But you're reading and contributing to a social platform and gathering information from it, the way its editors and users shape it... socially. You're still using social media, even if you can't be troubled to expose an anonymous user id to consolidate your posts/comments. Who cares if you tend to a persona or not? That's not stopping you (right now) from using social media. So, no holier-than-thou, please.
The Senate Democrats didn't ask for much: they wanted to add a rider that would do something most of the country is in favor of.
Yes, most of the country wants to do something for kids whose criminal parents dragged them across the border through no fault of their own. But you're pretending that most of the country ALSO wants to make sure that more of the same - literally walking across the border with your kids in tow - isn't encouraged. Amnesty for people here illegally, with no change in what we do to prevent more of the same, begs for more of the same thing. The Senate Democrats don't want to stop pandering to a demographic they think will help them regain political power, so what they "offered" was a joke, and you know it.
Yes, they wanted to "stomp" on the Democrats, because the Democrats were acting in bad faith. As they've had pointed out to them by even liberal press outlets. Which is why Schumer folded like a cheap pup tent in the wind. He over played, and failed. Because "most of the country" doesn't want a wide-open border and an endless parade of amnesty moves because - shocking! - people just keep wandering across the border and creating more of the same problem. So the Republicans are correctly insisting that border security is tackled at the same time as any amnesty.
Blah blah evil corporate corporations with sinister corporate evil corporateness. No, the reason is entirely technical and quality-related. Which you know, but are pretending is just some side issue so you can rant about Teh Evil Corporate Corporations.
JPEG was made for photography, therefore you have no business using it for graphic design. If you do use it, it tells me you are incompetent.
But you, in all your intellectual superiority, don't have the reading comprehension to grasp the (very valid) point he just made about the real world that handles your output for things like printing. NOBODY CARES what file format you work in, archive in, render from or anything else. What matters is what you can transport to the end user or print shop in real life. Which, if you were competent yourself, you'd know.
they can't govern enough to even pass a budget with their supposed control
Not sure why we should bother contemplating anything you mutter about when you can't even muster the energy to understand how appropriation bills work as long as the senate still provides for filibustering. Consider a basic civics course before trotting out your phony condescension.
No, you can't gerrymander your way in to most of the governorships falling out of Democrat control. Those are state-wide elections. Just like senate races. But you carry on and rant about a thing you don't like (unless the Democrats are the ones doing it, in which case you're all for it).
So funny that you're willing to make that lazy (and inaccurate) accusation rather than face up to the fact that I made a point some other observers agree is relevant. Let me guess, you were going to suggest I'm a Russian shill, but you've finally realized that whole narrative has finally fallen apart under its own weight, and you're moving on to this bit of childishness. Hilarious.
If you think that BB guns and slingshots aren't one of the easiest ways to break a window while not risking your life in prison for the criminal mis-use of an actual firearm and attempted murder, then... never mind, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Wow, really? Are you literally trying to make this a partisan issue? What the is wrong with you?!
Hey, if the shoe fits, right? There's no mistaking the corporate culture and supported politics within the companies in question. It's a mindset. It's latched on to a single political party. So, yes, it's not at all unreasonable to point out what they have in common, and how ironic it is that the party that pretends to be for the little people is the one that so often treats them with such disdain. It's why the Democrats lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters. Companies like the ones in question threw all of their weight and their cultural influence behind a candidate that called millions of women "irredeemably deplorable" humans while she and her husband enriched themselves to the tune of millions of dollars selling political access to people just like the ones running the companies that hire those buses. So, yeah, it's a fair observation because it neatly exposes the hypocrisy.
So what you're saying is that your own local officials that you elected to office handled the whole thing very badly because they couldn't be troubled to look into how this sort of thing works. But at least you did get around to telling us you're personally the best and brightest.
The general idea is to REDUCE the number of things that a person flying with passengers in a can in the air has to think about in an emergency, under stress in low visibility conditions when the aircraft has lost GPS or other critical systems and the baby in the back seat is screaming because of ear pain from required rapid altitude changes and the tower's radio system is down... but the magnetic compass is working as always, and the sectional chart has a nice big number that MATCHES THE COMPASS. Because you're going to land or die in the next 60 seconds. All of these things are designed around worst-case, high-stress possibilities (which almost never occur, but sometimes do).
that fear of non-whites which is at the core of the GOP
Oh, please. If you really think that fear of non-whites is the core of what it means to not agree with Democrats on who should hold office and why, then you need to spend perhaps one or two minutes a day actually talking to people who aren't locked up on the Democrat plantation.
And you're the one scolding other people for not understanding things?
You have your town, with local residents and businesses paying their usual taxes. Along comes the possibility of a big new employer drawing in lots of local business activity, creating new jobs and a huge new wave of tax revenue collected from employees, property taxes, local business revenue from new employees, and the taxes on that new revenue. In order to encourage all of that into happening, the locals decide to offer to collect somewhat less of some particular taxes or fees than they might otherwise, knowing that the net result is a much larger new take of tax money and economic security. Somehow you think this is money being actually taken out of your pocket. That's exactly the sort of cognitive problem that results in someone thinking that bureaucrats in Belgium know best how to handle - with uniform policies - the activities in a Frankfurt factory and the operations of a goatherd on an island in Greece.
I wonder why? You red-state folks seem to [sic] warm and welcoming...
In my experience, the people you meet in most red states are wildly more affable, warm, friendly, and polite than most you'll meet in the increasingly effete, shrill, divisive, identity-politics-obsessed wastelands of political-correctness-paralyzed lands of blue. Your comments is a sure sign that you never get out of your holier-than-thou bubble and echo chamber. Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised that the people you hate are actually a lot nicer than the people you feel you're supposed to like because they vote the way you do.
I don't understand why anyone would want their city to win this. Your taxes will go up to bring in Amazon, and that gets you... what?
Because... they're going to spend billions of dollars wherever they settle, and there will be thousands of jobs. And those people will be buying lunch, hiring plumbers, paying oceans of income and property taxes, and otherwise bumping up the regional economy in a huge way. To say nothing of the local contractors, vendors and other service providers who will along for the ride. I can't think of too many cities that wouldn't want that boost in their local economies and the ability it brings to attract a thousand other businesses into the same orbit.
The way the EU has structured things, with incentives for relocation being illegal, seems far superior.
And it's exactly that sort of control over your town's choices and economic life that makes many people absolutely recoil at the notion of EU-style nanny statism.
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Makes no difference, with respect to the point I'm making.
But you're reading and contributing to a social platform and gathering information from it, the way its editors and users shape it ... socially. You're still using social media, even if you can't be troubled to expose an anonymous user id to consolidate your posts/comments. Who cares if you tend to a persona or not? That's not stopping you (right now) from using social media. So, no holier-than-thou, please.
You're using social media right now. Right now.
The Senate Democrats didn't ask for much: they wanted to add a rider that would do something most of the country is in favor of.
Yes, most of the country wants to do something for kids whose criminal parents dragged them across the border through no fault of their own. But you're pretending that most of the country ALSO wants to make sure that more of the same - literally walking across the border with your kids in tow - isn't encouraged. Amnesty for people here illegally, with no change in what we do to prevent more of the same, begs for more of the same thing. The Senate Democrats don't want to stop pandering to a demographic they think will help them regain political power, so what they "offered" was a joke, and you know it.
Yes, they wanted to "stomp" on the Democrats, because the Democrats were acting in bad faith. As they've had pointed out to them by even liberal press outlets. Which is why Schumer folded like a cheap pup tent in the wind. He over played, and failed. Because "most of the country" doesn't want a wide-open border and an endless parade of amnesty moves because - shocking! - people just keep wandering across the border and creating more of the same problem. So the Republicans are correctly insisting that border security is tackled at the same time as any amnesty.
Sure, unless the place doing the printing doesn't want anything but JPGs or TIFs. Which is very common. You need to get out more.
And so your specific observations are ... ? Got it.
Blah blah evil corporate corporations with sinister corporate evil corporateness. No, the reason is entirely technical and quality-related. Which you know, but are pretending is just some side issue so you can rant about Teh Evil Corporate Corporations.
JPEG was made for photography, therefore you have no business using it for graphic design. If you do use it, it tells me you are incompetent.
But you, in all your intellectual superiority, don't have the reading comprehension to grasp the (very valid) point he just made about the real world that handles your output for things like printing. NOBODY CARES what file format you work in, archive in, render from or anything else. What matters is what you can transport to the end user or print shop in real life. Which, if you were competent yourself, you'd know.
they can't govern enough to even pass a budget with their supposed control
Not sure why we should bother contemplating anything you mutter about when you can't even muster the energy to understand how appropriation bills work as long as the senate still provides for filibustering. Consider a basic civics course before trotting out your phony condescension.
No, you can't gerrymander your way in to most of the governorships falling out of Democrat control. Those are state-wide elections. Just like senate races. But you carry on and rant about a thing you don't like (unless the Democrats are the ones doing it, in which case you're all for it).
So, off to lazy ad hominem instead of trying to muster the energy to address a single point made? A sure sign I was correct.
That's entirely your interpretation
I don't need to "interpret" anything ... it's his own words:
best and brightest of the local kids ... myself included.
So what you're saying is that nothing is ever the fault of a big megacorp.
No, what I'm saying is ... exactly what I said.
So funny that you're willing to make that lazy (and inaccurate) accusation rather than face up to the fact that I made a point some other observers agree is relevant. Let me guess, you were going to suggest I'm a Russian shill, but you've finally realized that whole narrative has finally fallen apart under its own weight, and you're moving on to this bit of childishness. Hilarious.
If you think that BB guns and slingshots aren't one of the easiest ways to break a window while not risking your life in prison for the criminal mis-use of an actual firearm and attempted murder, then ... never mind, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Wow, really? Are you literally trying to make this a partisan issue? What the is wrong with you?!
Hey, if the shoe fits, right? There's no mistaking the corporate culture and supported politics within the companies in question. It's a mindset. It's latched on to a single political party. So, yes, it's not at all unreasonable to point out what they have in common, and how ironic it is that the party that pretends to be for the little people is the one that so often treats them with such disdain. It's why the Democrats lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters. Companies like the ones in question threw all of their weight and their cultural influence behind a candidate that called millions of women "irredeemably deplorable" humans while she and her husband enriched themselves to the tune of millions of dollars selling political access to people just like the ones running the companies that hire those buses. So, yeah, it's a fair observation because it neatly exposes the hypocrisy.
So what you're saying is that your own local officials that you elected to office handled the whole thing very badly because they couldn't be troubled to look into how this sort of thing works. But at least you did get around to telling us you're personally the best and brightest.
The general idea is to REDUCE the number of things that a person flying with passengers in a can in the air has to think about in an emergency, under stress in low visibility conditions when the aircraft has lost GPS or other critical systems and the baby in the back seat is screaming because of ear pain from required rapid altitude changes and the tower's radio system is down ... but the magnetic compass is working as always, and the sectional chart has a nice big number that MATCHES THE COMPASS. Because you're going to land or die in the next 60 seconds. All of these things are designed around worst-case, high-stress possibilities (which almost never occur, but sometimes do).
They should just use the geographical headings instead of magnetic headings.
Except, the compass on board the airplane that needs to use the runway ... is magnetic. By definition.
I always love it when breathlessly race-fetishizing lefties lecture people about not being colorblind. Hilarious.
that fear of non-whites which is at the core of the GOP
Oh, please. If you really think that fear of non-whites is the core of what it means to not agree with Democrats on who should hold office and why, then you need to spend perhaps one or two minutes a day actually talking to people who aren't locked up on the Democrat plantation.
not because they're offered my money to do it
And you're the one scolding other people for not understanding things?
You have your town, with local residents and businesses paying their usual taxes. Along comes the possibility of a big new employer drawing in lots of local business activity, creating new jobs and a huge new wave of tax revenue collected from employees, property taxes, local business revenue from new employees, and the taxes on that new revenue. In order to encourage all of that into happening, the locals decide to offer to collect somewhat less of some particular taxes or fees than they might otherwise, knowing that the net result is a much larger new take of tax money and economic security. Somehow you think this is money being actually taken out of your pocket. That's exactly the sort of cognitive problem that results in someone thinking that bureaucrats in Belgium know best how to handle - with uniform policies - the activities in a Frankfurt factory and the operations of a goatherd on an island in Greece.
Another person who doesn't get out much.
I wonder why? You red-state folks seem to [sic] warm and welcoming...
In my experience, the people you meet in most red states are wildly more affable, warm, friendly, and polite than most you'll meet in the increasingly effete, shrill, divisive, identity-politics-obsessed wastelands of political-correctness-paralyzed lands of blue. Your comments is a sure sign that you never get out of your holier-than-thou bubble and echo chamber. Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised that the people you hate are actually a lot nicer than the people you feel you're supposed to like because they vote the way you do.
I don't understand why anyone would want their city to win this. Your taxes will go up to bring in Amazon, and that gets you... what?
Because... they're going to spend billions of dollars wherever they settle, and there will be thousands of jobs. And those people will be buying lunch, hiring plumbers, paying oceans of income and property taxes, and otherwise bumping up the regional economy in a huge way. To say nothing of the local contractors, vendors and other service providers who will along for the ride. I can't think of too many cities that wouldn't want that boost in their local economies and the ability it brings to attract a thousand other businesses into the same orbit.
The way the EU has structured things, with incentives for relocation being illegal, seems far superior.
And it's exactly that sort of control over your town's choices and economic life that makes many people absolutely recoil at the notion of EU-style nanny statism.
You know, if you cough hard enough, you might be able to dislodge that childish meme you have stuck in your head.