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Such a bullshit argument. Sure, untrained people absolutely add to our scientific knowlege and can very. very, VERY occasionally debunk established theories, but it's such a small occurance against the general progress that you'd have to be an utter moron to bet on it.

I got abused when I went in to vote at my local voting station today by some dude and his wife. They were in there abusing the polling officers who were waiting for the cops to show up. Apparently this is all rigged, part of the deep state and will be all over the news soon. His wife heard my accent and they started screaming that I was 'proof of an illegal immigrant voting'. She tried to grab me and he was right behind her. In another stage of my life I would have decked both of them, old and fat or not. The older, wiser me decided it probably wasn't worth a trip with the police, but man, for a second I really, really wanted to. WTF is wrong with people now?

I’m new to this fantasy football thing so I figured I’d ask for help here. I’m struggling on a decision for a flex spot in a league where receptions are worth 0.5 points.

The Democratic states need to get in on this type of legislation FAST in order to push back. None of this 'take the higher ground' bullshit. If the SC doesn't rescind it we're seeing the end of traditional law as we know it.

'Hector says now he’s thinking of getting vaccinated. He didn’t get the shot for his daughter, and he feels some regret about it.' That's hardly a holy shit wakeup moment, is it? 'Yeah, my daughter died because I didn't think it was a real issue, and I feel a bit bad about it. Maybe I'll get the shot in the future. Maybe not. But I'm thinking about it now...'

We’ll you’ve already got Lindsay Graham saying we’re going back into Afghanistan in the foreseeable future - within a couple of years as I’m interpreting it. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-58456953

Did you see the DeLand instructor on there? https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/post/robert-chromy-56-skydive-instructor-extreme-sportsman-and-extreme-anti-vaxxer-dead-covid

I don't get sad about these things anymore than I get sad about getting wet if I go out in the rain without an umbrella. Maybe that makes me a terrible person, but this family were given every chance for this NOT to happen and they deliberately chose to do otherwise. I'll save my sadness for people who have terrible uninvited things happen to them, like the family of the baby that was shot in Florida this morning.

The only part that concerns me is the 2 year election cycle - concevably a two term president could elect 4 justices in that time which seems incredibly powerful if there are 3 same-party presidents back-to-back.

The problem is that this strategy doesn't work in the long term. If Biden adds an extra justice now then the next time the Republicans are in office they'll add 3. The democrats will add 5 on their turn and then 9 will get added... The end result is the inevitable utter destruction of the supreme court justice system. Rather than that, supreme court justices should be chosen sort of the way the pope is - by a conclave of professional lawyers (maybe?) through an anonymous selection and voting system, and the terms shouldn't be for life. For justice to work the politics has to be removed from the system, and unfortunately we're trending the other way right now.

It's INSANE. The supreme court has outsourced justice to citizens. A very slippery slope.

There are studies already being done on it. I’d sign up if I knew I wasn’t going to get the placebo.

Biochemistry is not the same as immunology or virology. That’s why they’re called different things and have different degrees and specializations. I did a degree in neuroscience - that doesn’t mean I understand epidemiology or immunology the same way as a specialist would. What my bioscience background SHOULD do is give me the ability to read and evaluate scientific literature and data to some degree, and to make more informed opinions than a layman with no scientific background - but you’re not displaying that ability, despite a 4.0 in biochemistry.

I’m seriously considering doing this, even though it’s against CDC advice at the moment.

I’m surprised health insurance companies haven’t started doing this themselves. Either refusing to insure someone unvaccinated or having zero liability for covid costs in the event you do get it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58295384 Tony Blair having the fucking BALLS to talk shit about the attempt (successful or not) to clean up a monstrous mess that he made is one of the most brazen things I’ve seen from a former politician in a while. Hey. Pal. How about you apologize for embedding us in a war that NEVER had an exit strategy and was waged on dubious fucking grounds in the first place and shut the fuck up about everything else? What an utter cock womble.

Holy shit. Yeah, that was a figure I thought I heard - I was obviously wrong! Thanks for the quick correction. It looks like the cost might have been 'finalized' at $276m! Wow. Great use of taxpayer money guys. *golfclap

About $2.5m was the figure I’ve heard bandied around. It’s bullshit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-58219963 “Good morning and welcome - its a new day in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has claimed victory after seizing the capital Kabul.“ mission accomplished?

Good video. I've never thought about how unfair it is that saying something to the police is allowed as evidence to implicate you, but not as evidence to exonerate you. That's bullshit.

"Taliban take over Presidential Palace: The Taliban are claiming to have taken over the presidential palace in Kabul. President Ghani left the country earlier on Sunday - but the exact situation at the palace is still unclear." and LIVE Afghan President Ghani flees country So yeah, I'd say before 9/11. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-58219963

Jakee has a point (even if he is making it in his usual abrasive way) - your argument seems to have morphed from Gun crimes = mandatory life sentence (post #627) to All violent crimes = mandatory life sentence (post #633) to All violent crimes = mandatory added prison time to sentencing depending on the implement used, but not automatic life sentencing (post #636 and #641) back to All violent crimes - mandatory life sentence without parole (post #662 & 664) See? As frustrated as you are with 'wordsmithing', you're not making your position super clear which is part of the issue, I think... If you've settled on that final position, I'd like to hear your boundaries for 'violent crime' - is it the same to attack someone with a gun as a baseball bat? Where does the mandatory sentencing come in as the boundary layer from non-mandatory sentencing, and I'd still llike to understand how you can be against the death penalty but be for mandatory life inprisonment which is effectively the same thing but crueller and more expensive? You say that you’re against the death penalty, presumably because of the risk of killing someone who is innocent of the crime? Why not just go straight to the endgame and say All Violent Criminals should be killed? At least it’ll be cheaper and save space.

Absolutely

I mean, how do you get through to people who LITERALLY don’t understand the difference between fiction and reality? https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58164833 Not by explaining science to them, I’m certain.

I’m actually at the point where I hope DeSantis gets covid and dies from it. I know. That’s terrible… This whole thing has made me a worse human being and I hate that, but honestly, it’s going to take someone that public facing and that anti mask / anti vaccine to die horribly in a public way to start to change opinions.