A week or two ago I was discussing with somebody the fact that law doesn't follow the ideal political arguments, but arguments that have a chance of winning.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/hunter-biden-gun-charges-00157160
Hunter Bidens lawyers chose to invoke the second amendment to try to get a law preventing drug users from buying guns nullified. One might criticize him for using an amendment his political faction would like to see repealed.
But the reality is, it's his lawyers job to win cases, not elections. If he wins on constitutional grounds, he wins. It doesn't matter if his faction agrees with it or not, that's the rules.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/hunter-biden-gun-charges-00157160
Hunter Bidens lawyers chose to invoke the second amendment to try to get a law preventing drug users from buying guns nullified. One might criticize him for using an amendment his political faction would like to see repealed.
But the reality is, it's his lawyers job to win cases, not elections. If he wins on constitutional grounds, he wins. It doesn't matter if his faction agrees with it or not, that's the rules.
"This funeral stopped the further growth of one thing—the petition to the governor for Injun Joe’s pardon. The petition had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot. Injun Joe was believed to have killed five citizens of the village, but what of that? If he had been Satan himself there would have been plenty of weaklings ready to scribble their names to a pardon-petition, and drip a tear on it from their permanently impaired and leaky water-works." - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Given the past few years, I figured some of you might appreciate this paragraph.
Given the past few years, I figured some of you might appreciate this paragraph.
Mushoku Tensei Turning Point 3
Mushoku Tensei had its episode "Turning Point 3" today.
There are a lot of interesting things in it, but one notable thing to me is that contrasting to the first turning point, where he was caught up in the teleportation incident, or the second turning point, where Orsted killed him.
The third turning point is Rudeus choosing to go help his parents. The key difference is that he had the first two turning points thrust upon him (right through his chest in the second), whereas the third was his choice, and not only did he have the option not to go, many things indicated that he didn't need to go -- The Man God Hitogami told him not to go, and Elinalise said she'd go if he didn't. Yes, his little sister wanted him to go, but compared to a God, turning down a little girl really wouldn't be that big of a deal.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the three turning points have been at representative times in his life -- first at the onset of puberty, second at an age representing adulthood in the new world, and now once he's an established adult who owns a home, is married, and has a child incoming.
I also don't think it's an accident that the people he's going off to help are his parents. It's a representation of his coming into his own as an adult. He might never have been a child who needed his parents to protect him, but his parents nonetheless were capable enough to handle things on their own and didn't need their child to step in. Now he's an adult and he'll be contributing to helping his father and his mother.
There are a lot of interesting things in it, but one notable thing to me is that contrasting to the first turning point, where he was caught up in the teleportation incident, or the second turning point, where Orsted killed him.
The third turning point is Rudeus choosing to go help his parents. The key difference is that he had the first two turning points thrust upon him (right through his chest in the second), whereas the third was his choice, and not only did he have the option not to go, many things indicated that he didn't need to go -- The Man God Hitogami told him not to go, and Elinalise said she'd go if he didn't. Yes, his little sister wanted him to go, but compared to a God, turning down a little girl really wouldn't be that big of a deal.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the three turning points have been at representative times in his life -- first at the onset of puberty, second at an age representing adulthood in the new world, and now once he's an established adult who owns a home, is married, and has a child incoming.
I also don't think it's an accident that the people he's going off to help are his parents. It's a representation of his coming into his own as an adult. He might never have been a child who needed his parents to protect him, but his parents nonetheless were capable enough to handle things on their own and didn't need their child to step in. Now he's an adult and he'll be contributing to helping his father and his mother.
"I built a giant vacuum cleaner to permanently modify the atmosphere"
Huh. Do you live on an island with a mountain shaped like a skull?
Huh. Do you live on an island with a mountain shaped like a skull?
The one thing the article didn't know was the name Keir Starmer, the leader of the labor party.
It was a pretty strong opening.
It was a pretty strong opening.
Canada's prime minister has had journalists who disagrees with arrested. The fact is all of these lists are bullshit, and it's really just a matter of how high up on the progressive stack each country is. USA falls to 55th in doing what they're told...
As a proud multi trillionaire (in Zimbabwe dollars) I would like to point out at the rate we're going we're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
And not just that, depending on which system you work under, you have some degree of control over who you end up voting for in the first place.
In the us, especially in deep blue or deep red areas, election day is the primary, not the election, and so the die is cast long before the election takes place.
In the us, especially in deep blue or deep red areas, election day is the primary, not the election, and so the die is cast long before the election takes place.
It's not even a thing worth mentioning.
It's like, you know that you make $60,000 a year, and $10,000 of that is a bonus that you get in February. If you spend $90,000 a year, you're going to be $30,000 a year in debt, and it really doesn't matter if you made a whole bunch of money in February, You already knew that was going to happen, and it doesn't really mean anything.....
It's like, you know that you make $60,000 a year, and $10,000 of that is a bonus that you get in February. If you spend $90,000 a year, you're going to be $30,000 a year in debt, and it really doesn't matter if you made a whole bunch of money in February, You already knew that was going to happen, and it doesn't really mean anything.....
I don't believe that there's anything iconic about the Chevy Malibu.
I think that if I took a bunch of cars and mixed in a couple Chevy malibus, you literally wouldn't be able to tell which ones were them.
I think that if I took a bunch of cars and mixed in a couple Chevy malibus, you literally wouldn't be able to tell which ones were them.
I'm not normally the sort of person who looks at things through the lens of class, but in this case I'm going to agree with you that we should be looking at things through the lens of class.
World famous multimillionaires who routinely bump elbows with the most powerful people on earth are absolutely not the same at all compared to virtually any other human being on Earth, and when they start lecturing us on how to live it rings pretty fuckin' hollow.
World famous multimillionaires who routinely bump elbows with the most powerful people on earth are absolutely not the same at all compared to virtually any other human being on Earth, and when they start lecturing us on how to live it rings pretty fuckin' hollow.
It's all relative. I would take Android before I take apple, but what I really want is a good desktop Linux phone distro.
My pine phone was unfortunately nowhere near there yet on any distro, but it even ran android like crap so I think there's room to grow...
My pine phone was unfortunately nowhere near there yet on any distro, but it even ran android like crap so I think there's room to grow...