VinoVeritas
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VinoVeritas
1mo ago
As a guy who would prefer to live in a stable republic, it drives me up the wall that there's anyone with the power to try this kind of thing in an election season. That it happens to be my candidate benefitting doesn't make it drive up my blood pressure any less, not unlike all these people dying without water and power from the hurricane.
VinoVeritas
1mo ago
I imagine many here would be much more sympathetic to extremely highly-paid software engineering or finance jobs getting axed and replaced by AI.
Meanwhile I'm over here like "give me the nuclear codes"
VinoVeritas
1mo ago
But what about the 'no automation' thing? It would be cheaper to pay them all 620% more until the day they died than to agree not to automate
The same people who cannot properly digest milk because their ancestors never bothered to domestic cows
VinoVeritas
1mo ago
I am the son of these people, who did not write down their own drinking habits so they are only described to us by others. We can cherry pick whatever quote we like, for example,
"To continue drinking night and day without intermission is not considered shameful by any man"
Did they drink always or never or somewhere in between? Maybe even, were they people much like us? Or me at least
VinoVeritas
1mo ago
It's double digits a day from slipping in the shower, in case that feels like context
VinoVeritas
1mo ago
As with many, many, other things the 'American' man in question standing around the little stool with a bottle of liquor is not the same 'American' man who fought the war against King George.
Italians and Irish catholics drunkenly beating their suffragette wives is not why my WASPy ancestors fought the revolutionary war
6 or 8 months ago I finally took the hint that the days of cable were over and went from paying . $200 a month to .$50 a month for one of those meme services that had everything we needed. ('Oh it's on fubo. Check it out on tubi. Just hulu it.' Feels like that bop-it game from 20 years ago). It's worked out fine, but I was reluctant to admit just how much things had changed.
Where are you choosing to spend your time discussing things like the Vice Presidential debate earlier tonight? Because I'm (obviously) slow on the uptake but even I'm feeling like the era of having a contentious space to hash things out with other intelligent people has gone the way of cable. Tens of millions of people watched, hundreds of millions saw the highlights, where is anybody bothering to exchange ideas about it? As opposed to just amplifying their collective agreement in group chats
I suppose not so many years ago everybody watched what happened on Dallas in their own living rooms and had to wait to talk about it until they were around the water cooler the next day. Times do change and I'm not meaning to be Miniver Cheevy, just wondering what the options are besides the groupchats.
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
I was once a juror on a murder trial where the guy filmed himself murdering the gal and throwing her in a trash can and they called in a city worker to testify for like 3 or 4 hours about his entire career in waste management and how trash trucks and cans work and the entire city's trash collection schedule, etc because apparently the DA didn't think that watching the video of this guy murdering the gal and throwing her into a trash can would be enough to convince us he did it
So presumably the answer to your question is because the DA considers it essential to have every possible witness testify in excruciating detail and charging a 'necessary' witness with a crime might throw a wrench in that desire
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
There's a real risk of dying if you are tackled onto pavement. Young healthy people die every day from less acute trauma. The tackler should be charged with the crime they committed.
But I'm comfortable asserting the appropriate (and 'legal' I suppose although I don't care about that) response to being tackled onto the pavement at a political protest is not to immediately shoot your tackler multiple times in the gut.
It wasn't out of nowhere, it wasn't the middle of the night, they weren't all alone, the attacker wasn't slamming Hayes' head into the pavement repeatedly - a George Zimmerman situation this is not.
Also:
- Many of my college buddies were from Newton, they cheerfully call it Jewton, and I haven't heard anything about this yet in the groupchats
- The reason the woman was not tackled is presumably because she was not a man
- Like the sun rising in the east, when violence occurs a non-white woman will be nearby to start making noises that are quite precisely like an excited ape
- Who cares whether Hayes' gun was 'legal' or not. Was it right for him to shoot the guy who tackled him?
No, the reality that 'two other pro-Israeli demonstrators' were readily available to pull off the attacker means the tackled fella was not in danger of his life after surviving the initial impact with the ground.
How could he have known the tackler didn't have a knife, how are you expecting a man who was just tackled onto pavement in a genuinely potentially lethal fashion to exercise perfect judgment!
Yeah, great point. I wouldn't convict this guy in court if you offered to pay me. I wouldn't have been at the protest, but I can put myself in the mindset and I might've shot the tackler too. Still, it's not absurd to me to have an arrest, investigation, and probably trial about this incident.
To that point - this guy bailed out for 5k and is facing 10 years max. I have more than one buddy who had bail set with a 0 behind this guys for things like repeat DUI or possession. I personally know at least one guy that was offered a plea deal for 12 years after DUI with injury and after a financial black hole of lawyering is serving 8.
In summary, if someone tackles you onto the pavement in the middle of the night when no one else is around and they start pounding your head into the pavement - by all means protect yourself by all available means! If someone tackles you in broad daylight and your buddies immediately start pulling him off you and you shoot him twice anyway - I would not take your case!
(I am not particularly predisposed toward charity for the argument 'trauma from the Holocaust made me do it' - but apparently Hayes doesn't even that going for him...)
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
Ah, diseases used to be named by places where they are first discovered
Ebola
Okay, I'm with you, Ebola river
Marburg
Not the same as Ebola, because it wasn't 'discovered' in Germany but rather scientifically categorized. But okay, still with you
Spanish Flu
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
Just...don't
(This is a what that fat guy from Superbad said in reference to changing his last name, quote not originated from but cited by article below)
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
No man I just acknowledge a healthy middle-aged man had a near-to-zero-as-makes-no-difference chance at getting seriously ill, much less dying, from corona. And that therefore the surgeon who could have saved my dad's life should have not zoomed in from the couch.
And perhaps more to the point, it is not swift to deny dying people even oddball chances at survival when the official paths have been closed. For whatever reason.
I am the one advocating for more access to 'healthcare.' You are advocating for more compliance to the 'healthcare' system.
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
Okay :)
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
I can laugh about it with you and also gesture toward every other time we've tried to be clever with God
It's only funny and endearing if the end result is not a pile of a million dead baby skills a year
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
Donald Trump could literally shoot someone on 5th Avenue and I wouldn't vote for Kamala: OR: the Republic is dead, God save the Republic
I am not the average American voter. I went to 'college prep' - one of the best - instead of high school. And while I was there, I took more than two full years of college courses. On the "AP" tests for credit I got a perfect score in every course but one, which in the immortal words of Jordan Belfort, really pissed me off. I went to a top 20 undergrad on a merit scholarship as a straight white guy with married parents. Yadda, yadda, this post is not about my bona fides because yours are all much better
Nothing could get me to vote for Kamala or any democrat ever again. Nothing could convince me the 2020 election did not have just way too many ballots cast for both candidates. Nothing. A voice could descend from the clouds insisting that if I love Christ I must vote democrat and I'd think it was a trick of the devil.
This is deeply concerning to me as someone who got over the "what if there's an invisible space teapot" question when I took a philosophy class at Stanford one summer as a teenager because I asked my parents nicely and they were thrilled to pay for it. I just looked up to check the program was called EPGY and apparently shut down in '18.
If I can't think of anything that would change my mind, that tautologically means to me that my position must be indefensible. But I gesticulate wildly toward the national debt, the open border, the limitless unfunded mandates and all the rest and enjoy this 1% chance that something might change with Trump vs my visceral certainty that nothing will change without him.
Please forgive me if any of this seems like prideful ignorance - it's meant to be quite the opposite. This post is hoping to invite open discussion on what I consider to be the tension here. When you have the guy who took a summer school philosophy class at Stanford for fun disregarding his best instincts for want of action, what's going on with the guys who are just getting increasingly mad with no framework through which to process their lived experience?
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
That presumes the people who received medical care in lieu of my father would not have been better served by staying home. Which the official corona statistics seem to suggest because the average age of a corona fatality was above the average life expectancy and the survival rate of those who sought treatment was lower than the rate of those who didn't
('Ackshualllyyyy that's what we'd expect since sicker people would be more likely to seek treatment.' Fair enough, but it holds true if you normalize for presenting symptoms)
Also but importantly, it's weird that I have to say it again, but it's not like there was a binary choice between my dad and someone else. This was not triage after a battle. I had multiple zooms with the surgeon while he was on his couch in his sweatpants.
Lastly and not for nothing. I would have gladly paid whatever had I that kind of money but it was 7 figure stuff to bring the surgeon here. Had travel been 'permitted' for him then he'd also still be alive
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
Neither were the romans? Yes they achieved some gains with triarii but they thrived primarily after the Marian reforms and the move to manipular formation and legionary standardization with gladius, scutum, etc.
Were you aping on Obama being so catastrophically wrong in '12 about horses and bayonets? Could you explain why you chose to share that thought?
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
Britain could have just not fought the world wars and not rationed, next
Why am I in the house with three other people? Are they my immediate family? If yes, then obviously I will let them shower and skip my entirely because I love them.
If no, then I will pay for my shower and everyone else will pay for theirs, as befitting our agreement. Next.
I know where I was at during COVID (WTF is that? who came up with that? It's like Kyiv) and it was trying to get my dad an "elective" surgery that they cancelled because all the doctors wanted to televisit
Then he died.
Think about him please before the next time you start lovin' on 'the system' -
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
This was all fake unless you put up some evidence otherwise
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
I still believe in God, gauche as that may be in our circles for the last few hundred years.
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
Here's my half-joking conspiracy: all condoms are the same size because I've tried every size and they all fit the same until "after"
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
Then you get the stupid suckers like me, who were genuinely biologically compelled to 'nut' in a perfect mate but thought abortion was like plan B and we could just make another baby later
VinoVeritas
2mo ago
I made a comment early about how this all seems cargo cultish to me. Thank you for doing the work to collect the data on how many angels fit on the head of a pin in Minnesota in any given year, but I'm personally not interested in quibbling over the million-baby-skulls-a-year sized Baal-pit in which I as an American voter have been playing for the last couple generations.
This may sound to some readers like a woman saying "I'm not interested in quibbling over the government telling me what to do with my body" - I am also writing for you. Please consider that the dead babies are real. Those 10's of millions of lives snuffed out are real. Their right to life came from God. The "right" to an abortion was made up by communists.
"The debt isn't a bad thing." Okay, what would you call being personally 20 million dollars in debt if not a bad thing? Because apparently you're unaware they changed the rules so that candidate personally assumes the debt of the campaign
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