netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
That’s like asking why conservatives are so angry about electric vehicles. It turns out they have the bandwidth to judge more than one thing at once.
People who hate Russia’s stance on homosexuality probably also distrust it for invading Ukraine, repressing political dissidents, and generally pretending that it’s still the Cold War. Sometimes one or another is in the news. In this case, it appears to be due to updated laws criminalizing the rainbow flag as comparable to al-Qaeda, Aum Shinrikyo, the Azov Battalion, and…Meta.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
In my experience, most of our moderation is chiding right-wing people for frothing about left-wingers. There are a lot more of the former.
I will admit I declined to moderate the prep comment partly because I wanted to argue with it. Perhaps that was a mistake.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9mo ago
I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone accuse Hoff of postmodernism. Or of being wishy-washy, for that matter.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10mo ago
The nice thing about having specific processes is that they aren’t all-or-nothing. Giving up one doesn’t mean going full postmodernist and rejecting all empirical measurements. The ruler can stay.
Same goes for your rather convoluted hypothetical. There’s no discrimination lawsuit in using the actual indicators for a treatment.
Doctrine can’t be the same because they’re trying to accomplish different things. All else equal, the guy who’s entrenched has an advantage. As evidence I present all of WWI.
More specifically, consider a town defense like Khorramshar. The Iraqis were forced to expose their armor to RPGs and Iranian tanks if they wanted to get anywhere. As a result, they suffered much heavier casualties despite a numerical advantage.
Actually, I suspect the First Gulf War Iran/Iraq War would provide a lot of insight into the Ukraine invasion, but I’d need to do a more careful reading.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Comparable information for Texas can probably be found here. Not something I can really explore on my phone, though.
We’ve got an interesting case for two reasons. First, the infamous Texas Interconnection. Our link to the rest of the country is highly limited, which keeps us away from certain federal regulations. Second, we had a moderate disaster back in 2021 when that infrastructure groaned under winter weather. Over 200 people died, making Texans much more aware of our grid than the average American.
Here’s Senator Ted Cruz leaving his constituency for a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Cancun. Naturally, this was completely forgiven by the time he faced reelection.
Texas did pass bills subsidizing on-demand generation, though I do believe one of them was actually regulating a different initiative out of existence. This is probably a good thing, and we’ll probably be ready for whatever natural disaster hits next. Either way, Republicans will see no electoral consequences whatsoever.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
That’s a chilling effect for you.
Compare gattsuru’s posts on ATF ambiguity. They don’t have to shoot every dog to remind people that dog-shooting is, in fact, on the table.
Wasn’t the Kate Cox case about infertility? It used the “substantial impairment” part of the exception rather than “danger of death.” If her doctors and judge agreed on medical necessity, the law remained intact.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9mo ago
Why would it change the social dynamics? The suggestion that men would start living in fear was always a bogeyman.
Anyway, the Trump/Carroll lawsuit probably counts.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Не знаю, но он определенно не внушает мне симпатии.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9mo ago
“Lukewarm” is about what I’d expect for principled defenses of uncomfortable optics.
I kind of waffled between my two paragraphs. I’m strongly in favor of collective bargaining as a concept, since firms are categorically different than individuals, so I objected to OP’s characterization. And I really do think the popularity of unions stems from a genuine desire for “fairness,” so cases like this will damage them. On the other hand, I’d be alright with more limitations; I just don’t have a good idea of what those look like.
(Also, I’ve been trying more aggressive editing for conciseness. It’s going okay.)
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Actually, I’d say there’s a better case for itemizing tariffs than sales tax, since the latter doesn’t actually give you any choice. The state of Texas is going to get its cut no matter which goods Amazon sells to Texans.
This does make me wonder if tobacco companies are prohibited, in some way, from itemizing vice taxes. I’d have thought they would be eager to remind customers why they’re paying more.
For that matter, where do all these people who think taxes being paid is a bad thing go
They don’t think that. They think having to pay a tax is a bad thing. What happens after that is handwaved.
Nor do they really go anywhere. If a traditional tax hike was on the table, they’d flip out about it, too. But Trump is a populist, and has demonstrated less than zero interest in the normal legislative process, so that’s a non-starter.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Self-imposed, as with the last few of his accounts.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
…but it is 100% worth discussing.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-14/la-me-no-assassination-trump-coachella
On one hand, the perpetrator is an outspoken Trump supporter, running an advocacy org to expose the Deep State.
On the other, he runs an advocacy org to expose the Deep State. I don’t think that selects for the most stable individuals.
On the gripping hand, the guy is taking fake IDs and fake weapons into a restricted area with his fake license plate. He’s lucky to be alive.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9mo ago
God. It would probably be delicious, but it would take forever, and probably cost more. I’d be a lot healthier if I developed better habits around cooking and meal prep.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10mo ago
Because there’s a specific law calling out gender identity discrimination. (Sex discrimination, too, but I still don’t understand why that doesn’t apply.)
If short kings get a law passed, then the ruler might have to go. But that law won’t be passed, because trans activism doesn’t generalize to every possible category.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
What kind of attempts do you have in mind?
She has no signature policy, no specific crisis to solve. She doesn’t have a particularly unified Congress. The limiting factor on the Democrats is not the Supreme Court.
I see a Harris presidency leading to one or two Bruen and Dobbs level decisions.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
Okay, the queue is just full of your comments. You are consistently picking fights with other users, other mods, and the general concept of things you don’t like. In this particular example, you’re doing so while also speaking for a number of people who may or may be on board.
Take another week off to cool down. Quit trying to rally the troops.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
17d ago
Obergefell is correct. The right to marriage does not distinguish between same-sex and opposite-sex couples just as it doesn’t distinguish between same- or mixed-race ones.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1mo ago
Anyone know any games, roleplaying or otherwise, which end up encouraging real/historical tactics? Or generalize those tactics to the magic or tech or whatever makes the setting unique.
I was playing D:OS2 this weekend and found myself thinking, "wow, all these spear-wielding magisters have zero incentive to form up and fight in ranks." It's a chaotic free-for-all.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3mo ago
I, too, would like a source for that.
A casual search suggests that the standard for chemical castration is “MPA”, or maybe “DMPA.” At least that’s what California law specified. If I understand it right, that’s a progestin (progestogen??) similar to what’s in the combination birth control pill.
Wikipedia claims the preferred blockers are “GnRH agonists” and maybe antagonists. It mentions progestogens to say they might be cheaper, and the main source is about precocious puberty, not gender identity.
In case Wikipedia is shamelessly misrepresenting the issue, I looked at a couple other sites. Neither suggests (D)MPA or any progestogen.
Man.
You keep doing this thing, this complete disregard for the spirit and letter of the rules, and we keep letting it slide. You’ve been an articulate and passionate and interesting commenter. But now when I see your name in a thread I know exactly what I’m going to get.
One month ban.
Edit: fuck me, this is what I get for modding on my way out of work. I read this as a straightforward attack on the general category of feminists as “hollowed out p-zombies” who “aren’t capable of consent.” And I thought, Jesus Christ, this is the clearest possible violation of the Specific Groups rule and the general proscription on Booing the Outgroup. I could write up a detailed explanation, or I could assume that he and any observers would recognize the same old fight as always.
We have been politely asking you to stop tarring all leftists/Democrats/Californians/NGOs/women with the same brush for literal years. And every time, you insist that no, you’re just speaking truth to power! Surely there can be no transgressing against people who want to MUTILATE and STERILIZE your kids!
I have so much respect for you as a writer, a craftsman, a father. You’re smart and you’re damn funny. You also have this pathological urge to tell everyone about how evil the other team has been lately. And that comes into direct conflict with the Specific Groups, Outgroup Booing, Antagonism, and occasionally Evidence rules. A lesser poster would have earned a permaban several times over.
I banned you for a month because the last one was two weeks and I saw this as more of the same. Now all sorts of pillars of the community are popping in to tell me it was a bad shoot. There’s also the fact that Amadan thinks I was too harsh; you were only “pretty close” to generalizing about all lefties/feminists.
So…did I get you wrong?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
No, they don’t. Do you know anything about American reluctance to enter the World Wars?
I’d like to see you apply any of these standards to Putin’s Russia. You have a remarkable blind spot for anything you think pisses off your domestic enemies.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10mo ago
Perhaps you should be more specific than “PMC,” since most founders are, in fact, professionals and/or managers. Who exactly do you have in mind? Does this tax favor them, rather than just anyone who isn’t super wealthy?
“Preventing super wealth” sounds like a pretty normal Democrat plank. What does the extra theory add?
That’s obviously wrong.
You’ve got the George Lucases of the world: studied film at USC. No interesting life experiences. No ability to write human dialogue. Clearly capable of making a movie anyway. His whole cohort of Coppola and Spielberg and so on have similar stories.
Then there’s the Wes Andersons, whose ivory-tower philosophy degrees don’t appear to have prevented them from writing competent films. Or branch out to weirdos like Hideo Kojima. It’s not like he had an exotic childhood. He just thought movies were cool, so he started writing something resembling screenplays.
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