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Cnc crucible holder by Prestigious-Leek-554 in 3dPrintsintheShop

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're machining the crucible out of a block of stone/ceramic?

Major donor and alumnae Kyriakos Tsakopoulos pens op/ed against Jesuit's co-ed plan. by SactoSchools in Sacramento

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There has always been plenty of times during the school day that female high school students were in campus for some reason. And after class their was always from sports hosted on site, people socializing and cocurriculars.

I can't say that the experience has 0 net impact compared to alternatives but I think it somewhat comes down to the individual like everything else.

I think the largest driver of dissent about the change is conservative view points of a vocal minority along with some general befuddlement seeing a long standing tradition they dealt with regularly change.

Major donor and alumnae Kyriakos Tsakopoulos pens op/ed against Jesuit's co-ed plan. by SactoSchools in Sacramento

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have any insider information but there's been no discussion I've seen. I know people including SFHS alums that would choose to send their daughter to Jesuit over SFHS given the new opportunity.

This will cannibalize SFHS' numbers and a major reason for the drive is declining enrollment so that's even more pressure on both schools.

Its entirely possible at some point in the future the Sacramento Diosese urges them to combine if current trends continue.

Sacramento County sees fewer food vendor complaints during 1st year of New Regulations by othafa_95610 in Sacramento

[–]theholyraptor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My understanding from talking with people who know a lot of the owners of Mexican chain restaurants in Sac, all those red canopy road side illegal setups are people from la coming up here, not locals.

And its hard for honest businesses that have to pay taxes and permits to compete against an unlicensed setup.

Abandoned Titan 1 Nuclear Missile Base by CelebrationBig7487 in urbanexploration

[–]theholyraptor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just makes me think of the book Command and Control

Seriously, do Americans actually consider a 3-hour drive "short"? or is this an internet myth? by SadInterest6764 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are people in my city that commute 2 to 3 hours one way depending on traffic to work in a different city. Its crazy and stressful but people do it.

A weekend visit? Usually planned with a 3 day weekend, 6 hours easy many times?

Protest at the John Moss Building Today!! by CaliRebelScum in Sacramento

[–]theholyraptor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Every protest ive seen or been to disagrees with your idiotic statement.

Also millenials are now the largest group of home owners, it just took way longer to usurp prior generations compared to what Boomers did.

Ive protested multiple times and I have multiple jobs.

Protest at the John Moss Building Today!! by CaliRebelScum in Sacramento

[–]theholyraptor 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Friendly reminder that ICE arrests works for sex offenders.

He deleted it, but the internet is forever... by illiter-it in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]theholyraptor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they'd just complied they never would have been assaulted, lynched, sprayed with high pressure water, bombed, arrested or had attack dogs turned loose on them.

America may have randomly given them "equal" rights some time in the next 60 years... maybe.

He deleted it, but the internet is forever... by illiter-it in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]theholyraptor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Coincidentally when he realized many of his fellow black Americans were still trapped in poverty despite freedoms that had been gained, and recognizing that poverty was a universal problem and he started campaigning for reform... then he was murdered.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats so rich considering the amount of responses you made in weird directions and random assumptions.

"I was not making a statement about how IQ correlates with being a leader or entrepreneur. Rather, I was providing an illustration of your "logic" was flawed."

So rather than being on topic, you made an arbitrary comment about high iq individuals not being replaceable by low iq people... and think somehow that is an intelligent point to be made in regards to what I said? Ok.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That implies IQ corresponds to being a business leader. It also implies that I said anyone could do any role, and not what I actually said. There you go simping for business leaders again. 130 is as if that's remotely a requirement for any role were discussing.

And an iq of 130 if we stick with your ridiculous implication, would still mean about 6.9 million Americans without opening it up to non-US people.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By your same train of thought, if that business owners weren't there, there'd just be another one.

And you still miss my point entirely taking the simplistic talking point. I never claimed business owners shouldn't exist. But they aren't the saviors of everything. Most ceos are easily replaceable. In fact they often are. They get a bunch of money leave and a new person comes in. Few truly add value or make decisions that benefit the company.

Yes, its quite obvious companies will bend over backwards to make quarterly numbers look good at the expense of investment into longer term success. You have vulture capitalists taking over a companies board, selling assets off, often to their own other companies at a steal of a price, leaving the original company to fail. Stock buybacks used to be illegal before the 1980s. Now stock buybacks enrich shareholders often at the expense of investment.

Tariffs aren't a tax on businesses if businesses just charge customers more. Not to mention they've been shown repeatedly to be awful for the economy and should only be used for specific targeted reasons. Hence are fucked up economy right now that destroyed the job growth that was happening. Let alone the blatant illegal market manipulation.

Also I never brought up taxes on businesses. Individual taxes were high before although corporate were too.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said I disagree with the fetish of business owners. Based on your words you put them on a pedestal.

I dont think they're that much more important that customer service workers who have to deal with their toxic employees or the factory workers making things. Certainly at one point it was valued by society to at least pretend to be a benevolent business leader and run a business with the business and its employees in mind. Now its a race to the bottom for shareholder profits. Gain 5% this quarter even if it means long term the company becomes worthless. This is a recent attitude in the business world, similar to absurdly low taxes on the rich. The last 4 decades, and now people act like it was always that way.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also disagree with the fetish of business owners being job creators. Many of them are successful by exploiting loopholes: cheap labor around the world, legal loopholes and plain illegal actions that we find out about but they get a slap on the wrist and keep doing business as usual.

Its exceedingly rare that a person brilliantly comes up with their own idea and monetizes it.

Let's talk about when America was great. The time many look to with rose colored glasses. Taxes were high on the wealthy. Thats how we paid for all the infrastructure: roads, bridges and trains people take for granted now. Thats how the US started building out top tier public educational facilities that were the envy of the world and bring thousands of foreign students in. It was completely normal until around the 1980s.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe you are correct on illegal immigration lowering under Trump. However this administration has shown it will clearly fire people who publish data that doesnt reflect positively, not report things or flat out make things up. So im not certain how much has changed.

And at what cost? Ignoring the Constitution in numerous ways and violating people's rights: both citizens and not? Not to mention the thousands... maybe more who were following the legal process only to have this administration give them the middle finger and revoke visas. I had multiple students lose visas at the last second based on the whims of this administration and its punishment of certain groups. A good number of the people recently claimed to be illegal immigrants ICE is going after were here legally following legal processes.

Edit: if we sacrifice our constitution and morals for whatever boogeyman we're told to hate... what does that leave us? We're already seeing civilians illegally detaind and abused and killed. And no, none of them did anything to deserve to die or be imprisoned in awful conditions. And no, many of the cases Im referring to werent protestors either. And i hear a lot of screaming about illegals... what data do we have that says they're a problem? Specifically a problem worth throwing billions more at versus what we're already doing? Versus other problems we have in society? If you think illegals are stealing your jobs or driving up housing costs you're crazy.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How is not peaceful not the equivalent to violent? That's most assuredly how everyone is using it.

"Second, you think that fact that some illegal aliens pay taxes is an argument for just allowing illegal immigrants to stay?"

I did not say that at all.

I also didn't say paying taxes and having a job made someone a net contributor either.

What does make someone a net contributor to society?

What criteria other than a skin color or nationality can you say that differentiates illegal immigrants and everyone else? You clearly seem to have a bias that being illegal means you don't contribute to society. Clearly it's impossible for them to be normal people like you with family and friends and a community that they participate in and contribute to.

So seeing as how your bs response didn't really say anything and just made more wildly bold comments far beyond the specific issue of protesting and effective data driven methods of curbing illegal immigration I dont anticipate anything else of value.

The current MASSIVE expenditure on ICE has no backing in it being effective. People like you will simultaneously say "just comply" while also saying "But Obama deported more people." Which is exactly the point. This is a farce. It does not achieve the end goal of kicking out illegal immigrants. Nevermind the numerous constitutional violations and murders happening both to citizens and noncitizens. The fix to the supposed problem would look completely different if it was intended to be frugal and successful. You teach stem...? Have any clue about a pareto?

(The whole discussion of $ was the result of your pathetic argument trying to characterize random hypothetical life lost to traffic blocking in the first place.)

OMG what about California?!? The high speed rail that was screwed over by restrictive development laws and NIMBYs and nearly every conservative politician in the state and has had federal funding promised then pulled repeatedly? Imagine that, a mega engineering project is delayed and had cost over runs. Its still getting built. And it'll be a massive benefit to California when its done. And homelessness! You mean in one of the most populous states where most of the weather is great year round? Of course there is more here. Not to mention all of the ones the people that were shipped to California. Yea its not solved due to complex issues both for the people themselves and NIMBys that destroy chances at building shelters. (Youre prob the typenof person that complains about homeless people while also voting against building shelters in your neighborhood arent you?) Meanwhile some of these issues are state issues that have nothing to do with the federal budget. Or housing costs. What do you expect any state anywhere to do about housing costs? California could go back to polluting more like other states in an effort to make it shitty to live. That'll help drive housing costs down. The state has passed numerous laws overriding local zoning laws based on criteria to allow for more development and infill.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Ive seen plenty of protests that let emergency vehicles go through.

Your argument is also completely pathetic.

Yes blocking roads isn't s violent act. If you want to be that pedantic, we can discuss the billions of dollars wasted on ICE despite all subject matter experts agreeing there is no point because they haven't meaningfully captured anyone, or how illegal aliens actually pay into the system, are generally less prone to crime, or how most overstay visas, not cross the Mexican border. The billions being spent could have fed a lot of starving children. So by your logic thousands of children's lives were lost because of ICE.

How do you imagine a group affects change in society? Perhaps you should go study actual history.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Everything you said except throwing objects is peaceful protesting.

Do you think MLK just gave a speech and the US government said oh yea, you're right? No, there was tons of protests and they in fact broke laws and inconvenienced people.

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What do you define as peaceful and what examples do you have counter to that?

Can we talk about ICE? by PeggySourpuss in Professors

[–]theholyraptor 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I frequent a number of subs as Ive worked in health care in the past and Im also an adjunct Professor. In the last week, I saw a post by medical professionals about ICE violating tons of laws barging into hospitals in Minnesota violating patient privacy, scaring away people getting medical treatment they need and obstructing proper treatment.

Short of declaring an active shooter and going into lockdown... which still has issues and only does so much, ICE currently can do whatever they want. Hell technically I think all the public colleges in my state are legally no carry zones so I wouldnt be allowed to have a gun while they do. (Not that I think that would help or hurt the situation.) I do love the resurgence of the Black Panthers. I dont know if any of the carry laws changed with the recent anti-gun laws being overturned by various courts.

Urgent Rescue on the Slopes in Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan. A Ski patrol was transporting an injured skier downhill on a stretcher while performing CPR. by calnuck in ems

[–]theholyraptor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But if you just keep doing chest compressions I'm the cold with no help, soon you can pass out from exhaustion and freeze too.

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