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Comment Re: Stasi (Score 1) 129

Ick, dude! How did you come up with such a hateful, specific example?

Since when has it been wrong to hate rapists and pedophiles? Why are you in favor of them?

How many people on the entire planet fit this description? 2, maybe 3?

1 is too many, but since you asked, I did a quick check... How about at least 60 trans sex offenders in England alone. Source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffairplayforwomen.com%2Ft...

How many have to fit the description before it's a problem to you?

Setiously, you need to clean the MAGA out of your ears. I know it's difficult scince Trump's mouth flooded the country for the past 4 years, but still.

Sure, pretend the 8 years of Obama never happened... and 4 years of the mainstream media peddling the Russian Collusion... and over half a year of Democrat Brownshirts burning cities and beating up anyone they don't like. History clearly began in 2016 in your world.

You have nothing but contempt for my religion, why should I have any respect for yours? A religion where you can't even coherently define "woman" without running afoul of your own blasphemy laws. (AKA "Hate Speech") No way that pile of nonsense is gonna stand the test of time.

Comment Re:Stasi (Score 1) 129

I have ZERO DOUBT I will be burying my cousin in the next 2 years as he is now chasing those pathetic Tylenol 2s with Jack Black just so he can walk to the toilet without pissing himself and its fucking nanny staters LIKE YOU that will be helping put him in the ground and I only wish I could force you to dig the hole.

That horrible. I can absolutely relate to what they are going through. Vodka was my choice before I finally got my back fixed. It's not good to be mixing alcohol with those, but what other option do they have? What other choice has our government given these people? This country can give pedophiles "gender transition" surgery and be put in a women prison, but God forbid someone with chronic pain be able to have their pain be properly managed with inexpensive drugs that actually work.

I disagree with a lot of what you say. On this we can agree. It is truly evil what these people are doing. I don't want to wish them the sort of pain your cousin is going through, but there will not be one ounce of sympathy shown if they ever do. Reap what they sow and all.

"Then change the laws to something rational", seriously, go slam your hand in a car door. How seriously out of touch can you get? That's like Anne Frank showing up to your door in 1942 and you telling her to go organize a protest march. What's next. Going back and telling MLK to stop causing so much trouble and just run for Congress?

Comment Re: Be aware of acetaminophen (Score 1) 94

I can confirm from several years ago. I would have LOVED to find this "Opiate Epidemic" people talk about, with doctors giving out Oxy PEZ dispensers. Even with the MRI of my blown disk pushing hard on my nerves, I could get little more than Oxy flavored Ibuprofen. I normally don't drink, but was soon pounding 80 proof vodka to make the meds go further while at home. (Actually quite effective, but not recommended.) Of course, the actual problem is illegal heroin and fentanyl. You can't shakedown a drug kingpin like you can a drug company though. So activists put the blame where they can make the most money.

Thankfully surgery fixed my back after 3 tries, but anyone who wants to restrict these meds from people in chronic pain can go get bent. You might as well be withholding insulin from a diabetic.

BTW, I easily quit the pain meds after getting out of the hospital. The trick is to quit them ASAP. When you already feel like crap and are sleeping 16 hours a day anyway.

Comment Re:Same whinge as always (Score 1) 294

Yes... they sold... because people like you put a gun to people's heads and didn't give them a choice. Funny how you can get everyone to eat chicken feet, like they did in the Soviet Union, when their alternative is starvation.

Do you want to know why fuel efficient station wagons died off and just about everyone drives a truck or SUV nowadays? Those environmental rules you're so proud of. Nobody could build trucks to meet those standards so trucks played by different rules. Oops.

Do you want to know why the average age of vehicles continually increases. Those environmental rules you're so proud of. New cars become more and more expensive, forcing people to keep older cars on the road held together with duct tape and string. Oops.

You and the regulators aren't nearly as smart as you think you are.

Comment Pipe dreams of Trains and Typewriters. (Score 1) 396

Why do we subsidize mass transit, but not typewriter factories? Why are we not making similar efforts to reduce energy and other resource usage by reducing the number of personal computers and increasing the number of typewriters?

I hate to break it to you but, to normal people, those of you advocating mass transit over cars look as batshit insane as someone advocating typewriters instead of personal computers. For the exact same reasons. If you want to "replace" ICE cars, your replacement needs to do 100% of what ICE cars currently do. Not 90%. Not 95%. 100%. People are not going to inconvenience themselves for your solution

It's the same sort of busted logic and faulty accounting. Fantasizing, to the point of delusion, over an obsolete technology. Rail is good for moving 10,000 tons of iron ore hundreds of miles. A few tons of people a couple miles? not so much. The only reason anyone bothered with passenger rail was because cars and buses had not been invented yet. Same reason we used ocean liners for intercontinental transportation.

If you wanted REAL solutions and not NYer pipe dreams? Stop saddling the country with emissions requirements that are only relevant in LA and NY where people live ass-to-nut 24/7. Why does a tractor that is 5 miles from the next nearest human need a DEF system? They make it functionally illegal, via regulations, to sell modern versions of things like the Geo Metro or even station wagons, then in the same breath complain about everyone driving an SUV that gets 15 MPG. Why is it so hard to get Polaris and other utility vehicles registered as street legal in much of the country? Sure hey aren't interstate worthy, but they make great around town vehicles. In short, the problem is that government has effectively mandated the large vehicles we see today by making the alternatives uneconomical to produce or unattractive to consumers.

Comment Re:China Says China Not Guilty (Score 1) 199

Yes, it's Sooooooo difficult to denounce the CCP for machine-gunning protesters in Tianmen Square.

Putting religious minorities in concentration camps? Shouldn't be difficult to say that the CCP is wrong for doing that.

It's frigin easier to do than the "Clck all the squares that have a "X" in them" bot tests.

Comment Re:There have to be some limits (Score 2) 129

This is exactly what my cable ISP does.

No data caps, but your max speed is throttled. A much superior solution to data caps, at least on wired infrastructure.

Want a higher speed cap? Upgrade your plan.

Most people are perfectly happy with a moderate speed cap. Nobody cares if your 2 hour movie downloads in 30 minutes or 3. As long as it's fast enough to not skip.

Comment Re:The damage has been done (Score 1) 222

Contrast that when Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell and then had cancer again. The vast majority of conservatives wished she would retire and enjoy the time she has left. Only a relative few wished she would just die already and there was push-back by other conservatives over talking like that.

Now, there are plenty of jokes about her already being dead, a cyborg, Weekend at Bernie's,, etc. That's not the same thing though. Dick Cheney had the same sort of jokes made about him back then and the conservatives were helping spread them. Why? Because they were funny.

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