https://lidblog.com/devon-archer-reveals-biden-brand-influence-peddling/

Not to go anywhere near being a Biden apologist, but the Tucker interview &c sound like a bunch of innuendo that tickles the confirmation bias without getting too specific about the who/what/where/when/why.

Once upon a time we had cases in courts of law with people under oath.

Now it's so much poo flinging in the court of public opinion.

"Progress", or something.

Will no one rid us of these turbulent conspiracy theories?

https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23002046&cid=63730864

It's been a few weeks, but I'm finally over the shock and going public.

My last day at Intel, baring a miracle, will be 8/31.

That miracle would be some hiring manager, in a time of austerity measures, desperately needing a data guru of the type I've become over the last 7 years.

Breaking out of that role would lead me to lower compensation, but perhaps even more job security.

Starting a new job external to Intel 9/5 would be like winning the lottery- enough severance to cover the job change and pay off all my debt and leave me with less than 50% of my yearly salary to pay off my mortgage, plus two stock vesting grants, plus three more paychecks. So that's what I'm targeting the most.

Related: The Media Loved Whistleblowers. Until They Were Blowing the Whistle on Joe Biden.

I have it on damn_registrar's word that all anti-Democrat words are just conspiracy theories.

Obviously, we need more government control of speech to tamp down these pesky counter-arguments.

Am I doing this correctly, d_r?

The discussions are lengthy and digression-filled. Fine.

The fascinating rhetorical device unique to this site is/l

-- demanding references

-- zooming in on those references to granular detail, drilling down for "facts" and "evidence"

-- systematically rejecting everything offered

I will confess to falling prey and getting spun up in years past.

But if one steps back to observe the D-n-C methodology, all of the shrill cries for "facts" and "evidence" take on a self-mocking cast.

Possibly all of the posturing is sincere and I'm misinterpreting. If so, please forgive me, as I do you, and have an excellent weekend.

Via Legal Insurrection, it appears that, per the Biden Administration's illustrious peat muppetPress Secretary, SCOTUS decisions are tantamount to Constitutional Amendments:

âoeThis is really, really important and I know the American people are really tracking this, as they should be. Dobbs decision, that was something that was decided on a year ago. Really took away the freedoms from women. I think about abortion, I think about reproductive rights. And that was unprecedented. Now you fast-forward to what we saw last week, affirmative action. Again, taking away important constitutional rights that have been in place for a long time,â Jean-Pierre said.

One is tempted to indulge in a little bit of fremdschaemen, when one feels embarrassment on behalf of someone too thick to realize that they should be ashamed.

But, in defense of Karine Jean-Pierre, we don't declare war or budget along Constitutionally coherent lines either. So possibly she makes a good point in passing: we need to either get this ship back on course, or just scuttle the whole mess.

Hahaha: Fed Up Citizens Disable San Francisco's Self-Driving Cars With Traffic Cones

via https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22928926&cid=63608908

Emphasis mine:

Life remains ambiguous, yes.

And yet (emphasis mine, echoing that above)

Roadmaps for me, but not for thee.

My "Maslow-3D" hypothesis, which you ignore, seeks to let faith be faith, and knowledge, knowledge, by treating the two as orthogonal. By being clear about which things are of Earth, and "provable" (even if the reactions have not always reach 100% completion) vs. those of heaven, which even those claiming faith continue to thumb-wrestle over, we can at least have an intellectually honest exchange.

Indeed, if one buys off on a Creator, then everything we experience is a subset of that creation. So the example of mountains that you offer is a data point that says more about humans than that Creator.

Stipulating that you are correct and reality "just sort of happened", all I can say is that belief in random stuff is a far larger mountain of faith than I can muster. But do preach on, as the amorality drives the societal destruction currently in view. And lest you think me smug, I would blame the church for failing to carry out the Great Commission first and foremost for these woes.

. Glad that you had a great vacation, sir. We were just at Mt. Ranier

I said, regarding the status quo: "...standing athwart it..."

Fustakrakich says: "But you aren't, you're just flowing down the river..."

And here is our standard dilemma: stipulating that Fustakrakich is correct, how would he show the homework? From what context emerges the "you're just flowing" judgement?

The best I've been able to extract is "[smitty is] just being obtuse" and "[he] just feel[s] things".

OK, guilty on the "obtuse" charge, but the question stands: what's the rule? Do we scuttle the Western tradition that brought us here in favor of Wokery?

Fustakrakich seems to demand the juice without applying the squeeze, as far as I can tell.

UPDATE: Oh, my fault. Who knew that Slashdot was a proxy for a conversation with my wife?

I've done nothing of the sort.

I've pointed out that, for all of the sweeping, dogmatic assertions that you have offered, human knowledge is far from complete. You can no more offer a repeatable experiment going from inorganic chemistry to self-replicating life than you can state the precise age of the universe, or what occurred before T-nought.

Therefore, we can be humble, rather than go around warlording as though we were so much wiser than is actually the case.

Trump Names Hunter Biden As His Running Mate So DOJ Will Stop Investigating Him

A fine monologue