Ted always sucked. The whole production is designed for self-promoters to flatter rich liberals and reassure them that they're good people. Besides, a playlist of just Ted presenters who turned out to be a fraud would be hours of content probably.

City folks think the whole world is a petting zoo. I've seen a grown man, built like a bouncer, running in panic trying to escape a tiny banty rooster. This particular rooster was known to have killed two snakes and a hawk and nothing on that farm fucked with this little two pound sack of feathers more than once.

I was being sarcastic. My opinion is that it is impossible for a journalist to be unbiased. And it' ridiculous to expect them to pretend anyway. I think news media would benefit from prioritizing honesty over "objectivity", because when journalists pretend to be objective, the lie is transparent and undermines their credibility.

"The Callisto protocol" went from release @$60 to free on Epic, in less than two years. That's the fastest I've ever seen a game depreciate.

creating the circumstances in which an active citizenry meaningfully and knowledgeably participates in the civic life of their polity

Why stop there? If your project requires an improved humanity to work, why not just improve us until we don't need governance?

because they have received their content from decades of already biased human knowledge, and because achieving unblemished neutrality is in many cases probably unattainable.

We could train the AI to pretend to be unbiased. That's how the news media already works.

Diagnoses cost money, all I can afford are symptoms.

This criticism of democracy is way older than Kennedy. Socrates thought democracy impossible due to the ignorance of the common person.

And that's what this is, an argument against democracy. A vote cast by a shut-in illiterate who chooses candidates based on their astrology sign is just as valid as the chair of the political science department. Anything less than that is an argument for weighted or exclusive suffrage. You can believe in democracy or the "low information" voter, but not both.

Of all the narratives around Harris' loss, misogyny and racism are the factors that fit the data.

The Ryugu samples were of course treated with great care, with scientists deploying strict contamination controls such as hermetically-sealed transportation and nitrogen-purged clean rooms to limit the chance of contamination.

But despite the special measures, the researchers at Imperial College London ended up finding signs not of alien life but terrestrial life instead.

My advice to any home handyman is to avoid cordless power tools. You can get a powerful name brand corded drill with all the features for the same price, or even less than the entry level cordless driver. Plus, I promise you that in the long run, the batteries will cause you more aggravation than the cord.

What kids today will never know is that until the 80s and 90s, there was so little content on TV that a show could be popular for decades. I know that cable does reruns too, but it's not the same when you've got 3-5 channels to choose from. Basically every show was as big as "Seinfeld" and "Friends" by virtue of just being the only thing decent on right now. You could reference ancient shows from the literal dawn of recording TV broadcasts like "I Love Lucy" and "The Andy Griffith Show" and reasonably expect a random stranger to know what you were talking about. In a HS art class, all the students marveled at the Japanese girl who'd never seen "The Wizard of OZ". A movie that was annual broadcast event on network TV like the Oscars.

Anyway gag from the holiday episode in an obscure TV sitcom in the 70s is going to be familiar to just about everybody born between 1945 and 1980.

Every product that requires a smartphone app should disclose that fact along with the support for the app as well as support for OS versions.

Look forward to the day when you toss a perfectly good appliance because you lost the password to your toaster or the new router doesn't support your fridges' antenna frequency. Some automobile navigation systems have already been bricked when the local towers stopped broadcasting 3G.

Any fruit can have fruit fly eggs. They're attracted to overripe fruit, and even though what you bought was fresh, it might have been on the dock next to something turning into wine. I avoid fresh fruit from Walmart because they seem to be particularly bad, but flies are in high end groceries and farmers markets too. Every grocery store is in a constant, if discrete war with the creatures.

They can be quite annoying and breed famously quickly. A friend went on vacation for a week with some banana peels or something in the trash and came home to a swarm of thousands.

Perhaps you live in a cool climate? It's sub-tropical where I am and the flies usually disappear with the fall weather.

This is just more bitter recriminations and sour grapes. People who've devoted their lives to public service and progressive values cooked by natural allies lashing out in anguish over defeat. Like blaming RBG for Roe getting overturned. The logic here is particularly flimsy.

I can think of three historic leaders who were imprisoned, for trying to overthrow their government, and went on to lead said government. And that's off the top of my head. So the premise that prison would prevent a Trump second term is flawed.

Secondly, it's just plain anti-democratic to imprison candidates to prevent them from being elected. Even if they're guilty, and even if the crime is serious, is it democracy to allow 12 jurors or a judge to usurp millions of American voters? Sacrificing democracy to save it makes a lousy bumper sticker.

Lastly, if the argument is that the American voter wasn't sufficiently informed about Trump's crimes because he wasn't tried for all of them. That another conviction, revelation, fine, or even prison would have caused his voters to switch to Harris. That 35 felony convictions would have made the difference. I'm skeptical.

If we get WWIII, it'll be because of people like you provoking Biden. He's a madman loose cannon lame duck and your irresponsible language is a threat to the survival of all humanity. Putin would win the Nobel prize if he simply capitulated to Biden before we're all ashes.

There is something deeply ironic about the US accusing China of flooding their country with illegal drugs. The next step is for China to demand reparations to all the fentanyl producers hurt by US law enforcement activity. Then they invade, force us to take the drugs and pay the reparations. OH, and they're going to administer Hawaii for 99 years.

The simple answer to your question is no. Language is as much about distinction and exclusion as it is about description. The word "circle" stands for the description and properties of the circle, but would be incoherent if it did not also exclude straight lines.

You can often find examples where some things are considered premium or desirable not for the properties is has, but for what it lacks. Just think of all the products marketed to not have something like BPA, fat, sugar, Carbs, gluten, asbestos, lead, and even cruelty.

The Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes were all tribes from what we'd call Germany. The Romans paved the first roads of London, and taught the Pagans about Jesus. And Rome was cosmopolitan, so it was a lot more than Italians in that army. England has also suffered under Danish/Scandinavian conquests small and large. The King Cnut was not a misspelling. His nephew, William is a Scandinavian settled in France.

So... as far as "blood and soil" goes, Britain, and her people, were always more of a group project.

I remember these "Trump won't be so bad" think-pieces from 2015. They did not age well.