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Add abortion rights, single payer healthcare, gun reform including background checks, student loan forgiveness, universal paternal/maternal paid leave, and banning government officials from owning stocks or immediately becoming lobbyists after their work in government as a few more left policy ideas that have widespread support.

8 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

The educated guess is that Harris did not want to live in the shadows, so her public profile is by someone else's choice. This appearance is telling, as is her choice to answer the question by turning to the audience and offering her world leader resume. Which didn't really answer the question. She's polished, but also slick. Not my first choice, but preferable to others. It's hard to think of a Democrat who couldn't get applause for calling out Ron DeSantis and Russian apologists.

 

It's worth watching for any changing role for Kamala, as it may be tipping Biden's decision to run --- or the DNCs desire to have a back-up plan. 

I got hired for a gig filming a sit down interview with Kamala in 2021. Really cool experience overall, and surreal having to go through all of the hoops of security protocols which are exhaustive and comprehensive, but when she finally entered the room the wildest thing was the sense I had of just how strategic she was. I'm sure this is probably the case to some degree with every politician, but being in close quarters with someone I was able to tell that she was operating at a very, very high level even down to a word-by-word and second-by-second basis on how/when she'd smile, etc. 

On 3/14/2023 at 5:07 PM, GSG said:

 

Well f#&%. I've been telling people to cheer up cuz this is the last year of it. Oops lol

Same. Now not only will I possibly be unnecessarily depressed come next November but I'll also be embarrassed and have to tell everyone how dumb I am.

8 hours ago, GSG said:

 

I just thought this was the last year for it...? 

Apparently it passed through the Senate but stalled in the House. Rubio re-introduced the bill recently.

https://time.com/6261629/daylight-savings-time-2023/

The future of Daylight Saving Time remains in limbo. Sen. Rubio introduced the Sunshine Protection Act in the Senate (while Rep. Buchanan did so in the House), but there is no certainty whether it will pass or once again be hindered in Congress.

I thought this was a done deal but apparently the bill never actually got all the way through Congress.

You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Pretty amusing and predictable to see folks who were beyond ready to be glad Martinez was gone now offer all of the classic defensive arguments in favor of Casey.

Casey isn't awful but he's not great either. Folks who are still incredibly high on him and defending him due to factors outside of his control are, I think, operating with some selective memory of just how frequently he really wasn't all that on the money as a passer.

Where's the rage?

An open window seems like as valid of an invitation as any imo

Scavenger hunts are fun no matter what stage of life.

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

And, where is other party leadership that is telling him that this is crap?

Well, you see, they're not really "leaders".

9 hours ago, commando said:

what does all of this have to do with the price of bananas in china?

Not sure how this will affect Lebron's legacy tbh

10 hours ago, jager said:

If the former is the case, then why has it only been done once since Bo was fired? Legitimate question.

 

Sorry, I phrased this poorly.

I didn't mean both are that easy - I mean, if you're winning 9 games a year (the hard part), then the top 25 recruiting classes part is sleepwalking easy. 

38 minutes ago, Toe said:

Bo's teams largely finished seasons around the same place as his recruiting classes: around the edge of the top 25. His successors largely achieved similar recruiting class rankings, but obviously they wildly underachieved on the field.

 

So far, Rhule's recruiting has continued the edge of top 25 trend. Results on the field remain to be seen...

One notable difference is that the level of talent Bo inherited was leaps and bounds ahead of what he left, and his successors maintaining those standards is a worse job of coaching but honestly a better job of recruiting. Winning 9 games a year and getting a top 25 class at Nebraska is probably sleepwalking easy. Winning 4 games a year for 6 years and still being able to get a top 25 class is wild.

On 2/17/2023 at 5:43 PM, admo said:

Apparently, Utah looks like that too !

 

 

(Minus the pepper)

The salt flats are an incredible and surreal place. Highly recommend everyone visit it twice - once in the wet season and once in the dry season.

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

  And he’s one of the leaders in the race. 
 

 

I'm vehemently anti-death penalty, period.

BUT...if we are going to have the death penalty, then I think it should be out in the open, in the public square, where we constantly have to explicitly reckon with the things we're seemingly okay with. 

6 hours ago, ZRod said:

But Elon sacrifices his wallet while the people on the assembly line sacrifice their body and sometimes life.

Sacrifice is only one component amongst many that go into 'building' something. Vision, ingenuity, organizational leadership, etc. are also components.

giving lebron a 15 minute award ceremony in the middle of a game that his team ends up losing is absolute peak NBA

Hey, if somebody has a disease, it's not taking things personal to say that they do in fact have a disease. 

On 12/13/2022 at 9:34 PM, Crusader Husker said:

Are we developing a warp core?

 

We there yet?

I haven't looked into it in a decent while, but a handful of years back NASA was experimenting with an electromagnetic engine which, in their own words, was impossible. But they kept testing it and... it kept seeming to work? No thrust, no conservation of momentum, just a bunch of radiation bouncing around and producing movement.

Completely breaks our understanding of physics.

The most sensible interpretation of the Paul Pelosi video to me is that he realized this guy was incredibly sick and could probably be manipulated to some degree, and made a choice to try and keep him as calm as possible for as long as possible.

8 hours ago, funhusker said:

We went to the Field Museum in Chicago this past summer (amazing place) and I was surprised that the most "moving" exhibit I went through was the Ancient Egypt area.  Mostly because each "mummy" had a story associated with them and who they were in life.  There was also a "prayer" at the entrance asking people to reflect on the lives that were lived by the people on exhibit and to remind visitors that these people are lying in rest.

 

I think it made a huge difference in what my kids and I got out of it.

You're doing "being offended" all wrong.

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans were the ones that wanted to allow companies to make decisions without gubment interference.

 

 

4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

OK...you're a city manager.  The city wants to build something.  Are you going to tear down a nice neighborhood or a crappy neighborhood to do it?

 

My point is, which neighborhood is torn down, most people would agree with.  The issue is, what can be done with the residents from that neighborhood that allows them to be negatively affected the least.

 

Your first comment sounds like they had two neighborhoods to choose from that are equally as nice and always chose the minority neighborhood.  Obviously, that is a problem.  But, that's not what I'm talking about.

If I'm going to build something, especially related to transit that's deemed necessary, I'd tear down whatever was the most efficient for the goal. Until all the politicking and bureaucracy gets involved.

I'm certain that there's been numerous times where the more affluent areas would have made more sense to get rid of for something new, but they're the ones with better representation and more ability to organize.

2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I've heard this for decades.  But, I honestly don't know what a municipality is supposed to do about it.  You have two neighborhoods. One is upper class, low crime, well maintained.  You have another part that is run down, crime infested, low income, homeless problem...etc.  You're going to build a new sports arena.  What part are you going to look at to improve.

 

Now, maybe municipalities need to work harder at helping the citizens that are affected by this.  But, a city isn't going to tear down a nice area for this while leaving a crappy area.

I've got a lot of thoughts about this but one is that there are plenty of times in our history of urban development where it wasn't low income/crime infested/run down places getting razed to the ground - it was healthy minority middle-class neighborhoods who didn't happen to have the means to organize and fight and be represented in their governments. 

This video includes some bias and conjecture, but also informative as a starting point:

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

But, it's discussed as though the city and city managers are racist for doing it.  I don't believe that.  It's just an unfortunate situation for those people.

 

Now, if someone can come up with a solution, then that should be discussed and considered.

I think often times with issues like this, people fail to explain the distinction between something coming from a racist intent, or something that ends with a racist result. Even if the decisions and people making them aren't innately racist, which most things aren't, if they clearly correlate to disproportionate suffering based on the variable of race, well... we don't need to demonize that but at least need to accept the sobering reality.