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This is going to happen on the day after Trump gets Mexico to pay for his border wall.

re: GMT

Posted by UFFan on 4/26/25 at 7:12 am
I always think this is referring to Greenwich Median Time when I first read this post.

Thoughts on Abraham Lincoln?

Posted by UFFan on 4/26/25 at 7:08 am
What do people on the OT think of the 16th US president?

re: Worst movie of all time?

Posted by UFFan on 4/25/25 at 6:56 pm
Everything Everywhere All At Once
I don’t think I ever once saw a person wearing a medical mask in public before 2020. And, no, some fictional scene from the Big Short (which is meant to emphasize what a counter-cultural oddball the guy is) doesn’t count.
I just saw a COVID mask wearer a few hours ago. It made me want to faint. I don’t remember the last time I saw a mask before that. It probably had been at least six months.
That seriously is what a Jewfish looks like? I’ve never seen a picture of a Jewfish before. I’d only heard of a Jewfish because there’s a Jewfish Creek between the Florida Keys and the Florida mainland.

That is the ugliest fish I have ever seen. I’m probably going to have nightmares about that fish tonight. I’d find that fish name to be really anti-Semitic if I were a Jew. It’s like a fish that 4chan /pol/ would name after the Jews.
You’re implying that evolution is some intentional thing that organisms deliberately try to do. Yes, any animal that evolves from being a sea animal to a land animal would almost certainly go through an in between stage where they’re an amphibian. But they didn’t become an amphibian with the intent of eventually becoming a land animal. And some animals just permanently end up as amphibians and never become land animals.
Frankly, most of the women softball players probably really are men anyway.
Implying that these liberal Cardinals are any more likely to be gay than more conservative clergymen.

Come on. Priesthood is ideal for figs. You get to live with other men, and you get an excuse for why you never date women.

re: Musk right on point as usual...

Posted by UFFan on 4/24/25 at 9:45 am
The moon is 238,000 miles from Earth. Mars is 140 million miles from earth. This is a pretty stupid comment, TBH. It's also not clear that humans could survive Mars' atmosphere even with a spacesuit.
I think we should use the terms “sex” and “sex roles” rather than using some sex/gender dichotomy that transgender people always take advantage of.

That sex/gender dichotomy originates from feminist writings about 50 years ago and wasn’t really intended to argue that women can have a penis. And I don’t totally disagree with what they were trying to argue. For example, I don’t think there’s much inherent biological reason why pink has to be a girls color and why blue has to be a boy’s color. But the feminists ended up wording that whole argument horribly, and it ended up becoming the philosophical basis for transgenderism. It doesn’t help that some people don’t want to use the word “sex” except to apply to the act, so they end up viewing gender as the real thing.
I am skeptical of the idea that the ancient Romans or Vikings or Native Americans really had much of a concept of gender identity or even sexual orientation. And these are the people who claim to care so much about cultural appropriation.
Trannies seem to be pretty rare, especially relative to how much Democrats obsess on it.

I’ve never actually met a transgender person, although part of it is because I’ve always actively avoided the person on the occasions where I’ve seen somebody in public who I think might be transgender.

re: Political correct commercials

Posted by UFFan on 4/22/25 at 6:57 pm
The main thing I’ve noticed is how white man-black woman couples are much more common in commercials than in real life. White woman-black man couples are actually something like 3 times more common than the converse, but that pairing is still somewhat controversial, while white man-black woman relationships were kind of accepted even in the days of Thomas Jefferson.
He needs to cut down on the frivolous lawsuits.

I do suspect that half of the problem with these frivolous lawsuits is really just that they provide an excuse for the insurance companies to dramatically jack up their rates. But cut down on the frivolous lawsuits so that insurance companies don't have that excuse anymore.

re: Ban the Box

Posted by UFFan on 4/22/25 at 1:45 pm
If some private business employer is dumb enough to hire felons, then they should have the right to do so.

But hiring felons should not be mandated by the state.

re: Ban the Box

Posted by UFFan on 4/22/25 at 1:39 pm
It prevents jobs from doing a background check until they give a conditional offer of employment.

And if they rescind the job offer, they have to give some letter to the state explaining why they're not hiring the felon.

Ban the Box

Posted by UFFan on 4/22/25 at 1:36 pm
I first heard about this about a week ago, and it makes me want to puke.

If you don't want to have a hard time getting a job because of a criminal conviction, then don't commit crimes.