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Wikipedia gets into it in excruciating detail. The part I find offensive is the 'good racism' that underlies its origins, the culture of victimization, the identity politics and the denial of any perspective that is not in conformity with its belief system. I'm sure there are good qualities that I missed.

Straw man. The key elements characterizing Woke are bullshit by every measurable parameter. Using redefinition to support assertions is a hallmark of false claims. Presumption of what constitutes 'good' vs. 'bad' is a faulty basis for one's argument.

Don't get all the ink and piercings, on Tom MacDonald, but it's an amusing application of Ben Shapiro's rapid fire delivery. Since Woke is a disease of denial, the message is lost on those who don't get it in the first place and is recognized as a goof by those who get it

Columbus was Portuguese, which makes Columbus Day as an Italian holiday particularly ironic (nothing written by Columbus, to include letters to his family, suggets knowledge of Italian).

Yoyodyne should have their Oscillation Overthruster in production soon. "The Future Begins Tomorrow!"

Like Clinton, Trump appears to see sex in terms of power more than affection. There's plenty of sleaze on both sides of the aisle. From what I knew of Trump in the '80s, him spontaneously playing 'hide the salami' with a woman unfortunate enough to be somewhere he viewed as opportune fits. Rapists tend to see themselves as the last of the red hot lovers and the objects of their affection as playing hard to get. Trump is incapable of lying, since lying requires some concept of what is or is not true. He simply blurts out whatever crosses his mind.

Do I read that as 10 minutes to a full charge? That suggests some serious amperage. I submit that the most effective means of electrified transport involves rails. Going from ICE to EV simply trades one set of problems for another - a panacea it ain’t.

I thought it sounded more like Goebbels.

I think a housing development dedicated to undocumented migrants would be a good investment. Attu and Kiska strike me as good locations.

So Biden could have him whacked?

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.