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ArbitraryValue

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  • Democrat who caved on shutdown says Chuck Schumer knew all along

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  • he has no control over his party

    He can't actually order them to do anything. One might argue that if he was a better leader, he could have persuaded them to stick with the plan longer, but maybe he had already done that weeks ago and this is the longest that anyone could have persuaded them to hold out. It is the longest shutdown ever, after all...

  • The vet had him shaved because he has scratchies on his neck

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  • It was me.

  • Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments

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  • I literally describe breathtakingly good pizza as "cartoon pizza"

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  • Do people actually like pizza with the crust so flaccid and the cheese so melty that it drips off? A good slice doesn't come apart before you can eat it.

    (Any innuendo is deliberate.)

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    Things feel way out of wack

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  • Something can be very bad while still being much, much less bad than slavery.

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    Things feel way out of wack

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  • You do know that they can quit any time they want... They're being treated unprofessionally and they're experiencing hardship, but comparing that to real slavery is, frankly, offensive. If you think this is slavery, you have no idea how bad slavery actually was.

  • Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it.

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  • I’ve never understood how being a wanker to someone whose job it is to sort issues out somehow nets you a better end result.

    I saw a guy yell at an airport employee who kept telling him that she couldn't legally let him on the plane because the cabin door was already shut. He kept at it until a supervisor showed up, contacted the pilot, and let him in. I get where the guy was coming from (because he loudly proclaimed that he was missing a connecting flight through no fault of his own) but it was still weird to see him get something by being angry which he probably couldn't have gotten by being nice.

  • Man who threw sandwich at US federal agent found not guilty of assault

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  • The random sample survey of 604 D.C. residents was taken between August 14 and 17 shortly after Trump signed the executive order. It indicates some 65 percent of residents do not believe the presence of FBI agents and uniformed National Guard troops from an increasing number of states makes the city safer.

    Eight of 10 residents surveyed oppose Trump’s executive order to federalize law enforcement in the city. Seven in 10 oppose it “strongly.”

    Source.

    I'm not sure why they thought a DC jury would ever convict, given that even a DC grand jury (which hears only the prosecutor's side) didn't indict.

  • Burger King Braces for the Demise of the Penny

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  • I think the emphasis of the article was more on people who resent having to spend two more cents in any circumstances than it is on people who can't round.

  • Is there a right way to tell a woman she intimidates you sexually?

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  • I think most people will interpret that as confessing a crush.

  • Californians approve Democrats’ anti-Trump redistricting push

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  • Things intended to be temporary often end up permanent, especially when it is in the interest of the party in power to make them permanent (and gerrymandering is always in the interest of the party in power, because that's the party that does the gerrymandering).

    With that said, the intent to revert this gerrymandering is the intent to rebuild the town, but even if the town will be rebuilt someday, it's still being destroyed now. California Republicans have a right to representation, and the Democrats are deliberately depriving them of that right because of something that totally different people in Texas are doing.

    I'll extend the war metaphor: sometimes military necessity dictates a course of action that will cause civilian casualties, but even then we should still acknowledge that there are civilian casualties and that that's bad.

  • Well?

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  • I'm familiar with it (although I haven't read the whole thing) and I think it's not representative of what living in New Hampshire is actually like. I went to college there and then more recently I lived there for four years. Some stuff was weird even to me (my neighbor set up an improvised firing range behind his house, and driving without car insurance is legal) but overall the towns where I lived seemed well-governed and most people valued their independence but not to the extent that they would reject the rules necessary for an orderly society. What some weirdos did when they came to New Hampshire says more about weirdos than it does about New Hampshire or lowercase-L libertarianism (as opposed to the Libertarian party, which is marginal even in New Hampshire).

  • Well?

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  • Well, I suppose we'll both see. I would enjoy being able to say "I told you so," but I actually hope you're right, for the sake of the people living in NYC.

  • Well?

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  • I never said NYC had nothing going for it. On the contrary, NYC is currently one of the best cities in the USA. That's why I wanted a "more of the same" mayor rather than someone who thinks dramatic changes are necessary.

  • Well?

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  • For most of them, NYC because it's where the family first came as immigrants. If we had come to a different city, then I think they would probably be living there instead, but NYC specifically does have advantages for them: a very developed mass transit system, a large community of other immigrants who speak the same language for the older people, and whatever it is that some people like about big-city life that there's more of in NYC than elsewhere for the younger people. (I'm the kind of guy who told my real estate agent "I'm moving to Manhattan for work but I don't like Manhattan and I want to live in a part of it that doesn't feel like Manhattan" so I don't really know what that is.)

    For my best friend, the Bay Area because of the gay community and the fact that this is the place to be if you want to found a tech startup. (Plus he would never leave California because the climate everywhere else is so much worse, and that limits his options.) My sister also lives in the Bay Area - she came here for a job and for the larger dating pool but now that she's married she's planning to move away to somewhere with a lower cost of living and less crime. She's more liberal than I am but local politics matters a lot less to her than those practical factors, so her next job interview is in Texas.

  • Well?

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  • Serious answer to a rhetorical question: Because I was willing to give up the advantages of living in a big city (for me, chiefly better access to jobs) but my family and friends weren't. Most of them aren't politically aligned with Mamdani supporters but they have more affection for urban life than I do and they're more pragmatic than I am too - even if they think a politician will make things worse, they're not going to move away unless and until things do get worse.

  • Californians approve Democrats’ anti-Trump redistricting push

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  • I think you're probably right, in the sense that not doing this would probably be even worse, but we're destroying the town to save it, as the saying goes. Win or lose, there won't be much left of a very important norm.

  • Well?

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  • I admit that I'm moving away for other reasons but I'm certainly more enthusiastic about moving now. (With that said, I'd be happy to leave Cuomo behind almost as much.) But I'm moving to the Bay Area so it's not much of an improvement in terms of politics. I miss New Hampshire.

  • Californians approve Democrats’ anti-Trump redistricting push

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  • Because disenfranchising people is the solution to disenfranchising people. But who knows - this may be the least bad option.