Larry of the Lawn

Dude is going to be prescreening all of Baron's graduation cards to pocket the cash.

He doesn't, I was just going for the alliteration and figured that with our pan-anglosphere board at least some would assume the raunchier meaning rather than the quaint American one.

I bet Doors of Stone is a total fuckfest. Like, after living with the sex ninjas and and the Felurian side quest, he's loses all interest in things school and revenge related. He just dives fully into his sexuality and fucks his way across (whatever the name of the land in this story is). My theory is that the book has been completed for years, Rothfuss wasn't lying, he's just been at a stand-off with the publisher, who refuses to print it as it is. Way too many fae fannies and sorcerous schlongs flying around.

So if a country has attacked a diplomatic target in the past it's just open season on their own consulates and embassies for ever after? This is a very weird position to take-- what's the logic here? The Buenos Aires bombing you mentioned was over 30 years ago. Even if it was conducted by the Iranian government instead of a Lebanese group with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, I don't see any logic in saying that some how we can't expect a country to retaliate to a consulate bombing because they bombed an embassy 30 years ago.

After Oct 7 we heard that Israel was showing restraint in their response in Gaza. If they hadn't, Gaza wouldn't exist anymore. Similarly, you know very well that Iran showed restraint this weekend. This missile and drone attack wasn't "because their stated goal is to do so until it's destroyed". It was undeniably a response to the Damascus attack. And wtf now we're picking on spelling from posters whose first language isn't even English?

Ok. Try plugging in 'Israel' and 'Hamas' into HoI's post that I quoted and see how it sounds: Can you see why that kind of framing is kinda lazy and fucked?

It's less "targeting Iran" than escalating with Iran by killing 50 people in the embassy attack.

Let me rephrase. You said : You've already established that "that world" is the 8 'rational' nations with nuclear weapons. But I'm asking you is why has that been proven "viable"? What does viable mean in this context? Does it mean that this is what has happened so far? Do you simply mean that nuclear weapons haven't been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

"viable" doing a lot of work here. What does viable mean in this context?

I'd be absolutely fine never hearing another Florida man / Florida joke for the rest of my life, because this thread specifically has ruined my ability to appreciate it by oversaturation and the need to shoehorn any tangential reference to Florida into lazy and unoriginal jokes. It'd be one thing if the jokes were good, but they're not even funny. Eta: C'mon board, you can all do better. Wait for the right opportunity or for some real inspiration. One good joke is better than 500 shitty ones.

do you have a citation that supports the idea that felons voted for Trump at a higher rate than your average Floridian?

Gas stoves and ovens can also leak benzene, which can cause leukemia. Houses today are not necessarily better ventilated than they were 25 or 40 years ago. Often modern construction is so airtight due to spray in insulation that houses don't "breathe" at all. A good portion of my job involves dealing with pressure issues in new construction homes. Electricity is cleaner than burning gas on site. Because it's not all generated from hydrocarbons. There may be local exceptions if you live near a coal plant. There is plenty of food out there. Some people think any regulation to keep poisons out of it or the water used to grow it are onerous. Solar and wind need to be coupled with fission or fossil fuels to reduce emissions. We should have dumped a ton of money into fission 50 years ago. We should have done it yesterday. But being pro-fission on its own doesn't mean that your some tree hugger. Show me some conservative gneerated legislation to stop pollution or deforestation or stop the privatizing of publicly owned resources. Show me any real legislation from the right to protect our natural resources. The right has been gutting the EPA and complaining about business not being able to pollute since the EPA was created. The American right doesn't give a fuck about the environment. Dems corporate donors aren't about to let them make major changes to help either, but at least they aren't marching gungho towards an apocalyptic wasteland where the only animals are in zoos and every river and lake is owned by some corporation, or where there is no guarantee your water isnt polluted with industrial waste. You talk about nutrition while the GOP creates school lunch debt and wants to keep food stamps from being used on fresh produce: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/31/politics/wic-benefits-cut-culture-war

I guess you could say she used your porn theater counting method, eh?

That 200 number is almost certainly wrong, possibly by an order of magnitude. No one is sure exactly how many illegal dispensaries are operating, but if you count smoke shops selling THC products the high end estimates are 8000. https://council.nyc.gov/press/2023/08/14/2454/ Even if it's half that you're still wrong. Eta: some quick googling will tell you that there are illegal shops on almost every block in Hell's Kitchen, for example. It's easy, just use Google Maps.

You know it's pretty easy to say "huh, guess I was wrong"

I don't think z lives in Times Square lol

You do realize that switching from gas to electric ranges is a health issue? There's quite a bit of data on this. I actually agree that the uber-focus by liberals on emissions has relegated discussion of other environmental pollutants and destructive behavior to the back burner, but I've yet to meet a conservative or maga type who gives a shit about the environment. They might shed some crocodile tears over batteries and rare-earth mining, but they don't give a fuck about deforestation, anthropogenic extinctions, over-fishing, water pollution, changing out lead lines, or conservation unless it affects a trophy species. How the hell is the left coming for your nutrition?

NY's weed roll out has been pretty lousy, but it's still better than how it was when it was criminalized. Pretty wild that they didn't just do it how Mass did. They had a great model right next door. In a state where you have people dying in pretrial detention I'll take some losers hanging outside the illegal dispensaries over just one more thing to lock people up for. And the problems in NY are because it's been done (the legalization rollout) poorly.

And then there are the false accusations of false accusations. Well my girlfriend had her children taken away from her and given to their father because one of the kids reported him for abuse. There was a "good touch/bad touch" unit at school, and the child told a teacher that she was being touched inappropriately. My girlfriend sued to modify the custody arrangement to limit him to supervised visits only and mandatory therapy. In the meantime, child protective services interviewed the child, who wouldn't talk to a stranger about this. The report came back "unfounded" and he got a hotshot lawyer to say that my gf spent the last ten years subtly brainwashing the kids into falsely believing they'd been abused. There is zero evidence of this other than the father's repeated assertions. Plenty of evidence from other parties that he has engaged in similar behavior before. But this backwards-ass county family Court system loved the narrative of a woman falsely accusing an ex. So the kids are now with their potential abuser. My gf only gets to see them during supervised visits. It's been hell for her.

That was one of the most memorable and beautiful things I've ever experienced. It got noticeably colder, was able to see Venus and Jupiter. Wonderful.

Clear skies here in Burlington right now, but I see a pretty thick cloud banknoff to the west and heading this way. Fingers crossed!

Let's not make a big deal out of Little Mikey Mars nocturnal sojourns to his neighbors dairy stalls, wherein he became obsessed with the ritual of pressing his lips to the bloating udder, pausing between mouthfuls to jam a spoonful of cocoa powder and sugar into his mouth in a fit of mania devoted to that glycemic lactic thrill. Years later he'd distill it into the candy bar that gave you the stars in your own youth. Let's not make a big deal out of it.

I can't remember which one of these threads is the right one to bash Elon Musk in, apologies if this is off topic. Twitter restored the original model of blue check marks this week and got rid of the Musk scheme where you just buy it instead: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/media/elon-musk-blue-checkmarks-x-reversal/index.html Pretty amazing watching the purported genius get told his idea sucks, have him do it anyway, watch his decisions and management tank the platform, and then see him scramble to fix shit after it's too late. Why couldn't you just leave it the fuck alone?

We're still looking at an incredibly small percentage of what's out there though, and only across the blink of an eye. Even a massive artifact like a Dyson sphere -- that's something we could have already "seen" dozens of times but written off as a planet or exoplanet.

RIP John Barth. Loved Lost in the Fun House when I had to read it on college, and recently grabbed The Sotweed Factor at goodwill. I read about 20 pages waiting for my gf to pick me up and loved it, looking forward to picking it back up when I finish a couple other things.