If leadership couldn’t get even one of the eight to reconsider on something this important to the entire party, or wouldn’t, then they’re not effective leadership.

One or two, sure, sometimes.

But eight of the 44? Nearly 1/5 of the Senate democrats, all at once? At least one was saying that they were “keeping leadership in the loop”, too.

Eh, maybe she’s been through this a few times!

Really though, this sort of behavior isn’t unusual for most kids. I always assumed the point of the story was to tell kids not to do this (or you might get eaten!)

If you’re starving and just eat everything at once, you’ll just throw it right back up.

Better to eat a small portion that’ll settle well, go rest for a while, maybe lay down, then come back when it’s had some time to digest.

Ah, thanks for the correction!

As well as it did in the Revolutionary War, I’m sure!

Didn’t have that until a decade or so back? Thought I remembered we switched to this system so Republicans could reevaluate each time/hold everything hostage…

Right, but in the daytime, the portion of sunlight that is scattered on the way through the atmosphere to a given spot is partially made up for by sunlight that was scattered to that spot away from other areas, which wouldn’t happen under this scheme.

I’m curious how much scattering occurs - I have no idea how to find or model that.

Thanks for the write up!

I’m curious how strong an effect atmospheric scattering would have, even after all that

Sure, but who decides what’s on the citizenship exam? Who updates it? Who’s in charge of making sure it’s administered fairly?

Right now there’s not really any power to be gained by subverting it, so it’s handled by people who are interested in keeping it working well. Make it the gateway to electoral control, and interest groups will worm their way into control of it - and then you have a variant on poll testing.

It really doesn’t. I’m sure that satisfaction exists, but when your pay doesn’t always let you eat, it’s hard to stay put for the satisfaction.

Appealing as the idea is, the problem is who gets to control the exams.

Yeah, I’m just pissed that even with that they’re still head and shoulders above the competition

According to sources familiar with negotiations, Microsoft’s bid suffered as it refused to accept some of Israel’s demands.

…why is Microsoft the upstanding company here?!

It is, yes. It remains to be seen if that matters.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this meme; but what’s it from?

I assumed they asked because in many countries, it would legally trigger an election.

…so do people not expect to upload their own rips anymore? Or is there a different process these days?

While I don’t doubt plenty in his administration would think of that, I have trouble seeing him thinking that far ahead.

Could definitely be getting fed AI videos with the hope of him reposting them for that reason, though.

I was honestly wondering if someone made it in mockery of him, and he doubled down on it…