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by joypog
Sun Aug 21, 2022 12:57 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The right is eating itself
Replies: 2
Views: 807

Re: The right is eating itself

From my perspective it seems like the right side of the aisle is having a bigger identity crises of late than the left https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attacks-broken-down-hack-mcconnell-crazy-wife-senate-races-2022-8 The Republicans have two things in their favor. As the party out of power it...
by joypog
Sun Aug 21, 2022 9:12 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.
Replies: 136
Views: 14093

Re: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.

Take for example David French's newsletter post from today, well worth a read. He points out that Christians on both sides of the aisle ought to maintain a higher standard of conduct, but doesn't concede any political policy positions (except to having become more open to contrary views on the legac...
by joypog
Sun Aug 21, 2022 2:35 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: YouTube Junkie
Replies: 1231
Views: 590724

Re: YouTube Junkie

Just watched Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (the original anime version) on Tubi. It's really good, well worth the hour and a half. For context, the setting is in an alternate history post-WW2 Japan - where they sided with the USA but lost to the Germans. There's a whole big world around this film - whic...
by joypog
Sat Aug 20, 2022 8:03 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.
Replies: 136
Views: 14093

Re: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.

Whomever conservatives run is going to be called worse than Trump and worse than Hitler. Even if the liberal MSM is a bunch of bungling idiots who can't differentiate between autocrats, it doesn't give conservatives permission to run Trumps and Hitlers, at least if they'd like to avoid Chinese styl...
by joypog
Sat Aug 20, 2022 7:07 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.
Replies: 136
Views: 14093

Re: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.

Or, Trump simply gave voice to a large group of conservative people who didn’t quite like the Bushes, Cheneys, and other neocons. If the term neocon is a perjorative, whose fault is that? It’s their own term. Many of them switched to the dems with little hesitation. The conservatives who’ve seeming...
by joypog
Sat Aug 20, 2022 4:50 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.
Replies: 136
Views: 14093

Re: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.

10 years ago I would've been considered a very conservative person. Today, my own family tells me I'm a "socialist" because they've been conditioned to say that anyone who doesn't agree 100% with the Donald is a socialist. But, the sad fact is, I haven't changed, not one iota. They have. My politic...
by joypog
Sat Aug 20, 2022 4:09 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.
Replies: 136
Views: 14093

Re: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.

Some would say they are GOPe, professional conservatives, Conservative, Inc., RINOs, grifters, neocons, and a variety of other things. That is, not true conservatives. So what would define "true conservatives"? Koolaid drinkers Helpful comment. Thank you. Remind me again why so many of the formerly...
by joypog
Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:53 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

joypog wrote:
Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:57 am
Thanks! Both suggestions (to drag the folder into save-as, and to use the search bar) worked perfectly! Cheers!
Makes me wonder why I never used the search bar....I guess I'm due for a visit to the people's anti-directory-tree reeducation camp.
by joypog
Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:44 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.
Replies: 136
Views: 14093

Re: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.

flyingpylon wrote:
Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:26 pm
Some would say they are GOPe, professional conservatives, Conservative, Inc., RINOs, grifters, neocons, and a variety of other things.

That is, not true conservatives.
So what would define "true conservatives"?
by joypog
Sat Aug 20, 2022 11:45 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.
Replies: 136
Views: 14093

Anybody got Beef with the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg, David French etc.

As I've mentioned a few times, I still lean active government liberal, but my main news and opinion source has become the Dispatch, primarily Jonah Goldberg and David French. Mind you, I'm a cheapskate so I don't pay for their premium content, but I'm always interested in Jonah's Remnant podcast epi...
by joypog
Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:57 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

Thanks! Both suggestions (to drag the folder into save-as, and to use the search bar) worked perfectly! Cheers!
by joypog
Fri Aug 19, 2022 2:02 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

As an operations research and financial engineering major, Drossman knows how to program — he’s been trained to navigate directories and folders throughout his undergraduate years, and he understands their importance in his field. But it’s still not entirely natural, and he sometimes slips. About h...
by joypog
Fri Aug 19, 2022 1:58 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

vnatale wrote:
Fri Aug 19, 2022 1:44 pm
joypog wrote:
Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:35 am
I envision vnatale rocking his newton on lounge chair in the shade of his new solar panels.
Is it because I'm a non-Apple computer person that the "newton" reference completely goes by me?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton O0
by joypog
Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:35 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

I envision vnatale rocking his newton on lounge chair in the shade of his new solar panels.
by joypog
Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:17 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

It's more about a file that I want to "save as" to another folder. Now I have to click around to get to the correct folder on the hard drive, as opposed to cutting and pasting the address in the address bar. But you don’t have to click around. You can use spotlight to open the folder. Or, you could...
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:21 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

I don't know if there is a way around it, but I hate having to click through all the file folders to get somewhere. I really miss the windows address bar like this where I can cut and paste locations. But maybe there is a hack I'm aware of. •It’s ridiculously easy to find files and folders. I usual...
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:02 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

wait, does that mean that mac users wear masks?

calling @boglerdude.... :P
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:20 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump reelection bid
Replies: 188
Views: 30625

Re: Trump reelection bid

I haven’t read or listened to all his content, but a decent chunk. I really like his arguments about free will and find them convincing. The danger of being a public intellectual is getting pulled to opine on everything. If he stayed in his neurologist lane, maybe settled into his interviewer gig i...
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 12:40 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump reelection bid
Replies: 188
Views: 30625

Re: Trump reelection bid

(Not sure if that makes me a “follower” or not). I wouldn't consider a basic free podcast RSS subscription a "follow" in the sense I was talking about. I'm more surprised that there are enough people who pay money to listen to the second half of his podcast interviews and/or with his mediation app....
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 12:24 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump reelection bid
Replies: 188
Views: 30625

Re: Trump reelection bid

Yeah man. I don't know what you do with yours, but I let my PP swing out loud and proud.
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:13 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump reelection bid
Replies: 188
Views: 30625

Re: Trump reelection bid

But we did it with cute pink pussy hats.
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 9:32 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Any Mac Users here?
Replies: 66
Views: 5034

Re: Any Mac Users here?

I don't know if there is a way around it, but I hate having to click through all the file folders to get somewhere. I really miss the windows address bar like this where I can cut and paste locations. But maybe there is a hack I'm aware of. But aside from that, my old Mac air lasted 9 years until my...
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:06 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump reelection bid
Replies: 188
Views: 30625

Re: Trump reelection bid

Harris is a strange dude. His dripping smug condescension is fun when you agree with him, absolutely grating when you don't. I don't get how the heck he has such a large following. He reminds me of Bill Romanowski, a total dirty player asshole, but nice to have on your own team Hated him when he was...
by joypog
Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:47 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Figuring Out Religion
Replies: 4052
Views: 1387179

Re: Figuring Out Religion

When the South Loosens its Bible Belt Interesting Russell Moore opinion piece about the secularization of Southern Christianity. I generally agree with the proposition that a churchless Christianity is much more dangerous to the republic - and to christianity - than a churched version. I also agree...
by joypog
Wed Aug 17, 2022 8:45 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Synthesis of the PP and GB portfolios
Replies: 21
Views: 3350

Re: Synthesis of the PP and GB portfolios

I remember hearing a narrative that we are actually in a secular deflationary environment - that's why all the government money printing was only getting us 2% inflation (until last year). But fund managers are always good at talking a good story....hence the appeal of a risk parity portfolio which...