daasbalabatim.bsky.social
Neo-Misnaged, siddur collector, transit user, 🚴🏻‍♂️
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I lived in an apartment with no outdoor space, the massive park like 1/4 mile away was closed for like 5ish months. Was pretty long and onerous!
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lmao i had no idea they used to be cloverleaves
i guess traffic engineers were huffing even more lead than the typical person of the era
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I've always dreamed of assigning halakhic gender based on when you get to shul
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Aww that's sad, Artscroll is basically trash compared to Singer.
The australians I've met at least lein in the beautiful Western Ashkenazi tune at least
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Nusach Windsor? Presumably that's just United Synagogue - Nusach Anglia. Hard to get a siddur outside the UK (and probably other countries where it's dominant, like Australia and NZ), unfortunately.
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The Pace buses that go on the shoulder (and CTA on LSD once we have an express lane God willing one day) should have special signs that mock motorists for sitting in traffic. But otherwise, I wanna know the route and that's it!
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Dare i ask what a "bonds dogs" is?
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Hell yeah let's do it
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He should run for mayor of Chicago, he had a higher approval rating than the current mayor, and being a convicted criminal might help him
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They’ve really lost the pretense of being “pro peace” or “anti war”, and lefties, being a bunch of gullible rubes, are still along for the ride.
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I guess everyone stocked up coping and now they’re not partying?
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I really wonder how much of the democrats defeat was because being a progressive involves being miserable all the time
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There’s no magical reserve of communists or whatever who won’t show up but will vote for Marx incarnate. Yeah they probably exist, but there are orders of magnitude more swing voters with politics that are weird but not radical who won’t
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Republicans after 08 and 12 said a more conservative candidate would’ve won. They were wrong, but they still thought so! There’s never any evidence for this take, it’s always inability to cope with the fact that sometimes voters don’t like you and your ideology
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I don’t see how where they appear on the ballot is relevant, and enshrining abortion in constitutions isn’t actually left of Harris.
The “voters obviously want more things I like” is the most common American post-defeat delusion and it’s almost always wrong
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Harris won a higher % in VT than Bernie did.
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I dunno, I think Bernie’s a symbol of “the left” and Harris outran him. Gonna bet the NC democrats who won while Harris lost are right of the median candidate too.
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If that’s true you’d expect far left candidates to outrun Harris. Is that actually the case?
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…who performed worse than Harris lmao
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Not have politicians trying to appeal to voters who are extremely fickle about showing up in the first place. Here’s the Chicago voting data, you can see under 25 and above 75 there’s a big dropoff m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Yes, but it’s not terribly important because they don’t turn out well, no?
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The data is that voters under 25 are fickle about voting at all, and that’s also when brains get developed
This is just a convenient illustration
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(Sometimes instead of stolen they imagine a whole population who’s fed up and despondent and would vote if only a candidate had some super specific niche ideology. This exists on both left and right, and is at least a more entertaining cope)
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The entire population of Centre County is about 150k, soooo yeah largely meaningless for the result
It’s cope. People who lose elections often try to convince themselves into thinking it was stolen instead of contending with the fact that voters don’t like them
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Actually I like my hearing impaired wife to be able to consent to medical care and interact with physicians
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The Canadians I gave directions to were messed up because their app had the massive Van Buren-Millenium make up time, the transit app was telling them to switch to a bus when their hotel was right by Millenium!
I just hope my telling them to take the South Water exit worked out for them...
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I mean this trip is extremely easy on the #1 bus (except it's probably horribly delayed by expo traffic)
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The unique bit is that there was nowhere with a Jewish majority at the time, but the unique bit is Jews being a national group that was very dispersed, rather than it being something unique about Zionism.
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I don’t think this is as unique as you think. Most nationalist movements claimed territory where other people lived and objected to the nationalist project.
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This is even more a function of where you are in your time zone east-west than north. In Chicago sunset is at 4:41 today
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The opposite thing is a good argument for vote by mail (my wife trusts my judgement about what judges to vote for so she doesn’t need to bother)
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Yeah not the first time I’ve seen that mentioned