Slashdot Mirror
Domain: huffingtonpost.com
Stories and comments across the archive that link to huffingtonpost.com.
Comments · 3,628
-
He probably cost the ruling class
some actual money. That seems to be the only thing that gets anyone in trouble. That or embarrassing them in front of the rubes in the working class (ala Martin Shkreli, whose conviction everybody on the left is doing a victory lap over meanwhile the drug price is still 5000% what it was).
Anyway, talk to me when a) he does jail time and b) we see meaningful regulations to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. -
Re:We need both
Same with union money, right? No more of that either?
-
Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional
Martin Luther King Jr is an example of this (maybe not the best). He didn't personally use guns.
He was denied a concealed carry permit, but I don't think you can extrapolate any kind of aversion to guns from that....
-
Re:Going after Russia,
-
Re:I'm sorry to say,I had to look that one up.
...the 39th annual Grammy Awards, since that’s when Hillary Rodham Clinton was awarded top honors in the Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album category by The Recording Academy. Clinton won for the audio version of “It Takes A Village...
-
Re:That figures
This isn't a race to the bottom. For those of you who aren't old enough to remember air travel before deregulation, prices were about twice as high back then.
I notice that the data graph in the article STARTS with the date of deregulation. As I recall from a Consumer Reports article a decade or so back, the rate of price dropping actually was HIGHER before deregulation, which might make someone think that things would be cheaper if we had just continued that.
I like this quote: "The most rigorous analysis of the impact of deregulation was done by David B. Richards, formerly of the CAB and FAA. His research concluded, “This paper makes clear that the grant of pricing freedom to the airline industry has generally resulted in average prices being higher than they would have been had regulation continued...”" from https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
-
Really? No it doesn't.
-
Re:do you want americans to liberate your country?
Oil was not the sole reason, but a largest contributer. To say otherwise is to turn a blind eye on motivations behind military-industrial complex.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...By your logic since Iraq was next door to Iran for invading Iraq, we should invade Kazakhstan(or any neighboring state) and China to engage future warfare with Russia and North Korea, respectively? Why not invade Iran directly instead of surrounding it? Also, since Pakistan is also a border state, what's your excuse for leaving that one behind? You know, the one that provided harbor for Bin Laden?
And guess who's the biggest sponsor of terrorism now - Saudi Arabia - but we are allies with them?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.newsbud.com/2017/0...
https://www.salon.com/2016/01/...
http://www.newsweek.com/why-sa...You see, we see it as what it is. A complete bullshit by neocons running the White House.
-
Re:Venezuela is an interesting country...
It is interesting watching them put out a cryptocurrency, which is in the planning stages later in two months. Like Germany's currency reform, it has possibilities in becoming the replacement of the petrodollar, because it is essentially hackproof and immune to things like QA.
My understanding is that the petrodollar is the practise of pricing Oil in USD in order to keep it the price stable (and simplify the actual calculation of the exchange rate).
As a national currency it's problematic since even a huge oil exporter doesn't have an economy that scales directly with the price of oil, not that they're much better managing a real currency.
And do you really trust the Venezuelan government to honour the promise of 1 Petro for 1 barrel? The true exchange rate is likely to be lower, which leads to a fun scam of buying some cheap Petros and exchanging them for more expensive barrels of Oil until the government bails on the promise.
Though I suspect lack of trust in this promise means no one will buy Petros to being with (unless they think Oil will go up before Venezuela bails).
Venezuela is bashed by right for "socialism", but they have done some things well.
Venezuela's problem isn't "socialism", it's utterly corrupt and incompetent governance, socialism is just the form in which the politicians choose to express themselves.
They enacted a complete gun ban on civilian ownership, and gun violence went down by a factor of 1000. In fact, their country isn't even on the map anymore when it comes to firearms deaths in South America because of this. Maybe the US could use a death toll count reduction...?
I'd trust Venezuelan government statistics about as far as I can throw them. And since statistics are not a tangible object throwing them is an ill-defined concept.
-
Re:let student loans be dishcahnged in bankruptcy!
The issue is not whether or not you should read Greek and Roman authors - you most definitely should. The issue is whether you should go $85K into debt to go to a US university to major in philosophy.
Especially as if you did they'd probably regard Plato as a 'dead white male' who had views on sex, race and politics that were - horror of horrors - not the same as those HuffPo writers living in a blue state hold in the 21st Century.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-witte/plato-on-the-dead-white-m_b_10633342.html
Not that Plato's Republic is a good model for a government - it's always seemed to me it was modeled on Sparta. Athens is more analogous to a modern liberal democracy, though modern democracies are representative and not direct and that makes a huge difference. Sparta always seems like what would happen if the US Marine Corps was the whole of America. Athens is what would happen if UC Berkeley was the whole of America - moronic mobs and a handful of intellectuals. Some of whom will, with the benefit of hindsight be seen as very, very far ahead of their time.
Still it's interesting reading Plato and Thucydides because it's weird how far ahead of the rest of humanity they were. Criticizing them for not being modern enough is missing the point that they wrote >2400 years ago in a societies that were really, really different from anything around today. You shouldn't complain that they're not modern enough but rather marvel at how modern they are. If you read Tacitus and Cicero you definitely get the sense that they knew that the Late Roman Republic and Early Roman Empire was a major step back from the ideals of the Greeks. And they were right - things were getting worse. Rather like they are now in US academia where 'safe spaces' are seen as being more important than teaching material from 'dead white males' with views modern Millennials might find a bit shocking.
I'd say get a degree you can get a decent ROI on and then try to read up things that are interesting but not particularly commercial in your own time.
-
Re:that's not how odds work
You need to think more creatively, like this guy who parked on his neighbor's roof.
-
wrong
If your thinking of a book your wrong.
In FreeBSD's CoC context a "dead name" is the name a person had before they transitioned to another gender. Deadnaming seems to trigger the shit out of them. -
Orange juice
You see folks, I once tried burning cheese using a lighter flame. Guess what; I didn't melt! At that point, I threw out all the cheese I had and have never bought any again. It's been 7 years now.
In a similar vein I stopped buying orange juice that isn't fresh squeezed from oranges right in front of me. Basically most orange juice sold these days is stored in oxygen free vats for up to a year which removes all the flavor and then the "flavor" is reintroduced using so called flavor packs which ensures it all tastes exactly the same. I'm not a fussy eater but I'll just make my own orange juice if I want some thanks.
Yes I'm aware that a lot of stuff we eat is probably similarly disgusting but gotta start somewhere right?
-
Re:You have to know your suckers... Er, audience.
You're talking about a person who thinks a Scandinavian mixed economy model based on the honor system will work with 300+ million people
Why wouldn't it. It's not like your precious capitalism is working for half the country.
and who literally said that "If you're white, you don't know what it's like to be poor"
-
What the devil are you on about?
are you suggesting Kratom is killing folks, because it's not. The FDA says that the deaths were caused by mixing Kratom with other substances, but don't really go into details and their own data seems to prove otherwise.
This is more shitting on poor people and another extension of our racist drug policy. The goal is to fill the private prisons (which are now a convenient source of slave labor that _you_ compete with) while allowing roundabout institutionalized racism and segregation. There is literally nothing good about this. -
Re:How about you work on your Greek?
the most common victim of criminals are old people, suffering almost exclusively by our newly imported "diversity"...
Because Greece has done such a great job for its elderly population on its own. -
Re:Pats lost
Then it shouldn't be too hard to find citations. I'm not seeing anything indicating Kathy Griffin is educated or has an advanced degree.
Katie Rich seems to have attended a fine school.
Both seemed to experience pushback from both liberals and conservatives and apologized.
Contrast that with this...
or this...
or this...
Ted Nugent is still a darling of the right, Liz Trotta apologized, but faced no disciplinary action. -
Re:For the US, the picture isn't all that clear...
'they get favors' can not explain the degree of compliance. Modern media are businesses that follow their business interests. And that means they should get along with governments, advertizers, owners and they should not make themselves unpopular by associating themselves with things that are not cool or suspicious. They can make some room for courageous truthtelling , but only very carefully and people who suit the business model will make careers. People who are stubbornly pursuing truth will not make a career. They are troublemakers with a personality problem . At most they can bide their time for the occasional opportunity to squeeze something important through the filters.
This MSNBC guy for instance, he'll go places:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Another MSNBC guy who is mentioned on here (Young Turks) had to go other places:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com... -
Re:Have we seen Peak Meat?
Chicken meat, per pound, is reportedly about one-tenth the water expenditure of of beef; not a bad outcome but there are production anomalies that seem to account for the eat mor chickn phenomenon.
-
Re:Unintentionally Ironic
We paid the telcos to build out the last mile, and they pocketed over $466 BILLION (and counting) and in fact paid the money out to executives in the form of bonuses.
The updated book says $400B by the end of 2014, the old book said $200B by 2005, therefore we're giving those ratfuckers no less than $22.2B/yr.
-
Re:Oh the Humanity!
Madonna released a book called sex 25 years ago.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...If it were $30 I would have bought it. $40 maybe. Not $50.
-
Re:Very cool
Yes, but we do have sharks with laser beams.
-
Re: The brain is a quantum device
[consciousness is] an emergent property of complex systems...
That's the current common theory, yes.
...meaning science isn't yet advanced enough to understand it.
Also meaning that said theory might be entirely wrong.
We are probably now within but a single generation of being able to make computer chips that might rival the human brain in complexity.... but I am skeptical that we will see consciousness emerge from them. I'm not saying that consciousness is magic, but I suspect it takes more than just complexity.
There's actually a procedure we've done to a live human that has actively shut off of their consciousness and otherwise left them awake.
-
Re:This is why we don't trust your "experts"
ah, little Troller Boy is still upset in defense of, again, the perennial martyr of the Right, the Great Sarah Palin, the least contributory of all of the losing VP-candidates throughout history, the one who all you have to say about is over the mean liberals and leftists who say such harsh words.
How Sad that that's ALL you can offer about her. Or her drones.
It's ok, we know you have nothing. No leadership. No integrity. It's trolling all the way down for Dumb-Ass-Troll.
-
Russia's bot attacks against the USA continue.
Despite the fact that Donald Treason refuses to acknowledge Russian attacks on our country:
The #SchumerShutdown Hashtag Is Getting A Big Boost From Russian Bots
The GOP slogan is now the top trending hashtag being promoted by Russian influence operators on Twitter.By Jennifer Bendery
JORGE SILVA / REUTERS
WASHINGTON As lawmakers wage a messaging war over who caused the government shutdown, Republicans and the White House are getting a big boost in their efforts to blame Democrats for the mess â from the Russians.#SchumerShutdown - the hashtag that GOP leaders and the White House are using to accuse Democrats of causing the shutdown - on Sunday night became the top trending hashtag being promoted by Russian bots and trolls on Twitter, according to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a project led by former top national security officials from both parties.
Hereâ(TM)s a chart by Alliance for Securing Democracy, last updated at 10 p.m. Sunday, showing the #SchumerShutdown hashtag blowing up among Russia-linked influence networks.
ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY
#SchumerShutdown has surpassed #ReleaseTheMemo as the highest trending hashtag among Russian influence campaigns. The campaigned seized on that hashtag earlier this month in an effort to pressure Republican lawmakers to release a classified memo written by House GOP aides that allegedly describes abuses in FBI surveillance practices. Conservative organizations like Breitbart and the Daily Caller have given major coverage to the memo, but Democratic lawmakers have denounced it as deeply misleading.Alliance for Securing Democracy tracks activity from 600 monitored Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations. It has found that Russian bots and trolls frequently amplify content attacking the United States, conspiracy theories and misinformation.
citation provided When whining about the source try to find a single inaccurate claim. Thanks.
-
U.S.: Often angry, unstable people are leaders.
Collapse of U.S. society? More details of the collapse:
Links about Trump
from 18 different organizationsTrump moving toward starting a nuclear war:
> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)
> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!"" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)
Trump's lies:
> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims. (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)
> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)
> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)
> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)
> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"Books about Trump:
> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)
> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)
> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)
> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)
Sexual abuse:
> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)
Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:
Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 20 -
Re:Lies
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Most of the donations don't go to the thrift store. They are dumped in landfills, "recycled", or shipped to poor countries.
-
Re:Lies
You should realize that most of the donations to Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc. don't end up in the local thrift store. Most of it is bundled and shipped to the third world where it's dumped on their doorstep, destroying local markets and filling their landfills.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com... -
Sure it was
Your premiums are going up because the ACA forces everyone to buy insurance while providing zero cost controls
Fixed. Insurers have no incentive not to raise premiums by double digits every year when everyone is forced to buy their junk product by law - or pay a penalty which then underwrites the cost of their junk product for low income Americans. And pharma/device manufacturers have no reason to moderate prices when everyone has insurance to "pay" for them.
Whereas before, people were starting to opt out of insurance all together. Now you have a situation where people can't afford to go to the doctor because money they would have had to spend already went to their premiums. Thanks Obama!
The ACA was a bad law. But it was the best we could get with a right-wing backstabber who killed the public option long before Congress could vote on it
Also fixed. Also a second source for people who like to dismiss HuffPo out of hand.
The reality is that the public option, despite having no real support from Democratic party leaders, enjoyed 80% support from the public, including a majority of Republican voters. You'd have a hard time finding a more popular policy proposal. It could have easily passed, if Obama wanted it to.
He didn't want it to.
-
Re:How does that work in practice?
It's about hailing a ride from a self-driving taxi.
good luck with that. https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
-
Re:actually pinching nose?
Read this and educate yourself.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...Mcdonalds confessed to doing a lot of things WRONG.
"caution: hot, may cause burns" isn't what was needed. What was needed was for Mcdonalds to make their coffee at NORMAL temperatures that every other food joint makes it.
-
Re:Very high level of confidence in TREASON
Links about Trump
from 18 different organizationsTrump moving toward starting a nuclear war:
> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)
> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)
Trump's lies:
> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)
> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)
> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)
> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)
> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"Books about Trump:
> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)
> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)
> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)
> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)
Sexual abuse:
> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)
Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:
Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 2018, TheHill.com)
> -
Tom Ridge and Bush's terrorist color codes?
Does anyone remember former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge who resigned his job under the Bush administration? Years later Ridge wrote in his book that he was pressured to change the terrorist warning color-code system for purely domestic political purposes.
But of course, Ridge worked for an administration run by a torturing war criminal -- that could never happen again, right?
I'd guess the odds are far, far better than even that this "accident" is merely a propaganda stunt to hype up the fear of North Korea.
-
Black Panthers was perfectly acceptable
That gorillas and black software developers are not in the same category?
Of course, they are in a multitude of the same categories together:
- mammals
- hominids
- omnivorous.
The above applies to all races, but the skin color adds one more common category for Blacks. Big deal.
Somehow being called a "gorilla" is deemed offensive, which is patently ridiculous. Black panthers was fine, but gorilla is bad? Seriously? And because it is considered bad — irrationally — by someone, we can't have Google's image-recognition to work — they without special-casing? And they must continue to apologize for something?
-
The U.S. is no longer a democracy?
Apparently the U.S. is no longer a democracy. Numerous mostly hidden agencies have control, and want more control.
Links about Trump
from 18 different organizationsTrump moving toward starting a nuclear war:
> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)
> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)
Trump's lies:
> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)
> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)
> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)
> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)
> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"Books about Trump:
> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)
> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)
> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)
> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)
Sexual abuse:
> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)
Mental instability:
> Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, 2017, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a -
Re:Input latency
Oh right, I forgot you cant look past the line your side is on without snark.
I'm entirely serious. Part of the Republican agenda is control of media. Like Trump, all Republicans depend on low-information voters for much of their support. Also like Trump, the bulk of the remainder is made up of people with money who feel that the Republicans will help them keep it. Most of the ne'er-do-wells in the KKK and the like don't bother to vote, like everyone else. That's why they had to have a voting drive for Trump; it wasn't a given. Republicans consistently break more promises than Democrats, not that I'm in love with either party. Democrats depend on getting the word out, Republicans depend on shutting the word down. If my answer offends you, then go ahead and be offended. It's not going to take any skin off of any part of my body.
-
Re:Ahhh, there's the grift.
I think they were mis-quoting the figure from The Book of Broken Promises, which says that from 1992-2014 Americans have paid ~$400 billion, or roughly $4000-5000 per household, to ISPs for fiber optic broadband that never got installed.
-
Re:OK but how about the dead people
Yeah fucking right... You're more likely to be killed slipping in your bathtub than as working a police officer. They're not even remotely close to being in the top 10 most dangerous jobs even when you discount the fact that most are killed by "natural" causes like slipping in the bathtub at home or falling down some stairs. The simple fact is, it's actually one of the safest jobs you can do. If you think think otherwise, welcome to the brainwashed masses.
-
Stories about Trump
Links about Trump
Trump's lies:
In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)
In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)
President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)
10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)
Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"Sexual abuse:
The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)
Mental instability:
Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."
Lawyers 'Telling Trump What He Wants To Hear' So He Won't Fire Mueller (Dec. 31, 2017, Huffingtonpost.com) Quote:
"The president of the United States, in their view, is out of control a good deal of the time..." People who work for Trump have to adjust to his instability.8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said (June 16, 2015, 2 1/2 years ago, RollingStone.com)
Choosing weak people to be leaders:
Trump's FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission (Jan. 23, 2017, TechCrunch.com, almost one year ago)
Ajit Pai's FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order (Jan 2, 2018, ArsTechnica.com)Trump picks ghost hunter to be federal judge (Nov. 15 2017, BBC News) Quote:
"The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case."Profiting personally:
-
A few of the many stories about Trump
Links about Trump
Trump's lies:
In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)
In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)
President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)
10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)
Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"Sexual abuse:
The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)
Mental instability:
Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."
Lawyers 'Telling Trump What He Wants To Hear' So He Won't Fire Mueller (Dec. 31, 2017, Huffingtonpost.com) Quote:
"The president of the United States, in their view, is out of control a good deal of the time..." People who work for Trump have to adjust to his instability.8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said (June 16, 2015, 2 1/2 years ago, RollingStone.com)
Choosing weak people to be leaders:
Trump's FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission (Jan. 23, 2017, TechCrunch.com, almost one year ago)
Ajit Pai's FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order (Jan 2, 2018, ArsTechnica.com)Trump picks ghost hunter to be federal judge (Nov. 15 2017, BBC News) Quote:
"The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case."Profiting personally:
-
Re:Reporting on this is terrible
Thus no money for training, not enough personnel, recruits get put out in the field early and without veteran oversight, etc.
The problems are not related to personnel numbers. Places with more cops per capita have more problems with cops per capita, not less. The police are a gang, and when they are more numerous, they are more bold. Larger police departments also have more political power, and police unions also exist and reliably ask for things that cops shouldn't have, because they represent cops.
The majority of cop training happens before becoming a cop. But it is not enough. You only need two years of school before they put you on the ground with the right to arrest people if you claim you believe they have committed a crime, and the apparent right to murder if you can even semi-reasonably claim to have felt threatened. So in fact, the police do not need more money for training. What they need is to stop hiring total shitbirds like white supremacists, and those who would protect them. ("Let them fight for a little. It will make it easier to declare an unlawful assembly.")
-
Re:Proven?
Of course climate science is falsifiable.
Is it? Not according to this climate-scientist from Australia, nor according to this professor concurring with this blogger (both of them hilariously repeating in earnest this earlier satire).
It's those subtheories that you really need to falsify.
No, I don't. As I explained to you before, the burden of proof is not on me, but on those, who want to compel me — on pain of higher taxes, loss of freedoms, and even actual criminal prosecutions — to change my way of life.
-
Not proven, not provable
You put in a link that made it looked like you had a citation for how they admit that
It is quite obvious, I simply screwed up the link. This is, what I meant to include, separately from the link explaining, what falsifiability is, and why it is a requirement for real science:
1. Methods aren’t always necessarily falsifiable
Falsifiability is the idea that an assertion can be shown to be false by an experiment or an observation, and is critical to distinctions between “true science” and “pseudoscience”.
Climate models are important and complex tools for understanding the climate system. Are climate models falsifiable? Are they science? A test of falsifiability requires a model test or climate observation that shows global warming caused by increased human-produced greenhouse gases is untrue. It is difficult to propose a test of climate models in advance that is falsifiable. [emphasis mine]
And she is not alone in admitting, there is no — and there can not be — any proof. Interestingly, you chose to completely ignore the other link, which I did cite correctly, where a a DailyKos article admits to treating the question of Global Warming's existence as that of a deity. And Huffington Post concurs. (Hilariously, this entire approach was predicted by a satirist years earlier).
Interesting that you have to resort to a deceptive style of arguing: ignoring the inconvenient arguments completely, while pouncing on technicalities.
If for example the IPCC's pridictions of what was to happen in the future did not come to pass, that would be some falsifying evidence
Our whole argument in this thread is that, by the purported scientists' own admission — now properly cited — their very discipline is not falsifiable. Your babbling about IPCC is not much different from the Bible-thumpers' predictions about His wrath.
-
Re: Wrong approach, kill the nazi faggots
It's the far right Christians who keep the war on drugs going.
Wait... Obama was a far right Christian?
You'd think given his eagerness to use a pen and a phone when he couldn't get his addenda passed legislatively, he would have done more to reduce the number of DEA raids of medical marijuana dispensaries in states where it was legal.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
http://www.sacbee.com/news/sta...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.politico.com/story...
http://www.sfgate.com/politics...Take off your hate goggles for a bit and look around a bit more.
-
Re: Wrong approach, kill the nazi faggots
It's the far right Christians who keep the war on drugs going.
Wait... Obama was a far right Christian?
You'd think given his eagerness to use a pen and a phone when he couldn't get his addenda passed legislatively, he would have done more to reduce the number of DEA raids of medical marijuana dispensaries in states where it was legal.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
http://www.sacbee.com/news/sta...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.politico.com/story...
http://www.sfgate.com/politics...Take off your hate goggles for a bit and look around a bit more.
-
How to report on this.
In case you haven't seen it I rather liked Huffington Post's editorial on the subject. Basically it says "We're owned by Verizon so we win and you lose."
-
most livestock from factory farms not free range!
Feedlots where cattle are knee deep in their own shit and get so sick they have to be picked up by forklifts, pigs are raised in "gestational crates" so tight they cannot turn around, chickens that trample each other to death before being violently thrown into cages by farm hands.
The overwhelming majority of U.S. meat is raised on such farms, not living in an Amish free range paradise.
When you take into account the fact that factory farms raise 99.9 percent of chickens for meat, 97 percent of laying hens, 99 percent of turkeys, 95 percent of pigs, and 78 percent of cattle currently sold in the United States, it's shocking how much time we waste debating each other, rather than trying to actually change the system.
-
Re:Evan Greer lives in a fantasy
Sorry, Scentcone, but the requirement was:
Please name one elected official that "paid for" their action or inaction on any of the following issues...
You only named two politicians, but Nancy Pelosi is still in the House, as minority leader(a position which gives her no real consequences to the failed actions of the majority party), and received almost 80% of the vote in the most recent election, and hasn't really "paid for" it with any substantial opposition developing, while Hillary Clinton received a 3 million popular vote lead in the most recent election, and only lost due to the Electoral College, not to any particular opposition from the people.
You'd have done better to find Democrats who lost election in 2010, or even 2012, rather than focus on the two that make for the worst examples for you. And even then, you'd have to prove they really lost because of the ACA. Even Scott Brown can't really make that claim, he was bounced right after. And Boehner? Got trounced because he wasn't a fanatic and lives with the stain of his predecessor's sexual perversions being exposed. Yay?
Then, of course, we got years more of the Republican's uncontrolled deficits and out-of-touch agenda, leading to what? A technical victory with no demonstrated accomplishments? Even their tax plan makes them look bad. How do you lose by cutting taxes? Huh.
Your conjecture over the attempted repeal doesn't even give names, just asserts an outcome, which also applies to your blathering on immigration reform. We've had almost a decade on the former, and yet you can't produce a single name, and the latter goes even further back, and still nothing. You know you were asked for something real.
But you've got nothing.
PS, actually, it was Trump who appointed a person without a lengthy judicial background. Not to mention other nominees without experience.
It appears your command of the facts happens to be insufficient. You're confused about appointments and political consequences, and are not apparently aware that your conjecture was already rejected and substance demanded.
-
Re:Evan Greer lives in a fantasy
Sorry, Scentcone, but the requirement was:
Please name one elected official that "paid for" their action or inaction on any of the following issues...
You only named two politicians, but Nancy Pelosi is still in the House, as minority leader(a position which gives her no real consequences to the failed actions of the majority party), and received almost 80% of the vote in the most recent election, and hasn't really "paid for" it with any substantial opposition developing, while Hillary Clinton received a 3 million popular vote lead in the most recent election, and only lost due to the Electoral College, not to any particular opposition from the people.
You'd have done better to find Democrats who lost election in 2010, or even 2012, rather than focus on the two that make for the worst examples for you. And even then, you'd have to prove they really lost because of the ACA. Even Scott Brown can't really make that claim, he was bounced right after. And Boehner? Got trounced because he wasn't a fanatic and lives with the stain of his predecessor's sexual perversions being exposed. Yay?
Then, of course, we got years more of the Republican's uncontrolled deficits and out-of-touch agenda, leading to what? A technical victory with no demonstrated accomplishments? Even their tax plan makes them look bad. How do you lose by cutting taxes? Huh.
Your conjecture over the attempted repeal doesn't even give names, just asserts an outcome, which also applies to your blathering on immigration reform. We've had almost a decade on the former, and yet you can't produce a single name, and the latter goes even further back, and still nothing. You know you were asked for something real.
But you've got nothing.
PS, actually, it was Trump who appointed a person without a lengthy judicial background. Not to mention other nominees without experience.
It appears your command of the facts happens to be insufficient. You're confused about appointments and political consequences, and are not apparently aware that your conjecture was already rejected and substance demanded.
-
Not all parents are lazy
See here. Some folks just have to work a lot. Some folks had kids before they knew better or live in a state where birth control isn't available. It's hard to say no to sex. If it wasn't the human race would've died out.
What I'm saying is, a smart (and decent) society helps support parents. It doesn't just blame their kid's problems on them being lazy. Never forget that.