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Thanks! Believe it or not, you can’t really see it with the naked eye. I took it with a time lapse on my phone.

Seen from Mt Rose over Reno….

Marching Band, although I didn’t actually “enroll” in the class portion.

I'll bet he's on here and stealing everyone's jokes, because this place has all the best, smartest comedians on the internet. I don't usually watch, but Jen Psaki was on and ... she's kinda hot.

Stephen Colbert stole your joke.

Nothing here. My coworkers who are also family can overwhelm me with their stupid drama.

Ok, all better. Ima give myself a stroke if I keep this up.

You're going to need to cite sources on these claims. None of that sounds like anything Israel themselves have actually claimed.

Hell, they bombed humanitarian convoys that were nowhere near the combat zone.

At least once, Israel ordered an evacuation and promptly bombed the people where they evacuated to.

Of course you wouldn't. As to the Fani Willis thing, that's equally horrifying and it's even worse that it has the added tinge of racism, as if black women can't have consensual sex without purchasing it. Since I'm already out of my fucking mind, I might as well make the comparison between a respectable and accomplished black woman and porn star because that's essentially what's happening. Watch out, I'm spinning out of control here.

Sorry. I'm a little unhinged right now.

As did I. That's not what I'm reading now in the testimony. That slime bag promised her dinner and then greets her with pajamas instead of food. Then he keeps talking over her even as he pretends to be interested in what she said. And he keeps after her until he ends up in his boxers and a t-shirt and she has sex with him to get out of the situation. That's not consensual, regardless of the legal classification of the act itself.

Once again, Georgia's case is one that Trump, even in power, can't simply make go away. The idea that it would have any bearing on his election chances was always tenuous at best, so the idea that it might be delayed beyond the election is somewhat tangential to greater issue of changing stupid people's minds.

Why? Because the IDF isn't first rounding up civilians and putting them in camps before mass executing them? Look, the problem with the Holocaust (and I mean that in our own understanding of humanity) is that we focus on the veneer of respectability the Nazis put on these murder factories. Hitler didn't create those camps specifically to torture Jews, he (and Himler) did it because that was the most expedient way to the ultimate goal of eliminating a "pest" out of sight from the rest of the world. To this day, there are families that don't know what happened to their loved ones even though it's understood they were murdered. This creates something of a buffer between the specific atrocities of the Nazis and the broad, pervasive antisemitism that pervaded all of Europe from the late Roman through nineteenth century Russia, and it's a specific way Europeans and Americans disassociate themselves from similar behavior. Comparing Gaza to the Holocaust isn't about comparing tactics or even intent, it's about comparing the dehumanization process that leads to these atrocities. It's really easy for a white person like you to see the Holocaust and compartmentalize it as a case study on how hate can lead to horror. Meanwhile, you're not acknowledging that little acts you see around you contributed to that hate and are doing so even today. If you did, then you would see the parallels - simple explanations like "Hamas has taken over the good Palestinians," or "There are going to be collateral deaths if we want to be safe," - in similar rationals that existed in Germany well before Hitler came to power. The process of dehumanization is paved with such acts, like treating people as pawns in a larger esoteric war on ideology. It also presages other acts of atrocity by terrorists, using that dehumanization as justification to dehumanize their victims.

Late to the party again, @Master-Debater131.

But she didn't have sex: she was essentially raped. The disgusting thing about her testimony is that everything the defense attorney has been attacking her on - that she accepted money to stay silent, that she used sex as a tool to make money, that she was more than willing to trade insults with him, etc. - skirts the fact that he clearly lied about his intent to have dinner with her and that he used the differential in power to force her to refuse sex on his terms and, ultimately, led to her having sex with him just to escape the situation. There are elements of crude grooming and bullying that can't be explained away by the defense. I know you know all of that; I just can't wrap my head around the fact that she's basically saying she was forced to have sex with a man and the defense is still allowed to attack her on the periphery of the event.

That's an interesting article because it adds a layer to Donald Trump's pathos. He no doubt believes that those around him will try to take advantage of him like he did his father when he was declining, and that may inform the rationale behind his relentless perchance for denying even the most obvious of things. He also no doubt knows that Alzheimer's will almost certainly afflict him, if it hasn't already, and his illogical attacks on his opponent can change the narrative on the disease.

She's already on thin ice for her mishandling of the evidentiary hearings and the jury instructions. This might be enough to for the SDoF to reassign her case, though it still won't be much help for timing in the unlikely even it happens.

I would imaging a lot of the students of defunct for-profit schools have lost their transcripts for good. Transferring records would be an arduous process even for the smallest of trade schools.

I've lived about 7 miles from the beach, and I've never had the urge to go either. Having beach weather is awesome. Actually being at the crowded beach, no so much.

Netanyahu seems bound and determined to thumb his nose at the US.

Sorry, the context there was that it wouldn’t be part of a government record because it’s a university service, as evidenced by the fact they charge for it. For a multitude of reasons, most universities would be loathe to share information with the government outside of what would be required for a loan. The only way it would be is if the university goes defunct and at least some of the records are transferred to the DoE for criminal or loan forgiveness purposes or if you are required to provide proof of education to a government agency. Chances are if you paid off your education and loans, the government won’t have your records,

Margarita I made in the ice cream machine. Oh and home made steak fajitas.

I don’t think that’s usually the case. I had to pay a relatively small fee to access my transcripts at a private university, but I would assume it’s the same for a public university. The only thing that may be publicly accessible is whether or not you’re a degree holder, and that would be presumably because a degree might be a requirement for employment or certification/licensing. It would also be through your university and not the government.