Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
12hr ago
Conversely, if Minneapolis had been ATF "rounding up illegal gun owners" and shot someone in a car with a MAGA bumper sticker, all other facts remaining the same...
Mantergeistmann
21hr ago
The primary argument I know is "Babbit (and the rest of the protestors) were actively engaged in violence (see also: the one officer who was struck in the head with a heavy object), and therefore Babbit was shot in self-defence (usually accompanied by a photo of protestors inside the Capitol with fists raised looking angry), whereas Good was at no point attempting to harm the officer, and even though he was probably out of the way of the car (especially when he fired the shots), he at the very least put himself in harm's way."
Is it accurate to the situation on the ground, in either case? I haven't looked at any videos of either, and I'm sure the exact opposite argument is made in circles I don't really frequent. I'm merely summarizing/aggregating the argument I see most often.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
That's Alberic's, right? Across the Sea from Louen and the Enchantress?
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Yemen showed that a few desert tribes with some drones from Iran can tie down a third of the US Navy for over a year and win
Yemen showed that if you're not willing to commit boots on the ground, it's very hard to permanently take out 100% of mobile/distributed launch sites with just air strikes.
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
If a racist motive leads to uncovering genuine fraud, should that fraud then be ignored or tolerated
Suppose it's a political motive instead? I don't like political witch hunts, even when they turn up dirt, because it was never about finding and solving problems and crimes, it's about hurting the outgroup. I don't like the blatant lawfare against Trump; i don't like lawfare done against anyonr else, either, even if it turns out to have been justified after the fact.
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
My wife's assumption in the past has been "did someone steal access to our credit card?" but neither one of us is known for extravagant purchases (and sometimes things show up weirdly on the credit card statement...)
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
People who buy houses near military jet bases or farms and then complain about the noise/smell is... far, far too high.
Mantergeistmann
19d ago
Jesus, who supposedly stood up for prostitutes and adulteresses
"Go now, and sin no more." Does everyone forget that part?
Mantergeistmann
19d ago
Dugan's lead attorney "told reporters that he was disappointed with the ruling and didn’t understand how the jury could have reached a split verdict since the elements of both charges were virtually the same." A compromise verdict does make sense in the jury sense-making sense.
I knew a clerk who once told me of a case where a jury found a man on tried on drug charges to be guilty "possession with intent to distribute", but not guilty of "possession". I assume that sort of thing is reasonably common for legal purposes, but that attorneys will of course point to how nonsensical it is as a way to support their client.
Mantergeistmann
20d ago
Throughout the whole week I was impressed again and again by how kind and open the Spaniards I interacted with were. Yet another thing that Americans could learn from.
When you say "Americans", which part of America are you referring to? In my experience, New England is different from Metropolis is different from Midwest is different from Southern is different from...
Mantergeistmann
24d ago
Sounds almost like you're advocating SafeStart: Coding Edition.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
where the Americans and the UK undermined French submarine sales
As I understand it, the French submarine sale deal wound up being... pretty horrendous, cost-wise. Granted, AUKUS may also wind up being do, but the French deal was not exactly an amazing bargain for Australia.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I had a history professor whose stated policy was, "I'm going to give you my views on X. You can absolutely get a good grade on the tests by just arguing in favor of my views, using what I told you in class. You can get just as good of a grade by arguing that I'm wrong. I just care that you support whichever answer you go with, and do it well."
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I remember helping my dad grade essays when he was a professor, and I followed a strict rubric. The ones at the end of my grading scored much higher than the ones at the beginning (until I went back and re-graded them), because my expectations at the start were a lot higher than by the time I got to the end.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I'm reminded of when I was in grade school, my mother demanded to speak with a teacher (known to dislike me) over an assignment I received a "C" on. Not because I'd been graded unfairly, but because it was a multi-part assignment, and I'd received "C"s for every individual part of it... including the part I hadn't done at all. My mom's fury wasn't over a low grade, but that the grade had nothing to do with the quality of the work I had or hadn't done, and was simply because the teacher jumped straight to marking it all "C" because she didn't like me (but presumably expected a "D" or a failure to bring pushback, given my grades from other teachers).
When faced with this, the teacher's immediate response (with a fellow teacher in the room!) was to ask, "well, what grade do you want me to give, then?" in the assumption that having arbitrarily given me a poor grade because she disliked me, my mother would be satisfied with an arbitrary good grade to make up for it--yet another mistake by that teacher.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Card maxed out, maybe? Needed to break a $50 at the same time because the ATM sometimes gives those out instead of $20s and I hate that?
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I had a great-uncle who would apparently listen to police scanners at night so he could be the first to roadkill strikes for the free meat.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Weren't most of these boats carrying cocaine rather than fent?
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Or all your spare dollars are going into savings.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Time Team is a goddamn national treasure, though.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Even steelmanning your argument though, why would we grant citizenship to someone willing to sell out their country to an invading power for a paycheck?
As an incentive to future collaborators? "Help us out, and you can earn your citizenship. Also, if everything does go to hell, we won't leave you in the lurch to be executed by the government you turned against".
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
When I was a teenager, I thought Office Space was representative of real life.
20 years later, that wasn't really true
Let me tell you, at least in my white-collar office, Office Space is considered by most people I talk to to in fact be completely true, and if anything an understatement. Of course, it helps when you have reports of your own with a 3-letter acronym that everyone knows for a fact nobody reads...
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
The others in his gang claimed he was possessed by a female spirit and would commit suicide (kill him)if she lost the baby, so he had to be on light duties till the baby came to term.
I'm sorry, what?
I think I'd appreciate a bit of an elaboration here, because this is beyond crazy for the crazies I know.
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