I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, “Harlan Pepper, if you don’t stop naming nuts,” and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that’s what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she’d just start yelling. I’d say, “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.” That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She’d say, “Would you stop naming nuts!” And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn’t talk, but he’d go “rrrawr rrawr” and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.

Top-two mixed primary regardless of partisan affiliation.

One primary ballot held, all candidates declare a party ‘preference’, all votes counted together. Top two go onto the general election.

It varies by state election rules, but for me all the downballot third party candidates are eliminated in the primaries.

All local and state elections on my ballot are: Democrat v Republican, Democrat v Democrat, or Unopposed.

Electoral College with First Past The Post electors. Hundreds of millions of american votes are dumpstered for the presidential election. So a significant portion of protest voters in deep red OR deep blue states aren’t impacting the outcome. Only swing states decide the outcome and even then it is only a few districts within those states. And so the electoral outcome for the presidency gets reduced to the most salient wedge issues in those communities.

It just so happens some things are not so localized an issue. So the idea (or one of them) is to demonstrate whether there is a meaningful voting bloc to be had here that deserves to be listened to, or can continue to be ignored.

Wat.

It sounds kinda based on stink badgers but they also aren’t in Australia.

One set of grandparents willfully and intentionally wound up as ashes in a mausoleum in Indiana. I haven’t visited.

The other set, also ashes, were spread in the Atlantic. Gramps was spread when the tide was going out, unfortunately. So he took a while.

I can’t recall if it is the MBFC person or the bot maker but one of them staunchy doesn’t think there’s a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘left’.

So the inherent bias in their bias analysis is off the charts. Xzibit would be proud.

I always felt the occupant of the castle would use the roses.

They don’t have to be entirely mutually exclusive. Though I imagine the most consistent form is just a left-facing liberal: like one that values philanthropy.

Though I have argued that some kinds of anarchists can embody this unholy fusion by way of contributing to society by removing themselves from it. Kind of requires rural homesteading in my experience, having known a few folks that I think could be defined that way.

…Though those homesteading types are often prone to going all sov-cit or worse. Also based from experience.

They’re just past the end of the pier, those big things that aren’t seals.

Kwarazm Iran got a lil desertified, but that’s what you get for killing mongol envoys.

Ride the Whale.

Accepting that is like taking a leaf blower to your average normies political house of cards.

RIP Taiwanese electronic device export economy.

The thing to remember is that internet and cellular service wasn’t available everywhere. I had to talk 10 minutes to a hill to get service to be able to make a cellular phone call. Most internet options required landline phones and wifi was barely off the ground for most consumers.

Media was something we extracted from the internet. Now the internet is something we have to extract ourselves from.

The crunchwrap supreme and burrito supreme I think encompasses the whole menu of flavor from Taco Bell.

But for me, who remembers multiple tacos for 99 cents from Taco Bell: their basic and unmodified tacos with hot sauce is the only thing I need from Taco Bell.

BG3 has a strong enough following I could see the entirety of NWN and all its expansions being remade by fans.

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Turns out China is a massive market and economy.

More Romina vibes.