i think you need large districts for PR to be functional in a fairly polarized two party system like we have here tbh. like, 60-40 and 40-60 return the same delegations in a 4-seat district.

lol my pet political issue that will never feasibly happen is "five thousand congresspeople" so

the issue with statewide proportional representation is it doesn't work unless you also vastly expand the house (which I'm in favor of) -- if you have a state with, say, 2 seats it's more or less locked into 1-1 barring a huge landslide.

hmmmm i know very little about vietnamese dialects but that seems pretty plausible, also mountainous southeast asia in general is just the dark place where mutual intelligibility must never go

The current VT team are both extremely good players and have excellent vibes, it's great

por que no los dos

LET'S GO BLUEEEEEEE

and tbc i actually had a great time in AC, i was there with a bunch of friends and we just chose it because it was relatively central and cheap. it was an extremely good week and i *still* came away thinking "this is the shittiest tourist destination in america" lol

i was listening to "calamity song" by the decemberists waiting to be picked up from the bus station and yeah that sure is an appropriate song for that place. 🎵 til all that remains is the arms of the angels...

atlantic city and it's not close

HELL YEAH

HUGE

unfortunately northern idaho is absurdly pretty lol

i agree with you broadly about platner but i truly think the most important variable for likeliness to be fetterman 2 is "stroke risk" lol

I made a crossword

a more cursed option is that the latlongs have been truncated somehow

yeah, that's just the first thing i think of when i see "things very close to but not actually on Null Island"

has their actual latlong been divided by a constant factor

West Coast moment

Macbeth: SHIT

this is why america is the greatest country in the world

they have this for most of the actual events (it's the commentary feed Peacock and all the other countries' streaming services will use for the events that they don't send their own commentators for), im surprised they don't have it for the opening ceremony

there was a teacher in my middle school named Angst, which is a bit on the nose

just use like, any "youth"-coded slang term

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

connecticut makes its reality extremely well known whenever you try to travel across it, i fear

in american sports history, arguably

If you had given me a hundred guesses as to who the next first-time CFB champion would be since 1996 Florida, I think Indiana would have been my second-to-last pick of P4 teams.

Congratulations, Hoosiers, third straight B1G East CFP Champ.

🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵