Also they put installed new drywall over top of the lathe and plaster that existed before which means the prior owners are now guaranteed a place in hell when they die.
We had that - and when we did a to the studs remodel years ago we had to have both lead paint and asbestos remediation in effect to take down the plaster and lathe. so your remodel may have a safety reason - albeit on that could be addressed if the funds were available.
One thing i always remember about home repairs is how many times i’ve seen experienced tradesmen absolutely confused about some crazy pants repair done by someone without a clue. In some of those cases i, not a great repair guy, could clearly see how f’d up the previous homeowner had been.
Our last house was built in 1916 and had been "updated" by a variety of competent and not competent people through out its life. Our electrician - who specialized in such houses - used to always start his visits with "I don't know how the hell your house hasn't burned down from this."
no, presume Saul gets the concept intellectually - which I am sure he does - but recoil's from it morally, psychologically and emotionally (which I suspect he also does). Then go with your own reaction to the concept, not to Saul.
What response do you think would be better for a “I don’t understand how people hold strong and enthusiastic opinions in opposition to mine” starting point?
Oh, you’ve hit the nail on the head for why I don’t support the Death Penalty.
But I sure do understand why the people who support it support it.
I try to incorporate some of the reasons why the people who support it support it in arguments for why they should either not support it (or merely support it less).
Interesting study. Metanalysis is an underutilized technique in a lot of disciplines. I also find it interesting that the authors had to pool studies from a bunch of countries in each category to create it. one wonders what their data would look like for just the US.
The statistics are pretty clear that the death penalty serves no deterrent purpose for the crimes on which it is imposed. Which leaves state sanctioned revenge as its real motive.
it leaves the fact that large portions of American citizens want to restrict the ability to read nonwhite and LGBTQ themes.
Now Chip, don't you know that we have equality in the US because the law says so? We don't need to expose kids to these uncomfortable truths because they are Fake News (TM).
Interesting social commentary. As one who regularly fixes plumbing, installs fixtures, hangs drywall and builds all sort of wooden things I can relate to where you and your husband come from.
Having lived in Metro DC for a decade, and Seattle before that I can tell you however that the jack of all trades husband is getting farther and farther bawneen. My dad - a historian - was self taught in a number of the trades as his dad - a preacher - never had to do them because someone in the church always did. Dad taught me the basics and I enjoy it enough to want to do it, so I have learned a lot. I in turn am trying to teach my kids, and they do mess about in bits and pieces.
But that's not really the norm in a great many places. Those two young parents likely grew up in homes where those sort of tasks were outsourced - either for reasons Michael describes or because their parents were in an economic strata that did it regularly. And there was a dearth of Home Economics and Shop taught for decades in urban and even rural suburban school districts. No one in my Gifted Program in highschool took shop, and even if they had wanted to our school only offered it for a semester every other year.
Does it suck that this is where we are? Mike Rowe certainly thinks so. It also means that any of my kids who decide to pursue a trade will be very well paid over their working lives, and can take care of me in the lifestyle I hope to become accustomed to.
it really depends on the location in the brain, the severity and how quickly medical intervention was applied. You can have a "minor" stroke in certain parts of the brain and be back to work in a month with no visible side effects.
The challenge will be if he decides to retire and NM has to appoint a replacement.
Reporting this AM is he is expected to make a full recovery, but it will grind the Senate to a halt on everything unless a couple of Republicans cross the line.
I have actually admired and respected Republicans politicians in the past. They have either all been run out of the party, or been revealed as cowards in the present moment. Should he choose to go that route I will wish him well, but in this day and age one has to leave ones senses to pursue that route as an athlete.
I think the criticism is leveled less at the public servants, and more at how legislatures decide funding.
Civil services work better in other developed countries in part because delivering the service is the point, not the tangential junk.
That's not what he wrote. So I have to assume until otherwise corrected that it's not what he intended. Which gets back to my longstanding critique that being mad at "government" for failing to do so and such may feel good but it doesn't help get at an alternative or solution set.
As much as I love goats - they are ornery and irascible - I don't like the GOAT concept. The goal posts move every generation of QB's. Brady is statistically a hard worker and consistent performer, and for that he should be recognized and applauded.
He's also learned the lesson some other so called GOATS have never learned - quite when you are ahead. Favre didn't get that, though I saw in off field in his last season with the Packers and his body was clearly done.
But in a year or two, NFL fans will be debating if Joe Burrow Or Mahomes is a GOAT. and that's as it should be.
I actually appreciate your take on this - though the thread has gotten so long that it got buried before I could take it in.
What I find interesting in this is your differentiation between intellectual property and physical property. Humans labor to produce both, albeit using different resources. Strikes me that in a capitalistic system, if humans get to commodify their physical property and physical production and offer it for consumption through purchase, intellectual property needs to be afforded the same courtesy. And if humans can decide the physical property they produce should no longer be available for commerce, then their IP should as well. Of course, nearly all the IP I produce as a federal scientist isn't something I'm allowed legally to own, and most of it will never have my name attached to it, because its been produced with collective resources (i.e taxes) for a public good (understanding the oceans).
There's also a language issue here - you see private actors doing things with their IP as being a ban, but a government entity removing IP may not be. I disagree, both because history is littered with governments removing IP from the public square for nefarious reasons, and because in our current system IP deserves the same leeway that physical property does.
My final disagreement with you on this is the notion that you don't want things to be banned that you disagree with. That's fantastically altruistic, but its not how a great many of our fellow citizens operate. Should your attitude be prevailing in say Florida I'd be amused but not terrible worried - however the legislature there is about to ban the teaching of any materials that might make someone feel bad. A government entity choosing to do that is, from my view, a far worse damage to knowledge in the public square then a publisher pulling one of its books. The later is a private actor acting privately in a market economy where libertarians rail on about the sanctity of private commerce; the former is a government body telling their citizens that public education, paid for with public funds, will not teach certain things. That strikes ne as far more damaging to knowledge and thus a far more important fight to have.
Far too many of the commenters around here don't do well with nuance, or they think they are being clever by trying to beat the rest of us up for our nuance.
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We had that - and when we did a to the studs remodel years ago we had to have both lead paint and asbestos remediation in effect to take down the plaster and lathe. so your remodel may have a safety reason - albeit on that could be addressed if the funds were available.
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Our last house was built in 1916 and had been "updated" by a variety of competent and not competent people through out its life. Our electrician - who specialized in such houses - used to always start his visits with "I don't know how the hell your house hasn't burned down from this."
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no, presume Saul gets the concept intellectually - which I am sure he does - but recoil's from it morally, psychologically and emotionally (which I suspect he also does). Then go with your own reaction to the concept, not to Saul.
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Interesting study. Metanalysis is an underutilized technique in a lot of disciplines. I also find it interesting that the authors had to pool studies from a bunch of countries in each category to create it. one wonders what their data would look like for just the US.
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You do know that if you had led with this we'd be having a much different discussion?
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Gets the criminal to God's feet faster, you see.
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Oh I get it - and I intend to keep calling him out for it every time I see it.
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totally agreed - they are still in the "Eye for an Eye" camp, which is amusing what with Christ's Turn the other cheek ideas.
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entitled jackasses. All of them. Good riddance.
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Reframe it to what exactly?
The statistics are pretty clear that the death penalty serves no deterrent purpose for the crimes on which it is imposed. Which leaves state sanctioned revenge as its real motive.
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Now Chip, don't you know that we have equality in the US because the law says so? We don't need to expose kids to these uncomfortable truths because they are Fake News (TM).
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Interesting social commentary. As one who regularly fixes plumbing, installs fixtures, hangs drywall and builds all sort of wooden things I can relate to where you and your husband come from.
Having lived in Metro DC for a decade, and Seattle before that I can tell you however that the jack of all trades husband is getting farther and farther bawneen. My dad - a historian - was self taught in a number of the trades as his dad - a preacher - never had to do them because someone in the church always did. Dad taught me the basics and I enjoy it enough to want to do it, so I have learned a lot. I in turn am trying to teach my kids, and they do mess about in bits and pieces.
But that's not really the norm in a great many places. Those two young parents likely grew up in homes where those sort of tasks were outsourced - either for reasons Michael describes or because their parents were in an economic strata that did it regularly. And there was a dearth of Home Economics and Shop taught for decades in urban and even rural suburban school districts. No one in my Gifted Program in highschool took shop, and even if they had wanted to our school only offered it for a semester every other year.
Does it suck that this is where we are? Mike Rowe certainly thinks so. It also means that any of my kids who decide to pursue a trade will be very well paid over their working lives, and can take care of me in the lifestyle I hope to become accustomed to.
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it really depends on the location in the brain, the severity and how quickly medical intervention was applied. You can have a "minor" stroke in certain parts of the brain and be back to work in a month with no visible side effects.
The challenge will be if he decides to retire and NM has to appoint a replacement.
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Reporting this AM is he is expected to make a full recovery, but it will grind the Senate to a halt on everything unless a couple of Republicans cross the line.
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I have actually admired and respected Republicans politicians in the past. They have either all been run out of the party, or been revealed as cowards in the present moment. Should he choose to go that route I will wish him well, but in this day and age one has to leave ones senses to pursue that route as an athlete.
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color commentary for a year or two then reemerging as a head coach.
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Mahomes has the same ability, and he can do it side arm while backpedaling and loosing balance.
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writing has cut into my pithy commenting time, that's for sure.
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That's not what he wrote. So I have to assume until otherwise corrected that it's not what he intended. Which gets back to my longstanding critique that being mad at "government" for failing to do so and such may feel good but it doesn't help get at an alternative or solution set.
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100% agree.
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As much as I love goats - they are ornery and irascible - I don't like the GOAT concept. The goal posts move every generation of QB's. Brady is statistically a hard worker and consistent performer, and for that he should be recognized and applauded.
He's also learned the lesson some other so called GOATS have never learned - quite when you are ahead. Favre didn't get that, though I saw in off field in his last season with the Packers and his body was clearly done.
But in a year or two, NFL fans will be debating if Joe Burrow Or Mahomes is a GOAT. and that's as it should be.
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I actually appreciate your take on this - though the thread has gotten so long that it got buried before I could take it in.
What I find interesting in this is your differentiation between intellectual property and physical property. Humans labor to produce both, albeit using different resources. Strikes me that in a capitalistic system, if humans get to commodify their physical property and physical production and offer it for consumption through purchase, intellectual property needs to be afforded the same courtesy. And if humans can decide the physical property they produce should no longer be available for commerce, then their IP should as well. Of course, nearly all the IP I produce as a federal scientist isn't something I'm allowed legally to own, and most of it will never have my name attached to it, because its been produced with collective resources (i.e taxes) for a public good (understanding the oceans).
There's also a language issue here - you see private actors doing things with their IP as being a ban, but a government entity removing IP may not be. I disagree, both because history is littered with governments removing IP from the public square for nefarious reasons, and because in our current system IP deserves the same leeway that physical property does.
My final disagreement with you on this is the notion that you don't want things to be banned that you disagree with. That's fantastically altruistic, but its not how a great many of our fellow citizens operate. Should your attitude be prevailing in say Florida I'd be amused but not terrible worried - however the legislature there is about to ban the teaching of any materials that might make someone feel bad. A government entity choosing to do that is, from my view, a far worse damage to knowledge in the public square then a publisher pulling one of its books. The later is a private actor acting privately in a market economy where libertarians rail on about the sanctity of private commerce; the former is a government body telling their citizens that public education, paid for with public funds, will not teach certain things. That strikes ne as far more damaging to knowledge and thus a far more important fight to have.
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Far too many of the commenters around here don't do well with nuance, or they think they are being clever by trying to beat the rest of us up for our nuance.
YMMV