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Calling Starmer a wolf does him too much credit. At best, he's a caterpillar being piloted by the cordyceps that is Morgan McSweeney.

The Greater Good

A bad person? For what? For not wanting to live in a tiny bedsit just so the world can accommodate more theoretical people that don't exist and need not exist?

I think you mean:

velociraptor = dpositionraptor/dtimeraptor

In summary

Vote blue no matter who:

Pro - Democrats more likely to win. Things won't immediately get worse.

Con - Democrats have no incentive to do anything other than what their wealthy donors want.

Result - Things don't get worse now, but eventual rightward drift is guaranteed because the democrats will do nothing good and the republicans will win eventually.

Vote blue only if X:

Pro - Democrats have an incentive to do something other than what their wealthy donors what, in theory.

Con - Democrats less likely to win.

Result - Democrats might do something good if they win. Rightward lurch is possible if they lose.

Can we please stop litigating this now?

Edit: The "best" approach would ultimately depend on the relative effectiveness of influencing democrat policy via primaries or whatever, and I don't think the answer is immediately obvious. I am not advocating one approach over the other, I just want people to stop pretending the answer is obvious.

I think a more accurate TL;DR is that Garland was the wrong guy for the job, but the Biden thing is more broadly true, too.

I'm not a legal professional (merely an ill-informed amateur), and especially not an American one, but it seems to me like the judge's order makes a pretty convincing argument that the injunction is legally warranted.

Maybe we might consider that federal law might be the problem before we rush to accuse the judge personally of being a nonce?

It is perfectly cromulent to use "less" in place of "fewer".

As someone who voted for Nick Clegg in their first ever general election vote, I think it's important that we shatter our youth's idealism early and often.

Be Normal About Pizzacake Challenge (Impossible)

Why is Beryllium worse than Lithium?

Edit: apparently beryllium ions will fuck up your magnesium containing enzymes.

I think a few of the commissioners are appointed by a body of judges, but most of them appointed to the commission by the commission after open job application.