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I demand that you call it tartan. Plaid is the incorrect term for tartan patterns.

It does seem a bit counterintuitive doesn’t it?

“Yes, we want to be a globally connected and integrated community and economy, but we all want to maintain our unique cultural identities and heritage and you can’t have any!”

I think Scotland could still make a decent amount off butch lesibans and hipsters.

Cultural appropriation is something we largely agree is wrong

Good to know. Thanks for the information!

Counterpoint: actually, cultural appropriation is fine. Any person is entitled to do whatever they want artistically, even if it means borrowing liberally from someone else’s creation. Additionally, no person has the authority or right to tell an artist that they can’t create art in the way that they want to. …

more than 20 percent of cars on the road today were produced before 20002

The $26M apartment is irrelevant. Reasonably the paper needs to be a self-sustaining business.

It is also common for both management and the union to essentially ask for the moon at first, then slowly work towards a compromise.

Yeah, but the point is pretty solid. The Aztec culture is gone. They might descend from it, but the civilization fell, along with Rome and ancient Greece and tons of others. If cultural IP is now owned by members of that culture, who really owns that? Are we going to do DNA tests to see if you can use an image of…

It’s what Jesus would have done.

People want to feel the emotional oomph of a shady dismissal of someone’s opinions, but few people have the actual stomach for letting the argument go.

Too bad hope you like your stay in the slammer /s

The lasers rarely work very well. Dewalts method uses regular light leaving a shadow on the material to be cut that is the exact width of the kerf of the blade, and never needs adjustments to maintain accuracy.

The lasers rarely work very well. Dewalts method uses regular light leaving a shadow on the material to be cut that…

I’m encouraged by the bipartisan sense of unity that I’ve seen so far. Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi had back to back uplifting messages on the House floor. Bernie had a very strong statement from the Senate floor about how we absolutely cannot tolerate violence to achieve political ends. He needed to come out strong and…

I would argue that’s the No True Scotsman fallacy at work.

Yeah, but it was the passage about Lot’s daughters getting him drunk and sleeping with him.

Gee... If only there was a way to prevent people with problems from easily tricked into violence... Oh that’s out of the budget? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/trump-budget-public-health/527808/

Yeah, its almost like blaming stuff like this on one particular group of people is really bad and dumb. Ironic… Huh?