"The Dam's About To Break On The Establishment Control Of The Party"

Netweasel · 2023-10-03T20:27:04+00:00

It’s ~~revealing~~ revolting that Ro Khanna said this with a straight face:

"Biden has been a much better and more progressive President than I thought...”

Now, it's possible for that to be a true statement. Just how bad did he think that Biden was going to be?
Biden might have been "better and more progressive" than the incredible shitshow Ro thought Biden was going to be.

Netweasel · 2023-09-10T15:28:52+00:00

This same person told me she finds RFK Jr. "slimy"

Reminds me of the "Bernie makes my skin crawl" comment.

Netweasel · 2023-09-10T05:17:15+00:00

Quebecois Secession Vote.

Followed by the GWB interview on a plane (election day, 2000) while seated next to his brother (Jeb!), the then Governor of Florida.
GWB was asked about NBC calling Florida for Gore earlier that afternoon, GWB smirked and said "Oh, I don't think so."

Netweasel · 2023-09-09T12:33:04+00:00

Did you go to that section of the video that showed the fence?

Haven't seen any of the video yet. Still speaking theoretically.

Once I see the video, I can't be at a place in which I have not seen it yet. Have to cover all those angles first.

Netweasel · 2023-09-09T00:12:30+00:00

That is odd, and very difficult to accomplish with just wind and fire.

Some of the other stuff you're describing can be done by just wind and fire, and similar things to them have probably happened before, elsewhere.

But small pieces of metal getting hot enough to char wood without the rest of the wood charring? If that's what actually happened, that's quite odd.

Just be sure that there isn't some other piece of information left out that puts it back into the "possible by wind and fire alone" category.

Netweasel · 2023-09-08T15:29:42+00:00

There's a wood cross-runner on the ground,

Was the cross-runner charred or burnt?

Netweasel · 2023-09-08T15:27:35+00:00

it still seems odd

In a large enough sample size, you're gonna find some odd in there somewhere.

Netweasel · 2023-09-08T13:44:17+00:00

They're the same

CNN said that about any comparison of Trump and Biden?

Isn't that one of the signs?

Netweasel · 2023-09-08T13:37:26+00:00

Do they at least have external cameras, to record the pre-wreck footage of what just happened?

Netweasel · 2023-09-08T10:49:55+00:00

The way I've heard this, the winds were not all going the same direction all the time.
Eddies could have happened. Eddies of fire, and eddies of not-fire.

Netweasel · 2023-09-08T10:48:00+00:00

It clearly burned only where the cross-runners were nailed on.

It didn't look like metal runners in the image.

What were the cross runners made of? Also, were the nail heads still there?

Netweasel · 2023-09-08T10:42:14+00:00

And if you have evidence of things that microwaves can do, but fire and wind cannot, go with that.

Adding in things that wind and fire can do just muddies your evidence. Like the nails. I had hopes for the nails.
Fire and wind would have a tough time getting a single unconnected nail hot enough to char wood without the fire and wind charring the wood at the same time.

But when you add in metal fencing connecting the nails, you've just built a wood burning kit for the fire to play with.
Remember wood burning kits? Basically a soldering iron to burn your initials into a plank with? You get metal hot enough and you can char wood with it.

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T20:16:12+00:00

Now look at the massive Banyan tree in the video....That's 360 degrees of intense fire...

Wait... what happened to the house? Was there not a 360 degree shot of lack of fire damage around it?

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T19:53:09+00:00

Try it this way: Suppose you have magic powers to control what the wind does, let's call it AirBending.
But only during intense fires.

Could you, through control of the air in a fire, make these effects happen?

Could you swirl a swath of cooler air around a favorite Banyan tree to save it while all around it burns? Yes.
Could you make it so that one quadrant of a car just melts but the opposite corner is still like new? Yes.
Could you make this stack of tires erupt in flame while another stack three feet away doesn't? Yes.

All that you could theoretically do through magic control of the winds, Wind and Fire is capable of doing, at least once.

Could you make a single nail in a tree burn part of a tree at point of contact, without harming the rest of the tree? Don't think so.
[Edit: you could, if you had some other metal attached to the nail that you could heat up instead of heating the nail directly.]
Could you, shown a pile of identical-looking tires, make only the ones containing steel belts burn? Don't think so either.

If that kind of thing happened, I would suggest focusing on those things that Wind And Fire in combination cannot do.
If you could do it through AirBending, it's possible that Wind and Fire in combination really did it.

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T19:38:47+00:00

It clearly burned only where the cross-runners were nailed on.

Metal conducts heat better than air. And melts at a much higher point than the flash point of wood.
The metal runners could have heated up the wood at point of contact, if the runners were still attached at the time.

Unconnected nails in wood burning the wood (without the rest of the wood burning) would need a different cause.

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T14:58:12+00:00

What remains suspicious are homes reduced to ash while the trees surrounding them retained their needles and small branches. Or the blue umbrellas fully intact next to the charred remains of the building. Or the intact and unmarked wood landing adjacent to the burned shell of the mobile home.

With enough wind in enough different directions, and with enough data available to pick and choose specific fire weirdnesses...
It's not really that suspicious. After almost any major hurricane, reporters will go and find that one weird thing the hurricane did or didn't do.

Demolished doublewide no longer attached to untouched deck? Check. Demolished deck no longer attached to untouched doublewide? Check.

How much of that stuff didn't happen?

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T14:46:37+00:00

There was a wind from behind, and the rear bumper looked untouched, but it also likely fed the fire that engulfed the rest.

Do you think that a gale force wind would have made it much worse?

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T14:42:12+00:00

What remains suspicious are homes reduced to ash while the trees surrounding them retained their needles and small branches

Fire and wind combined does weird things, but it does not usually do that. There's usually a path. Most likely, either someone torched their own home for the insurance money and the fire didn't get there, or you saw selective footage that did not show how the fire got to the home in question. The fire could have gone in one slim finger to the house, torched it and stopped. Then the film shows a 350 degree angle around the house of unburned trees.

Huge wildfires have done stranger things. Such as embers reaching a house from above and creating a firenado.

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T14:27:02+00:00

I thought more about this as it relates to the fence burning from the nails inside. Plausable...

It would also depend upon where the nails were. Occasionally there would be a nail not attached to the metal part of the fence, to hang something on. Did those nails (not attached to anything) also burn the posts? If the effect was electrical from the metal fence, those would not have burned.

If there were such a thing as a Carrington Gun, and if it were to have been used, either all the nails would have burned the posts, or just the nails at right angles to the direction of the alleged beam. Is there evidence of either of those things?

...except the power in Lahana had been cut.

Couldn't that part have happened before power was cut?

(Yes, I'm examining from both sides at once)

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T02:22:12+00:00

It could have been worse...

They could have found the "specific amino-acid sequence that exists only in the vaccine-induced spike protein" in some of the unvaccinated....

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T02:16:36+00:00

Years ago I lost a Porsche to an engine fire.

The way the conversation is going, I have to ask....
How windy was it during the Porsche fire?

Netweasel · 2023-09-07T02:06:15+00:00

I had 50 feet of fence with burns around the staples in the posts when a power line fell on them during a thunderstorm.

"Burns around the staples" sounds like something more electrical than fire related....

I haven't looked at the "fence posts that burned from the nails out" footage, but that one, if as described, would seem to be difficult to achieve by fire alone. Maybe it's not quite as described, but if it is....

Netweasel · 2023-09-06T19:40:15+00:00

Your description sounds like a pinpoint Carrington Event.

Instead of telegraph wires, steel belted radials.

Netweasel · 2023-09-06T08:46:32+00:00

I suspect there was something in the results they wanted to hide.

Hmm. What could have been in the results? There aren't that many things possible, I would think.
It seems a really tight focus of questioning.

We do not know the results, but in theory they do.

Which of the possible results would they want to hide, and which would they not want to hide?

Netweasel · 2023-09-06T08:27:46+00:00

Most importantly, Thurmond most certainly did not vote for the Civil Rights Act.

Does he still hold the record for Longest Filibuster? IIRC, his record was against the Civil Rights Act.....

Netweasel · 2023-09-06T08:22:34+00:00

Does anybody remember just how "non compos mentis" Strom was, in the few months right before he died?

"OK Strom, now you just push this 'yes' button" was all it would have taken to "literally, not figuratively, talk Strom into voting for" something at the time.

All that would have been necessary was to be in the right place at the right time to say it.

Netweasel · 2023-09-05T23:43:02+00:00

those trials will be the easiest trials ever for which to get dismissed from jury duty. You just have to say... "The bastard is guilty as sin!"

"And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said 'you're our boy'..."
--Arlo Guthrie

Netweasel · 2023-09-05T02:37:06+00:00

For example is there hard evidence lying around proving the CIA did the 2014 coup, nearly 10 years later?

For a benchmark to go by, how long did it take to verify the CIA's involvement in Iran in 1952?

Netweasel · 2023-09-04T19:08:29+00:00

the world’s most successful military alliance.

Didn't "the world’s most successful military alliance" include Russia (then USSR) in it?

Netweasel · 2023-09-03T23:34:56+00:00

So their "they don't have standing" argument was one of sovereign immunity?

Netweasel · 2023-09-03T13:50:50+00:00

it established the FDA exceeded its authority and by doing so it effectively interfered with doctors' ability to practice medicine

So what was the argument that Standing to Sue did not exist? Just a decree that it did not, or was there stated reasoning? Because that right there clearly looks like Standing....

Unauthorized actions by the Defendant leading to direct, measureable losses by the Plaintiff... that's pretty much Standing.

Netweasel · 2023-09-02T17:35:10+00:00

I won't include Gerald Ford since he wasn't elected president.

He wasn't elected VP either....

Netweasel · 2023-09-02T17:30:16+00:00

He's posted a least a couple of times that most WOTBers are women.

I personally would bet-hedge and go with "at least half."

Netweasel · 2023-09-01T17:45:47+00:00

There have recently been lots of commercials riding the YouTubes, telling everyone in SC who just lost a certain type of coverage (don't remember the name) to go to healthcare.gov......

Netweasel · 2023-09-01T01:56:38+00:00

The professional psychologist's association that sent that poll is not a passive observer in this. That was my point.

That was my point as well. The question (actually a paraphrase of a question) was not quite a neutral one. It seemed a bit slanted to get more yesses than nos.

They weren't just polling their members out of the blue, much less to nudge them into recommending suicide to their patients.

The concept of "recommending suicide" seems to only be in the title of this post. The reference (paraphrased) question was referring more to "will you be affirming in their decision and help them through the process" for someone who had already made the decision to do so.

I personally think that the question should have been broken into two parts: 1) would you be affirming in their decision and 2) if they are firm in their decision, would you help them through the process. Those two parts might end up, for some people, being yes on one and no on the other.

Netweasel · 2023-08-31T23:08:20+00:00

Well, AFP has been running a mailer campaign of "If Trump vs Biden, Biden wins. We need Anybody But Trump to beat Biden" (paraphrased) without saying who their "anybody" actually is.

At this point, it's looking like it might be Tim Scott, but Nikki may be angling to take it from him.

Netweasel · 2023-08-31T18:06:46+00:00

Some additional info:

I got a text from the Nikki Haley Campaign (at least I think it's them, they seem to be the only ones that call me that wrong name)...

[Wrong name], we are having an overwhelming response to the non-partisan poll....Your choice matters. Please let us know which candidate is your first choice.

1 for Trump
2 for DeSantis
3 for Other
4 for Undecided

Thank you. If you reply, we will send all voters the results of our poll.

(I didn't reply, so I guess they won't.)

The implications of the wording are quite interesting....
"Non-partisan.... Trump or DeSantis?" Any first-choice-Biden (or other non-Republican) people would be bundled with the Republican "other"s.

I think they may be looking for a groundswell of "People for Other."

Netweasel · 2023-08-31T17:48:18+00:00

So you think the professional bodies that regulate psychologists and psychiatrists should just ignore it then, since it's only a hypothetical?

Well, that's awfully far afield....

It's a hypothetical up until it happens. Until it happens, technically no one knows what form it would take. In this particular case, the laws have yet to be written.

And hypotheticals should be examined to prepare for what is (possibly) to come. Best example: WOTB, October 2016. "What if Trump actually wins this thing? [At the time, a hypothetical] Shouldn't we examine that, just in case?"

Netweasel · 2023-08-28T14:52:07+00:00

Well I didn't call it a hypothetical,

Never said you did. You said it was not.

But until it is actually implemented ("on day 1 when the government finally issues their rules for MAID for the mentally ill" you said) it's still hypothetical.

Netweasel · 2023-08-28T14:17:48+00:00

Damn. you're right. sometimes things get crossed.

Many apologies.

Not an excuse, but an explanation: Through a combination of bad eyes, a bad screen, and slight dyslexia, I had verified at least three times through this thread that the name on the post and your username were the same name. And I was wrong every time.

Netweasel · 2023-08-28T02:22:23+00:00

I didn't write the title of this post

...but you did post it. [Edit: No, you didn't. sorry about that.] ~~And therefore chose that title to use for the post~~.

Netweasel · 2023-08-27T15:17:07+00:00

in the case of income tax, yes, it is theft and regressive taxation

I am curious about this point....

How do you figure the US Federal Income Tax to be a regressive tax?

Netweasel · 2023-08-27T13:30:41+00:00

You seem to have skipped past the point.

Calling it "hypothetical" at this point (because it hasn't yet happened) is simply a case of trying not to overstep the current information.

Netweasel · 2023-08-27T13:14:56+00:00

I have said nothing about counseling.

If that's the case, what is it you think that the psychotherapists have been doing?
Wouldn't "recommending assisted suicide to their patients" (as you said in the title of this post) be counseling?

You just didn't use the word "counseling." Neither did I.

Netweasel · 2023-08-27T03:27:05+00:00

that is my decision, and mine alone. My decision. Not yours, or anybody else’s.

And the job of Therapist is to help you be sure that your decision (whatever it turns out to be) is a well-thought out one, and the one that is actually best for you.

Whether or not the Therapist likes the decision you make.

Netweasel · 2023-08-27T03:22:52+00:00

A psychologist has to know that this sort of survey has to be language-neutral if it is to gather reliable data.

But the question (or at least the paraphrase of it) is far from neutral. It seems to have been crafted to get as many yeses as possible.

If MAiD is implemented to include mental health illnesses, and you have a patient who wants to utilize the program....

Those are two big IFs to start off with. You have a patient coming to you, knowing about the program, theoretically understanding the program, and theoretically qualifying for the program.

will you help them through the process?

How could a decent therapist say no to that? The trick is the "will you be affirming in their decision" that they seemed (to me) to have stuck in there, hoping no one would notice.

The question might be "language-neutral," but it's still quite slanted. IMO, too slanted to get reliable data from it.
Depending upon what data they are actually looking for.

Netweasel · 2023-08-27T03:14:18+00:00

ALS or pancreatic cancer?

I think that those situations would fall under the "medical" branch of the MAID, not the proposed/hypothetical "Mental" branch.

The original question (although we are only getting a paraphrase of the original) seems to imply a patient that is at least of average health.

Netweasel · 2023-08-27T03:00:48+00:00

Even if legal they should NOT increase in volume or ratio of cases.

Which raises a question I've been curious about: as the numbers of "government assisted suicides" go up, are the numbers of "unassisted suicides" going down?

it should never be OFFERED by any advocate or taken lightly when demanded or brought up by a patient; this is a very serious "solution", and should remain a rare[ly] appropriate one.

That sounds very close to what I have been saying in this thread...

Netweasel · 2023-08-27T02:53:46+00:00

Suicide is not and will never be a valid "option" to be "explored" with someone under your care - someone to whom you have a fiduciary duty.

It shouldn't be explored even when they bring it up as was posed in the question?

So what do you do when they do bring it up? Shut them down and simply tell them to not do it? Way to therapy there, dude.

Netweasel · 2023-08-26T12:58:17+00:00

“If MAiD is implemented to include mental health illnesses, and you have a patient who wants to utilize the program, will you be affirming in their decision and help them through the process?”

Now, that's a more clear question than the one described in the title.

And "Hell no" would be my answer too, but not in the same way. The "be affirming in their decision" is the sticking point for me. IMO, a therapist should not be affirming, nor the opposite of affirming. A therapist should be helping the patient find the best option for the patient without any steering toward any particular option.

Here's a quick analogy: Suppose the patient just discovered that they had very recently become pregnant. At that stage, there are basically three options: 1) get rid of it now/abortion, 2) get rid of it later/adoption, or 3) don't get rid of it/keep it.

What happens if the therapist is anti-abortion, but their patient is not? Does that first option just never get mentioned or discussed, even if it happens to be the best option for that patient at that time? Just a big NO if the patient even mentions it? Or should it be discussed, neutrally, so that the therapist helps the patient figure out which of the three options is best for the patient?

Same with suicide. It's possible (theoretically) that, in some rare cases, suicide IS the best option. The therapist's role (IMO) is to help the patient make sure that the option the patient decides to take IS the best option the patient can take.

If suicide is NOT the best option in this particular case, they can figure that out together.

Also, the question removes the scenario of the therapist saying "Boy your life is rough. Have you looked into this Government Assisted Suicide thingy?" In the question, the patient is bringing it up. Therefore (IMO) it should be discussed. Without the therapist pushing for a yes or no.

And, to restate the original question, if, after all the discussion and analysis between therapist and patient, the patient is still at "yes, this is what I'm going to do".... would you as a therapist help them through the process?

Edit: Or would you refer them to someone who could actually do that?

Netweasel · 2023-08-26T12:28:47+00:00

Try turning the question around for a bit.

If "assisted suicide" were illegal (as it has been in several places for quite a while)...
would psychotherapists recommend it to certain of their patients, despite its illegality?

In theory, there is the rare patient (possibly extremely rare) for whom that would be the best option. Would you deny them that option?

Also, I hope the original question actually meant "mentioning the option as an option to be explored (as an option)" instead of "hey, why don't you try this? It's cheap, fun and quick."

Netweasel · 2023-08-26T00:56:35+00:00

I'm guessing eventually these people are going to be the new "coal miners"....

But what will they tell the people who went into massive debt in order to learn to code, to do?

Netweasel · 2023-08-25T22:44:26+00:00

I'm the one who touched the poop and got suspended.

At what point in the 12 [now 13] day history of your Saidit account did this (Reddit, I'm guessing) suspension happen?

Netweasel · 2023-08-25T22:40:59+00:00

Russia uses conventional forces and tactics, they're just sloppy and more ad hoc.

Looks to me like Russia figured out that "Shock and Awe" makes the "Hearts and Minds" portion of the aftermath that much more difficult to accomplish.

Netweasel · 2023-08-25T16:09:58+00:00

Look how piss poor Russia is doing in Ukraine by comparison.

The key there may be your last two words -- "by comparison."

"They don't do war like we do war... REEEEE"
(Kinda puts the lie to "symmetric warfare", donit?)

Netweasel · 2023-08-25T13:06:45+00:00

Where's a Source!?! Reddit neck beard meme when you need one.

Exactly my thought there.

Netweasel · 2023-08-25T11:53:48+00:00

A war against China or another large power would be symmetric warfare. We're good at that.

[citation needed]

Netweasel · 2023-08-25T11:49:49+00:00

TBH I'm tired of hearing about a 7k subscriber sub.

Well, you've only been here about 12 days, and about two thirds of your comments have been on this subject.....

Maybe it's you.

Netweasel · 2023-08-24T17:38:42+00:00

I wonder...

Would even a temporary cease fire be enough for there to be elections in Ukraine?

Netweasel · 2023-08-24T16:53:34+00:00

"I don't care, I just want the orange shit in prison for life,"

Doesn't sound too different than the "Lock Her Up" crowd of 2016......

Wonder what your "very Dem TDS older sis" thought of those people at the time.

Netweasel · 2023-08-24T06:35:02+00:00

most of the photos are real

But all it takes is one fake photo in the bunch to discredit the real ones.

(For the record, I am speaking generally, not specifically)

Netweasel · 2023-08-22T17:09:30+00:00

I wonder if that image at 0.12 is fake

Well, that IS a classic technique: leak fake evidence of a true thing so that the (easily debunkable) "evidence" can be used to argue that the true thing isn't actually true.

For example, using a (quickly identifiable) body double, or having something in frame that could not have existed at the time when the "evidence" was supposed to have actually taken place. "Look! It's fake! Therefore what you are accusing this person of never happened!"

No... that just means that this one piece of "evidence" is fake.

Netweasel · 2023-08-21T14:46:39+00:00

Years before that, we were advised by a friend in hospital management always to have family advocates present when a loved one was inpatient,

I've always had a standing rule: Someone else has to be there, if at all possible.

My favorite story: Patient had 103 fever, no discernible cause (apparently). Teaching hospital, new Residents/Interns had just arrived two days earlier.

Appendicitis was suspected but not confirmed. Decision was to keep patient until something changed and a ruptured appendix would confirm suspicions. Exasperated, I said "You've got an ultrasound up in OB/GYN! <points in that direction> Why don't you just go look??!?"

They looked at each other and left. Ultrasound was done next morning. Kidney infection.

(I think ultrasounds are now SOP in some cases.)

Netweasel · 2023-08-21T04:14:19+00:00

I'm talking more of the "we're leaving"/"hell no you're not, we'll kick your ass" component, like what happened in the late 1770s.

The dying to protect one's people from the threatened ass-kicking.

Netweasel · 2023-08-21T01:58:47+00:00

maybe they've all got their symbol welded under their shoes so they can always walk on blessed ground!

If that's the case, may we please see a picture of The Shoe In Question?

Netweasel · 2023-08-21T01:48:31+00:00

It can be argued that the last Justified War (worth dying for to protect one's people) that the US was in was back in the 1860s.
And fully Justified for only one part of the US.

And that part didn't even consider itself part of the US at the time.

Netweasel · 2023-08-21T01:31:37+00:00

Did they include a picture of the shoe in question?

Did someone weld a Star of David onto the tip of the steel toe? And then sharpen the edges?

Netweasel · 2023-08-21T00:56:24+00:00

That's kind of a dangerous precedent....

So if they seriously wanted to tell people to stop doing something, how can they possibly tell them, seriously, to stop it?
Seriously...

Netweasel · 2023-08-21T00:37:57+00:00

"those statements do not rise to the level of a command.”

So the word "seriously" right before it wasn't really serious?

Netweasel · 2023-08-20T19:25:01+00:00

Government agencies also played along, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration even Tweeting out: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.”

That the US FDA would send out an official tweet containing the word "y'all"...
...should have been a great big red flag all on its own.

Netweasel · 2023-08-20T13:23:35+00:00

I'd raise it to 30.

Did you ever notice that "never trust anyone over 30" became "never trust anyone under 30" once the speakers reached the age of 30 or so?

Netweasel · 2023-08-20T12:10:01+00:00

On the other other hand...

They don't have to come up with a "transmissible vaccine" to make this happen, they just have to start a rumor that they did, and that they aren't telling anybody that they did.

Netweasel · 2023-08-20T12:04:37+00:00

The contintental US has never been attacked during a war

Didn't someone burn down the White House (before it was white) that one time?
(Never is a long time)

Side note: Wasn't September 2001 "during a war" somewhere? Or was that one of the rare warless times?

Edit: nice use of the "since 9/11, GWB has kept us safe" type of selective choice of restrictive parameters.
You could have also gone with "no US State" (Since Hawaii was not one when it was attacked).

Also, December 7, 1941 was not "during a war." War were declared later.

Netweasel · 2023-08-19T10:35:45+00:00

On the other hand....

Suppose they did come out with a "transmissible vaccine," one that if you got the shot you could involuntarily pass that alleged disease protection on to dozens, hundreds, thousands of people.

Those that did not want that sort of experimental at-least-semi-living thingy in their bodies would be masking up, "social distancing," and sterilizing everything around them to protect themselves against both the disease and against the "protection" from the disease. Which should, theoretically, reduce transmission rates of the disease itself.

Thus increasing the (later) claimed effectiveness of the "transmissible vaccine."

(If those that came out with a "transmissible vaccine" actually admitted to doing it)

Netweasel · 2023-08-18T15:46:47+00:00

Vaccine Antibodies Shed In the Breath

Unless those are viable antibodies that can replicate themselves in another human body, that's not enough to call something a transmissible vaccine.

I've always thought that a "transmissible vaccine" would be the gold standard of disease eradication, as long as nothing goes horribly, horribly wrong with it. But then again, if done that way, there would be vastly reduced profits.

Netweasel · 2023-08-17T01:54:39+00:00

when they tax it at current value upon death....

I don't think it works that way, but even if it does, you would still be receiving 96% of that value.

Netweasel · 2023-08-17T00:32:48+00:00

A beat up ranch house within rte 128 is worth $1M.

"Worth $1M" is not the same as "income over $1M."

Netweasel · 2023-08-17T00:18:29+00:00

...containing other potentially undesirable additives. I'll try to look for it.

It might, and it might not, have additives that are not good for humans to ingest.
But again, if it does.... why the hell didn't they just say so? And why didn't everyone else repeat that theoretical "say so"?

Why would you have to hunt down that info instead of it being Point One of "Why Not To Take This Stuff" in every discussion about taking this stuff this whole time?

Side note: Apparently Skittles (the candy) contain "potentially undesirable additives."

Netweasel · 2023-08-16T12:21:22+00:00

...the animal version, which can also contain additives that humans don't take well to that aren't found in the human form...

I asked about that when this story first broke, and got crickets.

IF the "animal version" had something in it that was good for horses, but bad for humans, they could have just said so, and avoided a lot of the controversy. But they did not. "Ivermectin itself is fine for humans under proper dosage," they could have said, "but our formulation also contains [X], which is not. If you are human, do not take our formulation." But they did not ever say that, AFAIK.

All that was said was "This says 'for horses' on the label, not 'for humans'."

I had checked on a similar human/non-human drug, and the amoxicillin for fish turned out to be the same exact pills as the amoxicillin for humans. The main difference was that one was only available from a pharmacy with a prescription, in a bottle of 30 pills, and the other could be picked up at the pet shop for a bottle of 100. Same exact pills. But the latter says "for fish" on the label, not "for humans."

Extra point... "which can also contain additives" is at least one step away from "which does also contain additives."

Netweasel · 2023-08-14T11:37:00+00:00

That's where one of the responses he deleted was him admitting to going to reddit request and getting the sub. That's the first one.

One thing to keep in mind:

Even if someone deletes a comment more than a few minutes old, Reddit still keeps a copy (pre-edit).
We know this from the API, when it was accessible.

So in arguments directly to Reddit, you can still reference deleted comments, even if you do not know exactly what was said. Cause Reddit can go look, and see exactly what was said.

Netweasel · 2023-08-14T10:40:06+00:00

the interviewer said he has a 2008 Mercedes in great condition but it won't run because it needs some simple part replaced and it's not available anywhere

I know where the part is available from.... another 2008 Mercedes that was just wrecked, but wrecked in a section of the car where that part isn't.
But the bidding for the part should be incredible.

Netweasel · 2023-08-14T05:16:11+00:00

it needs some simple part replaced and it's not available anywhere

I thought that was what 3D Printing was for.

Scan the pieces of the broken part
"Fix" the part in CAD/CAM to make a file of the original part (or get the original file for the part)
Make a solid part out of plastic
Take the plastic part (and the CAD/CAM file) to a metal fabricator and say "I need 20 of these, in metal."
Sell 15 of them on eBay to make your money back. Keep the other four in the car, just in case.

Netweasel · 2023-08-13T18:25:22+00:00

None of what I'm posting is on Reddit

But it is posted....

Now, I'm not saying to change anything that you're doing, just to be prepared for when it happens, IF it happens.
(Being warned of the possibility keeps you from being blindsided by it IF)

Netweasel · 2023-08-13T16:02:20+00:00

First attempt at parsing that comment led to "ew."

Dressed (down here) vs (dressed down) here....

Netweasel · 2023-08-13T15:59:48+00:00

The weakness is things outside of your control can come to upend you. And I know exactly how to do that.

Watch out for any claims against you for "premeditated harassment."
Just have to say... you are presenting a lot of evidence towards....

And you're not the type to go back and delete your comments.

Netweasel · 2023-08-13T15:21:29+00:00

One person, two accounts.

"One person, two accounts" is apparently damnably difficult to prove.

For example, the "c r y a b o u t i t" dude. Or, according to Reddit, dudes.
According to Reddit, the current one is merely a pale imitation of the (banned from all Reddit) former one.

With identical M.O.

Netweasel · 2023-08-13T12:25:28+00:00

If they're alts, why add the ghgwertt account at all?

In case the HowMyDictate account gets removed for some reason, maybe?

Alternate (with no information) possibility: HowMyDictate may be a placeholder/stalkinghorse, and the plan is for, at a later date, HowMyDictate to remove themselves, leaving ghgwertt as top mod. Whether or not they are alts of each other.

Netweasel · 2023-08-11T19:50:53+00:00

Are you using a VPN?

Nope, just stuck in a reCaptcha loop, like it thinks I'm a bot and no amount of motorcycle pictures I can click on will convince it otherwise.

Netweasel · 2023-08-11T12:32:43+00:00

I strongly suggest archiving these.

Unfortunately, my archiver of choice is having problems this morning.

Also, reveddit was working, but now it's not (for me). Hence, the need for archives.

I'm looking to automatically limit number of posts per day on /r/ JimmyDore.....

Take a look at (and probably archive) the recent activity of the current mods of r/ JimmyDore....
Smell the hypocrisy.

Netweasel · 2023-08-10T17:33:23+00:00

I'll catch you at the Waffle House

Huddle House is better.
Same thing, but with French Fries!

Netweasel · 2023-08-10T16:37:16+00:00

I also have no doubt that this loan will be forgiven at some point in the future

Here's the extra step to that:

...in exchange for what?

Netweasel · 2023-08-10T13:16:33+00:00

Suppose it IS a loan.
Suppose that all of those "loans" are actually loans.

If they are, how deep in the red is Ukraine at the moment?
And to whom?

Netweasel · 2023-08-10T00:49:38+00:00

However, when they say "replaced", I don't know if that means the old pipes have been removed and recycled, or just left in the ground to decompose like old telecom conduits.

I think that in most places, they're simply putting slightly smaller pipes inside the old ones.

Hella cheaper than digging the old ones up.

Netweasel · 2023-08-09T18:59:45+00:00

A 9mm double-tap to the back of the head when they aren't expecting it

Too much chance of something going wrong during the attempt.
"They" turn around when not expected to, for example.

Netweasel · 2023-08-09T18:43:17+00:00

I specifically did not make any distinction as to who would be put in the hotel room......

But I was making the assumption that there would be so few of them that they would be done one at a time.

Netweasel · 2023-08-09T15:50:35+00:00

Do CIA assets in countries like Ukraine marry Ukrainian women and have children with them, 10+ years before the conflict breaks out?

Honestly, it seems like the thing to do.....

Netweasel · 2023-08-09T13:33:46+00:00

Trump was tap dancing with Shirley Temple back in the 1930s!

In Blackface even!

Netweasel · 2023-08-09T13:19:33+00:00

I'd say that it's still less primitive than what the US is doing every day

That seems reasonable, considering the guillotine was invented as a more humane and consistent alternative to beheading-by-human, and the Electric Chair was (reportedly) invented by Edison during the AC/DC Wars to show how horrific this new Alternating Current could be.

(If the stories are true, the bastard once executed an elephant.)

If someone has to be killed, the sealed-hotel-room-that-fills-with-carbon-monoxide-after-they-are-asleep seems to me to be the most humane way of doing it.

Netweasel · 2023-08-09T02:21:44+00:00

the people who used the guillotines ended up under them in the end

Weren't guillotines still being used in the 1970s? If the people who used them then end up under them in the end, time's a-tickin'

Netweasel · 2023-08-08T02:55:05+00:00

...for some seventy years or so...

Do they mean to say that he was "a rather popular public figure" since he was about seven years old?

First mention that I remember was Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in the mid 90s.

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