Kosh's Shadow 6/28/2022 4:12:41 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 6/28/2022 6:52:17 PM

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So let's have some jukeboxes about physics.

Jukebox about relativistic time dilation

Kosh's Shadow 6/28/2022 6:53:49 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 6/28/2022 6:59:58 PM

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And on another note, how long have they been telling us we have five years?

Occasional Reader 6/28/2022 7:03:30 PM

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In #2 Kosh's Shadow said: Jukebox about relativistic time dilation

When time becomes fully dilated, does that mean it's about to give birth to more time? 

Kosh's Shadow 6/28/2022 7:17:24 PM

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In #5 Occasional Reader said: When time becomes fully dilated, does that mean it's about to give birth to more time? 

As long as it doesn't get aborted first

"Destroy another fetus now/Don't like children anyhow/I have seen the future, baby, it is murder

jukebox

Occasional Reader 6/28/2022 7:19:06 PM

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So I subjected myself to a little NPR today while driving.  They had a panel discussion about the provisions of the latest Gun! Safety!!! Bill, that purportedly close the "boyfriend loophole".  See, apparently, previously under Federal law (or so they said), a spouse convicted of domestic abuse could be stripped of the ability to buy a gun, for a certain number of years; but a boyfriend/domestic partner, not married, could not be.  (Never mind that people convicted of felonies, generally, face restricted 2A rights.)    

The panel - who were, of course, all anti-gun "Progressives" (because we can't have diversity of opinion, can we... "this is NPR")  started out by agreeing (natch) that this was just "common sense", and who could be against it?  Well, apart from those big bullies of the NRA and GOP (same thing amirite?!), who, for years, have claimed that a measure like this would just be a first step to "take our guns away".  Which is ridiculous and silly!

And then, in the ensuing minutes, right there, live, on radio, the slippery slope (that they were so pooh-poohing) began to magically unfold before the listeners' very ears.  Because the panelists started griping that this provision doesn't go far enough.   Why does it have to be a "boyfriend", from an long-lasting relationship?  So many "relationships" now are very short... just a week... even just a day!  And yet women are still victimized by oppressive men, even then!  And why does it have to be a current or recent relationship?!  Women are victimized by evil, evil men from relationships that are years past.  And why does the offense have to have been one of physical violence?!  Demeaning words, and the like, can be just as harmful - nay, more harmful!  And why should the subsequent stripping of 2A rights be time-limited?!  Shouldn't the bar be for, like, the rest of the creep's life?!

And so, in the space of just a couple of minutes, the panel went from "it's common sense that a man who beats up his girlfriend should be barred from buying a gun for five years" to "a man who had one date with a woman, years ago, during which he (allegedly, according to her) said mean things to her, should lose a constitutional right for the rest of his life." 

And this is why we cannot give them even one... frickking... inch.