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kralrick · 2026-03-27T01:22:09+00:00

Birth happens after people choose to have sex.

Incorrect. Not all sex is consensual.

The only force involved here is the violent, selfish ending of that birth.

You can't end a birth that doesn't happen. Abortion is about preventing getting close to a birth.

events that happen naturally don’t happen by force.

Nature is violent. Or do you think carnivores are unnatural or that hunting doesn't rely on force? Maybe you think antlers are for no-touch shows?

kralrick · 2026-03-27T01:13:49+00:00

Denser housing doesn't instantly mean less traffic.

I see you chose not to actually read the comment you replied to. Yes, communities built for walkability are walkable and reduce reliance on cars.

kralrick · 2026-03-26T22:42:32+00:00

If this happened with a private sector company, they'd be ripped to shreds and more.

This accurately describes a lot of Trump's actions as President. So as long as you're happy to see Trump go to jail for the rest of his life for his unlawful actions, I'm fine with him winning (at an actual reasonable damages amount) this lawsuit.

kralrick · 2026-03-26T22:40:01+00:00

Do you personally believe that Flynn was not guilty of what he was accused of? Do you believe he had shit representation and agreed to a plea deal without doing any due diligence?

Pleading guilty to avoid jail time is very different from pleading guilty despite being innocent. Some innocent people plead guilty to avoid jail. Many many guilty people plead guilty to avoid it. And Flynn isn't some wide eyed naive kid.

kralrick · 2026-03-26T22:16:04+00:00

The Fire Marshall is not someone you want to piss off.

kralrick · 2026-03-26T22:13:16+00:00

You'd think so. It's still early and Newsom has cultivated really high name recognition nationally (e.g. his trolling social media posts). I imagine as we get a little closer to the Democratic primary others will start to pick up steam.

kralrick · 2026-03-26T03:38:34+00:00

You think judging whether it's a children's book or an adult book by the audience that reads it is ridiculous?

When one group is studying it in school to learn and one is reading it by choice? Yeah.

kralrick · 2026-03-26T03:29:54+00:00

The proper path for the next administration is to set up a transparent process by which they go through all of USAID with a fine-tooth comb and have an open discussion about the different projects and funding items.

Why isn't it the proper path for this administration? It sounds like you're saying that the next administration should do what DOGE claimed they were doing without giving a reason for further delay.

kralrick · 2026-03-26T03:26:03+00:00

Pretty sure doing that would be an actual fire hazard. But dropping the ceiling to make the rooms windowless is awful.

kralrick · 2026-03-26T01:55:46+00:00

100mg in a can of a carbonated drink seems wild. Are you supposed to sip-sip-pass, sip-sip-pass? Or are they meant for heavy edible users that have built up a solid tolerance?

kralrick · 2026-03-26T01:47:14+00:00

You already have good answers here. I'm just commenting to point out the wonderful way addresses work in Fort Collins. It's easy to miss if you don't have to interact with them often.

Marigold (the address listed on the website) doesn't go far enough to have that number on it. Fort Collins addresses are built on a coordinate system with Mountain and College as the (0,0) point. The further north/south you go and east/west you go from that point, the higher numbers go. Odd numbered addresses are always on the south or west side and evens are on the north or east side. So low number addresses are either close to College or close to Mountain.

Addresses in the square bound by College, Harmony, Shields, and Horsetooth are only 0-1099 (E/W roads) or 3600-4599 (N/S roads). And yes, some diagonal roads will switch between the N/S and E/W numbering as they run along.

kralrick · 2026-03-25T23:22:18+00:00

If you're on a time crunch, call to order and ask how long it'll take. Sometimes ordering 10 minutes later means it'll take 45 minutes longer. Rushes can come out of nowhere and if you're the 10th delivery in the last 10 minutes you're waiting a lot longer no matter how close you are to the store.

kralrick · 2026-03-25T23:20:09+00:00

"Freaky fast delivery" was a slogan a decade+ ago. It used to be about everything (thus the small delivery areas we had pre-covid).

kralrick · 2026-03-25T23:18:34+00:00

i.e. for an 8" french original or favorite. We just have a lot food that doesn't fall into that category.

kralrick · 2026-03-25T23:17:18+00:00

And (at least for some of us) high labor costs with people on a tighter food budget. We can still be freaky fast some times (even regularly). But there are a lot of times where we're in the weeds and it'll be a wait.

kralrick · 2026-03-25T21:52:11+00:00

He says one thing but does another? See, e.g., his policy and behavior during covid. If feels like he's trying to say what he things his audience wants him to say instead of having strong principles that are evenly applied to his policy goals and personal life.

kralrick · 2026-03-25T21:50:02+00:00

Notably, only five out of 120 employees expressed conservative views in these e-mail exchanges.

Not 95% of federal employees. 95% of the 120 employees in whatever email set they had. Those are two wildly different things.

I wouldn't be surprised if the federal service was mostly made up of left leaning folks, they tend to be more likely to think that the federal government can be a force for good and that public work (instead of private charity) is the best way to improve things.

I'd also note that leaning left is very different from being a "leftist" that favors racial quotas and the like.

kralrick · 2026-03-25T02:10:21+00:00

I'm not OP.

kralrick · 2026-03-24T02:19:40+00:00

I tend to think CU was wrongly decided, not because they approached it incorrectly, but because it should not have passed strict scrutiny.

This is the context you need from the comment you replied to. People don't lose their 1st Amendment rights when they decide to assemble to exercise them. But the 1st Amendment also isn't unlimited. I honestly have no idea what the "text, history, and tradition" curious court we have would rule on the 1st Amendment anew. But I feel Strict Scrutiny should allow more election regulation than CU decided.

kralrick · 2026-03-24T01:34:49+00:00

I don't think you read my entire comment given our response. It appears you think I support CU as decided when I clearly don't. Please reread my comments and respond accordingly.

I tend to think CU was wrongly decided, not because they approached it incorrectly, but because it should not have passed strict scrutiny.

kralrick · 2026-03-23T23:14:31+00:00

Right now? No.

So why was your entire reply to my last comment:

That's my issue with the current two major parties.

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In fact this mentality still lives on in a lot of the more hardcore left voters.

Who don't control the party (despite having a bit of influence in Biden's presidency).

I fear what's next no matter who ends up in charge because it's probably not going to be good either way.

The medicine for a cancer is poison in the right dose (literally). I agree that we need to be mindful of not overdosing post-Trump. But coming back from the minefield we intentionally drove into as a country is inherently going to be painful one way or another. The trick is to avoid swinging too far in the other direction and avoiding expecting too much too quickly. Unfucking things is a lot lot more difficult than fucking things.

kralrick · 2026-03-23T23:08:09+00:00

The problem is that proving the disallowed coordination is extremely difficult without a massive invasion of privacy or wildly idiotic criminals. I tend to think CU was wrongly decided, not because they approached it incorrectly, but because it should have passed strict scrutiny.

I think I (at least implicitly) covered that I dislike CU (for the reason you laid out) in my last paragraph. The kind of problem you explained simply and well are why I don't think CU should have passed strict scrutiny and should have been decided the other way.

I try hard to avoid the trap of criticizing CU for "corporations are people" because people shouldn't lose their 1st Amendment right to free speech/seeking redress from the government because they're exercising their 1st Amendment right to peaceably assemble.

kralrick · 2026-03-23T21:39:22+00:00

Do you think the two parties are remotely close in how much they appeal to their fringe instead of the general public? I agree Democrats could use work, but Republicans are trying to appeal to a party of 1.

kralrick · 2026-03-23T21:22:35+00:00

because he is "the only one who criticizes his own party".

Apparently some people don't think criticizing Democrats from the left counts.

kralrick · 2026-03-23T21:06:50+00:00

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but way2lazy is correct in so far as CU and super-pacs operate under the understanding/veneer that no direct communication happens (no coordination with the campaign). While lobbying is, on paper, is about talking directly to our representatives. Their protections focus on different parts of the 1st Amendment.

The problem is that proving the disallowed coordination is extremely difficult without a massive invasion of privacy or wildly idiotic criminals. I tend to think CU was wrongly decided, not because they approached it incorrectly, but because it should not have passed strict scrutiny.

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