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I'd actually prefer the justice system abide by the law and current sentencing guidelines. But like yes, obviously he should be prosecuted if he breaks the law just like...anyone else you might name.

Harris and Stein tied at 29%, with 11% of the cohort’s support going to Donald Trump

She's tied...for first place among Muslim voters. And Trump is getting almost 2/3rds less.

It's not that any life is better than nothing, it's that a good-enough life is better than nothing, and there has to be some level at which it can be said a chicken had a good-enough life.

Obviously he doesn't think factory farm chicken lives are worth living, but he thinks there is a possible chicken life that is.

We actually do make this calculation for humans. A lot of countries traditionally get abortions if a fetus has down syndrome, that is a decision saying that life is not worth living. The US doesn't do that as much but there are conversations around euthanasia, that's the same idea but for humans. There is a level of a good-enough life and we weigh life and death decisions around that.

I think the real argument against this is just that the whole idea doesn't track and killing any animal for sustenance when you don't have to is just wrong at the core. THAT is where I disagree, but I can't math my way into changing your mind on it because I'm accounting for the quality of life for potential future beings, and you're just not. I don't think there's a "right" way to account for that inherently.

A Welshman about to traverse a steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley: "Oh baby I'm gonna cwm!"

Peter Singer is 'the godfather of animal rights' or whatever and he has a metric for ethical chicken farming, like a certain number of chickens raised per acre, free range.

It's way fewer chickens than currently raised but I think that's an interesting way to think about it...if we didn't have demand for eating chicken, many of these chickens wouldn't exist. Is that better than living a close-enough approximation of your wild life? Kind of a hard question.

Women are not unemployed

People like the popular progressive ideals and they don't like the unpopular ones.

Harris should support a higher minimum wage and not support Medicare replacing private insurance or taking money away from the police.

Not sure why people want to generalize the popularity of some of their positions to the popularity of all positions. If all their positions were super popular there would be more people in The Squad.

There really should be a Bluetooth setting for "do not auto connect me." My car does this too, I wear bluetooth headphones a lot and for short to medium car trips it's not worth it to have to connect and put my headphones back only to pull them back out and reconnect after I arrive, I'd rather just listen to headphones the whole time, but my car waits until I've turned on the car and pulled out of the driveway to auto connect against my wishes.

It broke X, can't tell if on purpose or some weird algorithm thing. I clicked on trending topics and Hunter Biden was trending but only 1 in 3 of the tweets under that trending topic mentioned Hunter, and all of them were about Gus.

Then the same thing for Barron Trump, and Kyle Rittenhouse. A series of young men became trending topics but all of the tweets were about Gus. Just odd.

Obviously some of it was people comparing Gus to the other guys but a majority were just straight up about Gus and no one else.

Finally, slower mail. The one thing that was keeping the Post Office from being profitable was how fast the mail got sent.

Ironically if the Bible had specifically called out race-based bigotry as seen hundreds of years later during and after the African Slave Trade it would have been pretty good evidence of God's omniscience.

Or it would have caused some sort of time loop since Christian Europeans wouldn't have done it if it was explicitly called out.

I just don't care about this framing. I want him to fail in all his political endeavors, I think he would be particularly dangerous if re-elected, and also, I never met the guy and I don't care if he has a certain feeling or another. He's personally pissed off? Ok, fine. I don't care.

But he specifically said he didn't have a series of mini strokes, when nobody had asked. Claimed he was getting ahead of a rumor he said everybody was spreading when nobody had ever heard it.

I think that clears it up.

It helps that it's a Cruz year.

Allred vs Cruz is currently 45/47, it's pretty close. Might be a pretty important Senate race if the Democrats lose one of the closer ones.

It's one event with a month of prep time and a teleprompter. Biden hasn't lost all faculties, but he can't be this "on" every day for the next 3 months while also being president. This is carefully curated to his strengths, making him look good, which is great, but it's no sign he could be president in 4 years.

He's never finishing the series. He's going to be 76 in a month, he still has probably most of Winds to finish after 13 years, the math doesn't work out to getting A Dream of Spring, let along the fact that this story is way too big to satisfactorily conclude in 2 books at this point, and even if it could be done it would be complex and difficult and take longer than usual.

I'm irrationally still hopeful we get Winds. But that is it.

Such performative masculinity, you can never be the underdog or have nuance.

Harris is up by a point or two nationally, and that's not necessarily enough to win. Battleground states are all too close to call. The RCP electoral map is still giving Trump the win granted they tend to be R-biased in their poll aggregation but that is the path to claiming Trump is in the lead.

The most charismatic man I know is my uncle, he worked right near the WTC on 9/11 and even though they closed his bridge home because it was 9/11 he sweet talked his way across.

These are not polls they are odds of winning.

Latest Quinnipiac poll of Pennsylvania has Harris up by 3 points, 50% to 47%. Based on that low level of undecided/3rd party voters, trend lines, historical movement of polls from mid August to November, Nate Silver's model predicts that 59% of the time, the candidate who is winning 50% to 47% right now will win the state in November.

If these were the poll numbers she'd probably be in Texas trying to flip it, that would be crazy.

Right wing randos from the middle of nowhere, I get why they get pulled down the rabbit hole.

Elon Musk, is a hyper online nerd and he is constantly surrounded by yes men. I get why he got pulled down the rabbit hole.

Donald Trump is a Fox News grandpa who surrounds himself with the hard right because they support him unconditionally. I get why he got pulled down the rabbit hole.

But JD Vance is arguably the furthest down the rabbit hole of all of them, and I don't get why.

Theoretically he's the senator for a whole state who voted for Obama twice. His day job is in the Democrat-controlled Senate, if he wants to get anything done he needs to work with Democrats. How is he such a true believer in this stuff?!?