Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

So essentially this ruling suggests that abortions rights such as they are, should be reflected at the federal level appropriate, namely the states. Unless the clerk skyservice_330 quoted is right: - It talks about fetuses being people as a matter of ancient law (teeing up idea that fetuses are con...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

I really don't understand the US justice system. How could the Supreme Court overturn another Supreme Court ruling? Shouldn't the ruling be final and binding once it has been made? Also, why the hell would you allow Supreme Court justices to have a life term? Why can't it be amended so that Supreme...

Re: Envoy E175 Drops Winglet in Turbulence

I wonder if these winglets have a designed fail point when overstressed. These winglets are most likely CFRP with a metal leading eage. It wouldn't be unprecedented. The Grumman F8F Bearcat had wingtips designed to break away at a certain point when the airframe exceeded g limits, and that was in 1...

Re: Aircraft stored at Bruntingthorpe scrapped (RAF Tri-Stars, VC-10's, Super Guppy)

Too bad, they're all fascinating and historic aircraft.

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

While we're discussing convenience, I think it's worth pointing out just how convenient it is to be pro-life. People who advocate for the disabled, for veterans, for racial and sexual minorities, for the homeless - they take part in a dialog. They have to understand that maybe things aren't as simpl...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

Is anything much done in the US to reduce the abortion rate, noting that the lowest rates are in countries where abortion is legal? No. The actual goal is to punish women for having sex. Remember that Roe v. Wade only really became a rallying point after the battle to keep schools racially segregat...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

They should just release the ruling ASAP. That's it end of story. If anything changes from here to the announcement, its done, the justice system is broken. And therein lies one theory as to why this was leaked by a conservative clerk, and not a liberal - To intimidate the conservative justices int...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

I suspect that the slow-burn crisis of legitimacy for SCOTUS is about to become a fast-burn crisis.

Re: What do Russians think of Putin now?

I've been reading some takes elsewhere that what we may be seeing is Putin's cynical, thuggish attitude towards government is a two-sided coin. He's done such a good job convincing Russians that everything is a lie and nothing can change, that when he actually needs the country to pull through with ...

Re: The GOP has decided to punish free speech

Kapernick protested in a way that was completely peaceful, injured nobody, required no police intervention, and cost no one any money or property. Supposedly, after George Floyd in 2020, that's how we're supposed to protest, right? And yet no one on the right ever toned down their histrionic rhetori...

Re: Migrant Crisis at the Texas Border 2022

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Not nearly as despicable as allowing everyone to enter this country illegally with no questions asked simply because 7 out of 10 them will vote for you. It's sick actually.

Re: New Yorkers don't feel safe at home anymore

I found this article in the New York times kind of interesting, and maybe somewhat illustrative as to why gun control is such a frustrating issue to discuss. It seems like you have to have basically everyone doing it, because even a tiny number of dishonest or inattentive brokers can get a lot of gu...

Re: Junkers JU-52 NG planned

Who's the launch customer? SCADTA? Imperial Airways? Panair do Brasil? Transcontinental and Western Air? Det Danske Luftfartselskab?

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

Apparently there's some kind of non-disparagement clause in the deal. And well, Elon isn't very good at not disparaging things. I don't know, like everything related to social media it's all incredibly dumb.

Re: Unite the Right / Jan 6 - Legal Impacts - A thread

MTG is one of those people who's scary because she's incapable of discerning between fantasy and reality -- by her own words she "allowed" herself to be convinced of things that weren't true regarding QAnon...how do we know her fervency regarding "The Big Lie" isn't similar? She...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

Twitter should just remove or ban content that is against the law. That's the standard by which Twitter/FB and others should stick with. Not some made up as we go along and to who I don't like kind of standards. Hopefully this will be the future. And if anyone doesn't like it, go build your own twi...

Re: USAF F-15EX News and Discussion Thread

Seems like a bit of an about-face. Perhaps indicating greater confidence in NGAD?

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

This is the dumbest goddamn thing

Re: Air Force says E4B replacement needs 4 engines

Or some well looked after A380s. :stirthepot: What happened to the Qantas 747-438ER planes? Are they still stored in one piece? Would those be suitable - slightly longer range on those. 747-8 from an airline that doesn’t require them seems possible. I think the QF ERs got harvested for their engine...

Re: Air Force says E4B replacement needs 4 engines

There's one that just landed in Arizona! The Saudi VIP frame that wasn't taken up.

Link to the article though?

Re: Unite the Right / Jan 6 - Legal Impacts - A thread

Every accusation is an admission from these people. Every single one.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

The Mig-29 would be wasted doing ground attacks. At a ratio of 1 to 10, they would not stand much of a chance trying to attack Russian troops with Russian planes in the area. The best way to use the Migs is to harass Russian planes and helo during their own attack runs. by There have been some repo...

Re: CNN+ will shut down at the end of April

I feel like part of the reason that the first few streaming services took off was that there weren't all that many of them. You could pretty much use Netflix or Hulu as a one-stop shop. Now that every Tom, Dick, and Harry has their own separate streaming service to pay for monthly, a lot of that con...

Re: Abortion Ban in Oklahoma Passed

Thought: if we need women to carry babies to term because consequences , it should also be illegal to treat syphilis. After all, that's a consequence of sex too, right? Weird how nobody seems to be calling for this. WOW, you literally just called a baby a disease and compared them to syphilis. Did ...

Re: Abortion Ban in Oklahoma Passed

Thought: if we need women to carry babies to term because consequences, it should also be illegal to treat syphilis. After all, that's a consequence of sex too, right? Weird how nobody seems to be calling for this.

Re: Abortion Ban in Oklahoma Passed

I don’t know if that's when life begins or not, but let's not pretend that pregnancies just happen. Besides immaculate conception or rape, they were a willing participant in sex. Pregnancy is a consequence of sex and sometimes we have unwanted consequences. Well I appreciate your honesty. Most of t...

Re: Abortion Ban in Oklahoma Passed

What about those who think life begins at conception and nothing to do with religion? Okay, so there's conception, and then what? For instance, Oklahoma rings in at a resounding 32nd among the states in infant mortality. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/infant_mortality_rates/infant_mortal...

Re: Tucker Carlson: The End of Men

Please heed the advice of medical professionals regarding your testicles, not Tucker Carlson.

This has been another edition of "public service announcements that shouldn't need to exist."

Re: Abortion Ban in Oklahoma Passed

Good for you but she is a liberal vote replacing another liberal vote and was simply a campaign pay back favor. 6-3 is still a nice right leaning court. :wave: Not nice at all - it's a crisis of legitimacy waiting to happen. The public's trust in SCOTUS has been sliding continuously since Bush v. G...

Re: Abortion Ban in Oklahoma Passed

I am not the one picking and choosing. I think it should all be legal it's you who don't feel the same way. Let's keep that in perspective. You want abortion legal? Then lets have legal drugs, guns and prostitution. It's all great until all of a sudden we can't have guns. It's such hypocrisy. Is yo...