sol740

could not

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I could(n't) care less.

I have to award you a point for that.

 

The main problem, for me, is that I think that those using it want to use the original couldn't, but are just using it wrong. They aren't going for sarcasm ...

That's fair enough. I'm only sensitive to it because I've been "corrected" before, and lacked the motivation to bother with an explanation.

Could or couldn't?

You'll go crazy around here with this one. It's sad really.

Not to interrupt a public banning, but the emphasis is supposed to be on the "could", in a sarcastic tone, as if one were pondering. Though yes, if you are being completely literal, "couldn't" is the proper term.

It's "I could care less ..."

(As if one would have to make an earnest attempt to actually care less).

On topic, I voted no. I do find his posts didactic, pretentious, or arrogant on occasion. Though I suppose my first paragraph could be read in such a way.

Ignore button?

Doing shitty things to animals is super shitty. Having mental-jerkoff fantasies about the retributive justice one would like to see paid on another is hardly altruistic though.

It's likely waaaaaaaay more complicated than folks want to admit. Someone who puts an animal through that kind of suffering is likely pretty mentally-damaged, particularly some of the more torturous cases of animal cruelty I've seen. If they are truly mentally ill, sadistically, and compulsively, no I don't want them walking around hurting animals or people, but I have zero desire to watch them suffer.

Adultery level = Potato

Come on, every married guy knows you don't use Tinder in your hometown. That's road trips only...

:lolguy:

"Hi I'm here to try out for the police officer roll."

-Ice Cube AKA, Cop Killer

I believe Ice T is the angry black gangsta of whom you speak.

Ice Cube was the "FUCK THA POLICE" brand of thuggish banger ...

That has also went on to play the role of cop in media :lolguy:

Gotta love the comments on there. Lots of "he disagrees with police abusing citizens but calls for help when he's in trouble ..." thin blue line bullshit. I can't stand this attitude hero-worshippers have about dissenting beliefs. He deserves the exact same service as every other human being in this country regardless of what his personal beliefs are. He could head "KILL MUTHAFUCKING COPS" dot org and this would change nothing.

Now, whether or not it actually occurred? I haven't the slightest. Certainly seems like it's timed well, but crazier things have happened.

Success is a combination of drive, hard work, and flat out good luck in varying degrees. In America you have a chance, this chance isn't a guarantee and not everyone starts on equal ground. The drive and hard work are your creations directly, and the good luck portion can be largely mitigated by acceptance of failure. More so, failure is the only guarantee, you will absolutely fail, possibly multiple times in succession. Upon failures there is time to re-access, and adjust course if necessary. Shoot for the stars, hope you hit the moon, and maybe you hit a wormhole.

Oh shit, I may be off-topic. Umm, black lives matter.

This isn't the first time I have heard the "failed themselves" point of view. The evidence doesn't support it, it's mostly unoriginal political tripe ...

As opposed to your elightened point of view which is never political tripe? Ever?

usually sold in the same faulty bill of goods with trickle down economics and socialism is inherently evil.

Yes, socialism coerced through violence is always evil. No matter how good the intentions. People coming together to promote social causes voluntarily is not evil. This is simply a moral issue of right vs. wrong. If we don't agree on this simple tenet, then we certainly won't agree on economics.

The question of social inequality in America is heavily studied, and there are thousands of studies on it going back at least 100 years, and the overwhelming majority come to the same conclusion - it exists, it travels with poverty, and it disproportionately affects people of races other than white male. But don't let that get in the way of a good fiction that allows you to sleep at night.

You will get no argument here from me, this is simply without debate. What is debatable is to what degree the current crop of white/straight/cis males are responsible for the past 200 years of inequality. On the personal level it's absolutely nothing. On the social level the thing that is most glaringly unequal is the criminal justice system which with any high-level, hierarchical, overiew is basically rigged to put poor disadvantaged people into jail. Worse the poor are incentivised to break the law(drugs provide steady income,status, ect), and the law is incentivised (busting drug dealers provides revenue through forfeiture of property or cash, or bonuses for arrests) to put them in jail. Basically ending prohibition would solve much of the problem, but good luck.

I don't always have the popular opinion, and it is often dissenting, but it is well considered and I work very hard to be informed. That is not something I see in a lot of the commenters here.

Someone posts a comment, I post a dissenting opinion, and I get called ignorant by the people whose opinion I disagree with and somehow I am the bully? That's a great fantasy joe, top notch.

Sigh.

I bought a cheap bundle of games, but I already own two of them. First come, first serve.

Far Cry 3 (requires UPLAY client, not Steam) (OUT OF STOCK!)

Call of Juarez:Gunslinger (Steam) (OUT OF STOCK!)

For what it's worth, I loved both of these games.

You really can't tell what happens, and in what order, but the preceding events certainly color the situation with a tinge of danger, which you don't want when you're facing down a few folks who may be afraid of what you're willing to do.

I'm probably your opposite Wagner, I'm very critical of LE, and if anything feel they should be punished all the more severely for proven wrong-doings due to the effect upon the overall system when the public trust begins to breakdown. That said, being critical isn't synonymous with being unfair, and the operative word in that sentence is 'proven'.

In the end no matter what this guy said, or what he was involved with, if evidence comes out clearly showing him giving up and then being shot by the police, they should all be prosecuted. If he makes a questionable movement, accidental or not, given the tense nature of the situation the officers have a right to protect their lives and it's a good shoot.

Leave a note that says:

"Don't be so greedy."

Quite the tip.

I don't see appendicitis being treated with antibiotics successfully, due to the fact most people don't realize they have it until it's about to rupture. And that is the most common general surgical procedure done. 7% of the population gets their appendix removed at some point in their life. Most surgeons have elective practices and take call for emergency purposes---they don't need the revenue from call to earn a living--that is my practice. I do 500 elective surgeries a year, and maybe 25-30 emergency ones. I don't mind call, but some people hate it. It doesn't pay the bills, and potentially keeps you up all night and ruins the next day's elective office or surgeries. But it's part of the job and a valued responsibility. some of these 25-30 patients don't have insurance, and no means to pay for services rendered. Doesn't bother me one bit---they get the Mercedes Benz, 110% effort every time. What does bother me is when some of these patients can be the most demanding, and least thankful. Quickest to get irritated when they have to wait in the office, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the surgery, or my care, or positing that my doctors purposefully steered me towards an unnecessary surgery. Clearly with the pain I was in there was fear of a possible rupture. It was just humorous that a story ran about appendicitis, as I'm recovering, likey in relation to the link below.

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20150616/appendicitis-can-often-be-treated-with-antibiotics

Well you could be me a few weeks back, walk into the ER with a stabbing stomach ache and get immediately checked in for an appendectomy, no opinions, time to think, or options beyond "well, do you want to die?".

I didn't, so I had the surgery, and as I was recovering, literally inside my hospital room, there was a story on the news about how they are treating appendicitis with strong antibiotics now, with a 75% success rate. FUUUUUUUUUUUU ...

Big 12 is now allowed to have a championship game with only 10 teams. Aren't they they reason everyone started really expanding to 12 teams to have a conference championship game?

 

I think it's BS personally...but it is the NCAA we're talking about.

Meh, the rule was completely arbitrary anyway, I'm fine with each conference having equal opportunity to decide who it's champ is, and how.