Wild how US life-expectancy has been dropping since 2018, and how little coverage or attention is given to it. Life-expectancy hadn't dropped since the Great Influenza until the last several years, compounded by suicide, drug overdose, healthcare unaffordability and the Pandemic.

The first open trans woman I met was my friend's mom, who didn't worry about passing. She told her son "I'm a fat bearded trans woman who's not on hormones and still have a hot girlfriend 10 years younger than I; if you don't have a girlfriend, you're not trying hard enough." 😂

Elon Musk 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

Yes or no answer to be concise: Is Turkey part of Europe?

Haven't eaten all day, and just dug into some Galaktoboureko

I've said it before, but the difference we'd see in our government if voting was mandatory would be astounding. Even small fines for neglecting the duty have been shown to heavily motivate eligible voters in Australia. Crucial to this is making voting trivially easy.

Now that Maryland has finally legalized Cannabis, I'm interested to see the impact this has on Federal legislation, given the dominance of this state and fellow legal state Virginia in the Federal government.

I can't possibly understate the political & policy consequences of this: Democrats just gained full control of four state governments today. Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, and Minnesota. (I have no idea what to make of the aliteration.)

Estoy siempre sorprendido de la cantidad de palabras españoles de origen árabe. Sin ellas, sería una idioma completamente distinto.

Kind of funny when I think about the parallels between myself and Pete Buttigieg; gay, married Navy veteran who speaks many languages, and has Middle-Eastern ancestry.