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I was all ready for outrage, but I think maybe they got this one right. Equality under the law should mean that the top of a pyramid is treated the same as the bottom.

It looks like a mafia. Thumb your nose at a subpoena? Legislators will come to your aid.

If we have a world war, would they tell us?

By Dawn’s Early Light

Regardless of how you may feel about LGBT folks, I find the idea of witholding medical care to transgender people curious in light of the fact the U.S. still does not have single-payer healthcare or Medicare for All. There does appear an element of scapegoatism in these candidates within a larger pattern of rationing of healthcare to everyone who is not wealthy.

…“It’s very difficult to get evidence to show abuse of children."

Ain’t that the truth.

When it first began, Trump underestimated COVID and spun it as under control.

Could the cult thing in part be Cinderella syndrome?

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Abrahamism sure has a stranglehold on the U.S.

Reminds me of, “Accuse the opposition of that of which you are guilty.”

Remember “Build that wall” and “make Mexico pay for it”?

I wish the cost of internet access decreased to match decreased available content. Internet shrinkinflation?

All those lead-brained 70-year old former hippies and flower children! Scott McKenzie - San Francisco [HD] - YouTube

How does Louisiana feel about beating the hell out of kids? I wondered so searched and results were primarily about kids being killed by beating. Not quite what I wanted, another search said Lousisana was rankied 49 in child well being. Yeah, that’s a little closer, but still not what I wanted. Per the Bible, you’re supposed to strike a kid with a rod to save their souls from sheol (which is another word for hell). Search says it’s Proverbs 23:14, though I’m not gonna look, there are several different variants. My question is, since the bible actually says to beat the hell out of kids, has Lousiana immunized parents who do so? Or is this just more religious BS? Shove the 10 commandments down kids throats but still jail parents who beat the sheol out of kids? Legal contradictions.

Edit: Found it: Louisiana Child Abuse Laws - FindLaw

It seems it’s illegal to beat the hell out of kids, but that’s pretty much what the bible tells parents to do. Posting the 10 commandments is some kind of police state entrapment.

If I could afford to, I’d buy an electric car. Tester shouldn’t have to justify this to anyone one, particularly other members of the legislature, who are bullying him. Electric cars are a big part of stopping climate change. If climate change isn’t stopped, we’re all gonna go extinct in a few more generations. Animals can only survive in a narrow temperature band that doesn’t evaporate all the water from the land surfaces. The fossil fuel lobbyists are literally advocating slow genocide, and are undoubtedly behind the bullying. And they’d just call it bread and circuses.

This headline should be in The Onion.

Kinda sad. As a kid I was sent to private religious (Christian) schools decades ago. The schools’ final lesson to me was always expulsion. My parents told me I was going there because the public schools weren’t as good and I’d have better success as an adult with a private school education.

Expulsion was not the lesson the PR sold me as a kid. You do not want your children learning expulsion as a primary-survival tactic!

Sometimes I wonder what life would have been like had I only gone to public schools and had never been expelled, but there’s no use in crying over spilt milk. Just a few more years to go, maybe a decade if I’m lucky, and the nightmare of a fatally-flawed high-school education will finally be over. I got the last laugh though, they didn’t get my kids.

Here’s a related comment I made recently about California law: New California laws go into effect on July 1 : california

Really disgusting, particularly coming from “law and order” leaders who are turning the U.S. into a police state. I hope we see more articles about this leading up into the election.

I’d also like to see more discussion about striking a number of non-violent crimes. If a criminal and felonious ex-president will have special exemptions to laws that others are expected to follow, doesn’t the guideline of equality demand similar treatment for the poor and politically disenfranchised?

One of the most important things I do with my gas stoves is when adjusting the temperature I look at the flame. The knob is numbered from 1 to 10 but it seems there are near infinite settings between each number. I would estimate that I actually set it to hundredths of a digit, though it’s the flame height that I’m adjusting. I paid about $400 for the stove new about 20 years ago, it has 5 burners and an oven.

A relative has a electric stove, it has a similar set of numbers on each knob, but it’s manufactured so that the knob clicks into place on each number. There’s no ability to set it to 5.5, or 5.45, it’s either 5 or 6. It has 4 burners and no oven. I don’t know how much it cost, but I know I would not enjoy learning to use it. The heat is delayed, you set the knob and wait for several minutes for the burner to heat up.

Not long ago online someone online recommended a Breville “control freak” induction stove. It looks like it might actually be able to replace the controlability of the gas stove’s flame height with an intelligent electronic control. One burner costs roughly $1500. If I wanted 4 burners then I’d be looking at $6,000.

I’d love to have an electric induction stove, but I just can’t afford that upscale price. Alternatively, an electric stove like my relative has would never be a product I would choose to use.

Law and order is only for little people!