[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lasik didn't get FDA approval until 1996.

Before that, it was radial keratotomy.

I got mine in 1986 and it was effective until 2015 when I started to need bifocals.

I consider it a success.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Federal and State are both pardonable, it is just different entities.

Federal means no parole.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Only if you have broadband in the grave with you.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, got rid of all my CDs a few years ago and now I'm buying them back a bit at the time because of all the stuff that is going out of print and you can no longer stream.

Should have just stored everything.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

The US has already dropped two nukes on South Carolina.

What more do you want?

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

X, the cowpunk band from Cali, would like a word with you. They were formed in 1980 and still perform.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That isn't actually Popper. That is Marcuse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse

That crappy cartoon gets shared a lot but it does not actually represent Popper's views.

It is, however, A very accurate description of Marcuse's views. It even looks like him!

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

No, the case was about protesting war.

So, whenever you use this trope, you continue to support the idea that protesting war is criminal and protesters should be imprisoned.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Feinstein was on the following committees. You don't think she pushed California's interests in every one.

  • Committee on Appropriation

  • Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

  • Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

  • Subcommittee on Defense

  • Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development (Chairman)

  • Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

  • Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

  • Committee on Rules and Administration

  • Committee on the Judiciary

  • Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism

  • Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights

  • Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law

  • Subcommittee on the Constitution (Chairman)

  • Select Committee on Intelligence

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That would be from a different state and then that state would lose the power of having a senior committee member.

There is a reason Senator Robert Byrd was the longest-serving U.S. Senator. Serving three different tenures as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations enabled Byrd to steer a great deal of federal money toward projects in West Virginia.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The only reason there is power in her seat is the Seniority System. Whoever takes her place will have no power relative power, and will have to work their way up the ranks.

People talk about term limits, the easiest and most effective change would be to eliminate the Senate Comittee Seniority system.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

2008 for me.

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