How would this hand over taxpayer dollars? The 50% stake would come from a one-time tax on stock that hands over that stake; it doesn’t call for forcing the companies to sell to the government.

I agree. The author presents a thesis that Democrats have tracked left, and then presents two issues where they have (abortion, job guarantees), one issue where they have returned to where they were in 1990 and the working class has tracked right (healthcare), and then just an identity question (liberal) which is not actually an issue. It’s far from a comprehensive data analysis.

The author misses out on a huge area where Democrats (and the left in general) have consistently gotten worse at: communication and persuasion. Part of this is the failure of the Democrats to identify, push, and promote charismatic candidates (find a single human being who feels more excited about left ideas after hearing Pelosi, Jeffries, or Schumer talk). The other big part is the concentration of media power in fewer organizations and more ideologically right owners. Even more, the party of the young whiffed on social media entirely which could have lessened the impact of the latter part.

That’s not really how trials for treatments like this work. The non-experimental groups would get standard of care/a comparator which would be used to determine efficacy. It would be unethical to give sugar pills to patients with advanced NSCLC.

Edit: yep https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12568215/

I think specifically the oligosaccharides in beans that, if your digestive system has not been accustomed to, will be unpleasant if you all of a sudden ingest a lot of. Also poorly prepared beans that have not been sufficiently soaked, etc. to draw these out.

Finding arguments unconvincing would still be definitionally agnostic. To be a gnostic atheist, you have to posit an argument that no deity/whatever could exist, not just that’s it’s exceedingly unlikely.

The vast majority of atheists are agnostic atheists, and “we don’t know” is that in a nutshell. Gnostic atheists who “know” there is no god are rather rare but very loud.

They shouldn’t, but it would not surprise me if many especially smaller businesses have claimed customer cash donations as their own. Not sure how charitable the government would be with them if it was noticed, though.

The business cannot use a round up charity donation for a tax deduction. They act as a holding agent. It’s not counted toward their income nor does the donation affect their income tax. You as the customer donating are the only one eligible to claim it for tax deduction, though it’s usually way too low to be worth the effort.

A reasonable criticism is that they will often on the PR side spin it as money they have raised, not always emphasizing how much customers are responsible for rather than them.

I think it’s to make a more Judy-centric ending that doesn’t require you to have completed Panam’s whole gig line. The Judy Aldecaldos ending did feel sensible and satisfying, but it’s still the resolution of another character’s storyline with Judy tacked on.

The growth ponzi scheme in action.

I have observed a strong correlation between managers whose emails are now obviously written by AI and those who have significant shortcomings.

I agree that there are further, more specific methods of protest required to enact change.

The US does need protests like No Kings for several reasons. It helps to foster solidarity and community, to make people feel like they are not alone and have many neighbors who feel the same way they do. It helps to make a large group of potentially politically activated citizens accessible to activist groups. It helps to provide an opportunity for exposing attendees to more than the prevailing narratives in the news and social media they consume. And it’s just practice; protesting gets easier the more you do it.

I choose to believe those were the video categories she was enjoying at the time.

It’s one of those places where you go and say, “oh okay I get it. This is incredible.” Pictures don’t do it justice. The physicality of being next to it is hard to describe.

Funerals.

Never Not Funny can be accurately described as, after you get into it, listening to old friends shoot the shit. It will also introduce you to a lot of very funny comedians, many of whom are not super mainstream. Further, it’s been constantly running for 20 years, so you will not run out of content anytime soon.

If you are willing to risk a financially debilitating addiction to cardboard or minis, your local game store could fill that role. I have jokingly referred to my usually-weekly visit to my LGS as “nerd church,” complete with the tithe of a few booster packs. You have to get lucky though because the quality of community can vary wildly. I am fortunate in that regard.

Rice is wetter than an otter’s pocket.

It’s perfectly fine if you maintain your cutting board properly. In that case it is safer than plastic.

The last one I went to also. There was a dedicated section along the march route where a local pro-Palestine group was set up. There were speakers after the march, one of which was representing that group as well. A few other speakers also recognized them to much applause.

Perhaps some specific local chapters decided to sweep this issue under the rug, or perhaps the one local to me ignored a directive to do so.