Sushi Go! or Splendor!

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Both non-screen board/card games that don't require a lot of reading or math skills, and have simple enough rules for kiddos to learn but are interesting enough for grownups to enjoy.

Splendor plays great at 2-4; Sushi Go needs 3-5.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Self determination is good and wars of conquest are bad, actually

And PR, Guam, Am Samoa, and the N Marianas should be given independence or statehood referenda. We should not be doing colonies anymore.

I mean, people laugh, but I have a GI disorder, and I have an app to track this, and automating at least part of it would suck slightly less.

Laugh, sure, but there is an actual use-case here.

The joke about reviving the dead just made me choke. This merch is AMAZING. Bravo!

A lot of Louisiana’s redistribution is a direct result of Huey Long and was very Herrenvolk; once the feds got serious about desegregation, Louisiana was also a big center of drained pool politics.

There are so, SO many options for Japan-specific iconography that are both:

1. Actually Badass
2. Not State-Shinto-Fascist

Like, the mind *boggles*. You don't have to pick one of a handful of images from some of history's most heinous war criminals. Jebus.

And in the context of this particular senate candidate… it might have even *bolstered* his credentials as an ordinary dude if it was many *other* sorts of Unfortunate Tattoo. (An ex-girlfriend? An old-school “Mom”?)

But yeah, no, sorry. Nazi ink, absent removal is (and should be) disqualifying.

It is a false binary to insist either that our leaders aspire to office from a young age and therefore forgo all youthful indiscretions OR that nothing from a past should come back to haunt you.

People are allowed to make mistakes, but mitigating factors (time, contrition, repair) matter.

And like… there are a few norms that I'm glad we're not quite as fussy about. (c.f. Obama “That was the point.”) but just because you successfully hid a genuinely evil skeleton does not mean it is under the same obligation to remain in its closet forever.

I think there was some of this shift when smartphones meant that stupid undergraduate bullshit that many (not all!) people engage in got documented for the first time. I think some people basically don't think anything you did as an undergraduate should “count” (c.f. Kavanaugh, Brett).

This right here was the median protestor at the Brookline No Kings rally (Boston's was skewed by it also being pride, so it was No Kings but Yaas Queen; No I Am Not Joking)

OTOH, military PowerPoints are legendarily bad; Pepe-Silvia levels of inscrutable.

That said, every cybersecurity person in the pentagon now has an ulcer in the shape of OpenAI’s logo. I’m sure the weights of a military LLM would be an incredibly tempting target.

Papal infallibility: Cubs suck at the theological level now

Vietnamese-American elders, especially those directly connected to fleeing communism, have WEIRD Cuban-style politics sometimes.

NOLA’s only ever elected Republican, Anh Joseph Gao, was Vietnamese-American.

No one understands how the diaconate works, it’s part of the charism