I'm right there with you.
fsr1967
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It is notable that we all talk about being part of national economies now whereas we used to talk about being a part of society.
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louder for those in the back:
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Now that he's been found guilty, I hope that he receives a dishonorable discharge.
U nd to rembr tht mny snr devs grw up prgrmng on old hrdwr tht ddn't hv mch mmry & oftn th lang ony allwd shrt var nms anywy.
My generation. Many of us learned and adapted over time, and use perfectly decent variable names now.
Also thy wr th gen of txtspk fr smlr rsns.
Nope. Got my first cell phone 8 years into my professional life, and 18-20 years after I started programming. Txtspkrs r th nxt gnrtn. Whippersnappers!
Now get the hell off my lawn!
Is this a headline or a statement of fact?
This is the real problem, and it's infuriating. Not only because of the way it stops the Senate from doing so many things, but because so many people now believe it's how the filibuster had always worked. And so people hate it.
But, in fact, the filibuster, in its original form, is a powerful tool the minority can use to make its voice heard and perhaps even effect change. It needs to come back - make Tuberville stand up and talk for hours on end for each of these appointees he opposes. Make McTurtle totter to center stage and wheeze for as long as he can the next time he wants to block a Democrat President's Supreme Court Judge.
I'll bring the popcorn.
The ban was issued as part of a declaration of a public health emergency involving gun violence. There is a ton of precedent for public health and safety taking priority over all. The classic example is that it is constitutional for the government to prevent you from trying to exercise your First Amendment right to free speech by yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie theater.
This is no different from that: there is a public health and safety issue preventing people from trying to exercise their Second Amendment rights as embodied¹ by New Mexico law.
¹ accurately or not
The department may decide it is “not going to undertake the expense and trouble of hiring copyright counsel and sending out takedowns and cease-and-desist letters, or in lawsuits,” Rosenblatt said.
On the other hand, MSNBC reports, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office may decide the millions made off the photo rightfully belongs to it — at a time when it is in desperate need of funds to address the horrific conditions at the Fulton County Jail.
Oh, yes, please!
Bannon got a prison sentence. But he's out while waiting for his appeal, unlike broke folk. So he might see a consequence.
I agree with you in principal. But maybe we need baby steps to allow time for the general population's attitudes to change.
I live in Massachusetts, next door to "lovely, historic Concord, the Birthplace of the American Revolution". Marijuana has been legal, not just decriminalized, here for years and years. There was a proposal to open a cannabis shop in Concord a couple of years ago, and the locals were in a tizzy. I remember one comment in particular: "Do we really want busloads of SCHOOLCHILDREN unloading at the corner of Main St and Walden St [town center] and seeing a WEED shop?!?!?"
My response? "Oh, you mean near all the places that serve ALCOHOL for CONSUMPTION on the PREMISES?".
They didn't get it.
People have weird attitudes about these substances because they used to be illegal. Slowly moving them to illegal instead of just yanking off the band-aid helps. Not in all cases, obviously see above🙄), but in many.
This is the way.