mind-expanding, man.   Or attend any city council meeting here in the northern plains.
Walmart requires Masks.
Has since at least July.

Who said otherwise?   The issue is what percent are opposed to wearing masks in retail stores.  Also,  quick factcheck:  Walmart requests masks,  but stopped enforcing it,  and no longer ejects those who decline.   A store that is predominant in rural America backed down.   Big surprise.  That's why state mandates help:  the merchant doesn't have to be the heavy,  can just point to the state's posted health law.   

2753
Science / Re: Science
« on: December 10, 2020, 02:01:35 PM »
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-centuries-old-grazing-goat-problem-exactly-20201209/

I dimly recall enough math to get the part about integration -- finding the area inside a curve - but it's mostly beyond me.   

2754
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 09, 2020, 05:49:17 PM »
But what will reign in Fiction Bubbles like Newsmax?   

2755
Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 09, 2020, 05:46:04 PM »

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Drugs / Re: Drugs
« on: December 09, 2020, 05:41:56 PM »
There's also a modified form of ibogaine that could help addicts....

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/944572325/progress-toward-a-safer-psychedelic-drug-to-treat-depression-and-addiction

For addicts who want to make the move away from the monkey,  this compound could be made available at treatment centers where they're getting their fix. 

2757
Drugs / Re: Drugs
« on: December 09, 2020, 10:52:35 AM »
Same with the war on drugs.
You're just funneling money to your enemies by criminalizing drugs.

The Taliban took in nearly $500B last year via opium sales (they tax every stage).  US consumers finance violent Mexican drug gangs. 

Legalize and tax drugs.  Cut out the violent criminal middlemen.
Stop wasting money on policing and prisons, and use the tax money you pull in on education and addiction health care.

Good idea.   Should post that in Drug thread,  which has no posts since September.   Get a whole chat going,  without crosstalk.   I'd legalize pot and maybe peyote and other psychoactives.   Heroin,  meth,  coke,  I'd decriminalize use but still penalize producers.   Hard drugs really shouldn't become a legitimized industry.   

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: December 09, 2020, 10:52:03 AM »
Same with the war on drugs.
You're just funneling money to your enemies by criminalizing drugs.

The Taliban took in nearly $500B last year via opium sales (they tax every stage).  US consumers finance violent Mexican drug gangs. 

Legalize and tax drugs.  Cut out the violent criminal middlemen.
Stop wasting money on policing and prisons, and use the tax money you pull in on education and addiction health care.

Good idea.   Should post that in Drug thread,  which has no posts since September.   Get a whole chat going,  without crosstalk.   I'd legalize pot and maybe peyote and other psychoactives.   Heroin,  meth,  coke,  I'd decriminalize use but still penalize producers.   Hard drugs really shouldn't become a legitimized industry.   (I posted this reply over in Drug forum,  too)

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration
« on: December 09, 2020, 10:43:06 AM »
  Wall Street is bracing for the incoming Biden team to name the industry’s top cop. And so far, the list of candidates for the job of chairing the Securities and Exchange Commission has the industry justifiably worried.

Two at the top of the list — Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Gary Gensler, the former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief — have built reputations as no-nonsense enforcers against industry wrongdoing. 


Good choices.

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