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Brisketexan

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  1. 15 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

     

    Nah. It's in alignment with the new and improved FTC purpose: 

    The FTC's mission is protecting the public from deceptive or unfair business practices ... unless that mission takes money out of some CEO's and shareholders pockets. Then, just joshing, fuck them consumers.

    I mean, I gotta tell ya....it's kinda fascinating to watch entities like the FTC and the CFPB going full-on ANTI-consumer in their mission.  Across the board, when it comes to regulating unscrupulous business conduct, the motto of our government is now "Dear American People: Fuck You."

  2. Good Lord, this is a beating.  Stuver giving up rebounds that any decent team would be pouncing on, the defense chasing the ball, no creativity or aggressiveness to shoot up front... the midfield is the only decent showing tonight.

    Sigh. You could hide “suck” in a haystack, and this team would manage to find it.
  3. 9 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

    Well, you see, green card holders generally have to obey all laws. If they break the law, they may be departed through the immigration court system if evidence is bad enough to revoke the legal permanent status. So, this guy probably jaywalked heading to the airport and he'll just be black hooded to prison in another country with the immigration court never being involved. 

    I mean, I presume that's it.

    By the way, as someone with foster responsibilities over a refugee with green card status....this whole fucking regime has us terrified.  Beyond the usual parental lectures of "don't do anything stupid and get in trouble with the law" one always gives a teen, with a litany of the consequences, our lecture has to also include "or you could end up tossed into a hellish foreign gulag for the rest of your life."  I mean, "roll through a stop sign, die in a Salvadoran gulag" is a fucking psychotic sentence to even exist, but here we are.

  4. 7 minutes ago, royiv said:

    So you press the button to turn the car on and then press the button right above it to turn the auto on/off feature off. At least in my car and every rental I’ve driven over the past few years that’s how it works. It’s never struck me as some huge pain in the ass or inconvenience.

    You have to press TWO buttons to turn it on the way you want?  What is it, a woman?

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    21 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    2.) Civil rights for historically marginalized groups like women, African Americans, and the LGBTQ+ABCD 867309 community 

    In the end, this is the bulk of it.  And the hell of it is, while it's immoral and shitty, it's not entirely irrational.  Why?  Competition.

    In 1950, there was a pool of jobs for people of moderate skill and middling to decent intellect.  Who was the pool of people who could be hired for those jobs?  White males, almost exclusively.  Truly, like 95% of those jobs went to white males, easy peasy.

    Then...the civil rights movement (both culturally and legally). Now, black people, hispanics, etc. are the competition.  Think of autoworker jobs.  Surely at the end of WWII, those were 95% or more white males.  By the 1970s, a shitload of those jobs were going to minorities.  But wait, there's more: WOMEN.

    Starting in the 1970s, women began entering the workforce - and colleges and universities -- en masse.  So, for even the more "skilled" jobs....white males have to compete with women as well.  Hell, I see this in my profession (legal) and my wife's (ordained, seminary-trained minister).  College enrollment is 60-40 female to male.  When looking at candidates to hire for legal jobs, or a seminary-trained job....the majority of the better candidates are female.

    White males didn't get dumber, or less qualified, in general.  It's just that EVERYONE ELSE was, over time, freed from social and legal encumbrances that kept them from openly competing for the work white men had reserved exclusively for them.  There used to be 10 million sweet-spot jobs open every year, and white males - being the only legit pool of candidates - got 95% of them.  Today, those same 10 million jobs are sought by white males, minorities (male and female) and women.  Used to be that white males got 9.5 million of those jobs.  Today, they only get 6 million of those jobs.  From the white male perspective, they just LOST 3.5 million jobs.  And, mathematically, they're not wrong.  

    The TLDR version: When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

    To take it to the question, asked in callous and insulting manner as is the Surly way, what are we going to do with our mediocre white males?  Because....relative to where they were 75 years ago, even 40-50 years ago....they're taking it in the shorts.  And they are, in an understandably human way, pissed about it.

     

     

    19 minutes ago, speed817 said:

    Do they grab the same 25 people every time???

    I wish.  The supply of Dunning Kruger "Conservatives" is near limitless.  It is America's greatest natural resource.

  6. 5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Not so much shrewd as more relentlessly trying to beat you down again and again for the lowest possible price/rate/etc..  100% correct about zero loyalty.  

    That cultural aspect is broadly eastern.  Few are better in the world at it than Persians, but Indians, Pakistanis, Afghans....they all bring that to the table.

    If you know what mindset you're dealing with when you begin your negotiations, you can account for it and do just fine. 

  7. 6 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Probably worth another $50bn to TSLA’s market cap. 
     

     

    Every single bit of this checks out in this timeline.

    Insane and irrational market cap of a piece of shit South African, as our official US government approach is to Make Apartheid Great Again.  Every single bit of this checks out.  All you have to do is envision any number of forks in the road, ask "which fork is the shittiest?", then choose that fork, and you'll end up with a scenario indistinguishable from our current reality.

  8. 29 minutes ago, troph said:

    so it's bad but I guess as always it could be much worse.

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    IT'S BAD, BUT AS ALWAYS IT COULD BE MUCH WORSE

     

    Yep, we're gonna start seeing that emblazoned on all state vehicles and such any day now.

  9. We were there the last week of December 2020.  Same conditions.  All I could envision is one of my kids or wife (no pics) falling off a cliff.
    Yep, we were there right after you -- we had New Year's eve dinner in Flagstaff, and were in the park by that night.  It really was a great trip, and an amazing time to be there.  But yeah, the icy trails next to a bazillion foot drop were a tad unnerving.
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  10. On 5/7/2025 at 9:23 AM, Chad Fuck said:

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    You'd love this book.  So many examples of death by misadventure.  I love that coroners call it that because "death by your own stupidity" is just too undignified. 

    There's also this one, from the Grand Canyon:

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    We went a couple of years ago, during the heart of the pandemic.  Winter, snow, icy conditions.  It was beautiful, but we also talked a lot about how hazardous many of the places were.  Daughter found the book in the gift shop, bought it, and then proceeded to read all the stories aloud to us in the car.

    Does it say terrible things about our family that we laughed at several of them?

  11. 7 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

    Which again just proves what's been undoubtedly true since no later than 1973:

    When the US government is talking about "antisemitism," that's just code for "opposition to Israeli foreign policy, especially in the Occupied Territories." That's all it's ever been.

    100%.

    "Jews are evil, untrustworthy, and should not be allowed to hold any government position in America." = totally fine.

    "Maybe the state of Israel shouldn't engage in complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the Levant." = ANTISEMITISM!

  12. 5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The foregoing illustrates something.  People seem to go along with the Rule of Law because they agree or personally believe that it is in their best interest, whether that be self-interest, or the common good, probably most often the latter.  The latter because at some level, the Rule of Law curtails personal freedom (in many cases things that we aren't inclined to do, but in others, like speeding, seatbelts, public intoxication, sodomy, etc. things we are inclined to do).

    People ditch the Rule of Law because they no longer believe it is in their best interest, presumably; again, either self-interest or the common good.

    Trump and his ilk are doing it out of self-interest.  But they have the common man believing it's because the Rule of Law no longer serves the common good.  Or at least the Rule of Law as currently conceived.  All men are created equal, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and all that.

    Dictators need a rule of law, too, it's just not a rule of law that works for anyone else.  In groups, out groups, for thee not for me, etc.  Like the law of Boot and Gun, it's pretty much all enforcement and no voluntary compliance because it serves no one's interest except the dictator's.

     

    And to tie this back to "shipping people to a foreign gulag with no due process".....why is it bad?

    1)  It's bad because it violates our current laws.  Thus, deploy enforcement mechanisms, and stop it and punish the wrongdoers.

    2) It's bad because it hurts people, some of whom turn out to be innocent, and any decent human should care about innocent people being hurt.

    3) It's bad because it erodes due process and the rule of law for all, leading to chaos, and "Rule of whatever the dictatory wants or says."

    4) It's bad because if the regime can grab and deport one person to a foreign gulag with no due process or formal judicial process, then it can grab ANY person and do that.  And that includes YOU, and ME.

     

    So, all the motivations/incentives are in play here.  Oppose this policy because you are a genuinely decent altruistic person.  Oppose it because you are a selfish person (I don't want that to happen to me or mine).  Oppose it because you have a belief in the Rule of Law that may be motivated by selfishness, selflessness, or a combo of both.  All the reasons align.

    The only reason the other way is that you think that YOU, and your interests/desires, benefit from this particular departure from the Rule of Law.  But in the end....see point 4. You're wrong about thinking that this will be good for you in the long run.  Suck up to a lawless regime, and it works great....until it doesn't.....

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  13. 1 minute ago, royiv said:

    Did you miss the part where he’s moving from Singapore? I don’t think housing prices in London will phase him.

    Yeah, saw that.  Still, there's a range.   We had a friend living in Singapore for a while, and she lived in a pretty small cube (nice cube....but still small).  Rents in both places (central city) are pretty similar.

  14. Housing ain't cheap.  Find someplace that is on a decent transport line (tube or bus) that gets you to work with a relatively low amount of hassle. E.G., my daughter lives in Hackney - the Mildmay line from Hackney Central to Camden Road will get you there in 25 minutes.

    You single?  If so, you've got lots of options for where to live.  But truly, look at bus and tube routes, and then pick your place based on that.  Depending on budget, there are plenty of small flats, or if you're up for a co-living deal (private room and en suite, shared kitchen and common area), there are a lot of those that are plenty nice.

    And honestly, once you get out of classic "central London," the rest of London living isn't as expensive as people often think (my daughter bitches about it, but that's because she's young and poor working her first job -- everything's "expensive" when you are making entry-level money).

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