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I don’t really get how two of the liberal justices concurred with this. Therapy is a licensed profession, and as with all licensed professions, it comes with restrictions, including on the things that can be said while providing licensed services.

The counselor can spend all day telling people they should convert to the one true faith of the orange monster. She is just not allowed to tell kids they are better off not being themselves when she is professionally counseling them.

I would argue that if Colorado (or any jurisdiction) did not ban a practice known to be harmful, it would be liable for the consequences, too. It would be like the FDA knowing that vaccine save lives and deciding to discourage their use. Oh, wait, I forgot we are in this timeline…

In short, beautiful lemmings, be brave, be bold, be gay, be trans, just don’t forget to be current on your vaxxes. Every time a lemming gets a jab, there is one more clot forming in the arteries of the one that shall not be named!

Funny to think that the UK thought one of the advantages of Brexit was that the USA and the UK could now finally get as close as they wanted without the interference of the EU.

Same playbook invented by the tobacco industry in the 60s. Find a hack that will say something that sounds like it supports your advantage, despite everybody else in the field saying the opposite. Present it as a genuine debate taking place.

Only that, this time, everybody can read the plain meaning of the text, and the final goal is much more far-reaching than just preventing the children of non-citizens from getting citizenship by birth.

I think this is said for the parts of the domestic audience that gasped at the $200 B partial bill. Of course Arab countries are going to pay nothing, but for a moment, MAGA people can feel like it doesn’t come out of their pockets.

Trump invented Schrödinger’s War: it is at the same time conclusively won, and he needs $200 billion to continue. The Iranians have no military capabilities left, but at the same time they have to open the Strait of Hormuz. And for all of you bitching about the gas prices: just buy fewer pencils, that will do the trick.

To be fair, all the State Department would have had for plans would have been, “Don’t. Fucking. Do. It!”

The problem with the military in the 21st Century is that it has plans for absolutely everything. Nobody else has plans for anything, especially not the politicians, especially especially not this politician.

Since the only ones with plans are the military, everything looks like a military. The only plan the military has at this point is ground invasion, so ground invasion it is. When that doesn’t produce the results desired by the politician, more military plans are tapped, because the only plans available are military.

We have seen the same thing happen in 2022. The plan was to invade Ukraine, decapitate the regime in three days, three weeks tops, and then profit. That didn’t work out, so the next military plan was executed. Then that didn’t work and the next military plan was executed. And four years later, there are still military plans to be executed, and well over a million people incapacitated.

The Iran “thing” started with the attempt to decapitate the Iranian regime. The plan failed (for different reasons) but the similarity in the failure of Plan A is startling. I hope someone tells this politician that chasing military plans is a terrible idea in this case, too.

Yeah, I found that pretty weird, too. Not only that, but you can’t get that yeast for the next two years. Your method works yesterday haha.

Get outta here with your sensible, practical solutions! ;-)

That might be precisely the realization that made Zelensky speak like that. He’s not jeopardizing anything at this point. America is not helping currently, and what comes tomorrow doesn’t depend on the promises made on a peace of paper.

One of the weird problems of American weapons exports in the future is that the domestic market (the USA/the Pentagon) is so bloated, it’s entirely price-insensitive. It’s similar to the situation in health care - who is going to take the $200 hospital gown, when you can buy one from Temu for $2?

One of the lessons I learned during the Dot Com Bust in 2000 was that cheap infrastructure is a huge competitive advantage. All the startups that did Oracle on Sun Microsystems died, only the rack-mount cheapo servers running Linux/FreeBSD survived. Ukraine is showing how it’s done in drone warfare, South Korea apparently in SAM defense systems, I wonder what Taiwan has come up with.

Hé may also have started employing someone to do the bookings and they had no domain knowledge?

The world was always fucked up, but we had a sense it was improving. That’s what has changed, majorly. We started having the feeling that as bad as it is, it is only going to get worse.

For everyone going, “billionaire = evil, death = good,” please think the man was just 43. Fuck cancer is the first thing that should come to mind.

I sort of read him more as terribly awkward and definitely not ready for a camera. He felt like YouTube unboxing video in 2010.

That goes too far! Do you want our Hard Working CEOs to be poisoned?

I know the feeling. I had a rental car once for two weeks and I was more than once road-raged because of the lights. Everyone thought I was high-beaming it, but nope.

Incoming (tax-payer funded) liability in 3… 2… 1… !

I would second the motion to a 13 month calendar of all 28-day months (despite the fact you KNOW my birthday is going to end up on a forever Monday). The days of the week are named after scientists of seven different disciplines, the months after artists. There is a theme with the artists, so that 1/4 is musicians, 1/4 visual artists, 1/4 writers, 1/4 builders.

Whenever I see a street or city named after a politician or military officer, I always wish there were more things named after people that are actually useful for the world.

For reference, I was born on the 12th day of the month of Lady Gaga, of course an Einsteinday.

Is that where my friend wanted me to buy “real estate” a few years ago? He said he had gotten $200,000 invested and was going to retire once he sold… I suppose we are back to the original plan now, “Chick-Fil-A Chef Until 75”