• Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 04:06 PM
    You left out the slash in the closing tag at the end.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 04:02 PM
    There always have been and always will be booze hounds and drug addicts. The War on Drugs is no more winnable than the War on Booze was. The only thing it will accomplish is the enrichment of violent criminals and government bureaucrats. And the fact that government "safety" programs don't work any better than government "prohibition" programs should be a surprise to no one.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 03:56 PM
    Bathtub gin wasn't deadly because it was gin. Some of it wasn't even gin at all. (The term "bathtub gin" was used to describe any kind illicitly produced booze that was cooked up in things like bathtubs - hence, "bathtub gin".) It was deadly because it was adulterated with other legally produced substances (such as formaldehyde) to increase its volume and/or potency. - just as (legally produced) fentanyl, in addition to being used directly as a drug itself, is often used to adulterate other drugs to increase their potency (which are then consumed by unwitting users who don't even know it's there - something which would be much less likely to occur if the production and sale of drugs were fully legal and their producers and sellers could be held liable for such adulteration, just like alcohol producers are). From the article (bold emphasis added): And as I noted in your quote of me (bold emphasis added):
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 03:51 PM
    Ukraine is the ne plus ultra of election fortification.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 03:11 PM
    Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman | What's the ideal immigration policy? | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M23uW7G1OEE {ReasonTV | 28 March 2024} Podcaster Dave Smith and philosopher Chris Freiman debate open borders on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions. Text and links to sources available here: https://reason.com/podcast/2024/03/28/dave-smith-vs-chris-freiman-whats-the-ideal-immigration-policy/ What's the ideal immigration policy?
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 02:49 PM
    Don't mind me. I just picked this thread at random to post this in. Carry on.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 02:42 PM
    The fentanyl thing is not really much different from the poisonous "bathtub gin" problem that existed during alcohol prohibition. It's a problem that occurs because of prohibition, not because of "legalization". The problem with all these so-called "legalization" schemes is that they only "legalize" possession and consumption, but not production and distribution (which remain criminal). So the only producers, distributors, and sellers will be criminals who will (1) be prone to violence to protect their turf and profits, and (2) have no incentives to care about the quality or safety of their products. Notice that, unlike during alcohol prohibition, innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people are not being injured or killed during running gun battles between competing alcohol distributors (such as Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing Co.). Brewers and sellers don't need to peddle their wares on schoolyards, and those who peddle poisonous products can be held civilly and/or criminally liable to their victims. And this was all without having to coddle drunks (unlike what is going on in Portland and elsewhere with respect to drugs & addicts).
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 02:14 PM
    Portland's problem isn't the "legalization". Portland's problem is the irresponsible addict-coddling of batshit insanity progressivism. From the thread about that very subject:
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    Today, 01:36 PM
    Why is ‘Libertarian’ Reason Unreasonably Smearing Argentina’s Javier Milei? https://ampamerica.com/nichols-why-is-libertarian-reason-unreasonably-smearing-argentinas-javier-milei/ {Brian Nichols | 28 March 2024} When I saw the recent hit piece by Antonella Marty, CEO of Sociedad Atlas at The Atlas Society, in Reason magazine attacking Argentina’s new president Javier Milei, I had to rub my eyes in disbelief. Could this really be coming from the CEO of a prominent libertarian think tank, published in a respected libertarian outlet ? The op-ed, which portrays Milei as an authoritarian populist, is so rife with distortions and unfounded allegations that it borders on intellectual malpractice. As a proud libertarian, I feel compelled to set the record straight and defend a man who is bravely trying to pull his country out of the abyss of socialism. Let’s start by examining the central claim of Marty’s piece – that Milei is not a “real” libertarian because of some of his policy decisions and rhetoric. But since when did the Atlas Society and Reason magazine, of all places, provide a platform for such blatant purity testing and gate-keeping? The reality is that governing is messy business, especially in a country as dysfunctional as Argentina. Milei has inherited an economic catastrophe marked by hyperinflation, stifling regulations, and unsustainable government spending. In this context, some deviations from libertarian orthodoxy are not only understandable, but necessary as transitional measures. https://twitter.com/Libertarium_arg/status/1763669774846824742 1763669774846824742
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  • acptulsa's Avatar
    Today, 01:20 PM
    Here's a fun piece of trivia: Look up la guerra del fútbol.
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  • cjm's Avatar
    Today, 01:02 PM
    So... she's saying men should beg women who don't want to have kids to have kids? Why? A woman who doesn't want to have kids and needs to be begged into doing it would make a shitty mother.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 12:56 PM
    I hate all the War on Drugs bullshit, but South America (and Central America, and Mexico) is a god-forsaken basket-case of drug-cartel corruption and violence, so I'm not going to complain (too much) about whatever Bukele, Milei, et al. decide they have to do to mitigate it. The best thing that could be done for South America (and Central America, and Mexico) is for the rest of the world (especially the United States) to put an end to War on Drugs and legalize (or decriminalize, or whatever) it all. That would do far more to impoverish the cartels and drive them out of business than all the laws in the world. (So, of course, that's the one thing that won't happen - the CIA would never stand for it, among other reasons.)
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 12:41 PM
    https://twitter.com/chayesmatthew/status/1773383673074552968 1773383673074552968 https://twitter.com/chayesmatthew/status/1773414327556452750 & https://twitter.com/chayesmatthew/status/1773414467071578383 https://twitter.com/cliftonaduncan/status/1773417003614646703
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  • A Son of Liberty's Avatar
    Today, 12:32 PM
    My goodness, I've never seen a better advo for misogyny and denying of women's rights in the electoral process than this video of this insane woman. These people will be the end of Western Civilization, no doubt.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 12:16 PM
    For example, instead of just briefly mentioning a list of tax hikes or the seemingly pointless purchase of fighter jets - which are two of the more problematic items, IMO - they could have made an effort to determine if those actions were actually instigated by Milei himself, or whether they are things he had to accede to as part of his agreement with the coalition partners (Bullrich, Obaid, et al.) whose support he needed in order to win the election (and will continue needing in order to enact other policies). In either case, they are bad things and deserve to be criticized, but as I've pointed out several times in this thread, Milei is not the OmniGod of Argentina - he was always definitely going to have to enact at least some unlibertarian policies, regardless of whether he really wanted to or not (not possibly, not probably, but definitely). In assessing and judging Milei, it makes a difference whether he "wanted to" or "had to". Reason could have helpfully tried to sort that out, but instead they just went "bitch mode" . The nature of politics - and especially electoral politics - is that you can easily do that with anyone. If Ron Paul had become POTUS, Reason could have written exactly the same kind of article about him - "Oh, look, he appointed his less-than-honorable grandson-in-law Jesse Benton as his Chief of Staff! Nepotism!" - "Oh, look, those newsletters! Racism!" - "Oh, look, the military spent more money on planes! All that 'non-interventionism' stuff must have been bullshit, after all!" - and so on. I suspect this has much more to do with Reason's social libertinism vis-à-vis Milei's social conservatism than it has to do with actual libertarian principles. (Hence, their complaints about "gender issues" and Milei being a "pro-lifer"). In the case of Milei (or Ron Paul), was that money offset by greater spending reductions elsewhere? Maybe. Maybe not. If not, was it by choice or political necessity? Who knows? Reason couldn't (or wouldn't) be bothered to try to find out and tell us.
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  • acptulsa's Avatar
    Today, 12:13 PM
    Seems to be what they want. Except we've been too civilized to do it, so they imported foreign criminals and stuck them in the ghettos. There are some serious ruthless people behind these two puppets. Our Quadrennio Rosso. Italy had two red years -- the Biennio Rosso -- and installed Mussolini.
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  • acptulsa's Avatar
    Today, 12:07 PM
    Two down, one to go. Then we won't have to see it any more.
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  • A Son of Liberty's Avatar
    Today, 12:04 PM
    It's like looking at the sun for too long... my eyes are burning,
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  • A Son of Liberty's Avatar
    Today, 12:00 PM
    My guy, you are perfectly free to leave. But if you're going to stick around, how about not hustling stuff that happened 170 years ago? It's getting old... and if you keep drudging up that sh!t as an excuse to keep everyone else around you quiet and compliant, that's going to expire shortly, and you aren't going to like the result. We were doing just fine in this country 30 years ago. We all got along, we all hung out and partied together and nobody f**king cared who was what "color". But all of a sudden we're mired in damned near the worst racial division in this country now since the '60's, if not earlier. And it's stupid, because it really is plainly just a political tactic mostly of the left but even to a certain extent of the right. There are 3 options here: 1 - we can go back to ignoring race like we had finally gotten to in the '90's; 2 - we can continue on this current path of making race the essence of every single issue in our political discourse and just see how that goes; or 3 - it's going to come down to a fight... and that's not an option that 13% of the population should want to toy with...
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  • Anti Federalist's Avatar
    Today, 11:53 AM
    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1773380776114917712 1773380776114917712
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  • Anti Federalist's Avatar
    Today, 11:41 AM
    That is exactly right.
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  • Anti Federalist's Avatar
    Today, 11:40 AM
    Yes, there are, which is why that was never a "dark ship" option in the oilfield. Here's a chart of the area, clearly showing cables and pipelines. The ship was traveling at about one shiplength per minute. You see the scale on this chart at 375 per inch. The event started at roughly 4:11, so that means the ship traveled roughly 3300 feet, over half a mile before impact, and at least a couple thousand feet before the submerged cable lines. Not out of the question to drop anchor at that point and it is standard procedure.
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  • Anti Federalist's Avatar
    Today, 11:22 AM
    The definition of "Master Mariner" is one who holds both a Master's certificate and a Chief Engineer's certificate. I do...or at least did, until IMO regs prohibited it on international tickets.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 11:19 AM
    :D :D:D
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  • Anti Federalist's Avatar
    Today, 11:18 AM
    Pretty much what I said from day one. This ship suffered a severe electric failure. Twice, you see when the main power cuts out, shortly after they start backing down on the main engine, indicated by the heavy black smoke, and then again a second time as the e-gen kicks on, shortly, and then cuts back out again. Somewhere I am going to guess there was direct short to ground in the main buss panel or parallel buss panel, that just smoked the whole system. There was little, if anything, the captain, pilot or crew could have done, they were dark and out of control.
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 10:43 AM
    They have a few - but unfortunately, instead of actually providing any substantive examination of those few points, they only mention those points in passing so they can spend the vast majority of the article indulging in innuendo and other nonsense like griping about his dogs (or bizarrely complaining that army officers can't get tattoos, paint their nails, or grow beards).
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  • Occam's Banana's Avatar
    Today, 10:31 AM
    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Intrepid again. Just exactly so.
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