Yes, 1986. Just like you say. :D

Source of the whole thing is Xiaomi, so there’s that. The company that leads always has the headwinds to overcome, the rest draft along behind. Not too impressive on Xiaomi’s part.

This exactly. And with this conflict in particular, question everything you read and take every step you can to find the truth. If you hew strictly to what’s true, you’re never wrong, that’s the beauty of it.

Also, in this one, you gotta learn a good bit about local and regional history, and the religions as well. This is essentially a sectarian conflict framed as a fight over territory. And with the daily news, my god. I clicked on one link where the headline was “Scholars find evidence of genocide in Gaza”, and the substance of the article was actually about how the evidence in question was falling apart under the weight of independent review and single source reporting that came from Hamas. You really have to put the work in to get to the facts.

• Morrowind
• Chrono Trigger
• The full motion Afterburner arcade machine (that thing was so much fun)
• A link to the past
• Tetris

I hope they get married.

Did you read it? My brain went to the same place yours did, but this bill would require the State Department to use diplomatic channels to promote values. Basically just pestering and chiding.

The 80s were so brown… many “Love is…” cartoons on fridges, ashtrays everywhere, framed copies of that shitty “footprints” poem in bathrooms all over the country, american cars were outshittied only by british and Italian cars, and Randy Savage was talking about cups of coffee in the big time.

I had a keen sense, even then, that it was a great decade. I think human civilization peaked in 1986. The enshittification began in 1981 (thanks Ronnie), but our momentum kept us going on the upwards trajectory until about when Baby Jessica fell down that well.

The best part about this to me, who served with the Marines, is that the whole lot of 'em are so gay adjacent that Sgt. Morgan could very plausibly be straight and that other guy is just one of his Marine buddies who wasn’t on the deployment with him and the photographer just made an assumption.

“The Navy is the straightest bunch of gay guys you’ll ever meet; the Marines are the gayest straight guys” as the saying goes.

Done. One thing that ought to be widely brought up as an argument against, besides the obvious, is that this regulation (as I understand things) is being proposed under the authority given to regulators under the Chevron deference law of I think 1984. In any case, this was thrown out by the supreme court last year, and quite correctly. The case that got it thrown out was about the ATF’s ability to make up whatever gun laws they wanted to. Dems argued that it needed to be preserved because it allows agencies to regulate things, but I asked myself if that was true, and decided that the wild deregulation of the 80s were enabled by it, and that things like net neutrality were able to be killed by appointed bureaucrats because of it. The argument for it is that lawmakers shouldn’t have to be subject experts on everything, but the argument against it is that any law too vague for a legislator to understand is unconstitutionally vague and laws should be required to be written well. Also, it’s the job of congress to make laws, not appointees of whatever President who happens to be sitting in office who’re doing as they’re bid.

At this stage, anything pushing back on executive power is a fine thing indeed.

No, putting them together is correct. If you’d done a cursory search for connections between it and the MB, you’d know this. Nothing Texas is doing has to work on me, I’ve been aware of this connection for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American–Islamic_Relations

There was another great link about this that I saw recently, and I thought I’d bookmarked it but apparently not.

As for my “most muslim countries” misstatement, solid hit. It was late and I wrote that in a hurry. I meant most middle eastern countries, and specifically the MB. The Egyptian Military overthrew Mohammad Morsi because the people had just elected an Islamist government run by the MB, who have long been banned there, for example. The fact that they’re widely known to use CAIR as their US front group, moving money through subordinate entities into our political races, they’re an honest to goodness problem. I encourage you to look into it on your own terms, because the more you look, the worse it gets.

No, a guarantee of citizenship without actually going through the process of vetting people? Just “we casually tossed you, not having done our job, so this time we’ll not do our job a second time” is a pretty terrible policy, not to mention horribly unjust to everyone waiting in line. I worked with a guy who’d spent 17 years on the process to get his sister over to the US. Hearing about all the troubles he had, even as a citizen, trying to sponsor her and do things the right way and his frustration at the politicians wanting to just let people in ahead of her gave me a little more perspective on the whole process and what’s just.

Besides, if they go through the process and become citizens, there’s no revoking it anyway.

When you dig into the MB and CAIR, it’s actually mind boggling that they have any leeway in the US at all. They’re banned in most muslim countries for being terrorists, FFS. I expect that just because Abbott did this, people are going to be coming to their defense… out of sheer ignorance.

You know, if republicans responded to the elmo sign with a Caillou sign saying “No money for PBS if they show this little asshole”, they’d have a point.

I figure that if you can drink and smoke while you play it without any real impairment of performance, it’s not a sport. It’s a game.

I thought that up to annoy golfers, but honestly I think it’s a fair yardstick.

I mean, raising kids in the Elmo days, after growing up on a Sesame Street without him? Damn right Elmo hurt me. He’s not quite Caillou bad… but he nuked the show’s enjoyability.

Let’s be honest, of all the characters on that show, Elmo absolutely IS the one who’s the enemy of the people. That little turd totally ruined that show.

If they used Big Bird, or the count, or maybe Snuffy as an example…

It ain’t US lobbyists’ fault. Plenty of homegrown toadies in the EU, and having a non-elected and pretty unaccountable EU government isn’t doing Europe any favors.

“Most Americans sound so freaking DUMB”, says the guy who doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about, and shows his rank ignorance so very confidently.

And? I know all that. OP clearly didnt. And none of that contradicts what I said.

False equivalency, eh? No. And you’re looking right past my point, which is that giving cyclists an inch leads them to take a mile. Pedestrians who don’t walk in the street following the same rules… talk about asinine arguments. The Idaho rules and their derivatives absolutely open the door to the very egregious behavior I mentioned, save for the gunshots.

So, I’ll break down why the article is nonsense. The author of the article’s premise is basically “First off, I am very smart. See? I’m an academic. That said, bikes shouldn’t have to follow the same rules. Why? I have two reasons. The first is that having to stop and start is a drag. The second is that if a bike hits a car, it doesn’t matter”.

It’s also a drag to have to stop when you’re driving. Inconvenience is irrelevant. The bike hitting a car thing, that’s absolute crap. First, a cyclist might not be hitting a car. Maybe another cyclist. Maybe a motorcycle rider. Second, depending on the nature of the crash, that car could be totalled depending on any number of factors. Considering that cyclists don’t have to carry insurance, and a whole lot of people can only afford basic liability insurance, a cyclist hitting a car could well mean some poor person having to pay out of pocket and not being able to afford it, losing their car, and that unraveling all kinds of things in their life. Lives are ruined every day in the US by people losing their transportation. Or it could just be that some asshole runs into your car, puts a dent in it and fucks your paint up, and you have to pay out of pocket because this dickhead whose judgement is missing happens to be no worse for the wear and decides to scoot rather than deal with a problem that’s “not his”. Or it gets reported properly and you have to sue this dude to get the money to fix your car before the scrapes start rusting.

I call that “it’s no big deal” attitude entitled.

But what’s more, it’s a traffic incident. It means police getting involved, it means insurance companies and the potential for the driver’s rates to go up through no fault of their own, and if the cyclist is seriously hurt or worse, it means a lot of heartache and trauma for everyone involved, maybe more people than that. Discounting the realities of how disruptive, expensive, or downright bad it can be even if it’s the cyclist running into a vehicle or the incident just being their fault is irresponsible at best and a bad faith argument.

Going back to the idaho rules specifically, those same rules would make perfect sense for a car, too. We’ve all been stuck at a red light at night with nobody coming for blocks. If the coast is clear to go, it’s clear to go, right? Well, no, the rules are in place because capital P People are a bunch of idiots, and they’d be crashing cars more than they already do if those rules weren’t there even when they don’t seem to make sense in the moment. The same is true for cyclists. As many times as cyclists have blown through their red light into my green light, I’ve seen them do that to others even more. Same of cyclists shooting in between me and my parking spot while I’m very obviously parallel parking, backing up with my blinker on and moving.
Different sets of rules for different vehicles sharing the same space are a bad idea, full stop.

I have spoken.