Nah, the general public doesn’t have the time or patience to properly research this stuff or consult the experts. They’ll just vote on vibes and we’ll just be trading one kind of bad for another.

Keep representatives, just don’t elect them. Sortition is the best of both worlds; you still get a sample of the population, but with people who take the responsibility seriously and actually have the time to do the research/due diligence.

Sorry, I was talking about them

It probably needs to be if they have any hope of recouping what they’ve spent

Who gets to vote on what’s a protected class?

Miles Morales is an interesting example of the trope though, as the other spider-heroes don’t have the electrical powers while he does.

On Spider-Man, Electro isn’t black in the comics but was in Amazing Spider-Man which is also maybe a hint of the trope.

Wait, the CBT I was supposed to be doing for my bad back stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Well as soon as I’m done sitting on this ice pack, I have some calls to make.

Knee-chee

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I’m fine with descriptivism on theory, but it sure seems wrong in the cases where the word changes meaning due to people misunderstanding/misusing the word. That’s not a a word gaining a new meaning, it’s losing meaning.

The other one I need a replacement for is “begs the question” since so many people have misused that one too.

The number of times I’ve been in a hardware store and approached by another costumer thinking I was staff because I was wearing hi viz is staggering.

I’m an ex spurt, just ask my parents

Mountain air is pretty great.

Also a big fan of the smell of allspice. I remember as a child climbing on the kitchen counter to reach the spice cabinet so I could crack that jar and get a good whiff.

Your cereal bags are recyclable? They aren’t also in cardboard boxes?

Like, the novice was unsuccessfully getting the machine to work, and then when Knight did the same thing it worked?

Same issue, data saver is not on (plus I’m on Wi-Fi so suspect it wouldn’t matter)

It is consoles

I personally prefer a 9 or 10, and would rather an 11 than an 8

Triplets from a one-night stand is crazy unlucky

In Canada you can recall elected officials (although difficult to actually pull off), so it’s crazy to me that in the US there’s no mechanism to do so?

It says teaspoons…