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Did he just try to write a law on social media?
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The next time people argue that a business person would run the government better, they should specify they would like a successful business person.

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That's smart. I should try that with my pup
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Cozy

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No it was just a bunch of dudes. The whole country didn't land on the moon.

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Oh hey you guys I hope you enjoy Canada. (As long as Alberta hasn't separated)
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It wasn't luck. It was a willingness to spend too much money to take a friend to a game.
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How many of those generals, listening to little Pete and the Orange menace tell them how to do their job and suggest unconstitutional actions, were thinking that a military coup suddenly makes sense? How many civilians were thinking the same thing?

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Doesn't matter because I already bought tickets to the first game on Saturday. :-) One of them has to show up in Toronto.
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Let them eat cake

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I'm so sorry. Take care
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Seems that our premier has been tagged speeding by a speed camera but couldn't talk his way out if it. Now he is on a campaign.

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Barron is gonna whack his head on that chandelier
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"Compliments of..."?That suggests he paid for it. I doubt if he did.
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I was raised to believe that hate is a very powerful and corrupting emotion, and brings you closer to satan. So for a politician to admit at an evangelical gathering that he hates his opponents is pretty astounding.

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Definitely in the upside down world now

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Thanks! I remember being at a pub in the deep dark woods of New Brunswick. Trying not to look like a craft beer loving city slicker I asked for a Moosehead. The response was "what color?" Apparently they have several styles. My subterfuge failed. So to this bottle offer I say: "what color?" :-)

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Yup. Sadly this is is unfolding almost exactly as it did in the 1930s.
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Wasn't this how Kristallnacht got started? (thanks for the correction, it's been a long day)

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Thanks.

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To be fair, "Shameless" is totally on brand for the orange menace.

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Pay wall. dang
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Thanks. Now back to rolling my coins.
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You go to the mechanic to have a little rattle checked out. You walk out with an estimate of $4000 repairs on a car that might be worth $5K (it's well loved ok?). It is indeed one of those days.
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There are a lot of vague terms there. "Widespread usage" "substances" "bad times" and the passive voice aren't convincing.

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Fair enough (in this case). But it is still a general pattern in other "alcohol positive" discussions. Refusal to accept alcohol as potentially beneficial has driven an entire neo-temperance research industry...
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Why is it that some people are always extra critical when research suggests positive effects of alcohol. My friend Ethyl deserves better.
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So apparently those who calculate these things are recommending 7000 steps per day is better than 10,000 because people are so stressed about hitting 10,000 it negates any positive health effects. What!? Unrealistic health recommendations cause unhealthy stress? I'll drink to that.

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In case you can't access this and since the abstract is cut off at the bottom the answer is, to put it simply, yes.
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Lars Marius Garshol @larsga.bsky.social · Sep 1
Many researchers have suggested that alcohol may have been an important factor in developing early states. Basically, it's supposed to have helped social cohesion, improved cooperation, and reduced friction among people living cramped together.

Well, did it? New research on the subject out now.
Screenshot of paper: "Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies? Václav Hrnčíř, Angela M. Chira & Russell D. Gray Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 12, Article number: 1091 (2025) Abstract The size and complexity of human societies increased dramatically over the Holocene. Researchers have proposed a variety of potential drivers of this major transition, including our predilection for alcoholic beverages. This “drunk” hypothesis argues that drinking alcohol facilitated the rise of complex societies because it promotes social bonding, increases cooperation, and enhances human creativity. At the political level, alcohol-driven feasting serves to build alliances, mobilise labour, and implement power and authority. However, systematic cross-cultural evidence for the claim is lacking. Here we test this hypothesis with a global sample of 186 largely non-industrial societies, purpose-built dataset on intoxicants and causal inference methods. We find a positive relationship between the presence of indigenous alcoholic beverages and higher levels of political complexity, measured by the number of administrative levels. The effect (albeit modest) holds even after controlling for several potential confounders, including common ancestry, spatial proximity, environmental productivity, and agricultural intensity. Our results support the idea that the group-level social benefits of traditional non-distilled fermented beverages may outweigh their disruptive effects, and that alcohol may have facilitated the evolution of human societies. However,..."
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Many researchers have suggested that alcohol may have been an important factor in developing early states. Basically, it's supposed to have helped social cohesion, improved cooperation, and reduced friction among people living cramped together.

Well, did it? New research on the subject out now.
Screenshot of paper: "Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies? Václav Hrnčíř, Angela M. Chira & Russell D. Gray Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 12, Article number: 1091 (2025) Abstract The size and complexity of human societies increased dramatically over the Holocene. Researchers have proposed a variety of potential drivers of this major transition, including our predilection for alcoholic beverages. This “drunk” hypothesis argues that drinking alcohol facilitated the rise of complex societies because it promotes social bonding, increases cooperation, and enhances human creativity. At the political level, alcohol-driven feasting serves to build alliances, mobilise labour, and implement power and authority. However, systematic cross-cultural evidence for the claim is lacking. Here we test this hypothesis with a global sample of 186 largely non-industrial societies, purpose-built dataset on intoxicants and causal inference methods. We find a positive relationship between the presence of indigenous alcoholic beverages and higher levels of political complexity, measured by the number of administrative levels. The effect (albeit modest) holds even after controlling for several potential confounders, including common ancestry, spatial proximity, environmental productivity, and agricultural intensity. Our results support the idea that the group-level social benefits of traditional non-distilled fermented beverages may outweigh their disruptive effects, and that alcohol may have facilitated the evolution of human societies. However,..."
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