patrickbrettell.bsky.social
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Well, I hope you have a happy birthday whether or not Aces acknowledges it.
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They should be provided work-related materials by their employers, too, but that they're not doesn't mean the federal government, as an employer, should be just as bad.
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Offices/directorates/agencies/administrations within the federal bureaucracy.
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I don't have a list of publications purchased this way. I assume there's a process intended to keep subscriptions fairly neutral, but there are probably organizations that manage to get something more right- or left-leaning.
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Offices that have a need for news consumption will purchase special subscriptions that allow their staff to access the publications at work.
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Doesn't that make him the victim more than the perpetrator?
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He is/was in a small denomination with "Catholic" in it's name but not what most people think of when they think of the Catholic church. That denomination defrocked him, though.
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Saw this when I looked you up the other day. Explained the concept to my older daughter last night. Her inaugural happy word of the day was "Lidiya" (her aunt who'd stopped by to visit after work).
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Yeah, those, and Schumer, Pelosi, Harrison, and Jeffries referenced by you in a thread in response to a comment saying challenge everything and make the courts say it's legal followed by a comment wishing that Dems would listen to that advice.
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Congressional Dems wouldn't have standing, would they? States do, so the state Attorneys General could bring the suit.
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Hey-- it "decided" on o being 0 on its own.
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Dug a little more and it turns out it *was* a PPP/market rate difference:
data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...
Your figure (the PPP one) seems the more appropriate comparison for this topic, so I withdraw my statement that it wouldn't even be a rivalry.
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To clarify: I had about the same figure as you for Mississippi but the much lower figure from the World Bank for Hungary.
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The World Bank: data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...
I'm wondering if yours is PPP and mine is market rates?
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And since I see people have brought up medians in the replies, I'll note median individual income in Hungary is just over half median individual income in Mississippi.
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It wouldn't even be a rivalry. Hungary's per capita gdp is about 40% Mississippi's.
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(Never mind-- I realize now you're correcting the word "begins".)
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Begins again or a document one prepares for a job search?
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Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too is kind of a mouthful when you need to yell at your kid to not stick a fork in an outlet.
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Memento, by Joe Abercrombie.
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"Plotting his revenge" is kind of an odd euphemism.
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It's just unprofessional is what it is.
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I have all my CDs and all my DVDs/Blu-rays, both to my wife's chagrin. Still listen to/watch them, though.
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Got it-- but the same would apply to NV which actually went red which was why I was asking about the difference. (The same would really apply to most states to greater and lesser degrees. Eyeballing it, CA is about 4/5ths red, geographically, for example.)
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VA 9/10th red? Are you speaking geographically? It has 2 Democratic senators and has gone blue the last 5 presidential elections.
MD is behind only DC and VT in terms of vote share going to the Democrats, so I don't get the swaying, either.
NV, on the other hand, swayed red in 2024.
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I was wondering why Nevada would be included but not Maryland and Virginia.
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Just say it's your top-10 list (now in duodecimal).
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*Not* using "female" as an adjective in places where one would obviously use "male" to distinguish the male counterparts (e.g. women politicians but male politicians) comes off as one of those who/whom overcorrections and is teeth-gratingly annoying.
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She saw "death recorded" and thought people were executed, so I'm not sure if this is a step up or sideways in her assumptions.
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Much better than half a coyote, if I'm being honest.
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I don't know anything about this group but it's from an analysis they performed before the election:
www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
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There'd be dozens of you!
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False alarm, everybody. Turns out it was lying in bed while procrastinating on making breakfast that was making me hungry.
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This thread is making me hungry.
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Flank steak used to be cheap?
(This is an expression of surprise, not doubting your statement. As long as I've been paying attention to prices, it's been one of the more expensive cuts. Not even sure I've ever had it precisely because of that.)
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It's only a bad word if we let it be. Social Security is, by definition, an entitlement.
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Plus, you'll have back.
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Hasn't their man-on-the-street reaction thing always been (satirical) reactions to real stories?
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I used to describe it-- the commercially available kind-- as flavored sweat. I mean, that's essentially what they advertised it as if you paid attention to the commercials.
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Is it worth noting that even if the alleged yelling/disagreement occurred, one year off a 7-1/2 sentence is still not "getting off"? There are vanishingly few things I'd be willing to do if they risked 6-1/2 years in prison.
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But if she's so certain her daughter will be rejected, why would she consider it her (daughter's) safety school?
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I read that as her saying when she was applying to schools (years ago), UCLA was her safety, but now circumstances had changed enough that it would be a reach for her kid.
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There's also a strawberries and ice cream version of this exact model.
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I would've guessed janitor as higher skill classification than cashier. Is it just a matter of a high percentage of the former's work notionally being things you'd do in your own home?
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Yeah, I struggle to come up with examples, so I clearly don't understand it well.
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"Begs the question" has morphed into meaning "raises the question". The earlier meaning was a logical fallacy in which a conclusion of an argument is assumed in the premise used to "prove" it.
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I give prescriptivists/you/(me?) a pass on fighting for "begs the question" because there is no other concise term in English to convey that meaning, and what it has morphed to already had a concise term.
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Don't they have to keep them on their books as liabilities, though?
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You ever have a problem with yours fading/blurring? My only one is 27 years old now with considerable blurring, and I'm just wondering if it's possible to get it touched up to look like it originally did.