While I agree that there are superior implementations for podcast listening, I don't think it makes them better.

If they're superior, why are they not better?

I think I might remember the guy you're talking about. You could eat your pizza and listen to some blues guys jamming on the corner in front of the place that sold gold chains and hot watches. Maxwell Street was the best.

Looking at a longer-term graph though, natural gas prices are currently ~5x where they were a year ago.

No. One year ago, on July 10 2021, they were in the 90s. Today, LNG prices are at 255.52. Yes, they're higher today, but if you look at that graph, they spiked when Putin was ramping up his invasion and have been trending in the right direction.

I play Mario Maker but also watch other people playing it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with watching gamers stream. I know a lot of people really enjoy it. It's just a personal decision about how I will spend my time.

I also watch a lot of sports, especially basketball, and I've never been any good at playing basketball.

And today even in deep-red whatever if you'd tried that you'd be strung up by your toes.

Absolutely not. I live in deep-purple whatever, and we have drill teams that fire blanks in the football stadium all the time. There's even a famous Civil War cannon that gets fired at football games. There's a hunting club, a target-shooting club, a firearms safety club, etc.

Tesla has had actual earnings for a while now, and doesn't benefit much from subsidies at this point so those are real earnings

Not until Q4 of 2021 (two quarters ago). After years of profiting only from carbon credits (given to Tesla by the government, which Tesla then sells to their competitors), they would only have been profitable since then. And it's funny how Musk suddenly wanted the subsidies stopped in December of 2021, after banking those subsidies for two decades.

So after all these years, without that healthy boost-up from government, would Tesla be profitable today? And how much is their unwillingness to turn any of that money over to shareholders due to the fact that they're still feasting at the government trough?

You are confusing school libraries and school classroom curriculum with public libraries.

No, the Republican efforts to ban books extends to public libraries as well as school libraries.

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Yes, classroom curriculum. Why? Because the books injected nonsense "social justice" topics into what is supposed to be math instruction.

Except none of that turned out to be true. The objection was not to "social justice" topics in the math books at all. Note the total lack of examples offered by the Florida congress or governor. They said there was CRT in the math textbooks but offered no instances of that being the case.

I wasn't really accusing you. You're right about everything but I don't see any clever coroner getting away with with mass fraud on a scale that would make it worthwhile.

In fact, it's not death from COVID that get enhanced payments from the government, it's whether the patient was put on a ventilator. In those cases, Medicare pays additional money to cover the expenses associated with the ventilator. There were not hospitals making beaucoup bucks from calling non-COVID cases COVID. That's a fantasy.

I hope you're right about all that. The way events have been going, every day it looks a little bit more like you are going to be proven right.

I hate to break it to you, but houses in California are built just as shit most of the time

The difference is that the climate in California is so good you could live in a tent. In Houston, you would cook to death in a tent.

Boosters are still not fully authorized for anyone

The booster comes in the same bottle as the regular (licensed, approved) shots. The only difference is the dosage size. There are not special shipments or packaging for the booster shots.

Speech inciting violence is legal speech. Otherwise a lot of rap music (and goth music) would be illegal.

No, because those rap songs are not specifically inciting violence against a particular person or institution unlike the proclamations of January 6.

Slogans like "no justice, no peace" incite violence, but are protected by the First Amendment because they are not incitement to imminent lawless action.

Correct, because they are not specific, whereas, "Let's walk down to the Capital and take back our country" are specific incitement to violence. In fact, several of the people convicted of the violence at the Capital specifically cited Trump's words as being specific calls to action.

That’s typically referred to as circular reasoning

No, it's not. It's typically referred to as quod erat demonstrandum.

Circular reasoning is something else entirely.

Wrong. The shots are identical in formula. The shots are completely different legally. The shots made so far that are labelled Pfizer BioNTech received an extended EUA. Pfizer still has legal immunity for these shots. Shots made under the Comirnaty label are FDA approved, legal immunity is removed. None of this has been produced yet. Read that last sentence again.

Are you listening to yourself?