AmidFuror

Some people don’t have $20, Richie Rich.

For the record, I wasn’t really surprised either.

Really surprised the article didn’t mention Gaza or genocide.

You would probably get a feeling of déjà vu.

You would probably get a feeling of déjà vu.

RIP Elana and Sonia

I wrote that Biden dropping out of the race would be a big mistake. My “I told you so” is worth about as much as yours.

Trump had a Republican majority in the House and Senate when he entered office in 2017. They were incompetent, and it took them a while to get anything done.

Both times Trump won the nomination and ran against women, he won. The only time he ran against a man, he lost.

Clearly the Democrats should avoid nominating women until the electorate is ready for one.

As long as the problem was inciting hatred of Muslims rather than hatred by Muslims, this seems justified.

Self-immolation prevented.

Not even Ukraine thinks it has killed 700,000 Russians. The Kyiv Post article claims over 700,000 casualties. Most of those casualties don’t need a grave.

It’s a bit misleading to put that number in the headline. You might normally think “losses” could mean casualties, but put next to “grave” it implies dead.

OP is a nurse in a hospital.

There are a over 48 million African Americans, so does anyone know some insulting words or phrases people use against them?

Then we can move on to the > 60 million Latinos (there will be some overlap).

It’s important to recognize US diversity when dreaming up insults.

My point is they are putting up views they ascribe to the candidate. It would be better to quote a written or spoken statement.

I guess people can’t figure this out without having it reversed so they can understand it. Imagine a school district in Idaho handing out a lesson to students where they characterized the candidates’ positions thusly:

Abortion Trump: Opposed to baby-killing Harris: Allows baby-killing in most cases.

In theory the candidate supports and has a heavy influence over the party platform.

I read the headline and thought the controversy was probably stupid. Then I read the comparisons.

They should have pulled out planks from the party platforms. At least write what the party says it is going to do in its own words. It’s OK to simplify, but this list is heavily editorialized. I don’t know how much of that was from the NYT article (editorial?) and how much was the teacher’s take.

I think it would be fine to have these characterizations of each party’s policies in Speech & Debate coming from the opponents.

That’s just a nonsensical metric to use to track the impact on young buyers. The fact that it has risen from 49 in the past year means there is something big going on, but what an indirect way to track it!

The median age of first-time buyers also rose from 35 to 38, while the share of first-timers dropped from 32% to 24% of all buyers for the year ending July 2024.

Median is better, and the fraction of first timers is an indicator. Would be best to know the median age of first timers.

That would be immediately banned in China.

Came to the comments and was pleasantly surprised how well genetic drift was represented. People seem to have a much more sophisticated understanding of evolution than 30 years ago.