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DavidTC in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the week of 3/10/25Did he protest in support of 10/7, or just in opposition to the then ongoing genocide? Do you have e…
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DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the week of 3/10/25"In that vein, Scott Alexander asks: What Happened To NAEP Scores?" I have a feeling this is like "l…
DensityDuck on Of Amtrak, AI, and Arguing About Trains on the InterwebsOne of the things that occurs to me is that the kind of people who say they don't mind a two-day tra…
Slade the Leveller in reply to Damon on Open Mic for the week of 3/10/25Where's Israel going to go if not to the U.S.?
Slade the Leveller in reply to Jaybird on Of Amtrak, AI, and Arguing About Trains on the InterwebsRight? Intercity rail would be awesome. From Chicago, where I live, there are any number of cities I…
Jaybird in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the week of 3/10/25Well, if we could have explored one of those dozens of effective alternatives, that might have been…
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Presumably the baby — which seems to be walking remarkably well — cannot yet talk. Otherwise this guy’s going to be in trouble sometime because the baby will repeat his complaints word for word where the wife can hear them :^)
I am not the grandfather who was the source for granddaughter #1, then aged two, telling a friend, “Leave the f*cking snake alone.”Report