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BigNote ,

You mean my kids?

BigNote ,

My cat’s name is Nancy Reagan. She’s almost lived up to it. And no, she doesn’t like you either and if you try to pet her you’ll get what you deserve.

Some cats have official titles. I had another cat whose title was “Chief Inspector.” He was known to do home invasions and conduct snap inspections of my neighbors houses. He had more friends in the neighborhood than me.

BigNote ,

Oh good, a pompous, nonsensical, deeply condescending, deliberately inflammatory, provincial and unhelpful comment! That’s just what we need, said no one, ever.

BigNote ,

But that’s a Federal violation, so not the same thing at all.

BigNote ,

They’re probably just “dumb” in comparison to corvids and parrots and the like.

BigNote ,

Not true at all. There’s tons of adaptive pressure. If there weren’t, we wouldn’t see the thousands of pelagic and shorebird species that we do. But even if what you say about the threat from predation were true --its not-- there would still be adaptive pressure from differential reproduction rates and access to nutrients.

BigNote ,

Also most of the loyalists in the colonies fled to Canada during and immediately after the American Revolution, for obvious reasons.

BigNote ,

Well obviously it’s very difficult for the poor to leave and if you aren’t poor it’s actually a pretty nice place to live.

BigNote ,

None. My wife doesn’t know about tact, or the polite white lie or anything like that. She doesn’t have time for that bullshit. It’s one of her endearing qualities.

BigNote ,

That and the fact that everything about our society shits on working people and tells them that it’s their own fault that they aren’t rich like the college-educated elites who look down on them.

It doesn’t actually make any sense, but I am telling you that this is a huge part of the resentment that Trump was able to tap.

BigNote ,

Allegedly there are two known instances of people in the US dying due to complications from the vaccine, though one of them wasn’t the mRNA vaccine that the anti-vaxxers were most scared of. Compare that to the over 1 million people who died from COVID.

BigNote ,

I have a cousin who still insists that her mom died of pneumonia and that it wasn’t COVID. Her husband is currently in prison for storming the capitol on January 6th, which tells you all you need to know. It’s weird because she’s the only one in my extended family who’s even remotely into far right craziness.

BigNote ,

but that would require major reworking of large areas.

Yes, that’s precisely what will be required. There’s no getting through this without implementing massive changes to our way of life. Everyone wants there to be some kind of easy get-out-of-jail-free card, but that’s not how it’s going to be.

BigNote ,

Cry me a river…

BigNote ,

I’m increasingly of the same opinion, however, I dislike the fact that even talking about nuclear as a potential bridge technology is such a polarizing issue.

I am very far from being an expert on the subject and accordingly don’t have a strong opinion either way as to what role, if any, it can usefully play in transitioning to sustainable energy models.

What I don’t like is the immediate labeling of either side of the issue as somehow automatically being indicative of bad faith or “shilling” on behalf of a larger, nearly conspiratorial interest.

BigNote ,

Thanks for the response. That makes sense and I think I’m probably on-board.

A Cuban teenager was offered a job doing 'construction work' in Russia. Instead he was sent to fight on the front lines in Ukraine. (www.businessinsider.com)

A Cuban teenager unwittingly found himself on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after accepting a job offer he received on WhatsApp to do “construction work” for the Russian military, according to Time magazine....

BigNote ,

“There’s nothing here but war, where the murderin’ cannons roar, And I am sick and tired of this hard fighting.”

BigNote ,

What does the fox say?

BigNote ,

You are overplaying it though. I am active in my union and in the organized labor movement more broadly here in the PNW. The railway strike left a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths, but there’s also a recognition among leadership that the administration didn’t have any great options if they didn’t want to further tank the economy and cause even more inflation with potentially worse long-term results for everyone.

On the flipside he has appointed by far the most pro union NLRB in history, so this is kind of a case of letting the good be the enemy of the perfect.

BigNote ,

Cool. Everything you say is true, but I’m just telling you that you’re wrong if you think that organized labor is or should be somehow against the Biden Administration.

The reality is that he has appointed the most pro-union and labor-friendly NLRB in modern history.

I’m actually a bit disgusted with people like you who think you know how it is down at our local union halls.

You are the elitist motherfuckers who tell us what we should and shouldn’t do or believe in.

Here’s a cordial fuck you!

Local 10 till I die!

BigNote ,

you can always just call them by their first name or something else

Well I didn’t know you were called Dennis.

BigNote ,

Most of what society tells us will make us feel happy and fulfilled in life is bullshit. Living a good life is primarily about your personal relationships. Things like social status and personal wealth are far less important.

BigNote ,

That’s a very generous interpretation. I don’t think anyone can be blamed for not taking it seriously.

BigNote ,

It’s partially but not entirely true. Having correct technique in your upper body matters too, as does accuracy, timing and the ability to create collisions.

All else being equal in terms of technical skill and leg strength, the guy with the bigger arms, fists as shoulders will have a stronger punch.

I had a ton of muscular atrophy in my right upper body due to a bulging disk in my neck --since corrected by surgery-- and I definitely noticed a huge diminution in my striking power, as did my regular sparring partners at the gym. So it definitely does matter.

I’m doing better now, but still not back to 100 percent and probably never will be. But that’s OK since I’m pretty old anyway.

BigNote ,

So is yours, ambiguous I mean.

In other words, I think you’re being ridiculously over-generous in your interpretation of ancient knowledge.

If it were in fact the case that the ancients had any real notion of Darwinian theory, I think they would have stated it in unequivocal terms, as they did with so many other Platonic and/or Aristotlean concepts.

Vaguely suggestive biblical lines interpreted as somehow suggesting an understanding of Darwinian theory strikes me as wishful thinking.

BigNote ,

The devil put the coal in the ground

Devil put the coal in the ground

He buried it deep so it’d never be found

Devil put the coal in the ground

BigNote ,

Right, but as all similar such committees eventually learn, there’s a pretty strict limit to what they can actually control or regulate. Mostly it’s just formal written usage that can be regulated. Spoken language doesn’t give a shit about anyone’s notions of what’s considered correct or incorrect. This is one of the foundational principles of linguistics.

BigNote ,

Old English used to have feminine, masculine and neuter like most of the other Germanic languages, but we lost it for various historical reasons.

Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples (fortune.com)

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BigNote ,

On its own it’s not, but it definitely is in the current political and cultural context. There’s no getting away from that. It’s going to provoke a political reaction in any conservative and there’s no point in pretending otherwise.

BigNote ,

These people are morons with 8th grade reading comprehension skills.

Come to think of it, maybe they are in fact 8th graders?

BigNote ,

They specifically said you can be mad. It’s the first sentence in OP’s comment. WTF are you on about?

BigNote ,

You either get it or you don’t. I can’t help you with your lack of reading comprehension.

They specifically said that “you can be mad” about it.

You want to have it the way that they’re pushing some kind of agenda, when in fact they’re simply stating what’s true.

BigNote ,

I can and do agree with everything you argue while also maintaining the objectively obvious fact that context matters in politics.

BigNote ,

Ha! Just wait until you turn 50! That’s when the real fun starts. Ask me how I know.

On the flipside, while it’s true that I fucked myself up trying (and failing) to be a pro snowboarder in my 20s, it really is possibly to bounce back from injuries --so long as they aren’t too bad-- and have a good and active life in spite of them.

Sure, I’ll never be the same person I was before I trashed my body doing stupid shit when I was young reckless and stupid, but I’ve made a pretty good comeback over the years just by eating right, always exercising and staying physically fit by keeping myself in the game.

Now I’m old, in my 50s, but I’m still physically fit and in general my teenage daughter and 20-something-year-old nephews struggle to keep up with me on our hikes and backpacking and/or climbing trips.

Granted, some of it’s purely psychological, but there’s no question in my mind that some of it is also simply about having spent years as a very physically active and physically fit person.

BigNote ,

Yes. But mostly split-board backcountry, so I’m not doing 20+ runs in a day or hitting the park very often.

BigNote ,

I used to be a big tele skier, but over the years I figured out that I prefer riding a snowboard when it comes to steep and deep powder.

To me it just feels better.

You do what makes you happy and I will as well.

I’m old, in my 50s, and have no interest whatsoever in telling anyone what to do or how they should enjoy the mountains.

I leave that shit to the kids. No one my age actually gives a fuck.

BigNote ,

This is a win for UAW though. They are trying to unionize Tesla’s workers and this behavior gives them an edge on the already labor-friendly NLRB by showing that Elon is actively anti-union.

If anyone thinks for a moment that union organizers don’t actively plan this kind of thing out, I can assure that they do. It’s part of their job description. My union is a lot smaller than UAW and our organizers get up to all kinds of subterfuge and shenanigans, so I can only imagine what the UAW people are doing.

BigNote ,

No, this is a straight up win for UAW. They are trying to unionize Tesla’s workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon’s part only plays into their hands at the NLRB level.

BigNote ,

This is actually a win for UAW. They want to unionize Tesla’s workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon’s part just gives them more ammunition with the NLRB, which has strict rules regarding what ownership is allowed to say publicly. It plays directly into their hands.

Also worth saying that the Biden NLRB is the most pro-union and labor-friendly in history.

BigNote ,

At this point they’ve basically turned themselves into a public nuisance. It’s the same bullshit every time; all noise and no signal which in turn means that they are very boring and predictable.

BigNote ,

And your point is?

Please do share an example of industrialization that somehow doesn’t include unforseen negative health effects.

Go on now, we’ll wait.

BigNote ,

This is a pleasant fiction.

BigNote ,

So in other words you are unwilling to answer the question.

Got it.

This is precisely why I say that you aren’t intellectually serious people.

BigNote ,

What a crock of shit!

Why would capital willingly poison its workforce as a deliberate policy? That makes zero sense.

I can see capital writing it off as a necessary side-cost of doing business, but I can’t see it as a deliberate policy.

Again, it makes no sense. Capital wants a relatively healthy workforce, not one that’s falling apart due to lead-caused neurological decrepitude.

BigNote ,

I believe that mainstream country turned to shit in the 80s, not sure why. My theory is that it’s down to the money men in Nashville turning out an increasingly phony product for commercial reasons, but I don’t actually know enough about that aspect of the business to have an informed opinion.

Fortunately there’s always been legit musicians turning out excellent alt-country or Americana, or whatever we want to call it. Also a lot of the older country musicians never completely sold out either.

BigNote ,

Tom Waits said much the same thing about his cover of “Down There by the Train.”

BigNote ,

That sounds about right. I also think that at some point around that time the big Nashville labels decided that it made more financial sense to get behind a specific type of cultural and political messaging than it did to simply let the music be whatever it wanted to be.

Long gone were the days of Loretta “The Coal Miner’s Daughter,” and Johnny Paycheck “I Owe my Soul to the Company Store,” and while we still had Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt and their protogé young Steve Earle, for the most part mainstream country and western was turning into formulaic corporate crap.

BigNote ,

Same. I don’t even know why people shit on us. We’ve never really been in power, probably never will be --Obama is the closest thing we’ll ever have to an Xer president and even then he’s technically a boomer-- it’s just a fact that in comparison to the boomers and millennials, demographically we’ve never mattered.

Our little window for demographic leadership, based on our coming into the age in which we’d ostensibly be capable of governance, was stomped on by the boomer gerontocracy and the rage of the far more numerous millennials.

The upshot is that us Xers never really had a real go at demographic power, and to the contrary, were left to pick up what scraps we could from the absolute mayhem that the boomers left us with.

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