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  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • I and many people I know have spent our whole lives trying to change the rigged system of FPTP/single-member constituency voting with the further distortion of state-based apportionment.

    The issue, as with any rigged system, is that it’s really hard to un-rig unless either the people benefitting from the rigging let it change (lol) or there’s a major upheaval—usually a war. It took WWI for the German voting system to be un-rigged in favor of the Junkers and Belgium to end their rigged system, and it took a civil war in America to end the 3/5 Compromise which was a start in the right direction and then a decade plus of sustained sctivism for the civil rights movement to see a real impact in voting rights.

  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • Many of us Americans are working on it. Meanwhile, it took the EU 14 years to begin to punish Hungary for Orban. The Serbs have been protesting for more than a year and still have yet to lead to lasting change. I could go on.

    I know this is going to sound like a lazy American trying to do whataboutism, but I’m really just trying to say political change takes time and part of the danger of all of these leaders is how unresponsive they are and difficult they make it to change—especially the more powerful the state aparatus for violence they wield is.

    Additionally, the US has regularly scheduled elections which makes just marginally harder to change governments unlike a ministerial system where snap elections can be called.

  • Apparently, Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and even received an award from the Third Reich!

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  • If you had square dancing at your school in gym class, it was also because of Ford’s antisemitism. He thought jazz had been invented by Jews to destroy the morality of white people so helped spread square dancing as a weapon to keep jazz music and away from white children.

  • YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain

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  • The article is on JSTOR. If you are reading this comment and you live or work in Massachusetts you can get free JSTOR access. With more work (you have to go to a library) you can get free access if you live in New York State. If you live somewhere else, pick a library you know near you. You never know, sometimes even more municipal networks have access.

  • YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain

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  • IIRC there’s a scene in Die Another Day (2002) where James bond visits a Cuban cigar factory and there’s a lector.

  • How often do you typo?

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  • In probably 100% of things longer than a single sentence—if written on my phone. I have fat thumbs, what can I say?

  • What are some non-mainstream foods or drinks from your culture that social media isn't aware of and hasn't ruined?

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  • Regional drinks I am sure the same is true elsewhere in the world, but in the US one way regional identities struggle to persist is consumption of regional sodas. I’m from Mass and have always loved Moxie (the soda’s brand is the origin of that word) and coffee milk. I’ve always enjoyed trying other drinks when I travel. I think Vernors is my favorite from “abroad.”

  • It's dinner time, and you have to put together a meal with only ingredients already in your house, no going out for anything. What are you making?

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  • Quiche! Flour, butter/crisco, eggs, cheese. If you have those you can make quiche.

    Then you can customize it so easily. If you have multiple cheeses you can mix them however you want. And then you can toss in anything from leafy greens to bacon. Healthy or rich it’s so versatile.

  • you can just do stuff

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  • Yes; also, I’ve seen it in more suburban areas, too, near a school as a way to protect the children from cars.

  • Meal on a Scandinavian Airlines flight, 1969

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  • For a long time (in the US at least) it was illegal for airlines to compete on price, so they could only compete on services and amenities. While the downside is that flying no longer feels like a luxury experience, the upside is that it no longer has to cost a luxury prize. It was Jimmy Carter who deregulated the airlines.

  • Vendetta was outlawed in germany around 1500

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  • Came here to say this!

    It’s also fun because it gets pretty meta about the whole form of a radio play: for example “The Further Adventures of Nick Danger” includes some fun jokes about drying wet clothes in the cellophane—which is what you’d crumple next to a mic to get the sound of a crackling fire.

  • What are your favorite songs about atheism?

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  • “No Gods & Precious Few Heroes” by Dick Gaughan. A lot of his stuff is similarly themed: “Revolution” and “Stand Up for Judas” also come to mind. He’s a Scottish communist folk singer.

  • Can Americans learn to love tiny, cheap kei cars?

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  • I do still think corporate decision makers bear a portion of the blame. They’d rather make big cars, too, and are doing nothing to use their advertising to help shape consumer demand to be in favor of smaller cars or promote fuel economy. Individual demand exists and people bear responsibility, but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

  • Can Americans learn to love tiny, cheap kei cars?

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  • Yeah. I want to blame car company executives and do when I’m cranky but ultimately much of this is a problem with drivers. People want big, pedestrian-slaughtering, gas-guzzling planet-killers and as long as we allow don’t take a more aggressive regulatory approach to SUVs and bloated pavement princess pickups it’s going to stay bad.

  • Can Americans learn to love tiny, cheap kei cars?

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  • I think the thing is when they do make them, they’re a shitty American car and nobody wants that so the Detroit execs blame us and go back to making luxury tanks for the wine moms.

  • CBS postpones ’60 Minutes’ report on El Salvador’s CECOT prison

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  • I don’t think so, but only because he doesn’t need to. These plutocrats all share a worldview.

  • Major Asian capital finally bans dog and cat meat in victory for animal rights activists

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  • Jakarta. Fuck these headline writers.