It's beautiful!

Wow. Devastating.

What was the Joyce Carol Oates own...? inquiring minds want to know! :-D

Every government success in my lifetime has been a compromise; every single failure in the same timeframe, a result of one party being too proud (or too full of shit) to make a deal.

I think Americans understand that our government is a series of compromises as well as checks and balances.

There are SO.MANY TERFs that it's sometimes hard to keep track of who is and isn't. But you're quite right... there's no reason to hang out with them or give them thought or digital or real real estate.

I think there's now one video that's 2h34m, one that's 2h 30m, one that's 3h08m and this one is 1h 40m, nearly ten hours of material so far. And I'm only on p. 65 of a 165-page translation, a lot still to do.

How is that distinguishable from being an asset in a foreign intelligence service's spy network? I mean, isn't there something like a 700-to-1 Bot::human-being relationship between accounts on twitter as a group, and accounts run by an actual person?

There were companies a century and a half ago that produced plans for common building types, which were used all over the country.