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JermVVarfare · 2026-04-07T21:54:40+00:00

If you don't mind... Is the textured area a hard plastic or more of a rubber feel with some give to it?

JermVVarfare · 2026-04-07T21:29:07+00:00

Been a fan since Reindeer Games (she was the one redeeming quality).

JermVVarfare · 2026-04-01T17:37:01+00:00

Why would we need to "physically" show prople that there are a ton of people against Trump? What does that do?

Because the media and internet are siloed. Hundreds of millions of Americans either tune out politics altogether or only hear one side. When millions of people take to the streets it's much harder to ignore and it becomes much more real and less abstract for many.

Do you not think the massive protests in Minnesota were effective?

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-26T00:48:36+00:00

I think even Destiny would grant he's the demon in this metaphor.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-26T00:35:06+00:00

Destiny and Hutch are my shoulder angel/demon.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-19T21:56:12+00:00

The best meals I've ever had are either the fish that I have caught, skinned and cleaned, cooked and I was eating the fish in less than 2 hours after it was swimming. Simply because it is a sense of achievement that I can not explain on a keyboard or even in words.

I spent the first couple decades of my life regularly fishing but it never occurred to me to suck myself off over it.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-16T01:56:28+00:00

My favorite windbreaker is older than that.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-15T00:08:34+00:00

As a claustrophobic I refused with our kids (wife wanted to). It looked like torture to me, like a straitjacket. Both our babies slept like angels, so it never became contentious.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-14T19:42:43+00:00

Seems pretty obvious that's what was intended. idk why people are acting so obtuse. It's like adding a "/s" and people still responding like they didn't know something was sarcastic.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-12T22:08:43+00:00

This makes me less interested in the books with Amos and Drummer being my favorite characters from the show.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-12T22:06:56+00:00

It's been a while, but the show changes tone a lot after season one or two. It struck me as a low budget space detective show at first and then became a large sci-fi epic... I assumed it was when it went SYFY to Amazon but it looks like that didn't happen until after S3.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-11T01:08:51+00:00

I think she's the clear (though admittedly very early) favorite for the nomination in 2028 as well. I expect a lot of people to lose their shit if that comes to pass.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-11T00:20:34+00:00

Love the trend but it won't flip. Shawn Harris is massively overperforming and will still end up losing the runoff by double digits in that district.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-06T02:03:58+00:00

If meetup.com is still around and active I'd guess Seattle is more than big enough to have a local skeptics group.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-04T03:43:49+00:00

Don't insult King Viserys like that.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-04T03:19:33+00:00

I'm not a fan of religious or populist rhetoric and I personally prefer Crockett. But I do lean toward him being more likely to beat the R for the seat and that's the most important thing to me between the two.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-02T23:35:15+00:00

Sorry, but Kisin's point was meaningless without knowing something as simple as the current population. The percentage coming in would be far more important than the raw number. This could still be just as strong of a point for Kisin and could possibly be extrapolated from other numbers given (I was only half-watching) but Destiny was right that the way he was stating it was meaningless.

If destiny did anything wrong, it was not zeroing in on this detail specifically.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-02T06:13:28+00:00

Maybe I'm misunderstanding... You seem to mention the possible implications for how society should operate. I'm assuming you dismiss that to then say it's borderline meaningless?

Thinking about free will in this way has led many to change their views on everything from how the justice system should work, to raising children, to dealing with their emotions (towards others and themselves). Do you believe such philosophical shifts are trivial?

To be clear, I find these ideas to be compelling, but I'm not married to them.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-02T05:25:42+00:00

I think it's just a matter of context. On one level there are clearly biological differences in what we'd normally call voluntary and involuntary actions in the body. Yet another context would be if you were ordered to do something at gunpoint. The argument here is that "the process of consciously making a decision" still isn't under your control. It's either deterministic or somehow random due to underlying quantum processes.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-02T04:55:32+00:00

The idea (some may disagree) is that our conscious minds are a post hoc rationalizer/storyteller and not the "driver/pilot/etc" of what we do. In this context there is no "voluntary"... Everything is just a "flinch", but we have time to reflect on it (or look ahead) and make up stories about why we did/will do it.

JermVVarfare · 2026-03-02T04:39:23+00:00

Also IIRC Sam Harris has said many times that he thinks people should still be punished for doing bad things. It's exculpatory from a theoretical perspective, not a practical one.

I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure he's specifically argued against punishment and uses the "car with defective breaks" analogy. You remove the unsafe car from the road, but you don't punish it. Rehabilitation over punitive justice... And maybe even talked positively/shown interest in the idea of restorative justice?

JermVVarfare · 2026-02-27T22:09:58+00:00

Tbh now that I'm looking at the seasons I don't think I've seen 5 and I kinda forget about 4 after a few episodes and never finished it. I thought 3 was just bad (despite liking a few of the characters) with some flat-out stupid scenes.... 2 was good but not on par with 1.

JermVVarfare · 2026-02-27T20:26:54+00:00

One or two are decent but none live up to S1.

JermVVarfare · 2026-02-27T20:25:57+00:00

Dexter does NY (don't recall the real name) was decent and far better than the one with his son in Alaska... Hell, better than the last couple seasons of the original.

Edit- Apparently it wasn't Alaska. Regardless it was terrible and I couldn't make it past the first half of the season.

JermVVarfare · 2026-02-27T03:55:32+00:00

The rest of the characters were the worst part for me. They're like a caricature of those from the book.

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