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No governing can occur until the speaker is elected. No legislation brought to the floor nor voted upon. No ensuring funding or avoiding shutdowns. Also… No other newly elected representatives from across the entire country can be sworn in to begin their new role in congress until the new speaker is chosen. Given who’s voting against McCarthy, I suspect humiliating him is only a secondary motivation, the primary motivation being “we’re January 6 insurging election deniers and we still have other ways to prevent people from taking their seats… ways to mandate that we control all of the most powerful committees and grinding all gears to a halt.”

Can't put my finger on why, but I keep thinking of the old adage that we shouldn't sacrifice the good in pursuit of the perfect

I have no problem with female teachers being in female areas Also, rules about kids changing areas ought to be consistent regardless of gender, cis or otherwise.

Some of us just find it courteous to simply accept them as a female teacher and recognize that doing so inflicts no harm to others or to their kids… but us refusing to let go of the male label does, in fact, do measurable harm to that teacher, and also the broader lack of cultural acceptance provides a permission structure for the more unhinged among us to attack and carry out violence against them since they’ve been dehumanized so much that some see them as no different from rats and vermin. It’s just a female teacher. That is all. No need for any special tap dancing, torches, nor angry chants… which also happen in local school board meetings when they’re not trying to ban books or advocate against vaccination during global pandemics.

It is our description of the map, but it is not the territory. Now it’s your turn: What is reincarnation and what evidence do you have confirming it happens?

And by equality, too. The OP isn't defined well enough for me to offer a more thoughtful comment beyond, "Of course there are similarities. The Venn diagrams even for black and white, or negative and positive, or good and evil overlap somewhere... all contingent on the definitions we choose at the start"

Depends a bit on what metric one uses to define “work.” No plan is perfect, but the publicly stated objectives for prohibition aren’t usually realized, and further they nearly always result in unforeseen and unseemly effects, black markets, thuggery, etc. As we’ve not yet established what you’re trying to ask here, I’m unable to offer comment. And to you, too bud. Hope good health and good people are there whenever you wish them to be. ✌🏼

For your perusal and pontification. Various short essays on Adam Smith, Scottish enlightenment thinker and humanist. https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/just-sentiments And if this is a topic of interest to you, but podcasts are more accessible (or just supplemental) then this 3-part series from the fine team at Freakonomics was well done, too: In Search of the Real Adam Smith https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/in-search-of-the-real-adam-smith/

That’s exactly the point, and why they’re so often supported by more invisible hands

Who two?

I do get that sense coming from your posts towards me, but I promise not to hold it against you. We all have bad days sometimes. You misspelled “broken”

You’re forgetting economies of scale. It’s not the individual case of a sore loser who refuses to simply wear a nicotine patch or chew some gum during the weekend of their UK visit that matters here. I’m sure all 3 of them feel quite righteous and smug in their refusal to visit UK due to cigarette costs and policies, but they’re not even a nanoblip on the annual financial radar relative to the additive benefits to their economy from removing additional carcinogens from the air over the entire whole country and inhaled by all her subjects.

Which is likely a marginally tiny amount relative to the annual savings they’re now realizing on the NHS side of the ledger… the side where they’re spending millions upon millions on the treatment of conditions exacerbated by first and second hand smoking, and where these negative effects are also nearly always cumulative.

Looks like homework (as I already stated elsewhere when this exact same post was submitted there)

Incorporate walking into your day. It does amazing things for our minds. Also, the world is weird right now and humans are experiencing rather persistent traumas together. You’re not the only one seeking emotional comfort and escapism as a path to reaching it. In other words, be kind and patient with yourself. Kicking yourself when you’re down won’t help you to stand back up any faster.

Totally agree. What’s that have to do with religion? Other sources of social mores were clearly present and contributing to all that. Why lay the wreath of victory squarely at the feet of theistic religion? Again, we’re in violent agreement. I can’t stop people from believing in stupid fictions, but will defend like Voltaire their right to live life in such a foolish misplaced trust kinda way. Yeah. Thank goodness their prohibition nonsense got reversed, for example. Christmas with the extended family would be hard if being sober for amorphous religious reasons were mandated for all. Like in Qatar, for example (but even there the wealthy have ways of cheating).

And before religion, tribal cultures, mores, and triggers for ostracization from groups did the same thing. Religion borrowed from existing neural and social structures already long ago in place, one’s long before imposed, and ones which arguably apply also to non-human animals, ant colonies, bee hives, schools of fish, bacteria, and maybe even the rules of combination within chemistry itself. Basically: So what? Religion taking credit for something seen throughout the world and throughout the entire entire animal kingdom doesn’t mean said credit was earned nor was ever even warranted. The deference so many expect others offer to religion is IMO too often undue.

Have you considered shock collars?

Who defines right/ethical, and how is it measured? Is there a scoring system? No, because training ensures awareness, not compliance nor adherence.

Metal sucks in this weather. Tool use is painful Merry Christmas, StringJunky and all other readers

That’s bananas! I’ve had hair freeze a bit from being slightly damp but nothing like that

Lol. I feel ya. I really do.

Thankfully, mathematicians and physicists are well known for working with just the gist of things based upon intuition. * * The philosopher and pub located speculator were too far off to the left to get depicted on the spectrum

Maybe if you eat right and exercise

Lol. Frosty had no carrot! They rode that poor eunuch hard and put him away wet. We’ll be that cold tomorrow night. At least when I’m clearing snow before then tomorrow morning it’ll be relatively warmer at a “feels like” temp of only -30F… -8 actual. Depends rather a lot on whether or not I’ve had coffee, how much, and how long ago ☕️