Philip: The “well regulated militia” that is the National Guard trains with side arms routinely.
That's one example. However the basic definitions are:
a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
(in the US) all able-bodied citizens eligible by law to be called on to provide military service supplementary to the regular armed forces.
The founders thought having civilians armed was a good and necessary thing so that they could be pressed into service in an emergency.
The national guard is a gov run group. They envisioned that all fit men would have to do their thing if it hit the fan.
Trying to spin the 2ndAM to "the gov has the right to make and arm an army" is nonsense, there are other parts of the Constitution that do that nor would that be an individual right.
It was legal, if confusing. He's living with a woman who has his last name and there's a kid who also has their last name and their text messages sound like husband/wife things.
Although I guess them not being married explains how the gov was able to introduce their conversations and all.
On a side note, it's legal to be your own grandfather. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX7IW7jpMw
My youtube real defense lawyer's review of this case was the evidence against him was so overwhelming that there was no point in having a trial. He should have cut whatever deal he could because he couldn't win.
He had the gun for 5 days before his wife found it and threw it away. He admitted to her during a chat that he was smoking crack right that minute and with his dealer on day 5.
What they’re really just saying here is that killings by the Palestinians of Israelis, “including many children”, are justified by the larger goal.
That's the wrong question.
The question should be, whose fault is it that those people died?
This quickly becomes, "did Israel deliberately kill civilians?"
My read on what happened is:
1) Israel found out there were 4 hostages in two buildings and decided to go get them.
2) The raid almost went pear shaped. They got the hostages before Hamas could kill them, but there were enough militants in the area that the teams came under serious fire.
3) The teams called down heavy fire to cover their escape.
If Israel didn't deliberately target civilians, then ethically we're stuck with it being the fault of Hamas for locating the hostages in the middle of a camp of civilians.
If it's Israel's fault, then we're proclaiming that Hamas has the right to take hostages and use human shields to protect their militants. This is rewarding what should be punished.
Amusement. 2008? We've had complaints about Congress being "do nothing" for a lot longer than I've been alive. I remember Reagan complaining about Congress being obstructive.
Certainly Congress obstructed Trump and his immigration policies.
We have a lot of choke points.
We also have a lot of existing programs. Those existing programs need to be paid for, they sharply reduce the need for more, and they never go away no mater if they're functional or not.
Our need for vast new programs is less. We're flatly unwilling to sacrifice any existing programs. Our ability to pay for new programs is also a lot less.
So we have a lot of political theater where we pretend to be desperately fighting for important things and also that the other side is pure evil.
The problem with fiscal conservatism is too many people don't want to reduce their own gov handouts. Even the fiscal conservatives themselves mostly want to reduce everyone else's but theirs.
It was popular in theory but unpopular in practice. It is to economics what global warming is Team Blue.
When a group of protesters want to [stop global warming now], the politicians are supposed to make them happy without doing too much economic damage. Certainly without shutting down the economy entirely which is what they claim they want.
So they think they're serious and it was popular enough to do things but it was also poisonous to everyone else.
Trump might have started out with policies but he has transformed his movement into a cult of personality.
The congregation of Republicans that were against Trump before they were for him is a long list ...they were so shallow in their beliefs beforehand
In our system, the first duty of a politician is bend to the will of the electorate and thus stay in power. Trump broke that long list of people because he has a very large very devoted segment of the GOP base who back him.
This is a bigger problem than just Trump.
HRC was the Team Blue designated candidate but Obama swept in and took the nod from her, pretty much the same way Trump did. Obama being more ethical and saner than Trump kept him out of trouble later. But it looks like that has little to do with taking power.
Most people vote on emotion, modern media gives talented demagogs direct access to the people, and our parties are very weak.
Does he get to be free while he's appealing this? If not then the convention will need to be scheduled around him being in jail. If so, then his plan is unchanged. Get elected and dismantle the rule of law.
Mechanically I'm not sure the GOP can get rid of him at this point.
That's fine, he'll run and lose badly and deserve to.
Chip: But all those skills are easily adaptable to algorithms.
Unclear. We used to think spreadsheets would turn everyone into an accountant and the profession would be eliminated. Instead the number of accountants increased because their productivity increased via spreadsheets.
For Engineering AI, my strong expectation is it becomes a tool in the engineering box. It will increase our productivity, it won't replace us.
Similarly "surgical robots" (which are a real thing and being rolled out) won't replace any surgeons, they're just a tool the profession will use.
You are assuming what you should be trying to prove.
I've fought with my neighbors, I've had an unstable wife. The idea someone is flying the flag wrong to piss of the neighbors passes some sort of smell test. We know for a fact that his wife is fighting with the neighbors because the cops have gotten involved.
If you want to show Alito is "giving aid and comfort" then you should have a lot more evidence than a flag.
We aren't going to convince MAGA that they lost the last election any more than we can convince someone that their god isn't real. On some level they already know, they just aren't willing to admit it.
We need to have Trump lose the next election convincingly.
Then, after there's no motive for team Blue to take Trump down because he's lost the election, Trump's various court cases finish and put him in prison.
We need congress to pass a series of laws allowing power to be shipped over state lines. That will require preventing NIMBYs from preventing infrastructure from being build, preventing local/state power companies from holding their local market hostage and so on.
Green energy is mostly created in places were people don't live and it needs to be transmitted to places where they do.
Here is a Ted Talk going over this year's good news. It's stupidly massively good in many ways, and I haven't heard the main stream media mention any of it.
Philip: And the context is one of what appears to be a growing amount of indiscriminate killing INSIDE places Israel has told refugees to go.
We have vast hunger. They're one month away from starvation. And have been one month away from starvation for the last six months.
We have the deliberate targeting of women and children... except that seems to have not been a thing. The UN revised it's numbers a day or so before South Africa claimed in court that all the numbers were of "named" people.
The number of dead aid workers is roughly the same as the number of Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire.
We have Israel's claims that about half the dead people are military. I think there are some other claims that it's more like a third. For perspective the expected result is about a fifth.
I look at these numbers and don't see genocide.
This is a brutal urban war combined with anti-war hysteria.
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Philip: The “well regulated militia” that is the National Guard trains with side arms routinely.
That's one example. However the basic definitions are:
a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
(in the US) all able-bodied citizens eligible by law to be called on to provide military service supplementary to the regular armed forces.
The founders thought having civilians armed was a good and necessary thing so that they could be pressed into service in an emergency.
The national guard is a gov run group. They envisioned that all fit men would have to do their thing if it hit the fan.
Trying to spin the 2ndAM to "the gov has the right to make and arm an army" is nonsense, there are other parts of the Constitution that do that nor would that be an individual right.
On “Open Mic for the week of 6/10/2024”
It was legal, if confusing. He's living with a woman who has his last name and there's a kid who also has their last name and their text messages sound like husband/wife things.
Although I guess them not being married explains how the gov was able to introduce their conversations and all.
On a side note, it's legal to be your own grandfather. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX7IW7jpMw
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Gov is sending "amber alerts" to everyone in my zip telling us to not drive because of flooding. I think we're way past 100%.
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My youtube real defense lawyer's review of this case was the evidence against him was so overwhelming that there was no point in having a trial. He should have cut whatever deal he could because he couldn't win.
He had the gun for 5 days before his wife found it and threw it away. He admitted to her during a chat that he was smoking crack right that minute and with his dealer on day 5.
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Whistleblowing includes reporting "mismanagement".
If NPR actively decided to become a leftist only outlet, then that would be exactly what you said.
Instead NPR's management seems to have bought into the idea that diversity isn't about ideas. That instantly takes them to group think.
They're one short step away from deciding that those who disagree with the Left are wrong/evil and the purpose of "news" is to support the Left.
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This is the guy who lost. He's for/against gay rights, trump, gun rights, and so on.
He sounds like a redistricting fatality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Moreno#Political_positions
On “Open Mic for the week of 6/3/2024”
There are a lot of "silly utilitarians" out there.
There is also a non-barking dog here. I don't hear anyone condemning Hamas for locating the hostages in a civilian area.
As far as I can tell, Israel had a military operation to get hostages back and the situation escalated to the point where heavy weapons were used.
If we're going to say that's unacceptable then we're saying... what?
That the raid shouldn't have happened?
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What they’re really just saying here is that killings by the Palestinians of Israelis, “including many children”, are justified by the larger goal.
That's the wrong question.
The question should be, whose fault is it that those people died?
This quickly becomes, "did Israel deliberately kill civilians?"
My read on what happened is:
1) Israel found out there were 4 hostages in two buildings and decided to go get them.
2) The raid almost went pear shaped. They got the hostages before Hamas could kill them, but there were enough militants in the area that the teams came under serious fire.
3) The teams called down heavy fire to cover their escape.
If Israel didn't deliberately target civilians, then ethically we're stuck with it being the fault of Hamas for locating the hostages in the middle of a camp of civilians.
If it's Israel's fault, then we're proclaiming that Hamas has the right to take hostages and use human shields to protect their militants. This is rewarding what should be punished.
On “Safe Nerdy and the Early Adopter Problem”
If the only way to make women strong is to make them men, then maybe the problem is bad/lazy writing.
On “Biden To Do What He Couldn’t Do”
Amusement. 2008? We've had complaints about Congress being "do nothing" for a lot longer than I've been alive. I remember Reagan complaining about Congress being obstructive.
Certainly Congress obstructed Trump and his immigration policies.
We have a lot of choke points.
We also have a lot of existing programs. Those existing programs need to be paid for, they sharply reduce the need for more, and they never go away no mater if they're functional or not.
Our need for vast new programs is less. We're flatly unwilling to sacrifice any existing programs. Our ability to pay for new programs is also a lot less.
So we have a lot of political theater where we pretend to be desperately fighting for important things and also that the other side is pure evil.
On “Judging Trump’s Greek Chorus After His Verdict”
The Clinton surplus was always going to go away. Gore ran on tax rebates. The deficit's source is the disconnect between taxing and spending.
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The Tea Party was fiscal conservatives.
The problem with fiscal conservatism is too many people don't want to reduce their own gov handouts. Even the fiscal conservatives themselves mostly want to reduce everyone else's but theirs.
It was popular in theory but unpopular in practice. It is to economics what global warming is Team Blue.
When a group of protesters want to [stop global warming now], the politicians are supposed to make them happy without doing too much economic damage. Certainly without shutting down the economy entirely which is what they claim they want.
So they think they're serious and it was popular enough to do things but it was also poisonous to everyone else.
Trump might have started out with policies but he has transformed his movement into a cult of personality.
"
The congregation of Republicans that were against Trump before they were for him is a long list ...they were so shallow in their beliefs beforehand
In our system, the first duty of a politician is bend to the will of the electorate and thus stay in power. Trump broke that long list of people because he has a very large very devoted segment of the GOP base who back him.
This is a bigger problem than just Trump.
HRC was the Team Blue designated candidate but Obama swept in and took the nod from her, pretty much the same way Trump did. Obama being more ethical and saner than Trump kept him out of trouble later. But it looks like that has little to do with taking power.
Most people vote on emotion, modern media gives talented demagogs direct access to the people, and our parties are very weak.
These are features and flaws in our system.
On “Donald Trump Found Guilty on All 34 Counts”
His position is BSDI. He's not wrong but Trump and his people do it pretty consistently.
On “Trump Guilty On All Counts”
Does he get to be free while he's appealing this? If not then the convention will need to be scheduled around him being in jail. If so, then his plan is unchanged. Get elected and dismantle the rule of law.
Mechanically I'm not sure the GOP can get rid of him at this point.
That's fine, he'll run and lose badly and deserve to.
On “Donald Trump Found Guilty on All 34 Counts”
This is just the first one. This was also the weakest one.
On “Why AI Could Be Good for the Liberal Arts”
Chip: But all those skills are easily adaptable to algorithms.
Unclear. We used to think spreadsheets would turn everyone into an accountant and the profession would be eliminated. Instead the number of accountants increased because their productivity increased via spreadsheets.
For Engineering AI, my strong expectation is it becomes a tool in the engineering box. It will increase our productivity, it won't replace us.
Similarly "surgical robots" (which are a real thing and being rolled out) won't replace any surgeons, they're just a tool the profession will use.
"
I have used AI to make a first draft of code for me.
The code's syntax was correct and it was a wonderful starting point. However it was clearly a first draft and not a final draft.
It saved me some hours of work and research.
It wasn't even close to a threat to replace me.
On “The Flag Flap”
You are assuming what you should be trying to prove.
I've fought with my neighbors, I've had an unstable wife. The idea someone is flying the flag wrong to piss of the neighbors passes some sort of smell test. We know for a fact that his wife is fighting with the neighbors because the cops have gotten involved.
If you want to show Alito is "giving aid and comfort" then you should have a lot more evidence than a flag.
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If you're trying to claim Alito's wife flying a flag is a reason to remove him from the court, then the core problem is you don't like his policies.
For that matter if moving abortion to the states is the issue than it's "we need to pack the court because I don't like the rulings".
On “Partisan Lies Threaten the Union”
We aren't going to convince MAGA that they lost the last election any more than we can convince someone that their god isn't real. On some level they already know, they just aren't willing to admit it.
We need to have Trump lose the next election convincingly.
Then, after there's no motive for team Blue to take Trump down because he's lost the election, Trump's various court cases finish and put him in prison.
On “Open Mic for the week of 5/27/2024”
We need congress to pass a series of laws allowing power to be shipped over state lines. That will require preventing NIMBYs from preventing infrastructure from being build, preventing local/state power companies from holding their local market hostage and so on.
Green energy is mostly created in places were people don't live and it needs to be transmitted to places where they do.
"
Here is a Ted Talk going over this year's good news. It's stupidly massively good in many ways, and I haven't heard the main stream media mention any of it.
https://www.ted.com/talks/angus_hervey_the_good_news_you_might_have_missed?language=en
On “The Flag Flap”
How do we jump from "flying the flag inappropriately" to "bias"? Bias for/against whom? Do the Supremes have a flag case again this year?
On “Open Mic for the week of 5/27/2024”
Philip: And the context is one of what appears to be a growing amount of indiscriminate killing INSIDE places Israel has told refugees to go.
We have vast hunger. They're one month away from starvation. And have been one month away from starvation for the last six months.
We have the deliberate targeting of women and children... except that seems to have not been a thing. The UN revised it's numbers a day or so before South Africa claimed in court that all the numbers were of "named" people.
The number of dead aid workers is roughly the same as the number of Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire.
We have Israel's claims that about half the dead people are military. I think there are some other claims that it's more like a third. For perspective the expected result is about a fifth.
I look at these numbers and don't see genocide.
This is a brutal urban war combined with anti-war hysteria.
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