Yeah but he's an ******* there's already 400 people who abuse people all the time in congress that I
Find really really catastrophic and he did it before the election so it's like if they vote for him they get a living embodiment of their own stupidity and then if they don't good for them.

Trump and the GOP may not be willing or able to help coal miners in the US, but someone is willing to give them hand

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...e-wind-farmers

A while back I asked any coal miners to PM about training in solar. No response so far.

Seems like Pirates of the Caribbean's latest outing went as expected

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/m...smtyp=cur&_r=0

So getting back to your point, we're going to be in a predictable, bad feedback loop:

- I think you are correct that unscrupulous press members may now very well troll increasingly temperamentally unhinged Republicans (elected partly because they are looney toon characters) into lashing out; related, well-meaning press members who aren't trolling but are on high-alert and anxious about the boorish norm-and-rule-breaking are going to also feel strong incentives to posture aggressively against these guys
- ambitious GOPers can make a name for themselves and build a profile with the deplorable white smirking class by developing high-profile finishers and signature moves to use on the press. BAH GAWD, Gianfote just used The People's Bodyslam on that reporter from The Guardian, this place just ERUPTED

I'm obviously being a little tongue in cheek here but the incentives underlying the modern circus are leading toward the increasingly outlandish, offensive, and bizarre. I obviously hold the reactionary right wing as ultimately responsible but if your point was that we will see more and more aggressive posturing from the media in response, I think you are correct, and since particularly right winger politicians are going to incentivized and not deterred to respond in ever-more outlandish and transgressive ways, the cycle will continue.

As I said, the world has seen too many crucible moments in the recent past to keep track such that they will all flow together. When the history is written, this one is very likely to be forgotten. But I mentally bookmarked it as another signpost on the road to a highly chaotic future. The transgressions are celebrated, and unscrupulous people or simply dumb people realize this is a way to get attention without considering the consequences, and normal people are now on high alert and trying to remind everyone this isn't normal which is paradoxically part of the allure and feeds the feedback loop for reactionaries. Getting out of reality show mode might be like the most pressing problems facing Americans today, at least one among many. But I am skeptical of the future.

But it sets a precedent for the future if this isn't punished.

Reporters will be at greater risk of assault by politicians if the questions they have to answer are challenging.

Do ferrets work for snakes? Like copper heads and rattle snakes? Or is that just like a mongoose thing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List..._United_States

There are a couple cases here where a public official killed a journalist but gets away with it because prosecutors or a jury thought they had it coming for being too critical.

Mongooses (mongeese?) have some kind of immunity against cobra venom. Ferret vs. rattlesnake would be a quick win for the snake, assuming the ferret didn't just run away like a little ***** bodyslammed reporter.

I skimmed a bunch of the more recent ones, but didn't find any like what you described -- who and when was the latest journalist to be killed by a public official who got away with it, with or without the stipulation that the jury "thought they had it coming"?

What if it's a baby rattlesnake? Perhaps one that blends with your wood door trimming?

Last one on the list was something like 1903.

Interesting article with some pretty cool web design to boot about a developer in the West Bank building an entirely new, upscale city and all the risks that entails, like the Israelis being able to shut off power and water at any time:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...mepage%2Fstory

which is why reporters should all train self-defense, that way they can surely kick an ass or two, because that's what bryan boitano'd do

A new hope.


https://twitter.com/TheShadeRoom/sta...25021406244868

Pizza versus chocolate chip cookie? That's a tough one.

Close but pizza had hamburger as a running mate. Kid made the right choice.

HOW DARE YOU ASK ME THAT?

My ACist buddy explains to me why sexual coercion in the workplace doesn't occur anymore.

"I am on a cruise ship. On a privately owned vessel in international waters. No one has asked for a bj. Its almost like, as a private enterprise in competition with other private enterprises, Carnival has concluded that they will prefer the likely outcomes of not demanding arbitrary sexual favors over the alternative. The goofy sadistic scenario you described would not be metaphysically impossible, but there would be all sorts of obvious benefits to not pursuing such a strategy. Meanwhile, a thousand cops each year get caught doing just that. And those are just the ones who get caught."

Guys I guess the market didn't exist pre CRA when sexual coercion was literally a fact of life for women in the workforce.

Sexual assault is famously rampant on cruise ships.

Like always, ACers are fools.

So, it's a buncha garbage-in...

ZOMG so what. A privately owned vessel in international waters has to follow laws of it's flag country just like on land. It has to follow the laws regarding any foreign citizen, as it relates to that citizen. It has to follow the laws of every port it stops in, and any contract it has agreed to. It has to follow certain international "laws of the seas", and certain international treaties. It is subject to boarding and enforcement actions from any and all maritime powers.

So this is all garbage in, filtered through a garbage assumption.

you're
a
crook, captain hook
judge, won't you throw the book
at the pirate--

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll be rewarded.

So inspiring.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...errorist-award

**** your feelings snowflake. #FIRECOLBERT

I wanna say snap fire. But Texas.