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isn't that like 98% of tumblr?

I got to hang out with my girlfriend tonight

(for those following I stopped dating the guy I was with over the summer, I met this girl over the summer and we started dating last week)

in APUSH I'm sitting next to an honest-to-god alt right edgelord

he literally told me today, with a straight face, that he, and I quote, "can't explain the fact that all the most powerful peoples in the world are kikes."

Policies will be much more socially left leaning than it is now (marriage equality, net neutrality {but through a different form of regulation than Title I or II}, etc.), and economically they'll be more center right than extreme right/corporate right (light touches in government regulation to better the free market from monopolies and to keep utilities available, but still keep a bigger "hands off" ideology than democrats).

So like.. classical liberals, I guess? I hate that term tbh but libertarian works just as well.

It's a moot point though bc this won't be fixed until the root of the evil ($$) is fixed by overturning Citizens United. If there was any reason to vote for Clinton, it would have been for a better Supreme Court (though Merrick Garland was in favor of Citizens United IIRC)

quote of earlier article

Except a) that still proves that point and b) that point applies in the US too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime#In_the_United_States

From Wikipedia's "Sex Differences in Crime" article

In the United States, men are much more likely to be incarcerated than women. More than 9 times as many men (5,037,000) as women (581,000) had ever at one time been incarcerated in a State or Federal prison at year end 2001.[40]
In 2014, more than 73% of those arrested in the US were males.[41] Men accounted for 80.4 percent of persons arrested for violent crime and 62.9 percent of those arrested for property crime.[41] In 2011, the United States Department of Justice compiled homicide statistics in the United States between 1980 and 2008.[42] That study showed the following:
Males were convicted of the vast majority of homicides in the United States, representing 90.5% of the total number of offenders.[42]
Young adult black males had the highest homicide conviction rate compared to offenders in other racial and sex categories.[42]
White females of all ages had the lowest conviction rates of any racial or age groups.[42]
Of children under age 5 killed by a parent, the rate for biological father conviction was slightly higher than for biological mothers.[42]
However, of children under 5 killed by someone other than their parent, 80% of the people that were convicted were males.[42]
Victimization rates for both males and females have been relatively stable since 2000.[42]
Males were more likely to be murder victims (76.8%).[42]
Females were most likely to be victims of domestic homicides (63.7%) and sex-related homicides (81.7%)[42]
Males were most likely to be victims of drug-related (90.5%) and gang-related homicides (94.6%).[42]
2011 arrest data from the FBI:[43]
Males constituted 98.9% of those arrested for forcible rape[43]
Males constituted 87.9% of those arrested for robbery[43]
Males constituted 85.0% of those arrested for burglary[43]
Males constituted 83.0% of those arrested for arson.[43]
Males constituted 81.7% of those arrested for vandalism.[43]
Males constituted 81.5% of those arrested for motor-vehicle theft.[43]
Males constituted 79.7% of those arrested for offenses against family and children.[43]
Males constituted 77.8% of those arrested for aggravated assault[43]
Males constituted 58.7% of those arrested for fraud.[43]
Males constituted 57.3% of those arrested for larceny-theft.[43]
Males constituted 51.3% of those arrested for embezzlement.[43]
From 2003 to 2012, there was a decrease in the rate of crime overall, but an increase in crimes committed by women.[44] There was an increase in arrest rate for women of 2.9% but a decrease in arrest rate for men of 12.7%.[44] This demonstrates an increase in arrests for women which only slightly offsets the decrease in arrest for men resulting in a decrease overall in arrest rate in the United States. Notably, arrests rates for women had a sizable increase in the following crimes: robbery (+20.2%), larceny-theft (+29.6%), and arson – property crime (+24.7%).[44] The trend results from 2003-2012 showed the vast majority of crimes were still committed by men with around 88% of homicides and 75% of all legal felonies.[44] According to government statistics from the US Department of Justice, male perpetrators constituted 96% of federal prosecution on domestic violence.[45] Another report by the US department of Justice on non-fatal domestic violence from 2003-2012 found that 76 percent of domestic violence was committed against women and 24 percent were committed against men.[46]

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@swimswamit maybe if he can't even get his own party to pass his legislation it's shitty legislation?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@blue yes but he's also done some other stuff too, like he passed an EO to get rid of the rule of ISPs being required to have your consent before selling your browsing history to other companies

Ok so I'm late to this but I figure I'll mention it anyways. You hear about women committing crimes less often because the media doesn't like to make a big deal out of it. As for what Zunawe said, yes men are more likely to be convicted of a crime. In fact even among men and women who commit the same crime there is a 63% sentencing disparity between the two.

No, you hear about women committing crimes less because the vast majority of crimes are committed by men

Obama actually signed very few executive orders in comparison to other presidents. Hell, the republican saint Ronald Reagan (peace-be-upon-him and may he live forever) himself signed more executive orders than Obama did.

Obama did break the record with pardons/commutations though, mostly to non violent drug offenders (a LONG overdue measure). He even was pretty moderate on that; he took the time to individually read every case rather than a blanket release (which is good obviously) but he only worked with federal inmates. While obviously he can't release state inmates, he could've put some pressure on individual states where it was necessary to get out some state inmates (the kind of thing FDR and Lyndon Johnson would do).

previous question: no, but I plan to soon have a Herbie Hancock poster up b/c he's an all around badass

Space: it's much easier to send robots places than humans, so unless this planet becomes COMPLETELY uninhabitable (ie climate change or nuclear war) we probably will stay here at least another couple hundred years

That determination is a great feeling. Keep it up. Even after the determination is gone xD

Let's hope it lasts long enough to not run out of steam lol

send me those solo transcriptions lol

I mean sure but they're handwritten and won't help you nearly as much as doing them yourself
But if you want them, I'll send .pdf scans to you as I have them

Give Kapustin and Schulhoff a look while you're at it Bit of a different style but definitely interesting from the jazz performance perspective

Listened to a lot of Kapustin, will check out Schulhoff!

Noice!

Not really an event, but I really feel like I'm making progress in my playing. I did a lot of classical repertoire (got up to about Liszt's Un Sospiro before I converted to jazz), but my jazz still needs a lot of work.

That being said, I have a method I'm going to use. For each artist I want to emulate, I transcribe ten of their solos, their comping, and learn all of this by memory (in no more than 6 months for each; while it may take longer for it to digest, I'm putting that time limit on each to make sure I don't fall behind).

So far, I know I want to study Herbie Hancock, Kenny Kirkland, Keith Jarrett, a collection of bebop pianists (who I'll likely do as a whole slew, namely Barry Harris, Hank Jones and Tommy Flanagan), Chick Corea, Robert Glasper, and Cory Henry (and throw some more mainstream fusion players in there).

Get ready, life, I'm about to kick yo ass!!

A dead meme.

That's not a dead meme, that's ________________!

Whether or not they're trustworthy, making them register as a foreign entity is still a blow to the first amendment. To be clear, they made RT *America* to register as a "foreign agent".

This is blatant government crackdown on news agencies.

Whether or not they're accurate is irrelevant; Breitbart posts shit about Pizzagate and similar non-existent scandals on the daily, but they have the right to exist.

By the way, for those who cry "state run media"; what is CNN, then? Their owner contributes money to politicians on the regular. I don't remember a single "outstanding media outlet" that was against the Iraq War..

tbh the moustache gives that vibe ^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-v1TTUyhM