yobnoc
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So...you agree that people should be prosecuted and potentially spend 20 years in prison for leaving safe drinking water in the desert? We are a nation of laws, yes. But our laws are supposed to be without cruel intent. If the efficacy of the law is measured in alien deaths, that's one problem. But the problem of prosecuting someone for providing life-saving aid to another person is another problem. I suppose you'd rather we not waste time reviving someone who has been shot by police during the commission of a crime? Or taking a DUI crash suspect to the hospital? And while we're at it, let's lock up paramedics who revive someone when they're on death's door due to a drug overdose. After all: taking illicit drugs is illegal. It's ok to admit you're wrong on this point.
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No, guys...don't fall for it. It's just the "extended warranty" version.
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I disagree with that. But so do you. I recognize sarcasm when I see it ;-) I know several unsung heroes from my time in the service.
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I must not be looking in the right places. I tried to break into the home-game network by building some tables and selling them in facebook man-cave garage sale groups. Sold the tables, didn't get the group text for poker night :-(
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Also, I played online poker for a bit back a few years ago. Threw $50 into it to see what it was like. Turned it into $1600 in about a week of casual play, then lost every penny on a runner-runner quads hand that had no business staying in after I flopped aces full. That's the last time I put money into online poker.
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Where's "Up North?" I grew up in Petoskey
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Hard pass. I only "gamble" playing poker.
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You're deflecting from the topic at hand. Again. You still haven't managed to eek out a response about false equivalence. Also, I'm not going to comment on everything. Simple as that. I have no comment on kids dying at the border, other than that I feel bad that they're dying. They've made a long, arduous trek from squalid conditions to try to find safety, and ultimately died. I'm not interested in finger pointing, although I believe the US could enact better policies to prevent the massive amounts of migration that are occurring. As in, invest in helping their countries battle the cartels and gang violence, as well as end the fucking war on drugs. I have no interest in the Ark Park. I found the sensationalist articles written on it to have a funny headline, I smirked a little, and didn't bother reading because I don't care. The place will be bankrupt within a few years at best.
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Also, nice false equivalence there. Because speculating and/or encouraging that the previous president should be put to death is completely the same as poking a joke at the obvious headline irony of the Ark Park suing over flood insurance, or arguing over who's to blame (if anyone really is to blame at all) about aliens dying after trekking hundreds or thousands of miles to try to flee already-squalid conditions. It's just the kind of intellectual dishonesty I've come to expect from your posts. You're looking to stir the pot, not actually contribute.
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BAHAHAHAHAHA Nailed it!
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Oh, did I contribute to that hysteria? The difference, I think, is that...WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! But thank you for adding nothing useful, yet again, to the discourse.
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I just...Like even IF i granted that this stuff had a shred of truth (spoiler: it doesn't)...do you really believe that this country would stand for a former president to be put to death? George W. Bush is regarded as a war criminal by much of the developed world, and by a not-insignificant number of US Citizens, but as a nation I don't believe for a second that we would tolerate or support putting him to death. The very mentioning of it in your post is highly disturbing. I'm with Jerry.
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OANN is literally worse than Breitbart. Man, I feel really bad that you're under this spell. I hope you come out the other end OK.
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I'd say it's likely to hold up constitutionally with the Emoluments clause as a backbone. How do you tell if someone's violating the Emoluments clause? Obviously we have a president* who is doing it right under our noses, so the time for the courts to rule on it is upon us. I hope that we see a reasonable decision. -
Has it crossed your mind that AOC is well aware of Nancy's disdain for her? What would you have her do? Cross her arms and give a pouty look at Nancy when she offers the gavel? While that would certainly reinforce your view of the "snowflake generation," it's not good politics. Nancy might have set her up for a no-win situation, but I don't believe for a second that AOC is swooned by her.
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Yeah, except she knocked off the #4 Democrat in Congress (Crowley). Nancy is a little salty about that one, methinks.
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So serious! I thought the novelty of Bill Nye getting R-Rated was hilarious. Apparently, your humorectomy was bigly successful...
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Another topic people have subjective definitions for: consciousness. I'd simply pare it down in layman's terms (that's me) as the state of being aware of the concept of self - measured subjectively on a spectrum. A housefly is aware of itself at some level - although I think it would be commonly agreed not to be nearly at the same level of complexity as humans. I'm an expert in absolutely none of this, however. Much like skydiving. Just my thoughts.
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Interesting. You ask the question of whether the universe only allows things to exist that are attainable by our knowledge. I don't know if I can get on board with that as a solid hypothesis. I think consciousness is an emergent property of matter in motion, like wetness. A water molecule is not wet, and we don't know how many water molecules it takes to cause the property of wetness to emerge. It is a property that emerges based on our sensory perception. Similarly, our human trait of consciousness is the result of neurons firing in an attempt to navigate the environment (universe) around them, as a survival mechanism. I think it's best put as: we are the universe's way of knowing itself. I think that was from the "Cosmos" reboot. I feel like I'm rambling here, and maybe a bit incoherently. But I like where your head is at for the most part.
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^THIS
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But to put an unproven claim on 50/50 ground, where it's just as likely true as not true, is a logical error. You're absolutely right about the part where you said that if a claim is unfalsifiable it says nothing to whether it's true or not. But that wording is deceptive, I think. It leads the casual reader or listener to put it on an even playing field where it's a binary choice with equal probability of truth. That is not the case, however. I could say that mermaids exist (as in the mythological version), and while that claim is either true or untrue (also unfalsifiable), there is no evidence whatsoever to bolster the probability of it being true. There is an infinitesimally small chance of the claim being true. Much smaller of a chance than 50/50, most would agree, though the choice will, by definition, be binary.
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Gets mighty quiet in here on the weekends during jump season...*chirp chirp*
