You're supposed to use it on yourself, to demonstrate commitment. A section of pinky finger or something.

Terrible system. Definitely the worst system if you exclude the others that have been tried. Worst place to live other than anywhere else. Worst time to be alive, other than any time in the past.*

*Except the decade coinciding with my childhood, which happened to be the best decade. Weird!

Very much open to suggestions as to what else to do

The long-term trend is towards improvement, though hedonic adaptation makes the lead up to local minima a real bummer. Also past performance is not indicative of future results I guess.

It's preteen boys who don't know what tragedy or farce are, just that military shit seems really cool. Very Paul Verhoeven.

Or even just the memory of thirst. We're already a net exporter of oil, right?

Do you or anyone in this thread understand why this passed almost unanimously?

Drag him!

Oh wait

I don't want to speak for or defend Nate Silver but looks like what he's saying is that Adams might be a good national candidate *despite* having been elected mayor of NYC.

"It's probably foolish..."

NYC Democratic primary voters very representative of national electorate

Clinton is a charmer, Obama is an explainer.

Text 33. All of politics in one comic

"Mad" by @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/mad/

"She is still learning" by @cupcakelogic.bsky.social
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"I want things to be different" by @alexnorris.bsky.social
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Some days you're the mackerel shark and some days you're the shark mackerel

the stabwīf and the squishwīf

All careers, including those, make rich people richer. It's almost tautological.

No, it's the number of *measured* heartbeats that is fixed. Unmeasured ones obviously can't count towards the total.

Tapping the sign.