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I feel classy using it

I have one of those long shoehorns that let me put my shoes on without even leaning down. It makes me feel downright aristocratic. (And it's metal too, no plastic for me!)

What is hard drive? What is save?

A shoehorn. It makes putting shoes on so much easier, and for just a couple of dollars. I'm perfectly capable of putting my shoes on without it, but I enjoy not having to.

I'm not saying it would be called "the NYC metro area". I've lived in Boston and I've lived in NYC and I think that while people in Boston would indeed object, the cultural differences are largely superficial. In my experience, Boston is more different from southern New Hampshire than it is from NYC.

I don't think New England is a useful category anymore, since modern-day Maine doesn't have more in common with the Boston area than it does with upstate New York. I'd extend what they're calling the "NYC Metro" area from Boston in the north to Philadelphia (or maybe even D.C.) in the south as a sort of east coast mega-city.

Was this shelling by the Russians (from when there was a Ukrainian cross-border raid) or is Ukraine shelling targets inside Russia now?

My non-joke answer is apprenticeship. Kids could actually learn how to do a valuable job rather than graduating from high school with almost no useful skills.

Hah, I expect that Mitch McConnell is still going to vote for him.

defense attorneys argued that Manhattan prosecutors had placed “highly prejudicial emphasis on official-acts evidence,” including Trump’s social media posts and witness testimony about Oval Office meetings

It's unclear to me why an official act cannot be used as evidence that a different unofficial act occurred. Let's say candidate Trump shoots Bob on Fifth Avenue and then, after being elected, threatens to "kill Joe the way [he] killed Bob" during his State of the Union address. He can't be held accountable for threatening to kill Joe, but he did just confess that he killed Bob while he wasn't president. Why couldn't this confession be used as evidence in his trial for killing Bob? Or, for that matter, in his trial for killing Joe if he went on to kill Joe after he was out of office?

Note that the song is banned by at least one festival. It isn't illegal.

The use of the song by the far right is thought to have begun in late 2023

Is that really so long ago that it even counts as a song associated with them? This reminds me of Pepe the hate symbol...

I wonder if Watergate would have been an official act according to this new doctrine.

The funny thing is that a basic understanding of the Bible is actually important for making sense of American history - the people making that history were strongly influenced by the Bible and so unless you know at least the major "plot points", their actions (and a lot of literature) won't make much sense.

With that said, I don't trust Oklahoma to teach about the Bible in a manner appropriate for historical analysis rather than religious dominance.