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Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.


				
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Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.



				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
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Was Massachusetts full of Republicans who just really hated Mary Jo?




At least full of people who wanted to stop Obamacare (as it was then being sold).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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But I doubt they care enough about us to post here, right?




I don't know about being paid, but it doesn't take long to notice that campaigns of some kind seem to be run here.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Don't be poor and insulate yourself as best you can from the chaos? Retreat into walled gardens and focus on your own family and friends?




You could retreat to the white people reservation  of ID/MT/WY, but you're about 15 years late to the rush.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Aside from impeachment, I wonder if the Dems will have enough people (and spines) to invoke the War Powers Act.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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You don't have to follow through on a promise to pay $5k to each voter following a Republican win if you instead make enough blunders that the Republicans lose.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 1, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I bet, well actually I know, there are a number of people on here with bizarrely similar biographical details. There is a distinct type of late Xer/first millennial that is drawn to the Motte like moths to flame.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Another example would be Trace's old argument about Reds getting wiped out of major institutions like the legal profession. It's a thing that is happening, and could plausibly continue to happen right out to the asymptote.




I think about that article any time I see lawyers in the Trump admin do something that leads me to believe they've never heard of the Administrative Procedure Act. It is the easiest possible way for a hostile judge to shut down something the administration has done, and they keep stepping on that rake repeatedly. "You can just do things," right up until you run afoul of basic notice of proposed rulemaking or public comment requirements. Sometimes it feels like Stephen Miller is the only competent conservative lawyer in the admin.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 1, 2026
			
		

	




	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


"Calvin and Hobbes" has something to think about at every level.




My grandparents had a bunch of the collections when I was a kid, and I used allowance money to buy the rest. I couldn't even estimate how many times I read them. Those and The Far Side collections probably explain much about how I am now (perhaps not a ringing endorsement of the comics).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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which will start a constitutional crisis whereby judges will only be confirmed when the same party controls both the Presidency and Senate.




It was less than ideal, but we survived the Bush years when this happened.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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I was a mini STEMlord, but I guess all my reading around that age was fantasy. My usual recommendations for kids based on what I enjoyed are the Prydain, Redwall, and Dark is Rising series. The non-fantasy ones are the Great Brain and Swallows and Amazons series, but neither are SF. Odd to realize in hindsight.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Patricians do not hurry about.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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honorary mention for Take 5s




I don't think I've seen those in mixed bags sold for Halloween. I like them for hiking as a change from all the Snickers variants I usually carry.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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I'd actually put Heath bars pretty near the top, but nobody tends to buy those




Good point. My friend had bought piles of mixed bags from Costco but none had Heath bars in them. I don't know if I could've resisted those.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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What's your Halloween candy kryptonite?


Mine is usually Reese's peanut butter cups or similar chocolate/PB garbage. I went over to a friend's house last night to help pass out candy (they live in a neighborhood that gets hundreds of kids trick or treating) and through superhuman effort managed to not eat any Reeses (or much of anything else). Finally, a win over the appalling sweet tooth.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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I found something likeable: he's a great litmus test. When people argue he wasn't that bad or he was persecuted or whatever, I know I shouldn't take their opinions seriously.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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In some Mennonite sects in the U.S., unmarried women wear small white caps and married women wear black ones.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Not only that, but imagine him saying that and then people all over the internet still taking him seriously. It's a baffling state of affairs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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    Cold brew with a tiny bit of half and half, assuming it's not outrageously priced (I'm not paying $7 before tip for it). Some places have very good cold brew with interesting flavor profiles. Some places are dogshit.
    

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    I don't get flavors in things because I want to taste the coffee. Given the very popular milkshakes that are sold as coffee at places like Dutch Bros, many people do not care for the taste of coffee itself. I don't get added sugar because I try to avoid that (aside from what's in dairy I might add). I like espresso on ice on occasion but it's intense.
    

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In that it's now filled with typical redditors, or something less obvious?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Yes, good point. The indoors government workforce at state/county/local levels is probably majority women, but the outdoors workforce (law enforcement of all stripes, maintenance/utility types, etc.) are majority male, so it is likely more even than it would seem.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Is that federal workforce only or all state/county/local workforces as well?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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the government’s appeal pointed out that the ruling might encourage Americans to produce 200 oz. golden steers.




The US government is a jealous god and will permit no idolatrous worship.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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He's either a shameless liar




Consider he's the same person who publicly argued in spring 2020 that masks don't do anything while he privately stockpiled masks for his family.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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Asian women hunt for white men like a tiger hunts for deer.




Alas, my single days were spent in places with a miniscule amount of Asians so I didn't get to fully experience this.




The average white man is obviously defenseless against such a pursuit, leading to an above average number of WMAF pairings in Asian heavy population centers like the SF Bay Area and LA.




While hiking the John Muir Trail this summer, I was greatly amused by the number of WMAF couples I saw. Most common pairing in couples was white-white unsurprisingly, but WMAF was by far the second-most common. I saw more of those couples in 12 days than I saw black people, and I don't mean black couples--I mean black people at all.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	







		

			
			
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There is definitely a correlation between the ratio of men to women at US colleges and its sexual culture. And the mechanism is pretty intuitive.




As an old fart who went to undergrad at a school that was 55:45 male:female (and of course women were almost mythical in STEM classes), I can hardly imagine what life is like at modern US universities with 60:40 female:male ratios.