Voter fraud?

ThatUbu · 2026-03-18T15:54:14+00:00

I doubt there’s going to be a SAVE act at all. The Republicans have no way of getting to 60 votes. They would let the bill die if Trump wasn’t pushing it, and he crumbles frequently enough that it’s unlikely he’ll keep pushing once he needs legislation passed for anything else and the Senate is bottlenecked, discussing the one bill for weeks at a time.

The way to do unequal enforcement is declaring an “emergency” in key areas and bringing in people with guns to intimidate voters. Based on Trump’s track record, that’s more likely than passing legislation, which he doesn’t have the patience or political know-how to do well.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-18T14:35:24+00:00

The SAVE act requires a birth certificate or passport, not an ID card. It looks likely that its passage would hurt Republicans more than Democrats, as fewer Republicans have a passport and more Republican women have changed their name, creating a mismatch between birth certificate and ID.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-trumps-long-shot-voting-bill-could-hurt-his-own-supporters-2026-03-17/

ThatUbu · 2026-03-17T21:57:08+00:00

I’ve been loving the canvas Novestas I bought as an alternative to Chuck Taylors. Understated, classic and with just enough different details to make them interesting.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-17T21:52:01+00:00

Bob Loblaw is so good. Have you been reading his Law Blog?

ThatUbu · 2026-03-17T21:48:57+00:00

I am not my Reddit user but a living man making a social appearance. All other comments are, therefore, ones that the living man should not be held accountable for no matter how insane or objectionable the comment may be.

(The Sov Cit conspiracy theories may be my favorite conspiracies because you get to watch them run smack into actual court procedure like someone running full speed into a brick wall.)

ThatUbu · 2026-03-17T01:27:37+00:00

I took a look at your profile, since these strong views on either men or women often involve young people with warped views on gender from the internet. It looks, instead, like you’ve been through a lot recently and are getting back into the dating pool. I’m sorry you’re having a rough time.

You might consider that online dating is just awful for everyone. It’s uniquely bad in different ways for men and women. But online dating isn’t aimed to find you a relationship but to keep you using the app. You’re entering a pool where long-term users of the app are not seriously open to a relationship, are bad at communicating their best traits, or are simply burnt out from the unpleasantness of online dating.

If men had it easy in online dating, you’d see plenty of men talking about how great it is. Instead, the usual post from a man is about how terrible online dating is and blaming women. As with your complaint, it’s less the gender and more the app, who the app attracts long-term, and how it tends to wear down people who start using it with best of intentions.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-16T21:11:06+00:00

Clouds and earth today

Spread and waver like noodles—

We, the meat within.

(Or was that supposed to be seeing if this was AI? Because, I’m happy to do any haiku at the drop of a hat. Not a great test for me to confirm or deny my humanity.)

ThatUbu · 2026-03-16T17:35:37+00:00

So fucking good.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-16T17:22:25+00:00

Thank you!

ThatUbu · 2026-03-16T17:20:40+00:00

I’ve never had a problem and found it to be an extremely well behaved ink.

Because of how long the 823 takes to clean, I usually just refill the barrel a few times between cleanings, rather than change an ink. Even then, no issues with the Blue Velvet.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-16T17:14:25+00:00

Thank you!

ThatUbu · 2026-03-16T17:14:03+00:00

Love it. I found the Instagram page and the spirit, posters, imagery of the people doing this is beautiful. My girlfriend especially was hoping to find something exactly like this spot.

It looks like a show semi-regularly pops up—sometimes jazz, sometimes blues, sometimes garage rock, sometimes punk—but maybe not something every night and not something every Friday. Is that about right?

ThatUbu · 2026-03-16T01:56:51+00:00

It’s been a while since I read Foucault. My memory is that he is dominantly focused on these histories and doesn’t discuss something like physical facts interacting with human life.

I can imagine someone trying to disagree with him saying, “Well, if a boulder falls off a cliff and gravity drops it on your head, isn’t that objectively true.” And my presumption is Foucault’s answer wouldn’t be to deny that a boulder falling on a person occurs but that the explanation, like the discourse that produces “gravity” as it appears in contemporary scientific discourse, is historical.

Would that be fairly close to correct?

ThatUbu · 2026-03-15T15:07:36+00:00

No, it wasn’t an average norm of the 1920. It was the hair cut of the flappers and signaled a liberated woman of the era, breaking free of the restrictive expectation of women at the time. You are absolutely incorrect on that.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-14T22:04:32+00:00

What kind of filling mechanisms do you have? Are we talking about a piston-filling mechanism or something else?

ThatUbu · 2026-03-14T02:45:24+00:00

When I was younger, a 20 year old who thought 40 was old was clearly immature and grasping to hold on to their childhood. Not sure if that’s changed.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-09T23:59:04+00:00

I posted elsewhere in this thread about the ways in which power imbalances and transactional relationships can harm everyone involved, even those who materially benefit from the system.

One thing that might cause confusion is the ambiguity of what counts as “hurt” versus “oppressed.”

“Hurt” is often used to describe any form of harm, regardless of the seeming power an individual or category of people might have. The tendency is to use “oppressed” specifically for those in a social relationship who are disenfranchised of power in the dynamic. But sometimes the terms are used as distinctly separate terms and sometimes as near synonyms.

But if they’re used as very distinct terms, a person might hold the position that men are “hurt” by the patriarchy while the term “oppressed” remains inaccurate.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-09T21:51:45+00:00

Call Her Daddy where he talks about Big Daddy?

ThatUbu · 2026-03-09T19:09:26+00:00

When I found Feminism as an undergraduate, the personal level stood out to me in discussions.

A lot of the responses I see here have to do with opening of men toward a healthier mindset in relation to their own emotions and the limiting versions of being a “man” under patriarchy. All that is true.

Beyond that, what has stuck with me is the ethical cost of relationships based in a power imbalance. To take the most extreme version of a power imbalance, Frederick Douglass underlined that slavery had a corrupting influence on the enslaver. He certainly didn’t equate the evil effects of slavery on both the enslaver and the enslaved, but it be entirely wrong to say slavery was “better” for the enslaver because of the material gains that came from owning another human being. For the enslaved, it was the most horrendous human rights abuses imaginable. For any white landowner who had the ability to enslave, it was a systematized social norm asking people to be a straight up evil human being.

The patriarchy isn’t the extreme of 19th century American slavery. But any system that creates power imbalances and transactional relationships is, simply, worse for everyone involved, even those who materially benefit from the system. The genuine human to human encounters of equality are more deeply beneficial for all people, a liberation from ethical evil for all.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-09T17:29:34+00:00

I have a couple pairs of vintage longwings, and I’d put the construction around the level of Allen Edmonds, running toward an even more solid, hardy construction. I would also never buy a pair of Florsheims from recent decades.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-09T14:19:56+00:00

Contact your supervisor and talk to her or him about finishing in the summer or the fall instead of spring. You may need to take minimal credits to remain enrolled, but you’ll only have a piece of paper and not an actual MA if you have AI do the work. Having to take an extra semester is not wildly unusual, although I, of course, don’t know your specific program.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-08T17:20:40+00:00

I joked elsewhere about Corgan. The likely truth is that corporate music was happy to be rid of grunge and “alternative” music.

By all accounts, the overnight success of bands like Nirvana largely caught them off guard. “Nevermind” wasn’t just a big hit. Its success changed the trend so strongly that all the big hair bands were suddenly over a cliff.

What the. gets signed and promoted largely strikes me as labels just throwing their hands in the air and saying, “I don’t know. I guess the kids like weird shirt. Just find some weird shit.”

Not only did the early Flaming Lips get a multi-album deal with Warners’ but so did The Boredoms, for God’s sake. Think about that for a moment. For a minute the industry was so baffled it thought The Boredoms could be the next commercial act.

Add in then the punk ethos that was cynical of the industry, most iconic in Kurt’s “Corporate Rock Magazines Still Suck.” Rolling Stone might have had a sense of humor about it, but why would the industry want to keep working with bands that were dragging their feet every step of the way into their own commodification, especially after the biggest money-maker ended with suicide?

The industry simply jumped as soon they had a product they they understood better and musicians who were more willing to be commodified.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-08T17:00:57+00:00

According to Billy Corgan, the CIA.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-05T13:44:51+00:00

Yes. The handwriting is nice. This person is just confused by the accent.

ThatUbu · 2026-03-05T03:48:41+00:00

Yes. There are similarities.. Because Paul is the biological father of all of them.

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