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I’m no scholar but my basic theory is that the myth of the various institutions of the constitutional order are probably as important as their actual function, when it comes to public support. Thanks for the feedback!

instead of voting separately on a bill, their votes are counted with the house on legislative bills. Senate should be focused on oversight and 'advice & consent'

i mean in a sense i don't find it completely unbelievable that the brain uses something like statistical inference in language construction, but it's also pretty clear that, like, a lot of other stuff is going on in there as well.

I really liked Martha Welles’ murderbot diaries, sped through all six of them in like a week or so. Great stuff.

Bummed that when I went to look her up so I could tell her, turns out she has me blocked already for some reason.

That’s BlueSky I guess lol

I am so sick of fucking crossovers.

Hopefully it gets us an affordable mini van or wagon with decent range, eventually

I thought it was pretty much a given that almost all 40k media is in universe imperial propaganda?

My head cannon is that the only way that Star Wars makes any sense at all is if everything is actually run by a post-singularity super intelligence, a la Gene Wolfe.

Sure okay

Telling that they went after the IG first

This is how all revolutions start

Is this what they mean by a Hobbesian dilemma

The thing about social media is that reading in context is apparently a difficult skill.

It’s a confusion of proximate & ultimate causes, something the human animal struggles with, as well as reading comprehension.

"Cathedral of Liberalism" is just a nice local cafe

The Border Listening Post from TMP

These people hate what really matters about America.

Also, one of the best entries into the fantasy genre was Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel. Non-crunchy but the hardest fantasy world building ever, possibly.

ngl Gearge W. Bush Year 220Z sounds like a pretty sick anime

the four hundred year reign of the time travelling Herbert Hoover

to be even more out of pocket, I think the difference in frame could be seen as the difference between 1844 & 1865.

because they, for instance, treat US liberals like European liberals. The liberal tradition in the US is more based on FDR and late 19th century labor than the 1960 European bourgeoise class. There's much more opportunity for theoretical outreach, and I think i.e. Liberal Currents is an example.

personally i think one of the more significant mistakes that DSA types make is that they (for maybe understandable reasons) tend to take their political frames from European contexts, which don't fit the American environment very well.

And that makes it hard for them to find their natural allies

genuinely impressive if your metro area has given them more or less carte blanche to take over your traffic marking. I feel like that introduces more mundane problems, tho.

and just like that i'm much more concerned about the service being explicitly politicized. It's not a long jump from something like this, imo

this is shameful

Don’t those still exist

Not to mention Reddit is pretty close

Bill Burr has got to be my problematic fav

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