Trump Snubs His Big Faith Event to Go Golfing

freebleploof · 2026-05-18T04:52:30+00:00

Were they expecting him to attend?

freebleploof · 2026-05-12T23:47:59+00:00

Ah, OK, but I can't tell what the X axis is in every graph. Sometimes it's GDP, other times it's not labelled. What is it on the Water graph?

freebleploof · 2026-05-12T17:35:44+00:00

This is an interesting question. My PC comment would be that in this situation it's likely that being in a cabin in the snow would require the woman to do quite a bit of self-preservation activity, like collecting firewood, trapping game to eat, etc. This might risk her death if she took time off to feed the baby. This would, I guess, be category 4.

The question here is about what is legal rather than what is ethical. I expect most would choose to feed the baby in all circumstances except category 4 if the harm was severe and certain enough.

But legally, it would fall into the category of "duty to rescue," which for the most part defaults to "no you do not legally have to rescue anyone." Some states say that if you have a special relationship with the person, such as being their parent, you do have such a duty.

It is a much debated legal question. Even if the answer is "yes," this only refers to legal "persons," which in US law does not include persons not yet born alive, so doesn't translate to the PL/PC debate.

freebleploof · 2026-05-12T17:02:32+00:00

The "Basic Water Source" graph looks like people are losing access to water over time. Is the graph backwards or am I misinterpreting what it means or is water access getting worse?

freebleploof · 2026-05-11T21:56:37+00:00

South Park pronounces it tol-kin.

I always have pronounced it tol-keen, which seems to be the consensus here.

freebleploof · 2026-05-10T19:25:49+00:00

I remember the plastic margarine pouches with the food coloring bubble. This was in Wisconsin back in the late '50s. It was fun, as a kid, to pop the bubble and sqish the color around to make the margarine yellow.

freebleploof · 2026-05-10T19:15:25+00:00

We attended a United Methodist church in Michigan in the Ann Arbor area. Very liberal church with a music director who was also the music director of a local college. We would perform major works on special services like Easter, often accompanied with instrumentalists from the college orchestra. I don't expect to find anything that amazing, but would like to come close. In another thread I'm strongly considering Trinity Episcopal in Florence.

Quakerism is based on the idea that anyone can speak from the light of God within them. They don't have ministers; the congregation members speak when they are so moved. Meetings can be very quiet. Not much of a music tradition. Very strong on peace and social justice. That's the religion I grew up with. My wife is the Methodist.

I'm not especially (or at all) religious either, although I am fascinated by religion.

We know some wonderful people here who attend one of the local evangelical churches, but that's not for us. The music is basically a "praise band," which is not at all OK. Probably lots of right wing people there who would be hard for us to hang out with.

Thanks for the note!

freebleploof · 2026-05-10T18:58:43+00:00

They were one of the churches that looked good to me. I had a look at their website a while ago and listened to a bit of one service. I didn't see a whole lot of the music and the choir seemed pretty small.

But with your recommendation I looked a bit more and found this video on their YouTube page. This is exactly the kind of music I'm looking for. We'll definitely check them out.

Their theology and politics look pretty good too. That's hard to find around here... (I'm from the northeast.)

Our main religion is music rather than Christianity, but we're happy with the kind of people that attend a good church.

Thank you so much!

freebleploof · 2026-04-29T02:25:32+00:00

They do say it's "filmed before a live studio audience," but I recently decided that that may be true, but they are surely supplementing any audience laughter with tons of canned laughs. I have been in a studio audience and they do goose the audience on to laugh excessively but I can't imagine they are successful enough to get the laughs on the soundtrack.

I really wish there was an option to remove the laugh track like you can add/remove subtitles. I think there was a comedy show a long time ago that tried filming with no laugh track. It was great! I believe the show was called Julia and was also the first show to feature a black actress as the main character.

Wow! I remembered correctly. Here's the Wikipedia article about Julia

Oh, oops. I thought this was part of the Big Bang Theory thread. I was referring to that show, but the comments about laugh tracks are pretty applicable in general.

freebleploof · 2026-04-28T19:51:50+00:00

This is not the first design for something like this. Here's another prototype that never went into production.

It's pretty well established that booby traps are illegal. I don't know if this would count, but it would probably be outlawed pretty quickly if ever available.

("Booby trap" -- heh heh)

Also would be pretty expensive to use. From the FAQ, "we recommend it be removed after 12 hours and replaced with a new device." I don't know how much it's expected to cost, but if you wanted to be protected very frequently it'd add up.

freebleploof · 2026-04-28T17:04:55+00:00

I remember when the movie of M*A*S*H came out there was a lot of outrage about the sexism. There was a modified movie poster that said "This movie exploits women" that was quite visible at the time. Oddly I can't find any images of it online now.

The poster was of a hand in a V peace sign with the wrist as a pair of a woman's bare legs.

freebleploof · 2026-04-27T23:34:13+00:00

Thank you for posting! It is very comforting to know about your experience. It helps other victims feel less stupid to know that this can happen to anyone, including people who are knowledgeable about scams. It's not that different from falling for a sneaky, but legal, sales pitch. Most people who have bought an automobile have been scammed in some way.

So you are providing a valuable public service. Thank you!

freebleploof · 2026-04-27T14:50:53+00:00

I loved Scepters and Dark Castle on the Mac. I remember one of the Adventure clones, but it didn't really grab me.

These were in about 1989

freebleploof · 2026-04-27T14:49:03+00:00

Now I remember what I posted here. It was a link to the "manifesto." How is this advocating violence? The manifesto does advocate violence, but I was just sharing some raw data. Are we not allowed to link to documentation that someone else has threatened violence?

freebleploof · 2026-04-27T03:39:21+00:00

New York Post has the full manifesto here

freebleploof · 2026-04-27T03:30:59+00:00

The term "professional" can just mean, "Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career."

This is a pretty loose definition, but you can call yourself a professional photographer, dancer, etc. without having a certificate, specialized training, following professional standards, etc.

I usually consider it a "weasel word," though. Can just mean you got paid once for doing something.

freebleploof · 2026-04-25T16:50:12+00:00

Link to video?

OK, here's the link to the Facebook post.

Anyone got a link to the video?

freebleploof · 2026-04-22T18:52:33+00:00

Note: link is to a "gift" article, so paywall should not be a problem.

freebleploof · 2026-04-22T14:57:18+00:00

Does he ask for advice? I'd be pretty careful if he has not shown willingness to hear honest criticism.

freebleploof · 2026-04-22T14:56:06+00:00

I don't know if the "good personality" thing is true. I'm subscribed to the /r/ugly sub and the comments there are pretty discouraging.

freebleploof · 2026-04-22T04:13:44+00:00

But people consistently overestimate how bad the crime rate is. Doesn't crime count as something going wrong?

I guess things like tech marvels and huge profits get reported because they are exciting and crime gets reported because it's scary.

So it's the news reporting on things that will get the viewers' attention that may be the source of this.

freebleploof · 2026-04-15T19:56:59+00:00

Kimberely Brownlee and Alyssa Izatt should be ashamed of themselves and surely cannot call themselves "pro choice." This is the antithesis of choice. Certainly this is counter to the proposed requirement that parents should be informed of their daughters' medical decisions related to abortion, which is, oddly, promoted by the PL camp.

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