Precisely. I hate to say it, but I agree with Trump here (about it being too early, not about JD being terrific)

“It’s too early,” Trump responded. “I mean, it’s too early. I think he’s terrific. There’s so many terrific people.”

The writers’ room for this is so lazy. They decide to go with the first gay president as the republican counter to the first black president and then really decided to write their big villain as full evil gay? We gotta retire these lazy tropes.

I have no industry ties and I also don’t like the ultra-processed labelling. Refined white flour is very processed, but when you process it further, by fermenting it to make sourdough, you make it healthier, not less healthy

And then there are the more fundamental debates, including the argument that foods like flavored yogurt and whole-grain bread are beneficial even if ultraprocessed, so it doesn’t make sense to regulate foods based on processing levels.

And relatedly: all politics is local

Wouldn’t you know, all the non-regulated utilities have considered lowering their rates and somehow all came to the conclusion they shouldn’t

The bill requires state utility regulators and nonregulated utilities to only “consider” whether to make data centers pay for any infrastructure upgrades or other costs associated with their high electricity demand.

I doubt many folks are viewing this through a sports lens, but as a Sounders fan I am very pleased to see the part owner of the Seattle Sounders (Macklemore) stand up for what’s right against the evil New England Revolution owner (Kraft).

Turns out the people who thought 9/11 was a government cover-up that killed Americans were right, they just missed what was being covered up and who was being killed

During the news conference, Mamdani noted that “more people have died from 9/11-related illnesses than were killed on the day itself.”

I don’t feel a desire to kiss Brindle or any member of their team after reading this

Brindle’s team steamily defined kissing as a “non-agonistic interaction involving directed, intraspecific, oral–oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer”.

I guess this is where I’ve gotten confused — I’ve never been rich enough to afford a house big enough to accommodate a dining room and a kitchen spacious enough for a table. Either it was small enough that the kitchen and dining room were a single area, or the dining room is separate and I didn’t have space for a table in the kitchen. To me, this is like talking about “breakfast nook politics” – like, what rich people are out here talking politics in a breakfast nook?

Wait, have they been talking about dining room tables this whole time and I’m just now finding out? I thought it was like, literally a table in your kitchen, like you’d have a dining room table and a kitchen table.

Edit: I guess I’ve just been dodging this by calling the corner of my kitchen a nook when I lived in apartments that were too small for a dedicated dining room? I dunno why I assumed a kitchen table would be a table for doing kitchen tasks on and not eating.

I don’t really get the obsession with kitchen tables. Maybe it’s because I’ve never had a table in my kitchen. It really seems like it’d get in the way.

The top-performing messages we tested have a simple formula. They focus on Americans’ day-to-day struggles to pay for rent and groceries, and the widespread frustration with prices that rise faster than working-class wages. They insist that working people should be able to give their kids a better shot. They promise to bring costs down, make the biggest corporations pay their fair share, and crack down on the people who game the system. Ultimately, they tell a simple story: hard work should pay off. We call this winning combination “kitchen-table populism”.

This seems kinda facile to me. Of course we act on the information when given it, that’s why we say we don’t want to test for it? If I thought I (and others like me) wouldn’t act on the knowledge, I wouldn’t care whether we tested for those traits or not?

I strongly believe you should talk to conservatives. I resent the framing that the problem is people who get college educations being dismissive of people without because they’re ignorant, when by and large what I actually see is those who didn’t attend college being dismissive of those of us who did because we’ve been brainwashed.

I don’t really vibe with the thesis of this article, but it does confirm my bias that if you want to talk to strangers, following a sport is the easiest way

As I was traveling back to Boston, another event crystallized my unease about American political trends. Seeing that my flight was delayed by an hour, I decided to get a drink. At the bar by my gate, the only opening was next to a burly gentleman around my age. As I ordered a beer, he asked me whether my flight was also delayed. I nodded ruefully and said it wasn’t too bad. He proceeded to talk about football, a topic I know little about. But I welcomed the distraction, and over the next hour, we broached several other topics: the annoyances of air travel, beer, the challenges of the small business he was running, politics, and basketball, about which I knew a little more than football.

It was only later that I realized how rare such an event had become, where I spoke to somebody with a very different education profile, occupation, and interests from mine. This made me consider what would have happened if, on my other side at the bar, there had been somebody with a Ph.D. and an occupation similar to mine (academic, financier, consultant, lawyer, etc.). Whom would I have chosen to initiate a conversation with? Whom would the participants in the workshop I attended have chosen? The answer seemed almost too obvious, and not completely unrelated to why the plight of manual workers was less than top of mind for many college-educated policymakers, activists, and civil servants.

I don’t really understand how you came to this conclusion. Seattle is going to ranked choice voting in August 2027. As I understand it, Pierce, Thurston, San Juan and Benton counties plus Bellingham are also moving to RCV.

I wish I had this article to link when we were having the ask lemmy thread about trolling, because the way it has entered the lexicon outside the terminally online is never harmless, and always intensely negative, and this is a great example.

It’s surprising how much the word “clickbait” has changed over the years. On lemmy today, the word “clickbait” just means “the article tried to get me to click through, rather than only reading the title.” It used to be that if you put everything you had into the title, we’d call it “clickbait” because you were baited into clicking to see more when there was none.

I have one up that shows transit arrival times for the nearest bus stops.

I’m sure Kalshi will work very hard to inform their users that participating renders them ineligible to vote

“We want voters to understand that they cannot legally make a bet on an election and cast a ballot in that same election,” WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe said in a news release. “We are not able to police someone placing a bet on these platforms, but it’s important for voters to understand the consequences if they bet on an election outcome.”