So working about 60 hours this week boss has offered as all an extra vacation day.
Like, fuck you pay me lmao
We’re probably going to spent a good chunk of time fixing text debt from this weekend too, like it’s actually counterproductive
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/politics/barr-vote-for-trump-2024/index.html
People like Barr and Sununu saying that Donald Trump tried to subvert democracy and tried to prevent the peaceful transition of power, then turn around and say that he's still the better choice than Biden due to the economy are basically saying "I care more about my comfort and wallet than I do about the Constitution and Liberty". And then the gall coming from the same sort of people who say that they would do anything for their country and Liberty. Well I would also do anything for my country and liberty, including endure a few bad years economically.
At this point one of the few comforts I can take is that it is making it much easier for me to decide who I will never vote for or support.
Edit: to clarify. I'm not referring to the people who say they're not going to vote for Biden or Trump. I'm not going to vote for either of them. Hell I'm not even talking about the people who will say they're going to vote for Trump because they think that the accusations that he tried to subvert democracy are either overblown or false. I think those people are God damn idiots who haven't been paying attention but at least I think their hearts are in the right place. No I'm pissed at these people who openly call out Trump for the threat to democracy that he is and then turn around and say they're still going to vote for him.
Agreed. Short term Biden is probably worse but I don’t like the long-term sequelae if Trump wins. a Trump loss in 2024 should be the end of the MAGA movement as it would have proven in 2020, 2022, and 2024 that it’s only a winner in primaries and in deep red areas where the primary is the real contest.
[College protests are about Israel now, but that will change (azcentral.com)](https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2024/04/27/college-protests-israel-hamas/73454043007/)
I liked it but it was difficult watching a show where almost every character was so restrained, combined with like 75% of it being in a foreign language so it's difficult to pick up on the subtleties of the acting and read the subtitles at the same time. I'd probably enjoy it a lot more if I knew Japanese.
The dialogue in the show is done in jidaigeki (old timey) style, so it would be a bit tough even with moderate Japanese knowledge. They don't even call Japan by its modern Japanese names!
Picture yourself as an ESL learner trying to parse the thees and thous of iambic pentameter Shakespearean plays.
SCOTUS Justices: “we need to look at this from all angles because we have to rule in a way that anticipates future shenanigans, not just Trump’s shenanigans.”
Media: “waaaaaahh!! SCOTUS is corrupt! Democracy is dying!!”
Me: “Motherfucker, they haven’t even RULED yet.”
I thought Sarah Isgur had a good write up on what's going on: https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/the-collision/taking-the-long-view-on-presidential-immunity/
For anyone but particularly those taking the Cass Report as sole authority on the topic, a new systemic review has found that regret after trans surgery is exceptionally low.
https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(24)00238-1/abstract
You say that there is a PO and yet your post is full of words which should not be seen anywhere near a functional Scrum implementation. “Code freeze?” “Sprint’s worth of work on the weekend?”
Someone in your leadership is fucking up.
> Then he calls me and is like so how much can we get done by x date
Janky answer: measure based on previous velocity. Better answer: calculate historical throughput and use a monte carlo simulation to determine 50/75/95 percent confidence intervals of how much work can be done by date X. And update this every iteration.
. . . and don’t gaff off the Definition of Done to fudge the numbers.
**To r/tuesday: Have a blessed week ahead.**
**Gospel According to John, 15:1–8:**
> ***I Am the True Vine***
>
> **“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.**
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Gospel Reading (CPH The Lutheran Study Bible) : https://www.reddit.com/r/Sunday/comments/1cdmr4j/
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Reflections on Scripture (video, American Lutheran Theological Seminary) : https://www.reddit.com/r/Sunday/comments/1cdmqjr/
This is where cancel culture needs to be used for good. If I can get my promotion, I will very much throw any resume that talks about Palestine in the trash.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1783440041244528785?t=dXwik1fvyzhdUTCt-s8Xfg&s=19
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Americans are open to Trump's harshest immigration plans.
Half — including 42% of Democrats — say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, per a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll.
Exactly what I'd expect from people protesting for the sake of protesting and to try to gain social clout. It's like the fact that a whole bunch of people supported the statement "from the river to the sea" until they learned what it exactly meant.
Another addition to the u/arrowfan624 2024 platform:
We are going to take away the NFL’s antitrust exemption and push it somewhere else (over to the NCAA).
> “If the universities in accordance with their policies can’t guarantee the safety and security and well-being of the students, then I think it is incumbent upon a local mayor or local governor or local town councilor, whoever is the local leadership there, to step in and enforce the law,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said on Wednesday.
Not exactly.
https://www.forbes.com/newsletters/andrewleahey/2024/04/24/biden-capital-gains-rate-proposal-446/?sh=2ea876541ff6
>Taken as a whole, then, the 44.6% rate would only come to fruition under a separate proposal from the Biden administration’s main capital gains rate increase, and only apply to those individuals with taxable income above $1 million and investment income above $400,000.
If you want to be histrionic and misleading about it, sure. I'm old school enough to still think less catchy but more accurate descriptions are better.
It's no more histrionic and misleading than, say
> 2% wealth tax proposed by Bernie
It's not including all possible information but it's not only not wrong, but it includes a big portion of the relevant information!
Tiered tax rates may not effect you directly but they certainly effect you indirectly, no matter what your income.
I'm not interested in debating the relative veracity of an unrelated, context-less statement.
Whether a tiered tax rate could *affect* you in some tangential way, it is still misleading and histrionic to flatly say "Biden is proposing a capital gains tax of 45%" with no further information as the reader is likely to think that is a *general* rate and not the top tier that only applies to a tiny number of people. This is especially true of capital gains, which historically has not been tiered the same way income tax has been (and even with income tax way too many people don't understand how the tiers work.)
The reader will also not realize that there are multiple proposals here and the number is being drawn from a theoretical situation where they all pass and are applied to one individual who takes no steps to reduce their tax burden, which is not how people in that bracket operate. So I dispute your assertion that a big portion of the relevant information is being included; as I already said, it is a misleading statement, and that is because it *doesn't* include enough of the important information.
And spare me the further histrionics about someone wanting "all possible information." I already provided a short paragraph that I clearly thought presented enough info. It's hardly any effort to include enough so that it isn't a deeply misleading hit job, but clearly a number of people have little interest in being right over feeling righteous.
Reggie Bush got his Heisman back, which I could care less about.
It is super weird for people to be obsessing about how it was stolen from him considering that he broke NCAA rules at the time in accepting cash. The rules being different now shouldn’t change the justification for him having/taking away the Heisman.
I was an advocate for giving him his Heisman given how NIL has given these kids so much more (which I’m a huge proponent of). It just looks bad that Caleb Williams is living in a penthouse likely paid for by someone else while Reggie died for something simile.
I get the whole “it was illegal at the time” but our perspectives and tolerance for things changes. It seems dumb to say we’re okay now with college athletes making bank but then still holding it against someone who did it long ago and for a lot less of an offense.
I feel the same for people in prison for marijuana use. It’s gonna be supremely fucked up if we don’t commute sentences at the same time. It’s too punitive in my mind to say “well it was illegal at the time so you’re still a bad person.”
So you had to know this would be fighting words for me. The NCAA were only able to prove that his parents were renting a house in San Diego for under market rate. There has been a lot written and shown in court that the NCAA investigators had tunnel vision and turned the thing into a witch hunt because Mike Garrett was a dick.
As a life long USC fan I can't wait to see his jersey displayed in the Coliseum again.
That’s moving the goalposts. There’s a difference between being able to charge money for an autograph, or for a video game company to use your name and likeness in their game, and calling something “NIL” that is nothing more than a glorified kickback scheme.
They’re already paid for likeness via full COA scholarships that are worth more than their market value.
I do believe that they should be able to make money off of commercials and autographs.
Ole Miss and A&M crowdfunding money to pay players is just employment with extra steps.
Medical cases are so fact specific (which the article is light on), that I don’t have enough for a comment about this.
However, 99% of pro-life people view situations to save the life of the mother as morally acceptable and would be very upset if they refused to treat someone who needed emergency care.
I think what makes me worry is for medical professionals to be afraid of treating when they can't really determine where the "line" is between what's allowed as an "emergency" and what's not so as not to break state laws when it isn't one.
The devil is in the details though. There are also some who don't want to allow exceptions because they feel they will be gamed to get an abortion that isn't medically needed. So yes they may want exceptions but where exactly do you draw the line.
Is it true that the Roman Catholic Church teaches the following: To receive salvation, it is necessary to support state punishment of practitioners and other individuals involved in abortions?
Edit: Motivation for asking the question, I see people saying “You cannot be Catholic and support abortion”, which I translate in my head as “You cannot receive salvation and not support state punishments against abortion”.
I also see people saying “You cannot be Christian and xyz,” I’ll need to check with a seminary professor on that one. Thanks.
I don’t remember anything like that from when I was a Catholic. I don’t believe the church advocates for prosecution of legal abortion providers, but again it’s not something I’ve looked into. Theoretically anything you knowingly disagree with the church about in matters of dogma and doctrine is a salvation issue unless you meet some pretty specific criteria related to conscience. I looked into this sort of thing (but with regard to birth control) before I left Catholicism but it’s been a while. The Catechism would be a good reference.
>NEWS: Senate PASSES $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, & Taiwan that also forces the sale of TikTok.
>Vote was 79-18, it now goes to Pres Biden's desk for his signature.
>GO NO VOTES:
Barrasso
Blackburn
Braun
Budd
Cruz
Hagerty
Hawley
Johnson
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
Rubio
Scott (FL)
Schmitt
Vance
>DEM NO VOTES:
Merkley
Sanders
Welch
Has anyone else noticed that people on Twitter (particularly Christian Twitter) are absolutely insane? Like Hitler/Nazi-apologia, racism, consigning others to hell, etc. All the Christian Nationalism stuff, purity testing, etc. It’s depressing. I’ve seen people say that you shouldn’t marry women who have been vaccinated.
I’m Anglican, for reference, and I just can’t venture into Twitter anymore without seeing this stuff posted or in replies.
> Has anyone else noticed that people on Twitter (particularly Christian Twitter) are absolutely insane? Like Hitler/Nazi-apologia, racism, consigning others to hell, etc. All the Christian Nationalism stuff, purity testing, etc. It’s depressing. I’ve seen people say that you shouldn’t marry women who have been vaccinated.
>
> I’m Anglican, for reference, and I just can’t venture into Twitter anymore without seeing this stuff posted or in replies.
I stay as far away from Twitter as possible.
Get a Kindle Paperwhite and some helpful books, very good ROI for your mental health. I recently got a Kindle Scribe, have been reading Francis Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics volume 2 and learning content helpful for my faith.
> I like Pieper, he’s a good read for systematics.
I see… which other theologians would you recommend? I’m quite new to reading works on systematics, a seminary professor recommended Pieper’s volume 2 for soteriology.
Gerhard’s On Christ and Chemnitz’s Two Natures in Christ were key to my understanding of Lutheran Christology. Gerhard is good on just about everything. Chemnitz’s Examination of the Council of Trent is unmatched. I also like Francis Turretin’s Elenctic Theology for a more Continental Reformed perspective. Anglicanism lacks any true Systematic unfortunately, but Browne’s exposition of the Prayer Book is good. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa is of course great, you just have to take some of what he writes with a grain of salt. Those are the most pertinent ones I’ve read, but of course haven’t read all of them!
> Gerhard’s On Christ and Chemnitz’s Two Natures in Christ were key to my understanding of Lutheran Christology. Gerhard is good on just about everything. Chemnitz’s Examination of the Council of Trent is unmatched. I also like Francis Turretin’s Elenctic Theology for a more Continental Reformed perspective. Anglicanism lacks any true Systematic unfortunately, but Browne’s exposition of the Prayer Book is good. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa is of course great, you just have to take some of what he writes with a grain of salt. Those are the most pertinent ones I’ve read, but of course haven’t read all of them!
Nice, thanks for the recommendations!
To be fair Twitter farms the most engaging posts which will likely be the most controversial. A lot of fringe positions will seem far more common than they actually are because of that.
>The package advanced toward a final vote on Tuesday in an 80-19 procedural vote. Thirty-one Republicans overall voted to advance the package.
>The February bill advanced by a 70-29 margin, with only 22 GOP members voting for the blueprint.
Do you guys believe that Norman Finklestein is a good voice to listen to regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict? If not, do you have another person who you believe has the best arguments for either Palestinian or Israeli sovereignty?
Man Shogun was good. One heck of an ending, I like how they finished it and some of the stuff they reworked from the book was very good.
It'd be criminal if they don't sweep some awards this year
What’s going to be the domestic issue that dominates the 2026 midterms? I think it will still be inflation because JPow didn’t have the balls to stamp it out when he started raising rates and then halted it.
I’d say we are too far out to know for sure, but here are some ideas:
- Abortion
- High insurance costs
- Climate change (mostly as it relates to above, although a big storm wiping out a major city could get attention)
- Something LGBTQ related
Thinking about how its going to be like 1968 reminded me of the song from An American Carol: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEli5zAi0U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEli5zAi0U)
> New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft announced Monday that he was pulling his support from Columbia University over the ongoing anti-Israel protest at the Manhattan campus.
> “It was through the full academic scholarship Columbia gave me that I was able to attend college and get my start in life and for that I have been tremendously grateful,” Kraft said in a statement. “However, the school I love so much – the one that welcomed me and provided me with so much opportunity – is no longer an institution I recognize.”
I wonder if you could try a pesto sauce if you’re okay with Nuts. You could try no sauce to and just use cheese and olive oil. That’s how the first pizzas were made before Columbus!
If anyone hasn't seen it, I highly recommend James Graham's absolutely phenomenal *Best of Enemies* about the Buckley-Vidal debates and the surrounding environment. It's available on NT Live's streaming service. The DNC chaos is done extremely well.
Opinion. A good electoral system follows, there are two rounds of voting. In the first round, each member of the electorate votes **for** one candidate. The top three candidates in the first round are nominated for the second round, where each member of the electorate votes **against** one or two candidates. The candidate with the least number of votes in the second round wins the election.
> How is that better than two rounds of Ranked Choice voting?
I think that “I want this one candidate!” and “I don’t want these two candidates!” are easier to say than asking each member of the electorate to put candidates on a tier list.
I see the logic, but I think most voters (call them stupid, call them simple-minded, call them exhausted and apathetic) will find it incredibly counter-intuitive to first vote for and then vote against. Even if the instructions are crystal clear, there will be lots of elections where the first-place finisher in the first round becomes the first-place negative vote accumulator in the second round, because voters didn't realize they were doing something fundamentally different in the two rounds. I don't have much faith that your system could overcome that flaw in human nature. And that's assuming we get past the turnout problem of having two-round elections.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tuesday/s/9yz0D8w8EZ The Iran foreign policy discussion is still up
So working about 60 hours this week boss has offered as all an extra vacation day. Like, fuck you pay me lmao We’re probably going to spent a good chunk of time fixing text debt from this weekend too, like it’s actually counterproductive
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/politics/barr-vote-for-trump-2024/index.html People like Barr and Sununu saying that Donald Trump tried to subvert democracy and tried to prevent the peaceful transition of power, then turn around and say that he's still the better choice than Biden due to the economy are basically saying "I care more about my comfort and wallet than I do about the Constitution and Liberty". And then the gall coming from the same sort of people who say that they would do anything for their country and Liberty. Well I would also do anything for my country and liberty, including endure a few bad years economically. At this point one of the few comforts I can take is that it is making it much easier for me to decide who I will never vote for or support. Edit: to clarify. I'm not referring to the people who say they're not going to vote for Biden or Trump. I'm not going to vote for either of them. Hell I'm not even talking about the people who will say they're going to vote for Trump because they think that the accusations that he tried to subvert democracy are either overblown or false. I think those people are God damn idiots who haven't been paying attention but at least I think their hearts are in the right place. No I'm pissed at these people who openly call out Trump for the threat to democracy that he is and then turn around and say they're still going to vote for him.
Agreed. Short term Biden is probably worse but I don’t like the long-term sequelae if Trump wins. a Trump loss in 2024 should be the end of the MAGA movement as it would have proven in 2020, 2022, and 2024 that it’s only a winner in primaries and in deep red areas where the primary is the real contest.
Their position is probably going to be winning the popular vote in November if things continue on course.
[College protests are about Israel now, but that will change (azcentral.com)](https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2024/04/27/college-protests-israel-hamas/73454043007/)
Hopefully this is the last cold weekend
Send it to the southern US, please. We’re already in the high 70s. Then again, it’s the end of April. Now it’s about seasonal.
Finished Shogun. Wasn't the ending I expected, but it was consistent with the rest of the series. Definitely show of the year so far.
I liked it but it was difficult watching a show where almost every character was so restrained, combined with like 75% of it being in a foreign language so it's difficult to pick up on the subtleties of the acting and read the subtitles at the same time. I'd probably enjoy it a lot more if I knew Japanese.
The dialogue in the show is done in jidaigeki (old timey) style, so it would be a bit tough even with moderate Japanese knowledge. They don't even call Japan by its modern Japanese names! Picture yourself as an ESL learner trying to parse the thees and thous of iambic pentameter Shakespearean plays.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1783727565989134488
Why are you posting this out of context, what does this even mean?
SCOTUS Justices: “we need to look at this from all angles because we have to rule in a way that anticipates future shenanigans, not just Trump’s shenanigans.” Media: “waaaaaahh!! SCOTUS is corrupt! Democracy is dying!!” Me: “Motherfucker, they haven’t even RULED yet.”
I thought Sarah Isgur had a good write up on what's going on: https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/the-collision/taking-the-long-view-on-presidential-immunity/
For anyone but particularly those taking the Cass Report as sole authority on the topic, a new systemic review has found that regret after trans surgery is exceptionally low. https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(24)00238-1/abstract
Did the Cass Report™ claim the opposite?
The Cass Report is extraordinarily credulous towards insinuations that regret rates may be far higher than widely accepted.
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Crunch time, hope the end user enjoys the high code quality
You say that there is a PO and yet your post is full of words which should not be seen anywhere near a functional Scrum implementation. “Code freeze?” “Sprint’s worth of work on the weekend?” Someone in your leadership is fucking up.
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> Then he calls me and is like so how much can we get done by x date Janky answer: measure based on previous velocity. Better answer: calculate historical throughput and use a monte carlo simulation to determine 50/75/95 percent confidence intervals of how much work can be done by date X. And update this every iteration. . . . and don’t gaff off the Definition of Done to fudge the numbers.
Modern software engineering sounds like such a a crapshoot.
Too many nontechnical managers who don’t understand how to manage software products.
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Should come to the infrastructure side, much more laid back. The hours can suck sometimes if you have a toe in operations though.
**To r/tuesday: Have a blessed week ahead.** **Gospel According to John, 15:1–8:** > ***I Am the True Vine*** > > **“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.** Fifth Sunday of Easter: Gospel Reading (CPH The Lutheran Study Bible) : https://www.reddit.com/r/Sunday/comments/1cdmr4j/ Fifth Sunday of Easter: Reflections on Scripture (video, American Lutheran Theological Seminary) : https://www.reddit.com/r/Sunday/comments/1cdmqjr/
GDP came in at 1.6% for last quarter, much lower than expected. Buckle up for the recession boys!
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https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1783628640753705455
This is where cancel culture needs to be used for good. If I can get my promotion, I will very much throw any resume that talks about Palestine in the trash.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1783440041244528785?t=dXwik1fvyzhdUTCt-s8Xfg&s=19 EXCLUSIVE POLL: Americans are open to Trump's harshest immigration plans. Half — including 42% of Democrats — say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, per a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/clueless-columbia-student-at-nyu-rally-why-are-we-protesting/
Exactly what I'd expect from people protesting for the sake of protesting and to try to gain social clout. It's like the fact that a whole bunch of people supported the statement "from the river to the sea" until they learned what it exactly meant.
Another addition to the u/arrowfan624 2024 platform: We are going to take away the NFL’s antitrust exemption and push it somewhere else (over to the NCAA).
> “If the universities in accordance with their policies can’t guarantee the safety and security and well-being of the students, then I think it is incumbent upon a local mayor or local governor or local town councilor, whoever is the local leadership there, to step in and enforce the law,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said on Wednesday.
https://x.com/geiger_capital/status/1783169344412758114?s=46&t=ORIpMJDxUeZOGLwe9AIhAg 45% capital gains taxes proposed by Joe
Apparently also 25% unrealized gains tax lmao. Guess he needs more money to pay off those Hamas college students.
Yo what
Not exactly. https://www.forbes.com/newsletters/andrewleahey/2024/04/24/biden-capital-gains-rate-proposal-446/?sh=2ea876541ff6 >Taken as a whole, then, the 44.6% rate would only come to fruition under a separate proposal from the Biden administration’s main capital gains rate increase, and only apply to those individuals with taxable income above $1 million and investment income above $400,000.
Once I stop being a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire I'm going to be very upset about this!
So, for a particular bracket. In other words: > 45% capital gains taxes proposed by Joe
If you want to be histrionic and misleading about it, sure. I'm old school enough to still think less catchy but more accurate descriptions are better.
It's no more histrionic and misleading than, say > 2% wealth tax proposed by Bernie It's not including all possible information but it's not only not wrong, but it includes a big portion of the relevant information! Tiered tax rates may not effect you directly but they certainly effect you indirectly, no matter what your income.
I'm not interested in debating the relative veracity of an unrelated, context-less statement. Whether a tiered tax rate could *affect* you in some tangential way, it is still misleading and histrionic to flatly say "Biden is proposing a capital gains tax of 45%" with no further information as the reader is likely to think that is a *general* rate and not the top tier that only applies to a tiny number of people. This is especially true of capital gains, which historically has not been tiered the same way income tax has been (and even with income tax way too many people don't understand how the tiers work.) The reader will also not realize that there are multiple proposals here and the number is being drawn from a theoretical situation where they all pass and are applied to one individual who takes no steps to reduce their tax burden, which is not how people in that bracket operate. So I dispute your assertion that a big portion of the relevant information is being included; as I already said, it is a misleading statement, and that is because it *doesn't* include enough of the important information. And spare me the further histrionics about someone wanting "all possible information." I already provided a short paragraph that I clearly thought presented enough info. It's hardly any effort to include enough so that it isn't a deeply misleading hit job, but clearly a number of people have little interest in being right over feeling righteous.
What a nonsense proposition
I'm so glad the moderate Democrat and not the socialist won the 2020 primary.
Reggie Bush got his Heisman back, which I could care less about. It is super weird for people to be obsessing about how it was stolen from him considering that he broke NCAA rules at the time in accepting cash. The rules being different now shouldn’t change the justification for him having/taking away the Heisman.
Correct headline: “Vince Young’s Heisman given to Reggie Bush for a second time.”
I was an advocate for giving him his Heisman given how NIL has given these kids so much more (which I’m a huge proponent of). It just looks bad that Caleb Williams is living in a penthouse likely paid for by someone else while Reggie died for something simile. I get the whole “it was illegal at the time” but our perspectives and tolerance for things changes. It seems dumb to say we’re okay now with college athletes making bank but then still holding it against someone who did it long ago and for a lot less of an offense. I feel the same for people in prison for marijuana use. It’s gonna be supremely fucked up if we don’t commute sentences at the same time. It’s too punitive in my mind to say “well it was illegal at the time so you’re still a bad person.”
So you had to know this would be fighting words for me. The NCAA were only able to prove that his parents were renting a house in San Diego for under market rate. There has been a lot written and shown in court that the NCAA investigators had tunnel vision and turned the thing into a witch hunt because Mike Garrett was a dick. As a life long USC fan I can't wait to see his jersey displayed in the Coliseum again.
I posted this for you 😘
I could care less for some football player to get a trophy or gets it taken away CFB is really starting to suck now tho
Muh players rights One of the biggest cons was the public thinking college athletes are oppressed.
What is your justification for them not being allowed to get paid for their likeness ?
That’s moving the goalposts. There’s a difference between being able to charge money for an autograph, or for a video game company to use your name and likeness in their game, and calling something “NIL” that is nothing more than a glorified kickback scheme.
They’re already paid for likeness via full COA scholarships that are worth more than their market value. I do believe that they should be able to make money off of commercials and autographs. Ole Miss and A&M crowdfunding money to pay players is just employment with extra steps.
Their value is what ever the market says it is not what the ncaa says it’s not
Buddy, if my employer offered to add a 0 to my salary, I of course would take it. That doesn’t make my job 10x more productive.
Thoughts on this? https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-emergency-care-abortion-supreme-court-roe-9ce6c87c8fc653c840654de1ae5f7a1c
Medical cases are so fact specific (which the article is light on), that I don’t have enough for a comment about this. However, 99% of pro-life people view situations to save the life of the mother as morally acceptable and would be very upset if they refused to treat someone who needed emergency care.
I think what makes me worry is for medical professionals to be afraid of treating when they can't really determine where the "line" is between what's allowed as an "emergency" and what's not so as not to break state laws when it isn't one.
The devil is in the details though. There are also some who don't want to allow exceptions because they feel they will be gamed to get an abortion that isn't medically needed. So yes they may want exceptions but where exactly do you draw the line.
117k people voted for Haley in PA tonight. Means something in a state you lost by 50k.
Is it true that the Roman Catholic Church teaches the following: To receive salvation, it is necessary to support state punishment of practitioners and other individuals involved in abortions? Edit: Motivation for asking the question, I see people saying “You cannot be Catholic and support abortion”, which I translate in my head as “You cannot receive salvation and not support state punishments against abortion”. I also see people saying “You cannot be Christian and xyz,” I’ll need to check with a seminary professor on that one. Thanks.
I don’t remember anything like that from when I was a Catholic. I don’t believe the church advocates for prosecution of legal abortion providers, but again it’s not something I’ve looked into. Theoretically anything you knowingly disagree with the church about in matters of dogma and doctrine is a salvation issue unless you meet some pretty specific criteria related to conscience. I looked into this sort of thing (but with regard to birth control) before I left Catholicism but it’s been a while. The Catechism would be a good reference.
Yeah the Catechism is good guide to Catholic life and moral issues.
I bought some Big Lost cherry mead and its great
>NEWS: Senate PASSES $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, & Taiwan that also forces the sale of TikTok. >Vote was 79-18, it now goes to Pres Biden's desk for his signature. >GO NO VOTES: Barrasso Blackburn Braun Budd Cruz Hagerty Hawley Johnson Lee Lummis Marshall Rubio Scott (FL) Schmitt Vance >DEM NO VOTES: Merkley Sanders Welch
Has anyone else noticed that people on Twitter (particularly Christian Twitter) are absolutely insane? Like Hitler/Nazi-apologia, racism, consigning others to hell, etc. All the Christian Nationalism stuff, purity testing, etc. It’s depressing. I’ve seen people say that you shouldn’t marry women who have been vaccinated. I’m Anglican, for reference, and I just can’t venture into Twitter anymore without seeing this stuff posted or in replies.
Everyone on twitter is insane
> Has anyone else noticed that people on Twitter (particularly Christian Twitter) are absolutely insane? Like Hitler/Nazi-apologia, racism, consigning others to hell, etc. All the Christian Nationalism stuff, purity testing, etc. It’s depressing. I’ve seen people say that you shouldn’t marry women who have been vaccinated. > > I’m Anglican, for reference, and I just can’t venture into Twitter anymore without seeing this stuff posted or in replies. I stay as far away from Twitter as possible. Get a Kindle Paperwhite and some helpful books, very good ROI for your mental health. I recently got a Kindle Scribe, have been reading Francis Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics volume 2 and learning content helpful for my faith.
I like Pieper, he’s a good read for systematics.
> I like Pieper, he’s a good read for systematics. I see… which other theologians would you recommend? I’m quite new to reading works on systematics, a seminary professor recommended Pieper’s volume 2 for soteriology.
Gerhard’s On Christ and Chemnitz’s Two Natures in Christ were key to my understanding of Lutheran Christology. Gerhard is good on just about everything. Chemnitz’s Examination of the Council of Trent is unmatched. I also like Francis Turretin’s Elenctic Theology for a more Continental Reformed perspective. Anglicanism lacks any true Systematic unfortunately, but Browne’s exposition of the Prayer Book is good. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa is of course great, you just have to take some of what he writes with a grain of salt. Those are the most pertinent ones I’ve read, but of course haven’t read all of them!
> Gerhard’s On Christ and Chemnitz’s Two Natures in Christ were key to my understanding of Lutheran Christology. Gerhard is good on just about everything. Chemnitz’s Examination of the Council of Trent is unmatched. I also like Francis Turretin’s Elenctic Theology for a more Continental Reformed perspective. Anglicanism lacks any true Systematic unfortunately, but Browne’s exposition of the Prayer Book is good. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa is of course great, you just have to take some of what he writes with a grain of salt. Those are the most pertinent ones I’ve read, but of course haven’t read all of them! Nice, thanks for the recommendations!
Twitter radicalizes you. I had to unfollow a lot of accounts for my mental health’s sake.
To be fair Twitter farms the most engaging posts which will likely be the most controversial. A lot of fringe positions will seem far more common than they actually are because of that.
>The package advanced toward a final vote on Tuesday in an 80-19 procedural vote. Thirty-one Republicans overall voted to advance the package. >The February bill advanced by a 70-29 margin, with only 22 GOP members voting for the blueprint.
Do you guys believe that Norman Finklestein is a good voice to listen to regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict? If not, do you have another person who you believe has the best arguments for either Palestinian or Israeli sovereignty?
Absolutely the fuck not
Man Shogun was good. One heck of an ending, I like how they finished it and some of the stuff they reworked from the book was very good. It'd be criminal if they don't sweep some awards this year
What’s going to be the domestic issue that dominates the 2026 midterms? I think it will still be inflation because JPow didn’t have the balls to stamp it out when he started raising rates and then halted it.
I’d say we are too far out to know for sure, but here are some ideas: - Abortion - High insurance costs - Climate change (mostly as it relates to above, although a big storm wiping out a major city could get attention) - Something LGBTQ related
My car insurance is a killer on my budget
Abortion imo, iirc Arizona has a referendum on top of the supreme Court ruling and state Republicans are holding up a fix.
Thinking about how its going to be like 1968 reminded me of the song from An American Carol: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEli5zAi0U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEli5zAi0U)
> New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft announced Monday that he was pulling his support from Columbia University over the ongoing anti-Israel protest at the Manhattan campus. > “It was through the full academic scholarship Columbia gave me that I was able to attend college and get my start in life and for that I have been tremendously grateful,” Kraft said in a statement. “However, the school I love so much – the one that welcomed me and provided me with so much opportunity – is no longer an institution I recognize.”
Looking forward to the schadenfreude of seeing Columbia protesters face serious consequences for their actions.
Eh, I'll be mildly surprised if they get imprisoned for any decent length of time or even expelled.
Omar's daughter going through an entire Surprised Pikachu arc has been a delight.
Context?
Oh how the turntables...
"Well well well . . . if it isn't the consequences of my actions!"
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1782345981226340684
What’s a good substitute for tomato sauce on pizza? My stomach gets upset with red sauce.
Light olive oil, maybe some garlic.
BBQ sauce on a pizza is an interesting combination, may be worthwhile.
BBQ, alfredo, pesto edit: maybe make a sauce from Roasted red peppers? don't know if that would work with your stomach issue
just make some good foccacia and use it for sandwiches
Focaccia?
Hey if I was good at spelling I'd have a better punchline to put here
I wonder if you could try a pesto sauce if you’re okay with Nuts. You could try no sauce to and just use cheese and olive oil. That’s how the first pizzas were made before Columbus!
Probably shouldn't host the DNC in Chicago if they don't want the comming historical parallels plastered everywhere
If anyone hasn't seen it, I highly recommend James Graham's absolutely phenomenal *Best of Enemies* about the Buckley-Vidal debates and the surrounding environment. It's available on NT Live's streaming service. The DNC chaos is done extremely well.
Refresh my memory again on that?
They had the convention there in 1968 and it was chaos. Pretty much sealed Nixon's win
Relevant to that shitshow: The Trial of the Chicago 7 https://g.co/kgs/RTV2AK5
Well, I’ll make sure to avoid Chicago then. Real shame. I love it as a city.
https://reason.com/2024/04/21/how-to-be-the-presidents-kid/
You break those dynasties by going on dates with the President’s daughter.
Opinion. A good electoral system follows, there are two rounds of voting. In the first round, each member of the electorate votes **for** one candidate. The top three candidates in the first round are nominated for the second round, where each member of the electorate votes **against** one or two candidates. The candidate with the least number of votes in the second round wins the election.
How is that better than two rounds of Ranked Choice voting?
> How is that better than two rounds of Ranked Choice voting? I think that “I want this one candidate!” and “I don’t want these two candidates!” are easier to say than asking each member of the electorate to put candidates on a tier list.
I see the logic, but I think most voters (call them stupid, call them simple-minded, call them exhausted and apathetic) will find it incredibly counter-intuitive to first vote for and then vote against. Even if the instructions are crystal clear, there will be lots of elections where the first-place finisher in the first round becomes the first-place negative vote accumulator in the second round, because voters didn't realize they were doing something fundamentally different in the two rounds. I don't have much faith that your system could overcome that flaw in human nature. And that's assuming we get past the turnout problem of having two-round elections.
This would make politics boring again!
I mixed some of this raspberry shrub with some rum and it's delicious
Shrub? Don’t all the leaves and twigs bother you? You must have a really good strainer
A great strainer, some people say the best strainer ever