shirgall

Judging by the photographs, he put a lot of potholes into a taxiway, messed up some loading racks and a airplane bay, and possibly some more. "Airport" is overstating it. My difficulty is that it is still lethal force, especially since some reports are indicating a couple of deaths. If it seemed likely that 1) Assad is a madman willing to use lethal chemical weapons on civilians, 2) was likely to do it again despite condemnation, 3) had more weapons in his possession at that airport then I could see this event passing my universal bar for the use of lethal force: immediate, otherwise unavoidable, danger of death or grave bodily harm to the innocent. I'm going to remain critical of the whole affair for a while longer.

Sounds like a pork barrel project to me.

Snark via spicy memes is a great stress reliever.

A competition involving elapsed time of a specific performed activity.

I need to add to this: getting Trump elected made a lot more people aware of just how entrenched the bureaucratic leviathan is, and how hard it will fight to protect its power and reach than any campaign speech I ever gave or supported in the Libertarian Party.

Since we're talking about evidence... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5

At the risk of annoying everyone, I'll add more evidence to the topic... http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a21382/how-kodak-accidentally-discovered-radioactive-fallout/

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZyWNnjJ2ln4

I live near Seattle now and I'm really glad I'm married. My 20-year-old daughter complains that it is worse than Portland...

It's not stupid. This practice also helps me debug my own writing.

Illustrated here: http://leighb.com/genesis.htm

My attempt at it is this: "No circumstance exists that justifies the initiation of force." It is axiomatic because you cannot prove a negative.

A lot of "stages of maturity" are written into law in a pretty arbitrary way. Signing contracts, joining the armed services, buying cigarettes and alcohol, getting a learner's permit and driver's license, buying a long gun or a handgun are all at numeric age and not some other assessment. As a father I was laughed at for saying that ear piercings and makeup should not be allowed until some numeric age. The biggest head scratcher for me is why do people allow (if not encourage) children to go through gender reassignment therapy and surgery before the age of consent?

I'm one degree away and you guys listen to me sometimes.

My choice is an expression of the personal experience that lines suck.

I have this option at many airports because of CLEAR, which allows me to skip to the front of the security line if I'm willing to accept registration (which connects to a continuously updated background check) and a retinal scan. Yeah, I opted in. I've been checked and rechecked so many times for my other endeavors this was no big deal.

Perhaps I was indelicate. Should I have instead said, "when once faces on oncoming tiger we often don't take the time to observe that its fur is matted"? I spend very little time on the appearance of Stef (or even his slides) when I consume a video as I am spending a great deal of my effort listening to what he has to say. Heck, I think I have made comments on the audio quality a great deal more than video quality. That's why I interpreted the original posting as a mild personal attack ("Does it concern you Stefan?") and not a insightful reflection mulling the ripples on the pond on the body that indicate subsurface battles with personal demons in the mind (or maybe just caffeine). Oh, I know that it can be important. Heck, I am nearly 50 years old and I *still* flinch at fast upraised hand movements... and people *notice* that I flinch. I bite my nails, too, but I'm pretty sure it has more to do with "Monster Energy" and not the fact that authority figures sought to correct my behavioral strayings with lacquered dead plant material with holes drilled in them when I was in school. One could observe that I was always a libertarian has more to do with that. Please don't read acrimony in what I'm writing here. I have no idea what tone of voice you read what I write in, but you might be taking it harder than the mild chiding that I'm intending.

I know that, which is why I mentioned it... but the posting started with observations of Stefan and not the personal relevance. Setting the stage is important.

If you had led with nail-biting running in your family and wondering if it was indicative of something it probably would have been different.

It's a philosophy forum so we deal in universal truths. The reason I brought up the term "concern trolling" is that it is a term for someone who claims to be helping but who brings up issues that detract from the conversation's point. A lot of things come up in the forum like that.

It is a form of concern trolling, whether consciously or not, to offer helpful advice or point something out that would matter only in a sitcom. If there were some problems that required analysis of subconscious behaviors it might be worth looking into, but instead of focusing on the message of any particular video this is the element that draws a posting?

I lived in Portland, Oregon, and it was a miserable market. I met my wife when she brought a friend of hers to one of my gun classes. You might find that focusing on an aspect of philosophy with external activities and focusing meeting people doing that activity will give you some exposure. Traditional answer is church, for example, but there are also political forums, speeches, prepper parties (some organizations do group buys of supplies, group canning, workshops), going to get your book signed by an author...

Now that Ailes is gone, the history of Fox bosses giving money Democrats will start clarifying. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000227&cycle=2016 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000227&cycle=2012

A "gaggle" is not a "briefing". They should learn the terms used by the news industry and use them in accepted ways.