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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.


				
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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.



				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
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Why not? Texas things are good, but they can be done just as well by a different cadre of people. Nothing forces a California Democrat to be a NIMBY for example or raise taxes massively.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Conversely if Texas keeps this up over the next few years it would go very high up my list of states to move to if I ever immigrate to the US (very unlikely, I know). No extra income tax is amazing and like you say, at least they are making an effort to build housing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I mean, you can just amend the constitution to remove this first: Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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How to ensure you get run out of town on a rail: “If your town lets us build a data center, we’ll also build AI supermarkets and cafés, give every building an AI vending machine, every household an AI butler, and even install an AI radio host to deliver music catered to your town’s general population.”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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On one hand: Datacenters are obviously good.


On the other: I'm not happy about the RAM and GPU shortage.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Looks like both the remaining Senate races are likely going D as well, at least according to Polymarket. Gonna be 56-44 in the Senate and if Dems can keep up the momentum they have a good chance of 60+ seats come 2028, which will finally allow them to remake the United States of America in their own image.


Crazy how a few years ago I thought this would have been terrible while now I think it's about the best thing for the world that could happen.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Ah hypocricy, my old friend. But really, bribing people outright displays lack of class in a way convoluted balance sheet gibs don't. Yes, that's bad too, and worse in a way because it's harder to explain to people why it's bad, but open public bribery? Even going off just vibes that's just ew...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I think shame is a good thing, and there are merits to both approaches.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Never let it be said again that this place doesn't have a severe right wing bias.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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This, at least the Dems have a semblance of shame in how they hand out their gibs and don't make it look like naked prima facie bribery.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I'd watch this movie.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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All the was has done is to make Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader if the Islamic Republic of Iran, 30 years younger as well as given him plenty of very personal reasons to hate Trump and Rs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Emoluments Claude




I hereby diagnose you with AI dependancy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Moon base is probably the only place he'll be safe from the clutches of a future Dem US government.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Why not both? Vice signalling eventually convinces your opponents to get off their asses and give you a good kicking.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Impeached: 100-epsilon% as epsilon -> 0


Removed? Close to 0%, much as it would be hilarious.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Hey, don't knock servants. I wish I had them here in the UK. Unfortunately the Government of this country has made hiring people so expensive it's basically impracticable for all but the richest, and even then it's less of a hassle to hire housekeeping etc. for a few hours rather than have a dependable constant live in servant (plus the other issue, modern UK housing is so small there's no place to give your servants board).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Unironically neither of those two countries are bad places to live once you understand how they function (and are decently skilled enough to avoid the worst types).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Polls are wrong, Dems are outperforming...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Unironically I can see him as being presidential material. He looks kind, unlike pretty much all recent candidates since Obama/Romney.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Ah, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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All I know is that Talarico is very good. Scott Aaronson endorsed him which is enough for me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Democrat sweep over 99% on Polymarket: https://polymarket.com/event/balance-of-power-2026-midterms


Knew I should have put some money down, perhaps I had too little faith in American voters (hard, I know)...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Why do you say Abdul El-Sayed doesn't want to assimilate? Yes he wants to change America, but his wishes to change America are quite similar to those of like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, no?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Too bad that there are plenty of others already in your country that disagree, and they'll vote against you and your policies for very justifiable reasons from their side.


The R's offer is basically "the beatings will continue until morale improves", and then they act shocked when voters completely rationally vote D instead.


And who says immigrants don't assimilate. Imagine they all assimilated fully into D subcultures and values and voted D even harder. Something tells me you wouldn't like that eithe.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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