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gd not seeing the difference 'tween posting a meme to reveal the absurdity o' a position or behavior v. post a meme to show support o' the underlying premise is a battle we may never win, but we won't give up trying to enlighten. HA! Good Fun! ps ever seen where some clown is making a post clear full o' spite and venom and then is adding an emoji as final punctuation to suggest the author were keeding. no doubt you roll your eyes at such infantile deflection, no? recall the poster named sharp_one? he liked to post memes too. misogynist and anti-semitic. got his account temporarily suspended in part for doing such after which he public wet the bed and then ran off... never to be seen or heard from again. were all very amusing. the thing is, sharp_one also used the "just a meme" bit o' deflection. why take serious if is just a meme. sure, sharp_one were trying to make a point 'bout what he saw as the evils o' a woke society, or somesuch, but do in meme form means anybody who criticizes is humorless and not seeing the joke, yes? am not suggest @Guard Dog is as much o' a tool as were the long absent poster known as sharp_one. gd ain't indulging anywhere near the same levels o' crude, vulgar and stoopid as were sharp_one. nevertheless, gd is doing the same deflection with the meme stuff. gd believes the underlying message o' the meme, but simultaneous claims he were just keeding. am expecting better than sharp_one level o' deflection from gd. again, so is clear, am not suggesting gd memes is crude or vulgar, though am thinking even gd will concede most memes is kinda stoopid. not comparing gd meme use to the crass indulgence o' sharp_one save to observe how your use o' memes is a similar kinda deflection.

in the sac valley it were 43C yesterday. will be the same today. never got particular cool at night which is the genuine killer. when it gets hot during the day but cools nice at night, the dry sac valley heat is almost bearable... until fire season. at least yesterday there were no oppressive and omnipresent layer o' ash and smoke from the wildfires. 'course given the historic drought the US west is suffering, the predicted wildfire season is anticipated to be epic terrible, which when one considers how awful it has been the last two or three years makes us quail at the thought o' what epic terrible will be. HA! Good Fun!

the only good news is that when is state as plaintiff, cases move up the ladder relative fast. unless you are a potential death penalty victim, as an ordinary citizen and voter, your case may take years to reach SCOTUS and is no guarantee the Court will even take your case. mississippi and other states need not wait so long as ordinary joe american. btw, is already other states doing same or more overt than mississippi. if mississippi wins, then then those states will know their rather draconian limits on abortions is likely to survive Constitutional review by the courts. https://www.npr.org/2019/05/20/725139713/what-abortion-was-like-in-the-u-s-before-roe-v-wade the best reading o' roe leaves a legal educated person questioning the basis for the decision. that said, is impossible to ignore the reality o' pre roe. full disclosure: we were raised catholic, so am having difficulty personal considering abortion w/o serious reservations, but am not so arrogant as to believe our pov should serve to deny a woman the right to make such an important and life altering choice. Congress should do something. "Congress should do," has been the prefatory refrain all too often. HA! Good Fun!

gonna oversimplify. state legislation<federal legislation<The US Constitution the thing is, while the Constitution outright forbids the fed from legislating a few issues (e.g. police power) most power to legislate is s'posed to be handled by the individual states-- federalism and all that. regardless, who decides? who decides if a state law is superseded by a fed law, or if the fed law which is superseding is Constitutional? the Court kinda decided on its own way back in the 1700s that such questions is an article three issue and the fed courts get to decide if a state law is illegitimate 'cause it undermines valid fed laws with SCOTUS the ultimate arbiter. so, mississippi writes a law they know is in conflict with roe v. wade. the fed courts immediate enjoin the mississippi law from being applied, but mississippi appeals and eventually SCOTUS decides whether or not they wanna hear the case. just 'cause "everybody knows" the mississippi law is impossible to read consistent with roe v. wade, roe is not the Constitution and is only law as long as SCOTUS says it is law. the mississippi law were written specific 'cause it would result in a cause of action which would eventual, possibly, get SCOTUS review. states legislators, governors and ags read the tea leaves, they observed the composition o' the Court change dramatic in a short period of time. folks like alito and thomas has been less than subtle o' late that they would welcome a chance to overturn precedent in more than a couple cases. so, if you wann kill roe, now looks like a good time to take a shot, yes? ... if the plaintiff is not a state, the whole process o' getting maybe review from SCOTUS may take years, which btw is part o' the gameplan behind voter suppression efforts in texas and florida. even if a florida law is eventual rejected by the Court as repugnant to the Constitution, what 'bout the results o' the election (or two) which nevertheless took place while the law were being applied in the land o' sinkholes and swamps? ain't gonna be no do-over election. even if the republicans lose in Court, they know they is gonna benefit from one or two elections where their voter suppression efforts is applied with full legal force. curiously, the most recent appointee to the Court who were critical of roe v. wade before becoming a Justice was the late rgb. no person with aspirations o' becoming a fed judge or Justice ever public criticizes a handful o' cases. roe is one such case. is impossible to say with certainty how acb, gorsuch, kavanaugh will decide on a roe case 'cause they has all spent the last decade or two avoiding such a question with oftentimes amusing degrees o' success. nevertheless, mississippi and many is betting at least a couple o' those new faces is antagonistic to roe. the important thing to remember is roe ain't a fed law. the cowards in Congress has never chosen to step forward and address abortion direct. is Court precedent and the Court is free to change their minds. ordinarily altering precedent is a big deal and Justices is reluctant to do so, but a few current Justices has been kinda bold o' late in their advocacy o' the need to reexamine precedent. @Guard Dog show us a quote from biden or anybody senior in the administration. condemn POTUS with words o' some obscure journalist we has never heard o' not quoting biden is hardly convincing. hell, at least when you condemned obama for advocating a national police force (something he never did) you at least used a tortured and outta context reading o' a line from an obama speech to do so. the fbi is constant on the lookout for those persons who is anti government and is showing a willingness to use violence to bring 'bout their desired change. duh. is not as if every milquetoast wannabee anarchist ends up on some government watchlist. oh, wait... is this the point where you says you were just sharing the meme, even though is perfect aligning with your usual garden variety paranoia. will nevertheless defend the position that the dems is coming after anybody who don't embrace their new progressive religion, as well as your guns. HA! Good Fun!

simple? ok, the decision isn't all that significant and it ain't genuine surprising. what we do know is that alito, thomas and acb is not fans o' the roberts decision which saved obamacare and would happily vote against the roberts position if a case came before them which would give 'em an opportunity to do so. gorsuch? he would probable kneecap obamacare if given the chance. joining with alito's angry dissent, which had little in common with established standing jurisprudence, makes it at least a matter o' concern for obamacare fans that gorsuch were willing to act as a cheerleader for the alito's borderline unhinged dissent. kavanaugh? no idea. kavanaugh is too unpredictable for our taste. he is consistent, save for when a case o' pivotal importance is before the Court. worst kinda Justice from our pov. the media and the dems fighting the acb appointment presented to bruce and others that the case before the court were a referendum o' sorts on the constitutionality o' obamacare and that were never truth. obamacare is not safer today from acb, alito and the Conservative Court majority than it were yesterday, but this particular case were never the danger it were being spun. HA! Good Fun!

am wondering if you read the linked. you did notice how dismissive the virologists were o' the lab created theory, yes? as we has observed previous, the possibility some sample escaped from the lab would not shock us in the least. the thing is you had your shorts in a twist over the engineered virus conspiracy theory and any article which even mentions such fuels your imagination regardless o' whether the experts cited in those articles appear to be critical o' lab creation theory. and again, am not saying covid-19 as a lab creation is impossible. am not complete writing such a possibility off as an issue not worthy o' consideration. however, thus far there is almost no legit scientific support for such a theory and what evidence does exist is speculative and correlative in the most transparent way possible. you wanna find more articles, such as the one linked, which support Gromnir's criticism o' dp's premature lab creation nightmares? please, continue. nevertheless, am suggesting you wait for some genuine support, 'cause every time you post on this subject you is giving anybody who bothers to actual read the article a chance to kick you in the teeth once more with your premature embrace o' the lab created origin conspiracy theory. why do you wanna set your self up for that kinda ridicule? HA! Good Fun! ps we will note that there is a confirmation bias issue with the wet market explanations for the origins o' covid-19. the common worst case pandemic scenario for the past couple decades has included some kinda avian flu making the leap from birds to humans. wet markets were considered a likely origin for the anticipated initial animal-to-human leap recognizing the ideal unfortunate conditions in such markets. so, when there were an outbreak in wuhan, it were a comfortable working theory for the science guys to believe a wet market in wuhan were the likely origin. even when it were clear covid-19 were not a strain o' influenza and were unlikely avian origin, the wet market theory were a kinda intellectual lodestone 'cause that is what the big brains had been warning 'bout for decades. similar kinda correlation mistake as dp is making even if a bit more informed.

the dogs are getting dog food, which is likely causing a considerable level o' confusion. ordinary the pups get some portion o' whatever meat Gromnir indulges. no meat for Gromnir means dogs need eat what is in their food bowls. *gasp* HA! Good Fun! ps as odd as it sounds, one major reason we ain't moved away from the sac valley with all its heat and wildfire smoke is 'cause o' the local produce and meat... and as crazy as it sounds, fish.

the dogs are confused. the local farm where we buy most o' our produce from late may 'til mid/late september is having snow peas and corn in season. they got loads o' other stuff available, but the snow peas and corn is particular noteworthy. steamer basket a bunch o' snow peas. maybe we add a little olive oil and balsamic, but ordinary we eat unadulterated. don't even need salt for the snow peas. the local corn is the best we has had anywhere, and recall we lived midwest. microwave an ear o' corn, in husk, and then add salt and butter and eat from the cob. am not joking when we say that we have had a meal of snow peas and corn multiple times in the last couple weeks and we don't feel at all bad 'bout such. can pick your own vegetables on tuesday and saturday morning 'tween sunrise and 1pm, but there is a $20 dollar minimum. $.40 per pound. takes considerable effort to pick 50lbs o' vegetables. alternatively, a 2.5 bag o' snow peas sets us back $4.50. a bag o' eight ears o' corn costs us $4. down side to all the vegetable meals is the dogs is confused. and am perfect aware snow peas and corn is 'bout the least healthy vegetables you could possible name. don't care. add a freaking kale salad would ruin the enjoyment, though we do try to get some broccoli into the rotation along with other greens. regardless, the next month, or as long as the snow peas last, is gonna be rough on the dogs. HA! Good Fun!

am gonna admit the first name we thought o' when question o' famous asian-americans arose, purposeful excluding actors, were fred korematsu. we realized he were not famous to most, so we paused to reflect... connie chung were next name which came to mind. no joke. michio kaku were number three for us and also not too obvious, but as a teenager he tried to build a death ray in his parent's garage and while he didn't manage to create antimatter, he did get scholarships to the most prestigious universities in the nation. daniel inouye deserved to be ahead o' connie chung. kinda feel bad he were not our number one. as for the @Darkpriest predictable putin fanboi post if you wanna find textbook examples o' whatboutism and deflection, then putin is a winner. some o' our boardies who indulge in such tactics to a comic degree no doubt found the putin response to be an award worthy performance. otherwise, this response made the putin presser cringeworthy. but serious, connie chung? early 2000s were last we recall seeing her do news and yet she were first to come to mind. HA! Good Fun! ps trump is still angry at cancer causing windmills.

a belief wotr will be significant more polished than kingmaker is a pleasant fantasy unsupported by any evidence. the thing is, am thinking few persons is gonna be caught off guard by the lack of stability o' wotr. owlcat developed wotr as a kickstarter selling another pathfinder ap to people who enjoyed kingmaker. anybody who played kingmaker and nevertheless is convinced wotr will be comparative bug free anytime soon is the audience you want if you desire to see tinkerbell resurrected, but am hardly gonna call such belief reasonable. we need face the unpleasant truth that while near every gamer bemoans crpg game stability as an endemic genre problem, people keep buying titles on day 1 of release from developers who have a poor track record for their qa efforts. developers and publishers no doubt recognize most crpg fans is bluffing 'bout not buying the next title if the current product is a buggy mess. am personal a weird aberration as we loathed the kingdom building which were integral to kingmaker and we dislike pathfinder mythic, so support for owlcat's wotr is curious. the thing is, having played the first 2.5 installments o' the wotr pnp adventure path, and having familiarity with the remaining content, we were believing the kingdom management aspect o' wotr would be minimal. diminished kingdom building alone were enough to convince us to give wotr a shot. our anticipation for bg3 is not high and is few other crpgs am looking forward to. the paucity o' crpg alternatives and diminished kingdom building were all it took to sell us on wotr, which is an admitted low threshold to meet. even so, am going into the upcoming release o' wotr with eyes wide open regarding prospects for the stability of the title. HA! Good Fun!

with the improvements to builds thus far, am not confident o' anything beyond chapter three and even such content will be buggy by the standards o' most crpg titles. am thinking is kinda a given crpgs is gonna be buggy at release, which is why for any game we ain't already purchased via kickstarter or fig or similar, we always wait 6 months before purchasing and playing. inevitably we get cheaper and more stable games by waiting. the thing is, we contributed to the wotr kickstarter, a fact we almost forgot as we disliked much o' kingmaker. at this point am assuming the first few months o' wotr release will be a functional extended beta. even so, am admitting the first couple chapters, which has now been community tested extensive, has already been improved to near acceptable levels. chapter three is still kinda hit and miss for stability but am gonna assume improvements is being made before september. chapter four? not close to full cooked. am steeling self to the reality chapters five and six, with no community feedback, will be a mess. if one ain't purchased already, then wait six months is a good idea. having already purchased and clear committed to beta testing, the september release date, if it sticks, will be viewed by our self as just another beta build. 'course playing mechwarrior five has us wanting to play more battletech. never did play heavy metal. after we finish chapter four, will likely do a bit o' battletech. HA! Good Fun!

am taking a break from mechwarrior 5 play as we kinda felt like we were doing little more than grinding c-bills and mechs. so we finished chapter three... again. surprise. break enchantment still doesn't end petrified condition. lucky for us, this lesson were learned with an animal companion. aivu is the winner in our azata run. the favourable magic sooper power combined with our feyspeaker is working well particular coupled with the ascendant element (fire) mythic feat. am enjoying the tree hugger azata mythic story elements even if some o' the whimsy feels a bit forced. that said, am gonna admit the angel mythic path with a mostly oracle or cleric build is just an all-out wrecker o' wotr boss battles. is a fair amount o' bugs and seeming broken quests. is near halfway through june and wotr releases start o' september. is hard to imagine the chap five & six content is more stable and refined than four... and owlcat didn't bother to address many o' the class feature bugs with the recent build, but they did add a couple. using kingmaker as our baseline for owlcat game stability, am thinking the class feature stuff is gonna require community fixes over some number o' months (years) following release. nevertheless, we do foresee wotr as being playable come september, and given how pokey is our tb gameplay, am hopeful much o' the anticipatory broken quests in later chapters will be fixed before we get close to accessing such content. HA! Good Fun!

this is just wrong. depends on the investigation, but one assumes is gonna take time. is rare a smoking gun situation as is common in movies and tv. kinda amusing, but giuliani helped change the way criminal conspiracy prosecutions occurred. is not 'bout going after trump or perceived ringleaders. find connections 'tween lower and mid-level folks, get leverage and then move your way up the evil food chain. many o' the individuals who organized the stop the steal event on january 6 are Congressmen and state ag. going after such folks is problematic. doj and fbi sure as hell ain't gonna volunteer information 'bout ongoing investigations save for if they had abandoned such efforts. you actual have bass ackwards. we are months removed from the event in question and there has been virtual no doj or fbi announcements. the silence actual implies there is indeed an ongoing investigation taking place. is best to assume folks is being investigated and this doj is far less leaky than the previous incarnation. could be sometime before you hear anything. keep in mind, am not suggesting there is gonna be a wave o' indictments forthcoming. am having no such insights. all am saying is you is complete wrong to suggest a few months removed from the event sans charges filed is at all suggestive o' an exoneration o' key figures. HA! Good Fun!

@BruceVCthe fact the detainees is not citizens is irrelevant as to whether the camps is deserving the concentration modifier. even in your supplied definitions, is no special exclusion for non citizens, eh? in the US this observation is particular relevant as non citizens is afforded many/most Constitutional protections. right to due process is one such right. in the event o' criminal charges, the right to a speedy trial is also provided to citizens and non-citizens alike. deny liberty for an extended period o' time? is presumptive requiring a criminal prosecution. why do you need a trial or hearing? 'cause is in the Constitution. again, everybody gets due process. period. most folks who enter the US not at designated checkpoints is on buses and trains outta the country w/i days, but if you ask for asylum or have some other legal described right for a hearing, then you gotta be given such a hearing. you think is silly or wrong? change the Constitution. change laws regarding asylum seekers. until then, these folks is deserving their due process. if bruce, a non-citizen o' the US, is driving in sheboygan, wi and he gets a ticket for making an improper turn at an intersection, would it be appropriate to imprison bruce for months or years in conditions objective deplorable 'cause the traffic court is backed up? denied liberty 'cause o' a traffic ticket? please. border crossing is not criminal. is a minor civil infraction the equivalent o' a traffic violation. bruce is gonna argue is ok to imprison 'cause bruce is a non citizen and 'cause the facility where he is held is described as a temporary detainment or relocation facility? what the government chooses to name the camps is not relevant. what is relevant is many is denied liberty, w/o due process while suffering legally objective unsatisfactory conditions. perhaps change name o' ice facilities to visitor hostels or immigrant resorts? change name or government designation makes a difference? and is best for bruce not to make motivations pivotal. the trump administration, in internal memos, made clear many o' their efforts at the border were designed to be so unpleasant as to discourage other asylum seekers and immigrants from making the journey to the US. were not simple a matter o' unavoidable poor conditions resulting from too few resources for too many people. and if there is too few resources, then as 'tween liberty o' the detainee and the burden on the State, the detainee wins. is not a fuzzy grey area o' the law. like it or not, cost is not an argument which may be used to limit fundamental rights. you may believe US laws is stoopid. fine. complain the laws and the Constitution should be changed. however, until that happens... @Guard Dog we musta missed the press conference where the doj announced they were unequivocal not considering the prosecution o' trump for any action related to January 6. such an announcement woulda' been big news and a bit premature. as we stated previous, is unlikely trump is prosecuted for incitement. what is less clear is whether there will be prosecutions for conspiracy to incite. organize events with goal o' convincing a mass o' people to interfere with the electoral college process at the US freaking Capitol? doj ain't gonna go after trump first, but some o' the organizers o' the stop the steal event o' january 6 is gonna be pressed hard, and they is possible they is gonna face a choice 'tween taking the fall or covering for a guy who is no longer capable o' granting self-serving (illegal) pardons. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-capitol-police-officer-gives-his-account-of-the-jan-6-attack HA! Good Fun!

@BruceVCtime of war is not an element o' the definition. "usually during a war," is how your simple dictionary definition describes, yes? and you appear convinced the chinese efforts rise to a level where you would describe as concentration camps in spite o' absence o' war, so might as well just round file the war bit. element v. factor. element is required. factor contributes. war is not an element o' the definition. moving on then, why do you ignore the rest of the definition you linked... though am thinking you probable could do better than an encyclopedia. Concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order. Persons are placed in such camps often on the basis of identification with a particular ethnic or political group rather than as individuals and without benefit either of indictment or fair trial... so, the government argues the need to imprison immigrants w/o due process o' law when those immigrants come from central and south america and cross at the us-mexico border, individuals who has committed no criminal act, while subjecting such persons to conditions the judges in the video found deplorable and systemic. again, the folks in ice detention have not been convicted o' any crime... for chrissakes bruce, they have not been given a trial or even a hearing. and is not Gromnir who is using interchangeable. as we noted, we have no idea what the situation is with denmark or australia's relocation facilities. are the detainees in rawanda being held w/o due process of law? if a specific group o' persons is being targeted and detained w/o due process of law, then am suspicious. why is bruce not? if those held w/o due process o' law is forced to endure conditions which US judges repeated has described as unacceptable, then am more than suspicious. why is bruc not similar skeptical of the relocation label? btw, given how vapid were the excuses for changes to ice guidelines and immigration practices under the trump administration, it would be ez to argue the victims o' the previous administration's nativism qualify as political prisoners, but we ain't even gonna bother going down that thorny path save to recognize the obviousness o' our avoidance. you disagree with chinse policy, so the chinese is deserving the concentration camps label. see, the problem is you are making a value judgement 'bout motivations as 'posed to looking at definitions and whether facts support the definition. but for the existence o' nazi death camps, am suspecting more people would be willing to describe ice detention facilities as concentration camps. the problem is you don't see the US as being as evil as the nazis or the 2021 chinese, and you do not see the treatment o' ice detainees as equivalent bad as ww2 jews or 2021 uyghurs. am gonna suggest bruce is doing wrong. dispassionate concentration camps definitions, w/o the nazi example, would be far less evocative. am suspecting bruce, like many other persons, is being distracted from the actual definitions as 'posed to judging situations based on how evidence supports the application o' those definitions. and again, an extreme important aspect bruce is overlooking is that the detainees in ice facilities is not having been convicted o' any crime or even having been afforded a hearing. no due process of law. btw, 'cause some is forgetting, a non-citizen crossing the US border other than at a designated checkpoint does not result in a violation o' criminal law. don't like that reality? think is wrong? fine. change the law. HA! Good Fun!

there is a tendency to conflate extermination camps and concentration camps. not the same thing. hopeful we don't need a venn diagram for something so obvious. the misunderstanding is based on ignorance but we s'pose is understandable given how the nazi death camps is what most folks think o' when concentration camps is referenced. japanese internment camps in the US during ww2 were not extermination facilities, but they were concentration camps. the cyprus internment camps for jews post ww2 fit the definition o' concentration camp w/o being extermination facilities. china and the uyghurs? not a tough question. if political/ethnic/religious groups is secured (imprisoned) together w/o full due process and in conditions substandard, then is a fair argument one has crossed the line between a relocation/detention facility and a concentration camp. the trump administration, for example, were making it near impossible for those in their immigrant detention facilities to actual have a meaningful legal hearing in addition to the ridiculous soap and sleep arguments made in the video. the obama administration were arguing it were ok to place mothers in solitary confinement, secluded from their children for considerable periods o' days/weeks if they complained 'bout conditions in their detention facilities... and the same freaking doj attorney argued for obama that such solitary confinement were okie dokie. if the failures o' a government to maintain basic standards o' health, safety, due process and human dignity is systematic as 'posed to just unfortunate isolated instances, then the reluctance to use the concentration camp label would appear to be mired in a kinda reflexive obtuseness as 'posed to being a reasonable conclusion. am unable to speak to australian or denmark's relocation camps. we got zero notion as to whether or not such facilities cross some line 'tween relocation facility and concentration camps. HA! Good Fun! ps perhaps we shoulda' added multiple trigger warnings.

Evil Incorporated makes multiple commercials about how much they value their employees and nobody cares. Big Oil Inc has an ad campaign which states they is concerned 'bout the environment and everybody just kinda rolls their eyes. raytheon makes their profile pic look like a color wheel more appropriate for kelly moore and it's newsworthy and a debate topic? ... well, ok then. am gonna admit am outta touch on a few issues. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/christian-right-worships-donald-trump-915381/ the bit about obama hoisting the rainbow flag being a slap in the face to evangelical christians and God were a genuine surprise to us. sure, we understood more than a few evangelicals were tending towards the extreme, but am thinking we vast underestimated just how widespread were the vitriol and venom. white and working class voted for obama in a big way. the implication it were obama's rainbow flag and trump's christian values which were contributing to a mass exodus o' evangelical voters were so unreasonable we had a hard time with such an explanation. @Hurlshot is correct. is less 'bout Big Corp embracing a color wheel than it is 'bout the predictable inflammatory response from far too many americans. HA! Good Fun!

*sigh* you are doing this bass ackwards. you have reached a conclusion, and any story which confirms your bias is "evidence." wsj and nypost *snort* share not a peer reviewed study or anything close, but an opinion piece. could new evidence change the situation? sure, but at this point all the reputable scientific feedback has claimed covid-19 does not have any o' the telltale signs o' human interference. why would the opinion piece change hearts and minds? you seizing on every rando story to bolster your unsupported belief does little to alter our skepticism. however, if the goal were to give us yet another opportunity to point out your willingness to embrace bs w/o evidence, then mission accomplished. advice: the smart play is to wait. what compels dp to link every not study which supports his belief? eventual there will be a peer reviewed study and subsequent expert debate regarding methodology and data and whatnot. or there will never be such. in either case, 'til you get something legit... HA! Good Fun!

am not agreeing with the hasty generalization, though perhaps the mistake is not being broad enough with the generalization. today, americans is less in favor of free speech. more european. as we become more polarized here in the US, elements at both ends o' the political spectrum is more willing to accept the curiously euro view that some offensive speech is just too unpleasant to be endured, though the folks advocating for restrictions on speech rare describe in such terms. antifa tell themselves and others they is fighting white supremacists and fascists. the new trumpian right is selling their censorship cloaked in the vernacular o' safety and security-- the right created disproportionate fear o' protests and protesters and now they use such fear to suppress the speech o' fellow americans. none o' this sh!te is new, but the degree to which the notions o' acceptable levels o' censorship has been normalized surprises us. every fifteen years or so there has been a serious push to enact flag burning legislation or an Amendment. and every few years there has been a push from europhile academics suggesting that there should be limits on offensive speech. outliers. the folks demanding a more restrictive reading o' the First Amendment has always been the outliers here in the US. although as with the flag burning amendments, there has been brief moments when it appeared support for such were increasing. nevertheless, Americans in general has always been more in favour o' free speech than they has been willing to indulge in arguments selling fear. democrats is hardly the party o' antifa, no matter what a few obsidian board posters might suggest. nevertheless, the progressives, particularly the younger progressives, appear to be willing to distinguish between the value o' speech of good people v. bad, with themselves as arbiters as to which people is on the side o' the angels. have had to point out, more than once, how bernie, an old skool protester, has been quite vocal in his condemnation o' antifa and violence, but his example is a bit o' an outlier compared to the younger progressives. even so, suggest such folks speak for all democrats is a fail. US republicans has, to a shocking degree, gone all-in on the trump fear campaign. is hardly all republicans, but is too many. fear o' foreigners. fear of muslims. fear of the rainbow flag. fear of minorities. republicans is willing to suppress speech if it helps advance their narrative o' fear. all too often a 2021 red state republican believes in peaceful free speech, and they will fight for the proud boys and their right to demonstrate, but "everybody knows" how dangerous are blm and antifa... dunno 'bout the parties. we will admit americans, as we become increasing polarized, is more willing to prohibit offensive speech. fools and madmen. axiom: the only speech which needs protection is that which tends to offend. nevertheless, as our politics become more polarized and more similar to european examples, the willingness to suppress offensive and dangerous speech becomes much more widespread. is unfortunate. HA! Good Fun!

fox news and the far right's war on wokeness suffered a defeat, and on memorial day no less. Veteran's mic cut during speech as he speaks about Black community's role in history of Memorial Day HA! Good Fun!

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then am especial perplexed 'cause the winters are colder in the valley. the only fog we get in the valley is during the winter months. the summers here are indeed much warmer than the bay area and the kinda "warm" weather months in san francisco which inspired the quote attributed to twain. sacramento has three months o' genuine pleasant weather split 'tween 1.5 months in spring and 1.5 months in the fall, and with the wildfires and the air quality, is getting less livable each year. 'pon reflection, houses built above the snow line in ca frequent have basements, so am suspecting basements is actual beneficial when building somewheres cold or if there is ice or somesuch, but am talking out our kiester guessing. water table sure isn't the reason why is not done in our neck o' the woods, but ca is a big state so is no doubt places where water table could be an issue. even so, other than elevation, ca basements is rare. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking people who have not lived where it is sooper hot don't really understand ac. during the summer in sacramento you turn up your thermostat to 78 and pray your newish and cutting edge cooling system doesn't crap out during the numerous weeklong +100 heatwaves. if you got western exposure, you better have a lotta trees in the front o' the house, 'cause a nice unobstructed view means those windows is trying to turn your house into a solar oven. you can keep the blinds closed and add blackout curtains, which helps a bit, but then the high ceilings and bright interior you paid a whole lotta extra money to acquire is kinda a waste, no? god forbid you own a two-story home. most people work during the day, so your house being unpleasant warm even with the ac running is no big deal 'cept for weekends and later in the eve. old people tend to be cold all the time, so they probable don't care if is hot. get home from work and maybe you got a whole-house fan, and ceiling fans and you do all your cooking outside on the grill or with a microwave 'cause until 10pm is too hot to cook for real in the house. maybe find a way to make livable. alternative. gd likely has a bunker he ain't admitting to owning. no doubt his underground haven is cool in summer and easier to keep warm in winter. pm gd and get advice on how to build a nice climate controlled and windowless bunker in some dog p00p ugly and cheap part o' the country where it won't matter 'cause you is living like a moleman underground and windowless. and few homes in ca have basements. too bad. would be nice to retreat to basement during the hottest summer days. @Keyrock don't concern your self 'bout ca. plenty o' people buy homes in ca. that is part o' the problem. no matter how expensive it gets, more houses is being built in places with not enough water to support all those homes. https://time.com/5368610/san-francisco-poop-patrol-problem/ story starts out with a focus on the need for such in sf and the homelessness issue in the bay area. were referenced on these boards btw. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/san-francisco-deploys-poop-patrol-team-to-eliminate-waste-in-the-streets-2019-08-02 $70k, not including nice benefits, sounds like extreme overpay, but once one realizes how much is housing in the bay area... meh. is only a shocking story for those not living in the bay area. people get paid more in many parts o' CA, but not enough to buy homes where they work. chances are when they eventual do buy a house, they buy too much house compared to what they may afford, 'cause banks are right back to where they were with making risky loans like they were doing in the early and mid 2000s. is a whole cycle o' stoopid and is as if nobody in the real estate biz remembers 2008. HA! Good Fun!

was 107F just a couple days past. home insurance has gone way up for our properties in sacramento county even though am not in a genuine high wildfire risk zone. anywhere with low water has seen an increase in home insurance. grass valley is comfortable, but is a long commute to a sacramento office. am admitting with the oppressive heat and the now seasonal wildfires making the air quality in the valley hazardous for 2-3 months each year, we were eyeballing humboldt county or perhaps maybe even doing the idaho move we has been contemplating for years. would be difficult to recommend sacramento specific, but have mentioned previous how we got multiple folks living near us who commute to the bay area and am twenty minutes east o' sacramento. HA! Good Fun! ps am personal quite happy with increased rents and property values in our immediate area.

kinda an amusing german guy, but we noticed the video 'cause it showed a base defense and the second mission were a relative open map with the narrator running a trebuchet with an lrm 15 as his primary weapon system. admitted you don't get to see pilot ai not causing collateral base damage 'cause german guy kept getting lured away from the defense area. however, is a few instances where you may see ai pilots purposeful avoiding structures. HA! Good Fun!