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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 3h

Poe's Law strikes again

ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 2d

It turns out sports content is too valuable to make it easy to view.

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 2d

There is an argument to be made that you don't pick fights which you know you're gonna lose.

However, power consolidation to the Executive is visibly ongoing. There is no foreseeable time when the Court would win the fight. Waiting makes it worse?

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 2d

"We haven't been able to concoct a rationalization for the outcome we are obliged to support, please stand by until our clerks can crank one out"

ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 2d

Yes I think "prior" in OP was a typo amidst all the stress and rush? Seems like an awful situation

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 2d

Oh gotcha

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 2d

What does that have to do with whether or not Biden wanted to go "back to normal"?

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 3d

Biden advocated for very significant change, including to the Court, or weren't you paying attention

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 3d

In his first term, he disbanded the advisory committee for pandemic preparedness... then we had a pandemic disaster.

What exactly were you expecting for the second term if not more?

ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 3d

We all knew he was bonkers when he was nominated. Any Senator expressing surprise now is just admitting they are not competent at their Constitutional duty to vet Cabinet members.

ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 3d

Why can't it do that?

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Captain Sidecar @captainsidecar.bsky.social · 4d

..Customer (indicating a generic medium sized bowl, useful for almost anything): "What's this?"
Me: "A bowl"
C: "Yes, but what for?"
M: "We had noodles in mind when we designed it"
C: "Oh, that's no good for me. I don't eat noodles"

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 3d

😵☠⚰

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 3d

Hope you are kind to yourself, whatever the holic :)

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! This is actually a very outrageous metric for the US.

share.google/fMWdwEPhb1b1...

The United States spends a lot more on healthcare per person than other G7 nations

The chart shows health expenditure per person for G7 countries; the data is adjusted for differences in living costs between countries.

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 4d

No worries!

GDP can be measured in multiple ways. Theoretically they should give us the same value each year, but data in the real world is messy so they differ slightly.

However, in answer to your question, yes, government spending is part of GDP.

More here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_d...

Gross domestic product - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 4d

Let's just call melted sky water and straps for horses and royal rule... let's just call them all ranes.

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 4d

Right but if the money were spent on govt providers it would still show up as contributing to gdp

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 4d

To what extent does remembering where you left your keys make you well equipped to govern

ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 4d

Understandable, given that for a few generations now, for most of us "rein" is an abstraction just like reign, and also both words have a general sense of being in control.

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 5d

Right but if we're making it illegal to be brown, that gives probable cause! Checkmate

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 5d

Man I grew up conservative, and this was like a 101-level talking point among the tribe. Now, it's like we've collectively unremembered everything

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 5d

Ah I gotcha! Guess there's no time to waste these days!

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 5d

I guess I was trying to joke that being caucasian is the only protection against detainment now, but maybe I was trying to be too clever by half

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ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 5d

I thought they changed it to corpus caucasius

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