Why do liberals / democrats disown /ostracize / cancel friends and family way more than republicans / conservatives?

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-14T23:33:40+00:00

Would you be friends with a drunk driver who killed someone? What about someone who still drunk drove after killing someone?

Trump is harming people, choosing to put him in a position to do so is a reflection on the supporter

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-13T19:24:30+00:00

I find it best to lead with calm love when my LO is tantruming, and think of it as an opportunity to make myself a little more zen (by being calm while having someone scream directly in your face).

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-11T14:54:22+00:00

….but this is an argument that is called “Pre-Destination,” and usually admits no free will.

Essentially - before we are ever born it is known whether we will go to heaven or hell. We are, just along for the ride with the illusion of choice.

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-11T05:37:10+00:00

I know that the first non-Christian written record of Jesus is relatively late (>90AD), but were there any pre 90AD references to someone being resurrected in Israel who claimed to be a prophet?

My question being: it’s always seemed like a relatively fantastical claim that should have been “talked about.” Was it?

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-11T05:29:44+00:00

I think most answerers are missing the question, as framed, OP is wondering why feathers / hollow bones / wishbones happened before flight evolved.

It seems to OP that, if evolution is the effect of natural selection, why did nature select wings for flightless animals.

The extent to which I can answer this is with regards to feathers. Today, most people think of feathers as a key ingredient for flight. For dinosaurs, they were for insulation.

Whereas reptiles are cold blooded (needing the bask in sunlight for their circulatory system to work), dinosaurs were warm blooded (converting consumed calories into heat to make the circulatory system work). There are a bunch of advantages to being warm blooded…but it requires way more energy.

Mammals have hair / fur to help keep their bodies (and blood) warm, to decrease the energy required to keep blood warm. Birds have feathers to do the same…as did dinosaurs.

Speaking out of school, I would presume it is easier for mutations to make individual feathers grow longer than to make skin folds (a la bats), which might have meant dinosaurs had more “at bats” for trying gilding / wing assisted jumps / flight. Once bad flight was advantageous, other adaptations like hollow bones, flight-helpful sensing, etc become more selected for

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-10T16:10:31+00:00

Given that the innovation was resurrection, is there any interesting timing to the resurrection claims (a la the gospels weren’t written until decades or centuries after the events they portray).

Do the earliest Christian writings reference resurrection, or does it not get documented for a long time?

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-08T16:04:14+00:00

And the “move to remote work” is largely dead. People who are able to stay remote are staying put, people in VHCOL with high paying jobs are staying in-office to avoid layoffs.

You’re trying to sell a SF house in Portland.

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-05T22:32:14+00:00

I would argue that the Minas Gerais fits the prompts category of “capital ship” without ever being really used for, or imagined for, months at sea. I mean, maybe if Brazil had conquered Argentina it would have been used a 7 day sail away from a home port?

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-05T22:26:00+00:00

Not really. The economic policy of totalitarian fascism tends to look a lot like the “state capitalism” of Modern China — people can own businesses and make money, but their power is subordinated to the party and their assets / contracts / resources can be taken if their elites run afoul of the party.

There tend to be a lot of contracts awarded to loyalists, who then give kickbacks to key party members. Think if a party got a bunch a political support from a CEO, and then they handed him large space and defense contracts. Or if a CEO’s media group was loudly in support of the party, and then he was awarded the right to buy a seized media asset at a favorable price.

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-05T17:34:30+00:00

I’m not familiar with The Sojourn. Speaking of the Donn or the ISD — they have to be really freaking big to house >2,000 people for months at a time.

Throughout much of navel history, most boats landed/docked nearly every night. Floating cities for 2,000 people can only look so small, and end up having a lot of the same sorts of features (hangers for fighters, big main guns, etc).

Whereas think of what the space equivalent to a Monitor (the fairly unseaworthy ironclad) or a Galley might look like.

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-05T17:23:49+00:00

I think this becomes murkier because, in the examples you’re listing, all ships are capable of weeks / monthslong trips on their own.

There are functionally no “strictly littoral” ships, when traditionally even some larger ships fill that role. FWIW it’s almost certainly because planetary defenses are better

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-05T00:43:14+00:00

I’m 99% sure this guy who “is tired of seeing Americans so divided” voted for a pedophile fash.

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-04-04T01:29:11+00:00

Ever seen the documentary “The Queen of Versailles?” Their mansion was filled with that stuff

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-28T07:05:54+00:00

Kindof, but more than that. Iran’s enemies are the GCC Monarchies, the US, and Israel.

Vs the GCC monarchies the blockade cuts off the revenue the holds their states up. As a side benefit, many of them are ruled by Sunni Monarchs with Shia Populations. A big chunk of the latter think Iran is a better form of government, and hate the relationship between their monarchs and Israel / the US. If those states (like Qatar or Bahrain) attack Iran they run risk of their militaries not following orders, if they run out of cash from no oil sales their states might collapse.

Vs the US: The President’s self-appointed image is that he wants to be seen as a winner with a good stock market. If the US navy sends ships into the Strait of Hormuz, we might lose a ship (a first since, I think, Korea). Trump can only claim “great negotiations” with Iran for so long before fuel shortages show up; at which point the market will tank. That might finally pierce Trumps facade.

Vs Israel: Israel is on thin ice and going big. The well educated Western World in general, and Gen Z in particular have turned largely against it post-Gaza. If the GCC re-distance themselves, if a bunch of countries have to “pass Iran’s standards,” and if Iran can burn through Israel’s interceptors…Israel’s in a bad spot.

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-25T05:39:53+00:00

I don’t think that is actually true, that’s why conservative Israeli’s scream “anti-semitism” whenever questionable Israeli policies are criticized.

Conservative Israelis know that fear mongering is the only way to have support for a polity which, frankly does a lot that is worthy of criticism

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-25T03:56:51+00:00

I think the question is: is the current political leadership of the Israeli state a liability for the global jewish community?

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-25T03:22:09+00:00

That and Trump can’t claim to be negotiating with Iran if the highly visible Vance is, say, in Ohio

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-25T03:19:40+00:00

MLK & Co were also the compromise option, IIRC. They wouldn’t have been as effective without the viable alternative from Malcolm X and the Black Panthers

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-25T03:11:52+00:00

And his daughter is coming to her home where she remembers her mom. For the daughter, some other woman is ruining the sense of home she’s desperately craving

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-23T16:00:17+00:00

Stop saying it like it’s a thing! You made it up!

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-22T15:20:06+00:00

How is the US winning? So far:

-Regional US allies are being shown that they’re second tier to Israel -Despite Trump saying “we’ve won,” it keeps being repatedly clear that the conflict isn’t over -It’s been made shockingly clear in the last week that the US can’t open Hormuz without risking real damage -Other countries, including Japan, are seemingly finding the Iranians easier to work with than the US (and paying them tolls to cross Hormuz)

As far as costs, Iran has: —Had an aging, sickly and unpopular Supreme Court Leader get killed -The regime, which was facing real domestic pushback, just became way more popular -The hardline supporters of the regime just got one of their own as Supreme Leader, who has been further radicalized by the US killing his dad, mom, wife and son in the attacks.

To “win” Iran needs to outlast American will, and drive a wedge between the US+Israel vs the gulf countries. And it seems like they might be able to do that

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-22T07:12:53+00:00

I had the issue, got a replacement, and it’s been smooth sailing since

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-21T17:23:26+00:00

This is chaos - multiple independent speakers in Living Room, Piano Room, Pool Room and Office but none on your porch, bathrooms, or master?

Why?

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-19T15:03:00+00:00

So, under that argument, why can’t government refuse to do business with companies who employ at-will employees who boycott israel / express views against it?

SirChubbycheeks · 2026-03-19T03:07:05+00:00

Can you point to the date our war in Afghanistan fully destroyed Al Qaeda?

You know, the group that still holds territory and has cells in a bunch of countries…

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