Obtuse1
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| Registered on: | 9/25/2016 |
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Do you not watch sports
This time of year it is F1 and MotoGP and various other motorsports. If there was anything I haven't noticed it.
I also don't watch commercials (I time shift everything including live sports) except on Youtube and I don't remember anything about Pride.
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do work for businesses
I work for one of the largest law firms in the world. Our offices' managing director is gay. As an office or a firm, it just doesn't exist. I just searched our public-facing website and the only thing Pride-related was an article about the EPA raising the Pride Flag for the first time. We are smarter than to take any political or quasi-political stance.
Our clients are mostly Fortune 500s and my interactions are about business; they come to me so I don't see their campus. I am sure many of them have Pride month programs, but I don't have occasion to interact with them.
I am also sure that many people see something Pride related and it immediately registers with them in a positive or negative way, and could live my life and see it everywhere. It just doesn't impact me. I honestly notice it magnitudes more here every year than I notice in my life.
Honestly, while there may have been a few more Pride flags that melted into the background noise that I didn't notice, I would have had no idea it was Pride month if it weren't for tOT.
re: How do the Toyota people put up with all the beeping?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 7/1/26 at 4:34 pm to weagle1999
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Land Cruiser
If it is the LDA/LTA, you can turn it off in the settings.
Press and hold the button with the car/lane icon for a few seconds
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Do you use rocket motor igniters to light them?
I did that a couple of times before you could buy the systems for cheap but one year the wind was blowing bad and the igniters would burn out before it caught the fuse. :angry:
Our HOA doesn't allow fireworks, but we do a neighborhood one on the golf course. This year I pushed for a 4th special assessment that gave us $40k extra. We have pros coming in to set up a 31 minute pyromusical on the lake at the par 3 course. We will have a band and catering. I hope it is well attended but the interest seems to be high. The weather should be good except it is supposed to hit 100 on Saturday. I have a feeling to pool is gonna be full most of the afternoon and the party will be full of bikini clad womens.
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That argument seems like semantics when the framers literally tell you in black and white their intentions. There is no interpreting that any differently, and it should squash any doubt as to what their goal was with the 14th.
What you are making is the typical originalist versus textualist argument. The argument against any originalist point is if they meant something why didn't they write that, rather than what they did.
That usually has one of two or potentially both answers:
1. the alternate text wouldn't have past at the time
2. they didn't have a crystal ball so they couldn't envision modern times
This really isn't an issue because the text you posted does not say what you think it means.
If you look carefully, there is not a conjunction between the word "aliens" and the words " who belong to". If he meant what you suggest he meant then you would expect the word "or" to precede "who". Those are not three classes but merely one being children born of diplomats.
When I am trying to eat something and I just keep chewing and chewing on a bite and can't swallow, I have learned the best thing to do is to take an even bigger bite... :rolleyes:
PS clicking should translate to English, but in any case, the video has English subs. Putin has decided he wants moer of Ukraine.
PS clicking should translate to English, but in any case, the video has English subs. Putin has decided he wants moer of Ukraine.
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How can sc judges be so stupid that they can’t read the text of the Constitution
Actually, what you want is an originalist, assuming the intent is clear enough. What you are mad at is the textualist reading of the 14A.
re: Which continent has had the biggest negative impact on the world?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/30/26 at 4:05 pm to StrongOffer
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Christianity gave us Western Civilization.
Pagans gave us democracy.
re: Fitting that John Roberts puts a bullet into the head of the USA on its 250th birthday
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/30/26 at 3:57 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Scalia is in Heaven smiling that they did reject it
A lot of people are now arguing with you that Scalia woke up in heaven and gave up textualism and embraced intentionalism.
Birthright citizenship is bad for the US, but unless and until there is a shift in SCOTUS, we are stuck with it unless there is an amendment.
Steelhead, rice/orzo pilaf, and some asparagus. Strawberries and blueberries over vanilla ice cream to finish. Dessert was a tribute to "Merica on her birthday week.
re: What is the correct pronunciation of Iberville
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/30/26 at 11:02 am to Righteous Dude
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A-mit
A-mit or A-meet?
I have no idea how locals pronounce Amite City, but I have never heard a river rat pronounce the river anything other than A-meet.
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I am really surprised they haven't come up with a way to do bypass surgery without having to crack open the chest.
Thay have, it is called a MIDCAB (minimally invasive heart bypass) it is an off-pump procedure, and they don't cut the sternum. NC Tigah alluded to how heart surgery has developed. There are more and more less invasive surgeries that handle cases that used to be on-pump open heart, and open heart now does a lot of cases that no surgeon would touch in the past.
re: What modern support would it have taken for Pickett to break through at Gettysburg?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/29/26 at 7:05 pm to antibarner
Just a good assortment of M224A1, M252A1, and M120A1 mortars would have done the trick. Fire from the woodlines, move the North of the ridgeline, and destroy their artillery. This would give the infantry cover for the charge.
They make less noise than a D9 dozer for sure.
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You are pure evil
For pointing out the huge strategic error of hiring an attorney who had never tried a case before? She failed to get evidence in, looked like an idiot in front of the jury, and failed to preserve a good record for appeal. I blame him for being dazzled by tit and blonde hair, and I blame her for taking a case she had no business trying. If as many feel here that the outcome was foregone, it should have been settled. That is a major strategic error if true.
I don't understand why people take up for incompetence.
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PTCA
Damn interventional cardiologists talking food off my plate.
I honestly don't know if it is a lot, but she did close to 250 CABs last year. That and valves are her bread and butter, but the interventional cardiologists are coming for that too with TAVRs and etc.
I figure because OP's father's surgeon made it sound routine, he isn't a case nobody would have touched years ago.
re: Any experiences with bypass surgery?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/29/26 at 4:21 pm to StringedInstruments
CABGs are incredibly routine now, my wife did a single and a quad this morning.
Make sure he is compliant. Meds on time, obviously, but rest when told and PT (self or at a center) at the timing and level prescribed. The graft sites often give people more trouble than the surgery itself; keep a close eye on those.
One thing that has probably been mentioned (I assume it is not a minimally invasive CABG) is that there is a correlation between open-heart surgeries and depression. Keep an eye on that because it can negatively affect the outcome just as much as the mechanics of the surgery.
Make sure he is compliant. Meds on time, obviously, but rest when told and PT (self or at a center) at the timing and level prescribed. The graft sites often give people more trouble than the surgery itself; keep a close eye on those.
One thing that has probably been mentioned (I assume it is not a minimally invasive CABG) is that there is a correlation between open-heart surgeries and depression. Keep an eye on that because it can negatively affect the outcome just as much as the mechanics of the surgery.
re: USSC Sides With E Jean Carroll
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/29/26 at 4:09 pm to soonerinlOUisiana
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So quality of the evidence doesn’t mean anything to you. Duly noted.
The quality of the evidence means very little if your attorney is too incompetent to enter evidence into the record correctly. That is first trial advocacy class level work. Anyone who has the means to hire anyone he wants but hires an attorney who has never tried a civil case has very poor judgment. Add to that, he is a hugely litigious person, so he should have a Rolodex full of competant council. Hire a U12 team to play a D1 team and the outcome is cemented before the game starts.
re: 11 people killed in freak parachuting accident
Posted by Obtuse1 on 6/29/26 at 2:35 pm to DustyDinkleman
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Parachute ain’t going to save you 500 feet off the ground baw
The tandem chutes are designed to inflate slower than single chutes to reduce the shock. This just makes their situation worse.
I have zero sympathy for anyone with poor enough judgment to hire Alina Habba to represent them in a case of this import.
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