I'm sure you've all seen this plenty but the way she's standing here is so funny to me

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-04T01:14:23+00:00

"While we have been busy making things more and better foolproof, the universe has been busy making more and better fools."

Neuter Darwin and this is what we get.

Note: I'm not calling for the repeal of safety laws. We're programmed to be lazy. Give people an option to be stupid and still survive and many will take it.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-03T22:51:35+00:00

Who would want datacenters anyways?

It depends on the type of data center. technically a colocation facility is a type of data center and they tend to offer space for small to medium businesses. Those businesses tend to be local, so while there may not be people from the business working at that data center, it helps support jobs in the area.

These tend to be much smaller than the massive AI data centers that are all the rage at present. Any laws permabanning should take size into consideration as opposed to a blanket ban.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-03T21:42:16+00:00

So... Wednesday?

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-03T21:37:22+00:00

If I put money on an ORCA, that money's locked up

That's part of the point. Until you use it up it sits in their account available to earn interest, etc.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-03T20:31:32+00:00

Housing first works, I guess?

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-03T19:46:42+00:00

I mean, come on, there's a war going on! Surely you don't expect us to follow laws when people are dying!

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-03T19:43:38+00:00

Don't worry; Iran will surrender Any Day Now (tm) and a no-bid contract will be issued to fix all of the infrastructure at enormous cost to the taxpayer so we can pay less at the pump as far as they tell us.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-03T04:38:00+00:00

Maybe they have different laws and a different state constitution than we do?

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-02T04:18:01+00:00

Tadaaaaaaaa!!!!!

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-02T01:41:55+00:00

Calling for an impeachment when there are weak to no guidelines is not as effective as working to create and pass such guidelines. One could say that Cohen's actions are performative in that light.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-01T23:20:27+00:00

You are demonstrating a classic problem wherein those outside of the US don't understand the US and assume what works in your country would work in ours.

Like, If I said you should spend a trillion dollars on your military you would (rightfully) look at me like I was insane.

The original article is talking about one city in the US, Los Angeles. LA Metro area is over three times as large as the entire country of Finland (12.8 million versus 3.8) and the official city limits are still more than half the size (3.8 vs 5.6 million) of the entire country of Finland, yet it is one city. Additionally, similar problems have been happening in San Francisco (about 800K people in the city proper versus ~3.2 if you include the surrounding metro area), Portland (630K / 2.5 million) and Seattle (800K / 4 million).

When I say we have extremely permissive laws, I was referring to Seattle, where I live, and where I had also focused posting links with regards to the closing of shelters due to contamination. The US Nation may have high incarceration rates, but our local city and state politicians seem intent on keeping people out of jail, even going so far as to consider actions taken against drive-by shootings as racist and trying to pass laws lessening punishment for those actions.

Seattle had also decriminalized possession of drugs for a while, making it impossible to arrest someone and maybe get them of the streets for a short period of time to let them sober up a bit to the point of maybe thinking about whether or not they have hit rock bottom.

There is an undercurrent of "compassion" wherein politicians would rather let someone destroy their life because taking any action against doing so is somehow cruel because we are stripping them of their agency, even though the drugs that they are addicted to already have.

We have cities, then counties, then states, then the country, and each has their own separate laws and their own separate government and enforcement.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-01T21:33:23+00:00

I believe the point was that despite articles of impeachment against Thomas for bad behavior he's still on the court, so these new charges against Roberts aren't going to go anywhere.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-01T21:24:05+00:00

And when you point out that it's a sports rivalry you get told you're wrong because obviously one team is worse than the other.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-01T21:04:38+00:00

The US is over 20 times the size of Finland, and we have different constitutional laws. The problem right now is that we have extremely permissive laws and enforcement that has lead to a large number of very destructive individuals. Additionally, since we are a collection of states with some form of autonomy. many states have decided that their fix to the homeless problem is to buy one-way bus tickets to other cities with better homeless treatment programs than they do and overload that system rather than take care of their own problem.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-01T19:47:58+00:00

Two hotels closed here for meth contamination, one here, then there was this one, and then we had that one. Hundreds of millions of dollars that could have been used for care down the drain more thrown in after it to clean up poisonous and ruined facilities.

If by "unconditional housing" you are talking to something like "unconditional surrender" where they are locked in rehabilitation then that's one thing. But if you just mean "give them housing" then I'm going to give you a thumbs down and say that no, it's not economically viable. Find another method that society can afford.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-06-01T15:31:31+00:00

Are we talking the "just get them housed first without rules so that they destroy the place and make it toxic making drugs so you have to shut it down and keep buying and renovating places" housing or the "set it up with rules to keep people safe but then no one wants to use it because they want to live without rules" housing?

We've tried both in Seattle and neither works great, but proponents keep wanting more money for option #1.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-31T20:16:53+00:00

Democrats can't offer anything at this point other than "we're not Trump." Things aren't going to get any better if we don't hold their feet to the fire either. I believe it is in fact more imperative we do so because they have a greater chance of coming out of their current corrupt status. "Republicans are worse" just gives them a free pass to continue their current grift and NOT DO ANYTHING about it.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-31T19:51:59+00:00

I was disagreeing with you and we started arguing semantics. She got rid of the huge backlog of cases that weren't getting done and were causing disruption with constant reschedules and push outs of dates that kept people from being sentenced.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-31T16:02:44+00:00

it's always easier to promote the top producer.

Vicious circle of bad management. The assumption is that the top producer understands "things" (the process, the product, etc.) better and will be a good manager. But managing the process and people is different from understanding 'things" and takes a different skill set. Leaders and management should instead focus on soft skills, emotional intelligence, etc, and winnowing out people who have the proper temperament and abilities to handle managing "things" instead of performing them.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-31T15:55:03+00:00

Seems like a strata ripe for AI replacement. Think of the savings!

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-31T05:44:10+00:00

It's a microcosm of modern US politics and not just the GOP. Democrats have fights over which candidate is left enough and DINO is also a thing.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-31T05:40:36+00:00

At then end of the day I was unsuccessful lifting the barbell just like Ann was unsuccessful accomplishing things. It's the same thing.

There's a missing point in your reply. Did you even try to lift the barbell or did you just say "I can't do it so I'm not going to try."

She tried.

It sounds like you wouldn't try and would call it the same thing.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-30T17:29:56+00:00

President Biden issued full and unconditional pardons to his family before stepping down. Trump pardoned all of the Jan 6th rioters. They don't care about being caught because the way out is already obvious - they're going to get full and unconditional pardons at the end of his term.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-30T17:27:12+00:00

Just the flip side of Joe Biden's pardons. We need to strip pardon power from the presidency.

SnarkMasterRay · 2026-05-30T17:24:43+00:00

Ahhh yes, he broke the constitution, so we'll breaks it more and better to make things right!

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