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exile hotel room of Bruce Godfrey, gone to Croatan at Bluesky, coming back in full effect when the argument for this being a Nazi bar gets 15% weaker

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@dieworkwear I don’t need for the US to be the best country in human history, emotionally.

The best case for it is probably from our Bill of Rights, the variety of our cultural output, our innovations in business and business organization, the extent to which we have succeeded as a refuge.

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@IanRunkle @Dicky_Paul_95 @PumpkinFish4 “The Wire” had a couple of outstanding scenes showing that Murphy game.

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@jeffreytucker it is definitely nice to do so, and if it’s a good friend and you don’t have a good reason not to, I think it’s rude not to if the airport is fairly close.

Maybe a little less so if your airport has good public transit, which the ones around DC pretty much do.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

The Maryland Congress in Annapolis sends delegates to Philadelphia with instructions to declare independence from Great Britain.

[Skipbeat @Skipxbeat]

@Fredycrysostumu This was their chancellor for 16 years.

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

No the felony murder rule legitimately sucks.

In GA, you sell some weed. Someone robs you. They kill your buddy. The death was proximately caused by you selling weed, a felony. Life in prison minimum.

Exact same punishment as stabbing a lady to death on the subway.

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Chinese farmers are mocking Europeans for banning the use of air conditioning, by setting up ACs in pig pens.

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@razibkhan in theory, I would trust a secular government to get this right

in practice I never would.

Least of all Texas.

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@neontaster is too fun a thing for these egotists to avoid touching, it’s gonna be a very fractured logic puzzle to figure out where the holding is, along the lines of the Seibert 5th Am decision where the “holding” is one sentence, six opinions.

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

In Maryland, it’s common for the steel rails to get a little bit wrong in extreme heat of the summer, slowing down rail traffic.

But I’ve never heard of anybody watering a bridge. Ever. Before today.

[Marco Lambertini @ConvenerNatureP]

Today in the Netherlands they have to splash water on steel bridges to cool them down and avoid damage from the extreme heat.

The costs of extreme weather are grossly underestimated now and in the future.

#ClimateChange

The future we want

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@japan_nobunaga reasonably common in Maryland, Maryland is not known for a strong sense of state identity, but we get riled up about a few things.

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

there are two flavors of European disdain for the US:

1) who the hell are you Yanks to comment about our life in Europe?

2) why are you Yanks only obsessed about yourselves?

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@japan_nobunaga US is an explicitly federal republic, and each state is considered sovereign, except when state sovereignty has been surrendered to federal authority.

If your English is strong enough, or you can get Japanese translation, I recommend sampling the Federalist Papers.

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

am vegetarian, kind of a squishy liberal/libertarian, I swear that these leftists are gonna have me hunting animals who didn’t attack me first with Ted Nugent in the backwoods of Michigan by the end of the year.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇩🇪German feminist Verena Brunschweiger promotes the slogan "My lineage ends with me."

She calls on White people not to have children, claiming that Western pro-natalists only want to "control women, and keep refugees out."

Brunschweiger says Europeans are responsible for poor living conditions in Africa:

"So I would take all immigrants and refugees in because we ruined the world, so to speak.

We produce climate change, which makes life in Africa, for instance, miserable and horrible. So of course, why not invite [them] if they want to come?"

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@RenaNetjes most of us don’t care how many dead bodies are piled up in the summer in your cities, we’re mostly focused on ourselves, but a few of us care about the world.

when we don’t pay attention to you, you criticize us for being insular. So I’m tired of us trying to win.

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@ImShahinyan Qh4

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Rent freeze edition…

[Working Scribe @AWorkingScribe]

@PureLandNation @Empty_America my ancestor Philip Thomas was Cromwell’s hatchet man in the 1650s in Maryland, literally fighting with Lord Baltimore’s forces on behalf of Protestantism and the Commonwealth. People think of Maryland as a Catholic state but they omit the history noted above.

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

tokyo froze nobody’s rent and rents are flat because they build 100,000 units a year. nyc froze a million rents, built almost nothing, and the line for an apartment still runs out the door. one of these is a housing policy. one is a hostage negotiation

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

Ironically it takes about 1000x less water to store a photo in a data center for five years than to print it on a Polaroid