'Comedy requires offending people,' says person best known for comedy of manners where people agonized over polite or correct behaviors and responses

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If you added up all the spending by various levels/branches of government to lobby other levels of government it would be quite the sum. Maybe some sort of mediator office would be a better use of funds

The reason authoritarian types assume allowing or preferring something means banning all alternatives is because that is what *they* do. They ban apartments, corner stores, garage businesses, trains and bike lanes and make it impossible to walk safely. They think we’re like them.

Clearly we need them encased in Bakelite on desks or kitchen walls, not this jiggly phone/tablet nonsense

“Vehicular cyclists” are the dumbest people in the whole cosmology of urban policy fights and it’s not close.

Ok, everyone! May Car-Free Happy Hour in Berkeley this time! And here’s your chance to weigh in on location! Walk Bike Berkeley East Bay for Everyone Traffic Violence Rapid Response Telegraph for People Berkeley Citizens for Safe Streets Bike East Bay

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28 million engaged respondents, a disproportionate number of which happen to be AI-generated unicorn-men

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What percent of buildings in LA meet this low bar? 10%? 20%? We need to develop some standards, & not just identify everything old as no touchy

How many kids will these sociopaths kill before we stop listening to them?

I figured there must have been some actual context for this, but internet is so clogged with '20 Best Ever Bushisms' it's not quick to find.

Seems to have been a digression while speaking against fish-related dam removal in a Michigan campaign stop, 2000, but no full text

I looked up the pronunciation of this word and can only conclude that in Irish, consonant letters must be mostly telling you about vowels, like in Hmong

Hamsick saying AOC must be co-opting by citing... the dictionary definition of the word

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