Comment Re: Pay to play? Piece of the action? (Score 1) 49
No.
Let's abolish listening to clowns who think all taxation is theft, they only want to burn everything down instead of fixing it because they are weak minded and lazy.
No.
Let's abolish listening to clowns who think all taxation is theft, they only want to burn everything down instead of fixing it because they are weak minded and lazy.
10-20 years is a long time in semiconductor process technology years whether China knows it or not.
I've never encountered any real conservatives that I know of. They all want to turn the clock back, not slow it down.
It's hallucinating solutions
But what is the tax?
Decrease in traffic, which reduces revenues. Was that supposed to be a trick question?
in a democracy we have to accept compromise and probably should expect it.
We learned in the 1940s that you can't compromise with Nazis. Then we forgot all about it and now we've got Nazis everyfuckingwhere.
Too bad we didn't do what Germany did after WWII, but after the civil war, and educate people as to why being uber-racists is bad. Instead we gave them the electoral college so they could have more voting power than they deserved.
We're the only country which still has an electoral college and guess what? It's a fucking shit show which only serves to let shitty people have an outsized voice in government.
Also from Louis CK:
His dick out at inappropriate times
The Sims is in a period of transition
It identifies as GACHA.
we're just not that big a deal yet in the planet-modifying game.
If that were true, we'd have nothing to do. Emitting orders of magnitude more CO2 than volcanism makes us a big deal.
"Not really any different than people who want to believe Trump."
Trump lies more than any three of them combined, and that is different. The difference may be only one of degree, but it's still different, and your accusations of sycophancy are a poor disguise for yours and based on unfounded assumptions. Run along and preach false equivalence on behalf of a fascist traitor dictator rapist elsewhere if you must, I'm not buying.
Shut up you moron.
There is some evidence that secondary education in China is mostly wasted. Grades and degrees are often used as status symbols but the actual work is often unrelated to their education content. (That's a problem everywhere, but more so in China.)
Some lie more than others. Fox had to pay a $787m settlement for lying about voting machines. Internal emails made public showed they knew they were lying to gain ratings.
(Rupert Murdoch has a win-at-all-costs mentality. He'd pit his own children against each other to "spur their competitive juices" but it just created unnecessary family tension. All 3 children admit their father is a jerk that way.)
Some say to "block all home internet-connected devices from children" but that's easier said than done. My kid had MacGyver-like ability to find internet gizmos. I suspect they hacked into neighbor's wi-fi, as we changed house passwords twice. (Or bartered with a sibling or stayed with friend).
Critical thinking skills should be included with the 3 R's: Reading, (w)Righting, (a)Rithmetic, and Reasoning.
The number of logic fallacies that pundits and trolls use is staggering. Typical examples:
1) A handful of (alleged) members of Group X did bad thing Y, therefore the entirety of Group X is bad. Proportions matter.
2) Guilty until proven innocent.
3) Buzzwords that have no clear meaning: "Weaponizing X", "Grooming kids toward X", "Real Americans", "Elites", "Deep State", etc.
4) If subject matter experts are wrong, then their detractors are right: it's often possible for both to be wrong. (Why one would expect amateurs to usually be better is puzzling.)
5) Slippery slope. The extreme of any viewpoint is usually undesirable, but in a democracy we have to accept compromise and probably should expect it.
Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.