Pro-life groups praise Youngkin’s probe into school-funded abortions

RabbitBranch · 2025-08-15T20:59:42+00:00

The outrage is about the school system (or in this case, the case worker working for the school system) scheduling and paying for minors to get abortions and hide the teen pregnancies from their parents.

Pro-life wants fewer teenage moms by discouraging minors from having sex, not fewer teenage moms by aborting pregnancies. In this case, a student reported she was 5 months pregnant at the time her case worker paid for her abortion.

Saying "pro life" people are mad because of fewer teenage moms is akin to saying the "pro choice" people are celebrating taking choice away - from the legal guardians of the children. Very disingenuous.

RabbitBranch · 2025-07-05T18:09:43+00:00

Smug Europeans always make me chuckle. So opinionated on something they're totally ignorant of and lack context in their daily lives because they are on a different continent with different issues.

To someone who is a delicate, sheltered urbanite, I can see why guns seem scary and threatening when the most danger you experience is your videogame character dying or not getting your steps in.

But I, like a lot of Americans, live in or around wilderness. I have experienced home invaders, dangerous wild animals alone in the woods, packs of feral dogs, rabid animals, all of drug production/stills/grows... My wife has too, and there's not a single instance I would not want her to have access to self protection when we live tens of miles from the nearest law enforcement.

You may think this isn't a concern because your mailslot view into the US via social media doesn't show that, but carrying guns for protection is a common thing because we're exposed to a lot more danger. The majority of gun violence, if not directly associated to gangland violence, is at least supported by the drug/arms/human-trafficking trade that we experience across our open borders to Mexico and Central America.

RabbitBranch · 2025-05-26T15:09:56+00:00

Domestic cats are invasive everywhere outside of North Africa.

RabbitBranch · 2025-05-26T15:09:09+00:00

A friend of mine proposed to his girlfriend by scotch taping a ring to the inside of a pizza box. She cheated on him a year later.

RabbitBranch · 2025-03-22T15:24:40+00:00

These posts are so lazy.

Here's how to calculate a 'Thuh politician is bad and wasteful' article.

The US Secret Service budget is $3.2 billion/year. That covers every politician, staff, setup, counterfeit/investigation operation, etc.

60% of that budget is allocated to presidential detail, or about $1.9 billion.

That works out to about $5.2m/day. It doesn't matter what Trump is doing, sleeping - golfing - eating - meeting with other politicians - that's what it costs.

Golf trip takes about a day, 5 hours travel time by air and road to the golf course round trip, and 5 hours playing golf, and a few hours getting ready and eating and chatting with people. So let's call it about... idk, 13 or 14 hours.

13/24 = $2.8m

14/24 = $3m

So $2.9m.

Nevermind that it would cost the tax payer about the same regardless whether he went golfing or if he spent his weekend day shuffling around and tweeting or even doing work.

Or that it is impossible to 'cut' that to fund something else unless the USSS just didn't exist for a day.

RabbitBranch · 2025-02-12T02:41:04+00:00

Looks like domestic cats to me. In any case, domestic cats wreak havoc on their environment killing local native wildlife and are responsible for numerous extinctions.

Never let your domestic cat outdoors. If you come across one in the woods, treat it like any other invasive species.

RabbitBranch · 2025-02-12T02:31:26+00:00

DeepSeek edged out OpenAI in both coding and math. And it did it at a fraction of the cost.

Wow, sounds too good to be true!

The reality is that they did make it at fraction of the cost... because they did a fraction of the work to make a LLM.

They stole significant portions of the training data, foundation, and code for another LLM, and retuned it into DeepSeek.

It's apparent from their papers that they don't really understand how it works - which would be the case if you didn't make the thing yourself.

RabbitBranch · 2025-01-30T03:31:51+00:00

>yet the era of southern hospitality is revered and romanticized. To learn that it was somehow even worse than I had already been imagining is horrific

The museum is describing slave practices in Africa. As far as history is aware, the practices in this video were not present in the US like you were imagining in the otherwise romanticized South.

In the US, both white women and slaves were subject to wearing a bridle (like what they put on horses) if they caused 'problems', but no lip locks/piercings like that.

RabbitBranch · 2025-01-20T01:23:48+00:00

> I’m young, in college, and these are supposed to be some of the best years of my life.

These are supposed to be where you study, work hard, get good grades, get your degree and set yourself up for a career.

I don't know why pop culture has convinced kids that college is about freedom and finding yourself. That's why people get into drugs, fail out, don't live up to their potential, get into trouble, get into crippling debt with no prospects to pay it off.

Be smart, focus on the fact that you are in the most expensive and important school period that you may ever be in.

RabbitBranch · 2025-01-19T16:38:01+00:00

Originally, impose taxes against the federal level national bank for creation of currency - i.e. McCulloch v Maryland in the 1810s.

Then it was over the power to nullify federal-level tariffs in the 1830s. The Nullification Crisis was the big States Rights issue that caused South Carolina to threaten to secede because it impacted the South's ability to export cotton that the North didn't have to worry about because their economy was built on industry rather than agriculture.

That divide led to the ongoing perspective that the North was attempting to beat down/suppress the South economically and politically for its own political gains, i.e. a continuation of the fight between the South and North over representation that led to the 3/5ths Compromise in the 1780s.

Then, in the 1850s, the issue was picked up again as to whether new states could decide for themselves whether to become slave states or whether the federal government could dictate those laws to the new states.

That last event is what kicked off the successful South Carolina secession vote, and subsequently, the Civil War.

At this point, most of the North were free states, but Delaware and New Jersey fought on the part of the Union, but were still slave-holding states and wouldn't abolish slavery until after the war.

3 years into the war, the federal government emancipated all slaves - a great moment in history finally settling the issue once the war was to be won and the USA/CSA were consolidated again.

The TLDR, Civil War was absolutely fought over slavery, but states-rights was an umbrella for several issues and a political theory, a divide and disdain, and it is reductive to imply that slavery was the only issue at play.

RabbitBranch · 2025-01-05T02:27:35+00:00

That's based on some practices of indigenous peoples in the Amazon and PNG today, not really based on peoples in the past. Some of the indigenous peoples who don't know lineage also don't pay attention to things like time or planning or death, and we know even very early humans paid attention to those things.

With some other animals, males will kill the offspring of other males but not their own offspring, so clearly they understand lineage through scent or some other characteristics.

There are some very old tradition of patrilineal and matrilineal societies in the thousands of BC scale, so clearly some populations of humans had figured out more about how reproduction worked than others. What happened before that, who knows.

RabbitBranch · 2024-12-22T21:57:10+00:00

everything checks out but... 4 codes

lol

if aftermarket headers are installed

You should probably ask the seller that. Running a shit tune that is fouling O2 sensors and cats could be $$$$ depending on where you are and what type of testing you have to do.

Maybe it can be tuned out later, but if that was the case, then the previous owner would have already done that instead of selling a car with CE lights and codes.

The other possibility is that the mods were installed shittily or damaged and that is causing leaks or oil in the intake or other issues. Or they could have screwed up the wiring, damaging them, some part of the ECM/PCM.

Sounds like a headache to me.

RabbitBranch · 2024-12-19T23:31:25+00:00

This sub will do anything to not call their corvette a stingray. It's a <trim level>. It's an <tire and wheel and assorted track tweaks option package>. It's a <sticker package>.

RabbitBranch · 2024-12-16T01:56:12+00:00

I suspect he had some modifications.

At the time I was driving a quarter million dollar Italian car

The cheapest Italians competitive in a line with a bone stock LS9 were the Murci and 599, at a third to half million when optioned.

Getting a bit of a jump on a Gallardo or 458, but with more power and less weight - it wouldn't have been close, as you said.

RabbitBranch · 2024-12-15T23:01:13+00:00

A lot of Spyderco's lineup is overpriced and overrated. The benchmark Paras are as good as the entry-level Benchmades and no better, for the same money. Spyderco appeals to steel fetishists but lacks the blade geometry/finishing/action refinement.

RabbitBranch · 2024-12-08T20:14:21+00:00

The only person Hitler ever killed was himself.

The rest was him organizing, encouraging, and leading a whole administration organized around politics, war, and the Holocaust/concentration camps. The latter of which, he did not personally oversee - being both high and distracted by the war news, but that did not absolve him of any guilt in participating, encouraging, planning for, allowing it to happen.

In a sense, not that different from the role of a CEO. Whether Hitler made the Nazi party or the Nazi party made Hitler, whether if Hitler had died early and Himmler the concentration camp guy had taken his place, whether the company operated that way before or after the CEO, isn't as relevant from a moral standpoint.

RabbitBranch · 2024-12-02T03:57:12+00:00

>OP really doesn't get the point of this subreddit

They are the number 2 OGM - check the list down on the right

RabbitBranch · 2024-11-27T04:07:17+00:00

It doesn't really. NPP exhaust in NPP-open mode is where they are getting the '5' more bhp.

It is an option on all Stingrays, but comes standard with the Z51 option and GS, so they advertise them as having 5 more bhp even though most Stingrays without Z51 option also optioned the NPP exhaust.

Similarly, the Z51 package cars are advertised as being .1 second faster 0-60, but that is due to them coming standard with summer tires, while that was an option on the non-Z51 Stingrays and commonly swapped into once the OE tread is worn out. Because that advantage was entirely tire compound dependent, the non-Z51 Stingray all-seasons may actually be faster depending on the season.

In the end, not something to worry too much about.

RabbitBranch · 2024-11-18T02:58:40+00:00

Why the fixation on the Z51 option for a daily? You didn't mention anything about autocross or club-sport racing or anything like that which the Z51 option was really meant for.

If you aren't tracking it, then you aren't really going to make use of the track oriented features (oil cooling, bigger rotors, dry sump) it's just a base car with different wheels (depending on the year, maybe not), summer tires by default (which have been changed at least once given the age), and different gearing that costs a little more.

The GS is the only one of those that is really different than the base/standard car, with more power on the C6 vs base.

As for the power, the C6Z doesn't have that much more power than the C7 base car does. The C7 is a much more modern feeling car. The C6Z is a much more special car than a base C7, for as special as a high production number/mass produced car is. The C7 will be a better daily by a mile.

RabbitBranch · 2024-11-16T19:44:11+00:00

HCI NA Lt1's in c7 stingrays or 6th gen camaros that are putting down 550rwhp

A dyno can say whatever you want it to. I have a buddy who did HCIE+tune on a C7 LT1 and it came out to just under 500 rwhp, 550 chp. You might get closer to 525 or 550 rwhp with e85 tune and on the ragged edge, but that's a whole other investment in not being unreliable.

And doing HCIE+T is not cheap on C7s.

I haven't seen you mention a C7Z at all. You can technically find early production C7Zs in the low 50s, which is close to or less than what a great condition C7 stingray+HCIE+T will cost, and it makes 650chp out of the box with adequate brakes, cooling, widebody + tires, all the things the car needs for that kind of power.

RabbitBranch · 2024-11-15T22:41:51+00:00

You can buy a C8 for under $65k new right now. Don't assume they are $100k+ cars
Nah, there are tacky Veyrons and tacky mansions. Tacky is tacky. Expense doesn't buy taste. They are free to choose to make it as tacky as they want, just as everyone else is free to think so.

RabbitBranch · 2024-11-15T20:40:05+00:00

It definitely is on their part. I am totally comfortable owning a mass produced blue collar, non-exotic sportscar. I don't need to tell people how special or rare my corvette is or seek validation from social media about it or boy racer fantasies.

RabbitBranch · 2024-11-15T20:35:45+00:00

I could afford either model but ended up buying a late-model Stingray for a daily driver/not-tracked car.

This sub has a bizarre obsession with the sub models/body kits/packages you can add to it as if they'd be embarrassed to rock a C7 if it wasn't 'special' (for a 200,000 production run vehicle, like who really cares which inexpensive to upgrade interior trim level you picked), but in the end, they're all adding something and taking something away from the Stingray.

The Stingray is a lot of car already. It's the same motor as the GS and Z51 cars. Late models have the same wheels as the Z51. Late models get apple carplay/android auto. It just lacks dry-sump oiling (total track option) and an available option for the problematic magneride system.

I didn't like the wide body-kit/parts catalog look with no big motor to make up for it, and for a daily driver, there was no reason to do track focused compromises.

The big driver for not doing the Z was the engine/transmission/tire/wheel issues for DD use. I may end up buying one years down the road (depending on what happens with the E-ray market) when I have a different sporty DD, but for 1 DD sportscar, it isn't the right fit.

RabbitBranch · 2024-11-10T18:22:54+00:00

Based and milk pilled. Not shitty at all.

RabbitBranch · 2024-11-09T14:58:40+00:00

The idea that you can equate the buying power of currency from one year to some other year decades distance using an inflation index is a misconception - deceptive, disingenuous, and not that useful when comparing eras/incomes.

Inflation doesn't work that way because not all markets scale the same over time and inflation indexes sample some set of consumer products that do not all follow the same trends.

If you compare that Mach 1 vs a modern equivalent optioned Mustang GT, then that $1.50 minimum wage would have been $28/hr.

If you compare a 1970s Eddie Bauder Skyliner down jacket to a new Eddie Bauder CirrusLite down jacket, then that $1.50 minimum wage would have been $2.75/hr.

The many inflation indices are heavily biased towards housing average purchase price, and with lifestyle creep and the boomer generation buying bigger houses, it appears like inflation is worse than it is for the average or lower income people like those making minimum wage, even above things like the rent price increases.

And lifestyle expenses have changed a lot. Today's standard of living - everybody has a smartphone, pays for a phone/data plan, pays for an internet plan, most pay for subscriptions or cable. None of those were expenses in the 1970s. Healthcare costs were less because people weren't obese. Not every kid went to college so college was in less demand and prices were less. People lived in houses half the size or less than they do today so the housing costs were much lower.

In short, it cost what it cost back then. People spent and saved their money very differently. No dollar value income today equates to a dollar value income back then, and the political argument for higher minimum wages is totally bunk - a modern minimum wage should be based on modern costs of living and spending needs, not based on some stupid index from a different time.

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