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Nothing sexy. Get some beef on the lines.

I have some BTC and Ethereum. Is it nonsense? Not to me. Just needs more regs, though once it is regulated heavily, I believe it'll lose most of it's value, as it's value is partially (as I see it) in the fact that it's unregulated in a way that allows you to send and receive it without the usage of banks.

I have never sent nor received bitcoin myself, I just buy it thru my investment app. If something were to happen to the american dollar that was catastrophic, I would want a backup that is not physical gold or another country's currency...

No, that's moronic af

If he gets off because the police in some way violated the Constitution and it creates and evidentiary issue which cannot be overcome - fine. Good even. That's the way the stuff is supposed to work.

If he gets off bc of jury wokeism (it's a thing, I use it here in SC, so it's definitely a thing elsewhere), bad. Why bad? Would you have wanted Chauvin to get off bc the jurors were hardcore racists? No. Flip side here. Juries are empaneled to give "true words" (vere dictum: i.e. verdicts). A jury too ideologically blinkered is bad not just for this case, but for *all* cases, as it undermines the basis of the jury trial system itself. That's a very, very ugly rabbit hole to go down, I assure you...

Best (1 being best):

1. Trump (1): Business took off and things were really good and easy in life

2. GWB (1): Life hadn't turned into the post-9/11 madness fully yet, and the world was still open with tons of possibilities (I was in high school and college and starry-eyed)

3. Biden: the economy opened back up and people started partying again, especially around here in CHS, which lead to a business boom for me and being able to do some things financially that I never thought would be possible (paid off house, new roof, new car paid for in cash). Still, felt he didn't do well on inflation bc probably could've done much more had inflation not spiked insanely (don't necessarily fully blame him for that)

Worst (with 1 being worst):

3. Obama 2: Things were getting better (see 2, below) but still were touch-and-go financially, and the job market was just awful. I had very little direction until my wife and I married. But then we had a kid very quickly, and I was plunged into both caring for a kid, commuting, and surviving the trash-ass economy then. No fun. Would not do again.

2. Obama 1: I was frickin' depressed, man. Life generally and all-around sucked. The economy sucked. Law school ended and there were NO jobs. I had to get my old college job back just to live in my parent's house for a minute bc it was all I could afford with student loans coming due.

1. Bush 2: bad breakup, entry into law school, feeling mortality for the first time (multiple funerals in back to back years), feeling that the american culture had swung away from what I valued and that I was left rudderless with no friends or allies. Bad time.

I have a serious question that I don't understand.  The morals of the act aside, I don't really understand the mechanics of the death penalty (or in lesser cases, human euthanasia).  You hear horror stories.  We electrocute people and it takes minutes, we gas people and they choke and panic, legal injection doesn't always kill you....I literally don't understand.

I put our cat to sleep over the weekend and the process was 4 shots -- they put in a catheter first and then administered a sedative to where they were immobile and had no pain -- they said that you could pull a tooth.  Then they injected saline (water), just to push the previous drug through the system.  Then they give an overdose of pain relief that kills the animal and a 2nd saline shot to push it through the system.  The process was said to take 45 seconds, but it wasn't even that long.

I understand that people aren't cats.

However, I had a colonoscopy done and I had a kidney stone procedure.  They do that and it's completely painless and you are fully knocked out.  So, how is it that we fuck this up.  Unless we are specifically trying to be sadistic, it seems like we could put people to sleep and then just kill them while they're sleeping, instead of making them be awake and choke their way through it.  I just don't understand.

It seems like the most humane way to do it is to give them a calming drug first so they aren't freaking out and panicking...before the actual death.  Then, you put them out with propofol....then you OD them while they're asleep.  I mean...you could knock them out with drugs and then drop a piano on their head.  It makes no sense.

1. I admittedly know very little about the chemistry or biology here
2. My thoughts on the DP are on the record in this forum
3. I read zero of the post subsequent to this in this thread before posting this

But, there is that line from "Dead Man Walking" where Penn's character indicates that, despite the calm expression on his face, he will still feel enormous pain as his heart is stopped by the killing drug. So, I don't know that there is an actual "humane" way to do it if "humane" in this context means pain-free.

Some people are just pure scum and people who do that definitely fall into that category.

Car is a total loss.  

I only bought it four years ago.

Insurance is awful as well.

- I was in the car when it happened.

- As far as I know, there were no video cameras around

- I just bought this car in 2021 for $12,500 and it had 150,000 miles on it when I was hit.

- This is going to destroy my savings to buy a new car

talk to a lawyer. there may be significant options. under our ins scheme, you can file an uninsured motorist claim. you may be able to get compensated for your loss that way. there may be a "bad faith" argument as well if the insurance company denies said claim. Check with a lawyer - it may be the difference between a fair payout and a long gap of nothing.

Fuck Putin.  Give him nothing.  The entire world needs to keep him at bay.  There needs to be a cost to him at the loss, for all of our own safety.

I wish we had the power to do this. As I understand, they were skirting the economic sanctions by selling their oil to China and India (their BRICs brothers) who'd re-sell the stuff on the international market.

I wish President Putin cared about the young men in his country, but he doesn't. To him, their deaths are no loss. Even moreso with other countries' peoples (see DPRK).

The international order has a multitude of 'bad actors'. Best we can do for now is peace, IMO. I hate that but until and unless China and India join the G-7 or NATO or ally with us militarily and politically otherwise, (or, I guess unless there's another Sino-Soviet split, or India backs out of BRICs) then it's impossible to totally reign them in at this stage.

What I think *will* happen though, is that with the extreme decline in Asian and Russian birthrates, China and Russia will be largely depleted of their power by the end of the century. You can't have an army if you're having .6 children per woman. America's not out of the woods on that issue either but at least we have people who actually want to come to this country.

What is "it" in this context?  What's the specific event we're looking for?

It obviously can't be January 6th, nor can it be immigrants being shipped overseas to the base we use for torturing people or detainees being shipped to an overseas prison indefinitely with no trial.  So what's the one event that we're waiting on that enables a "We told you so" if it doesn't occur?

And when and if this is carried out, there will be no "I told you so."   You will never reflect and realize that you brought about the fascism.  You will continue to deny and reframe and think it was caused by something else.  But if we live through it and come out on the other side, your kids will know.

Will we get to say "we told you so" when it inevitably doesn't happen? Will you be open to that?