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Comment Re:Finally (Score 0) 111

ORLY? Then how come a small band of zealots were able to topple the Shah and install themselves as government in 1979? It all started with little protests here and there, like the brainwashed vapid Palestinian-loving privileged white kids here protesting for what they perceive is the latest outrage, the latest slight caused by US and Israel, prodded by their brainwashed teachers.

All the kiddies helped them do it. They wanted it, they got it, and and now you say they're secular?

Their actions proved otherwise for the past 40-something years.

So which is it? The minority, according to you, got power by revolution? Or did They the People help them do it?

Can't have it both ways.

Comment Re:What's the point of school when a hired tutor c (Score 1) 148

My Jr. High had an acrylics class, not really sure exactly how that happened. We made keychains and backscratchers and candy dishes, but it was a reasonable introduction at least. We heated our sheets of plastic in a sheet metal oven with a bunch of heat lamps in the top.

The high school wood shop had all the usual stuff you'd expect, like the band saw and so on. We made piggy banks.

The community college I went to, though, had some great vocational programs. They had a well-equipped auto body shop with two booths; a welding shop for arc, gas, and tig; a machine shop with a number of lathes, an EDM, one nice big old bridgeport vertical and a vertical CNC; an auto repair shop with ASE cert prep classes (I took electrics and HVAC and have at times been certified in both) and one or two other things I'm forgetting now.

Comment Re:Fossil fuels suck, and politicians are idiots (Score 1) 40

I have a NG cooktop at home, and even when it's -15C outside I open all the windows downstairs when cooking, and I can *STILL* see the result on my air quality meter spike in the living room, even before I add any food to the pan.

Do you have a range hood? We don't, and it's insane to me. This house is so old it used to have a wood-fired stove in it, which vented into an old school brick chimney with a fireplace on the other side of the wall.

Comment Re:Constitution? (Score 0) 122

The constitution, as a modern legal document, is crap.

Of course, it's not a modern legal document. That's the problem.

I'm not talking about sensibilities here at all, I'm talking about how weakly it is written. Practically everything about it is horribly vague, again, by modern standards. You can argue back and forth for eternity about what various parts of it mean because it doesn't have most of the things we expect from a legal document. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 is sorely in need of a definitions section. So, obviously, is Amendment II.

This directly affects the point you have raised here. The exact extent of the rights accorded the federal government is up for debate, and therefore, so is the extent of the rights of the people as the two are not meant to overlap.

Comment Re:Good moves (Score 2) 94

How can any decent person be proud of getting a job that way ?

You have that backwards as usual, not surprising from a mentally challenged white supremacist, but I repeat myself. How can any decent person be proud of getting a job because other white people suppressed brown people for centuries? You didn't earn that.

Comment Re:Just cancel already (Score 1) 94

America is broken in so many ways, but having something like Artemis might help stitch it back together.

If it wasn't bad in every way, maybe. But it is, and it should be allowed to die and the money spent on a more sensible project. The best time to kill the project was immediately. The second-best time would have been between then and now, earlier rather than later. But NASA doesn't even seem to want to get to third best.

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