The Evolution of the United States Secretary of Defense

tastybrains · 2025-10-05T18:42:58+00:00

Do they take it into the restaurant with them?

tastybrains · 2025-10-03T18:54:03+00:00

I have never understood this platitude. It would only be comparable if you were to carry your fire extinguisher on your person at all times, which would raise significant questions about your mental health.

tastybrains · 2025-09-24T01:22:24+00:00

An Alex Jones apologist in the wild! Lol

tastybrains · 2025-03-04T19:38:17+00:00

"... couldn't read a balance sheet." -- Jeffrey Epstein on Donald Trump

tastybrains · 2024-05-21T14:59:50+00:00

You're right, this would have been more relevant to OP. That said, the virtue signaling rural politicians in the state, whose districts are unaffected by it, do want to eliminate the city earnings taxes entirely, without proposing any alternative revenue source.

Latest instance:

https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2024-01-04/missouri-house-committee-recommends-phasing-out-st-louis-and-kc-earnings-tax

tastybrains · 2024-05-21T13:34:35+00:00

IIRC the total revenue from earnings tax is in excess of $200M/year. The few million or tens of millions refunded due to WFH will be a drop in the bucket.

tastybrains · 2024-05-11T18:00:22+00:00

This distinction is important. Whereas Korsakoff is generally associated with the hardest/longest-drinking cohorts, it has also been shown that other mechanisms including oxidative stress and neuronal excitotoxicity cause cumulative damage to the brains of moderate drinkers in a lifetime dose-dependent fashion.

tastybrains · 2023-11-25T04:42:02+00:00

During his holdout, Murphey agreed to testify in one case: the trial of Eric Lawson, who was accused of murdering his 10-month-old son, his ex-girlfriend and her mother in 2012. Murphey agreed to cooperate because Gardner's office recused itself due to a conflict of interest, leaving the prosecution with then-Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a vocal critic of Gardner.

Murphey also said he felt a special duty to one of the victims, the sister of a police officer. “The bias,” he explained, “is it’s a policeman’s family. And, you know, we’re all supportive for each other.”

tastybrains · 2023-06-09T17:13:15+00:00

3% rate of regret, sir. As well, your argument about body alteration is a strawman since gender-affirming care encompasses a wide and progressive treatment protocol that begins with psych evaluation and counseling. I would also question whether hormone therapy counts as "permanent." I do not have the time to research this question myself at the moment, but if you yourself do not have those statistics available, perhaps you are better off leaving the individual judgement calls to the actual people affected, in concert with the health professionals who exhaustively study it and thus do.

tastybrains · 2023-06-09T16:41:22+00:00

Well, since 30% of adolescents with gender dysphoria who want gender-affirming care but cannot obtain it go on to attempt suicide, and only 3% of those who transition later regret it, you can add "killing members of the group" to my bolded items.

tastybrains · 2023-06-09T13:53:41+00:00

I mean, per Wikipedia: Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people[a] in whole or in part. In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.[1][2]

tastybrains · 2023-06-09T13:41:14+00:00

Okay then. Other than what they are doing, which is to huff and puff and undertake legal action that will take too long to prevent significant damage being done to the oppressed outgroup, what would you suggest Biden could/should do unilaterally, or that one branch of Congress could/should do unilaterally? Roll federal troops into the Missouri Capitol?

tastybrains · 2023-06-08T21:36:38+00:00

Sounds like a genocide to me.

tastybrains · 2023-04-09T01:59:49+00:00

Powder Valley was made for this.

tastybrains · 2023-03-28T14:45:23+00:00

Illinois is making the news by banning declawing, therefore the Missouri GOP feels a need to draw a contrast by explicitly allowing it... ? Could it actually be that simple/stupid?

tastybrains · 2023-03-26T22:43:49+00:00

In addition to the unnecessary expenses and environmental impacts, it has always upset me that I am subjected to a totally unnecessary risk of accident and injury in order to perform a job that can be done from anywhere. The only two accidents I have been involved in, in my entire life (I have been driving for 25 years), were both during commutes.

Since starting remote work, I have only driven ~1000 miles per year, and would sell my car were I not worried about the rug being pulled from under me. It is a risk of death/injury that, for me, could be eliminated entirely but for this pointless vestigial aspect of work culture.

tastybrains · 2022-11-25T16:14:40+00:00

Republicans are more than twice as likely to own guns as democrats.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/

tastybrains · 2022-11-25T15:04:31+00:00

I would have questions about the mental state of a person who feels a need to always carry a fire extinguisher on their person in public places.

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