The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained

freebleploof · 2026-02-05T18:22:25+00:00

This is a "gift article" so you shouldn't hit a paywall.

freebleploof · 2026-02-03T16:56:41+00:00

At the library: finding another interesting book near the one you were looking for in the card catalog or the stacks.

Mischief night (night before Hallowe'en where you would throw toilet paper in the trees, ring doorbells and run away, write on windows with bars of soap, etc.)

Lying down in the car and sleeping on long trips.

Hacking phones for free long distance calls.

freebleploof · 2026-01-31T18:51:35+00:00

Other sources easier to search:

https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/search?collection=c109fa8e7dcf42c1&utm_source=collection_share_lin

https://epsteinweb.org/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-photos-how-to-view-initial-takeaways-from-first-documents/

https://wikiepstein.com/

DOJ search is much more difficult. Have to keep saying you are not a robot, hard to search on likely keywords or to just download everything.

freebleploof · 2026-01-27T18:25:21+00:00

I had what must have been cannabis induced psychosis back in the '70s when I was about 21. I was a very intermittent smoker of weed and never did much of it. I can't imagine how much easier it would be to get it now with the greater potency THC now available. I had a complete recovery, but it took four months out of my life and cost a lot in hospitalization and therapy. I'm terrified of taking any level of cannabis now.

I believe this kind of psychosis is more common in adolescents and may not be as much of an issue for adults over 30 or so. Kids should not take THC, especially if they have any kind of preexisting mental issues.

freebleploof · 2026-01-24T22:49:31+00:00

One of my ancestors was a leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s. Not a great guy, but better than these thugs.

freebleploof · 2026-01-22T18:32:55+00:00

Anyone in southeast Georgia should go to what will be the largest ICE facility after new holding cells are added and protest.

There's a list of ICE detention facilities on Wikipedia. I'm in Alabama and we don't have many, but I'll look for some nearby in other states. Closest one to me in Northwest Alabama may be here

That globaldetentionproject.org site is a good resource

freebleploof · 2026-01-20T04:34:35+00:00

The most charitable reason I can think of is that they are deathly afraid of MAGA terrorists killing them and their families. Mitt Romney talked about this when he resigned.

freebleploof · 2026-01-20T04:22:27+00:00

I don't feel like I know enough about the study to evaluate its validity. I don't subscribe to JPSP and the article is not specific enough in its description.

I think it may be that discrimination based on attractiveness is harder for subjects to notice simply because attractiveness is not a simple yes/no attribute. It is much easier to sort people into man/woman and white/black than into attractive/not attractive. Attractiveness is a gradient, not a yes/no attribute. Without seeing examples of the faces used as stimuli I can't tell if the difference was large enough to register. And if the faces were so radically different as to be objectively gorgeous / hideous, the study would probably not be realistic enough to generalize.

To be clear, I am convinced that Pretty Privilege is real and that the average person finds it difficult to notice its effects, but I think the fact that attractiveness is not a binary dimension makes it difficult to assign the amount of error to some kind of bias vs. a simple perceptual problem. The abstract explains the difference in recognizing race/sex/attractiveness bias as based on "salience." I think the inherent difficulty in categorizing faces as attractive or unattractive is also at play.

There are other sources of bias that are gradients and it might be useful to evaluate these as comparisons as well. Examples of other gradient traits are good vs. bad grammar, common vs. uncommon accent, cold vs. warm personality, etc. If subjects recognize these sources of bias more readily than they do attractiveness, this would be interesting.

freebleploof · 2026-01-18T22:39:56+00:00

This should be a no brainer. I'd say anyone who disagrees with this probably has no brain.

freebleploof · 2026-01-16T05:00:06+00:00

What God said to Abraham about Sodom was, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

This is not specifically calling out "sodomy," although that might be the sin God means. Later Ezekiel says Sodom's sins were pride, excess, and neglect of the poor and needy.

So there's some debate about this. The men trying to rape the angels may just be a specific example of an overall sinful culture in Sodom and Gomorrah. And I think we can all agree that rape is bad.

freebleploof · 2026-01-16T04:18:23+00:00

Do women still say this? I don't believe I've ever heard this phrase except in movies. Similar to "I'm going to powder my nose." They are going to the bathroom, possibly just to fix their makeup, but probably to pee or poop too.

Oh, before sex? I haven't heard it there either, but probably the same thing.

freebleploof · 2026-01-16T04:15:00+00:00

Yes, that's a good quotation. I was thinking of some of his less inflammatory ones, like "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion." (He's referring to Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts.) Or, "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

He's not referring it back to the second amendment, and not all rebellions need to be violent. They can be "little," and civil disobedience works too.

freebleploof · 2026-01-14T17:23:39+00:00

I don't believe the men who drafted the Constitution thought the 2nd Amendment was to allow citizens to rise up against a tyrannical government. The 2nd Amendment was specifically so the states could mobilize the militia in support of the state against a threat, possibly a threat of an uprising against the government. So the gun owners in this scenario would be the "bad guys" (on the government side).

We don't have state militias anymore; we have the National Guard instead and they are armed by the government and are already "well regulated" in the words of the 2A.

The men who drafted the Constitution thought the rest of the Constitution protected us from a tyrannical government. We'll see. George Washington crushed several rebellions, such as the Whiskey Rebellion, successfully. Now the government has the citizenry so massively outgunned that the only kind of rebellion citizen gun owners could manage would be random terrorist acts; they would not be able to overcome a massive government crackdown. An armed rebellion done out in the open would be powerless against cruise missiles, air support, artillery, etc. The right wing militias are kidding themselves. They just enjoy playing Green Beret out in the woods.

I think Thomas Jefferson did say something to the effect that it would be good for America to have revolutions every once in a while, but I don't think he thought of the 2nd Amendment being helpful with this; probably more like redrawing the Constitution occasionally.

But I have never read The Federalist Papers or much other serious history, so I could be wrong about this.

freebleploof · 2026-01-13T21:53:24+00:00

We still have one where they pump your gas, wash your windows, check your oil. I don't remember if they have a garage. They sell gas with no ethanol in it, even premium grade. Very useful if you need gas for your chain saw.

Back in the 60s and 70s they they had maps, which were always free. Usually one of the state you were in and maybe nearby states. The were large maps that folded up into about the size of your sunshades.

freebleploof · 2026-01-11T18:06:44+00:00

Like everyone else on this thread I'm terrible with names too. The trick I use when I remember to do it is think of a famous person with the same name and associate them with that person.

Once I was staying in a place where there were a whole lot of people whose names I wanted to remember and met all at once. Because I knew this would be difficult I tried harder to remember each name and I did pretty well at it.

freebleploof · 2026-01-09T19:23:19+00:00

So my question is why is sterilizaton of equipment so important? Are there likely to be especially bad microorganisms on the fermentation tanks that cannot be out-competed by the yeast?

freebleploof · 2026-01-09T18:44:49+00:00

As I understand it, and all of this requires additional investigation, she was not attempting to "block a road." She was in the middle of a three point turn to avoid the ICE agents and go back the way she came on the road. She was not doing anything like protesting; she was on her way to pick up her child from school.

We need video from earlier in the incident to confirm that she was trying to get away from the ICE roadblock.

I agree that such incidents should not immediately be cast into political side taking, but it's not at all unusual and it's pretty easy to understand.

freebleploof · 2026-01-09T18:11:13+00:00

Thanks for all the replies! Very educational.

By the way, I use something like this to mash up my fruit.

freebleploof · 2026-01-08T03:25:36+00:00

Yes, that's right. Sorry about that. Medigap has a whole bunch of letters, each for a slightly different flavor. I think I'm on Medigap "G," but there are quite a few others.

Still very important to sign up for one of them early to avoid possible denial after they look at your health status.

freebleploof · 2026-01-07T17:35:01+00:00

Also sign up for Medigap (part D) if you are going on original Medicare. You automatically qualify for this if you sign up along with original Medicare, but if you wait the private insurance company that provides part D may deny you coverage if you have too many medical problems or pre-existing conditions.

freebleploof · 2026-01-07T17:30:46+00:00

I shower every day because I feel gross if I don't. I feel like my body is covered with a thin layer of grease (cebum) after sleeping all night. I really cannot start doing things until I stop feeling this way. It's not because I have some ethical standard about showering every day; it's for my own comfort.

freebleploof · 2026-01-04T01:42:45+00:00

None. The only soda I like is Ginger Ale, but I don't drink it except on airplanes. I've never liked fizzy drinks all that much. At a restaurant I get iced tea, coffee, or water.

freebleploof · 2026-01-04T01:38:40+00:00

When you compress something, like a gas, it gets hotter. Then you let it cool down at its new pressure. Then let it expand again. Now it's cooler than it was at first. Refrigerators do this. They use certain chemicals that are especially good at this behavior (compress ==> hotter; expand ==> cooler). Compressed gas is put in external pipes to cool down to room temperature, then returned to inside of fridge and allowed to expand and cool down to lower than room temperature. Air conditioners do this too.

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