@ScottMGreer Don’t be mad that my 46 is y’all’s early 30s.

There’s a lot of trash talking but I think most Americans want a strong Canada if for no other reason than that we’re natural allies. We have a lot of culture in common. If there was a threat to Canada I think a lot of Americans would volunteer to defend it. We’re cousins, and we might differ on some things but at the end of the day we have common cause.

@DocStrangelove2 That dog’s ready to go to the next club.

@LizzyStarrrdust I can’t speak for all of us, but for me, it’s an existential nightmare that would make Lovecraft piss himself in here. Ask me how I’m doing, and I’ll say, “I’m good.” That’s why we seem simple.

@TheFigen_ Granny gets down!

@Rothmus I can only assume anyone who didn’t vote Prince didn’t see it. God voted Prince.

@EskimoLiberty Do work! That’s a serious accomplishment and you should be very proud!

RT @dr_parkinstine: Recorded my original song that I wrote when I was 18 on my 1906 phonograph. Enjoy 🙂

@alessabocchi And don’t even start on food.

@alessabocchi Weirdly, Americans don’t think of those people as stereotypical Italians, probably for the same reason we have Pollock jokes when the Polish punch far above their weight in science. I think it’s all from the surge in immigration in the early twentieth century.

@DrTafuro @WhitlockJason Scottish, and my family’s from the south, so I’ve got the Romans and the English, then I get both ends from the civil war. Always a bridesmaid.

Well, the American stereotype abroad seems to be Brooklyn, west Texas, or Minnesota. But I think it’s because when the stereotype was set it was in the early 20th century when most Italian immigrants were from southern Italy, mainly Sicily, and congregated in ethnic neighborhoods in cities like New York, Baltimore, and Chicago. Working class for the most part. Also, the mafia was a big part of recent American history that plugged into the image of Italians in a way the Irish mob didn’t, both because of its success and because the Irish were culturally closer because there were so many Irish here prior and because we are much closer culturally to Britain than Italy.

@frozenaesthetic The boys in marketing had a meeting, apparently.

Gen X checking in. I make an amount of money now that, thirty years ago, I assumed would mean that I’d own multiple luxury cars, travel the world more or less at will, own a house that echoed, possibly a horse on my property. I’m doing about as well in a two income household as my dad was, as a cop, as a single earner. I’m not crying, but let’s just say money’s tight enough that I’m trying to come up with a second gig.

The idea is that paper records can’t be altered like digital, and this old mine is climate controlled, highly secure, can’t burn down, and would likely survive nuclear attack. Lots of records get stored down there for all sorts of things. Private companies use them, too, they’re a big information management player.

I’m 100% against it, but I’ll steelman the pro argument this way: Like it or not, Israel is an important ally and we need them on our side, rather than China’s or Russia’s. If we occupy Gaza, we can push Hamas out of the negotiations in favor of a more moderate faction with our support while protecting the rights of the Palestinians in Gaza. As it is we send Israel a ton of military aid; if we *are* the aid, then we have direct control over how our materiel is used and the risk of Israel turning around and selling or threatening to sell sensitive technology to our rivals, which they’ve done in the past. Finally, for at least some time we would have a presence in the eastern Mediterranean backed by an ally with a strong military.

@michaelmalice I like my monkeys riding herd.

@dieworkwear Ag subsidies would be a good start.

@JebraFaushay The very middest of wits. Note flaunting the BA in Sociology.