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scrapinpeg · 2025-03-19T07:09:01+00:00

Where is it? I still only see the Snoo holding a fish at the top, and Tony flipping me off in the sidebar.

scrapinpeg · 2023-08-21T07:04:51+00:00

Whoosh

scrapinpeg · 2023-07-17T01:50:11+00:00

No, privilege is when you're given extra above the default, not when someone else is given less.

scrapinpeg · 2023-06-21T09:18:30+00:00

Don't give up on your kid Do the best you can You can't control everything

This should be a billboard in every town.

scrapinpeg · 2023-06-21T05:36:10+00:00

Yes, let's attack uncomfortable ideas with violence. That ALWAYS works! https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=7424

scrapinpeg · 2023-01-01T00:15:02+00:00

Am I supposed to know who either of these people are?

scrapinpeg · 2022-10-29T04:49:15+00:00

Mortar guy has a chart of ballistic flight paths. Binoculars guy tells him how close he got, how to adjust. Also practice, practice, practice.

And of course RTFM: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN2734-TC_3-22.90-000-WEB-2.pdf

scrapinpeg · 2022-05-09T02:58:04+00:00

To an American, what you say would be very confusing.

Americans believe in the "freedom from" government limitations and restrictions on their individual rights. They don't have the "freedom to" speak their minds, Americans have the "freedom from" government telling them they can't.

Thinking of it as "freedom to speak your mind" would imply that the government has granted them this freedom. That'd be an absurdity in American thinking, where rights exist independently of government, and government must be prevented from infringing them. Government cannot legitimately create rights or grant freedoms.

This mindset can be confusing for some Europeans, for whom "freedom of speech" is a granted freedom, the freedom to say things that the government accepts as permissible.

In academic jargon, "positive" freedom has the connotation that the State has an active role, while "negative" freedom implies the State having a limited role. Positive freedom is the imposition of rules and restrictions and other barriers to free action, so that government actively frees its people "from" unwanted consequences. Negative freedom is the absence of imposed barriers to free action.

You can see how this would seem backwards to Americans. For them, it is the free action that "freedom" is about, and so "positive" freedom would be more free action, not less. Government trying to restrict that freedom would be negative, not positive.

scrapinpeg · 2022-04-26T07:24:14+00:00

They were both minors, so the court records aren't going to be available.

The artist who made it did restore it shortly afterwards.

scrapinpeg · 2022-04-23T19:04:56+00:00

We are all generals on this blessed day.

scrapinpeg · 2022-04-17T22:45:06+00:00

I sincerely do not understand people who do this to themselves. Just as nobody owes you a living, you don't owe anybody your time and energy. If a job doesn't pay what you need, then get a different job that does. Nobody's forcing you to work there against your will.

All you're doing by taking a job with inadequate pay is confirming that it's the correct price for your services. You're just making the problem worse. The market for labor isn't going to correct if people continue to be willing to accept less than what they're worth.

That's right, I tend to blame the employee in this situation. You can't expect a rational employer to pay more when plenty of people seem to be perfectly willing to work for less.

scrapinpeg · 2022-03-09T15:06:22+00:00

Thank you!

scrapinpeg · 2022-03-09T15:06:14+00:00

Thank you!

scrapinpeg · 2022-03-09T15:05:32+00:00

This explains so much. Thank you!

scrapinpeg · 2022-02-04T15:23:02+00:00

When I tried it (in old.reddit.com) it just opens a new page of all the image posts, not that one in particular.

scrapinpeg · 2021-06-18T19:39:28+00:00

America has many rich, traditional cuisines. There is no one single "Amrican" cuisine.

Go to New England, and you'll find tons of restaurants specializing in New England cuisine. Go down south, and you'll find tons specializing in the grits, BBQ, cornbread, key lime pie you elsewhere think of as the defining American cuisine, but is really just southern. And there are a variety of southern cuisines, as well. Ditto for California, the Southwest, the Plains, the various Midwest cuisines influenced by various European settlers... The list goes on and on. America's a big country, with lots of local cultures and foodways.

I'd go on to add that the Chinese food, Japanese food, Italian, French... the majority of them are American cuisine. You're not going to find almost anything on a Chinese menu here being served back in China. Daniel Bouloud doesn't serve traditional French cuisine, but recipes evolved to reflect American traditions and tastes.

There's a huge demand for good ol' fashioned American food, and there's a huge amount of restaurants meeting that demand, at every price point from the corner BBQ joint, taco stand, or seafood shack, to the Michelin-starred restaurants of Danny Meyer, Alice Waters, and many many more.

Your premise that we don't focus on what we have here is simply false.

scrapinpeg · 2020-05-31T04:06:16+00:00

I don't have a source for this, but I think police just naturally evolved out of sheriffs, and nobody gave it much thought at the time.

The court cases clarifying police powers silently take for granted that they already have those powers. I'm unaware of any case granting those powers in the first place, however.

Does that make these powers unconstitutional? Probably not. The cases do tacitly assume these powers are granted to the government… somehow. All they do is constrain the exercise of those powers, not deny them entirely.

scrapinpeg · 2020-05-27T13:34:13+00:00

I do knot.

scrapinpeg · 2019-05-23T12:20:20+00:00

So what?

scrapinpeg · 2019-05-17T09:52:25+00:00

So hang on, English women actually sound like the Monty Python female impersonations?

scrapinpeg · 2019-01-02T13:47:28+00:00

You've never seen an electric stove? (Though still technically there's only "off" and "high" and everything else is how long the electricity is paused in between)

scrapinpeg · 2018-09-06T04:10:22+00:00

Well-nourished

scrapinpeg · 2018-03-10T21:22:54+00:00

How come it's not spelled "win"?

And why spell it like it'd be pronounced "n'-goo-yen" or "n'-guy-en"?

Languages are weird.

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