See? Then it just becomes an affordable (if cramped) house.

I’ve also known people who had their own massive custom built catamaran that they lived on. Traveled around the world on that thing, accepting paying passengers to travel with them part of the way.

I’ve read that Mohammed even wanted to merge his movement with Judaism, but Jewish leaders rejected him, and apparently that set some bad blood.

Are you sure about that 3000? I thought at the time it was mostly the 6th year of the rule of some king, emperor or governor (Herod, Augustus or Quirinius, most likely), although the Bible doesn’t even provide those kind of dates.

As far as I’m aware, having a single universal reckoning is something that Christianity invented in the middle ages. But still based on the rule of Jesus as king, of course.

I’m a Christian in the Calvinist tradition, but I try to follow Jesus more than Paul. Paul was in my opinion very much a pragmatic who tried to spread Christianity in Greece, and was willing to compromise a bit with Greek sensibilities (which included slavery and misogyny). When in doubt, I look to Jesus instead.

Also, I think Calvin went a bit too far overboard on some things. The reformation was a good thing, but that doesn’t make him right about everything.

My car cost €8000, and that’s also about the budget I have for a boat.

Yeah, but people with more expensive cars than that are still likely millionaires. I’ve been thinking of buying a boat for years, but that boat would still be a lot smaller than these. (And I still haven’t because it’s not just the purchase, but also maintenance and mooring.)

Although friends of us do have a boat that might be that size. They also live on a houseboat. They don’t have a regular house, and if they have a car, I haven’t seen it.

So I guess middle class people can own a boat like that, but it takes sacrifices in other areas.

I don’t quite understand why Trump hates Comey so much. He probably wouldn’t have been elected without Comey’s help. Has he said ‘thank you’ even once?

Congressmembers are only a minuscule fraction of the population of DC. And the rest of the population never voted for any of them. So the vast, vast majority of people in DC are unrepresented.

Cool. A couple of decades ago I read about former astronaut/physics prof Wubbo Ockels working on something like that but with kites. I’ve never heard of any production version of that coming off the ground. I hope this does better.

To be perfectly honest with you, I’m not entirely certain on the difference between Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. I didn’t care much for either of them, but now, Jimmy Kimmel is okay to me. That was a beautiful monologue.

You’re making a lot of assumptions. All we know is that in the end he was released, so they didn’t actually have any reason to arrest him. Whatever the issue was with how he sat, there was no basis for arrest, and probably no basis to call the police at all.

Maybe he did put his dirty shoes on the seat, but the article doesn’t tell us. Nobody does. All we know is that they wanted to arrest him, but couldn’t. Whatever he did wasn’t serious enough for it and yet they tried and held up a train for it.

It is of course only his side of the story. More info would help. But without more info, there’s no reason not to believe that he was harassed mostly just for being black. It’s not like this is the first time that happened.

He did it while black. That’s clearly an arrestable offense.

you have no regard for the civility

I don’t know under what rock he’s lived for the past 10 years, but civility in politics has been quite thoroughly killed by Trump and his lackeys, which now seems to include Adams. He picked the side of no civility, so he’s reaping what ue sowed.

Adams accused left-leaning schools and institutions of radicalizing young people, claiming they are being taught to hate their city and country, which is a trend, he says, that must be addressed.

Again, Trump is doing that. He’s running on a platform of hating about half of all Americans, and especially coastal cities.

new threat category, “Nihilistic Violent Extremists” (NVEs), which was created earlier this year. The Bureau defines “Nihilistic Violent Extremism” as “criminal conduct… in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos.”

This does sound like a very appropriate category, but not for trans people.

Not just Trump; the Dutch parliament has just accepted a motion to also declare Antifa a terrorist organization.

This is a country that was occupied by Nazis 80 years ago. People who fought in the resistance have always been considered heroes. And now they’re declared criminals. These parties are openly siding with the Nazis.

Mind you, we also had the AFA, Anti-Fascist Action 40 years ago, when they attacked a racist fringe political party with smoke bombs that ended up burning down a hotel, so declaring them terrorist would have made some sort of sense at the time, but they haven’t been heard of for the past 39 years.

It’s pure political posturing to side with Trump or create an excuse to arrest protesters who disagree with them.

Nah, let them die, if they’re so eager to kill their shows.

That’s also all I can find. I don’t see why they’d fire him for that; MAGA people have said far worse things, both in response to this shooting and on a general basis. Like the Fox guy who wanted to kill homeless people (and apparently people have already acted on that).

I think the countries that refuse to compete in the genocide song festival should just get together and organise their own genocide-free song festival.

Disgusting that so many countries haven’t protested yet, and even more disgusted at Germany for insisting that Israel should be part of it, but good on the slowly increasing number of countries that are finally taking a stand.

Well, according to the horseshoe theory that (right of) centrists love so much, yes.

I’m totally fine with her tagging along with him. It’s better than what Schumer and Jeffries are doing: undermining their own party and siding with Trump against the people.