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fosborb posted:Eh, my experience is that it's the same set of horny 20-somethings you'd find anywhere but in DC they're more likely to be wearing cufflinks. Right, the dating scene is uniquely horrible in every city. DC has ambition and people coasting on the "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" principle but if the local dating pool weren't that way you'd just end up having another problem define them. Here in Austin the primary complaint I get from women friends is that the dating pool is stuffed with underemployed or unmotivated man-children. Hell if there was no issues people would probably complain about how it isn't possible to choose between all the people they want to date.
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May 2, 2016 17:29
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Radish posted:The real meat of the issue is that in the last thirty or so years (probably longer) there has been a concerted effort to create a message that anyone that needs help is a failure and deserves whatever bad thing happens to them. I disagree with your assumption here and the intent you ascribe to it. I think people classify food stamp users and the generally less fortunate as fundamentally broken mooching losers because that lets them not face the horrible reality of the randomness in this world. "There, but for the grace of God, go I" is a really really scary concept, so people instead cling to the idea of a just world. Psychological tests show that people are really freaked out by the idea that randomness is in charge and that they have no control over things that impact them. The person doing the attacking in the video is less trying to belittle that person and more trying to reassure themselves that they are not at risk of finding themselves in the same situation. They are also an rear end in a top hat. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 13:45 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 13:42
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In good news the CFPB is going to ban mandatory arbitration clauses that prohibit class action lawsuits for a variety of financial services :quote:which would apply to bank accounts, credit cards and other types of consumer loans, seems almost certain to take effect, since it does not require congressional approval.
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May 5, 2016 15:38
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SumYungGui posted:Good god I hope this catches on and spreads to everything, everywhere. Binding arbitration clauses are such unbelievably transparent horse poo poo designed for absolutely no reason other than loving people over and circumventing the entire justice system. Unfortunately it will probably take legislation to do that and even with a Democratic majority in both houses there are enough "business friendly" democrats and republicans that a full prohibition on form contracts with binding arbitration would be difficult to get through. A ban on prohibitions on class action waivers might stand a better chance. Stare decisis means that even with Scalia gone a Supreme Court fix is unlikely as it would require overturning a whole bunch of past (5-4) rulings. The last arbitration case at the Supreme Court shows this in action as it was 6-3 with Breyer and Kagan joining the conservatives in the majority and Breyer saying that the previous decisions made the case pretty open and shut.
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May 5, 2016 16:35
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Luigi Thirty posted:Trump says that the solution to the national debt is to default and cut a deal so we don't pay 100 cents on the dollar which he could do because he makes deals for a living.  He's just taking what the republican base has been grumbling to its logical conclusion of course but still
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May 6, 2016 13:22
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Ghetto Prince posted:Kind of late, but I remember Rove pushed a bunch of state level bans on gay marriage as part of the GOP's get out the vote effort in 2004 , and it was successful. I'm guessing someone thought that might work again and assumed transgender people weren't protected by the recent civil rights cases. This isn't a get out the vote thing like the gay marriage amendments because those were actually on the November ballots. Instead it seems more like throwing a bone to the Evangelicals to make sure that they don't become disillusioned with the whole politics thing after the drubbing they took on SSM. It is a way for the GOP governments to tell them "we've still got your backs and are listening to your concerns". Also many GOP legislators and Governors are legitimately True Believers.
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May 10, 2016 04:43
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Mayor McCheese is on the Diane Rehm show defending the NC bathroom bill. He blames liberals btw.
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May 10, 2016 15:19
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AlexJade posted:Did she continue her pattern of not calling guests out on their bullshit? A different host was in. Anyway she didn't directly call him on it but the other guest went down the list of reasons why he was wrong. DR show is all about the guests on the panel. If you have a weak one matched with a strong spewer of bullshit the show is going to suck.
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May 10, 2016 16:35
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KiteAuraan posted:So he wants to get demolished in the general? Or is he really that stupid? Alternatively, the conspiracy theory that he is a Clinton plant actually has legs. Or he's become convinced that his true self is best through a combination of ego and positive reenforcement during the primary where every crazy statement has gotten a "well let's not be too hasty" at worst. Bonus that this doesn't require any effort or listening to anyone other than Donald Trump. The general is going to be a drat meat grinder.
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May 11, 2016 13:17
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His Purple Majesty posted:Have you ever interacted with a school administrator? Yes and while many of them are lazy and want to take the least effort solution the real unifying characteristic of most of them I've encountered is that they will gently caress over any student without hesitation if it means that they won't have to deal with an angry parent. There's no way they would just implement a "wherever you want" policy because that is guaranteed to generate angry calls and meetings. If they did I would expect the actual implementation to be that two formerly gendered single person bathrooms on the other side of the gym will become unisex.
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May 13, 2016 14:39
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In positive news it looks like there might be some extra cash available for education in most of the nation soon quote:DALLAS (AP) Texas' lieutenant governor says the state is prepared to forfeit billions of dollars in federal funding for public schools following an Obama administration directive over bathroom access for transgender students.
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May 13, 2016 17:58
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Drunkboxer posted:Will Sanders have a mechanical body in this scenario or are we talking about a talking skeleton here? Weekend at Bernie's style thing probably
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May 14, 2016 14:49
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Epic High Five posted:Bunch of people are about to get shifted from exempt to hourly at way less money on the hour to compensate for overtime lmao Probably will still work out to be a pay raise. Businesses really abuse the hell out of making someone work 60 hours a week saying their job title of "shift manager" without any actual managerial duties makes them exempt.
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May 18, 2016 02:19
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The judge that ruled against Obama's Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents continues to issue rather... interesting orders:quote:The Brownsville-based judge who halted President Obama’s 2014 executive action on immigration has decided that ethics classes are in order for the attorneys who defended the policy. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 03:56 on May 20, 2016 |
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May 20, 2016 03:52
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Evil Fluffy posted:This sounds kinda illegal or at least a serious abuse of power by the judge. Yeah I'm rather curious whether a federal district court judge has the authority to set conditions for pro hac vice for any courtroom beyond their own district. The DoJ and USCIS definitely hosed up but it really seems to have been a case of communication between DHS and the rest of the government still being poo poo and not a bad faith conspiracy to pull a fast one on the judge like he seems to believe.
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May 20, 2016 12:57
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Even if Trump loses he has demonstrated all too well just how popular overt nationalism and racism are with the GOP primary voting base. There is no way that the next batch of GOP contenders doesn't include a bunch of Trumps.
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May 20, 2016 13:52
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His Purple Majesty posted:I think for some people its the fact that she stayed with him through out all of those scandals that raises questions about her integrity and is a supposed testament to her power hungry nature. Trump going after Bill is dangerous because it sets up a potential Checkers Speech where Hillary talks about how she fell in love with Bill and how hard times come to every relationship. About how difficult it was not to just to deal with all the emotions that come along with such accusations and/or what happened but also to do so on the public stage and being unable to tell if it was true or just gossip. Perhaps including a bit about how you are never at your best when someone you love and who loves you hurts you. While not everyone has been cheated on, everyone has had relationship troubles of some sort and they are extremely relatable to on a deep emotional level. Her campaign no doubt has a rough draft ready to be tweaked to whatever Trump says. Other democrats will go after Trump for misogyny, but short of Trump calling Hillary a bitch to her face in a debate she needs to stay above it.
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May 20, 2016 15:29
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theflyingorc posted:Unfortunately, a Checkers speech is going to be much less well received coming from a woman. She's emotionally flighty, can't have that in the White House, you know. Hard to say really. One of the major attacks she's hit with is that she isn't genuine and is just a power hungry calculating politician. Not to say that those who don't like her aren't able to think she is too emotional and too fake and calculating at the same time but it might give other pause. Of course this is all what-ifs
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May 20, 2016 16:12
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EwokEntourage posted:This is bad. Agreed. 3:2:1 is God's margarita recipe and that better be fresh lime juice or he will smite you. Key lime is an acceptable substitute if you need to mix it up. And you shouldn't complain about the quantity it makes because a little bit will gently caress you up in a hurry. Which is what you really need in today's politics.
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May 22, 2016 14:39
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah but do that and suddenly almost every homeowner in the country is underwater on their mortgage. All those home prices are already artificially raised, so remove the deduction and you have another housing crash instantly. Bad idea. It's the sort of thing that would have to be phased out over a hundred-year timeframe. Any plan would ideally have a very slow phase out (perhaps a 0.05% reduction in deductibility per day) and also lock in the deduction for the life of the loan. Even that would risk nuking the market because a large part of the value today is in speculation on the value in the future
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May 26, 2016 13:14
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axeil posted:
People want to be in the cities because cities are the only places where there are any drat jobs now. Humans have historically structured our cities and transit so that the maximum commutes were about an hour, and that seems to be the maximum on average that people are willing to deal with. Inner ring suburbs have largely stymied any attempt to densify them so people get the choice of a) high rent on downtown high rises, b) absurd prices on inner ring single family houses, or c) hell commutes from the exurbs. Ideally there would be a gradual transition from high rise to mid rise to low rise/garden multifamily housing before hitting the single family home areas, but that would ruin the neighborhood character and threaten the house values of older voting people and we can't have that.
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May 26, 2016 21:04
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Torpor posted:I can get being dismissive of the email investigation at this point, but I think you went over board. She literally conducted 100% of her state department email business on a cardboard box server. That is not good. I suspect that had she used the state department email system that we'd still be talking about an ongoing FBI investigation, it just would be about possible Hatch Act violations instead. On Terra Firma posted:I thought the discussion about housing and all that was more interesting than emailghazigate but oh well. Same. The US housing market is really bipolar now. There are areas where it is red hot with multiple offers on the day of listing and with price indexes higher than bubble peaks, or completely dead with it taking months for a single offer to appear. At least no matter how bad we've got it we aren't Canada or Australia. Those countries have it worse than it was at the peak of housing bubble mania here.
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May 27, 2016 02:00
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fishmech posted:To be fair replacing with outdated tech isn't all bad - you really shouldn't have the very latest stuff in any system like this, you want something that's been around at least long enough to have experienced field usage and to figure out what's reliable. Same general concept as why spacecraft has really old electronics - only we don't quite need "this poo poo better work perfect because if it breaks 1 billion miles away we can't go fix it" level verification for tax return computers. At least the inertia keeps the government from jumping headfirst into whatever the latest and greatest fad of the day is.
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fishmech posted:A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Also you can't make independent contractors sign non-compete or "everything you think of, even on your own time, belongs to the company" agreements.
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