People care for more about being seen — feeling seen, in the case of sharing a fake but funny video or bit that generates affect — than being accurate or “right”. We misapply our nerd obsession with enlightenment values of truth onto people who just want to boogie.

That's the thing. He'll convince himself that he did it. And why won't he believe it when the sycophants cheering in the background told him he did?

This is what they don't understand. If the Dems can't hold together a coalition now, they never will. There is no point in supporting any incumbent.

Just vote for literally anyone else in the senate elections next year. Anyone who's running in the primaries. A retired schoolteacher. A grandma who runs a knitting circle. A dogcatcher. A dog. Anyone.

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I was just wondering what it does to that industry if everyone with a social security number gets the service for free.

It reminds me that we had to roll our own pre-parser when working on business opening hours because the maintainers of Google's common library refused to accommodate anything that veered from ISO 8601.

It would not surprise me if some MA towns would react by raising the speed limit.