Honestly just surprised he didn't name it after himself

Connie ❤️

My bill is 165 dollars and you can't afford to pay your staff more than server minimum wage? Listen here, fuck nuts...

Also, while we are at it, I used to be a server when I was a teenager 20 years ago. Minimum expectation for a tip was 10%, 15% was standard and 20% was for particularly good service. Since fucking when has 25% become the minimum expectation or even a high end expectation? That is on top of already increased food costs from inflation. Even the low end of the presets you see on all of the card readers asking for tips is 18% most of the time. What gives?

If you hear about it, or if a thing isn't happening anymore, please update the one who knows.

Seems like they probably skipped the broth. Looks basically just beschemel, though, being generous, it may have a bit of mustard, sour cream, and/or some herbs mixed in.

Oh I was not justifying this arrest by any means. I was just making sure people weren't under the impression that being a citizen means ICE can't legally arrest them and fuck up their lives.

The older I get, the more it becomes apparent that the primary political distinction between people is how many degrees of separation from themselves they care about people. The more you care about people barely connected to you at all, the more progressive you are. The more your scope of concern for people is limited to people in your immediately sphere, the more conservative you are.

It is not always selfishness that sways conservatives. They can care genuinely and deeply for their family, friends, colleagues, and community. But that is typically as far as that scope of concern goes. They can take on more progressive political positions or make limited exceptions when their lifelong regressive politics suddenly negatively affects themselves or those close to them. Their kid comes out as trans, their work friend is black, their community is being spoiled by a corporation, and suddenly they are a progressive ally on those things alone. But what they care about will still be limited to those in their bubble. They will not care that their politics has the same effect on someone else's family until it happens to their's. It's a genuine character flaw. They are incapable of general altruism.

Correction, ICE does have arrest authority over citizens if they witness you commit a federal crime just like any other federal law enforcement agent.

Immigration violations are generally a civil matter, not criminal, so it is a common belief that ICE isn't really law enforcement but just immigration enforcement. The most common image of ICE, pre-trump, was largely a security role at borders and ports of entry and administrative roles in immigration services and serving immigration courts with arrest power limited to immigrants in bad standing. But there is also a wing of ICE dedicated to criminal activity related to immigration like human trafficking, drug smuggling and financial fraud. The criminals in these cases often include citizens, and ICE agents are well within their authority to arrest citizens in these cases.

The post-Trump era ICE has definitely muddied the waters on what is administrative, security, and criminal investigation. And they have lost the plot on their authority and powers, for sure. They need to be dismantled entirely. But it is important to understand the limitations that they are and are not supposed to have, both so you do not underestimate their legal authority and so you can properly call out when they are going beyond their legal authority.

Coffee from Texas is... special?

The earth is very small compared to the sun and very very far away. Imagine you are standing next to a pole and look across a wide empty field at a tree near the horizon. Now step to the other side of the pole and look at the same tree. Looks basically the same, right? But your angle of view on that tree just changed far more than the angle of view of the sun from opposite sides of the Earth. The "side" of the sun they are looking at is 99.9999999999999999999999999999....% the same side.

I tried using my own name and it said my password was too weak. So I start my Planet Fitness membership tonight.

Right but I think that that particular strategy just plays on that character flaw. Consevatives care about very few poeple, and if you can manipulate who those poeple are that they care about, and concentrate the types of people they care about as a group, you can control WHAT they care about.

Progressives are also susceptible to in-group/out-group manipulation too. But our out-groups are those who oppress or disenfranchise others. So you would manipulate us by convincing us that that is happening when it isn't, or isn't happening when it is. Sound like a familiar argument?

Another shitty aspect of this is that probably a majority of our ability to get a deal done bloodlessly like this is, for better or worse, due to the implicit threat of the massive power imbalance of our militaries. If you are negotiating with someone who is kind and smiling and sincere and they have a squad of fucking jacked dudes armed to the gills standing behind him also smiling.... well negotiating may seem like the preferable thing at that point. And, in this case, the sincere man genuinely agrees to come to an amicable and sustainable solution from that is good for all parties, so it worked out.

But then a petty stupid egotist with a complex about everything the sincere man did comes in an rips up the deal and acts like a lunatic basically no matter what you do. So rather than try to create a bullshit new deal with someone who will only accept absolute capitulation under threat of war, you stand your ground and prepare for war. War comes and... turns out that, at least when this stupid manchild and his idiot crew are in charge, and once they have fired a ton of their non-cis straight white male officers and soldiers, their disorganized and poorly led military is pretty fucking ineffective. They are also extremely easily swayed by financial risks, for oil in particular, and it takes next to nothing for you to leverage your position next to the primary channel for the world's oil shipments to bring that shit to a stand still.

Now you have taken some licks from bombings, and there is still an ever looming threat of nukes. But now you are sitting across from this petty stupid egotist and there doesn't seem to be as overwhelming of a threat there anymore. And now they are coming back at you with deals that are not just that you unconditionally surrender. Now they are desperately offering you control over the shipping channels you only hijacked due to this war they started, a monetary payout, and essentially the same terms otherwise you already had. Fuck man, why the fuck wouldn't you hold out longer and see what else this stupid prick will offer you?

It is absolutely not a good moral stance that we have long decided to negotiate with the world by might and threat. And ends do not justify means. But on the odd occasion, some good did come of it. Whatever hope there ever was of that happening again though... it just got thrown out the window. If Iran can barely inconvenience your oil supply chain and make America roll over, why would anyone sitting across the table ever take that threat seriously again?

My hope is that, if anything good comes from this, it will be that less priority will be put on military power in the future (after we are done with this regime, obviously) as it will no longer be as impactful as it used to be in negotiations. But I am not holding my breath for that.

His name yip-yip.

If it doesn't come from the regions of the Western Imperialist Pigs then it's not real imperialism. It's sparkling annexation.

He doesn't have to have intended to kill the guy to be criminally liable for his death. He was grossly negligent in his sustained use of a restraint technique with lethal capacity and callously unrelenting in the force applied, which was deemed excessive, even as the danger Floyd was in was apparent, and even then after he went still and no longer had a pulse. Whatever his intent, he murdered that man by two different legal definitions as the justice system concluded.

You lost me at pasta for breakfast

The older I get, the more clear it has become that the defining distinction between conservatives and progressives is the field of people you care about/consider worthy of concern. The broader you are concerned for the rights, well-being, and advancement of other people, the more progressive you are. The more narrow your concerns for yourself and your immediate connections, family, and friends, the more conservative you are.

It is why conservatives discover concern for LGBT rights after decades of rejecting them once their kid comes out. It is why "I have a black friend" is such a common refrain among the conservative crowd to avoid accusations of racism (because they probably genuinely do have concerns for their friend's individual wellbeing, even if they don't give a shit for black people at large). There is an awesome black dude that has reformed many KKK members just by becoming their friend so they actually care about a black person now. It is also why they think that Capitalism is the ideal form of economy, as the very principle and justification of it relies on the notion that all humans are inherently selfish and will accidently improve others lives just trying to generate profit for themselves. They do not feel true altruism for other people, at least not those who aren't directly tied to themselves or that they do not see as being like themselves. Everything that they consider normal and typical from their own limited experience should be the default, should be protected, and anything that interferes with that, threatens that, or challenges their perception of that should be vehemently rejected. They literally cannot put themselves in someone else's shoes, and suggesting they try is an attack on them.