Very cool.

Progressive is generous.

Isn’t person-to-person transmission incredibly rare? The R value is significantly below 1 for humans. Lots of factory farms will probably have issues, but other countries have had similar outbreaks of H5N1 among livestock and have always had limited human cases.

God I wish I could be a political op-ed writer or consultant or something.

The easiest fucking job in the world.

Portland, OR has RCV for city positions and there was a lot of hand-wringing about how a significant portion of the electorate didn’t fill out the ranked choice part of the ballot because they found it too confusing.

My response was that if people are going to self-select as too stupid to handle the simple task of ranked choice voting, then I do not have a problem with them not voting.

I’m a bit of a flag nerd and I had someone ask me what my favorite flag is recently.

They were delighted when I first described and then showed them a picture of the flag of Zheleznogorsk.

very very funny

The most credulous rubes.

Can’t wait for butt rock to be back at the top of the charts.

SKILLET IS BACK, BAYBEEE

I don’t know a ton about it, but it seems like Obama put some mechanism in place that basically offsets the rising cost of insuring buildings that flood repeatedly onto everyone else in the program, so premiums seem to have very little connection with the actual number of times your house has flooded.

Dems are definitely gonna run the most Washington insider political animal they can in 2028.

I’m thinking Gruesome Gavin.

I see a lot of echoes of American rhetoric. I.e. “they hate us for our freedoms” and failing to ever suspect that in reality they hate us because we kill them.

I don’t know how you would incorporate any sort of mandatory relocation in an equitable way.

The current federal flood insurance program doesn’t have any mechanism to tell someone, “Hey, your house floods too often. It is not safe for you to live here. You have to move.” And if it did, how do you do that in an equitable way, without destroying communities?

I order mine online, yeah.

Have you tried switching to a single-blade safety razor?

This will happen regardless.

Soda!

This is how I read it as well.

A little noticeable. But I don’t think it’s egregious. Possibly balanced out by being able to maintain the perfect ratio and cadence.