jkf
2d ago
jkf
4d ago
don't pot smoke(tell tale tribal marker- blue tribe loves its party drugs, red tribe has a big double standard)
You are saying that Toby Keith, Steve Earle, Hank Jr, Kris Kristofferson, etc -- are/were not Red Tribe?
I'll grant there's a bit of a schism going on with older school law&order types, but modern (meaning post-1970ish) Red Tribe certainly has room for the wacky tabbacy.
jkf
4d ago
My opinion (which I think I shared at the time) was that he got banned for a combination of "breaking with the HBD consensus" in the form of wrangling with many/most of the actual neo-Nazis around here, and being a bit of a cantankerous fuck who posts a lot -- which (the latter) provided lots of opportunity for said Nazis to report him for technically correct but minor rule violations which would have otherwise flown under the radar.
The reports-volume-based moderation strategy is fundamentally flawed when it comes to high-volume cantankerous posters, and I say this as somebody who was banned more than once by Hlynka for cantankerous wrangling, and kind of pissed off about it in the moment.
jkf
4d ago
"Driving around the country" is just Tuesday man -- he reminds me of myself when I was his age in some ways, but if he wants to be badass he needs to do better than "I crashed my bike" (also "Tuesday" for a lot of guys I used to know) in my books.
jkf
4d ago
"Banker won't give me money" due to bad history/cash business (often 'I make shitloads on grow-ops' IME) is the usual reason.
jkf
5d ago
Greenland is near the Western (US/Canada adjacent) route,
It really isn't -- look at a proper Northern projection, there's no reason to go anywhere near Greenland on the traditional passage. And that route (despite alarmism) is not reliably ice free even mid-summer -- if you are waiting for the actual polar icecap to go away, that seems like a much longer time horizon than I'd expect Trump to be considering. Not to mention that if you could sail right over the North Pole, Greenland would be quite irrelevant -- there's a lot of (potential) ocean up there, one could easily keep one's distance from any landmass at all.
jkf
5d ago
Is that at all likely though? I think it's pretty clear (if not talked about much) that this is the case in North America -- but I thought the original migration path for Abos was pretty well established? (and very old)
jkf
5d ago
If you look at the location of actual passable (sometimes) routes through the Arctic, Greenland is nowhere near them -- doesn't make sense, particularly not for China.
There's probably oil though -- not sure how exploitable it would be however.
jkf
6d ago
68mm shell width x 113mm spindle length (square taper, JIS)
Did you, um, measure those things? I'm not saying the robot is wrong in this, but both of those could be measured precisely enough with a tape measure (or calipers if you've got em) to be pretty sure you're getting the right thing.
jkf
9d ago
pets usually are timed to prevent puberty.
AFAIK this is another good example of medical veterinary misinformation, driven by the convenience and "we know what's best for you"-ness of the purveyors.
There's pretty solid studies that fixing a dog (particularly bitches) before canine puberty leads to lower lifespans and greater risk of various health problems at younger ages -- breeders who care will usually recommend a year +.
People who prioritize other stuff, such as puppy-millers (concerned that their customers will set up shop and compete) or SPCA spay/neuter all the things types (too many puppies, I guess?) will either demphasize this or outright lie about it -- because they know that if they let a puppy out out of their sight there's a good chance it never gets spayed, and might even reproduce. (horrors)
You can google right now and find all sorts of bullshit about how four months is Just Fine(tm) for the animals -- but it's really for the people.
jkf
10d ago
Pretty clear that he meant 'territories' to mean the ROC, not the literal Canadian Territories -- and in the the ROC "Toronto" is pretty much synecdoche for "Southern Ontario" (pp. 12M). Add the St. Lawrence corridor of Quebec (to whom "Toronto" panders federally) and you are pushing 50% of the national pop -- not quite 60, but pretty close to all-powerful in terms of Parliamentary composition.
jkf
19d ago
My kids are in high school, and they would know if 50%+ of the class were being spirited away to a special room as test-taking accommodation.
It does seem like the new policy (since I was in high school) is more accommodating in terms of retaking tests you've blown, and handing in homework late -- but AFAICT this applies to everybody, and isn't an obviously terrible idea.
jkf
19d ago
Huh -- "come to BC" is all I can suggest then -- there's a certain amount of trans/FN pity indoctrination (which the kids mostly don't seem to be really buying), more seriously disabled kids per class than I'd like, and... that's about it.
A fourth grade teacher wanted to diagnose my son with ADD (we had none of it) but other than that I know of approximately 'accommodation' kids working the system as you describe.
Not a lot of immigrants in my (undisclosed) location, either.
jkf
20d ago
Wow -- I guess I've seen aspects of this around my kids' school but this all sounds quite extreme -- are you back East somewhere? In suburban BC I would find all of this quite disturbing.
jkf
20d ago
I am with you 100%, and I'm more thinking about chicks from the 1990s FFS -- I'm just saying that that particular haircut and that particular actress are... kind of ugly -- the dye doesn't really tip the scales one way or the other for me.
jkf
20d ago
I’m guessing when the Boomers hit Social Security full-tilt
Aren't we getting kind of towards the tail end of Boomers hitting social security already? Birth year for full benefits seems to be 1958 -- which is well past peak Boomer, and roughly the year that birth rates started a rapid decline into GenX -- seems like a strong majority of the cohort is already collecting SS?
jkf
20d ago
Yeah I'm unfamiliar with any of these properties and understood BigGuy to mean something more cyberpunk than 'mid-lesbo' -- like a Chelsea with some gel-work on top.
jkf
20d ago
TBF those two words are very similar and easily confused if your brain happens to like... swap some letters around.
jkf
21d ago
Just tell them that society needs at least a few writers and entertainers who aren't utter morons as well...
jkf
21d ago
The ones who did badly and were put in the bottom track because they were rebellious or narrowly-focused and flourished once they got into a more open-ended environment.
Is this really a bad outcome though? If you manage to get every smart person into the white collar stream, you no longer have any smart blue collar workers to advance society in those areas.
Dunno how Sweden did it, but in Canada it was more or less an accounting trick -- health care costs were downloaded from the feds to the provinces, which was great for the federal budget but resulted in commensurate impacts on both service levels (down) and provincial budgets (up).
Probably some amount of true cutting obtained through the device of scapegoating the provinces when the health care system became underfunded, but provinces also increased taxes/deficits to make up some of the gap -- it's nowhere near as impactful as the headline numbers might imply.
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