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Are you going to argue that “no-holds-barred” – as in, fighting dirty – isn’t negative?

No-holds-barred is about the rules of engagement, not an individual’s fighting technique. If anything it’s even more positive because it means they can hold their own against people who do fight dirty.

Are you going to argue that the system providing little control and no remedy isn’t a bad thing?

It’s only that way because it’s the police chief who crossed the line. That’s a specific instance of the combination of “police chief” and “political operative” where the system provides little control and no remedy.

It’s good for a chuckle, although it’s wishful thinking to believe the public imagines political operatives and staffers to be like The West Wing. They’ve probably got a bleaker impression than that…

You might as well say “lawyer” is negative because people have bleak impressions of them. Should those on our side avoid studying law because people will think negatively of them? No, obviously, studying law is crucial to the drafting of policy that benefits people.

Likewise, understanding politics and being effective at operating in the political sphere is crucial to actually making things better.

Your argument is bad and you should feel bad. We want skilled political operatives on our side. If you want to whisper your political dreams into a shoebox and make an inoffensive manifestation board, then bug off and do that. The rest of us actually want to accomplish something, and that requires political savvy.

I read that comment completely differently. The “socialism” in “Sorta like socialism” is supposed to replace “free markets” in the previous comment.

“They” only want “socialism” when it’s corporate bailouts. Privatized profits, socialized losses.

Exactly

I think doubling down on “everyone on this site is unreasonable” will not help on the tone front.

However, the law says that your consent in this case has no legal baring.

Many places have a sliding scale, usually a window of a few years. 19 and 17 was legal under that scale.

Tone and framing change how people react to an idea.

I mean, I lost my virginity at 17 to a 19-year-old, and it definitely wasn’t rape.

Obviously there’s not a lot of nuance when you’re talking about a full grown man taking advantage of a minor, but I also think it’s kind of ridiculous to suggest two 16-year-olds having sex, or two teenagers barely on either side of 18, can’t be consensual.

Jesus was way cool

You were.

Were.

Generally speaking, righty tighty lefty loosely.

I can see the value of data networks. If every car on the road is self driving and interconnected, they know where every other car is and can cooperatively adjust their speed and routes to basically eliminate traffic. Even if it’s just every car in a taxi fleet, they can still share their sensor data to build a better operating map from multiple angles. The privacy side of that is rough, but it could drastically reduce accidents compared to individual human drivers.

Is this the one you use to feed the house from a generator? If so, I think that’s the one time it’s valid

And then there’s the rotation applied to Dinah Mo Humm’s sugar plum

Spirals are actually quite common. Electromagnetic waves are spirals, the Earth’s orbit spirals through the galaxy. A spiral is just non-static circular motion. Circular motion is one of the most basic and widespread phenomena in the universe, at every scale. It’s not really mysterious that they would show up a lot.

Or Gurren Lagann

It’s strange to see sentiment on malls shift from “soulless shrines to decadent consumerism” to “the last real third space”

The dual is kinda the exact opposite, by definition. From an orthogonal perspective, cube is the wrongest possible word.

Squeeze the edges of the box so the tape releases in the middle, then peel it away. Better for recycling too.

Psychic damage, I’ll take it