Too many people think they’re above the laws of Physics. They ain’t. 

Yes, but I want a whole story, not a climax. Once the whole story exists, I’ll watch it.

Yeah, but it also doesn’t fully resolve either, does it? I mean the use of Part 1/2 suggests the story is incomplete without the second part. Part 1 might end and have a sort of resolution, but the story itself doesn’t end. Give me the WHOLE story before I buy into it.

Color me skeptical. I mean the explicit labeling of Part 1/Part 2 suggests the story is incomplete without both parts. I get it might have a resolution, but if it leaves me wondering at any level, “I wonder what Part 2 is going to be like?” then I’m just left hanging for a year. 

The short of it is that the SC decision left a country-wide rift in that which is open to interpretation. It’s going to take decades of court cases to sort out the exact details. In the interim, people are going to push the limits and a whole lot of people are going to suffer for it.

Ok, we get the game. There’s no rules here. We got 9 people with a price and we get what we want. Just let us know the amount so we can all play. Would, say, $5 from every normal non-rich person be enough? I mean what does it cost to buy a SC justice these days? I figure for less than a Dominos specialty pizza and a…

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I too share the Wrangler hate. I don’t get these vehicles outside the extremely specific use case of off-roading up cliffs or whatever. And even then, I think an older Toyota 4runner is a better choice because it will off road and still do other stuff. Wranglers are expensive one trick ponies. Nothing wrong with a one…

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.