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I hear (and share) the frustration. But gotta call out the fact that it's a false equivalence. Also share your frustration with home gym equipment hoarding and price gouging. Thank god for my carbon road bike.

Gyms and schools may well turn out to be intractable puzzles until we cross the immunity threshold. The nature of the space, the activities that happen there, the length of time with which they happen, and (in the case of schools) the self-discipline of the people participating in those...

For the life of me I don't see how gyms will survive. Group classes, maybe, but on-demand weight training? I just don't see it. I really, really hope I'm wrong on that.

Yeah, ethical non-monogamy is a third rail in most circles, I've found that out the hard way as well. I'll say I've found it somewhat puzzling that tacit non-monogamy (aka, Spinning Plates) is embraced here, but ethical non-monogamy is not, despite being arguably very close on the spectrum.

Dunno how it will play to this crowd, but a really good Netflix series that covers this particular story arc is "Easy". The open-marriage storyline intersects a bunch of other ones, but it's the anchor of the series and, IMO, does a pretty good treatment of it. The biggest thing in the series...

Same for me, but fortunately only once.

Then we'll see what the boogaloos are really made of.

They control Fox News? Breibart? They own Ted Cruz? Mitch McConnell? Really? Uh... you just did.

Oh come now, don't ruin a good conspiracy theory by bringing Occam's Razor to the table!

Be careful, if that's how you actually feel, well... that's an awfully liberal mindset ya got going there. :eek:

Well, at the moment there seems to be some consensus, even here, that there are bad actors with their own agenda perpetrating the violence. Which implicitly acknowledges the notion that there are a core of peaceful protesters with something legitimate to say. But, what the actual f*ck is a...

Exactly. And to not come to this conclusion, to paraphrase a post directed at me, requires quite a bit of willful ignorance., A bunch of black dudes with rifles, face to face with a cop and screaming at him? Well, I suppose that's a hypothetical, as the black dude would be lying on the ground...

Well, for the oft-repeated comparison, a month ago there were statehouses stormed by heavily-armed angry white men. They got into the policemens' faces as well. And the police took the high ground by being non-reactive. Seems if they can do that, having a cell phone waved in your face is a...

Well, two weeks ago the media was wall-to-wall COVID coverage. Last week it has been wall-to-wall race-riot coverage. Yet the rolling average of COVID deaths worldwide was essentially unchanged between last week and the week before. Seems the virus doesn't really care about its level of media...

Sorry, the original post was ridiculous on the face of it, and instead of just rolling with my joking response he simply left his assertion as-is and tried to cite a reference which did not support it. So unless he clarified what he actually meant, other than the verbatim "less than 0% fatality...

Because disproportionate force by police is a culture, and even simple inaction by police against this culture makes them complicit. Just as inaction against racial injustice makes society complicit. It's also symbolic of the original act: the police in question were acting out against...

Nice link-bait/smokescreen. Not a single negative number on that page.

Agreed that the violence has to stop, but it's unclear at this point what will make that happen. And we can't directly compare this to race riots of the 60's, because with the internet information travels instantaneously and the ability for the destructive agents to organize and stay ahead of...

Read a good piece on the notion that when police brutality is being protested, police take it personally and essentially act as a counter-protest rather than being a force to protect life and property and attempt to de-escalate the situation. Rather they do more than their share to escalate...

That much is true, intellectuals are always in the cross-hairs when dictatorships take over. Though I doubt they had much influence in that particular outcome. But you do recognize the irony of bashing "intellectuals" over the internet, using sub-micron-process silicon do to so, right?