it's a hell of a long way from "sometimes we fail" to "therefore we shouldn't try", particularly when your assertion is that the only reason we even try is racism
"As to your turn style jumpers – best I can tell that’s been a feature of subway systems since they were dug. "
should people who break the law be punished y/n
"having ridden Metro of the decade i lived in DC – and multiple times a year since on returns for work – I detest the reporting of such systems as contributing to, much less being, hellscapes."
interesting, tell me more about how problems you haven't personally experienced do not exist
"I do not agree that you solve the mental problems of people on the Metro by over policing them within the Metro."
what do you think "getting mentally-ill people the help they need" looks like for those who are too injured by their mental state to voluntarily seek treatment
"I don’t really understand why removing people for long established remove-able conduct is deemed something that requires a lot of chin scratching."
Because the assumption is that their conduct is not actually "remove-able", that this whole concern over behavior on public transit is nothing but a bunch of Karens being upset that black men exist.
"One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. "
that's an awful lot to lay on Facebook's fact-checking program
"Are you seriously suggesting that two incidents, none particularly serious, in over four decades is something to wet myself over?"
I guess if you want to breed a nation of sociopaths, then an attitude of "look sometimes you just get your life threatened in a public space, harden up and stop being such a crybaby about it" is a good way to go.
"Random person on the internet speaks hyperbolically so any alarm raised against Trump can be discounted as being a chicken little is no way to live. "
It's interesting that you didn't recognize Whoopi Goldberg, but I guess they all look alike to you, eh?
"Helldivers 2" has set up a cross-promotion with, of all things, "Killzone" (an FPS franchise that had its last game release ten years ago).
The cross-promotion involves some limited-time-available cosmetics and a unique gun (which is kinda-better-than-the-free-guns but not an Instant Win Button.)
What's notable about this is that the stuff is only available in the real-money shop, not the Spacebucks shop. (As in, to buy the Killzone stuff you have to pay actual dollars, versus just playing the game and getting in-game points to spend on upgrades.) So I guess "exclusive items in the cash shop" is the monetization plan for Helldivers going forward.
Where the Democrats campaigned and spent money, they won. There just were more places where they didn't campaign or spend money.
As for "the brand", I think it really hurt Harris that Republicans would put up ads with Harris saying something easily spun as "crazy radical", and the Harris campaign response to this was to remind us that Donald Trump is a real jerk.
I don't think that "undercuts" anything, I think that's more like boilerplate, it's what they're required to say as their response to "what if someone actually does encounter a drone after all".
Like, you ask "what do I do if I encounter a grizzly bear" and they say "play dead", that doesn't mean they expect you to encounter a grizzly bear in the near future.
"[Isaacman] has a sketch of a plan to replace it with a series of smaller rockets that will do the job at a fraction of the cost."
ah-heh. A fraction of the cost per rocket, but two to three times the cost for the actual mission, which is what always happens when you try to do multi-launch missions with on-orbit rendezvous and docking included.
But it feels smaller because the rockets aren't as big, and (as anyone who works in the restaurant industry can tell you) people who don't know the details tend to assume that size = cost.
It is very amusing that "taking someone's whacko statements and 'editing' them to make them sound nicer in a press release" is now a bad thing because it's being done for Republican-associated whacko statements.
Intriguing follow-up to that with a very #cyberpunkfuture touch: Chinese farmers were using drones to spread swine flu to other farmers' herds, literally killing off the competition. This was discovered when airliners started having navigation trouble when flying over farmland; the pig herders were using jammers to interfere with this drone-spreading activity, and the jammers were affecting the airplanes' radios.
I remember people scoffing that Trump was getting thoroughly owned because China was "punishing" his trade policies by refusing to buy soybeans.
It turned out that the Chinese mostly used soybeans as pig fodder and there was a massive swine-flu epidemic in China in 2018, so the reduction in soybean orders had nothing to do with trade policy at all, but then 2020 happened and everyone forgot about it.
It is heartwarming, in a way, to see that immigrants so thoroughly assimilate to median American culture that they develop the same energy as a white man who thinks he can talk his way out of a traffic ticket by calmly explaining to the police officer that he's not that bad of a driver compared to the real maniacs out there.
I'm looking forward to hearing an explanation of how it was only declining sales and had nothing to do with theft and Safeway's a bunch of racist liars, and said explanation failing to consider the fact that the reason sales were declining was that all the stuff they were trying to sell kept getting stolen.
People are wondering why there was a trial at all, and the point is that without a trial to establish that Violence Is The Provenance Of The State, you get "Death Wish".
Although given that people here are still cheering on that nutball who shot a guy in the street, apparently that's what they want these days.
On “Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take”
"We have had upticks in subway violence before and beaten them back with intelligent policing. "
oh hey look at that
policing the subways is necessary after all
On “Meta Ends Fact-checking Program”
He wouldn't have been reelected in 2024, that's for sure...
On “Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take”
"You can’t prevent every murder. Full stop."
it's a hell of a long way from "sometimes we fail" to "therefore we shouldn't try", particularly when your assertion is that the only reason we even try is racism
"
"As to your turn style jumpers – best I can tell that’s been a feature of subway systems since they were dug. "
should people who break the law be punished y/n
"having ridden Metro of the decade i lived in DC – and multiple times a year since on returns for work – I detest the reporting of such systems as contributing to, much less being, hellscapes."
interesting, tell me more about how problems you haven't personally experienced do not exist
"I do not agree that you solve the mental problems of people on the Metro by over policing them within the Metro."
what do you think "getting mentally-ill people the help they need" looks like for those who are too injured by their mental state to voluntarily seek treatment
"
"I don’t really understand why removing people for long established remove-able conduct is deemed something that requires a lot of chin scratching."
Because the assumption is that their conduct is not actually "remove-able", that this whole concern over behavior on public transit is nothing but a bunch of Karens being upset that black men exist.
On “Meta Ends Fact-checking Program”
"One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. "
that's an awful lot to lay on Facebook's fact-checking program
On “Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take”
"Are you seriously suggesting that two incidents, none particularly serious, in over four decades is something to wet myself over?"
I guess if you want to breed a nation of sociopaths, then an attitude of "look sometimes you just get your life threatened in a public space, harden up and stop being such a crybaby about it" is a good way to go.
On “Meta Ends Fact-checking Program”
"Random person on the internet speaks hyperbolically so any alarm raised against Trump can be discounted as being a chicken little is no way to live. "
It's interesting that you didn't recognize Whoopi Goldberg, but I guess they all look alike to you, eh?
On “Weekend Plans Post: Leonard Cohen”
I think the reason "Hallelujah" got famous was that Rufus Wainwright's cover was used for the Dark Night Of The Soul bit in "Shrek".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iDfvoqOhD8
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Clive Barker’s Undying”
"Helldivers 2" has set up a cross-promotion with, of all things, "Killzone" (an FPS franchise that had its last game release ten years ago).
The cross-promotion involves some limited-time-available cosmetics and a unique gun (which is kinda-better-than-the-free-guns but not an Instant Win Button.)
What's notable about this is that the stuff is only available in the real-money shop, not the Spacebucks shop. (As in, to buy the Killzone stuff you have to pay actual dollars, versus just playing the game and getting in-game points to spend on upgrades.) So I guess "exclusive items in the cash shop" is the monetization plan for Helldivers going forward.
On “Are Republicans Waking Up?”
ok, what Republican would you consider acceptable
Death Is Not An Option, pick one. yes I know you'd rather literally a dog turd than any Republican.
On “Thursday Throughput: RFK Jr Edition”
"If I had a magic wand, I’d say [the price of gas] goes up 10 cents per gallon every year plus inflation."
sucks for everybody who can't afford to buy a new car every year I guess
"
"Small SUVs" are cars, and cars get good mileage these days.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024”
Where the Democrats campaigned and spent money, they won. There just were more places where they didn't campaign or spend money.
As for "the brand", I think it really hurt Harris that Republicans would put up ads with Harris saying something easily spun as "crazy radical", and the Harris campaign response to this was to remind us that Donald Trump is a real jerk.
On “Panic! The Kind That Came From New Jersey”
I don't think that "undercuts" anything, I think that's more like boilerplate, it's what they're required to say as their response to "what if someone actually does encounter a drone after all".
Like, you ask "what do I do if I encounter a grizzly bear" and they say "play dead", that doesn't mean they expect you to encounter a grizzly bear in the near future.
On “Thursday Throughput: RFK Jr Edition”
"[Isaacman] has a sketch of a plan to replace it with a series of smaller rockets that will do the job at a fraction of the cost."
ah-heh. A fraction of the cost per rocket, but two to three times the cost for the actual mission, which is what always happens when you try to do multi-launch missions with on-orbit rendezvous and docking included.
But it feels smaller because the rockets aren't as big, and (as anyone who works in the restaurant industry can tell you) people who don't know the details tend to assume that size = cost.
"
"well the dang gummint ain't gonna let 'em do it anyway"
OK Boomer
"
It is very amusing that "taking someone's whacko statements and 'editing' them to make them sound nicer in a press release" is now a bad thing because it's being done for Republican-associated whacko statements.
On “Has Trump Already Lost the Trade War?”
Intriguing follow-up to that with a very #cyberpunkfuture touch: Chinese farmers were using drones to spread swine flu to other farmers' herds, literally killing off the competition. This was discovered when airliners started having navigation trouble when flying over farmland; the pig herders were using jammers to interfere with this drone-spreading activity, and the jammers were affecting the airplanes' radios.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3042991/china-flight-systems-jammed-pig-farms-african-swine-fever
"
I remember people scoffing that Trump was getting thoroughly owned because China was "punishing" his trade policies by refusing to buy soybeans.
It turned out that the Chinese mostly used soybeans as pig fodder and there was a massive swine-flu epidemic in China in 2018, so the reduction in soybean orders had nothing to do with trade policy at all, but then 2020 happened and everyone forgot about it.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/9/2024”
It is heartwarming, in a way, to see that immigrants so thoroughly assimilate to median American culture that they develop the same energy as a white man who thinks he can talk his way out of a traffic ticket by calmly explaining to the police officer that he's not that bad of a driver compared to the real maniacs out there.
"
I'm looking forward to hearing an explanation of how it was only declining sales and had nothing to do with theft and Safeway's a bunch of racist liars, and said explanation failing to consider the fact that the reason sales were declining was that all the stuff they were trying to sell kept getting stolen.
"
the 1990s were a great time if you were a straight white suburban American. other than that, not so much!
"
People are wondering why there was a trial at all, and the point is that without a trial to establish that Violence Is The Provenance Of The State, you get "Death Wish".
Although given that people here are still cheering on that nutball who shot a guy in the street, apparently that's what they want these days.
On “From the New York Post: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops”
It's a message to the cops that this was a mob hit and they shouldn't look too deeply into it.
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