When economic independence is rare, divorce is rare.

When the IRS is under-funded, they’re less able to go after the wealthy and are left the poor who won’t be able to fight it.

This Nerdwriter video helped me understand his approach to speaking. https://youtu.be/_aFo_BV-UzI

He relied primarily on Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah support.

The people of the moon crave freedom from an unspecified tyrant.

While it’s obviously weird to want the bill of rights and declaration of independence in your Bible; let me just say, if your goal is to convert kids to Christianity, the KJV bible is just completely opaque to children that don’t normally read 17th century literature.

Well, there’s still Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico

If you get a chance, she’s absolutely amazing in Gosford Park from 2001.

It’s odd that I find this incredibly encouraging. It tells me that for all the negative coverage, the protests must be working.

I’ve been thinking about why the assassination attempts have only just now started. I wonder if they become more likely when a politician or celebrity is seen as weakening in favor as opposed to when they are on the rise.

And multi-winner ranked choice with larger districts makes gerrymandering much less impactful.

But there is surely room between “controlled by the government” and “not accountable for the content on its platform.”

Imagine trying to find shoes that don’t look like clown shoes when your toes are that spread.

In Albany, Georgia on July 20th, 2023, the relative humidity at 94 F was 54%. As someone who’s experienced dry heat vs humidity, I wanted to offer that context. Sweating just doesn’t cool you down as the humidity rises.

And this is a massive increase in authority for the courts. If there is ambiguity in the wording of a law, it’s open for a lawsuit.

My favorite baseball player is Mike Truck.

They were basically illegal until 1982. It was considered, and I believe still is, market manipulation.

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what’s going on here. There is an open league and a league restricted to women only.

Without a women’s league, there are fewer women seen playing, which reinforces the perception that it’s not a sport for women, which creates this feedback loop leading to a smaller pool of women playing chess, thus fewer grand masters who are women. I see value in creating more space for women in chess to create more opportunities for following generations.

I don’t like excluding trans women. I can imagine an argument that we’re not ready for this until we get to a place where we don’t think to distinguish between trans and cis women. A women’s league in 2023 that a young cis girl is watching that had 3 cis women and 97 trans women, still may look to that young girl like a league for trans women, and not a league for all women that they can see themselves competing in. Personally, I enjoyed watching a marginalized gender eSports competition, and I don’t think the presence of trans women invalidated the impact it could have inspiring young cis girls to pick up gaming.

“That depends, young man. Is Goku bloodlusted? Otherwise, I think I stand a shot 4/10 with planning time.”