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Pretty sure it is illegal.

People trip me out with this "cursive is good for your learning" stuff. Part of the research boils down to the idea that cursive is harder to read and write, so it makes your brain work harder. That's probably true, but I'm not convinced learning an archaic, less useful writing form is the best way to achieve that result of giving your brain a workout. More importantly, I think people really frequently forget the big picture when they hear a tidbit of brain science. We have what is basically a turbocharged chimpanzee brain. It is incredibly adaptable, but our brain as a piece of biological equipment evolved well before we invented things like writing. The idea that one specific style (cursive) from one specific culture group (Europe) of one relatively recent human invention (writing) is a key to how humans learn should be absurd on its face. If cursive can provide that benefit, almost certainly there are more useful pursuits that could as well. (Like drawing for example, which is mentioned in some of the same studies.)

And yet he does not have the attention span for anything approaching that length of time. The paradox of being an "advisor" to Trump.

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Pretty sure you're supposed to cook food in it, not wood.

I can't even imagine what it's like to be one of the congresspeople who are actually attempting to govern and improve the country and have to deal with deeply unserious schmucks in one of the country's most important roles every day.

Really hard to say in this case. Reading the whole article gives plenty of evidence that police made reasonable efforts. A sheriff's deputy made a wellness check but Card didn't answer the door. Should they have tried again, or been more aggressive? Hindsight wants us to say yes, but that's what makes these cases so hard. We don't really want a society where police knock down your door just because somebody said you were unstable. According to the article (which from what I can tell is leaning heavily on the officer's report) the deputy talked to multiple family members and Card's CO at the base. The brother and father said they had ways to get the guns and secure them. The CO said he felt like Card needed some space to recover. The ex-wife and sister said Card promised them he was about to go to the doctor for his paranoia. I'm not sure I can fault law enforcement on this one.

I don't know for sure, but the article specifically cites the 30% number unless I read it wrong. Even without taking into account taxes and insurance you aren't meeting that threshold on 75k. Once you get into the real costs of owning a home, those families would financially ruin themselves trying to make that happen. (And would almost certainly be turned down anyway.) Also, just to be clear, I'm not debating that houses were way more affordable a few years ago. That's self-evident anyway. This article just strikes me as very poor journalism either by somebody who doesn't actually understand the numbers, or somebody who handcrafted a graph to very narrowly support a sensational headline. If you lined up all the households in the US in 2020 and asked them whether they could afford to buy a 750k house, how many would say yes? 1 or 2 in 10? Maybe 3 if you really stretch? That's not what typical means.

I really wish that article had more information about their graphs and how they developed them. In 2020 the U.S. median household income was around 70-75k. You are not affording a 750k house on a 75k household income. The graph also assumes the typical family is prepared to make a 20% down payment, which is an absolutely bonkers assumption. Their definition of afford seems to be, "if we spot you the entire down payment, is the monthly payment less than 30% of your household income?" Even that is working some black magic behind the scenes. A 750k house at 3.99% interest rates is going to cost you easily over 3k per month, well outside the range of what the median income family can afford. (This doesn't even get into their apparent assumption that the average family has great credit.) tl;dr: I call massive amounts of bull**** on that article unless they can show their work somehow.

Yeah given the theme of the list I dunno if you can make any cogent argument to remove Piano Man.

Not to mention that it's the Rascall Flatts version of Life is a Highway. The list is "pretty mid" as the kids would say.

Yeah we scheduled it early only for the pharmacy to cancel our appointment. Gotta get back on that.

I think it's the classic problem that some teenagers are dicks, and the rest of the teenagers get lumped in with them. (For some people, teenagers are a scary group that gets aggressively prejudged, just like people of color and "foreigners".)

Whether companies want to spend less on labor and how they set the prices of their trucks are two separate things was the point.

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Definitely both.

Organizing works. That's why companies are so against it.

Wow, I distinctly remember you posting about that when it happened.

Yeah the jump to recipe button is one of the most important inventions of this century.

Pretty cool.

I'm not going to hold my breath, but that would be a good long-term precedent to set.

This is a great channel. He does a mix of very informative mixology videos and stuff like this:

I actually don't count Arlington, Montgomery County, or Loudon County as part of the DMV. I do however count Jefferson County, Calvert County, and most of South Jersey (not pictured).

Bro why do you have an entire pan full of spices?