That's why, back in the 2001 CA governer recall vote*, I voted for the porn star. My theory was we were going to get fucked no matter who won, so it might as well be by someone who really knew what they were doing.
Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Coleman.
* You voted Yes/No on the recall *AND* for whoever would be gov, if the recall succeeded. I voted no on the recall itself.
It put Democrats in a fairly bad position. Many of them, like Cruz Bustamonte, had the unenviable task of saying "Vote no on the recall! But also... vote for me for recall governor!" That ticked a number of voters off, but the politicians were screwed either way.
These being the same idiots who accuse a guy like Milo Yannopolous of being a Nazi despite the fact that he's a Jewish homosexual married to a black man
You don't that's possible? Milo didn't choose to be gay or ethnically Jewish, those are things thrust upon him. He's not Jewish, he's Roman Catholic. He just had Jewish ancestory. He certainly has a history of anti-semitic and Nazi-sympathetic actions, like donating $14.88 to a Jewish journalist, using passwords like Kristall and longknives1920, hanging out with Richard Spencer at a karaoke bar where their crowd was kicked out for doing sieg heil salutes, and more.
And I don't know how familiar you are with gay folks in general, but I can tell you that the 'self-hating gay man' is very real. He's repeatedly talked about his hatred for being gay, about how homosexuality is a sin, gay marriage is ok for him but not others, and said that "gays should get back in the closet."
It is absolutely fair to judge a person's character based on his public statements. Saying "I was just joking/trolling" after you get into trouble doesn't change that one bit.
So if I come up with a channel of butts farting 24x7 I should be allowed to coerce Charter into including that in their channel line up? Wow you are first class stupid.
Only if you can prove that your channel was rejected because it shows mostly black butts farting, while Charter is fine with including channels of white butts farting.
Biking in the rain sucks. Biking in traffic sucks. Biking to work, arriving fucking smelly like some sort of PDX bike messenger sucks. Getting hit by a car because drivers suck sucks. Going to the ER with broken bones suck. Not being able to ride a bike because your leg is broken in 2 places and you need a plate to put your collarbone sucks. "No one" seeing a thing so you can't even get a legal settlement for their stupid mistake sucks. Bikes suck.
Biking is great, but a city MUST be set up to allow for it. Bike lanes, quieter streets without as much traffic as a thoroughfare, etc. When every street is gridlocked with angry impatient drivers, and you're biking along without a lane in between traffic and parked cars... that's damned dangerous.
The life of a poor person is never having the chance to plan for tomorrow. If you're already having difficulty making the rent and putting food on the table, then you aren't going to be able to put _anything_ away for the future. If an appliance breaks and it needs to be repaired, that can totally wipe out a family that is living on the edge.
What's with all of the spergy TL;DR Boomer posts whenever it's something relating to politics I thought these people were only on the Facebook containment zone.
Most sane posters have left Slashdot, it's a place to have the same sort of surface-level "discussion" and tantrums that you find everywhere else now.
Plus, She lost to Trump, and Trump didn't even know what he was doing
Politically? How to govern? What it takes to govern? Yes, Trump is an idiot. But he knows optics. He knows how to campaign. He knows how to capture attention, and he discovered that for a large section of the country, no publicity is bad publicity, and confidence is more important than results. The emperor has no clothes, but no one cares, and reports that he has none are fake news anyway. He absolutely knows how to exploit peoples' relationship with television, even as he is exploited by it himself. So I think, to a certain extent when it came to campaigning, he knew what he was doing. The sort of self-promotion and limelight hogging that you need as a candidate, I think those are two of the very few skills he actually has.
The Russians' did the American people a favor by hacking the DNC. It exposed what most Bernie Sanders supporters suspected, but could not prove: that the DNC had already decided that their handpicked gal Hillary was going to win the primary, no matter how much support other primary candidates had
This is absolutely true. It strikes me as echoing the smoke-filled back-rooms which is how presidential candidates used to be picked. Party bosses argued who would be the best for the party, whose policies would appeal the most, etc. I think it's really the DNC's business how to pick a candidate, but it's a little scummy to tell the public one thing, then have a secret system that does another.
Now, Bernie still didn't have much of a chance because his support among southern, midwestern, and non-white voters was extremely low. He got early wins in the northeast, but once the primaries switched to the southern states, his candidacy was done. There is also not NEARLY as much support for a socialist presidential candidate (sorry, "Democratic Socialist") as the more liberal members of the Democratic Party might believe. Maybe someday, but not now. So, no, I think if the DNC was more transparent, we would have still had the same shit result.
hundreds of thousands of votes being "found" after the polls closed.
There weren't "found" votes, those were votes that kept arriving after election day because election law stated that mail-in ballots have to be post-marked on election day, not arrive by election day.
Basically, it's not just cheating that kept Bernie out of the Whitehouse. America has a ruling class.
Yes, it is pathetic how the Koch brothers were able to just buy the presidency for Jeb Bush.
Jeb wasn't really going anywhere. Once Trump was able to court Robert and Rebekah Mercer (who gave far more money in the 2016 primary than the Kochs did), he was able to secure more funding than anyone else. The Mercers wanted Ted Cruz at first, but come on. You're right in that the candidate actually DOES matter, but any successful candidate has to be able to win over the huge donors.
When it comes to climate, there's the "good enough" (a lot of people tolerate Florida or Hawaii weather), and there's the "best". Apparently my standards are higher than yours.
Wow, I live in the SF Bay Area sharing the weather with SF, and have most of my life. I agree, it's excellent, and temperate. I've also spent time in Hawaii, and that's not "tolerating" the weather there. Hawaii's weather is leagues better. Perfect temperature just about all the time, as opposed to SF's usual "It's ok, but it could stand to be a bit warmer."
That is odd. I can't stand Feinstein, but there was no way I wanted to send a more progressive candidate to the Senate. Feinstein is the lesser evil.
I don't get it either. It's like Conservatives who vote for Bernie. Yeah yeah, there are a few issues where they align, but they're totally ignoring all the left-of-mainstream-democrats stuff he talks about as well.
You are not free to require your employees to be *unethical*.
Sure you are. You are not free to require your employees to commit any actions that are *illegal.* Sure, there's a lot of overlap there, but unless you're actually breaking a contract, there are few legal repercussions if you fire someone because they feel what you require of them is unethical. There are, of course, plenty of extra-legal repercussions that businesses want to avoid, like protests, boycotts, or just a horrible reputation.
So what? He is exactly the kind of 'unqualified outsider' that is repeatedly told to shut the fuck up by 'real climate scientists'.
"Unqualified outsiders" are not told to shut the fuck up by "real researchers" if they can point out actual specific methodology errors. The STFU comes when people who DON'T know what they're talking about and can't do/understand the science throw bombs because they don't like the results but don't have objections that disprove the research.
Did you have anything to contribute to the discussion? I think you mistakenly clicked Submit a little early.
I think his point is that despite this instance of multiple errors, the methodology and model has a better track record than anything else we've tried.
Some alien broke out of prison to travel in time to stop Rosa Parks from not moving on the bus because of...racism? That's what they came up with? Future racism?
The whole plan is pretty dumb as well. What was it supposed to change? What would have happened had Rosa Parks been prevented from moving on the bus? We might have had a slightly different name in the history books, but everything else would have been about the same. It magnifies the importance of one person, when it was millions who were being oppressed at the same time. If not her, it would have been someone else.
These days, most people trying to document and shoot on film try to be careful that their very presence does not alter the behavior of those they study. This was not the case of the drone operator, whose work affected the behavior of the bears. This has been a common problem through nature documentaries through the years. Some of our misconception of lemmings, that they commit mass suicide, was propagated by producers of a 1950s Disney documentary who brought the lemmings to the edge of a cliff and pushed them off. You're not really getting realistic behavior when you stage the behavior you think should be happening (lemmings do jump into the sea when their populations grow too large, but it's not suicide, it's to swim to the other side of a channel to settle on land there).
So.. what's wrong with caring? What's wrong with having empathy? Why would lack of concern for the feelings of others be considered a good thing?
I mean, I didn't cry for the bear, it didn't "affect" me, I just rolled my eyes at the thoughtlessness of the drone operator, figure he and all of us learned a lesson, and moved on. That's not crying. It's grumbling, but I don't see anyone crying.
For example, edmunds.com long term Model 3 (I'm not sure if these guys were "Bo" or another anonymous coward "Swedish-American") for June/2018 [edmunds.com](here's a webpage snapshot [archive.org]) listed their Model 3 test car mileage as between 29.5 kWh/100miles to 36.8 kWh/100miles....that makes the Tesla Model 3 LR a ~200mile range car.
Yeah, well, I think if that was actually the case, a lot of Tesla drivers would have noticed and been raising hell. They haven't.
By default, LR gives 280 miles, and it can be unlocked to 300(ish) for distance driving. I've never bothered setting mine to long distance charging (haven't needed to yet), but so far its guestimates of how many miles a current charge would get me have been pretty accurate (I got used to doing this adding up "miles since charge" + miles estimated remaining and seeing if it approached the initial estimate when driving my much more range-limited Leaf).
"White genocide" apparently is the White Supremacists' term for interracial sex
But how is interracial sex not genocide against the race of the non-white? Oh, that's right, according to white supremacists, the "white" race is the superior one, the other race is the inferior pollutant. You could be 75% white, 25% black, and they would still call you black because the black blood "dilutes" the superior white blood. Ugh.
Yes, quite a few liberals have been trapped by it, because they've said things like "Yeah, I'm in favor of white genocide!" and promptly been banned from Twitter because Twitter's abuse team isn't as "in" on White Supremacist lingo as lefties who keep being subjected to it and who subsequently look up what it means.
I've found in general sarcasm is best left for RL, in person interactions. Sarcasm doesn't work well on the Internet and will often just blow up in your face, maybe 20 years later.
You certainly can criticize Israel or Zionism without being an antisemite
I think most Jews would agree with that. But many of the more public and vocal groups, like the Anti-Defamation League, have disagreed with that, claiming that criticism of Israel's policies or Zionism in particular is Antisemitism.
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That's why, back in the 2001 CA governer recall vote*, I voted for the porn star. My theory was we were going to get fucked no matter who won, so it might as well be by someone who really knew what they were doing.
Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Coleman.
* You voted Yes/No on the recall *AND* for whoever would be gov, if the recall succeeded. I voted no on the recall itself.
It put Democrats in a fairly bad position. Many of them, like Cruz Bustamonte, had the unenviable task of saying "Vote no on the recall! But also... vote for me for recall governor!" That ticked a number of voters off, but the politicians were screwed either way.
These being the same idiots who accuse a guy like Milo Yannopolous of being a Nazi despite the fact that he's a Jewish homosexual married to a black man
You don't that's possible? Milo didn't choose to be gay or ethnically Jewish, those are things thrust upon him. He's not Jewish, he's Roman Catholic. He just had Jewish ancestory. He certainly has a history of anti-semitic and Nazi-sympathetic actions, like donating $14.88 to a Jewish journalist, using passwords like Kristall and longknives1920, hanging out with Richard Spencer at a karaoke bar where their crowd was kicked out for doing sieg heil salutes, and more.
And I don't know how familiar you are with gay folks in general, but I can tell you that the 'self-hating gay man' is very real. He's repeatedly talked about his hatred for being gay, about how homosexuality is a sin, gay marriage is ok for him but not others, and said that "gays should get back in the closet."
It is absolutely fair to judge a person's character based on his public statements. Saying "I was just joking/trolling" after you get into trouble doesn't change that one bit.
So if I come up with a channel of butts farting 24x7 I should be allowed to coerce Charter into including that in their channel line up? Wow you are first class stupid.
Only if you can prove that your channel was rejected because it shows mostly black butts farting, while Charter is fine with including channels of white butts farting.
Biking in the rain sucks. Biking in traffic sucks. Biking to work, arriving fucking smelly like some sort of PDX bike messenger sucks. Getting hit by a car because drivers suck sucks. Going to the ER with broken bones suck. Not being able to ride a bike because your leg is broken in 2 places and you need a plate to put your collarbone sucks. "No one" seeing a thing so you can't even get a legal settlement for their stupid mistake sucks. Bikes suck.
Biking is great, but a city MUST be set up to allow for it. Bike lanes, quieter streets without as much traffic as a thoroughfare, etc. When every street is gridlocked with angry impatient drivers, and you're biking along without a lane in between traffic and parked cars... that's damned dangerous.
The life of a poor person is never having the chance to plan for tomorrow.
If you're already having difficulty making the rent and putting food on the table, then you aren't going to be able to put _anything_ away for the future. If an appliance breaks and it needs to be repaired, that can totally wipe out a family that is living on the edge.
What's with all of the spergy TL;DR Boomer posts whenever it's something relating to politics I thought these people were only on the Facebook containment zone.
Most sane posters have left Slashdot, it's a place to have the same sort of surface-level "discussion" and tantrums that you find everywhere else now.
Plus, She lost to Trump, and Trump didn't even know what he was doing
Politically? How to govern? What it takes to govern? Yes, Trump is an idiot. But he knows optics. He knows how to campaign. He knows how to capture attention, and he discovered that for a large section of the country, no publicity is bad publicity, and confidence is more important than results. The emperor has no clothes, but no one cares, and reports that he has none are fake news anyway. He absolutely knows how to exploit peoples' relationship with television, even as he is exploited by it himself. So I think, to a certain extent when it came to campaigning, he knew what he was doing. The sort of self-promotion and limelight hogging that you need as a candidate, I think those are two of the very few skills he actually has.
The Russians' did the American people a favor by hacking the DNC. It exposed what most Bernie Sanders supporters suspected, but could not prove: that the DNC had already decided that their handpicked gal Hillary was going to win the primary, no matter how much support other primary candidates had
This is absolutely true. It strikes me as echoing the smoke-filled back-rooms which is how presidential candidates used to be picked. Party bosses argued who would be the best for the party, whose policies would appeal the most, etc. I think it's really the DNC's business how to pick a candidate, but it's a little scummy to tell the public one thing, then have a secret system that does another.
Now, Bernie still didn't have much of a chance because his support among southern, midwestern, and non-white voters was extremely low. He got early wins in the northeast, but once the primaries switched to the southern states, his candidacy was done. There is also not NEARLY as much support for a socialist presidential candidate (sorry, "Democratic Socialist") as the more liberal members of the Democratic Party might believe. Maybe someday, but not now. So, no, I think if the DNC was more transparent, we would have still had the same shit result.
hundreds of thousands of votes being "found" after the polls closed.
There weren't "found" votes, those were votes that kept arriving after election day because election law stated that mail-in ballots have to be post-marked on election day, not arrive by election day.
Basically, it's not just cheating that kept Bernie out of the Whitehouse. America has a ruling class.
Yes, it is pathetic how the Koch brothers were able to just buy the presidency for Jeb Bush.
Jeb wasn't really going anywhere. Once Trump was able to court Robert and Rebekah Mercer (who gave far more money in the 2016 primary than the Kochs did), he was able to secure more funding than anyone else. The Mercers wanted Ted Cruz at first, but come on. You're right in that the candidate actually DOES matter, but any successful candidate has to be able to win over the huge donors.
When it comes to climate, there's the "good enough" (a lot of people tolerate Florida or Hawaii weather), and there's the "best". Apparently my standards are higher than yours.
Wow, I live in the SF Bay Area sharing the weather with SF, and have most of my life. I agree, it's excellent, and temperate. I've also spent time in Hawaii, and that's not "tolerating" the weather there. Hawaii's weather is leagues better. Perfect temperature just about all the time, as opposed to SF's usual "It's ok, but it could stand to be a bit warmer."
it has nothing to do with him being Jewish
It's a variation of the old "Jews control all governments" canard.
That is odd. I can't stand Feinstein, but there was no way I wanted to send a more progressive candidate to the Senate. Feinstein is the lesser evil.
I don't get it either. It's like Conservatives who vote for Bernie. Yeah yeah, there are a few issues where they align, but they're totally ignoring all the left-of-mainstream-democrats stuff he talks about as well.
Someone neglected to inform them that formulating foreign policy isn't their job.
Letting someone else make your decisions doesn't absolve you from the ethics of those decisions.
You are not free to require your employees to be *unethical*.
Sure you are. You are not free to require your employees to commit any actions that are *illegal.* Sure, there's a lot of overlap there, but unless you're actually breaking a contract, there are few legal repercussions if you fire someone because they feel what you require of them is unethical. There are, of course, plenty of extra-legal repercussions that businesses want to avoid, like protests, boycotts, or just a horrible reputation.
So what? He is exactly the kind of 'unqualified outsider' that is repeatedly told to shut the fuck up by 'real climate scientists'.
"Unqualified outsiders" are not told to shut the fuck up by "real researchers" if they can point out actual specific methodology errors. The STFU comes when people who DON'T know what they're talking about and can't do/understand the science throw bombs because they don't like the results but don't have objections that disprove the research.
Did you have anything to contribute to the discussion? I think you mistakenly clicked Submit a little early.
I think his point is that despite this instance of multiple errors, the methodology and model has a better track record than anything else we've tried.
then hold up a sign with "I hate n1ggers"
youll learn the same lesson
But probably involving fewer explosions, and a hell of a lot less Samuel L. Jackson.
Some alien broke out of prison to travel in time to stop Rosa Parks from not moving on the bus because of...racism? That's what they came up with? Future racism?
The whole plan is pretty dumb as well. What was it supposed to change? What would have happened had Rosa Parks been prevented from moving on the bus? We might have had a slightly different name in the history books, but everything else would have been about the same. It magnifies the importance of one person, when it was millions who were being oppressed at the same time. If not her, it would have been someone else.
These days, most people trying to document and shoot on film try to be careful that their very presence does not alter the behavior of those they study. This was not the case of the drone operator, whose work affected the behavior of the bears. This has been a common problem through nature documentaries through the years. Some of our misconception of lemmings, that they commit mass suicide, was propagated by producers of a 1950s Disney documentary who brought the lemmings to the edge of a cliff and pushed them off. You're not really getting realistic behavior when you stage the behavior you think should be happening (lemmings do jump into the sea when their populations grow too large, but it's not suicide, it's to swim to the other side of a channel to settle on land there).
So.. what's wrong with caring? What's wrong with having empathy? Why would lack of concern for the feelings of others be considered a good thing?
I mean, I didn't cry for the bear, it didn't "affect" me, I just rolled my eyes at the thoughtlessness of the drone operator, figure he and all of us learned a lesson, and moved on. That's not crying. It's grumbling, but I don't see anyone crying.
He's probably talking about Ontario, Oregon, a city on the Oregon/Idaho border.
For example, edmunds.com long term Model 3 (I'm not sure if these guys were "Bo" or another anonymous coward "Swedish-American") for June/2018 [edmunds.com](here's a webpage snapshot [archive.org]) listed their Model 3 test car mileage as between 29.5 kWh/100miles to 36.8 kWh/100miles....that makes the Tesla Model 3 LR a ~200mile range car.
Yeah, well, I think if that was actually the case, a lot of Tesla drivers would have noticed and been raising hell. They haven't.
By default, LR gives 280 miles, and it can be unlocked to 300(ish) for distance driving. I've never bothered setting mine to long distance charging (haven't needed to yet), but so far its guestimates of how many miles a current charge would get me have been pretty accurate (I got used to doing this adding up "miles since charge" + miles estimated remaining and seeing if it approached the initial estimate when driving my much more range-limited Leaf).
"White genocide" apparently is the White Supremacists' term for interracial sex
But how is interracial sex not genocide against the race of the non-white? Oh, that's right, according to white supremacists, the "white" race is the superior one, the other race is the inferior pollutant. You could be 75% white, 25% black, and they would still call you black because the black blood "dilutes" the superior white blood. Ugh.
Yes, quite a few liberals have been trapped by it, because they've said things like "Yeah, I'm in favor of white genocide!" and promptly been banned from Twitter because Twitter's abuse team isn't as "in" on White Supremacist lingo as lefties who keep being subjected to it and who subsequently look up what it means.
I've found in general sarcasm is best left for RL, in person interactions. Sarcasm doesn't work well on the Internet and will often just blow up in your face, maybe 20 years later.
You certainly can criticize Israel or Zionism without being an antisemite
I think most Jews would agree with that. But many of the more public and vocal groups, like the Anti-Defamation League, have disagreed with that, claiming that criticism of Israel's policies or Zionism in particular is Antisemitism.