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79 year old have an average remaining life expectancy of 8 years.

It is just wrong to say that this would have resulted in all of the cases against him being thrown out. Several of the cases were still ongoing at the time of the election, including the documents case.

SCOTUS through out some charges against Trump, but nowhere near all of them. Those that weren't thrown out may have had time to actually see a courtroom had Jack Smith's work began in January 2021 rather than November 2022.

I see this as a fun little easter egg.

I hate this take. Hate it. I would rather be able to fly somewhere than not be able to fly somewhere. Comfort has gone down because airlines have been forced to compete on price. I want them to be forced to compete on price. I want to be able to fly to Japan for $1000.

Who is this about?

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

I think they should also be allowed to invest in any index fund (not just retirement accounts, allow them to trade normally), but they have to publicly announce their trades like a week ahead of time.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

…local AfD seats are accounted for in their total, 5% smaller national share, while that 5% goes to that smaller party. Does it not pencil out to an equal share of the Bundestag regardless? (2/2)

Wait, I really don’t understand how this could be a problem. The size of the legislature scales to however many seats they need in order to make proportionality work. If 5% vote for AfD locally and an align party nationally, that means the legislature just has to be bigger so that the 5% of… (1/2)

What about Germany’s MMP system? Everyone still has a directly elected local representative while also having proportional representation.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

They only go back when a national anti-gerrymandering law is passed that stops red states from doing it as well. Until red states gerrymanders are eliminated, blue ones must stay as well.

AI and Crypto data centers need to be the first ones to lose power in a brown out.

The Rainbow Bridge is definitely more intimidating on the American side. Much more barbed wire and such. But I got through immigration in like a couple minutes. I mean, all I had on me was a small backpack.

I had to correct myself when I told the immigration agent in Boston that I had been in Canada since the day before, when I had actually entered Canada just that morning lmao.

This summer I went to the Falls on a super short trip. Flew into Toronto on the morning of July 4th, bus to Niagara Falls. On the 5th, I crossed the Rainbow Bridge into NY and then came back. That evening I flew back to Boston from Toronto.

I’m sorry I had to delete my original reply because I noticed it had a typo that I could not let stand.

You using the words “parasocial relationship” just conjured him streaming on Twitch and talking to Chat in my mind.

Can someone tell me what John Ganz has to do with the interaction between the two people in the screenshot? Why does he have laser eyes from this interaction and why do you need to apologize to him? I only know him from the podcast he does with Jamelle Bouie.

Also I’m sorry but once you’re spending dollars in the trillions, you are no longer a start-up. You are the least start-up a company can possibly be.

Question: how are you determining your connect to Gunther Rall? I think just having met a person once is too tenuous. I feel like, in order for this to be a useful metric, there should at least be a criteria that, like, both people knew each other's names and spoke on at least two separate occasions

When you say something is a distraction, you are not-very-implicitly scolding anyone who makes a big deal out of it: You’re a sucker! You fell for the trick!

When the putative distraction is some egregious breach of political norms or actual laws, you are helping normalize and minimize the breach.

Nah it's purely a political stance.

“They were careless people …they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.”

Easiest example to use to illustrate this is rhyming.

No, it got posted on the producer’s personal account.

The part of me who wanted to vote for Dems who looked tough died with my hopes for Fetterman.