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Recently found out that DC has more deer per square mile than West Virginia by a lot. It's probably somewhere from 3 to 5 times more, and it used to be even worse.

Downright Shakespearean how hard he tried to back out on the sale after it was too late

Hard to imagine a better endorsement of ranked choice than how the Zohran-Lander relationship played out

It's kind of amazing how quickly the Unitary Executive turned into exactly the kind of monstrous 'elective monarchy' (ie what we now call a 'caudillo') the Founders worried the Presidency might become if unchecked.

The greatest empirically falsified fuckup in US jurisprudence since Dred Scott.

Pretty straightforwardly true that the Israeli government is one of the greatest geopolitical threats to US interests

Sure but the neocons' whole thing was setting up Iraq as a US-aligned democracy. Israel and Trump are probably willing to keep dropping bombs until Iran turns into something they like

They endorsed Harris last year, you're probably thinking of the Washington Post, which is somehow even more washed

Used to do "navy showers" when I was a kid during a drought and you can definitely do it in under two minutes, with water running for less than one minute

Kinda get why Martin Luther was so mad about indulgences now

The central ethical question of the 21st century is freedom of movement, and it'll be absolutely inexcapable. There will be no contest

Partner insisting that I ‘clean the bathtub’ before she comes to stay with me, as though the bathtub is not daily cleaned through as a byproduct of being used to bathe. Love her despite these irrational beliefs.

It probably makes a healthier discourse. The worst part of X is everyone becoming addicted to screaming at each other. But screaming at strangers is addictive, and if you make that harder people looking for the same feeling are just going to lose interest

Seeing solutions to this that amount to "better tools for blocking people" and it's like recommending to someone whose plants are dying that they water their plants more when they already water their plants 3x a day

This website is full of people who substantively agree on almost everything, so we're stuck yelling at each other about presentation. We agree on X and Y so we yell at people for mentioning only X, or mentioning Y first

I always thought Oblivion was the weakest of the three because it was an awkward transition between Morrowind and Skyrim accomplishing very different things

Yeah, Tesla has never really experienced a down market. COVID could have done it, but instead we got a bunch of new retail investors who threw their stimulus checks at TSLA. There's been no point where Tesla investors would be forced to sell, so they don't

also they got art where you just write and don't do anything else already, it's pretty popular and there's some good stuff in that space

Yeah completely inconceivable that a guy in his thirties would be a Bulls fan

Sort of true, diseases make you unhealthy first

Always incredible to see the moment someone's career ambitions died. An absolute killshot

Which is to say this is good

I think we ought to start taking popular sovereignty more seriously than our current discourse. What would we think of a king who appointed a corrupt minister against the laws of his own kingdom? Why should we think a democratic polity has any more authority to act against the law?

I am sure there are people who sincerely want a suburban life, but I also know I grew up thinking that's what I wanted until I spent a couple years in a city. People are socialized to like the thing they grew up with, but the original preference for the suburbs was partly a segregationist impulse

The idea is to give people options and see what they actually like. Housing prices in urban areas suggests pretty strongly that there are many more people who would prefer living on a transit line to having a big yard, but they don't have the choice

Ok this one might work but only if you ignore that the Quebecois are definitely swearing on the eucharist and not a tent holding the Ark of the Covenant

It'd be kind of funny if Americans actually just sincerely cared about communication security this whole time

Infuriating spending decades getting tut-tutted for daring to criticize the wisdom of the Constitution and then not hear a peep as the system buckles and folds under the weight of a moderately motivated demagogue.

We're watching the American Constitution fail on its own terms.

It's not just failing to live up to the hopes of those of us living in the 21st century. The framers built it so a man could not make himself a king, and it utterly failed to stop that.

nostalgia is a sort of society-wide alzheimer's, where you watch it happen to people older than you and it seems inconceivable, and then before you know it it's destroyed your brain as well

It's been obvious for a while that inaction was better for Republicans and Democrats should've bit the bullet on the filibuster ages ago