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But the NATO spending targets, in general...sure. I have no objection whatsoever to holding folks to their pledged level. It'd be nice if the US carried a bit less of the NATO spending burden. Maybe if everyone hit their minimum targets, we could dial back down a bit. But the spending targets are h...

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I feel like the smart move on the Republican's side at this point would be to withdraw Kavanaugh's nomination and try to get Amy Coney Barrett confirmed as quickly as possible. Of course, that would require Trump's ego being able to deal with a strategic "loss".

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An accusation isn't evidence. We don't even have testimony, let alone evidence. Axing someone's job on the basis of an accusation without testimony seems contrary to any sort of standards of evidence, and we have these for good reason. Without that, pretty much anybody could toss accusations at any...

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I think this one's actually going to happen. I suspect the owners have dollar signs in their eyes when contemplating the merchandising opportunities, even if they may have to be careful to avoid the wrath of Disney. I will note that while it would be silly to claim that the name as a whole's being e...

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I have never been more proud of my city: BallCorps Inc., team owners of the minor league baseball team that will begin play in Madison in 2020, announced at a community event Wednesday night at Rocket Republic Brewery in Madison that the team would be known by the monikers that received the most vot...

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The voice actor who does Pooh in the Christopher Robin movie also voiced Minsc in the Baldur's Gate game. Pooh as miniature giant space bear is now part of my headcannon. Go for the eyes, Pooh! Go for the eyes!

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In order to reduce the amount of coins you have, take out 9 ¢ to pay the last digit. (4 ¢ might be a good value, too.) If you can't do that, take out one dollar / euro in {10,20,25,50}-¢-pieces. Pay the last two digits using that (possibly slightly more). If you can't do that, Europeans need to con...

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Oh, it's even worse than that. Note that the EO calls for *SecDef* to provide and construct facilities for this. In addition to everything else, this looks an awful lot like an attempt to weaken the Posse Comitatus Act.

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So... how should border patrol go about detaining illegal immigrants? In June 2017, the administration ended the Family Case Management Program, which allowed families to be placed into a program, together, that connected them with a case manager and legal orientation that ensured they understood h...

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Should have had "Vulcan" and "Romulan" blobs on the chart.

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I say we policy-lynch all lurkers.

vote: judemorrigan

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And I'm not even someone who really cares about (or hardly ever eats) steak. But when I do, I want it done well. And also slathered in A1. I tried it "the right way" first, and as usual, most people are just self-righteously wrong. YMMV and all that, but I am reminded of the first time I ...

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You can totally learn. I went in at age 30 with zero dancing background (apart from getting drunk and flailing my arms like that David Boreanaz video you linked). The main requirement is a bit of tenacity and not knowing when it's time to give up. There's actually quite a lot of nerds in the dance ...

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It was known as "Bullshit!" amongst my family and friends back in the day.

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Whelp, the googles suggest that his twitter account has seven total tweets, so I'm guessing it's not actually a terribly high priority for him.

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Of course. I certainly wouldn't object to the idea that there are time where it's not only ok but necessary to not care if you offend a specific person or group of people. But a generalized, blanket lack of care? That's quite toxic.

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Apeiron wrote:Randall Monroe is better than you.

Well, he's better than assholes who think that lack of empathy is a virtue.

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One thing I'll add: I'm not 100% sure what source ericgrau is using for their stats, but the USFA's "fires caused by appliances" stat includes "televisions, radios, video equipment, phonographs, dryers, washing machines, dishwashers, garbage disposals, vacuum cleaners, hand tools, ele...

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Don't forget the mice.

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There's telepathy though. I feel like that kind of automatically disqualifies it from being hard sci-fi.

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Once again, there's exactly zero reason to believe there was ever any intention to send or receive any classified information on the private email server. The spillage is a separate issue which would have been just as much of an issue on a state.gov account. I'm not saying the spillage wasn't techni...

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I realize I'm tilting at windmills, but I'll try again: - Clinton's use of a private email server was terrible opsec, it wasn't illegal. - Had the spillage that occurred done so on state.gov accounts, it would have broken exactly the same rules and been just as bad. - Please don't misunderstand me, ...

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Thanks for the game, all. It was kind of a brutal setup for my first go as a mafioso, but them's the breaks. I tried to deal with it by sticking as closely as I could to my town play, but boy did that bite me on the rear a couple of times. Out of curiosity, Sabrar, did you vote for Diemo on D1 becau...

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WoT2:

Spoiler:

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WoT2: Well, crap. Sorry, teammates. I tried! Maybe not super-well, but I did! Things I'd like to reiterate for the record (before I spoiler dive): - My vote/unvote of Dim on D1 really was just me having flavor fun. As I think y'all may have noticed, I have a really soft spot in my he...

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KnightExemplar wrote:FDR basically packed the Supreme Court with individuals he liked, gained sweeping executive power that has never been seen since.

FDR *tried* to pack the Court. He failed miserably, squandering the political capital he gained with his huge victory in '36.

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WoT2: I would have loved to have gotten that lynch back on SirGabriel, but was afraid that making the swap late would have looked excessively scummy. Also, I'm disturbed by how much dim has right. I don't understand his logic on me though. If anything, I feel like GoP pushed the lynch on ahi...

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Jude, I think it'd be better to lynch ahippo rather than SirGabriel. Either way it will confirm, but if they are Siuan, I'd rather lynch the supporter than Siuan herself. As convinced as I am that SirGabriel's flavor claim is fundamentally incompatible with his name claim ... that's entirely fair. ...

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WoT2 Goddammit, mpolo had missed the significance of SG's slip. If I had just kept my mouth shut, things would have gone far better for me. I made my post assuming he'd notice the inconsistency and was trying to beat him to the rush so I'd get credit for it. On the plus side, it appears ...

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You find it 'barely inconceivable' that we have no Black Ajah. Do you have any evidence to support that or do you really think that Siuan would not be Town? I find it 'barely conceivable' that we have no Black Ajah. As in, I'm not willing to completely discount the possibility, but consider it unli...

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He stated "Also, the flavor of my role PM mentioned that someone is spreading rumors about the non-existent Black Ajah".

Either that's a lie or his being Siuan is a lie. No two ways around it.

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WoT2: Hoo, boy. I really hated to do that. I would *love* if people generally bought the line that SirGabriel was trying to sell. But that was a really, really obvious lie to anyone familiar with the books. I can only assume he had no idea just how transparent it was. I have to assume that if I didn...

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Hmm, that's an interesting story, SirGabriel. I even think there's a lot of truth in it. There's just one problem ... From tDR (book 3), Chapter 14: "I suppose you don't [understand], at that. You are the only two in the Tower that I can be absolutely sure are not Black Ajah." The Amyrlin'...

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WoT2: I wish Sabrar hadn't asked me to revisit my setup spec. As is, I'm very worried that I'm going to get caught out for my lies and lack of knowledge about the fact that the people with Diemo's wincon were "factionless". I've been very seriously considering doing a &...

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Oh, hey! We have more time! Thoughts, since I have the chance to make them: JudeMorrigan: my main problem with his content that he spends a lot of time replying to others and provides few reads of his own (I think this is only thing from D2 but please feel free to point out if I missed anything). Th...

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And what the hell. As leery as I may be about wagons right now:

vote: ahippo

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WoT2: Ok, I'm going to need advice after the game. Obviously I'm Scummy McScumFace, but I've mostly been trying really hard to play this game like I would if I were town. Had I not been afraid that people would conclude that it was a change in my meta, I would have hopped onto the bessie...

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JudeMorrigan - Some setup speculation based on flavor. Not-very-useful town-to-scum list. Finds bessie townie and ahippo scummy (or at least likely non-town). Then votes Diemo, not for lurking but for one comment about it being possible that someone other than Black is the mafia (which is not an un...

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WoT2: The general blah and defeated tone of my last post was not feigned. It's no one's fault but my own, I really need to accept that mafia is just not my game. I should probably co-mod a game sometime, but playing it? Probably not really for me. I *do* have to continue to try though in thi...

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