I’m aware. That’s why I said I was thinking about it. And while you’re not entirely wrong about the outcome, I’d say it’s more a distinction without a difference — you’ll have China on one side and the US on the other, crushing the rest of the world between them. At least until they nuke each other....

My family in Georgia are distant relatives, many of whom I’ve never met. My grandparents had tragedies in their lives and had to flee the South. They were from the same county in Georgia, but only met in Philly. I always found that fascinating how they found each other.

Teams is fine. Our department has been using it for the past year. Zoom, on the other hand, is fucking garbage.

DC has a bigger population than many states. I don’t know what reason you have to say they should just be consumed by another state, unless a blue region getting control of two new senators happens to be politically inconvenient for you...

They want to be free of their current government.

Chinese people, like many other people around the world, believe that being left-handed is “wrong”. When my mother discovered that I am left-handed, she tried to correct my flaw by tying my left hand behind my back to force me to write and draw with my right hand. It didn’t work, but it taught me that there is…

The White House has said that some Americans could expect the first wave of stimulus payments this weekend, with more rolling out in the weeks ahead.

My question is this. When the republicans had complete control of the government (Congress and the WH), why didn’t they just pass a law saying that abortion is illegal or should be left up to the states?

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety Jennifer Cudd is in Rusk, TX teaching and trying to get her gun license reinstated. https://www.cbs7.com/2021/02/12/east-texas-teachers-license-to-carry-suspended-in-case-of-mistaken-identity-with-jenny-cudd/

Except Manchin *did* get a win. He got held up as the moderate keeping the “scary socialists” in check.

No no. You’re not supposed to talk about anything else in the bill. Just the checks. Because you’re average Gawker-blogger doesn’t have kids or live on an income at such a level where the UI benefits or additional ACA benefits matter.

Mitch was the main force behind them doing next to nothing in 2020. And Trump figured that his base was large enough to keep him in the White House, so he didn’t slap the taste out of Mitch’s mouth and tell him to run people 2k.

I gave up 1/2 way thru the article and skipped to the comment section.

I still want to know why the fuck it happened in the first place. I have a feeling Google paid them off not to say which is fucked up. And a month being locked out? He has to have been paid off to bypass that fact...

It’s not a happy answer, but I think it’s a fair one. Congress is asking him to forgive up to $50k because they can’t get their act together to do ANYTHING, and he’s saying he won’t do that much because it isn’t in the power of the President’s hands to do that.

I was literally asking if that was what you thought needed to happen. You need a Snickers?

Time to download 17 years of my life from Google Takeout, and start looking at more reliable alternatives.

I love Harold’s, but it can be maddeningly inconsistent. Not just from store to store, but visit to visit. usually it’s great, but sometimes it’s just ordinary and that’s disappointing when it happens.

Like some of you guys sound outright mad that Democrats managed to win the presidency.

The headline is very misleading. They voted against an *instant* $15/hr minimum wage-because the plan is to bring it up to there over a few years, like almost every modern minimum wage increase. This is just outrage bait.