Black Dog

Yes everyone knows that if you haven't been murdered with a gun, you can't talk about gun violence.

How is it hypocrisy, precisely? Right. Because there's no actual racism anymore and the real racists are people who say there's racism.

Another sidebar on the whole black-on-black crime red herring: violent crime, including shootings, has been in decline for decades while mass shootings (typically perpetrated by white males) have tripled in frequency since 2011. Sure they are still comparatively rare, but it's something to think about. One other thing for the gun fappers to consider: the problems of mass shootings and violent crime involving firearms can be addressed with the same solution: gun control.

It's nice to see a gun nut like you acknowledge the grotesque human cost of your hobby to American society.

Well, that and she's pregnant at the moment.

All mass shootings occur in places where at least one gun is present.

Well, someone is on the ball getting their talking points. Do you get them e-mailed directly or do you have to hunt them down yourself?

The underlying "condition" being gender dysphoria, for which SRS is an effective treatment. False claims, in this case, being your own words. El Oh El.

Stay out of the threads when adults are talking 'kay?

Point was, she could have shown some actual agency in winning her freedom beyond picking a lock. Maybe Theon grabs Myranda and Sansa plugs her with the corkscrew or they toss her over together.

You know what was lame? The battle between Stannis and the Boltons. One minute he's on a empty plain, totally surrounded by cavalry, the next he's...in a forest somewhere? What?

It doesn't make them go away, it just names them for the fallacy they are. I'll explain it to you in the simplest terms I can in hopes you will understand: someone who is transgendered who undergoes SRS is still transgendered afterwards anymore than an alcoholic who stops drinking is no longer an alcoholic. SRS and other treatments are designed to correct the distress caused by the disconnect between the assigned sex or gender and the self. It's a subtle distinction, one I know will be lost on you. Transgender isn't the condition. Why are you even bothering with this subject when you can't get the details down? So it's a last resort and if it works it's still a failure. Gotcha. Oh and I notice you ignored the part where I caught you misrepresenting your position on treatment. How come?

Getting away from the Jon Snow is he/isn't he stuff, one of the scenes from the finale that bugged me was the scene with Theon and Sansa and Myranda on the battlements. I was baffled when they showed her picking the lock and then dropping the corkscrew thing on the floor ("I'm heading out where I'll be surrounded by hostile people; guess I won't be needing this weapon!"), Then, when she is confronted, it's up to Theon/Reek to save the day, making Sansa once again a passive, helpless victim, her plight used as nothing more than a way to move the needle on another (male) character's development. For a show that went to great lengths last season and early in this one to try and make her more than a victim whose destiny was in the hands of others (even going so far as to have Littlefinger use those exact words to her!), they did absolutely nothing with it. Very disappointing. That said, Myranda's header off the balcony made me LOL.

OK: how does killing him advance the plot? Killing Ned started the war; killing Robb ended it. These deaths served a narrative purpose; Jon's death does nothing. He'll be back.

Yeah. And that number is completely made up. For example: the route would have to pass over or under San Francisco Bay. A tunnel or bridge there is likely to cost several billion all on their own. Then there's other project details, like stations (is it only going to go from SF to the outskirts of LA without any stops in between?If so, are those factored into the cost/time estimates?) capacity (how many people will this carry compared to HSR?) and so on. Here's a good and comprehensive demolition of this pie in the sky idea.

What I don't understand is, if this guy wanted to shoot black people because of their criminality, why didn't he just become a cop?

Because there's no way this new, unproven technology that requires a massive infrastructure investment will come close to being as cost effective as HSR.

I think the fact this was in South Carolina, a state that still flies the flag of a slaver nation, would have got us there anyway. Is it not a pretty easy assumption based on what we knew from the start?

I'm curious as to how you define terrorism. Did you know one of the first groups to be classified as a terrorist organization in the U.S. was the KKK? Why? Because of stuff like this.

There's absolutely nothing logical about your interpretation of that, hinging as it does on some bizarre misunderstanding of cause and effect. Oh I get it: you don't what the term means. Yes, your obsession with SRS is well documented. It only hurts your brain because you seem incapable of understanding that SRS isn't a treatment or cure for transgender identity. Right, that's why you have gone on and on and on about how transgendered people need therapy to accept the gender they have. IOW: you want them to get treatment, it's just a question of what that treatment is. A treatment can only truly be said to be a failure if it fails to achieve positive outcomes for patients. If prescription heroin enables someone to better manage their addiction and live a productive life and if SRS enable someone to be happier and not kill themselves, then they cannot be said to be failures.

I'm not sure what you mean here.

This Hyperloop is the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Silicon Valley magical thinking at it's worst.

That wasn't the argument. You just see people get offended and,for some reason, that offends you. Lol ok. Just arbitrarily decide what biological traits are relevant. Why the hell not. It's a false equivalency to suggest that because mental states have a link to biology, then all mental states are the same. Sorry you are unfamiliar with the term. Maybe that's why you use it so often. I never argued that. Except you don't (see your twisting when your logic on transgendered people is applied to gays)

Cite? Cite? The fact that there was so much smoke coming from the towers right up until collapse suggests the fires were blazing away quite well. The impact of the aircraft caused the load to shift from the outer frame to the inner core which was subsequently weakened by fire. They found lots of personal effects from lots of passengers. Not sure why a passport surviving is so unusual.