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TwiceHorn

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  1. 1 hour ago, DDD Dad said:

    And who's going to stop him?  His administration has been routinely violating the law on numerous fronts (e.g., Hatch Act, anyone?).  Even if a court were to rule this is illegal, who's going to enforce that? (deportations while under court order to stand down, e.g.).

    This is also one of those weird sort of interstices in the law.  The legislation that created it called it the Kennedy Center.  But it didn't say the name couldn't be changed etc.

    Of course, the pretty strong implication is that Congress created it and named it and therefore only Congress can uncreate it or change its name.

    Even in the absence of a narcissistic megalomaniac naming it after himself, it's unclear who might have standing to challenge the name change.  Like, say the board decided to add the name of a deceased President, say, Jimmy Carter.  That would be tough to challenge I think, as neither Congress nor individual legislators often have standing to challenge actions in court.

    The most obvious legal way to undo this is for Congress to pass an amendment to the existing legislation pronouncing the name to be The Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts and forbidding the Board or executive from changing it.

  2. Was previously unfamiliar with Compact.

    Although it's not obvious from the masthead, they invoke the phrase "common good."  

    On the one hand, the common gooders are just the polite and thoughtful version of MAGA.  On the other, they raise points worthy of consideration.

    As pertains to that article, I note that it's mostly focused on DEI in media and academia, two fields that arguably benefit the most from diversity and also two fields heavily and unfairly previously dominated by white males.  Also tends to focus on "elite" institutions.

     

  3. 1 hour ago, Derka said:

    apropos of nothing, but growing up as an xenennial, we were an apolitical generation. we weren’t taught about government or politics, we didn’t give a shit about government or politics, presidents changed but life never did, and you truly had to go out of your way to learn or know anything about politics.

    that’s why it has been so indescribably strange for me, as a man now in his 40’s, to have spent the past year+ learning that not only is the usa not this shining beacon of freedom and equality where anyone can prosper, the dream of every other nation; but i’ve now come to learn that, essentially, israel is a weak, tiny, ambitious bully, and that the United States is just the giant, mentally stunted, emotionally retarded bully who threatens to/actually does destroy anyone who tries to get in Israel’s way. what a bunch of bullshit this all turned out to be.

    Well, hopefully you got a civics/government education at least so you knew how things were supposed to work.

    The actual nuances of politics on the ground or as practiced are the subject of either experience or a political science type degree.

    As far as I can tell from high school, all of the facts about America and its history were made available to me without much shading (America, fuck yeah or Amerikka, either).  But the negative things remained something of an abstraction to me and probably most of us until later in life.

    I think that's just the nature of things.  Sometimes you need life experience to interpret it all.

  4. 2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I don’t know enough about the psychology of orientation or demography to pronounce whether or not there is a significant impact on birth rates and whether being gay holds steady across space and time. (And neither of those things has a bearing on the inherent rights and dignity of gay people).

    I do strongly question your last paragraph as someone who knows about history and human demography. The categorization of people into a gay, bisexual, or straight orientation, and the choice to engage in exclusively gay relationships (or choose to withdraw from sexual relationships entirely) is fairly unique to highly individualistic, modern Western or Western European societies. 
     

    Ancient Mediterranean cultures did not see a tension in men expressing strong sexual preferences for other men and maintaining sexual and intimate romantic relations with other men while at the same time entering into heterosexual marriages for the express purpose of producing biological offspring and property transmission— which is something that most gay men today do not do. All of the men in the “Theban Sacred Band” either had or would have wives and children in addition to their ackotowleged maker partners. 

    Modern Afghanistan is full of men who prefer sex with other men (or teen boys) and yet still maintain heterosexual marriages for similar purposes and who would deny that their actions are homosexual or that gayness exists in Pashtun culture. 

    Fair enough, but still seems to be about same as it ever was as those departures from western "norms" would seem to be even more long-standing.

    I actually originally wrote that society "sometimes" pushes homosexuals into hetero relationships with the notion that not all societies do this, as you demonstrated.

    Finally, I suppose the more recent acceptance of homosexuality in some societies might make it less likely that they engage in hetero relationships that produce children, but I'm guessing the fraction of that is vanishingly small.

  5. 6 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


    You know, I feel like there has been a rise in admitted homosexuality (at least from what I vaguely recall hearing about when I was a kid), which would most likely cause a few less births. It ain’t the reason you’re seeing that many less though

    You're not a dick, so I am going to take this at face value, but I think that's a right-wing bullshit talking point.

    The nature of homosexuality is that the percentage or proportion of homosexuals has probably remained steady throughout human history, so you've always had those "non-breeders."  Why would "admitted" make any difference?

    The nature of society pushes some closeted homosexuals into hetero relationships that produce children.  But I also imagine that this is the same as it ever was.

  6. 2 minutes ago, achooloco said:

    I mean… how many university PDs you know that have the best and brightest? Providence sure this sucks but Brown? No

    Even if their beat cop types are super-competent, imagine the detective/investigative capacity of most university PDs is about nil.

  7. 12 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    On the way to Lake Houston where we had a miserable houseboat (that I loved) back in the 60s, we'd pass a block of land with wooden derricks all crowded together. I suppose they were built before regulations were passed to spread them out. I believe crowding them lessens the overall yield. Glad I got a look at that. I'm sure they're long torn down now.

    Never saw any wood derricks in AR.  Yeah, well spacing and pooling rules.  Oil & Gas law was a really interesting course because it showed how law developed contemporaneously with the technology.  We also got to watch a film called "Making Hole."  I find drilling technology fascinating.  Mining too.

  8. 1 hour ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    A few weeks ago, talk was that the Big10 was the strongest VB conference…I’d think KY is the favorite against Wisconsin….so now a possible all SEC final……but Wisconsin looking really good right now.

    Id think aggy is pulling for Wisconsin…..not sure now.

    As good as Aggy may have looked against Corn, and possibly tonight (didn't watch), I suspect Wisconsin looked pretty fucking good against us to a neutral observer.  They may be the two hottest teams.

  9. 6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Wonder how many Americans think Portuguese people are Hispanic?

    Because that's going to be a thing.

    While knowing the differences between Portugal and Spain, I would have guessed Portuguese are technically Hispanic as the root word is Hispania, which refers to the Iberian Peninsula.

    But I see the term Hispanic refers primarily to Spanish-speaking people.

  10. 20 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

    Eh. I guess.

    I keep hearing 9 seniors. 
     

    imma assume they back to ass after this year ?

    Seems like they're gonna have to take a step back.

    But, as has been noted, Morrison is a good coach and an NC, or even a final appearance, is going to boost their recruiting.

    Also, I have this little belief that aggyland being what it is, and volleyball, being the "girly girl" sport that it is, might not attract a lot of players.

  11. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    Oh I forgot this was tonight 

    Yeah same.

    43 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    Come on Pitt…..do not ruin my Thursday.

    And yeah, as much fun as volleyball is to watch, I cannot watch aggy win.  I saw they took the first set and wasn't going to tune in unless Pitt took the second, so  . . . . .

  12. 1 hour ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    People are stupid and dont understand timing, they have never run a business and dont understand you cant just mass fire the staff instantly. 

    I actually think most people do understand that.

    They also think, for better or worse, that Flood is the number one replacement priority, so should have been the first to go.  But, he could also be regarded as the most critical and sensitive hire/fire, so maybe the last to go.

    There is a legit fear that Juluke was a deck chair shuffle.  But if Scott was as unpopular as claimed, it might have just been a no-brainer.

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    7 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    Eh, I would argue that atheism is not a belief system, but the lack of one particular belief.  But Trump does not have the clarity of thought to be really pro- or anti- anything.  He just wants to get the money.

    Hmm, maybe he should be at the Christian table, next to Joel Osteen, etc?  I mean, all it takes is a *professed* belief, right?

    Either way, he can't sit near me.  I can't go back to prison.

    As popehat observes here, Trump seems to have no real internal life (need to click to get the full monty).

    So questions of morality, spirituality, his place in the universe, have never concerned him in any way shape or form.

    So, yeah he neither has nor rejects religion or any other belief system except his id and ego.  Another fairly typical characteristic of alcoholic/addicts.

  14. 5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    The sad thing is that they aren’t *terrible* cars, notorious CVT issues notwithstanding. Going all-in on subprime and focusing on short-term profitability made them toxic to higher value customers.
     

    I was gonna say, at some point in the not too distant past, I think the Altima, Camry, and Accord were basically the cars that most people should buy.

    CVTs have infected lower- and mid-range vehicles and seem to be an abomination.

     

  15. I had kind of a similar dilemma except the pay scale differences weren't as stark, or knowable..

    Not quite 15 years ago, after the dissolution of my last firm, I went out on my own.  It was even unclear at that point whether I would rent an office or just WFH.  But I can work from home just fine, although I miss having colleagues.

    I took a pay cut, I also work a lot less hard and have a lot more fun or satisfaction doing it.  And more free time to work out and mountain bike, among other things.  The downside is that I have a relatively static client base and the work ebbs and flows along with the cash flow, whereas at a firm, I could always find filler work between "major engagements."  And I could be more aggressive in courting new clients than I am.

    Not quite the same thing as the above, and more to compensate me than just working at home in return for the pay cut.

  16. 10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    The release we'll get from this admin's DOJ:

    "Sorry, all of the Epstein files accidentally got burned up in a fire.

    Signed, 

    Epstein's mother"

    Trump's dog ate them. 

  17. 18 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    So if this were to happen during this admin, does anyone think they would actually take any steps to try and recover anyway?  I think they would just stand up there and tell everyone how the economy collapsing is a liberal hoax and everything is fine.  They would lord over the ashes until they were finally voted out in 2028 (big speculation on my part) and then MAYBE some adults would be back in charge to try and fix things again.  

    Well, the first parties injured here would be the techbros and oligarchs, with follow-on effects for the rest of us.

    So, yeah, I would expect some sort of government supported wealth-preservation strategy for them.

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