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This is a thread for discussing political issues. I will moderate this thread by enforcing this rule: stick to discussing political issues or be suspended. I don't need help enforcing that rule. If somebody violates it, don't call him out on it, and don't use the report button. Just trust that...
One of the best purchases I ever made was a box of many hundreds of pens that I got for around $15. They were rejects that didn't pass quality control because the custom printing on them was blurred or smudged or misspelled or whatever. They're all different colors and shapes and sizes of...
I came across an article today that I wanted to post in the ACLU thread, but based on my search for threads with "ACLU" in the title, it appears that we don't have one. The oversight is now corrected.
This article makes me sad...
This first post will just be a quick brain-dump in outline form, intended to serve as a jumping-off point for discussion. Feel free to discuss any points raised here, or to raise new ones.
Is capitalism good or bad?
Wikipedia provides an excellent one-sentence description of capitalism...
For most of the past four years, I've subscribed to both the New York Times and the Washington Post. (And to The Atlantic, but I don't really consider that to be news, for the most part.)
As part of a general effort to read more things with staying power (e.g., books) rather than things that...
This is a great essay by Matt Yglesias.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/is-asymmetrical-polarization-real
Edit: Quoted here.
I wanted to post it in an existing thread because that way I could just post the link without feeling like I should comment a bunch on it, but I don't see a thread that's...
Best writing out there today, IMO.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
I'll post occasional quotations from or comments about his essays in this thread and see where it goes...
This NYT article has me frightened.
The Constitution says that, after an election, each state's Electors shall put their votes in an envelope and deliver them to the Vice President so that they can be counted. The Vice President opens all the envelopes in the presence of both houses of...
About a year ago I started entering movies into a spreadsheet with various information about them (year, run time) as well as ratings from critics and audiences at RottenTomatoes, MetaCritic, Amazon, and IMDb.
I created a formula for scoring the movies based on those ratings according to...
We need bipartisan governmental reform in a number of areas, including the codification of sensible norms that should no longer rely on voluntary compliance. Post your proposals in here.
Let's divide these into three categories:
1. Reforms that can be achieved via executive orders. (E.g...
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