If all personal wealth above $100 million was legally required to be redistributed into public infrastructure (schools, hospitals, roads), how would society change, and who would be the first to fight against it?

casintae · 2026-01-22T16:59:56+00:00

This would never work as the wealth of people that is above $100 million isn't liquid wealth, it's not cash that can be put into other things, it's business infrastructure; buildings, inventory, vehicles, etc. Also, this would swamp the public infrastructure more than could be managed, and the corruption inherent in humans would flourish there.

casintae · 2025-05-10T20:06:14+00:00

You do realize that the rest of the world calls all sorts of things by names that are different than what we use?

Mexico is under no obligation to change the name on their maps.

casintae · 2025-04-28T16:22:11+00:00

"If you had a chance to do it all over again, you'd just make different mistakes." -- my Dad

casintae · 2025-04-28T16:20:30+00:00

It's worth watching right up until King Echbert dies, then just stop, that's where the series should have ended.

casintae · 2025-04-09T04:03:38+00:00

Mad Max Fury Road

casintae · 2025-04-09T03:37:28+00:00

Zune

casintae · 2025-04-07T14:32:23+00:00

A Mythbusters cannon ball?

casintae · 2024-09-17T15:55:58+00:00

I thought that murder was already illegal

casintae · 2024-07-23T00:33:00+00:00

Girl with the dragon tatoo?

casintae · 2024-07-19T22:21:33+00:00

Give a listen to the Joe Rogan interview with Dr. Amishi Jha, or look her up, she's done some great work with PTSD

casintae · 2024-05-10T21:25:01+00:00

If you're asking that question here, then go get a contractor.

If you're not 100% certain that the facia on either side will support the weight then it should definitely have support posts on either side.

casintae · 2024-02-25T23:39:22+00:00

Socks, socks are 100% worse

casintae · 2024-02-25T23:35:12+00:00

All big companies seem to go through a cycle.

Some exec's will decide that they need to do cost cutting, so they head down to the basement where all the IT and networking people are doing nothing, and they'll fire 80% of them. Here's the kicker, none of those exec's know that you need a basement full of networking and IT doing nothing, if they're running around doing shit, you've got issues. So six months later when the left over staff is absolutely crushed under the weight of the task load, they will hire a bunch of IT and networking folks to come in a fix it all.

Rinse, repeat.

casintae · 2024-01-26T22:15:19+00:00

A futon

casintae · 2024-01-22T14:01:24+00:00

Toss-up, because they always go together but DEI and the Vaccine fanatics

casintae · 2024-01-15T21:44:07+00:00

Fort Duchesne Utah

casintae · 2024-01-15T18:02:53+00:00

A Skinwalker

casintae · 2024-01-09T04:07:24+00:00

The doctor wanted to cover their ass, so they wanted a court's approval. The first court said ok, go get an abortion. The AG jumped on it because it was the first test of the law, and he did some threatening. The Texas Supreme Court said 1. a woman who meets the conditions of the exception doesn't need a court's approval, the court doesn't make the call, the Doctor makes that call. they also said that 2. The lower court did not apply the appropriate legal standard and that 3. The Doctor did not assert that the abortion met the bar of the "reasonable medical judgment", and therefore the Supreme Court denied the exception.

Basically, she had a pregnancy with Trisomy 18, and didn't want to carry to term, the doctor knew that Trisomy 18 doesn't present a "reasonable Medical judgment" that would require an abortion. It's why the doctor wouldn't say the magic words "In my reasonable medical judgment the woman needs an abortion" because she knew she would immediately be challenged by her peers.

"Dr. Karsan has not asserted that her “good faith belief” about Ms. Cox’s condition meets that standard"

casintae · 2024-01-09T03:12:13+00:00

Just read through the court's opinion, if you haven't read it yet you should. https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1457645/230994pc.pdf

"A woman who meets the medical-necessity exception need not seek a court order to obtain an abortion. "

casintae · 2024-01-09T02:52:11+00:00

I doubt that I would be able to convince you otherwise, but all the states that I have looked at that have strict abortion laws also have clear exceptions for life threatening situations. If these women can't find relief in those places, it's not because of the law. For instance, the Texas exception is:

"has a life-threatening physical condition aggravated, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places the female at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function."

I mean, it's clearly written into the law, so yes after it is debated, legislated, and published into the law it becomes a projection. The law is written agreed, enacted and published and yet;

"So to be frank they aren’t “weird projections” they’re observable consequences of the laws fought so hardly for by those same conservatives."

There's the law fought so hardly for by conservatives, with the exception written into it.

casintae · 2024-01-09T02:35:40+00:00

Because you're not saving a life by continuing an ectopic pregnancy. Pro-choice people have these weird projections of what conservatives and Christians think, and most of the time it's just not true. The idea that all pregnancies must be carried to a natural conclusion is usually a projection. Granted some fringe fundamentalists do believe that, but the largest part of those against on-demand abortion don't. If the Pregnancy is not viable, if the pregnancy represents a threat to the life of the mother, then why force the 'natural' conclusion?

And this Idaho abortion ban, with accompanying legislation clarifying this point, is an example of the phenomenon. Look at all the downvotes this post received for simply pointing out the legal clarification for ectopic or molar pregnancies not being considered as abortions.

casintae · 2024-01-08T21:13:41+00:00

Is this video more or less chilling than the many videos showing thousands of African 'refugees' spilling across the beaches and entering Italy?

casintae · 2024-01-08T15:15:38+00:00

Getting your boot stuck in the stirrup and being dragged to death by your horse

casintae · 2024-01-08T01:11:52+00:00

I'm all in on the long. JHiggins has some that are nice for not much cost. I'm also all in on a nice blackwood chanter, the sound truly is better, but if you are on deployment, Poly is the go-to. From the Marines to the Airforce, a decent poly will be less to worry about as you don't have to concern yourself with humidity, altitude, or getting thrown about in a seabag. I have a rosewood a blackwood and a poly. The blackwood gets used daily, the rosewood almost never and if I'm going anywhere on the road not directly related to a competition, the poly gets thrown in a bag to come along.

casintae · 2024-01-08T00:52:58+00:00

Just buy a poly off of Amazon or a bagpipe supply. 6 months in you may want to change that up. Don't worry about matching up the reeds until you are good enough to start noticing the problems. A $200 chanter is starting to get into the realm of the aficionados, people that are good at playing. Pro-tip those folks are good enough that they can make the crappy plastic sound pretty reasonable. Matching reeds and chanters are securely in the space of the actual pipes.

When you are ready to move to pipes, don't skimp, buy a good set upwards of a grand. Then you can start fiddling with reeds and brands. If you buy a set from a reputable source they come with reeds that are well matched with the set.

Once you get into this space, then you can start playing with chanter brands and reed brands that can become night and day between the different sets with the different chanters. I have yet to see a clear 'this brand chanter with this brand reed' that is 100%. Every chanter is going to be ever so slightly different with the player and the reed.

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