I take the train to work and my wife drives an electric car to work. I hope oil goes to eight million dollars a barrel just so I can be smug about it.

The OP is not correct in my experience. With the caveat that my campus may not be typical, when I was in college (2007-11) the college republicans were broadly speaking McCain/Romney types. Heck some thought those guys were too far right.

Feels like these people are totally high on their own supply. “Someone please protect the power of the hereditary nobility” appeals to, maybe Curtis Yarvin, and approximately zero other of their voters.

"Warning, this particular snake oil might actually work."

Also the "hidden ingredient," is exactly what I would have expected it to be lol. I know you can't take prescription drugs without a prescription for good reason, but it's not like a real shocker.

I was broadly aware of the shift from Old Style to New Style dates, but I would have put it 200 years earlier than 1752 if I had been forfed to guess. That's like the start of the industrial revolution, I thought this was "way olden times."

Leopard, *my* face, and so forth.

Say what you will about Nero, but fiddling is substantially more dignified than the double jerk off dance

My tenuous grasp on normal people comes mostly from the genuinely baffling shows they advertise during CBS NFL games. Something called Two Broke Girls ran from my childhood until like last year.

The Nobletiger is great because it is both the most infuriating thing in baseball and the thing that can make start talking like my grandfather: “kids these days with their exit velocity and their launch angle, and they don’t know how to just put the ball in play when that’s all you have to do.”

I knew about tootblan but thanks to this I learned about the nobletiger, a concept I have raged at for decades but never had a word for

Old people in America call standardized tests that I think

“Muslims vote for the left in Europe” much like “blacks vote for democrats in America” is treated as, at best, some sort of mystery, rather than “no one voted for someone who openly hates you.”

“Christ was deported” and “Christ was the protester kidnapped,” are very close to exactly just the first and last things to happen in His life.

*descendent

My favorite fact I learned today is that the remaining hereditary peers had to be in proportion to the party composition of hereditary peers as of the 90s. So it’s like 90 Conservatives, 1 Labour (the son of some mid-century politician) and 1 LibDem (the decedent of 18th c PM John Russell)

“All Coasts Conference.”

Watched it a few days ago on The Cock, which had it early. Have they ever had close personal relations as contestants before? Much less two sets?

True, but also Lord Glasman is one of the dumbest people in the country.

Ok but that part is true

It’s certainly not a bad thing but was this a problem? Of all places that criminal defendants could easily secure extremely high quality pro bono representation, I would have thought scotus was at the top because so may lawyers want the prestige of a scotus argument.

I don’t love that all three potential 2028 candidates tested here are all below the two potential R candidates.

This website struggles immensely with the normative/descriptive distinction.

The throw from his knees was breathtaking. And it’s a routine out at first with iirc no one on base but my goodness.

There’s got to be a position that holds 1) people shouldn’t go to prison for petty shoplifting but also 2) shoplifting (particularly among rich people doing it for thrills as appears to be the case here) is bad behavior that should be socially stigmatized and punished.

The pretty obvious message of the last year to everyone from Iran to, somehow, Denmark, is that a nuclear weapon is the only guarantee of sovereignty.

Feel like a lot of that was from before the best Americans started playing, but just guessing.

Paul Skenes getting to play with an actual good baseball team is like seeing a shelter dog find its forever home.

“Welcome to the home of the AAA Toledo Mud Hens, for tonight’s WBC game”

I used to think the reason their fans outnumbered ours in soccer games near the border was as that they liked soccer more, but I now most consider they are just better sports fans.