If I am Harris I am looking at this as being the beginning of the 4th quarter, and I just received the kick off. She has to score a TD on this drive for the comeback to have a chance. Everything from July 21 on has been exciting, but it has also merely been turning it back into a game. Trump still leads by 3. At some point she will have to throw.
Orwell was a left winger. Relevant to this topic I believe he also said:
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do, they cannot give the factory worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see it stays there.
I've also become convinced thats a major driver. One of the best things you can do is not click on the news stories or circulate stories and/or takes on social media.
Depending on the facts I don't see why you couldn't be sued (at least in jurisdictions I am familiar with which do not include Georgia) , particularly in situations like this where the firearm was apparently gifted to a minor.
I'm not sure that the risks we are talking about are really insurable, given that they amount to commission of crimes. My firearms are listed on my home owners but that just means I could file a claim for reimbursement if they were destroyed in a fire or something, similar to how you can insure jewelry.
Possible. The police locally thwarted a 'would be school shooter' under similar circumstances in the spring, the key differences being that the police took the tips about threats and disturbing stories seriously and the kid's father properly securing his firearm so it never became accessible. There had been significant mental health interventions, which seems to be all anyone talks about around here with students of the local schools, but it doesn't seem to have dampened the inclination.
Anyway I think the unfortunate reality may be that the police need to be a lot less willing to believe people once someone has threatened to do something like this. That or have some other authority that can compel treatment and enforce monitoring.
I don't know the deal in other states, but the general rule in Maryland is that being a party to the crime opens you up to being charged with the same crime as the principal. As you would expect this has been controversial at times but that is how it works today. Facts may result in greater leniency in sentencing but it isn't changing the potential jeopardy.
It would certainly be possible for a legislature to pass a criminal statute aimed specifically at this kind of conduct.
In terms of civil liability I don't see why you couldn't get there now for these types of facts, at least in jurisdictions I am familiar with.
Mental health intervention is all well and good but it seems to me that the biggest issue is the police apparently not responding to multiple warnings.
I think most people can get away with a good degree of it in their youth. The stakes are a lot lower, and maybe some important life lessons can be learned in the process.
Once you're married and certainly once you have kids though I think it's gotta be like a 99% failure rate. Even for those who can get past the jealousy are going to end up falling way short on the relationship maintenance duties, which are hard enough when it's just between 2 people.
Periodically my wife and I will hear about someone we know considering something like this and our reaction is always the same: where would you even find the time?
Yea any man who does this and thinks he is going to come out on top is a fool. There is a basic asymmetry to it.
The word though is that it's increasingly women proposing these arrangements, often via some therapy culture mumbo jumbo that would get a man mercilessly ridiculed. Personally I think it's a sign that the sexs have reached near total social parity. Women now feel sufficiently independent to destroy their marriages and families with short sighted and selfish sexual indulgence, just like their dads did.
My take on the open marriage thing is that there are like 5 couples that have somehow found a way to make it work such that they at least believe it is not inherently undignified and debasing. YMMV as to whether they are in fact right about that.
For everyone else it is a mere detour on the way to divorce.
I'm not going to pretend to know why that's happened and no one knows yet if it's a trend or a blip.
Nevertheless the connection between abortion rates and female access to contraception which tends to be downstream of things having health insurance and other markers of socio economic status is pretty well established. The general demographics of who is having abortions is also easy enough to identify with Google and they're mostly below or only slightly above the poverty line. Part of the reason abortions are still comparatively way down from where they once were is the availability of contraception for anyone who has consistent health insurance and a CVS nearby.
This is a hopelessly shallow understanding of things.
To use your hypothetical I don't think the state should force a person to give blood to a dying child. I also do not think that the healthy adult who refuses to do it has made the right choice. Not sure why that's so complicated for some people. As if the state is somehow the source and foundation of human morality. It isn't and never can be.
They absolutely failed and I think they ensured they would fail when they put all of their chips in with the party that otherwise treats healthcare as a strictly personal problem and state support of the same as a juicy target of spending cuts. Everyone who thinks about the issue for more than 5 seconds realizes that the sort of every man for himself thinking that animated the Republican party up until about 2016 is the polar opposite of what an actual 'culture of life' might look like, and it's way too late now for them to change course.
My hunch is that personal feelings on the subject are as muddled as ever. I myself (much to my chagrin) am a semi-practicing Catholic. I think the truly elective terminations of healthy, no extenuating circumstances pregnancies, is, on balance, the wrong thing to do. But I also think trying to do something like criminalizing it in the context of the actual existing American healthcare system and actual existing criminal justice system is also quite self evidently the wrong thing to do, and Americans very understandably will never accept it over the long run.
I'm aware of the horror stories. The point I'm making is that the pro life movement's expectations about people's willingness to tolerate what it would take to do what they want are totally misplaced, and that technology has made that problem for them far more acute.
The technology component goes in a bunch of different directions. There were of course back alley abortions but my understanding is that enforcement of the laws was spotty. If someone had cash and a willing doctor there wasn't any real way to track it or prove what happened. Now everything is digitized and there's a real prospect of highly intrusive medical monitoring and investigation which people (read: women) understandably hate, regardless of personal feelings on intentionally terminating a pregnancy.
This all of course isn't helped by the simple fact that the best thing people most upset about abortion could do to prevent it is hand out contraception anywhere and everywhere, not send cops and prosecutors poking around peoples' private lives.
My wife started a GLP 1 to help get off the pregnancy weight just under a year ago and it's been a big success for her, no significant side effects. Assuming long term use doesn't cause cancer or something my bet is that the big risk will be injuries due to deterioration of muscle mass. Or at least that's my observation. Shit is great for losing weight but it's indiscriminate. Can't skip leg day.
Randomly and on this topic I ran into a guy I hadn't seen in a couple years last weekend. He had lost so much weight I didn't recognize him. Said he did it with intermittent fasting. Reportedly it cured his diabetes, to the point that is possible.
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On “Brace Yourselves: The Debate is Coming”
I plan to watch it due to my demented sense of civic duty.
But also if we have learned anything in the last few months it's that these debates are still really important.
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If I am Harris I am looking at this as being the beginning of the 4th quarter, and I just received the kick off. She has to score a TD on this drive for the comeback to have a chance. Everything from July 21 on has been exciting, but it has also merely been turning it back into a game. Trump still leads by 3. At some point she will have to throw.
On “Apalachee Killer’s Father Now Charged”
I don't think that's quite the argument being made.
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Orwell was a left winger. Relevant to this topic I believe he also said:
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do, they cannot give the factory worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see it stays there.
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I've also become convinced thats a major driver. One of the best things you can do is not click on the news stories or circulate stories and/or takes on social media.
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Depending on the facts I don't see why you couldn't be sued (at least in jurisdictions I am familiar with which do not include Georgia) , particularly in situations like this where the firearm was apparently gifted to a minor.
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I'm not sure that the risks we are talking about are really insurable, given that they amount to commission of crimes. My firearms are listed on my home owners but that just means I could file a claim for reimbursement if they were destroyed in a fire or something, similar to how you can insure jewelry.
"
Possible. The police locally thwarted a 'would be school shooter' under similar circumstances in the spring, the key differences being that the police took the tips about threats and disturbing stories seriously and the kid's father properly securing his firearm so it never became accessible. There had been significant mental health interventions, which seems to be all anyone talks about around here with students of the local schools, but it doesn't seem to have dampened the inclination.
Anyway I think the unfortunate reality may be that the police need to be a lot less willing to believe people once someone has threatened to do something like this. That or have some other authority that can compel treatment and enforce monitoring.
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I think the consensus view is that south Florida is the north and north Florida is the south.
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I don't know the deal in other states, but the general rule in Maryland is that being a party to the crime opens you up to being charged with the same crime as the principal. As you would expect this has been controversial at times but that is how it works today. Facts may result in greater leniency in sentencing but it isn't changing the potential jeopardy.
It would certainly be possible for a legislature to pass a criminal statute aimed specifically at this kind of conduct.
In terms of civil liability I don't see why you couldn't get there now for these types of facts, at least in jurisdictions I am familiar with.
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I think a pretty critical fact in both MI and this is the parents actually buying the weapon. It blows my mind that someone would do that.
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Mental health intervention is all well and good but it seems to me that the biggest issue is the police apparently not responding to multiple warnings.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/2/2024”
I think most people can get away with a good degree of it in their youth. The stakes are a lot lower, and maybe some important life lessons can be learned in the process.
Once you're married and certainly once you have kids though I think it's gotta be like a 99% failure rate. Even for those who can get past the jealousy are going to end up falling way short on the relationship maintenance duties, which are hard enough when it's just between 2 people.
Periodically my wife and I will hear about someone we know considering something like this and our reaction is always the same: where would you even find the time?
"
Yea any man who does this and thinks he is going to come out on top is a fool. There is a basic asymmetry to it.
The word though is that it's increasingly women proposing these arrangements, often via some therapy culture mumbo jumbo that would get a man mercilessly ridiculed. Personally I think it's a sign that the sexs have reached near total social parity. Women now feel sufficiently independent to destroy their marriages and families with short sighted and selfish sexual indulgence, just like their dads did.
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Precisely.
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My take on the open marriage thing is that there are like 5 couples that have somehow found a way to make it work such that they at least believe it is not inherently undignified and debasing. YMMV as to whether they are in fact right about that.
For everyone else it is a mere detour on the way to divorce.
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I drive by a synagogue every day on the way to my kids' school with a wall covered in pictures of the hostages. I find it similarly lacking in nuance.
On “A Cautionary Tale”
I'm not going to pretend to know why that's happened and no one knows yet if it's a trend or a blip.
Nevertheless the connection between abortion rates and female access to contraception which tends to be downstream of things having health insurance and other markers of socio economic status is pretty well established. The general demographics of who is having abortions is also easy enough to identify with Google and they're mostly below or only slightly above the poverty line. Part of the reason abortions are still comparatively way down from where they once were is the availability of contraception for anyone who has consistent health insurance and a CVS nearby.
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This is a hopelessly shallow understanding of things.
To use your hypothetical I don't think the state should force a person to give blood to a dying child. I also do not think that the healthy adult who refuses to do it has made the right choice. Not sure why that's so complicated for some people. As if the state is somehow the source and foundation of human morality. It isn't and never can be.
On “Group Discussion: Banning Social Media Influencers From Small Towns”
Autonomous sentry guns.
On “A Cautionary Tale”
They absolutely failed and I think they ensured they would fail when they put all of their chips in with the party that otherwise treats healthcare as a strictly personal problem and state support of the same as a juicy target of spending cuts. Everyone who thinks about the issue for more than 5 seconds realizes that the sort of every man for himself thinking that animated the Republican party up until about 2016 is the polar opposite of what an actual 'culture of life' might look like, and it's way too late now for them to change course.
My hunch is that personal feelings on the subject are as muddled as ever. I myself (much to my chagrin) am a semi-practicing Catholic. I think the truly elective terminations of healthy, no extenuating circumstances pregnancies, is, on balance, the wrong thing to do. But I also think trying to do something like criminalizing it in the context of the actual existing American healthcare system and actual existing criminal justice system is also quite self evidently the wrong thing to do, and Americans very understandably will never accept it over the long run.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/2/2024”
No one has to forget Hamas exists or feel anything remotely positive towards them to conclude that they and the Israelis deserve each other.
In terms of the situation in deep blue territory I don't know how many times to suggest maybe getting new friends.
On “A Cautionary Tale”
I'm aware of the horror stories. The point I'm making is that the pro life movement's expectations about people's willingness to tolerate what it would take to do what they want are totally misplaced, and that technology has made that problem for them far more acute.
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The technology component goes in a bunch of different directions. There were of course back alley abortions but my understanding is that enforcement of the laws was spotty. If someone had cash and a willing doctor there wasn't any real way to track it or prove what happened. Now everything is digitized and there's a real prospect of highly intrusive medical monitoring and investigation which people (read: women) understandably hate, regardless of personal feelings on intentionally terminating a pregnancy.
This all of course isn't helped by the simple fact that the best thing people most upset about abortion could do to prevent it is hand out contraception anywhere and everywhere, not send cops and prosecutors poking around peoples' private lives.
On “Em is on a Diet, Again”
My wife started a GLP 1 to help get off the pregnancy weight just under a year ago and it's been a big success for her, no significant side effects. Assuming long term use doesn't cause cancer or something my bet is that the big risk will be injuries due to deterioration of muscle mass. Or at least that's my observation. Shit is great for losing weight but it's indiscriminate. Can't skip leg day.
Randomly and on this topic I ran into a guy I hadn't seen in a couple years last weekend. He had lost so much weight I didn't recognize him. Said he did it with intermittent fasting. Reportedly it cured his diabetes, to the point that is possible.
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