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Most of them don't actually spend very much time in DC. A lot of them spend half the week back in their districts or more on average.

It's fantastic, I am usually skeptical of alternate history as they tend to be lazy and are often masturbatory, but this book is great.

I honestly think that Bibi knows if he tanks Biden then Trump will probably be better for his government. He has basically no incentive to be reasonable since nobody is willing to hold them accountable and he knows it's very unlikely Biden will be able to.

Chinese has so many good ones.

Please forgive the lack of tones, it's been a long long time.

Ren shan, Ren hai: a mountain and sea of people - a remarkable amount of people by Chinese standards.

Ma Ma, Hu Hu: horse horse, tiger tiger - a mixed bag, or something that's ok.

Yeah, I was trying to be careful with my comment not to imply the reason for secession was "states rights" since there are still plenty of idiots who are happy to bang that drum.

They didn't secede because they were told to stop slavery. They seceded because it looked that the national consensus was moving against the expansion of slavery to new states and territories, which would have limited slave states overall power in the long run.

They were very explicit that they were leaving to protect slavery as an institution, but to be fair nobody in power was threatening to abolish it when they did so.

They have to get usable at some point, but I got tired of the (shitty off-brand) smart watch I had after a couple minutes. I replaced it with a fully analog Seiko watch and a fitness tracker ring.

Way easier to manage and still meets the needs addressed by the smart watch.

Yep. A wildly unrealistic part of me was hoping that they were setting up a branch to split the timeline away from the sequels or just ignore then with the series. As that become pretty clearly incorrect with the most recent season of Mando and I presume Ashoka I just stopped watching. I am not really interested in seeing them try and make sense of the stupid stupid lazy premise of TFA and I don't want to see my childhood heros fail and give up. I will watch season 2 of andor because the first was awesome, but I am basically done with the franchise now.

It's so stupid though. The German conservative aristocracy wanted fascism (mainly because they were incredibly unsettled by the post WWI shake ups and terrified of bolshevism) and thought they could control the Nazis to their own ends. That pretty much immediately backfired on them. These people have to see that...

I think I have seen Central America referred to as a sub continent, but that doesn't really make sense other than to create a formal differentiation between them and USA/Canada.

North America is a continent.

Yep my wife is an expatriate of Iowa, they are a surprisingly prickly people about outsiders.