i made eye contact with a guy in the dining hall while biting into a big slab of pork belly balanced on a normal sized spoon. shameless.

on the other hand biting into a very lightly salted slab of belly or shoulder pork (whether roasted or boiled) and letting the taste linger on my tongue is one of the core flavours of my life and i have forgotten how much i missed it

slight tangent but this reminds me that at one point in the not too distant past san marino had an actual referendum about whether they should apply for EU membership (failed although a narrow majority of votes were in favour) which would be by far the funniest realistic EU member state

surprised he didn't say himself

has bought the book ($36) just so i can drop a comment to the author about whether building a social-political base for social democracy is beyond the scope of this building [the economics department]

the other side of it is that the US governing elite always treats US sovereignty as including intrusion into other countries' sovereignty which makes it harder in The Discourse to tell other countries to not intrude in US democracy

more generally the US has never had any well-articulated standard for how much diaspora politics is allowed except when the US is directly at war with the relevant country

Democrats won landslide victories in Georgia and Pennsylvania where turnout collapsed vs 2024. And won by larger than expected margins in New Jersey and Virginia www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

otoh i know it looks like the source is realtor dot com so i'll temper my expectations

nothing really worked for me either way until 'got good enough academically that teachers liked me and took care of me'

yeah manchin's pastime was not crafting a gang of 12 or whatever

also the filibuster in the context of a roughlh 50/50 senate ensures that senators are less likely to end up as The One Pivotal Vote for anything that passes and they may see that as a plus in terms of distributing 'blame' publicly

i suppose yes to the extent that their preference is 'no new legislation'

The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.