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By the way the people he’s talking about include fat people and people with asthma. Apparently we are too sick to live and should welcome death via infectious disease. And once again, I will point out that way too many of you share this viewpoint to some degree.

I command-stripped my tv to the table for this exact reason.

I was coming here to mention those BBC "____ Farm" shows. There are at least 3 or 4, I enjoyed them.

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

The one in Cleveland is so distinctive from the air that the jets use it as a turn-around point during the annual air show. Which is a very loud way to spend (usually) the first weekend of class.

I bought a six-pack of apple juice when I needed clear liquids and it turns out that when it's not medically required I don't actually like apple juice six bottles worth.

That's a Gehry. I went to school with one of his buildings, you do get used to them.

It was a fixture of my school lunches to in middle/high school to the point that it appeared on the family grocery list as "Emily Cheese"

My favorite is actually the "Deli Deluxe" kind from Kraft that comes sliced but not individually wrapped, but it's gotten really expensive in the last few years.

American cheese is delicious and anyone who insists otherwise either needs to branch out beyond the individually-wrapped kind or is lying because of bougie nonsense

There continue to be fewer Jews of all political opinions in the US than there are in the single organization Christians United for Israel, but it's all our fault.

Literally got an AP push notification about the Jewish American outcry about the starvation in Gaza, but people on this website will continue to insist that it's the Jews' fault the US government isn't doing more with absolutely zero awareness that they're spouting an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

the idea that winning an election means you have a mandate to do anything you want needs to die in a ditch

I’ve been puzzled as to why the coalition hasn’t fallen.

It’s Bibi. But there’s 59 other MKs who enable this reckless and destructive path Israel has been on.

YouTube video by Clara K. Showalter Drive by baff with Unca Max. Starring a very uwilling Jimmie

Baff time

One of my biggest pet peeves is the sheer *uselessness* of so many modern men, like if you’re gonna try to bring back patriarchal nonsense you should at least know how to build a chair from the tree you chopped down

I am begging journalists to stop platforming him. These objects are SO EXCITING and there are people doing really good science on them and he is not one of them.

A lesson that BlueSky reply ppl need to learn, badly:

"people make argument x because y" ≠ "argument x is correct because y".

Dear National Dems- see what Texas Dems are doing?

Will it change the eventual outcome? Probably not.

Will it slow things down and frustrate the Texas GOP?

YES.

Are Texas dems likely to send money in support!

YES.

I don’t expect miracles. I do expect you to use the tools you have.

This is important to talk about, incl where it’s more about Jewish trauma & where it’s got an understandable basis (Protest chants of “burn down Tel Aviv!” have been heard, perhaps less unreasonably, as calls for the mass murder of Jews.)

Accountability must include safety for *all* civilians. +

How people do not understand this as a PRACTICAL, TACTICAL approach as well as an ETHICAL one (right? If terrorism bad, maybe we don't terrorize people???) is beyond me.

"Well, but Tel Aviv used to be Yaffo" no shit sherlock.

Denver used to be Dena’ina Ełnena.

WHAT IS A JUST REPAIR NOW.

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego headed to Iowa Sen. Ruben Gallego is spending his first August recess as a senator visiting with voters in Iowa, indicating an interest in a potential White House run.

I maintain that anyone who is currently running for 2028 has disqualified themselves from 2028, and that includes my junior senator. Also, I've had a senator that cares more about losing presidential races than being a senator, it sucks, and Gallego has been in office for 2 and a half minutes.

Yup!

I just filled in a contact form that asked for my 13-digit phone number. I would bet money 75% of the US doesn't know our code.

This is one reason Dems have it exactly wrong with their talk of abandoning trans folks, ditching women's rights, mimicking the mirthless rage of men like Miller and Rogan.

You want to hit back at fascism, you hit back with flowers. You hit back with the riotous, beautiful messiness of life lived.

No actually this is a perfect moment to nitpick this.

I've worked with convict crews on farms.

Believe me when I tell you, the LAST thing convict labor crews want is violent offenders with a track record of successfully beating people up.

I don't want to do what I should be doing so badly that I just researched up a project for myself that will probably take two solid days...which I also will not be doing today.

I really need to get better at sending my ballot back early purely so the "stop annoying this person, she's voted" message has time to get to the candidates

this is … not what we meant when we encouraged members of the astronomical community to talk to their representatives

Step 0. Stop defunding science ?!?

Nah, let's jump straight to "send the Jupiter orbiter on a physically impossible $15M joy ride, because aliens"

I saw John Pavlovitz is reposting this conspiracy nonsense, yet another reason to never listen to anything he says