Bernie Sanders is about as extreme as they come in the US- and he’s maybe center-left at his most extreme.

This is based on policies he pushes for, right? I always got the impression he would push as far left as possible, which with today’s democrats means “center left at best”.

It’s not illegal to mention jury nullification, and even a prospective juror talking about it won’t necessarily get them sent home.

I think most people just don’t like the time changes twice a year. Permanent standard time or summer time doesn’t matter as much to me, just pick one and stay with it.

If you want to do something about invasive species in your day to day life, plant a variety of native plants. These can be potted plants on a balcony, a whole garden, or even a lawn replacement. Not only are native plants well suited to your area, they also support native wildlife. Pollenators, birds, invertebrates, and even lizards might call your yard home.

Doves are just pigeons with better PR. Cool pictures! I love how much color variation pigeons have.

I prefer root vegetables cooked medium (carrots) to well done (potatoes). Greens are excellent rare, though.

Sorting their account comments by oldest, you see some of that variation I was talking about. There’s about ten normal looking comments total, then two weeks ago they suddenly started with these long LLM looking comments, all about relatively serious topics. I don’t think it’s necessarily an actual bot, but maybe just someone using an LLM to expand or format their comments.

I had doubts, but scrolling through their comment history almost every comment is this length without much variation. Then I saw those were all just in the past eight hours. Seems pretty fishy to me.

Edit: I kept scrolling and wow, the sheer volume of comments this length is astounding. I would normally expect more variation in topics and comment length.

I have almost zero knowledge about Syria, historical, political, or otherwise, so please take this as the genuine question it is:

While HTC (I assume this is the current government?) is obviously not perfect, are they not still a clear improvement over Assad? I guess it’s possible that the new government would treat people similarly, but just has different “enemies”, which would explain why the new government freed people imprisoned by the Assad regime.

Hitler took 53 days.

I had never heard of this specific amount of time in reference to Hitler. Here’s an Atlantic article that goes in depth, but “Hitler 53 days” gave plenty of search results.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

Edit: To call the article haunting is an understatement.

It sounds like you’ve misinterpreted the term “big box store”. The stores you’re referring to could likely also be considered big box stores, but more specifically they are warehouse stores.

What would you consider a big box store?

I just wish him telling the world what he was going to do would have fired people up in November.

Was this a similar move as with OP? Meaning you had preexisting ties to the country before moving?

No don’t, that’s not good for the flowers!

Missed opportunity for this to be a wireless charger.

Arguably a false positive prison rate that is lower than the old innocent murder victim rate is still a net improvement. No system is perfect, and even inaction has an associated cost.

Here’s the source: https://www.usa.gov/minimum-wage
I did not pull it out my ass, although it’s clearly been pulled out of some.

The fact that the US minimum wage laws are so abhorrent that you felt the need to cite your source is tragically comedic.

I especially like the time to read estimate.

There’s never been a case of something having different behavior or health effects just because of a tiny chemical difference (trans fat) or size difference (micro plastics), what’s the worst that could happen?