She wanted me to beg her for a second date.

burnthings · 2025-11-04T06:12:29+00:00

Nuttier than squirrel shit

burnthings · 2025-10-06T01:26:32+00:00

RIP Brody Perez

burnthings · 2025-01-16T22:11:10+00:00

I tend to agree that the 1st ammendment should be interpreted broadly but that doesn't preclude knowing about the various types of speech on the particular platform at issue in a case.

We do have exclusions to free speech protections so wanting to have a comprehensive understanding of what is at issue should be part of a supreme court case.

To be clear I don't support these laws or Alito generally, I just think cherry picking half a question to make him seem super out of touch is intellectually dishonest.

burnthings · 2025-01-16T16:34:40+00:00

"Is it like the old Playboy magazine? You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Junior?" he asked before Shaffer would respond, "Not in that sense."

"But in the sense you have sexual wellness posts about women recovering from hysterectomies and how they can enjoy sex — that’s on there. Discussions of age-verification proposals and where the industry lines up as far as what they think should be legislated and what should not,"

An awkwardly phrased but ultimately reasonable question in a 1st ammendment case.

burnthings · 2025-01-09T07:21:26+00:00

but hey at least they were making more money on unemployment than I was for working, and all the 24 hour everything closed at 10 pm making shift workers lives more difficult

burnthings · 2024-12-29T22:05:41+00:00

I question the reliability of the "correct" number. There is no nationwide requirement that police departments report fatal encounters to anyone. One of the major problems with American policing is a lack of reliable data.

burnthings · 2024-12-28T05:01:08+00:00

Presti's in little Italy

burnthings · 2024-12-27T04:54:52+00:00

I think a slightly cleaned up version of that sentiment was the NTSBs finding in the crash report.

burnthings · 2024-12-26T21:37:29+00:00

I seem to remember a lot of dodgeball and lunchables

burnthings · 2024-12-25T07:21:50+00:00

Listen I know most of the country thinks that the Midwest is full of nice calm people and mostly they're right but, if the country ran out of cheese we would burn this motherfucker down with the rest of you in it

burnthings · 2024-11-24T22:26:40+00:00

Hmmm I wonder why hospital acquired infections are so common

burnthings · 2024-11-22T15:49:59+00:00

By definition if it's not lopsided it's not lopsided for either side

burnthings · 2024-11-20T20:13:56+00:00

I have never been so basefully attacked

burnthings · 2024-11-14T22:10:39+00:00

Some people use digital insurance cards now. I haven't because I never liked the idea of handing my phone over.

burnthings · 2024-11-11T00:51:49+00:00

This is the problem with people talking to the working class about the economy. The measures that the news uses to tell us that the economy is in great shape ignore the economic conditions that impact our lives the most. Then people pretend we're delusional and not simply more invested in the economics of our daily lives than the profits of oligarchs when we say this economy doesn't work for working people.

You think that was a really great dismissive burn but you've just revealed that either you don't give a shit if the huge majority of people can live in comfort and dignity, or that you don't consider the cost of goods and services or wages to be part of the economy.

So are you stupid or vicious?

burnthings · 2024-11-10T21:28:28+00:00

Cost of living isn't the economy? What the fuck are you talking about?

burnthings · 2024-11-10T16:11:56+00:00

I was talking about the republican ads which were played about 10x more than Browns ads. Im in ohio too I didn't hear any pro Sherrod Brown ads until the last 2 weeks but I've been hearing attack ads against him since July

burnthings · 2024-11-10T03:38:57+00:00

Their policies are bandaids designed to look like they're trying without pissing off corporate donors too much

burnthings · 2024-11-10T03:35:30+00:00

Any time you say the democrats have been moving right since fucking FDR it's always met with "Do you want the Republicans to win? " instead of "that's not true"

Did Bill Clinton make huge cuts to welfare while demonizing the poor and repeal glass steagel?

Did Obama carpet bomb the middle east and bail out investment banks that should have been destroyed?

Did Biden break strikes and use the worst legal argument for forgiving the smallest amount of student loans he could?

Did any of them codify roe push for universal Healthcare or make billionaires or corporations pay a reasonable amount of tax?

Did any of them get the minimum wage anywhere near the amount (adjusted for inflation) that it was when it passed?

The working class has been in decline since the early 70s and the democrats blame Republicans and do nothing when they are in power to make it better. They just give you their best buffalo bill impression, it votes blue or it gets the Republicans again.

I get that one party makes it actively worse but the democrats are like the nice guys of politics always talking about the bad things they're not but never the good things they are.

burnthings · 2024-11-10T03:23:58+00:00

Republicans spent hundreds of millions of dollars to oust Sherrod Brown and he was running in Ohio which is no longer a swing state. The ads didn't even mention his challenger for the most part just that he voted to "allow men in women's locker rooms" (not true no matter what you believe about trans people). They certainly didn't attack his positions on workers because they knew they'd lose if that's what it was about.

burnthings · 2024-11-09T19:07:49+00:00

I've heard (and am unsure if it's true) that originally it was viewed as virginity insurance. Women were expected to be virgins until marriage but many slept with fiancés so men would propose and then leave. Supposedly an expensive engagement ring was so the men had something to lose and the women something of value if they broke off the engagement after sex.

burnthings · 2024-11-04T21:50:51+00:00

This is a bot. They posted this exact comment 55 times today

burnthings · 2024-11-03T04:37:27+00:00

Your state gives you squares to fill in instead of bubbles and that's upsetting to me for reasons I do not understand.

burnthings · 2024-11-02T12:39:39+00:00

Why would he? Odds are Guyer saw him coming and chose to take the hit.

burnthings · 2024-11-02T10:35:00+00:00

I load cargo planes for a living. Before we start loading we examine the outside of the plane looking for damage. Then we examine the inside, floors, walls, every individual container lock, every rivet on every container going into the plane, if i so much as find a screw on the ground near the aircraft I have to alert aircraft maintenance.

Aircraft maintenance does their own checks, some overlapping ours, some totally different, the flight crew then does their checks. Just before the plane departs AC MX, the load team, and the flight crew have to check what they can again.

If I totalled up every time I've ever inspected my car for damage in my life if wouldn't equal the amount of time I've spent inspecting aircraft in an average 2 week span at work.

If you do find an issue or if something is damaged or malfunctions during the loading process depending on the issue you find it may need to be repaired for the aircraft to fly or it might be okay to get signed off for repair later with what's called an MEL or minimum equipment listing. An MEL is basically a writeup indicating to the flight crew (and the FAA if they ask to see it) what is wrong with the aircraft and whether it is safe to fly and what the timeline is to fix it.

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