In 1997? From Arkansas? That seems… exceptionally unlikely. Or, at least far far less likely than that he was just cheating.

Combine that with the fact that someone commiting adultery should be disqualifying for them becoming president.

Look, I get that all the social norms have been completely ground to dust, but character does in fact matter. We should want a good person who refuses to cheat on their wife as a leader.

Reducing this to just a fun fling because you like the guy is the same thing the hypocrites who support Trump and all of his scandals do.

If he’s willing to betray his wife for a quicky from an intern, why would I trust him with anything else? For the person who’s leading the entire nation the bar should be higher.

Also not to mention that he was 49 and she was 22. If this was anyone less “likeable” than Bill we’d all be calling him an absolute creep. He was pushing 50, and she could barely drink. And he was her boss.

Just a little squat. More than tall enough for an rj45 to plug in though. I think they look a little tight because it doesn’t have the same amount of bezel as a lot of boxes will have around the ports.

Yeah, those are both definitely normal Ethernet jacks. Neither takes a phone cable. You should just need a normal Ethernet line.

Hey man, you should be happy and live your best life. Do things that make you happy with people you love.

Hahahaha, now if you do it, you’re just doing what I told you to do like a little lapdog. Stupid sheep.

Man, it looks like sheer laziness that they can fit “Kentucky” into its state, but “Alabama” gets a pointer line. You’re telling me that you can’t do the exact same thing you did with “Georgia” there?

Yeah, that’s what I told my doctor when he said I didn’t have unicorn pox. He was like, “that’s not a real thing, and if it was I’d have heard of it,” and I told him he was just an arrogant jerk. He doesn’t know all the diseases, just cause he’s a doctor.

Even in your made up scenario it doesn’t prove the negative. Maybe your mind reading didn’t work because Apple has a mind wiping device that made them forget. Maybe the crystal ball didn’t work because Apple made an even more powerful “crystal ball blocking” device. You can’t prove that’s not what’s really happening.

So no, you in fact can’t prove a negative.

Just because it’s generally possible for the bladder to rupture before the muscles give out, it’s certainly not impossible. A myriad of conditions or even just genetics can lead to a physically weaker bladder.

I think it’s a bit bold to say that absolutely 100%, no exceptions, that the muscles will always fail first. Even if that’s true 99.99% of the time, there’s just far to much variance in human bodies to rule it out, I would think.

I think the reason it feels like schadenfreude is the context of the community.

Like, the only version of why someone would post this here that makes sense to me is, “haha, yeah, go gang members, eff those cops.” The person with that mentality would view this as “upliftingnews,” which would fit in the schadenfreude bucket to me.

Is that what OP thought? I can’t possibly know. But I don’t know why else they would have posted it here if they didn’t.

Here’s the thing. Even if this isn’t bad (which I would argue having to resort to asking armed criminals to police your streets certainly isn’t good), that doesn’t make it “upliftingnews.”

It has the same vibe as a “Trump gets cancer” headline. Would a lot of people be super happy about that? Sure. But it’s not “upliftingnews.”

That was the implication I got from what she said, but I suppose it’s possible she was telling the “cholos” to “defend their block from the biggest rival street gang” in a peaceful way. (Her words, not mine.)

I mean, you’re right, I didn’t.

I did just read it, and you’re right, the article is pretty “that thing she did was bad.”

But then an article that’s saying “politician did a bad thing,” still doesn’t feel like “upliftingnews” to me.

This feels like this breaks the no schadenfreude rule…

I wouldn’t call it exactly “uplifting” that an elected official is asking gangs to attack cops.

I just wish we would consolidate on 5 letter words ending with EL and LE as to what the order should be.

Why is it “table” and “label”? They’re basically the same word minus the first letter, but the spellings are different. I hate it.

I mean, it kinda just looks like boiled chicken, so it’s probably fine? Probably not tasty, but not raw by a long shot.

I think it’s presumptuous that only a certain income level is going to have access to this. It very much depends on the scalability of the treatment. Nearly everyone in the entire nation got the COVID vaccine, and those that didn’t weren’t due to lack of financial means. Just because you assert this will be reserved for the ultra wealthy doesn’t make it so.

The rest of what you said is borderline unintelligible, but I’ll give it a shot.

Sure, it would probably be difficult to “un-black” a baby or something, as there are a ton of genetic markers that inform what we think of as “blackness.” But just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

And you say that Eugenics “is a vocal minority,” which I presume to mean that most people are anti-eugenics. But, as you say, we live in a capitalist hellscape. It would be entirely possible for a billionaire to run a “un-black your baby for a chance to win a million dollars” campaign (a’la the Elon Musk voting drive), and have that take off in a big way.

And all that assumes that people wouldn’t be driven to it by simple desire for conformity. It’s easy to justify a lot of things under the “my child would have a much better life if they just weren’t… fill in the blank.” In the modern climate as an example, there would probably be a lot of Hispanic people saying things like, “my child probably wouldn’t get abducted by ICE if they just were more white passing.” And that’s terrible, obviously, but I guarantee it would happen. Not every mother. Not even a majority. But a good number would.

But what does bodily autonomy mean when this will almost certainly be primarily used in utero? Should I be able to use CRISPR to keep my baby from being born with Downs?

Should I be able to use it to make my baby less prone to other diseases? Make them taller?
Change their race? Add interesting modifications that I think would be cool, like an extra set of arms or gills or something?

What does bodily autonomy mean for a fetus?

I mean, sure, if you ignore all of history. What if I was using CRISPR to prevent a child from being born black or brown?

Hell, what if I used it to keep a kid from being born deaf? The deaf community is one that’s very outspoken about exactly that kind of treatment as a form of eugenics, as it is a potential existential threat to their culture.

I mean, this will be used in utero waaaaay before it’s applied to a full adult human. Far easier to change the cells when there are only a few, and they haven’t already started to effect development.

But it’s hard to get informed consent in utero.