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  1. 20 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Of course it doesn't protect ALL speech (we've already discussed the fact that it doesn't protect calls for violence, direct threats, and the like -- to the extent that any of those happen, the individual speaker is subject to having their speech shut down).  But he posters I have pointed to above are not attacking the speakers because of a specific call for violence, but rather because those speakers "support" a regime they hate, call for the end of Israel, etc.  I may agree that those positions are shitty....but "shitty" is not an exception to the First Amendment.  That's what the problem is here -- content-based repression of speech, across the board (again, they aren't just nabbing someone who said "kill that jew over there" or something like that.  They're shutting down the entire protest).

     

    And mine.  I am confident that's exactly what happened, AND Hartzell was told that if he wants to keep his fucking job, he needs to say it was all his idea.

    Once you have experience with how this particular governor's office works, you know that's exactly what happened.

    I would expect from moment one there were violations that were not merely insignificant violations of first amendment laws by the protesters and I would not be surprised at all if some of it was intentional. Hell the president of Chicago is essentially putting his campus assemblers on blast for exactly that.

    You know I’m reasonable and progressive and as an attorney very pro-first amendment and anti-fascist. 

    this situation has been completely fucked up on both sides. It’s not black and white the assemblers are right and the government is wrong. That said I still lean heavily toward the assemblers POV here just not 100%. 
     

  2. 11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    The bolded is why "FUCK YOU."  You are pissed about the content of the speech.  The content doesn't.  Fucking.  Matter.  That's the whole motherfucking point of the First Amendment, and the Texas Statute that your hero governor waved around (whoops....turns out he only meant that law to apply to speech he agrees with.  Bad move, Abbott).

    I don't agree with any of the messages you stated (although you overstate like a motherfucker and commit about a dozen logical fallacies in the process).  But they are 100%...not 90%, not 99%, but 100% allowed by law to peacefully state their position, no matter how loathsome any of us may find it.

    Either the First Amendment protects speech, or it doesn't.  You don't get to cherrypick its applicability based on whether you agree with the message.  That's the one approach that you can't take.  Yet.....a shitload of people on this very thread are taking it, demonstrating yet again that the percentage of Americans who get how the First Amendment works is likely in the low single digits.

    first amendment does not protect all speech and neither you nor I are there to hear what is being said.  it doesn't protect any assembly either. frankly I side more on the side of the first amendment here, but it's not carte blanche to do or say anything. I don't think the assemblers are interested in full compliance with first amendment laws.

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  3. Geez what a cluster.  Abbott is a monster probably loving this. Hartzell is either (1) an Abbott disciple, (2) a yes man, or (3) in over his head. 

    I support this being a firing offense. If we fire Chris Beard over allegations we can and should fire Hartzell over this. 

    the right to assemble is not unregulated. Public safety, non-interference (in this case with the functioning of a university), rules against encampment and even permitting are all concepts that have been upheld by SCOTUS (before it was politicized) or would be consistent. 

    attacking those assembling will often lead to a ramping up of the confrontation so insert joker meme “here we go”.

    Columbia is FUBAR. Chicago message is kinda wtf? Good luck with that those assemblers are going to force your hand Paul. 

    and I don’t think these gatherings are intended to be peaceful, I think the government and university are not helping AT ALL but this confrontation is what the assemblers want. They want to show how oppressive the US governmental institutions are and well they aren’t wrong. 

    As for the underlying politics of Israel and Hamas - geez man, maybe we stop killing people. As of right now it’s pretty apparent Israel is well beyond defending itself. It’s moved into systematic destruction of an entire mega city. Worthy of protest and this is coming from someone who was a staunch supporter at the outset of the Israeli response. Enough already. Stop. 
     

    editor’s note: yes I’ve changed two publicly held positions - Hartzell needs to go, Israel needs to stop. I remain unsure who is ultimately in charge and how decisions are being made but we can only fire Greg, Dan and Ken one way, Jay can be fired through normal employment practices though and all four need to be escorted out of the building. 

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  4. Ive been focused on sailing and our set up doesn’t give us easy access at sunset. So it wasn’t until yesterday that we got to hang out on the surf boat until the sun went down.  Sun came out after a full day of rain. Pretty straight forward sunset but still incredible. God I love this time of year. 
     

     

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  5. 3 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:

    With the real shit some of you have going on I hate to even mention it, but a couple of weeks ago felt like I had a bad stone bruise on my left heal that wouldn’t go away and it got continually worse. Freakin Planter Fasciitis. Been using an ice regimen and doing some foot stretches, bought an orthotic but damnit that shits annoyingly and surprisingly painful! Every freaking step! Doctor was no help to speak of, is this a permanent thing?

    Probably a quarter of this thread is about that hideous condition. I’m almost out of the woods, 14-16 months later. 3rd time through it. Custom orthotics, foam rollers, stretch bands, ice foot baths, frozen water bottle roller, hot baths, old fashion stretching, and lots of exercises later…

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  6. 20 hours ago, Welshy said:

    Just watched. Amazing in some really subtle ways.

    I cannot fathom being a Trans Jew in Nazi Germany. The first 3 Trans operations in 19 fucking 30 something blows my mind. Not that it happened, but that Trans people were so desperate to reconcile who they were that they would undergo what I have to assume was the most experimental, ham-fisted, life altering surgeries blows my mind. 100 fucking years ago. Jesus. 

    It gave me a real moment of understanding for Trans issues. Or my lack of understanding of Trans issues. I paused the documentary to process why I was more appalled by that part than some of the other appalling shit being depicted. My conclusion is I'm mentally comfortable with Gay, but have been subliminally skeptical of Trans. Seeing that level of desperation tells me I just don't understand. 

    Any other recommendations? 

     

    Berlin was waaaay ahead of its time pre-Hitler. Vibrant scene, queer and trans. Stunning really. I don’t have have any recs to offer but I do appreciate your honest and I’m glad something resonated with you. The thing is, the more things change the more they stay the same. Facts and circumstances vary from culture to culture, society to society, person to person and generation to generation but in the west we trans folk still risk an inordinate amount in our lives - an amount cisgender, white, straight folk likely cannot fathom - just to have a chance at quieting the unrelenting sound of gender dissonance in our heads.  Relationships, money, career, opportunity, shit man if I went into the opportunities I’ve lost because of transition, not to mention the people I’ve lost, you’d be at risk of swallowing flies. Jaw dropping losses, and here’s the thing devastating loss is the rule for our people not the exception. And yet we are still adamant we must do it because the alternative is death sometimes by suicide, sometimes by slow declines like alcoholism and sometimes by a life felt as a complete and utter waste of inauthenticity. 

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  7. 22 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Yup. So it ain’t gonna happen. 

    It’s going to happen just too late. There are changes happening just not enough. China EV adoption rate and their clean energy projects are very impressive, as an example. Europe and US initiatives are accelerating as well. Industry innovation is extremely promising. We could ban petroleum plastic bags now and go with fully biodegradable bags. There is tons of technology waiting to be relied upon. But in the end, as we humans do, we react way too late to the problem. These solutions are 20 years too late and soon to be 30-50 years too late.

  8. 4 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Why are my dogs bad for the environment?

    Same reasons humans are bad for the environment except the dog per se isn’t the problem - we are and we have too many, we feed them meat and the dog food industry is disgusting. 
     

    dogs or no dogs is not where this battle gets won. It gets won on innovation, mass migration away from carbon based energy (electricity and fuel), new and improved energy storage techniques, carbon capture and sequestration, and elimination of petroleum based plastics.  There is more but if we do that we are well on our way and our dogs keep getting belly rubs and treats.

    we already have the answers for most of this, what we lack is political will. Individual will won’t get it done, as much as we each try, it’s got to be governmental and industry initiatives and mandates.

    coming at people for having dogs is simply barking up the wrong tree.  

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  9. First I’m like damn we must a been good, then I remember semis in the CFP, wow. Then I think but 11 drafted? Then I remember we played to win at the end and had one play gone right the horns are in a favorable match up gainst Michigan. Double wow, we back baby?!

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  10. I think it’s pretty simple really, social media and video games are fun and easy. Next thing you know the girls not only aren’t interested they don’t even know you exist. Then the self reinforcing doom loop begins. 
     

    this weekend - one son is helping us build garage shelves and he’s as good or better with tools than my GC wife and does the tik tok thing for 10 mins and puts it down, another is video gaming for hours (he did practice for and have a competition for band today), but guess which one has the most game? Guess which one has had 3 girlfriends? 

  11. 1 hour ago, Bevo said:

     

    Life can get pretty crazy. I was a 22-year-old guy, pretty well built, muscular but not ripped. We were on spring break at Lake Havasu. At a drinking contest on the beach one day, I met a girl named Kimmi, and she was gorgeous - blonde, tan, ample breasts and attractive legs. Well, one thing led to another and we found ourselves back in her hotel room, going at it pretty hot and heavy. She taught me things I’d never even thought of, and the sex was incredible.


    Well, 20 years later, I came home, and my wife, who is a former ballerina, was drinking wine and having a good time with a new friend. I started drinking, too, and before you know it, we’re playing a game of Truth or Dare. Maybe we were drunk, I was definitely horny, and watching my wife, a brunette, talking to her friend, a beautiful well-proportioned blonde, and I thought. Well, you all know what I thought. So, I dared her to make out with me. At first she refused, and interestingly my wife got upset, and things became a little awkward. So, my wife's new friend gave me a kiss - nothing romantic more of a gentle kiss on the lips. But, it was really nice, if a little wet. I really don’t know what I was thinking at that point.

    At that point, my wife leans over and gives me a kiss too, and put her hand high up on my leg. I have got to say, I got a little excited. In the past, my wife was into more of the conventional stuff. This was way outside her comfort zone. I don't know really what happened next. Things got kind of lusty and we went to our bedroom and turned the lights low. It was freaking crazy. The best sex of my life. My wife said the same thing. Just fucking incredible.

    Did I mention, the girl's name was Kimmi? Similar figure to the girl I messes around with 20 years earlier. Was it the same girl? Did she look me up after all these years? Shit, I don't know what to do next. But, I can't wait for us to get together again.

    After my divorce I had a few albeit fleeting thoughts about being the third in a threesome. My gf at the time - now wife - was like do what you gotta do just don’t get a STI. Decided against it but it made for some fun thought life for a while. I have no doubt I could have fucked as many couples as I could handle. Folks are kinky out there. I landed on the plain vanilla suburban lawyer mom role. Seems to work well for me. 

  12. 36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Of course….the NEXT phase of that is that your wife never calls you….except when something really bad has happened.
    Now, when the phone rings during the day and I see it’s her, my instant thought is “oh shit…what’s broken/caught on fire/who died?”

    Yep though that was first wife for sure now working from home it’s more of a leave me alone don’t come talk to me vibe. 

  13. 23 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    That horseshoes back around once you get married. 

    I did have to do some training. I’m working, I bill by the hour, every minute you spend talking to me is another minute I have to stay later working.  First wife was dialed in on it, second one 7 years into is now fully trained.

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  14. 37 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    It really hasn't changed in college.  My son and his male college mates had, "I'm in class, will call you later" as a cut and paste, and kept their phones on silent. He would not be able to hold down his job if he was still dating the last one. He is transitioning from dating college girls to dating women with jobs that understand that you have to be left alone during working hours.

    There still is hope out there. We won't be going on a dive trip this year, CHIEF Jr. is in three different weddings and a traveling bachelor party, and it will use up what little personal time he has earned at work. At 26 about a third of his friends are married already, with probably half in long term relationships. Mostly small town guys marrying small town girls. I would be curious to see if this is a more urban or rural phenomenon. 

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    Before smart phones it was easier. My first wife was pre smart phones we would go a full day without talking sometimes while we were dating. My current wife and I started dating in the smart phone era, connected multiple times a day, but as adults with work it was manageable. Different but manageable. 

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  15. 9 hours ago, Helobious said:

    There’s also a lot of conflation in this thread of 2 distinct groups:

    Incels = guys that really want to get laid but “can’t”.

    The other group that I guess has no name = young men that don’t have much desire to get laid and aren’t even engaged in the pursuit. This is the group that’s really the one growing in number. 

    My 16 year old has had 3 girlfriends already. His sex life isn’t any of our business - though I do the mom part pretty well here - but in any event he’s not super interested at this moment - reason? High school girls are needy as fuck according to him. He can’t have a moment alone  and she’s always blowing up his phone.  
     

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  16. 11 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Hey @DixonHur this is another step along the path of fascism. Just since you seem to be fuckin oblivious to it

    Can’t allow trans folk to be mainstream it’s ok. As long as we keep it to ourselves it’s fine. And drag seems like it’s just a show so there’s no reason to allow it. 

  17. 10 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Two women together in a sexual situation is absolutely erotic. But, I’m going to stir the pot, because no one likes scorched gumbo.

    Certainly, there are women who are wired to be attracted to women. But, there are women who are attracted to individuals, and who are unconcerned about the gender of their attraction. Also certainly, there are men who similarly are attracted to individuals, with gender not being a factor in their affection.

    I am compelled to make this post after understanding the experience of Marina Navratilova, and deciding she wasn’t treated fairly by those unwilling to agree with my second paragraph.

    I’m honestly not sure what you’re trying to communicate about her? Might you further explain? 

  18. So I’m confused…. Do I have to wear make up or not? Am I allowed to fish and what not? Can I keep my truck? Am I allowed to wear lacey underthings for my wife? How am I supposed to throw a ball? Governor Abbott please do tell…  

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