State of the Discussion

The posts in play...

We are all Usain Bolt now
(13)
+
Time for a makeover: a webpage design thread
(8)
+
An experimental first post
(11)
+
To H-1B or not to H-1B (or leopards eating multiple faces)
(1)
+
Precursors
(44)
+
Guestpost from Wonkie
(17)
+
Notes about commenting
(15)
+
 

The comments...

novakant
+ I go running some 2 times a week and have been doing this for decades. No major problems so far, but I seem to be [. . .]
Michael Cain
+ I won't be of any help here. I have a piece of JavaScript that runs on every page that I download. It forces [. . .]
+ I was just thinking of the Constitution, I'm sure if Trump falls, there will be other things, sekaijin's list is good. Tariffs are probably difficult [. . .]
sekaijin
+ Wading in here. LJ's comment on amendments prompted me to weigh in on something that I've been thinking of for some time now. Here it [. . .]
wj
+ From the Ministry of Truth link: "the Secretary of Labor will personally certify the initiation of investigations for the first time in the department’s history." [. . .]
CaseyL
+ lj - Mostly muscle stiffness in my legs and back, because I am deliberately doing difficult-for-me hikes. Predictable, explicable, and - so far, knock [. . .]
+ I'm replying to this comment in the admin interface to see how this works. The only aches and pains I get are normal ones, gone after [. . .]
`wonkie

Sorry about the apostrophe.

CaseyL
+ I have never been consistently active and fit long enough to establish any pattern. I have years of being very fit followed by years [. . .]
joel hanes

New place looks nice.
Whatever blessing lies in my power to confer, on all of you, and on all of us.

+ That's wonkie, I've been going into the backend and changing it and was going to contact her about fixing it, but that was sort of [. . .]
GftNC

Maybe it's just me, but it's quite hard to interact with someone whose handle is '

GftNC
+ Since lj mentions it, and we are not far from the end of the month and I still have 8 free gift articles left, this [. . .]
Michael Cain
+ Lest anyone think I'm asserting that I'm immune to aging, I have a list of things to demonstrate that I'm not. It's just that [. . .]
Michael Cain
+ The Constitution already gives power over them exclusively to Congress. Who delegated some amount of that power to the President, in the event of an emergency. [. . .]
wonkie
+ I'm in pretty good shape for 71--meaning I didn't have weight gain with menopause; don't have cancer; I can see, hear and think; my hair [. . .]
wj
+ lj, I rather doubt that there would be an amendment about tariffs. The Constitution already gives power over them exclusively to Congress. The [. . .]
hairshirthedonist
+ Ta Nehisi writes the plain truth. Kirk was unabashedly a white Christian nationalist. For me, all his various bigotries flow from there. No one who isn’t [. . .]
+ GftNC was thinking of putting a gift link to the Klein piece. I haven't read it, usually, those articles are read by Klein as a [. . .]
novakant
+ I was very disappointed that Ezra Klein succumbed to both-sideism in that article, especially since he just had taken a firm stance on Gaza (together [. . .]
+ Michael, you've got me rethinking things. If I had to narrow it down to a single event, during COVID, when we were having some classes [. . .]
+ Thanks so much for posting that. I'm tempted to post Rick Blaine's line at the end of Casablanca, but I don't want to scare you [. . .]
+ Thanks for the observations and comments. After I posted this, LGM posted about another person I should have suggested as a precursor, Alexey Stakhanov. When [. . .]
nous
+ Interesting article. The narrative of how the Supreme Court came to be so weaponized is good, and the role that Originalism played in it is [. . .]
nous
+ I have had to admit that I will be the slowest person on the trail from now on, because the people I used to pass [. . .]
Michael Cain
+ For someone soon to turn 72, I seem to have remarkably few aches and pains. My sister is younger, and I have quit comparing [. . .]
GftNC
+ In the hope that I am done going into moderation, and further to wonkie's point about Goebbels, this is from the NYT in 1939, under [. . .]
wonkie
+ I don't think that the MAGA movement has an ideology or philosophy. I think they are they kind of people who are susceptible to manipulation [. . .]
GftNC

And, amazingly, that did not go into moderation! lj must have performed some magic...

GftNC
+ I normally disable what cookies I can when on any new site. I do not recall being asked about this when I first logged [. . .]
Hartmut
+ It would be that very sense of realism that would make him persona non grata in the current GOP. Imo that also killed the reelection of [. . .]
wj
+ real St.Ronnie (as vile as many of his policies were) would be hunted out of the party these days as a RINO Or, given half a [. . .]
CharlesWT

Does anyone who has problems have their browser set to block cookies?

+ OK, just got up and posted the pending comments, which were only GftNC and wonkie. I'll contact you both off list this weekend and try [. . .]
Hartmut
+ Well, they used to canonize Reagan, although the real St.Ronnie (as vile as many of his policies were) would be hunted out of the party [. . .]
Tony P.
+ Was Jesus, the Christ, a nationalist? The Roman governor of the Roman province of Judea allegedly crucified Jesus of Nazareth for calling himself (or [. . .]
hairshirthedonist
+ I think my approach is a less formalized version of what nous described. If we disconnect completely and irreparably, the alienation from each other [. . .]
GftNC

Correction: the time stamp was 8.05, which is indeed GMT, so the first comment had been in moderation for almost two hours.

GftNC
+ I thought I would see how long that last comment was in moderation, because I think last night the average for mine was about 40 [. . .]
nous
+ On the Horst Wessel side of it, though, much of the religious right is referring to Kirk as "a warrior for God" and "a soldier [. . .]
GftNC

Another test comment. Let's see

wonkie
+ That's certainly what the Republicans are doing: deifying Charlie because that's how they legitimize themselves and delegitimize everyone else. I've been thinking about Ezra Klein [. . .]
Priest

Test comment. Curious about the time stamp, is it GMT?

wonkie
+ To remarkable degree, Republican messaging uses the precepts set out by Goebbels. One is to give people the thrill of fear, basically something to [. . .]
Michael Cain

Final test, I'm now logged out but have had comments approved for this post.

Michael Cain

The last one did. Testing to see if this comment goes to moderation while I'm logged in.

Michael Cain

Testing to see if this comment goes to moderation or not.

Hartmut
+ Until now none but my first comment (as announced) went into moderation, and I just entered name and email address without opening any account. I did [. . .]