There was just a story about starlink slowing down as more customers joined the network.

Seems like a good call. The option is nice for rural areas, but it's a stopgap measure at best while those areas wait for the slow rollout of fiber.

These folks won't witness it either. Not with that eye anyway.

This was a large part of the discussion in Europe at the end of WW2.

Germany wasn't the only country trying to decide an answer to "the Jewish question." Some advocates may have had good intentions, but many just didn't want to open their borders to Jewish refugees, and the idea of Israel was a convenient way for them to wash their hands of it.

Hello from kbin. It's nice over here.

Many governmental entities will not contract with companies that "boycott Israel."

This, of course, is poorly defined. And is being litigated in Michigan, I believe.

But the argument from regressive AGs is that boycott is not speech - it's action, and therefore they are permitted to enforce a ban on that action.

Pretty shit tier argument, and one that will probably bite them in the ass if there's any chance of consistency from the supreme court (slim chance.)

The hypocrisy is the point.

It's not the best, nor is it the only. It's one aspect across the entirety of human enterprise, and unlike an individual person, countries and societies are able to implement multiple initiatives at once.

I went on a trip to a native American historical site, and the tour guide told us about a family that came and the parents watched and egged on the kids while they used rocks to mark up the walls.

The person who responded to you isn't saying that this gondola is historical, rather that the attitude doesn't stay only in that boat.

The same people standing in the boat to take a selfie are also doing stupid shit around irreplaceable history.

You can willfully ignore the connection between these things. All things, really. But if the world seems confusing to you, this is why.

Look at the actual list of "most dangerous jobs."

Police are nowhere near the top 10.

Same experience with EverQuest.

I credit that game with helping me get over my shyness.

Regressives believe that their preferences are divine law. Therefore, anything that allows you to do something they don't like without shitty, unnecessary consequences is "encouraging immorality."

One step further, and they enjoy coming up with more shitty, unnecessary consequences to aid the "divine plan" of making people miserable if they don't conform.

You can see this across the board - they're make shit illegal, then conflate the natural problems of the behavior with the added problems of the legal system, and pretend they're all unavoidable.

They hate that gay and trans people have any acceptance, because it makes those same people less likely to be depressed and suicidal, which makes it harder for them to lie and say those people are depressed/suicidal because they aren't cis/straight, rather than because they're treated like crap.

Not the original person you responded to, but I type 120ish wpm. The trick is to try to tap into the same part of your brain that verbalizes words when you talk, rather than the part that composes stuff when you write.

This. It's all a giant, "Nuh-uh, you!"

They create a specious argument, present it as a straw man of "what democrats want," and then ridicule it as if they didn't make the whole thing up themselves.

It's dumb as shit, but it's all on purpose. These people are ivy League lawyers who took speech and debate. They know what a fallacy is, they just choose to use it for its effectiveness in mass psychology rather than actually governing or leading.

They understand. They just know if they say the shitty thing, it will give their bubba voters a misogyny hardon, which translates directly to votes.

There's a concept in politics called the gish-gallop. Also called firehose of lies. It's a time honored tradition, but in the past it was usually multiple people spewing crazy shit until they got called out too hard, at which point they'd quiet down and someone else would rotate in to take the heat.

With the way congressional districts are drawn, and now that they've seen Trump successfully accomplish this as a single person, to me the simplest explanation becomes that these liars lie because they know there won't be any immediate consequences, and that the more they can squeeze out, the less likely any given piece of it will be addressed.

Russia stopped pushing Jill Stein quite so hard once they compromised the major parties (democrats by releasing their emails, republicans by using their email trove as kompromat.)

It's not hard.

Cousin # = # of generations back to your shared direct ancestor - 1.

So if you share a grandparent (2 generations away), you're 1st cousins.

removed is how many generations away you are from each other.

So if your parent is first cousins with someone, you're first cousins once removed. You're second cousins to their kids. You're second cousins once removed to their children.

Most people consider conversations ended if neither party adds anything for a space of time.

A reasonable space of time is definitely overnight.

Rob's is assuming he 1) sees everything, 2).didn't or can't miss anything important, and 3) that his interpretation is correct.

That's why it's arrogant and stupid and people get annoyed.

Seriously, have you never been upset or hurt and had someone try to tell you that you're not?

Thanks for the clarification. It's hard to keep up with all of his cases.

Agreed, but this is one of the problems with our election system - there's a long, informal wind up, during which we let these private entities use the election systems owned by the states, and then a pretty short official period.

The state by state filing deadlines spread from now-ish all the way to march.