Tuberville said in his Post column that he’s fine with that, as long as “the people who actually fight are not affected at all”

I’m not particularly interested in anything GM sells for a whole host of reasons. However, I’ll say this - I wouldn’t buy a vehicle in 2023 that didn’t have Car Play support. I’m not terribly interested in learning a second system just so a car company can avoid a license fee.

Don’t forget the social aspect. Prisons have their own hierarchies and norms that don’t necessarily use external (meaning outside Prisons) logic. Hurting someone inside can be status unlike the outside Prison world. Child molesters are the lowest of the hierarchy so, if you’re hurting someone for status, they would be…

I would suggest that there have been times of higher inequality

Reagan was President from 1980 until 1988. That’s all of 8 years. It is now 43 years since Reagan was ever elected and 35 since he left office. In 1988, Boomers accounted for 38% of the voting aged population, which was the single biggest bloc that year. Since at least the 1996 Presidential election (actually, 1992,…

I think it is unfair to judge an older generation based on what mess they left behind without looking at the mess they cleaned up.

According to the IRS, something like 92% of tax filers just take the standard deduction. So all that stuff in place is literally just for the top 10%.

The Boomers blamed them for everything that they saw wrong with the world in the 80s.

Sorry. In 10 days, we’re about to have no Commandant of the Marine Corps (I thought it was June 10th).

That was always going to happen. Didn’t matter if Clinton won in 2016 and again in 2020 (which has never happened in US history - subsequent terms of the same party by different people). A Republican was ALWAYS going to eventually get into office and try to stack the judiciary to rip away all the progress Democrats…

Seems like the cause is fairly obvious - Terminal Hubris.

It reminds me of the old adage you can’t make a joke about rape. Sure, TECHNICALLY you can, but the odds of it working as so slim, just don’t try it. (To my knowledge, Sarah Silverman has made the only funny rape joke I’ve ever heard and the punch line of the joke wasn’t really the rape part). I’m not saying it’s…

But it isn’t an ‘incorrect’ usage. It’s perfectly correct. Your definition is usually labeled as the ‘formal’ definition and it’s actually the rarely used. The dominate usage is the informal method. Just like the word ‘it’s’ is an informal usage of the phrase ‘it is’ and appears regularly in discourse. Informal…

No, it begs the question. There’s two uses of that phrase - one can be translated as ‘assumes the conclusion’ and the other is ‘create a specific question in response’. Both are equally valid uses of the phrase ‘begs the question’. If you can replace it with “the question that begs to be answered” and it fits, then…

I get a very distinct feeling that Stockton Rush sees himself as analogous to Elon Musk.

Russell, FancyMan that he is, is RIGHT!

Yes, but when the average length of owning a vehicle is 12 years, what percentage of vehicles on the road actually come with that stuff? For instance, my 2014 CX-5 doesn’t have automatic breaking. If I replace it with a 2023 CX-5, automatic breaking is an option - and expensive one at that. But it wasn’t even an…

I feel bad for the kid, but the rest? Play stupid games win stupid prizes. It always sucks that people have to die before someone goes, “Ya know... maybe there should be some sort of oversight into this sort of thing?”

Hey, you do know there’s more taxes in the world than ‘income’, right?