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  1. Wow, they'd really just like to sedate us and stack us like cordwood if they could

  2. Ray Vukcevich wrote that story. It's in the collection Boarding Instructions.

  3. I would, but I'm dealing with a self-financed retirement and am facing the prospect of running out of money at some point. Every little bit helps.

  4. I would suggest that you look for an art round that depicts something of special interest to them.

  5. I think the difference is doing it during pretrial selection vs doing it mid trial. The original question was about having that outburst mid trial, in which case I wouldn't be surprised if somebody got slapped with 24 hours of contempt.

  6. That's a pretty clear case of contempt for the court, whether or not it meets the legal standard!

  7. I would assume the judge would make a scene of how you can get in contempt so that everyone doesn’t do the same thing. Otherwise we would all just do that.

  8. Not all of us. I have been called many times, but never went further than waiting in the jury pool and being dismissed en masse. Actually, I went a little further in one case where it was a murder trial that was granted a continuation.

  9. Yes, this!! Our media doesn't help with that at ALL. Instead of reporting on Presidential elections as a very serious matter they talk about "optics" and create stupid drama contests. It's dangerous and sick.

  10. A Christian who, when asked to name his favorite book of the Bible said, "Conrinthians Two."

  11. Any culture that you've actually grown up in is yours. If you were white and grew up in a predominantly black school system, you would speak like your peers.

  12. Answer: My next car will be an electric. It won't be a Tesla. And, yes, Twitter buffoonery is my reason. However, my next car also won't be Chinese.

  13. In general, hedging with the markets of where you intend to retire isn't a bad idea, and hedging with stocks means that you're hedging with both the currency and the economy you intend to retire into.

  14. Ted Cruz, embarrassment to current and future generations of Texans.

  15. You need some earned income to start an IRA or Roth IRA. Right now, when you income taxes are likely to be low, a brilliant thing to do would be to start putting money into a Roth IRA. You don't get a tax deduction now, but you don't need one. The money can be invested in many different ways, but it grows tax-free and you'll be able to withdraw it tax-free at age 59 1/2.

  16. I don't know why others are beating you up. These mistakes seem pretty standard, and you said that you could afford to lose this money.

  17. This. Stock picking is often less efficient than just buying the market, or even, if you want to pick something, a sector.

  18. Then I suggest you get out of your echo chamber and do your own real research on each candidate. Find out what each candidate wants to accomplish, if that resonates with you then make a decision. If you don’t agree with either then don’t vote at all or vote independent. Don’t just blindly vote based on what other people say on the internet or mainstream media. This whole country needs to come together instead of trying to destroy each other.

  19. I grew up and voted in several national elections before there ever was social media echo chamber. My point is that one of the effects of social media is to deepen the tribal sorting.

  20. The good news is that democracies aren't forced to double-down on bad decisions like autocracies are.

  21. Another good reason to keep narcissists far from the levers of power.

  22. That's a much better statement than "fangirling" over a specific system of ruling. 🙃

  23. That's where the algorithms of most social media have brought us. We don't have conversations about the underlying ideas of a political program. Everything is merely tribal, and both sides are quite capable of electing leaders who will damage their own self-interests in the name of tribal victory.

  24. I do think that there are a lot of Russians who actually are pro-invasion, pro-Putin, and would not have this opinion before being captured or having a relative who is a POW. But, of course, it's impossible in a police state to find out what citizens really think. Who would honestly answer poll questions being asked by a pollster who might turn the answers over to the security services?

  25. There’s a difference between liking trump and liking trumps policies.

  26. Also, there are multiple ways of being among the elite. People who are from Old Money, the sorts whose great-great grandfathers were the robber-baron Trumps of their day have often turned their old money into multi-generational passive income. The markers of their class are education, expensive hobbies, residences down long private drives, and philanthropy for which they do not seek a lot of attention or acknowledgement because they prefer to avoid the spotlight.

  27. hes worth 4.7 billion dollars how braindead do you have to be to say he wasnt good at business. i know the left hate trump but damn bro

  28. If instead of trying to build his own businesses, he had passively invested in the stock market, he'd be much richer today. Yes, he grew his businesses. No, the failure of individual efforts does not mark him as bad at business. Failure is in the resume of every successful entrepreneur. But his lifetime achievement, given where he started, is mediocre.

  29. When an organization changes something, they may have multiple reasons for the change.

  30. This question comes up here about three times a week in various forms. I can say that I speak two languages fluently, one conversationally about any topic, but with effort, and smatterings of about eight others that allow me to navigate, shop, survive, and get help. So how many languages do I speak? My answer is three, with bits and pieces of several more. And my count of the several more is imprecise, because a language I haven't used in years recedes in memory and is hard to bring forward, but if you dropped me in Finland or Greece or Hungary, I'd soon recover something close to what I knew before.

  31. People take the best mate they can find. The most beautiful women tend to marry the richest and most powerful men (and it doesn't hurt if they are also good looking).

  32. But is it going to be enough? Trump just won a major poll. And the RFK Jr and Gaza factors are going to blow Biden’s win.

  33. I think you may be right that the youth vote that Biden needs may not forgive him for continuing to support Israel in the face of what Israel has become. So then they will get Trump, who will be even worse for the Palestinians.

  34. Marjorie Taylor Greene is pro-Russian because she imagines that she'd be one of the ones holding the stick. I've got news for her: under the autocracy of her dreams, she'd be at the sharp end of a night of the long knives before she'd ever get her hands on a stick.

  35. Cash is a technology that is becoming obsolete, more in some countries than others.

  36. Of course attractive men are privileged in this way. So are powerful men and rich men, and I'm not talking about privilege they command or buy, but privilege they are given for being powerful or rich. A wider range of characteristics make men attractive. Tall men, men with deep voices....

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