Which is wild, since a couple months ago most of the world would have said that Iranian leadership were murderous psychopaths for killing thousands of civilian protesters. Yet, here we are with those same leaders being the adults in the room.

And one of those bad things is your opinion in this matter.

Look, I agree with every one of your other points, but to say that “the US has been openly genociding trans people” is ludicrously stupid. Yes, some of the states are making anti-bathroom laws, and some of the states are making laws about not allowing medical/therapeutic support to minors for transitioning, and the federal government is making anti-trans executive orders about colleges… but genocide? Seriously?

Don’t water down the use of the word genocide. It’s a very serious thing that is currently happening and supported by the US, but that is not what is happening with trans people. Yet. It might happen with the way things are going, but not yet.

Most people on here gave Jewish pundits shit for calling 700 Jewish deaths in the October attack another “holocaust” and “genocide.” We give those same people shit for not calling 70,000 Palestinian deaths a genocide. Don’t be like those people.

Let’s see… this shows the ratio of money spent on gas to your income levels. That means a higher ratio is more painful when gas prices spike and less painful with a lower ratio.

9 of the top 10 states for highest/worst ratio are Republican Trumpland. 9 out of the top 10 states for lowest/best ratio are Democrat majority states (with Pennsylvania being swing).

Republicans are really playing some 4D chess by allowing Trump to start a war nobody wants that causes huge gas price spikes when it hurts their base the most… months before an election where their jobs are on the line.

Yes, but that is combined with driving longer distances for commutes and other crap.

I mean, I actually am the target demographic for all games but the final… and I’m certainly not buying tickets to any game. I was so excited to go to as many games as I could make in my home city, maybe even in other cities. Now I’m not considering going to any games at all.

There is no difference. That death sentence for rap lyrics is absolute bullshit. Killing a man because he sang a song about hurting or killing is wrong. They are both wrong. Yeah, she’s a stupid bitch who deserves to go to jail, but changing a sentence because a person who is no longer in a position of power says stupid things is wrong.

I mean, I kinda agree with this decision. It is punishing her for what she might say in the future before she says it… so even regardless of freedom of speech, it is getting into pre-crime stuff.

At the same time, I feel like trying to subvert democracy should carry a lengthy sentence.

Yep, I try to do all 3 of those, but I have a weird thing that I don’t like being “encumbered.” Watches, rings, necklaces, ties, bracelets, hats, etc all make me feel heavy and unnatural. I have to force myself to wear my wedding ring and still take it off for long periods of the day because it is almost painful.

I have a really nice laptop bag, though.

Look, I’m a huge hater of SpaceX (their people are arrogant, obnoxious assholes, even outside of Musk) and a huge hater of Musk, but there is a very big difference in the philosophies of each company to explain the difference in exploding rockets.

The rockets that explode for SpaceX are their experimental ones, where they are pushing the edge and trying new things each time. They can afford to explode because they are a private company funded by a dude with 500 billion dollars. Their philosophy is to build, test, fail, assess failure, build, test, fail, assess failure, build, test, succeed. Once they figure it out, they succeed a lot. The last time a production rocket of theirs failed was over 10 years ago.

Rocketlab is working on VC funding that is literally an order of magnitude smaller. They can’t afford to test and fail. Their philosophy is to design, analyze, bench test, redesign, re-analyze, full test, succeed. It’s a completely different way to do business that requires a lower up-front investment but longer time for return on investment.

Leadership in my company FINALLY ditched the tie a few years ago, and it is wonderful. I love the look of ties and love picking out cool ties to wear, but I hate the actual feel of wearing a tie. I have a wider neck, so shirts that fit my body are too narrow around the neck to close; and having the tie around my neck all day feels like I’m suffocating. It also adds to sweat around the collar, making me need more laundering of the shirts. I held out for a year or so on the tie, since I really feel they look more professional and polished (important for a joker like me to look more professional so people take me seriously). Then I went into a meeting with 3 VPs, a senior VP, and a smattering of GMs… and I was the only one wearing a tie. I said eff that afterward.

That is what I did. I was being honest and straightforward with using the word lockdown. Maybe your city was different, but we literally were not allowed to drive without a paper saying we were required to. I would drive to work in the worst traffic city in the country and there would be zero other cars on the road. We were literally not allowed to use public parks or hiking trails or playgrounds, even when alone. Churches were not legally allowed to hold services in person. These are all real things that happened in my city.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/limited-stay-at-home-order.aspx

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-county-orders-closure-of-bars-gyms-just-as-city-of-la-did-day-before/2329930/

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/coronavirus/governor-projects-56-of-californians-may-be-infected-with-coronavirus-in-next-8-weeks/2332217/

Ummm… there were actual penalties in some cities for congregating.

https://apnews.com/article/covid-california-church-fine-6daddfd8325e7d63b9828092a69eca8a

And places in some cities were forced to be closed, not just closed because they didn’t have customers. My city didn’t allow some businesses to open at all.

There were actual lockdowns in some cities. I had to carry a piece of paper from my company saying I was a necessary worker just so I could drive to work. They weren’t letting people drive around for a short period of time… which ended roughly when everyone realized how stupid that was. My city also didn’t allow gatherings outdoors, too. They closed all hiking trails, even to solo hikers.

Oh, come on. You’re just being pedantic. Fingerprints are allowed as evidence in probably every court in the world, as long as they have been reviewed by an expert. Yes, technically it is the expert’s testimony that is the evidence, but that is the case with most “evidence.” Prosecutors don’t just show the jurors a medical chart and tell them to interpret that evidence. They have a doctor give testimony on why that medical chart means X, Y, and Z.

(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4008377/)

8% false negative and 0.1% false positive… so 92% accurate in that study. Just slightly better than your “half the time.”

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/05/nist-study-measures-performance-accuracy-contactless-fingerprinting-tech

Computers can achieve 60% accuracy with contact-less scanning and 99.5% with contact scanning. A phone app can get 95% accuracy. Again, somewhat better than your “half the time.”

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/history-and-legacy-latent-fingerprint-black-box-study

7.5% false negative and 0.1% false positive.

https://www.uclalawreview.org/reliable-application-of-fingerprint-evidence/

FBI study showed 99.7% accuracy, and Miami Police study showed 95% accuracy.

Partial prints are much less accurate than full prints, but to say that fingerprint analysis is so inaccurate that it isn’t allowed in many courts is disingenuous. Expert testimony on fingerprint analysis is allowed in every court, which is what a normal person would mean when they say fingerprints are allowed as evidence.

Nah, he already got what he needed from these assholes. He will absolutely not lift a finger for anyone who can’t give him something in return.

I searched and couldn’t find any information about fingerprints not being admissible in any courts. I’ve found a lot of stories about how they aren’t 100% accurate (closer to 95-99 percent), but not one story about how fingerprints were not admissible.

Where are these “many courts” that don’t accept fingerprints?

Yes, this totally sounds legit and not at all like a financial loophole to pull tax free money out of an asset.

They own the club, which owns the land, so it should be legal for them to sell it to themselves; but I would bet they are pulling a tax avoidance maneuver to “rent” the stadium from themselves so they don’t have to pay as much real estate tax while writing off rental costs from the club. Likely some nuance about the club being a company held in the UK with higher taxes than the Saudi owners who do not live in the UK.

EDIT: I was wrong. This is a Financial Fair Play loophole for the sport, where they are claiming a profit from a sale to enable them to spend more money on players. This is the exact same as City having a billion dollar sponsor… who happens to be themselves. This loophole is closing next year.

“Why did the Americans attack us?”

I’ll refer you to the image of Peter Griffin next to a color coded piece of paper.

Bullshit.

Obama, Clinton, and Harris all received about the same number of votes. Trump received about the same number of votes all three times. The only anomaly was Biden getting a ton more votes.

Either Biden got all those extra votes because he’s a white man, or Biden got all those votes because a bunch of people who don’t normally vote decided Trump’s handling of Covid was dangerous. If it is the second, then all those extra people who don’t normally vote made a choice that Trump was good enough now that Covid was over. They made a choice. They decided. If it is the first option, then the point still stands that voters decided a rapist white man is better than a woman.