stoicmaverick

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[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Do it again, but include sneezing this time.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Inconclusive: the data is also a perfect fit for domestic American light beer.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Unless you're drinking port, in which case you legally have to yell "TO INDUSTRY!"

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ya, that...... that's my point...

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Personally, I've always been partial to the term "swirl" over "flick". Flick just sounds painful.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Temu drugs would ship in a Ziploc sandwich bag with the name of the drug misspelled in black sharpie on a piece of tan masking tape stuck to it.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That could be argued, but where does it stop? New stir bars? New thermometer probe every time?

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have we communally decided where the proper line should be drawn between lifestyle acceptance, and calling out stereotypes in media? I get what you're insinuating, but some women do actually seem to enjoy wearing earrings. You could just as notably call out the fact that she has long hair.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I themed the wet bar in my basement as a laboratory. There's a drying rack on the wall that I use to store 15 mL beakers that I use a shot glasses. It's fun. I've also found that a hot plate stirer with a thermometer probe and a vacuum filtration setup makes the best clarified butter easy as a snap!

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The Army can't press assault charges on her behalf. She's elected not to, which in this unique situation, is probably reasonable if she wants to continue having a normal life after this. Being an institution, and not an individual, the only real recourse the Army have would be to pursue a federal charges relating to misuse of the land and photography and such, but not doing so is the whole point of my initial post. In addition, even if they did, it would be a challenging case to prove that he was using it for campaign purposes given that he did not give a campaign speech or anything quite so flagrant. I'm not saying that anybody except for that poor staffer is completely in the right here, but it is probably the best case scenario: Trump and his team did something aggressively anti-patriotic, it was widely reported, and he has no way to possibly play the victim here.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sometimes people pay for murder.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Navy vet here. If I can offer an alternative interpretation: I can assure you that the Army is not actually afraid of retaliation (source: they have cluster bombs), I think it is a strategic move on their part to keep him from playing the victim. Trump is putting a lot of work every single day into ensuring that he loses this election. This is widely regarded as "tight", and "super cool", but he is also really good at playing the victim. Even if the Army press charges, and even if they got a conviction before the election somehow, it wouldn't really change anything. Public perception is doing all the work that needs to be done about this, but if he successfully phrases this as a political attack so close to the election, it could throw a wrench in the roller coaster which is currently about to start going downhill really fast for him. I agree with you that this is not the correct outcome for such behavior, but I think it's the best course of action currently available to ensure that he loses fair and square, and has no legitimate recourse after the votes are counted. He's definitely going to dispute the results, but we need to make sure that he has no shadow of an actual, real, foothold to build a case of unfairness around.

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