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  1. 26 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    My brother--when we're in San Francisco, I won't do it.  The last couple times to Napa, Mrs.LL knows I am going to pull over at the scenic overlook before we get to the Golden Gate Bridge and she is driving across.  I'm going to sit there and stare at my phone in the passenger seat as we go across.  But there's no fucking way I'm driving it.

    The weird thing is--I'll walk out on it.  I mean, not to the center.  But I'll go out a hundred feet or so onto the bridge on the sidewalk.  But no fucking way I'm driving.

    I had a legitimate, full-blown panic attack while driving over the Ravenel bridge in Charleston, SC many years ago. My first (and thankfully one of the last) panic attacks, so had no idea what was going on. Remains one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. None since, but every time I hit a bridge behind a wheel I take a deep breath and think "here we go." 

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  2. 1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

    That's insane to me (Apple won't let the inferior Android use it's all-around better blue bubbles). This guy puts it best (and the bold is hilarious):

    This entire section is pretty nuts. The core complaint is that Apple doesn’t allow 3rd-party messaging apps like WhatsApp to access private API’s for SMS; the vast majority of the complaint, though, is effectively accusing Apple of acting anti-competitive by not building iMessage for Android, and making teenagers feel bad about green bubbles. Leaving aside the fact that green bubbles actually serve a product function — they are not encrypted, while blue iMessage bubbles are — the entire idea that Apple needs to proactively build features to facilitate communication with Android flies in the face of Supreme Court precedent in Verizon v. Trinko:

    Firms may acquire monopoly power by establishing an infrastructure that renders them uniquely suited to serve their customers. Compelling such firms to share the source of their advantage is in some tension with the underlying purpose of antitrust law, since it may lessen the incentive for the monopolist, the rival, or both to invest in those economically beneficial facilities. Enforced sharing also requires antitrust courts to act as central planners, identifying the proper price, quantity, and other terms of dealing — a role for which they are ill-suited. Moreover, compelling negotiation between competitors may facilitate the supreme evil of antitrust: collusion. Thus, as a general matter, the Sherman Act “does not restrict the long recognized right of [a] trader or manufacturer engaged in an entirely private business, freely to exercise his own independent discretion as to parties with whom he will deal.”

    I expect Trinko to be a substantial obstacle for the DOJ in this case. It is one thing to change the rules or withdraw capabilities to maintain a monopoly; there was a Supreme Case called Aspen Skiing where a company was found guilty of doing just that, but the Court drew a clear distinction in Trinko between changes in policy and never actually providing pro-competition capability in the first place

    lol

  3. 40 minutes ago, Poester said:

    Good times produce weak men, we’re somewhere on that trajectory. As a parent of Gen alphas, and that is hilariously ironic, I can tell you that generation is going to struggle. Between missing formative years of school from COVID and their addiction to these little iPads I see at every dinner table, they’re turbo fucked. 

    If this is the metric, it would follow that the weakest men were born from the 50s-90s. Exactly the demographic that would be in charge of running everything now.

    Oh....

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  4. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    This is the only reference to that in the article:

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    By attacking Russia’s energy heartland, Ukraine has been forced to balance different pressures from Western allies. On the one hand, military advisers from the West have since the early days of the war encouraged Kyiv to target the logistical operations on which Russia’s war machine relies. Yet at the same time, Kyiv has fielded requests to not do anything that could drive up global energy prices.

    Gonna need to see a cite on that. And not just a link to the FT article from the "Ukrainians are Nazis" guy.

  5. 52 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Q: Wow, young people are really down and pessimistic, what’s going on?

    A: Fucking government workers. 
     

    LOL. Completely unserious. 

    That's the current working theory.

    Remember it started with:

    Q: Wow, young people are really down and pessimistic, what’s going on?

    A: We're being too nice to them

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  6. 28 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    I'm sorry a cop fucked your wife once while you watched, but not all cops are bad.  And yes, it's a fucking vendetta.  How many cops has Garza dragged through the courts thus far?  He indicted 17 cops then dismissed them back in December.  The two Javier Ambler sheriffs deputies, who were found to be not-guilty.  Christopher Taylor has been through two mistrials.  Jose Garza has wasted resources and money prosecuting officers with exactly 0 guilty verdicts.  If you're a police officer, and you could work for Austin and get paid significantly less with risk of litigation left and right, or go work in a more police-friendly city that pays better and has a better working relationship with the DA and the City Council, why the hell would you come to Austin!?

    pls take to the CR

  7. 2 minutes ago, Bevo said:

     

    Well, in theory, Europe is at war as Russia impacts Europe and especially Germany more than it impacts us.   But, many in Europe don't see it that way and would rather worry about 2% defense spending and cheap oil and re-elections than winning the fucking war before it comes to their borders. So, as much as we would like to blame the US, Europe needs to come to grips with the reality of the situation. And if they are fine with Ukraine losing then that is on them not the US. As much as I want the US to give more guns and money to Ukraine, if we don't do it then Europe must. We shouldn't have to bear the brunt of Europe's failures just because European countries want to keep defense spending below 2%.

    That's fine. But perhaps next time, we don't spend 50 years doing the lion's share during peacetime, only to balk about participation rates when the bombs are failing on European cities. 

     

     

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  8. 15 minutes ago, EE2B said:

    We bought the Owlet for our second kid and used for about a week. The first time it went off in the middle of the night when the sock came off, we stopped using it. If they have changed the way the sock fits, it might be worth it. Otherwise, it’s going to cause you to have a heart attack the first time it comes off their foot in the middle of the night. 

    same experience with us

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  9. 5 minutes ago, Cum Rocket said:

    Lol this is the correct answer. Captain should work for a DPS office. Or maybe at a VA hospital. He’ll be surrounded by people putting a lot of effort Into doing the bare minimum. With predictable results. It sounds like the kind of work culture you would thrive in @Captainant

    yeah working at a VA hospital sounds like a dream

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  10. 2 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    Must be nice to be able to hold leaders accountable 

    Trump has 91 criminal charges filed against him in 4 separate indictments. 

    Bolsonaro has zero, and only a "recommendation" that charges be filed.

    Why is the latter an example of holding someone accountable, while the former is not?

     

  11. Don't know how you all do it in Texas, but here's how it works where I practice:

    1) Doubt is raised over the competency of a defendant 

    2) Criminal Proceedings are suspended for "restoration of competency." Defendant is sent to a lockdown mental hospital and can remain there for up to 3 years.

    3) If, after 3 years (or sooner if max punishment on the charges is under 3 years), it does not appear that the defendant will be restored to competency, the case can be dismissed OR the state can try for a Conservatorship in which the defendant can be sent to a lockdown mental hospital, potentially for life.

    1a) If defense tries for the "not guilty by reason of insanity defense" then even if the jury/judge returns with a "NGI" verdict, the defendant is sent to a lockdown mental hospital until sanity can be restored; or until the defendant reaches the maximum exposure. In practice, an NGI defense can provide false hope for a defendant as they often spend longer in a locked facility than they would had they simply taken a plea deal for prison.

     

     

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

    That’s what happens with mob justice/partisan lawfare in a rush to convict a political candidate. The thirst for blood supplants any consideration of the victim’s Constitutional rights, let alone whether he/she is guilty, let alone if any crime was actually committed.

    If Nathan Wade and Fani Willis’ conduct and lies in affidavits and interrogatories (civil and criminal), abuse of IOLTAs, and undisclosed trips to the White House as revealed in the past three weeks should have resonated quite loudly, these ignorant and arrogant oafs are political pawns of Biden’s White House and Jeff DeSantis.

    The White House puppet masters are well aware this case is doomed on appeal as a violation of the defendant’s right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The goal is simply to get media coverage from the indictments, a six-week show trial during the campaign, a conviction by a partisan jury, and the opportunity for pundits to ask out loud if Trump will be watching election returns from jail.

     

     

    hilarious

    thanks for the laugh

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