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Oh joy.

Shortages are always and everywhere a policy decision. Hate them and would be shocked if Mamdani finally put an end to them in the NYC street parking market.

If it’s been more than four hours they need to seek medical attention.

Ok, alright. So they got the whole woman domination thing down.

But that’s all I’m giving ‘em.

Sorry guys but Rwanda is objectively a shithole country.

So the rough breakdown is:
∙ ~91% use pit latrines (outhouses)
∙ ~3–4% use flush toilets
∙ ~5–6% use unimproved facilities or open defecation

My fear is that Trump will just declare victory when the political cost gets too high for him to continue, then basically paint a bullseye around the state of things at that moment.

I don't know how to do what you are talking about in a non-partisan manner. Who defines this 'ignorance' we're supposed to measure and prevent from voting? Unless it's literally high school civics (how many branches of government, terms of various elected officials, role of courts, etc) you'd get political right away.

For example, is it 'ignorant' to think rent control leads to more affordable housing? I certainly think so, but that would be pretty political as far as questions go. Is it 'ignorant' to think that foreign countries pay tariffs? How about the Laffer fantasy curve?

Most of us here are boring people with too much to say but you’ll fit in all the same.

I remember when he wanted to sell half the reserves in the first term.

My understanding is strategic reserves across the west have a lot of overall capacity but are rate-limited in how much they can deliver per day thus can’t make up for a closed SoH.

@kluurs said in Gym culture question - ‘working in’:

One gym I worked at long ago had a healthy population of gang members and police working out there.

Across Austin Blvd I assume?

Someone sends me $0.03. I get an email from them, delivered legitimately by PayPal, asking me to urgently call PayPal support using an 800 number that does not belong to PayPal support.

Oh yeah, most of the people in my gym don’t. Unless they’re sweaty.

When I was a yoot the idea of ‘working in’ - letting someone who wanted to use the machine you’re using do his sets between yours - was the default.

With young people it seems less so. I never ask directly, but I’ll ask ‘how many sets you got left?’ I find that if they’re 40+ they usually offer to let me work in, if they’re young they just answer the question.

What do you see?

I feel like I'm channeling @mark circa 2010, but who here trusts the government to design a literacy (or civics) test and not use it to subtly weed out voters with opinions they don't like?