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  1. On 2/22/2024 at 1:16 AM, JosephStang said:

    People with a brain and integrity: Wow, that geometry is shockingly beautiful and Israel tortured him for 5 years to suppress it and Britain has him homeless and broke locked in a social prison so we should probably do something about getting him off the street.

     

    Surlies programmed with idiotic arrogance: "What about the math?"

     

    You must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age. Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may skip the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That is mostly dangerous propaganda. Now that I think of it, you had better skip the Romantics and the Victorians, too. For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books. I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also.

     

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  2. On 2/21/2024 at 2:44 PM, Thrawn said:

    Dingleberry is in a tux. The lady is in what I would think would meet the requirements for formal/evening gown. 

    Then there is Ted.

    Seriously?

    Did he wear an ugly summer/spring jacket and khaki pants to a black tie event?

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    Come on Ted!

     

     

    That jacket looks like something the maître d' found in the lost and found so he can be allowed in the door. 

     

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  3. 8 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    I think he's about to hit mandatory retirement age, so we can reasonably assume that he will replaced with someone younger and more reasonable, like an Alabama version of Matt Gaetz.

    Seeing how Gaetz comes from the Florida Panhandle that would qualify Matt Gaetz to be the Alabama Matt Gaetz.

     

    Are you saying the Florida Panhandle is the Florida of Florida?

     

     

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    On 2/10/2024 at 3:42 PM, bolverk said:

    It reminds me of an experiment we did in my high school chemistry class. I can't recall too many of the details since this would've been around 1986-87 but I think the point of the experiment was to teach about tipping points. Basically, we had a clear solution in a beaker and then a different one in a vial. We had to record the number of individual drops of the latter into the former until it changed color.

    One drop. No change. Another drop. Again, no change. After a few more, the clear solution, without any perceptible difference prior, instantaneously became all red. 

    So, yeah, that's the lense through which I see this and a lot of other climate stuff going.

     

     

    Classic acid/base titration using phenolphthalein as an indicator. The beaker contained an acidic solution with a little phenolphthalein in it. Under acidic conditions, phenolphthalein is colorless. You slowly added drops of a base slowly increasing the pH. As soon as the pH reached a certain threshold (about pH = 8 iirc), phenolphthalein turns pink. One drop less, pH below the threshold = colorless. One drop past the threshold = pink. 

    Before electronic pH indicators, by carefully measuring the volume of the acid in the beaker, and the delivered volume of the base with a known pH required to change the color, its fairly easy to calculate the exact pH of the acid in the beaker.  

     

    FINALLY, that minor in chemistry comes in handy. 

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  5. 16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    The people who want to end ”recreational sex” are not the people having sex for fun.

    There are groups who have been working to end access to contraception for a while.  Getting Roe v Wade struck down was a part of their strategy, because it’s tied into the Supreme Court rulings on contraception, gay sex, gay marriage, interracial marriage, etc.  Domino theory - knock one down, the rest will fall.

    It’s pretty recent as well 1960s and 1970s   Before that  states could ban contraception.  And yes, there are lawmakers here in Texas who want to get rid of contraception   

    https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-right-to-contraception-state-and-federal-actions-misinformation-and-the-courts/#:~:text=Currently%2C the right to contraception,married people to obtain contraceptives.

    “Currently, the right to contraception is protected by two landmark Supreme Court decisions, Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972). In Griswold, the Court recognized that the constitutional right to privacy encompasses the right of married people to obtain contraceptives. Prior to the Griswold decision, many states outlawed contraceptives, prohibiting clinicians from prescribing, or even discussing, contraceptive methods with their patients. After the Griswold decision, some states continued to have these prohibitions for single people, only allowing married women to obtain contraceptives. These laws spurred the litigation that resulted in the High Court’s decision in Eisenstadt,where the Court extended the constitutional protections of Griswold to unmarried people.”

     

     

    The current court will overturn Griswold first chance they get. 

     

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    2 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Also I know it doesn't surprise anyone this point, but the judge who issued the ruling is a qanon loon.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-parker-alabama-ivf-embryo_n_65d7ea34e4b0cc1f2f7b3e26

    So yeah a real straight shooter that believes in covid vaccines being mind control, that putin is doing good things in Ukraine, and that satanic pedophiles are stealing blood from and sacrificing children. 

    Totally the guy who should be dictating reproductive rights. 

    God bless America, we are fucked. 

     

    This nut should be in an asylum being forced to take schizophrenic medication, not sitting as a judge. 

     

     

     

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  7. 13 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Does this mean he actually is entering the FO phase or are there more appeals to come?

     

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  8. 30 minutes ago, safe sex said:

    Ron Chernow's biography of him is exemplary. He's in my personal top 10 of US presidents because of that book. Basically, most of what you learned about him in elementary school way back when was bullshit

     

    You mean he wasn't an alcoholic, wife-beating butcher who was the main architect behind the War of Northern Aggression?

     

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  9. 3 hours ago, safe sex said:

    Well, you see, the question of whether or not you can negotiate a counter judgment has never been asked in court before so we'll need to take a few months to figure it out

     

    Gonna have to appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court. 

     

     

    1 hour ago, scottsins said:


    Nope. The trial court judge can just refuse to even have a hearing on the motion, if he chooses.

     

    This also. But only after the above has been ruled on. 

     

     

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    And then finally (lol "finally") appeal this. 

     

     

     

  10. 1 minute ago, Sandman said:

    As a non-coffee drinker, I can't believe the amount of whining and crying from bitch-ass coffee drinkers at every job I've ever had. "Were's the coffee? Are we out? Where will I put my creamer? Why hasn't the coffee guy came yet? The machine is broken, the office needs to pay for a new one ASAP!!". Once, our director asked if we should use the "Friday Jeans" fund to pay for a new Keurig, since the old one broke. I said what do the non-coffee people get? Nothing was the answer, so I voted no out of spite. 

     

    you get not having to listen to the coffee babies crying about the broke Keurig. 

     

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  11. On 2/16/2024 at 9:21 AM, BigDHornfan said:

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    She ain't exactly pretty

    She ain't exactly small

    But at 42-39-56 

    You can say she's got it all

    Ain't no fairy story

    Ain't no skin and bones

    But she give it all she got

    Weighing in at 19 stones

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  12. 9 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    If you get into Amsterdam from outside Schengen, you will need to clear immigrations (ie passport) before you exit the airport.  If flying from Schengen, you just stroll on out.  If you checked your luggage through, you don't need to worry about it, just take your carry-on.

    There's a train that goes directly from airport to city center so it is extremely easy to get back and forth.  So yes you can just hop into town, have a meal or a drink, and then get back for the next flight. 

    Be sure to take and share lots of photos of Brest.

     

    Yes all this. Eat a space cake on the train back to the airport. 

  13. On 2/19/2024 at 12:29 PM, mchookem said:

    mean French people, etc. 😆

    😊

     

    I've been to France twice: Once for a week in paris this past summer and a few days in Alsace Lorriane, and years ago bike touring through the basque region of France and Spain. 

    I want to set the record straight. People in France are not mean. If you make even a half ass attempt to speak french, instead of just asking if they speak english, they will appreciate the effort and be just as nice as anyone else anywhere. 

    So dust off that high school french and don't be afraid to use it. It'll make everything so much better. 

     

     

    Also, if by high speed train you mean the TGV, I will pray for you. Over crowded cluster fuck of epic proportions. Get ready and when it pulls up to the station, get the fuck on.  DOn't worry about which car is yours, just get on. It will leave on time, and if half your shit (or the olds in your party) aren't on board yet, tough shit. Then be prepared for the crush of bodies. But when I rode it was summer time so maybe not so bad during the non-summer months. 

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  14. 2 hours ago, royiv said:

    Arizona didn’t recognize MLK Day until the NFL stripped them of the 1993 Super Bowl.

     they can't understand why he the man
    I'm singin' 'bout a king
    They don't like it
    When I decide to mic it
    Wait I'm waitin' for the date
    For the man who demands respect
    'Cause he was great, c'mon
    I'm on the one mission
    To get a politician to honor or he's a gonner
    By the time I get to Arizona...

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