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Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical judicial ceremony.
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Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical judicial ceremony.
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In a nutshell. Trump passed the "don't look senile" test, but he didn't have to deal with the "don't be racist, delusional, or wildly dishonest" tests that would have applied to any other candidate.
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At least Biden finally laid it out: there's no way Trump will accept the results if he loses, because he's a "whiner."
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Paradise Beach, North Shore, Lake Superior.
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Paradise Beach, Grand Marais, MN.
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It actually looks good! I never bothered with the old one. Even if the seal didn't offend anyone, a seal on a blue field is dull and ugly.
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I'm not certain what Christian theology would say about Jesus living 2,000+ years in human form, but I believe that would be a heresy, too. If he didn't have a fully human body, with all its weaknesses and suffering, there would be no point in his taking human form.
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It implies that Jesus is dead, that he would have avoided his crucifixion if he could have, that he would have been willing to kill people to do so, and that he couldn't avoid crucifixion because he lacked the power to resist the authorities. That's all heretical, from a Christian perspective.
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I second the call for more ag research funding. Especially the real sustainability work that doesn't tend to get funded by industry.
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I wish I could read a dry, technical, but essential book in just 10 minutes. I wish I could read a journal article in one minute. If I'm reading for pleasure, though, getting it over with quickly isn't one of my goals.
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I've read that preachers in conservative evangelical churches are having trouble with congregants complaining whenever the Beatitudes are taught. Too liberal, you see. The teachings of Jesus aren't Christian.
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Or the common loon in the Amazon, or the bald eagle that sounds like a red-tailed hawk.
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I don't think I disagree with you in any important way. George H. W. Bush was the last Republican to become president with majority support. It's not right that a minority of voters gets such outsized power.
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If the results were remarkably similar, the Democrats would never win the presidency. I'm not saying the EC (or the Senate, for that matter) is fair. I'm just saying it's a lot less of a sham than the Russian election.
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All the little ways life gets more and more frustrating because making it that way makes some rich people richer? That's what a lack of social engineering brings us.
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Go, Minnesota girl!
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I get your point about American elections and agree with it, but I really think we're still in a fair position to say that Putin's "election" was fake. We live in a flawed democracy. Russia has an authoritarian regime. The difference is real.
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"I'm not kiddin' around here, folks! You gotta take better care of your office supplies!"
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I think it's unlikely that the government bullied social media companies into anything. It's appropriate for the government to advise a company that a post or user may be violating its terms, so long as the company is free to respond as it sees fit. That seems to be the case here.
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Would you trust a second Trump Administration to correctly distinguish truth from lies? If the government is allowed to suppress lies, it can also call the truth a lie and suppress it.
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My 13-year-old son and I read to each other almost every night. For a while, my wife felt like he was getting too old for it, but then we learned what an excellent reader he is in school. He's also doing great in drama class.
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Reading that Hertz had added a bunch of electric cars to their fleet, I assumed they didn't apply the usual refueling policies and must have installed charging stations at their rental offices. How else could it possibly work? Once again, I have overestimated the intelligence of CEOs.
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Not being familiar with Mark Levin, I assumed this was satire. Then I looked him up. I'm now wondering if his entire career is satire.
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I can't stand that type. Too busy being perfect to do anything good.
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I thought it was from the right. Taking a second look, I realize you're right. I think that's an indicator of how pretentious the writing is, and that a "multicultural managerial class" isn't among our nation's top 100 problems.
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@tkingfisher.bsky.social Danny the arctibax is now Danny the baxcalibur. Quick attack is still Dragon Breath.
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And it should be mechanical. It should work when the electricity is off.
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The culture wars are a distraction. They distract 90% of Republican voters from the fact that the GOP delivers absolutely nothing of value to them and, indeed, actively makes life harder for them and their children.
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There's a rally against the beautiful flag on the right today [the new Minnesota flag]. The old, neglected seal-on-a-bedsheet became sacred to certain people when they learned certain other people found it offensive. #MinnesotaFlag #Minnesota #NorthStar
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The sins of the great-great-grandfather are visited upon the great-great-grandchildren.
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At first, I assumed this was the latest from Calamityware.
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They don't make money off things they don't sell, and they're making each transaction more expensive for themselves when they do sell things, since they now have to pay an hourly worker to help the customer get things. Theft deterrence is the more logical explanation.
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They have to pay for doors. They're adding unlocking and relocking doors to the staff's workload, so I don't see how it helps them cut staff. From what I've seen, they have to pay to replace doors ripped open by angry customers. Are they trying to kill their brick-and-mortar business?
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And they aren't selling that stuff, so . . . ?
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I reported it as a fake account. I wanted to report it for impersonation, but Facebook didn't recognize Ursula Vernon or T. Kingfisher. It was interesting to scan through the posts and try to imagine Ursula writing them.
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Even where the GOP supports liberty, it's the liberty of the rich to treat workers like slaves, lie to their customers, and destroy the environment. The freedom to oppress.
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I also don't see how it helps them run with less staff. They have fewer workers AND those workers have to run around unlocking and relocking doors for people, in addition to what they've always done?
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I didn't know Frontiers in Cellular and Developmental Biology was a paper mill.
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If I were dead sure I'd been shot at and someone confronted me with strong evidence that it was just an acorn hitting the roof of my car, taking in that information would demand most of my processing power for a while. Especially if my reaction at the time had done any harm.
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What strikes me is that I'm having trouble perceiving the passage of time. It's been November since October. It can't possibly be Valentine's Day already.
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We have a public park with a rink almost across the street from us. It was active for most of January, thanks to our cold snap and not-THAT-warm temps in late December. There should be broomball tournaments now, but there's muddy grass instead.
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The frog Brachycephalus pulex of eastern Brazil is the smallest known vertebrate. 22 females averaged 8.15 mm long, and 24 males averaged 7.10 mm. The frog below is on a Brazillian reais 27 mm across.
Photo by Renato Gaiga, is Fig 1 in Bolanos et al. 2024. doi-org.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/10.1111/zsc....
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I liked the opinion in the Strib saying it's time Minnesota was the first to do something new. Why? Infrastructure investments are risky enough. Let someone else roll the dice, and we can stick to solutions that are known to work.
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The degree to which they planned and attempted to carry out a coup keeps surprising me. I was prepared to believe none of them were looking more than a day into the future, just trying to keep up with Trump's ongoing tantrum and stay on his good side. But it was all careful treason.
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I was reading about deepfakes, leading me to think about "the uncanny valley," leading me to wonder why that's a thing. Maybe it's about our instict to avoid people who are "off." Creeps, crooks, and psychos. We fall for deepfakes because they're not so "off" that we can't ignore the red flags.
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Of course, the baby still has to work for it. Our son was born 3 weeks early. Apparently, the nursing instict develops about 2 weeks before full term. It was a trick, getting milk into him without accidentally teaching him not to bother latching on.
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Also, the section in the Catechism of the Catholic Church on private property (Part 3, Article 7) seems consistent with the idea of 15-minute cities. It's only when you pretend that we're talking about communism (which he conflates with socialism) that they seem un-Catholic.
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I'm not a Catholic anymore, but I still deeply resent the audacity of conservative Catholics speaking on behalf of the entire Church.
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For what it's worth we have a sourdough starter named Bob II. I also have a frigibax named Danny in Pokemon Go. His charged attack is Dragonbreath. I don't think we've named anything else after an author's characters. We just really love your work, in our family.
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The hat I've been knitting for years is finally done. My first effort resulted in a very nice hat for a baby.
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