Logically, yeah—it went from “all X are Y” to “no non-X are Y” (or equivalently, “all Y are X”).
Logically, yeah—it went from “all X are Y” to “no non-X are Y” (or equivalently, “all Y are X”).
The Harappan language—then you could decipher the script of the Indus Valley civilization.
Similarly, by refusing to explain why she had abandoned the progressive positions on crime, immigration, health care, and climate change, she blurred the public’s perception of her and opened the door to the Trump campaign’s charge that she was a closet radical. Thinking back to the successful campaign of Bill Clinton in 1992, some Democrats were hoping Harris would have a “Sister Souljah” moment in which she broke with some party orthodoxy in order to show her independence, but this did not happen.
So Galston recognizes that abandoning progressive positions weakened the public’s perception of her, but he thinks the solution should have been to double down and attack progressives more?
The lack of support for Harris among Arab-Americans may not have been rational, but it was completely predictable—and it was something the Harris campaign could have addressed by at least suggesting she was open to reconsidering Biden’s policies.
Blame isn’t zero-sum—we’re all responsible for the predictable results of our actions (or inactions), even if those results were overdetermined.
When he won before, he was outside the Republican party establishment and just put his own unprepared cronies in charge.
Harris went from polling 3.7 points higher than Trump in August to losing by 3.4 points in November. Do you think it took people that long to realize she was a woman of color, or do you think her actions in the interim changed peoples’ perception of her?
It could just be that more men and/or more Republican voters refused to participate in a CNN exit poll.
As a resource, here's a PDF of the party bylaws, which define how the DNC and its officials are selected.
Hopefully the appeals court judges are on the list.
Interesting approach—to detect fake news by simulating humans’ reaction to it rather than judging the content itself.
Incendiary devices found at shipping hubs could be Moscow putting pressure on West not to support Ukraine
Yeah, that’s totally how countries react to terrorist attacks.
The question at hand is who will be the next president, not who will win your imaginary argument.
I know which of you supports the Democratic Party and I will not help you survive the end of days.
If he ever decides the “end of days” is in progress, I think it would be safer for Democrats and Republicans not to be around him anyway.
I know the political environment has been getting increasingly polarized, but that’s taking it a bit too far.
A crow-calling whistle and a small tin of peanuts.
I’m indifferent to squirrels... but my city has hired a falconer to scare the crows away with hawks, so now the crows symbolize the oppressed masses being persecuted by the state.
As many others are pointing out, cultural hegemony plays a major role—but I think there’s another factor at play as well:
Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology have been dead and fossilized for a thousand years and more, and in the meantime a long tradition grew up of mining them for allegory, with their prior religious significance stripped away. Most other world mythologies, on the other hand, still form part of active belief systems, or recently died out under colonial occupation and so carry postcolonial political overtones. So borrowing from them could be more problematical, whereas classical mythology has basically been left up for grabs by its former adherents.
That’s what I’m secretly training the crows for.
while Baz insists he has nothing against crows, it's the mess they leave behind that has people crying foul.
“I didn’t think I would become an example of the face-eating-leopards meme.”
Yeah, that’s why we need at least... two of them.
Ukraine should offer the North Koreans political asylum if they defect.
The classical Romanization was more accurate in its time—the issue is that the common pronunciation of classical Latin changed after the classical era (for instance, the “c” became soft in many contexts, instead of always being pronounced as “k” as it was in classical Latin).
If you use the original classical pronunciation for Latin, you’ll also pronounce the classical romanized Greek names correctly—and if you spell them the classical way you’ll recognize them more easily in Latin sources. The modernized romanization is most useful if you’re only interested in Greece and not in the classical world as an integrated whole.
You can’t keep your shit and throw it too.
I doubt the falconer would have any issue with me—I’m helping to keep them employed.
The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.
Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.
The thought of a nuclear reactor running on Windows is terrifying.
Trump was manipulated into attacking Adelson by another donor, Ike Perlmutter, who "had hoped in vain that Mrs. Adelson would contribute to a rival super PAC that he backs."
It’s like narcissistic parents trying to undermine each other by manipulating their child.
Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”
St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”
Plot twist: the ad is the real Tom Hanks, and the version calling it fake is an AI created by a rival dental plan.
Are they sure that’s the direction of causation? Because eating undercooked bear is the sort of behavior I’d expect from people who were already infected with brain worms.
The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters
Naturalized non-citizens like... Elon Musk?
Google will no longer allow public access to its caches. I doubt they’ve stopped keeping caches for their own use.
In an interview with the Journal, Neuralink's first patient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, opened up about the roller-coaster experience. "I was on such a high and then to be brought down that low. It was very, very hard," Arbaugh said. "I cried." He initially asked if Neuralink would perform another surgery to fix or replace the implant, but the company declined, telling him it wanted to wait for more information.
Neuralink isn’t just treating humans like guinea pigs, they’re treating them like disposable guinea pigs.
Interpreting “a previously-unrecognized weakness in X was just found” as “X just got weaker” is dangerously bad tech writing.
Historically, all regular voting was done in-person on election day and mail-in ballots were a special exception (e.g., for people with disabilities). It’s only in the last few election cycles that voting by mail became the norm, and most people still use the pre-existing terminology.
100% of the top 10 meat and dairy companies.
That should be in the title—otherwise it implies that every family dairy in the country has its own team of lobbyists.
Can I also strengthen my coffee by adding a little concrete mix?
He should try declaring the vote illegitimate and inciting a mob to take over the House—that’s a good trick!
Lapsang Souchong (smoked black tea).