Nathan Ashby

Funeral director and former political operative. I know where the bodies are buried.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@CartoonsHateHer To me at least, "Transactional" means a somewhat explicit price tag. This specific thing in exchange for that specific thing.

"I help you when you need help and you help me when I need help" isn't transactional in my book, it's just cooperative.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@CartoonsHateHer All of them, just to be sure.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@atlanticesque Something that occurs to me is how modern cars are optimized for highway driving - aerodynamic design to reduce drag, etc. EVs that won't really do much highway driving don't need to do that.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@DFS_Lawd @grok @secularprolife So nothing? Cool.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@DFS_Lawd @grok @secularprolife A quick google tells me that vasectomies are also subject to a 30 day waiting period under Medicaid. So I ask again, what are the arbitrary barriers to tubal ligations that don't exist for vasectomies?

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@DFS_Lawd @grok @secularprolife Those barriers are also mostly shared with vasectomies though. E.g. when I got my vasectomy I had to convince the doctor that yes I was sure I wanted this etc. Catholic hospitals don't do vasectomies. Cost is a factor for poor people. Etc.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@ArmandDoma INSANE: We just instituted a Window Tax and window tax revenue SOARED.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@DFS_Lawd @secularprolife Such as?

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@tracewoodgrains @IBlackmailLands Yeah that's fair.

My top 5 big history shaping stories:

2nd Punic War
The Ides of March
1066
French Revolution
WW2

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@tracewoodgrains @IBlackmailLands Yes and no. Yes it's helpful to have points of reference to contextualize everything. But it's the details and the humanity of the stories that make those points stick like nails you can hang things on.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@GarrettPetersen My '1 weird trick' is that district boundaries and numbers cannot change. But your vote in congress is weighted differently depending on how many people live in your district. So to pass a bill needs support from members representing a majority of the population.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@Golfguy21553001 @damintoell "Baseketball" had a distinct lack of cricket incorporated into the titular sport and I for one am livid.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@Golfguy21553001 @damintoell Yeah man, and they made "That's my Bush" but where was "That's my Obama??"

Why no "Book of Quran" broadway show??

Where is the "Team EU World Police" movie??

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@ASFleischman So come on, tell us about the win that prompted this thought.

You know you want to.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@ellkay_ Wait, so street murder is an ineffective policy formulation process?

I didn't know that. You're telling me for the first time, right now.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@CopterSled @GarethCanada @AP *Hezbollah launches thousands of rockets at Israel, forces mass evacuation of large parts of the north*

*Israel blows up their pagers*

Hey no fair, you didn't declare war!

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@razibkhan @ezraklein The bit that screamed out to me was when he was saying "By October 8 Israel had already killed hundreds of Palestinians, but no one mourned for them".

Just seemed completely irrelevant to him that those Palestinians were Hamas fighters who invaded Israel.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@GarrettPetersen In order to evaluate how correct this argument is, I'm going to need your BMI.

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@tracewoodgrains Eh, never mind, checked the context and it's about hipster music.

[Nathan Ashby @NathanAshby19]

@tracewoodgrains 2010 was a horrible time to be a Democrat if you were trying to get elected.