sarachim.bsky.social
insufferable ice cream auteur
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Crumbling Mameluke tomb
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Are teeth the natural enemies of dentists? I'd have thought they're friends
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I think civilian electeds know if they try to make cops choose between obeying lawful civilian authority or siding with other cops, it’s not gonna go the way they want
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Trying to figure out what the deal was with that weird episode where Homer gets sent to a creepy island is how I learned about The Prisoner
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I think it's, like, British Memorial Day? In that it's nice to have an early-summer holiday and the actual reason for it is often secondary? Don't look at me, I'm from a republic.
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“Committee of part-time amateurs” worked better in 1789 than it does now
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It’s the official king’s birthday holiday, which is always in the summer even if the king’s actual birthday is not
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The fact that they’re using the Marines and not the much larger, more capable but also more diverse Army says a lot, I think.
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If the plan is to bait the government into doing violence, you will have to actually obstruct something the government is trying to do (even if it is just clearing your group off the street), or else they’ll ignore you and so will the press.
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I read the article and honestly it's one of SAS's better takes
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We would have the best public transit in the world
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Mid-May was two weeks ago
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Fixing babies' spines is just as important as blogging!
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A number of states have something like this, but there are a bunch of bureaucratic issues that limit effectiveness. Lots of cops resign or retire mid-investigation and end their careers with clean official records, for instance.
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Head of state/head of government distinction but just for NYC. Make him the Marquis of New York or something.
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But then, a miracle:
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There are nearly a million illegal settlers and Biden sanctioned less than ten. It was a joke.
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Have to assume Weaver just wasn’t ready to start the 9th. Downside of tying the game and making the third out on the same play
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It means something like "fake remorse from someone who isn't actually sorry." Crocodiles sometimes look like they're crying (it's how they get rid of excess salt), but they don't actually feel bad about being terrifying apex predators who will eat you
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Not even every five days! In Japan you pitch every seventh day, and he's still getting wrecked.
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explain it to me, then? I get that literally it's something like "it was so muddy, you'd think the Biblical flood had just ended, and it wouldn't be surprising to see a dinosaur," but apparently I'm one of those people who can't read so maybe I have it wrong
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The third sentence is a wild multi-step joke that means something like “it was raining hard enough to kill the dinosaurs,” which only makes any sense if you live in an era when “the dinosaurs died in the Biblical flood” is a mainstream scientific theory, and a dictionary is not gonna explain that
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I think the argument for putting Grisham on 3rd is that the A’s didn’t get a chance to throw home because they didn’t think they needed to. If the umps get the call right, there might be a play at home, so it’s unfair to just give Grish the base
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probably not. you can (very rarely) get a conviction overturned on the grounds that your *defense* lawyer was incompetent, but I don't think you're legally entitled to a competent adversary
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Yeah it's not the map that's bad. The Senate as an institution is bad.
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OP said “privatization and commodification of land,” not the invention of agriculture. Which is a complicated assertion given the huge variety of historical land ownership regimes, but obviously doesn’t happen immediately when societies adopt agrarianism
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Intentional walks are much less common now in general, because some very smart analytics types repeated "it is almost always bad to give the other team a free baserunner" over and over until managers starter to believe it.
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by design! Monopoly was created by a Georgist as a teaching tool for why lessez faire capitalism is bad. There was supposed to be a second phase of gameplay where the players redistribute the properties so everyone can win
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A lot of the brutal stuff American police do is *in spite* of the elevated danger from guns here, not because of it. Midnight no-knock raids maximize the odds that residents will try to shoot at cops, but cops do them anyway, even though they're occasionally inured or killed in the process
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Qualified immunity only applies to civil cases, not criminal. Repealing it is a good idea, but reformers have blown its practical importance somewhat out of proportion.
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Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law is already a federal crime that fits the fact pattern in this case, but a prosecution for it is not going to happen until 2028 at earliest and most likely will never happen at all
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Given how rarely cops get prosecuted for the crimes they already commit, I’m skeptical that making more bad behavior criminal will help as much as one might hope. A more effective remedy would be to dissolve ICE entirely and return immigration matters to civilians
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If TCW wants a Western literary anthology just for authors who rate between 3 and 6 on a 1-10 sex creep scale, he is entirely free to make one.
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Not the main issue, but it can’t be “illiberal” for Norton, a private entity, to pick and choose which authors they want in their anthology. It is actually pretty central to liberalism that they have an unrestricted right to do that however they see fit.
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Yeah super good take, the people incarcerated at Angola plantation should just move! And all those Indigenous tribes, they should abandon their historic lands and go to Boston or something!
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So you're in favor of private military facilities controlled by hereditary nobles??? Cancel this guy!!
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Playing against total-lack-of-plumbers, more like
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One of the profiles on them (I think the Guardian?) makes it clear that she's putting her body through hell to have as many children as possible even though she's not really up for it, physically. And she's bored and miserable because she only gets to spend time with the kids as infants
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To file a lawsuit, you need to have damages. If the government doesn't actually try to deport you, it's unclear what the damages would be. If you're seeking an injunction to prevent the govt from trying to deport you in the future, they can moot the case by agreeing they won't do that.
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I don't think the US should give weapons to anyone committing war crimes. The government is following that policy preference with respect to Sudan, but not with respect to Israel. Why would I protest both when only one policy needs to be fixed?
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The Democratic party, I think. Hogg is in favor of more primary challenges to Dem incumbents, which these weirdos think is some sort of conspiracy to drive Black people out of the party
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The sonnet, a poem of exactly fourteen lines of exactly ten syllables each with a strict rhyme scheme, an extremely neurotypical thing to invent
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Literacy is a curse that nobody deserves
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“Run like Einstein” is useless for most people but genuinely life-changing for anyone with a disability affecting mobility
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Fun fact when you go on Jeopardy they tell you several times that they reserve the right not to air your episode
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You also have to factor in the cost of Cities: Skylines
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It's not training, it's accountability. Without consequences, no amount of training will fix this.
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The funny thing is he's not entirely wrong- America does bully other countries sometimes, and that's part of how we got the extraordinarily favorable global trade regime that he's currently wrecking.
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Business, as he understands it, is bullying the contractor into accepting half what you promised because fighting back would cost them more than giving in. This was maybe the one thing he was actually good at- he's an inept negotiator and can't read or do math but he's very talented at bullying.
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I do think there's one thing Trump really does understand: in the pre-Apprentice days, the closest thing he ever had to a good idea was "use your wealth to screw people over and get away with it." In his mind America is the Trump of countries, and Canada is the contractor who installs the carpets.