Re: Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, TX

TriJets wrote:

T[...]t better background checks are a measure that can be implemented that does not run afoul of the 2A.

Re: Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, TX

The right to individual gun ownership has been repeatedly upheld by the SCOTUS and is likely to be broadened even further next month with a new ruling. I fully welcome a state banning firearms because that ban would immediately be struck down as unconstitutional. Not talking about banning firearms....

Re: Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, TX

The 2A doesn't require a person to be a member of a militia to own a firearm. This is settled case law so it is pointless debating it. Actually it is not settled law as Supreme Court decisions of the past can and are revisited from time to time. It is "currently settled law", there just n...

Re: Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, TX

Many bring up mental health as a critical and major factor for these mass gun terror events. Many will bring up the lack of access to care of mental health in the USA and indeed that is true. We also have in the USA a terrible stigma of having a psychological or mental health problem. Many with pro...

Re: Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, TX

The 2A is not going to go anywhere, but better background checks are a measure that can be implemented that does not run afoul of the 2A. Sure, because it is so important to make kids live in fear than do anything responsible about it. The 2A should not be a death pact, and that is what the GOP , N...

Re: Ray Liotta Passes Away, Aged 67

Very sad, I hear he was a goodfella...

...OK, moving on...

RIP Mr. Liotta, you made some great films and will be well remembered. Condolences to his loved ones and friends.

Tugg

Re: Boeing Starliner News and Discussion Thread

No bounce house this time?

Tugg

Re: Boeing Starliner News and Discussion Thread

Starliner has departed the ISS.

Looking forward to a safe return to earth and successful mission completion.
Godspeed Starliner!

Tugg

Re: Boeing Starliner News and Discussion Thread

OK, and the next next question: How many Starliner capsules is Boeing contracted to or expected to build? SpaceX has already halted building new Crew Dragon 2's as the current fleet of four will suffice for current expected flight needs. Tugg They are all built. 4 Crew Dragon and 2 Starliner. That'...

Re: Boeing Starliner News and Discussion Thread

OK, and the next next question: How many Starliner capsules is Boeing contracted to or expected to build?

SpaceX has already halted building new Crew Dragon 2's as the current fleet of four will suffice for current expected flight needs.

Tugg

Re: Tom Brady going to FOX SPORTS for $375M in a 10 year deal...

The question will be if he is better that Tony Romo. Who turned out to be surprisingly good.

Tom Brady may be a better QB but commentator is a different thing. I be curious to see if he is bested by Romo in the booth.

Tugg

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

You are correct, animals kill their babies. Animals do a lot of things that we, as civilized humans, do not nor should we want to. If a father were to kill their young, they would face the repercussions of that in society. Again, it's a fallacy, what does that have to do with humans choosing to hav...

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

For those that have the resources. How does a $7.25/hr worker in deep southern Texas get to Albuquerque to access the needed care? They don't. Abortions go way down in the states with trigger laws, child mortality and poverty go way up, and life for a lot of people on the lower end of the economic ...

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

I know animals have abortions (miscarriage), but they don't make a choice to have an abortion like humans do. As far as animals eating their young, really? That's a complete fallacy. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140328-sloth-bear-zoo-infanticide-chimps-bonobos-animals https://...

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

I know animals have abortions (miscarriage), but they don't make a choice to have an abortion like humans do. As far as animals eating their young, really? That's a complete fallacy. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140328-sloth-bear-zoo-infanticide-chimps-bonobos-animals https://...

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

To everyone, the key thing that everyone needs to know and accept is that abortions will not stop because of any ruling. They will continue. And with the interconnected world we now have it will not be all that hard for anyone that does want one to have one. The shame is the misery that it can cause...

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

And no other species living on this planet preforms intentional abortions. You can suspect about me all you want, but would 100% be incorrect. I am not going into my personal life details on the internet, so go ahead and flame on, I don't care. As far as "OUR OWN circle of life.". the fet...

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

Its a pretty big responsibility humans have been given to be able to make life. This is laughable. "Given"? Every living thing on earth (and anywhere else) has been given this same exact "responsibility" to make life. And don't care. Very simply put, life does not care. Only sen...

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

I beg to differ in regards to the Right. The Right hasn't shifted nor moved to the right. In fact we have moved to the left. We have had to accept gay marriage Can you give us one reason why you shouldn’t accept gay marriage, or why gay marriage is even an issue? The funny thing is gay marriage has...

Re: The GOP has decided to punish free speech

Biden/Harris are doing a good job leading did you really just say that? Well I always wondered who the 30% of people who think bumbles and giggles are doing a good job were. Now I know. Biden doesn't even know what day of the week it is. He can't make a speech without getting all sideways like the ...

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

All of this fake outrage from the right over "finally having free speech on Twitter" is just that: fake outrage. Plenty of Republicans are on Twitter. Talking about how masks don't work and "woke liberal mobs" and grooming and such. I know I sound like a broken record, but this ...

Re: Home / Doorbell Camera

I tend to steer away from the big corporate behemoths that will use your data to expand their already controlling empires, and share with other without direct consent. So that means no Ring or Google/Nest or Blink. I also avoid purely Chinese owned options (I know most all of those sold are made in ...

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

An interesting phenomenon has occurred since Mr. Musk's bid was accepted. If Twitter has nothing to hide and there was no intentional manipulation going on behind the scenes at Twitter, then what is the explanation for this? Disposing of evidence before the new boss takes over, perhaps? Twitter Is ...

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

I highly doubt this deal will fail, just because a few snowflakes get hurt feelings. This is more than 44 Billion dollars. I am pretty sure it will take a bit more than that for it to fall through. Where on earth are you getting the idea that anyone is suggesting this would fall through because of ...

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

Don't understand. Many on the left already don't care about any of that. As a matter of fact many like all of that. And as for advertising revenue, that's for the owner of Twitter to be concerned. As for admission fee. Don't see many people claiming the same when we have to pay a monthly fee to sub...

Re: Latest outrage: Christian worshipper playing guitar and walking all over flight in California. Except it's Easyjet

This is why REAL flyers always have noise cancelling headphones. Any flight can have yammering neighbors, noisy children, hacking/coughing/snoring, and babies crying and screaming etc. Now we add guitar playing morons to the long list of reasons to own a pair. Noise cancelling headphones...Don't tak...

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

What ever the outcome of this endeavor, only one person is going to be responsible and should be worried and that's Elon Musk. The company is fully private, no one else has absolutely nothing to be concerned about. I already said that in a previous post, but you were all worried about consistency a...

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

It would be more than naive to think growing bipartisan consensus regarding content moderation/social media regulation, paired with concrete attempts at the executive level and hard legislation passed by other major world governments, has no coercive impact on the content moderation practices of th...

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

Musk is doing this for the money. Likely he will relocate the Executive HQ and many operations to no state income tax and rich persons paradise of Texas. Many employees will get cuts in pay, benefits and perks. Likely the only censorship will be to comply with the laws of the various countries Twit...

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

There’s no doubt in me Elon will moderate content. But the more interesting thing is how he plans to “unlock twitter’s potential”. I think Elon looks at it as an important communications tool platform. Some content is way out there, but there are some real gems in terms of sports, event reporting, ...

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

The problem with that take is that it’s almost always still the government coercing platforms to “moderate content” more rigorously. Government coercing? It's mostly advertisement revenue "coercing". You can allow free reign and FrEe sPeeCh and wind up with a nazi pedophile sewer like 4Ch...

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

I am so here for it. I’m rooting neither for nor against Elon, but Twitter is an absolute dumpster fire so the bar for a better outcome is set pretty low IMO. The key challenge I see for Mr. Musk is the fact that Twitter is NOT an engineering challenge, it is something entirely different. And from ...

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

And the deal is struck! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/elon-musk-clinches-deal-to-take-twitter-private-for-44-billion?srnd=premium Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion, using one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history to take pri...

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

I'd ask you and Max Boot the same question...what is the difference between "censorship" and "content moderation?" Private ownership vs public mandate would be the simplest way I view that. Private entities are free to moderate their platforms in whatever way they choose. Censor...

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

SpaceX/Starlink has been more successful than Boeing in the last decade, true or false? Well Boeing stock is up 58% over that time, market cap in April 2012 was ~$57B and is now ~$105B. Of course we don't know SpaceX open market value but it is estimated to be around $100B. So they are both worth t...

Re: The GOP has decided to punish free speech

afcjets wrote:

[...] and definitely not for them to be encouraged to experiment with different genders and pronouns in preschool.

Re: The GOP has decided to punish free speech

I thought conservatives supported limited government? Seems to me like they support government intrusion if it harms the people they dislike the most. Who the hell has time to constantly obsess over the private lives of other people? Must be exhausting to dedicate so much energy to hating everyone ...

Re: Florida Votes to Remove Self Governing Status for Walt Disney World

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1517586538821038082 BREAKING: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill into law that strips Disney of its special tax status - Reuters 2:30 PM · Apr 22, 2022 Yup. DeSantis screws his chances for any real presidential run. His imagineers tell him it's "g...

Re: The GOP has decided to punish free speech

[...] as Disney isn’t leaving. Again, that is not an issue. Disney will feel no real impact from this. They live without this perk everywhere else. The question is (and to you as well): Do you support politicians and governments going after people and companies for expressing their views? Do you wa...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - News and Discussion Thread