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Yea, is that all you got? Do you understand how weak that joke was? Do you understand how people who may have wives or daughter or sisters who have been raped would react when they hear **** like that? My wife was raped at 19 and had an abortion, this is real life and people don't think that **** is funny. It says something about a person, when they make a joke like that. It says something about the relationship they have with women in general and what kind of heart they have. You need to really take a second and put yourself in someones shoes who has been raped and then ask yourself was that **** funny? Jesus Christ, what in the **** is wrong with people?

What the **** is this ****? And it's pretty telling that TWA laughed at it.

Chad Grimm (it says in the title of the youtube)

Anybody been reading up on Dr Giulio Tononi's work Consciousness via the framework of Integrated Information Theory? I bring it up here, because his work is seeking to provide a framework for answering what are the criteria and commensurate threshold levels that need to be met for consideration of the presence of consciousness. Eventually this could prove to be a better determinant for when abortion can and cannot be done rather than things like heartbeat or whatever.

For real, **** these parents and what the hell is this expectation to lie and cheat and do all sorts of **** for your kid? My parents weren't like that, because they knew it was important to have a global sense of responsibility and preservation as well an individual sense. I sucked at learning that responsibility and went to prison myself as a result, but that ultimately helped me learn and practice it. A parent is failing their own and their child's development if they can't understand that you don't break the system to help your kid. We all depend on a threshold level of trust and good faith for this ecosystem of a society to work. There is a line you don't cross. Help your kid, support your kid, but don't **** up the system to give your kid a free ride because he or she never developed the capability to make it on your own. **** those parents and **** those kids till they learn otherwise and actually earn their way.

He kind of resembles Brian Mitchell, doesn't he? Like in the face. Both special teams aces in different ways, although in saying that Terry has some big shoes to fill.

I saw on Redskins Nation that Josh Harvey Clemons added 20 lbs this off-season. Who knows how much of that stays over the course of camp, and how his speed is affected are still a question, but it's cool to see him putting in the effort to be an every down LB

Some Suburban State Lawmakers Are Leaving the GOP Since the midterm elections, Republican legislators in California, Kansas and New Jersey have switched to the Democratic party. https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-california-kansas-party-switch-lawmaker.html ‘If this is the new normal, I want no part of it’: Citing Trump, Iowa’s longest-serving Republican leaves party https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/24/if-this-is-new-normal-i-want-no-part-it-citing-trump-iowas-longest-serving-republican-leaves-party/?utm_term=.809adf5a5f8b

Finally got my hands on a cut of Cap's MAC 1 strain. So excited. I love DC, the quality you can find is better than any dispensary I've rolled through in Colorado.

Nah

Hoyer is such a ****. How do you say impeachment isn't worthwhile at this point? Nadler at least has the stones to say it's at least a possibility at this time.

I'd say a burden of absolute proof is ridiculous and insurmountable. You're not going to get absolute certainty, there is always going to be a gap, because the gap is part of the design. It provides combustion, impetus, conatus, etc. which compels movement. People talk about the first mover, or what moved what first, but what if it was the very inherent incompleteness that self-compelled movement? It's why we move. To fill the void, whether it be a void to fill with air for our lungs, food for our stomach, meaning for our mind, or connection for our heart and soul.

Anybody doing anything special for 4:20? There are festivals and stuff in the city, but eh. I’m thinking I might do something like 4 grams of green composed of 20 different strains for a super entourage effect. I was originally gonna j it up, but **** I hate combustion. I think it’s all going in the volcano instead. Should be super tasty.

Regarding the whole, if god exists why is there suffering? question. A possibility that I operate from, is basically that as bad as that suffering might be, it would be much, much worse to try to alleviate that suffering by violating or damaging the very structure of the universe to do so. There is a tethering of the very fabric of the universe, that precludes from the manifestation of real "absolute" absolutes, due to the simple fact that ultimate absolutes are ultimately static positions and nothing in this universe seems to be ultimately static. Everything moves/reacts and changes in response to other moving and changing shapes of life, so therefore the possibility to move and change must always be present and can't be cut off in some absolute way (the uncertainty principle touches on this in a sense). Which brings me back to the point, that as horrible as human suffering is, it maybe ain't **** compared to the absolute horror of an absolute static state. If we are truly stardust, then we need to be humble and recognize how hard and painful life truly can be as it grows and becomes more complex. There are time frames where conceivably, life toils for thousands of years in fire and mud, before even reaching the threshold of simple organisms on the level of an amoeba. Compared to that stress and death and scratching survival, the suffering of humans is not the worst hell imaginable. Everything, even "miracles" have a golidlocks zone process that can't be short-cut. If you do short-cut the process, then you lose out on the adaptations/changes needed to fully realize the cumulative change or end result that was intended. I doubt God takes short-cuts, because I doubt God succumbs to the pressure or lacks the understanding/foresight to make the mistake of doing so.

There are certain kinds of kids that when they get abused by a parent, they don't stop loving the parent, they stop loving themselves.

That's why these people need jail time. This class and justifiably so has the belief that if you throw enough money at it, you can insulate yourself from the repercussions of jail time. Jail is not a perfect deterrent, but it is a much better deterrent than no confinement at all.

I don't feel like any society we've had so far has been all that great. We're a C- species at best.

Exactly, there are supposed to be threshold levels. X is the basic threshold level no one should fall under and Y is upper threshold limit no one should exceed, given that exceeding Y brings about the slippage of people under threshold X. You have a floor and a ceiling and in between those limits a goldilocks zone. And there is a tension, a balance between the floor and ceiling that must be protected and maintained as humans progress and adapt, so that society can enjoy the fruits of that zone.

Eh. I'd say those middle class folk are doing more of the lifting there. Why not give them a shout out?

Eh, I'd say this only holds true in a meritocracy, of which our country is becoming ever more less so, and only then for the person who actually garnered the wealth, not so for the people benefiting from it. In those cases the wealth is sheltering the beneficiaries from the things in life that would diminish capacity and providing every bit of leverage and opportunity to augment their "natural" or base-line level competency. We have a problem in this country with differentiating between merit and privilege. The quote from above is a sad belief in a way and I'd say its a prime part of the cultural obsequiousness right wingers have to the rich. They see the rich as superior to others and those who aren't rich want to be superior as well. Couple that with good old american greed and the consequent twisting of freedom by it and you have a group of people who glorify the rich and see money as the path to freedom FROM consequences. A society where eventually there is no character or community and everything is transactional.

Eh, I’d pump the brakes on all that for a minute. You got one guy saying that in response to the possibility of evident charges being declinated. And another posting a **** load of qualifiers before possibly coming to that conclusion. I think its natural, given the circumstances to have a what the **** is going on kind of feeling right now. There are clear charges of at least perjury that have not been pursued and we all want to know why. Patience can be a struggle in these times, it’ll take people some time to get there.

It isn't looking good, but I'm not there yet till we see nothing come from the Dem's getting a hold of the Mueller Report and more importantly whatever it is SDNY, EDVA, and others got cooking.

Sounds like they're just projecting what they had with Trump and Reagan in a sense.

It's better to point out that everything he posted was a bull**** narrative to begin with, rather than try to argue the bull**** points of what he's trying to say. Nip it in the bud and move on in my view.