..... Yes? There was no vote total manipulation and it was at best rare to see anyone claim there was any even at the time

If Shapiro doesn't make these tweets himself, that's probably for the better. The comments are a deluge of "but illegals / but gas taxes / but Kensington Ave / but [insert problem here that is not unique to Pennsylvania] / you're a horrible governor" Just why.

Briggs is to FtMs as Dolezal is to MtFs

The hyperfocus on genotype really just gets to me. It's like they really think there is something super fundamental about raw chromosomes that renders all other measures that change one's phenotype, endocrinological profile, genital arrangement, etc. 100% irrelevant.

Stole this from Facebook but damn this is brilliant "But no one rides the 3x/wk long-distance train that comes to your town at 2am and is always late, therefore no one would ride a frequent train, so why bother building it" is a claim you hear far too often on the Internet

Gerrymandering abolition trigger laws are the perfect game-theoretic solution: gerrymandering is done maximally until such time as at least a certain percentage of other states pass similar trigger laws. Then everyone simultaneously abolishes it. No more unilateral disarmament.

Look, I'm not gonna wade into this but what I will say is that tattoos and piercings (beyond SMALL earrings, mostly just due to *extremely* entrenched social convention) are basically signifiers of impulse control and class, and not in a good way

I have not seen any compelling arguments that the current SCOTUS is simply "in the bag for Trump" or any of the other hyperbolic claims about it. Sure it's handed down some awful rulings, but I think the onus was partly on precedent itself to not be as sketchy as it was!

I do find it rather curious how people only first started "noticing" the weaknesses in her worldbuilding *after* the transphobia started. If it wasn't bad enough to get your attention the first time through let's not pretend this isn't politically motivated.

I hear “money isn’t speech” a lot, but I’m skeptical. Using your property to convey a message is pretty clearly speech in the relevant sense. If the state prohibited you from buying anti-Trump signs and posting them on your lawn, that would surely be a restriction on speech

If I exaggerated the downsides of sitting in traffic and extolled the convenience and comfort of sitting on a train I could make train travel sound pretty appealing too.

Probably about 250-300ppm, give or take lol It's good to keep the Earth's temperature stable, given where people have chosen to live.