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Grift the police.

How does this not break our bribery laws?

Mr Burns got shot.

Are you asking this genuinely? Yes, we do. We are a net exporter of refined petroleum products, we export low sulfur coke for steel production. We export agricultural products, particularly soy beans. We export advanced robotics and pharmaceuticals. I think, granted this is from 15 years ago, but we also export a significant amount of vehicles.

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This week on The Americans, they discover that they elected the old man who yells at the TV! Hilarity ensues when he chucks the remote and breaks the screen then goes on a wacky adventure to buy another TV under the new tariffs!

You made this? No.

I made this.

I don’t know every impeachable offense, but I’m pretty sure not following a decision of the Supreme Court is one of them.

You see a baby on the second floor in a burning building. It’s crying. Its screams trigger your fight or flight response. Though you know going into that burning building will harm you, your will to act compels you to go save that baby and end its suffering.

You go in, the flames all around you, but you can barely feel them because you are so concentrated on reaching that baby.

You get to the baby. Your flight response now kicks in. You jump out the window. You break your ankle, but you can’t feel it, because your sense of duty and accomplishment of saving that child and the cheers from the community overwhelm your own internal nervous system.

That’s empathy. When your feelings for others override your feelings for yourself. When the extrinsic reward from the community can override your intrinsic experience.

Granted, an extreme example.

I just listened to this podcast. This guy sounds smart. He’s not on the same side of the fence as I am, but I wanted to give him a listen.

I do understand where he is coming from about certain policy decisions functioning well within the university incubator, but then not being able to scale. There certainly are policies that don’t live up to their hype and we absolutely should be performing studies and assessments on why these sometimes don’t scale. I don’t like wasting my tax dollars on ineffective policy as much as anyone else.

However, I think attacking these with a broad brush does more harm than good. There are policies that do work, given the right environment and right people. I think it was what, Portland? That recently did a UBI study and it showed positive results there. I don’t see UBI results being reproduced for say, the entire state of South Dakota. It’s completely different culture and resources.

We should continue studying for effectiveness and scale where it make sense to do so.

He also wants to undermine certain liberal policies so that conservative ideals can flourish on campuses. I think this is disingenuous. There are already universities with conservative ideology. Why must we force other universities to bend to something that is not their culture? And if they say “because you take government tax dollars and we say so” well, that’s not how the contracts were written for one and two, I think universities would have put a lot more thought into what funds they were willing to accept if those conditions had been written.

It’s a bit like the reverse of “regulatory capture.” You work with Princeton to build a billion dollar atom smasher to do some amazing physics work, then you come in 10 years later and add strings attached to their D.E.I. policy to keep their funding. Well, it’s not like Princeton is then going to go and demolish the building and say “take your funds and shove it!” I mean they could, but I could imagine the public blowback wouldn’t be worth it.

So now the govt is dictating policy that is better off being left at the professional and cultural level of the university. And that is quite a dangerous place to be in, both for liberals and conservatives. Where have the “keep the government’s hands out of my business” types gone?

Gregorian chant can be very relaxing in the right moment.

Bros over at the guardian knew exactly what they were doing when they chose that picture.

Blathering Blatherskites!
Great Scott! Great Googly Moogly Narf! Blech Hot Dog! Hot diggity! Salad! Biscuits! Corn Nuggets! Nerfherder Awoooguhhhh! Ballyhoo Farfegnugen To the mattresses! What in tarnation? Shoo whee

Certain parties excluded, not everyone in this administration is a moron. I know, I know, not the right forum to say that but it doesn’t change the fact.

Tariffs can be an effective weapon. But it’s a scalpel, not a machete. For example, we can and should tariff Chinese electric imports for not meeting NHTSA safety standards. Or even better, where they’ve stolen American IP.

However, when used as a machete, everyone is going to lose.

Apparently 80s Trump was too knee deep in coke to learn from Ferris Bueller.

Alright what do we need to do to reach out to the voters that need to “cure” their votes?

It’s not the votes that are sick btw, it’s this fucking state that thinks it’s legal to throw people’s votes away.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage! Rage! Against the dying of the light!