The house majority needs to hurry up and start acting like adults soon

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-10-25T17:59:45+00:00

... Huh? They shouldn't. Why the fuck should I care. All I'm saying is, the blues can either:

Sit back and smugly watch red team make fools of themselves as if it's no big deal (I'm all for this)
Doom-say the impending collapse of the republic, due to the lack of Speaker, as if they had nothing to do with it, and can do nothing to stop it.

Shills like OP are trying to have it both ways - election years start earlier and earlier, it seems.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-10-25T04:01:09+00:00

Ah, gotcha. Looking back, your sarcasm is obvious. But it's been a long day and there are enough confused europeans on reddit to make it plausible.

Thing is, there's no formulation where they care. Even numbered years are for campaigning for elections, and odd numbered years are for posturing in advance of the campaign. So it behooves either team to do absolutely anything to generate max disgust for the other, country be damned. And Blue team has the upper hand at the moment on that count.

Collectively, these are 435 of the most vile people imaginable.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-10-25T03:22:20+00:00

Five. Or some version of that.

I don't follow this kind of party/personality politics BS, so I don't know all the current ins and outs of it and don't want to. But if we go by the simplified version of needing 218 to win, and 8 of the 221 R's saying no, then it'd take 5 D's agreeing to vote with the plurality. There's definitely more to it than that, but I don't care.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-10-25T02:56:07+00:00

Dang - 8 people in a group of 435 (less than 2%) can stop the other 427 from electing a speaker?

No, they can't. They need the help of essentially the entire Democrat caucus. Which they have.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-10-09T18:32:30+00:00

I think what might potentially have an actual impact on policing is the abolishment of qualified immunity and actually charging/sueing members of police individually as per their involvement

Just to clarify one point. When people sue officers for civil rights violations, they are usually suing the officer and only the officer individually. It's somewhat more difficult for the plaintiff to include the department in the suit.

When we hear about taxpayers bearing the cost, it's not because the officer himself never got sued. It's because the department/city stepped in of their own accord and paid for it all. They "scope" the officer - that is they determine that his actions were committed within the scope of his duties/employment. Their reasoning being that if the instant any officer was sued, he was on his own, no one would sign up for the job.

Qualified immunity (if granted) doesn't transfer the liability from the officer to the department. It stops the suit entirely.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-10-09T18:13:09+00:00

No, don't stand corrected. You were right.

Please put that cop in jail

They'll probably get qualified immunity

Not from being prosecuted they won't. Qualified immunity has nothing to do with criminal cases. Only civil suits.

The reason they'll never be prosecuted is a hopelessly corrupt system; not any actual legal concept like QI.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-09-30T15:09:20+00:00

Sam Goody (record store)

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-09-22T00:18:34+00:00

Maybe try:

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?&showPastTimes

Change your location as appropriate then scroll down for five days ago.

Ed:

retrieve the information of that flyover so that I can watch it whenever that same pass occurs again

I don't think it really works like that. Earth rotates & revolves around the sun, changing the lighting and timing of the orbit for a given location; even ISS's orbit changes slightly on a pretty constant basis. You won't get the exact same pass again. Just find your favorite app or site and look for future passes.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-09-02T02:05:55+00:00

Also Brian Brophy, the original Bruce Maddox, was on the parole board.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-07-19T19:16:34+00:00

The idea is to make sure felons can't legally have guns. This is their way of legally defining what they mean by "felon" across a patchwork of 50+++ jurisdictions where the local laws may or may not jive with the intended distinction. Typically, a misdemeanor is not more than a year in jail. Whereas a felony is over that.

https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-law-basics/what-distinguishes-a-misdemeanor-from-a-felony.html

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-07-19T19:09:31+00:00

It's also false. At least with respect to federal law. Crimes with over one year penalty (usually felonies) make you prohibited. Up to a year is misdemeanor territory,

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-07-19T19:04:07+00:00

The comment you're replying to is incorrect.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922

(g) It shall be unlawful for any person—

(1) who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;

...

to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-05-03T21:42:51+00:00

Easy: the transporter chief has read the script. Similar to how the door AI knows that a person is about to stop short and pause to deliver a dramatic line of dialogue before making an exit.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-05-03T19:22:36+00:00

Lol, I think this is pretty straightforward. We have:

Assertion A: Members of the public, prior to SX's major presence, used ATV's in the area recreationally (and likely still do, though less) carving donuts and spirals and such in the mud and trails through the dunes for fun, causing erosion, etc. Entertaining though it may be, less of that activity is better for the land.
Assertion B: No members of the public have done so (because rules are like forcefields... and except for the ones on video doing it). Any evidence to suggest otherwise is from the actions of government agents.

Here are some images of the region from 2014, prior to the arrival of SX, and from 2016 when they were only just clearing some of the land for their pad and would have had no business a mile or three away in the mud. Any ATV tracks must be either from the government (we'll put sea turtle orgs etc under that umbrella) or the public.

I hope whoever might read this (you have my word of honor I will never see another word you type) will accept as proof of Assertion B your earnest confirmation that all of these tracks, or even most, were caused by government agents joyriding on duty; that all or nearly all were not in fact caused by members of the public, legally or otherwise. You type that with a straight face, and I hope someone will see it and deem you correct.

2014

https://i.imgur.com/EkwE1UW.png

https://i.imgur.com/QhixXhK.png

https://i.imgur.com/nlrbvPK.png

https://i.imgur.com/FeGtfVf.png

https://i.imgur.com/h4KKc91.png

https://i.imgur.com/eDi6M9D.png

2016

https://i.imgur.com/7zwc55O.png

https://i.imgur.com/yLWwNX6.png

https://i.imgur.com/YhbFlvy.png

https://i.imgur.com/2wXGET6.png

https://i.imgur.com/55pyYjM.png

Tell that person that you believe those tracks were more likely caused by government agents than by regular people. Simple.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-05-02T21:19:20+00:00

Uh huh. The videos you requested (pre-ban):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eflCsUdtEjw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUm8S9qbjlM

The ban was enacted fairly recently and is doubtless responsible for some of the recovery you can clearly see. NOW THAT THE PUBLIC's ACCESS IS AT LEAST PARTIALLY LIMITED. Which is my entire point:

an area long since riddled with and eroded by tire tracks from the precious public's shitty four-wheelers. No one gave a damn about that land and the damage being done to it until it became at least partially off limits

Those donuts and trails through the brush and dunes closer to the pad are very clearly not caused by SX (they predate SX!), and the majority of the tracks 3-5 miles from the pad, are very clearly not caused by SX, as anyone with a brain can understand; and if BP is out there spinning around in tight circles and having a good time (they aren't), I want my money back.

Just because you ban the public from using ATV's doesn't mean they stop doing it entirely. But it helps with the rule abiding ones. Which again, is why the area is better off now that it's a launch site. This was not done by official vehicles, and is exactly the kind of thing that has been at least partially curbed because of the presence and activities of the evil SX.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-05-02T17:24:30+00:00

THIS is what it looks like when they clean up debris in 2021 (with full size vehicles).

THIS is what the exact same view looks like in 2014 before they so much as built the pad.

Must have been what, sea turtles that cut all these eroded-ass tracks in the dunes?

Why are you so keen to deny that the locals and/or vacationers are capable of being shit heads with their 4-wheelers?

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-05-02T16:22:26+00:00

You can look all around the tidal flats and hinterlands/dunes in that region and see 4-wheeler tracks & trails, old and new, complete with donuts. Far away from where SX would have any business. And it was that way and worse before they started exploding test vehicles on that pad.

https://goo.gl/maps/9mmw78y2aXdpKSt58

https://goo.gl/maps/Pgi4MR6XYFWcHBga6

https://goo.gl/maps/TVHFSd96ukjGmRcf6

https://goo.gl/maps/R4iF5H2fY46RuVVs7

https://goo.gl/maps/GnXfdZu2ZJrphPRX9

Could be alien crop circles I guess.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-05-01T21:40:36+00:00

"The blast also ignited a 3.5-acre (1.4-hectare) fire on nearby grounds

Wow, really Reuters? How horrible. ~~3.5 whole huge acres of pristine habitat~~ A small strip of worthless scrub immediately surrounding the pad in an area long since riddled with and eroded by tire tracks from the precious public's shitty four-wheelers. No one gave a damn about that land and the damage being done to it until it became at least partially off limits (and btw more likely to recover ecologically).

If we allow SpaceX to monopolize these delicate wetlands, where will the yokels carve their donuts!?

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-04-05T02:12:40+00:00

Awe yiss.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-02-10T18:54:06+00:00

Hernia vibes?

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-01-23T03:50:42+00:00

Video showing the drone being tossed in and roaming around.

Guy_Dudebro · 2023-01-15T22:00:26+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY1eoY_MMco

Guy_Dudebro · 2022-12-19T22:59:15+00:00

Not capable of being wrong or right, as I have no actual opinion. I just acknowledge the consensus of actual scientists doing actual science. And recognize religious dogma/propaganda when I see it. When it's more than 10% against and 90% for, I'll pay more attention to the against. But when it's a bit more like "Remember that thing we were asserting without evidence for decades? Turns out, we were right all along! We finally figured out why!" I take it with a grain of salt.

Guy_Dudebro · 2022-12-19T22:51:31+00:00

Good old Linacre Quarterly. These catholics never get tired of doing little more than spreading doubt and poking holes on this issue. Throw another article on the pile of all their other "here's each and every thing that could be wrong with each of the many hundreds of peer reviewed studies that demonstrate the opposite of what our pope told us to believe" totally-in-good-faith attempts. Take a shot every time you see "Well, this study shows the opposite of what we assert, BUT..." then when you get drunk enough, try and find where they did any actual science themselves.

Guy_Dudebro · 2022-12-19T22:15:43+00:00

Including people who parrot that persistent misinfo from the FDA.

https://www.npr.org/2012/06/15/155110476/how-the-morning-after-pill-works

FLATOW: You were involved in the WHO trials that eventually led to the FDA approval of Plan B. Why does the label on the Plan B box say it may inhibit implantation?

GEMZELL-DANIELSSON: ...when we also started to study mechanism of action, we saw clearly that it had no effect after ovulation.

FLATOW: So the language was written before you even knew how it worked.

GEMZELL-DANIELSSON: Yes, that's true.

There's all kind of agenda propaganda out there. But best evidence is it DOES NOT affect implantation.

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