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One point I made with my students is that their lifetime quota for cheating was one instance. After that they could do whatever they chose with their time, but it would be somewhere other than my classroom. The school's policy was slightly more forgiving. I, too, loathe a double standard.

FIFY

That has been the bulk of my experience with electric transportation. The idea of trying to replace personal ice vehicles across the board with electric versions is "eine Schlimmverbesserung" (doesn't work well auf englisch...).

You picked up on that as well?

If you attack the messenger, you don't have to address the message. FWIW, it seems that abuse is targeted based on the popularity, rather than the merits, of the stance of one poster or another. Not very compelling.

This came from The Hill, and is consistent with the accounts of both both supporters and detractors. Hopefully it posts, I can't cut and paste it conveniently on my phone. HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD067.pdf

Turns out that it depends who you ask. It seems all sources agree that the $billion was contingent upon the prosecutor in question being fired. The Debunkers claim that it was because the prosecutor was ineffective against corruption. The Conspiracy Theorists opine that it was to stymie the investigation into Burisma so that Hunter could continue to rake in excessive amounts of money from a position for which he was singularly unqualified. Biden may well have had brilliant insight and used extraordinary leverage to seek justice at a very granular level. Yeah, I'm sure that's what happened.

I've heard all too often that something has been 'debunked' that was actually true to accept the claim at face value. Please link to a credible source - if you're right, you're right. I can't imagine being held in high regard by you or the other usual suspects. As luck would have it, that isn't a life goal.

I beat my wife routinely. Maybe if she learned to play backgammon or fussball she could beat me once in a while.

What's the source of outrage? I've heard a couple of her songs and they're okay, but I'm generally impressed with her. She appears to have earned a good reputation for treating her fans and staff well, and her work ethic and energy level set a high standard. The adulation of her young fans does not appear to be toxic, a claim that many stars could not make. I don't get anyone being 'for' Trump. A couple of people's take was along the lines of 'yeah, he's an asshole but he actually supports policies with which I agree somewhat more often than his opponents. This is shy of 100%, and it's tough to tolerate his penchant for blurting out whatever crosses his mind.'

Skipping over anything following a warning label avatar is straightforward, so one needn't read the dreck form any source. Having said that, it's nice to be able to use a passive filter.

Like Ethel and Julius, I'm sure he meant well.

I reiterate my contention that stupidity is our only inexhaustible natural resource. Whoever is willing and able to tap into it is set for life. In Trump's case, I hope he has overplayed his hand and gets his very own Elba.

At my alma mater academic dishonesty was the surest way to end your studies. I made it quite clear to my students that cheating was one thing I would not tolerate, and nobody ever accused me of cheating. Biden was reported to have engaged in plagiarism and graduated anyway. He is on the record making various statements that are patiently false, as well as some that are absolutely moronic. He is on the record demanding the resignation of the Ukrainian prosecutor whose corruption investigation threatened Hunter's business dealings, withholding $1 B of US aid as leverage. "Irregularities" regarding investments in Delaware were not investigated because of the position of the owner. The auditor was fuming that anyone else who transgressed thusly would be in prison for rather a while. If he was a Huey P. Long type of competent but corrupt politician, it might be different. Unfortunately, he was not overly sharp at his peak. If he represents your values, it says more about you than it does about him.

There are all too many posters whose response to a contrary stance is limited to ad hominem and snark. Given my use of a killfile, there are rather a few threads that are almost empty. I find this to be a vast improvement over the version that lacked a killfile, though the killfile feature here no longer filters out dreck from moderators. That I miss.

'Sokay, feel free to killfile me. Unfortunately, some posters can't be killfiled and must be actively ignored (it's a feature, not a bug). My point is that anyone who thinks highly of Biden is either ignorant of his track record or would support him regardless of what I say, so it isn't worth my time. I also think impeachment is a complete waste of time. Keeping Biden in office makes 'President Harris' that much more unlikely, though both sides have rather a few second raters in the wings.

Again, paying attention would help. I'm pretty sure my initial point was that impeachment is largely a waste of time. I do not think either of these clowns are interchangeable. If that's what you got out of what I said, your reading comprehension is weak. I do think they both suck out loud, for very different reasons, and question the sanity of anyone who supports either outright. Anyone unaware of the long standing failings of either of them is a lost cause.

Actually it's more along the lines of not wasting the time to detail any of Trump's failings. If you think either of those guys are admirable, I doubt if evidence to the contrary would elicit anything beyond vitriol.

If you have to ask, you haven't been paying attention.

Impeachment is pretty much a waste of time, whenever it is attempted. Our last President pointed out that he could kill someone in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and get away with it - turns out he was close to correct. Is Biden corrupt? Uh, yeah. Is there any way trying to impeach him will have the effect that his detractors seek? Not a chance. Like the previous occupant of the Oval Office, there are no surprises regarding quite who and what Biden is. Anyone who has followed either of them for the last few decades has no illusions regarding their failings. The real problem is the endless wellspring of mediocrity from which either side of the aisle draws their 'talent.' My amazement is that you have much of anyone who is for much of any of them, or thinks that, just because someone they oppose there is someone they despise on the other side, there isn't someone every bit as despicable on their side of the aisle. Having said that, Santos rather raises the bar.

This is living?

Reduces recidivism slightly.

I hope he's sent to bed without supper and put to sleep.

As a consultant to Philip Morris during the class action suit, I suggested that they countersue. Smokers often don't make it to retirement, but fall ill and croak in a year or so. 'Healthy' people suck up a lot of retirement benefits without being productive, and the last 10 years of their lives are enormously expensive, geriatric care being what it is. The cost benefits of killing them off young are enormous. They didn't think it was funny. I wasn't kidding.

I'm pretty sure that one's been copyrighted, but with tweaked rebranding it can work.