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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote:
    Listening to this NPR special coverage of the ACA argument, and I am smiling now. I was worried when I left the office, but this is making me happy.

    They do not like the government's chances right now.
    I just... I don't get how someone can be such a fucking misanthrope.

    Like, really, how can you hate people that much?

    I really don't have anything to say about this that I haven't already said. You're dedicated to hatred regardless of the positions I've taken, so I really don't know where to go from here.

    don't get happy too soon duder, Kennedy loves being unpredictable

  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood

    I don't care for most architecture I've realized. My real focus is how easy it is to live in a place. I look at those minimalist designs and wonder how long they stay that way when you live in them.

    Most of my ideas about places I'd like to live are focused on trying to engineer out the annoying parts. Like I want kitchen benches with a lip on them so spills can't get on the floor and which smoothly transition to the sink.

  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    I'm typing up a primer on serialism for a friend.

    God I'm such a nerd.

    follow my music twitter soundcloud tumblr
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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood

    and then crippling depression sets in when I realize I'll never have enough money to do even that and I just hope I can manage a decent apartment to grow old alone and die in

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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Roberts may jump on with the 5 majority to try to gain some control over the opinion

    I read the transcripts of the arguments, as usual Scalia was mostly concerned with interjecting jokes than getting answers, since he's already made up his mind

    also jesus the first day of argument about the anti injunction act was mind blowingly boring
    Has Thomas spoken yet?

    He rarely speaks or has questions about any case, let alone landmark ones. He is easily the "least scholarly" (this is code for "dumbest") justice the court has seen in almost 100 years.

    My hatred for him alone could fill a beautiful valley situated beneath a stylish multi-million dollar home.

    I wonder how much all the other justices hate him

    I think this requires a Kate Beaton cartoon

  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood

    Imagine how cheap something like that would be if you built it in the ghetto.

  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote:
    Listening to this NPR special coverage of the ACA argument, and I am smiling now. I was worried when I left the office, but this is making me happy.

    They do not like the government's chances right now.
    I just... I don't get how someone can be such a fucking misanthrope.

    Like, really, how can you hate people that much?
    I really don't have anything to say about this that I haven't already said. You're dedicated to hatred regardless of the positions I've taken, so I really don't know where to go from here.
    We're talking about policy that actually affects people's lives, here. Like, this is a law that is tremendously helpful to a whole shit-ton of people, from young adults to children to people with chronic, existing ailments... And you're hoping that it dies. A ritual sacrifice on an altar to some bigoted assholes who died two hundred years ago.

    It's really pretty appalling to see. Especially from someone who claims to be religious.

  • CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    dlinfiniti wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood

    but everyone will see you walking around naked with all those windows for walls and neighbors 50 feet away

    And the problem is?...

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood
    You would probably never get the city's approval to build it.

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood

    Part of the appeal of the OP house is just how open everything is. Unless you had a huge plot of land in a 'normal' area and lots of foliage to make it seem like you were a jungle warlord, I'm not sure it would have the same punch.

    But if you had that much money to do something like that, I'm sure you could come up with something you loved.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood

    I've seen some houses like that basically slotted into townhouse rows in rough neighborhoods. One was just a giant black square with no obvious opening, but it was amazingly light and airy and minimalist inside.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Roberts may jump on with the 5 majority to try to gain some control over the opinion

    I read the transcripts of the arguments, as usual Scalia was mostly concerned with interjecting jokes than getting answers, since he's already made up his mind

    also jesus the first day of argument about the anti injunction act was mind blowingly boring
    Has Thomas spoken yet?

    He rarely speaks or has questions about any case, let alone landmark ones. He is easily the "least scholarly" (this is code for "dumbest") justice the court has seen in almost 100 years.

    My hatred for him alone could fill a beautiful valley situated beneath a stylish multi-million dollar home.

    He has never spoken in oral arguments, and I think he's underrated because of that.

  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    Gim wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood

    Part of the appeal of the OP house is just how open everything is. Unless you had a huge plot of land in a 'normal' area and lots of foliage to make it seem like you were a jungle warlord, I'm not sure it would have the same punch.

    But if you had that much money to do something like that, I'm sure you could come up with something you loved.

    yeah, neighbors peering into your all glass bedroom would be pretty uncomfortable.

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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    spool32 wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Listening to this NPR special coverage of the ACA argument, and I am smiling now. I was worried when I left the office, but this is making me happy.

    They do not like the government's chances right now.

    Listening to Kennedy the one actual swing vote made me feel the other way. Roberts and Scalia were always going to vote against it so them being hard on it isn't surprising.

    Kennedy seemed to be coming around on the mandate at the end of arguments.

    I dunno. I really don't know. But I am heartened that Kennedy did not find his limiting principle.

    he didn't speak it out loud during arguments, no

    doesn't mean he won't find one

    The government didn't provide one for him either. The comment this NPR reporter attributed to Paul Clement, "whenever I argued Interstate commerce and I could provide a limiting principle, I won. When I could not, I lost" is telling. He knew what to go after to sway Kennedy. Maybe he was successful.

    yeah, and maybe not!

    So It Goes on
  • Form of Monkey!Form of Monkey! Registered User regular
    I've met and spoken to Breyer before, and according to him, fucking nobody cares for Justice Thomas.

    For reference, Breyer is the one Scalia makes bring them all coffee.

  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote:
    Listening to this NPR special coverage of the ACA argument, and I am smiling now. I was worried when I left the office, but this is making me happy.

    They do not like the government's chances right now.
    I just... I don't get how someone can be such a fucking misanthrope.

    Like, really, how can you hate people that much?
    I really don't have anything to say about this that I haven't already said. You're dedicated to hatred regardless of the positions I've taken, so I really don't know where to go from here.
    We're talking about policy that actually affects people's lives, here. Like, this is a law that is tremendously helpful to a whole shit-ton of people, from young adults to children to people with chronic, existing ailments... And you're hoping that it dies. A ritual sacrifice on an altar to some bigoted assholes who died two hundred years ago.

    It's really pretty appalling to see. Especially from someone who claims to be religious.

    Especially for a religion whose supposedly sacred documents (and whose early organization) was outright socialist. Not like Fox News "socialist" but full on "all property is held in common and you can be kicked out of the church for owning private property" kind of socialism.

    Book of Acts man. It would blow most American Christians minds if they actually read their own goddamn new testament.

    Attacked by tweeeeeeees!
  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Roberts may jump on with the 5 majority to try to gain some control over the opinion

    I read the transcripts of the arguments, as usual Scalia was mostly concerned with interjecting jokes than getting answers, since he's already made up his mind

    also jesus the first day of argument about the anti injunction act was mind blowingly boring
    Has Thomas spoken yet?

    He rarely speaks or has questions about any case, let alone landmark ones. He is easily the "least scholarly" (this is code for "dumbest") justice the court has seen in almost 100 years.

    My hatred for him alone could fill a beautiful valley situated beneath a stylish multi-million dollar home.

    He has never spoken in oral arguments, and I think he's underrated because of that.

    I would not choose "underrated" as a word to describe Clarence Thomas

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    FoM are you seriously saying that Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer told you that no one on the court likes Clarence Thomas?

  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    don't get happy too soon duder, Kennedy loves being unpredictable
    He seems to primarily base his opinion on whether his dealer had a sativa or an indica that morning.

  • CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    Ha! Some guys made a computer controlled, squirrel tracking water cannon.

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    Breyer's a cool guy

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    The Zimmerman case has taught me that people will believe it when a person's friends and family say the guy is totally not racist.

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    Variable wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    every time i see a gorgeous modern, minimalist home i wonder how much it would cost to build something like that in a 'normal' area without ten million dollar real estate. like, i'll never afford a beverly hills mansion but i think it'd be totally awesome to spend an extra couple hundred thousand to build a house like that in a 'mere mortal' neighborhood

    and then crippling depression sets in when I realize I'll never have enough money to do even that and I just hope I can manage a decent apartment to grow old alone and die in

    The secret is to have just the right amount of cats to eat your corpse once you pass on.

  • poshnialloposhniallo Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote:
    Listening to this NPR special coverage of the ACA argument, and I am smiling now. I was worried when I left the office, but this is making me happy.

    They do not like the government's chances right now.
    I just... I don't get how someone can be such a fucking misanthrope.

    Like, really, how can you hate people that much?
    I really don't have anything to say about this that I haven't already said. You're dedicated to hatred regardless of the positions I've taken, so I really don't know where to go from here.
    We're talking about policy that actually affects people's lives, here. Like, this is a law that is tremendously helpful to a whole shit-ton of people, from young adults to children to people with chronic, existing ailments... And you're hoping that it dies. A ritual sacrifice on an altar to some bigoted assholes who died two hundred years ago.

    It's really pretty appalling to see. Especially from someone who claims to be religious.

    Especially for a religion whose supposedly sacred documents (and whose early organization) was outright socialist. Not like Fox News "socialist" but full on "all property is held in common and you can be kicked out of the church for owning private property" kind of socialism.

    Book of Acts man. It would blow most American Christians minds if they actually read their own goddamn new testament.

    Yes, but what if the Bible and the Consitution contradict each other?

    Actually, sadly, I know the answer to that one for many US Christians...

    I figure I could take a bear.
  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    Breyer's a cool guy

    love his ice cream

  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
    i like the scifi names where they take two culturally mismatched names and stick them together

    like takeshi kovacs

    im all liek YE NOW DO IT WITH AN INDIAN ONE DO IT YOU DIRTY SLUT

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Roberts may jump on with the 5 majority to try to gain some control over the opinion

    I read the transcripts of the arguments, as usual Scalia was mostly concerned with interjecting jokes than getting answers, since he's already made up his mind

    also jesus the first day of argument about the anti injunction act was mind blowingly boring
    Has Thomas spoken yet?
    He rarely speaks or has questions about any case, let alone landmark ones. He is easily the "least scholarly" (this is code for "dumbest") justice the court has seen in almost 100 years.

    My hatred for him alone could fill a beautiful valley situated beneath a stylish multi-million dollar home.
    He has never spoken in oral arguments, and I think he's underrated because of that.
    Give some examples of his writings that you think are underrated.

    I can think of one case where his opinion mattered, and that's Virginia v. Black, probably not a case you agree with him on.

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    well i mostly mean the interior. like it'd be cool to have those glass walls and all but i recognize i can't live in an apple store. i just want the high, airy, modern interior. i think interior design's what i'm talking about mostly. but some of that sort of structural, even on the interior.

  • Form of Monkey!Form of Monkey! Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    FoM are you seriously saying that Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer told you that no one on the court likes Clarence Thomas?

    I am seriously saying this, yes.

    If it helps any, it was related to a question about ideological differences ever becoming personal.

    He said it jokingly, but do you ever know when somebody is joking but they're kind of not joking at the same time? Like the small kernel of truth behind every joke is actually a giant amorphous blob of 100 foot long alien corn and not a regular corn-sized kernel? That was my read on the situation 100%.

  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Organichu wrote: »
    well i mostly mean the interior. like it'd be cool to have those glass walls and all but i recognize i can't live in an apple store. i just want the high, airy, modern interior. i think interior design's what i'm talking about mostly. but some of that sort of structural, even on the interior.
    The pool alone probably violates like fifty different building ordinances in most cities.

    Thanatos on
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote:
    Listening to this NPR special coverage of the ACA argument, and I am smiling now. I was worried when I left the office, but this is making me happy.

    They do not like the government's chances right now.
    I just... I don't get how someone can be such a fucking misanthrope.

    Like, really, how can you hate people that much?
    I really don't have anything to say about this that I haven't already said. You're dedicated to hatred regardless of the positions I've taken, so I really don't know where to go from here.
    We're talking about policy that actually affects people's lives, here. Like, this is a law that is tremendously helpful to a whole shit-ton of people, from young adults to children to people with chronic, existing ailments... And you're hoping that it dies. A ritual sacrifice on an altar to some bigoted assholes who died two hundred years ago.

    It's really pretty appalling to see. Especially from someone who claims to be religious.

    I am opposing the individual mandate, yes. Frankly, I'm super tired of you harping on my faith, questioning my commitment to it or my ability to understand and adhere to it, and otherwise using it as a lever to try and prove hypocrisy when your understanding of it is, let's say, extremely minimal.

    @Honk, if you read the bolded you'll see why I reacted so strongly to your comment earlier. It is, sadly, a very common hobby horse leftwing extremists like to ride around on.

  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    well i mostly mean the interior. like it'd be cool to have those glass walls and all but i recognize i can't live in an apple store. i just want the high, airy, modern interior. i think interior design's what i'm talking about mostly. but some of that sort of structural, even on the interior.
    I grew up in ranch style one floors my whole life so I would love a high modern interior.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Speaking of conservatives. Next week I get an hour q and a with Condi Rice. Well my class of 13 people do. And pictures and basically a open forum in intimate setting. Its fucking awesome.

    I might not agree with her choices, but the women is brilliant. Also a an alum of my grad school.

    Mazzyx on
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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    FoM, I wish I'd been there to see it!

    That is some juicy Supreme Court dirt. ;)

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Host clubs are weird.

    So are hostess clubs.

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    Breyer's a cool guy

    love his ice cream

    I think he's the only one who gets copyright

    his dissents in Eldred v Ashcroft and that one that just came about about re-copyrighting the public domain were p good

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    So jealous Mazzy. I would love to meet her.

  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote:
    Listening to this NPR special coverage of the ACA argument, and I am smiling now. I was worried when I left the office, but this is making me happy.

    They do not like the government's chances right now.
    I just... I don't get how someone can be such a fucking misanthrope.

    Like, really, how can you hate people that much?
    I really don't have anything to say about this that I haven't already said. You're dedicated to hatred regardless of the positions I've taken, so I really don't know where to go from here.
    We're talking about policy that actually affects people's lives, here. Like, this is a law that is tremendously helpful to a whole shit-ton of people, from young adults to children to people with chronic, existing ailments... And you're hoping that it dies. A ritual sacrifice on an altar to some bigoted assholes who died two hundred years ago.

    It's really pretty appalling to see. Especially from someone who claims to be religious.

    He's just protecting them from the inevitable government celery squads or whatever the fuck. He's thinking beyond the crippling need.

    Take a moment to donate what you can to Critical Resistance and Black Lives Matter.
  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Roberts may jump on with the 5 majority to try to gain some control over the opinion

    I read the transcripts of the arguments, as usual Scalia was mostly concerned with interjecting jokes than getting answers, since he's already made up his mind

    also jesus the first day of argument about the anti injunction act was mind blowingly boring
    Has Thomas spoken yet?
    He rarely speaks or has questions about any case, let alone landmark ones. He is easily the "least scholarly" (this is code for "dumbest") justice the court has seen in almost 100 years.

    My hatred for him alone could fill a beautiful valley situated beneath a stylish multi-million dollar home.
    He has never spoken in oral arguments, and I think he's underrated because of that.
    Give some examples of his writings that you think are underrated.

    I can think of one case where his opinion mattered, and that's Virginia v. Black, probably not a case you agree with him on.
    @spool32 Still waiting.

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