when the Dems lose the house because of all this dicking around

Nixon didn’t have Fox News and social media to protect him. Once the big networks made him look guilty, he was done. If Nixon were president right now, I’d bet he wouldn’t have left office.

A big takeaway from the testimony should be that this is exactly how impeachment proceedings would go as well - Mueller would have to be the center of impeachment, and they wouldn’t accomplish anything with a dry and legalistic star witness.

You’re conflating the technology itself with how it’s actually used, intensive agriculture with pesticides, and also maybe varieties produced with varieties planted.

They won’t sell it in Europe anyway, and I couldn’t afford to put gas in it even if they did, so I guess I’ll have to save my outrage.

Engaging with a couple of these performatively woke tankie-adjacent types is a waste of time.

Antifa as a whole is not under BfV surveillance in Germany. In fact, the BfV has actually cooperated with antifa groups in identifying extreme right wing figures and methods since the late 90s, and even a couple years ago in CSU-dominated Bavaria.

That’ll really send a message to the establishment... that you don’t understand you elections work.

Particularly now that most kids have tablets and phones, and can therefore effectively be plugged in virtually constantly. It’s pretty jarring to see how little kids of that age interact with the world around them.

He’s not going to win the primary. I have no idea who will, but I’m pretty confident that Bernie isn’t the guy.

Bernie was sunk by getting destroyed in the early contests in the South - he was mathematically eliminated (even ignoring superdelegates) long before the primary was officially over. By the time he realized he had momentum, the places he failed to take seriously gave Clinton an unbeatable edge. The DNC definitely came…

Macron has been saying that France will veto another extension, which is all it takes. If it’s clear that the UK isn’t going to either hold a referendum or approve the existing deal, there’s not really reason to prolong the inevitable.

But authoritarian countries never have sophisticated, state-backed doping schemes to bring national prestige...

Just like original Beetles, you don’t really need to preserve every car like that for posterity - there are tons of them out there. It’s not a rare vehicle by any means. If you want to suffer through the noise, unreliability, smoke, and low power of cars like that, more power to you I guess, but I’d like to appreciate…

Most of the expansions for 4 are just repeats of stuff already in 3, and the open world plus community content really tips the balance for me. I just can’t imagine spending the obscene amount it would take to buy 4 + expansions to get to where I would be in 3.

Depends on the car. A Renault 4 doesn’t sound good, is slow, and really not much of a driving experience.

Games like Assassin’s Creed get bigger and bigger every year, and they feel more and more boring and interminable for it. I never bothered to finish RDR2 because it got so stale. Sure, graphics are nice, but so many of the big budget games just aren’t at all compelling after a while.

It’s obviously a tongue-in-cheek way to teach a little scientific fact. My mineralogy professor in undergrad loved to complain about snowflakes with the incorrect number of arms on them too - it’s a very on-brand kind of thing for scientists.

It’s obviously a tongue-in-cheek way to teach a little scientific fact. My mineralogy professor in undergrad loved to complain about snowflakes with the incorrect number of arms on them too - it’s a very on-brand kind of thing for scientists.

The “small farms are better” people completely miss the land use argument too - efficient farming allows more land to stay untilled, forested, and open. The farms themselves might be more environmentally problematic, but the net effect will be lower environmental impact.