That's also the place I first saw an example of illegal orders: "no one could lawfully order American soldiers to not take prisoners"

No way you'd ever get Republicans on board with that kind of economics.

I could imagine something like "average age of Spotify listeners weighted by how close their listening habits are to yours" but that would necessarily be "~my actual age" for most people, so too boring to publish.

Seems like the only way it could be meaningful (average age of people who listen to similar music as you) would also be very uninteresting - for most people it would just be roughly their actual age. Leading them to not do it that way.

After having the same problem a few times, I started putting them atop the fridge.

What I saw (haven't dug in) is the study everyone cites has its major water usage as... evaporation behind the dam at the hydropower plant assumed to be generating the electricity. Hydro assumed because Seattle.
I guess data centers in NC are using up lots of uranium, by that logic.

This got worse when everyone decided to get rid of affordances. What's that button do? What button does the thing I need to do? Good question!

Yet the transphobes became obsessive about this issue upon trans people in general becoming more salient to them, and act as if _this thing that is already happening and manifestly not causing any great harm despite persisting for decades_ is on the verge of collapsing civilisation!

Old and busted: vibe coding
New hotness: vibe structural engineering

Seems like that one would bother linguists too.

I like the idea of daily single-purpose impeachments. It'd make every Republican vote on record in favor of the specific offense, if nothing else. A self-dealing each Monday, civil rights violation each Tuesday, etc.

He probably requested McDonald's and knows that's what he's eating, though.

As an Ohio State grad I can assure you it's 40% tops.

Trust me, I'm not calling because I *want* to talk to a human. I'm calling because I have to.

I mean that was the neatest thing about AOC in my opinion - she treated House Member like a job.

There is a rarely-used laudatory sense of "politician", and this is a good occasion for it.

Back in 2016 I thought he'd resign after finding out the work involved. Hadn't occurred to me he could just half-ass it.