scocca.bsky.social
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What was called a lie was “like your insurance, keep your insurance”, and the claim overlooked the population of people with cheap and shitty insurance, who liked the “cheap” and had not yet gotten sick enough to experience the shittiness.
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The author, though, somehow believes that the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights only apply to citizens, which is inconsistent with both the language of the Bill of Rights and legal precedent.
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At which point Ginny’s calendar will be suddenly empty.
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“Fairness in women’s sports” is just the latest version of “Ethics in gaming journalism”.
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I dunno. Have you seen the congressional democrats lately?
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Apparently they also had some folks living right around here. abc11.com/post/cult-nc...
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I used to carry in my wallet a piece of paper, the size of a standard post-it folded in half, with dozens of phone numbers in teeny-tiny type. (Originally handwritten on an actual post-it; later printed in 5pt type and cut out/folded.)
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i have always been fascinated by people who throw the charge of "race and gender essentialism" at people whose views are "race is a socially constructed fiction and gender isn't a rigid binary"
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Spicy sweet chili. Purple bag wins.
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Oh, he’s not going to SELL them to the local departments. He’s going to have the federal government buy them at a price he sets, and then “donate” them to police departments, specifically to the ones that best comply with Trump’s wishes.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...
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This is why I consider my party identification to be as an “anti-Republican”. If the Democrats and Republicans agree on something, it is far more likely that the Democrats are in the wrong than it is that the Republicans are in the right.
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Yeah—this gets back to the whole “if you like your plan you can keep it” issue — there’s a sizeable population whose sole criterion is low premiums, either because they’re healthy or because they don’t believe non-crappy coverage exists.
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On the other hand, I hate the Circle K self checkout stations where you sit all your stuff on a little platform and it uses cameras to identify your items and present your total. I don’t trust it to be right enough for me to pick the stuff up and walk away.
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What I love as a customer are self-service/ touchscreen kiosks for ordering customizable food. From my end, it eliminates concerns about getting it all taken down correctly; from the retailer’s end, it allows presenting all possible options (including up-sells).
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At least you were talking to a canine rather than to a human child.
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Of course, “originalists” by and large care very little about the authors of the post-Civil War amendments and their intentions.
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I guess he’s not on board with the independent state legislature approach, then?
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Not mockingly, but named by people who were interested in providing health care to Black folks.
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For example, in 1976 “Durham Regional Hospital” opened to replace “Watts Hospital” and “Lincoln Hospital”.
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Well, in the South that kind of ended with official desegregation. Down here, “Lincoln” was used to name facilities that were specifically for Black folks.
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Given where he came from, I don’t know that it influenced this immigrant so much as it simply appealed to him.
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“The worst possible white person would be a better president than any Black person. So let’s find the worst possible white person and elect him.”
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Wait until Clarence passes and see what happens to Ginny’s social calendar.
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I was in need of a cheap wallet in a hurry, and the local Super Target had exactly one wallet in the entire store. (And it was absolutely noT what I needed.)