MystikIncarnate

I'm pretty sure if it worked on any frequency in the charged electromagnetic spectrum, they would get completely screwed long before they made it to earth.

As a qualified amateur operator, the radio spectrum is noisy.

I'm not a fan, but that's neither here nor there. I'm weird.

I'm just not sure that flavor can be considered a positive character trait?

Maybe I'm stupid. Who knows? Clearly not me.

I'm not American but, from what I've seen, Republicans seem to flip sides more than a quarter in a hobos pocket during an earthquake.

Having Republicans turn on eachother is about as shocking as the fact that it will be cold in winter.

Well, as far as I'm concerned we haven't, as a species, economically, bounced back from the recession of the pandemic and all the shenanigans that came in the aftermath of that. Leading up to the pandemic, we had an app time wage stagnation, where wages were basically unchanging for over a decade.

Then the whole pandemic and inflation pricing leading to record profits for most companies because they kept all the money rather than giving anyone a raise or a discount on their products.

Yadda yadda yadda. I feel like I'm preaching to the choir, we all lived through it, so..... Moving on.

As far as I'm concerned we are in a recession, and have been since the pandemic. So along tariffs and starting a trade war is basically adding kerosene to the economy that was already smouldering in a recession.

At this point, I'd be surprised if there isn't a great depression that happens as a result of this insanity.

I'm not even American and I'm bracing for it to happen.

More or Less. I would think of it more as a third person direct versus indirect. Third person direct being: referring to a specific set of people, eg, they're in the room with you, where calling them females would be rude... Third person indirect, where you're mentioning the concept of that group of people while not citing a specific or present subset of that group, would be rude.

You've made some good examples. Overall I think you understand the concept I was trying to get across.

That is also an option.

Honestly there's a lot of ways to make money in the market if you know what's going to happen in the coming days that will affect it.

I don't think it matters where this happened. IMO, "what the fuck is this" is the appropriate reaction to giving no consequences for rape. This would also apply to a litany of other offenses, but in this case rape.

I also think rape is one of the worst things anyone could do to another, right up there with slavery, torture, and other, similar things. I would consider murder to be less offensive, since at least then the person doesn't have to work through the trauma after. It's a mercy. Still unacceptable in a civilized society, but anything you have to live the rest of your life dealing with, is worse IMO.

A fate worse than death. In this case, getting SA'd, and having your attacker convicted and let go because of bullshit like this. Idk about you all, but that would fuck me right up.

This is my thought exactly.

I watched Steven Colbert yesterday saying that this large of a fuck up is proof there is no deep state. While I get his point, I disagree. If there is someone in the shadows pulling strings this was the intended outcome.

It's pretty well known that in trading markets, there's almost always something that goes up when everything else drops like a rock. Even as such, moving money to be liquid right before a steep drop off, then buying up all the formerly high-value stocks at bargain basement pricing, and just waiting for the rebound, is a legit strategy. Having foreknowledge of such an action is considered insider trading however. Realistically, insider trading is difficult to prove unless the perpetrator is an idiot.

Whether you call it the deep state or the 1% or oligarchs, or simply "rich assholes", if you believe there is a group orchestrating things, then you beat believe this was the intended outcome.

Female is still an acceptable term in some context: eg, when referring to the social group on a societal level, female can be fine, also for identifying someone's genetic/biological sex as "female" for medical/official contexts, that's still okay in most cases.

Where it's not okay is to use it on an individual level or to refer to a small group of ladies. The term is seem as cold, clinical, and in some cases, dehumanizing. It comes off as boiling down a person to their function in reproduction and nothing more. "You are the female and you carry children." Kind of thing. Like women are some kind of bakery for your crotch goblins, and not people worthy of respect.

But something like "the female population of the country" is fairly okay, since you're referring to the entirely of the people who identify as female, not an individual or small group of individuals.

At least, that's my take. I'm just some guy. If any women want to correct me, I defer to your judgement and opinion, and happily retract any contradictory statements I may have made. I am always happy to be corrected.

Oh no!

.... Anyway.

There's a lot of technology that people should spend more money on, in order to save money.

Home networking, as an example. People generally won't spend more than $100 ish, to get a wireless router that they expect will service their whole home for years and years. And in some circumstances, maybe that happens, chances are, you're heading back to Walmart/bestbuy/wherever to pick up a new router in a couple of years.

I have business grade gear or better, and I bought most of this stuff years and years ago, and I have no stability issues nor any need to upgrade. I expect that will remain the case for many years to come. While others are out upgrading their wireless router because of one reason or another, I'm enjoying stable, and fast, network access.

The insane thing, to me is that people will spend upwards of $100 a month to have high speed Internet to their door, but then won't spend $100 a year for a way to get that Internet into their devices. Insanity.