I try not to judge people unless they meet certain conditions.
For example, they’re well known public people like politicians or other celebrities.
Or I’ve observed them do something that I believe they must know is wrong if they are able to think rationally. (That category catches most people who argue with me online.)
But for buying something being boycotted, there’s a good chance they are unaware.
“The president was serious,” Leavitt told reporters Monday while answering questions on the White House driveway. “He seriously wants to distract you with culture war issues, rather than let you continue to focus on the countless crimes of pedophilia and child rape he’s committed in the past.”
I’m not going to read Marjorie Greene’s entire statement so I might theoretically be missing some context, but what does she say here? “Communists aren’t Americans and need to be locked up.”
That’s just McCarthyism. A bunch of nonsense we should have left behind.
Even if her accusations of communism were accurate, there isn’t anything in the Constitution that says people who identify as Communists cannot be American citizens. On the other hand, birthright citizenship is specifically granted in the 14th Amendment.
I truly, honestly, believe that a congressperson saying that AOC, who was born in NYC, isn’t American, is a violation of their oath of office. Marjorie Greene swore to defend the Constitution, and the Constitution couldn’t be any clearer about AOC’s citizenship. I also think that office holders who violate their oath of office should be removed from their office, and that it is the responsibility of other representatives to do so.
It would probably be quicker for you to look it up yourself because the answer is complicated to explain. But it’s an electromagnet made from superconducting materials, and that is why it seems to violate your common sense.
It has even happened to people who were known as strong swimmers.
while the machine was running?
In an MRI, the magnet is always on, even when the machine isn’t running. You can’t ever go near it with metal on.
One person shouldn’t have the power to cut this much from a school’s budget, even the POTUS.
Although I expect Harvard to win this case, a lot of damage has already been done.
I used the internet for a long time before ad blockers even existed. Everybody simply ignored ads, instead. But that wasn’t good enough for the advertisers. They weren’t happy unless we were forced to look at the ads. Extraordinarily obtrusive ads. Popup ads. Popunder ads. That’s when people started blocking ads. When you realized that your browser always ended up with 20 extra advertising windows.
Nobody really cared about blocking ads until advertisers forced us to. They made the internet annoying to use, and sometimes impossible to use.
Advertisers couldn’t just be happy with people ignoring their ads, so they forced our hands and fucked themselves in the process. Now, we block them by default. I don’t even know any websites that have unobtrusive ads because I never see their ads in the first place.
Now, they want to go back to the time when we would see their ads but ignore them. Fuck off. We know we can’t even give them that much. If you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile.
The one I know said that Francis was “the antichrist” and wasn’t really the pope, or even Catholic. And based on her history, I can guarantee that she’ll have no trouble believing that Leo is “the antichrist”, despite the fact that there’s only supposed to be one.
She claims that she doesn’t use social media or watch the news, but somehow, she always believes things 100% the same as QAnon.
“I can beat them all to the next red light.”
Oh man.
I remember when I think it was Houston started using timed lights, the idiots said that a light timed for 30 MPH was also timed for 60 and 90 MPH. It’s hard to comprehend such stupidity and bad math.
It’s a little weird to ride on a bus or train with only socks and no shoes. Even the other passengers seem to think it’s weird that they have no shoes.
He moved to a country that was actively waging a war of aggression, and joined the military expecting not to see combat. If it seems like something only a complete dumbass would do, that’s because it is.
This isn’t even weird.
I think most security experts would recommend that you have your most important passwords written down somewhere, and then hopefully locked up in some safe or deposit box somewhere. You don’t need to buy an entire book for it, but some people like to spend money.
If this is for your less important passwords, then for the most part, writing them down is actually better. You won’t be as tempted to reuse your banking password for your social media. And some people like writing things down. A password manager is a better solution, but lots of people aren’t as good with technology and if they even let the browser remember it, they won’t know how to retrieve it later if they want to use a different computer, for example.
Why can’t I hate both?
I don’t know too much about this guy, but if you ignore the part about him being a horrible person for a moment and focus more on the part where he did something new in this field, this is pretty much what happens.
People who are seen as trailblazers in these sort of daredevil fields often end up dying young. It may be quite safe to go skydiving, for example, but people who push boundaries also tend to push their luck with safety margins.
“Can I go ahead of you in line? My kid is acting up. Great thanks. (To cashier) I’d like to buy this alcohol and cigarettes with these food stamps that I acquired totally legally. No? Let’s take several minutes to discuss if there’s any way around the law. Now that that’s over, I’ll pay with a check. Oh, also, can I get 20 scratch off tickets? I just want to scratch them off while you wait. Here, I have a giant roll of cash that I will use, but don’t worry, I wasn’t doing this to make things go faster. Now is my chance to try to do a cash-changing scam on you.”
Trump can be part of the reason without being the entire reason, can’t he?
Also, Trump has made it clear in the past that he thinks it’s strange to do something for free, even if it’s a normal part of your job, like appointing somebody to an office. If the deal requires approval from Trump, then it’s completely on-brand for him to try to milk it for all it’s worth. And I am sure that he’s petty enough that he’d nix a deal for a personal squabble, as long as he wasn’t going to lose anything huge.
This doesn’t have the ring of a conspiracy theory. It’s literally all out in the open. It’s a prediction based on how Trump usually acts. Colbert might have been on the ropes and Trump’s team did the knockout blow. I guess we’ll know for sure if Trump did do it, because then he’d inevitably brag about it publicly. Or CBS maybe did this preemptively, expecting Trump to act like he always acts.
If you’re an American and you can’t name… let’s say… 10 presidents, then it’s probably a bad sign if you even have a favorite politician.
That is a very serious issue. Most of the representatives, if they actually took their oath seriously, would be defending the Constitution. But they’re defending the major donors to their campaigns, instead.
Now, if I was in that position, I’d follow my oath, and inevitably lose the next time, because my donors would back somebody who would play ball. This conflict of interests means that our current system automatically-selects in favor of corrupt people who don’t care about their oaths.
So, I am sure you’re right that everybody, or virtually everybody, is an oath breaker. Only a small few can afford to refuse corporate money. We can never fix this problem unless we have significant campaign finance reform.