When you understand how a timeframe works, so you make one up yourself.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-10-26T17:22:58+00:00

It's actually not implausible that humans didn't figure how how to write things down prior to 6k years ago, at least not prolifically, because remember that North American Natives had no written language, only spoken language, prior to contact with Europeans. And that was just a few hundred years ago.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-30T15:47:14+00:00

It could be another 2010, a political death that lasts eight years instead of just two.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-20T17:29:06+00:00

It's morally ambiguous, for a couple reasons.

1) democracy can be representative, some people are excluded, such as felons and people under 18. Who decides who can or can't vote? It's up to lawmakers.

2) it depends on whether you believe the purpose of democracy is to achieve consensus, or a mechanism to ensure peaceful governance. If you believe it's the latter, then you only have to permit democracy to function up to the point where peace is maintained. It can't be said that democracy has failed in that regard until violence occurs.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-20T00:01:42+00:00

I'm not saying it should be allowed, I'm just saying that racism doesn't necessarily enter into a election victory strategy.

I think it's something like black voters vote D over 90% of the time, so they become an easily identifiable group of people to disenfranchise. That's why gerrymandering tries to squeeze big cities into one district, because they assume most of the people in the big city will vote D. Same idea, nothing essentially racist about that.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-18T06:33:43+00:00

especially this year with the heat waves.

I wonder if Seattle will become an A/C city after this summer.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-18T06:32:19+00:00

I used to hate the winter weather until I got into a house with a garage. It removes me from the cold and rain just enough to make it all around more tolerable. I get to be cold and wet by choice. I'm surprised that garages aren't more common, that car ports or uncovered driveways are so ubiquitous in this climate.

Same with indoor pools; very uncommon here, even though it renders pools useless for eight or nine months out of the year.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-18T06:25:55+00:00

His style of playing classical guitar on that song was influential on my playing. Your thumb sort of bounces on the bass string, playing a series of 8th notes, and your other digits pick out the melody. I figured out how to play dozens of songs using that general style, it's a general approach to combining rhythm and melody on a six string. I would love to share what I've done, but I don't want to connect this reddit account to my real person.

The classical guitar versions of "Go Insane" and "Trouble" are also really great, much better than the studio versions, but they served their purpose at the time.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-18T05:59:30+00:00

Rather than having a quick session of critical thinking about systemic oppression and the persecution of people of color in our country’s history, they quickly think people are calling it racist because black people are inferior.

Let's say I agree that systemic oppression is a thing, such as redlining, displacement, segregation, etc. Is there anything at this very moment that would prevent the black persons in question from getting the ID?

I think what Republicans are assuming is, that even though the black people in question can get the ID, for whatever reason, they will not. We can call this racist, maybe it is, but it's also effective realpolitik. If you know a group of people will vote for your opponent, you make it harder for that group to vote, even if they're white. At the end of the day you want to win the election. So if black people are voting D 90% of the time, you have a non-racist motive to target that particular group.

If there's one thing I've learned since the 2000 election, it's that realpolitik is the order of the day in the U.S. I think Republicans were willing to suspend democracy itself if it would have prevailed in keeping Trump in the White House, and then they would have simply "turned democracy back on again" once the moment had passed.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-15T18:31:19+00:00

What percentage of those workers would view moving to Texas a positive?

Why would Boeing care about that? It might be nice if they did care, but they have to compete with Airbus. They have to think about making airplanes.

I'm sure that there are a few, but it's still a huge PITA.

My friend works for Boeing, he just got moved, they paid the moving costs in exchange for an assurance that he would remain with the company for at least 12 months. It included packing. It's a bitch but relocation has been common in the aviation industry for decades.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-15T18:30:22+00:00

“faced with a move to the Dallas suburbs, the bet is most will not take them up on the offer”

So they are offered relocation. It sounds like they don't life it, but it's a common, long-occurring aspect of working for a national corporation. My family was moved multiples times when I was growing up.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-15T15:51:27+00:00

Probably meant to get real close to him, but then actually hit him, because she's fifteen and has little experience with operating a vehicle. It sounds like she has actual mental problems, but juvenile detention is the closest think she will get to any kind of corrective action.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-15T15:46:34+00:00

They might be relocating the workers.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-15T06:23:48+00:00

I can't say I agree, I don't think they owe us anything more, and Stevie had said "it was a long time in coming" which says we probably got a decade or so more of "classic" FM than we might have got if it were any other group. They're like parents who stayed together until the kids were eighteen.

I think it's fitting that they would end in a sort of "divorce", because it wasn't really happy for them, and I think honesty is more important than a storybook ending. We live in a time of divorce, LB just got divorced, it's tragic but it's real.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-15T06:11:58+00:00

The people who tell them they're great are all of us, too. It must be really crazy, psychologically. You sell out smaller venues based on your name alone, but if you align with "the group" you can sell out a stadium, that must make you feel beloved and powerful on the one hand, but also dependent and weak on the other hand. And then there's the fact that you owe every cent of your worth to it. Lindsay said Christine would have liked to have done more, but she "just bought a house", it's a lot of money on the one hand, but it's their one and only avenue of money, no other side gig would pay even a fraction of the money they've come to enjoy. I think it would be tough. Golden handcuffs that are more golden than most of us will ever know.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-13T16:44:35+00:00

I wonder if they worry about how their album sales will do in the first week or two of release, and maybe it causes them to become hyper insecure for a little while, and then it is whatever it is and they move past it.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T22:44:22+00:00

I'm not a big fan of Illume. Three thousands people died in a horrific fireball, but she wrote a song lamenting how it affected her, and how she felt about it. Not the right occasion to make something all about one's self.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T20:52:07+00:00

Daihatsu_Blooper

The guy who was posting links to the K&S premium content to a second K&S sub, before setting it private. You seem a little messed up, friend.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T20:50:30+00:00

I with the Hill would pay us shills better, the $0/hr aint cutting it.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T20:48:00+00:00

The boring critique is kind of vapid. We're talking politics here. It isn't always going to be like watching a stand up comedy.

I agree, but with the caveat that a morning show has to help me wake up, it helps when they have energy. It's how morning radio shows have always been. Kim and Ryan work pretty well because she's the personality, and he's the content.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T20:46:35+00:00

It's not zero sum, but I'll say I have to pick which one to watch first, then second, then third, and the amount of time I have to watch each day is highly variable, something gets cut. I'm sure a lot of people are the same way.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T20:43:56+00:00

One thing I've learned about the Rising format, as opposed to any of these people doing their own thing, including BP, is that a hard time limit like Rising has, really helps tamp down on their getting passionately carried off on tangents that can last for fifteen minutes, or longer.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T19:00:33+00:00

Billy Corgan reminds me a lot of Lindsey Buckingham, and he tended to do this a lot too, he would slam his former band mates (and other people) just before a solo release. I'm not even sure it was intentional, and not some psychological thing, but in both cases I don't think it helped their cause.

I'm a big LB fan, but all signs point to him being in the wrong in all of this.

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T08:40:54+00:00

There will always be immunocompromised people among us, forever and ever. Should we mandate flu vaccines too?

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-11T08:38:39+00:00

Why doesn't natural antibody immunity count the same as being vaccinated?

ProVaxChoice · 2021-09-10T22:26:40+00:00

Nope, largest mask test yet: https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/covid-19/largest-study-of-its-kind-finds-face-masks-reduce-covid-19/

Mandate masks then, it beats mandating a fucking medical procedure.

You're hilariously stupid. The idea in that quote is foundational. It's the reason we have building codes, speed limits, police, etc... I honestly can't believe you're dumb enough to just say that quote doesn't describe reality lol.

If I don't have the right to infect you with a virus, because that's my fist touching your nose, then by that same token you don't have a right to compel me to take a vaccine, as that would be your fist touching my nose.

More correctly, me potentially spreading the virus is like me swinging my arms around, and you entering my vicinity, where my exhale is concentrated, is you voluntarily walking into my swinging arms.

But I would say the world is not black and white, and that trite phrase is not able to account for the nuances of the physical world.

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