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I wonder if that's mostly an immigration/credentials question. If a job is created but there aren't any new workers to fill it and the only option is poaching from somewhere else, does it really count?

I've spent years running around the region and I know plenty of Arab Christians but it wasn't until today that I heard about Arab Lutherans. No doubt it's the best food in the social hour after church of any Lutheran congregation although the competition is mostly casserole so that's a low bar

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No. He said "let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego" and everyone cheered. This is the guy who initially thought covid would only kill people in cities and was cool with that. You don't have to give him, or the pigs in his audience, the benefit of the doubt

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OK maybe Trump loves cities and his audience just missed the finer points of his famously subtle rhetoric. Or maybe he hates us. This is the guy who initially thought covid would only kill people in cities and was cool with that so you really don't need to give him the benefit of the doubt

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Not obvious at all. Why did the audience cheer when he said "let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego"? They do this all the time. I won't pretend like this traitor/child rapist/thief, and the racist trash who hate America and treat him like a god, have our well being in mind.

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It never ceases to amaze me how much the trash who masturbate to Donald Trump every night hate America. Nothing is stopping them from heading to the airport and living the dream of racism and failure in Belarus or some other shithole. Do not ask me to respect people who would cheer if I was nuked

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He killed USAID which by itself is a decision with a higher body count than any decision made by any world leader since Mao. He is a monster and the worst president in history and everyone will be better off when he's dead. I am under no obligation to give that creature the benefit of the doubt

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Counterpoint: he says "let them take out Los Angeles" and the audience cheers, and it's extremely clear why they're cheering, and I don't have to pretend he's good when he's a traitor and a pedophile and a rapist, and his fans are racist scum, so fuck him and fuck every single person in that arena

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm old enough to recall multiple instances of GOP guys dumping on blue cities/states but has there ever been a statement from the podium remotely like this one?

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Ooh! If you're looking for questions to ask, I've got a farmer relative who told me agrovoltaics wouldn't work because farms have expensive combines and whatnot and growing crops beneath solar panels would require that they buy new equipment. Is there a way to deal with that?

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tom Daschle repped SD forever. The path to victory this time is probably half gas prices, a quarter anti-authoritarian, and a quarter glonzo rather than Daschle's "take care of the farm bureau and the credit card companies" formula but it might not be totally impossible

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I didn't know until a couple days ago that Drunk History is back! (The syllabus for the New Deal needs to be updated to reflect the latest scholarship on Frances Perkins and FDR getting booed by Congress after he sang them the New Deal song.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=YAw6...

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FDR’s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins (featuring Mae Whitman) - Drunk History

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The guy who designed this has thoughts on designing military aircraft

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Related story I swear Years ago I was talking with a colleague about the American dream. About how his family's circumstances had changed. His grandma picked strawberries. He does food safety for a fruit company. And his nephew... texts his dad with "I'm hungry, can you GrubHub me a sandwich?"

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And look, as an American I happily acknowledge that Egypt wouldn't be the only place with dumb ideas about skin color. But I compare the mural with photos of famous Egyptian leaders and umm....

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Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin

The Egyptian authorities got their underwear in a bunch about a mural of pharaohs with dark skin and forced the artists to apologize and paint it over. Another way the Egyptian government sucks www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Artwork created in Tahrir Square for Chinese president’s state visit to Egypt is painted over amid allegations it revived Afrocentric claims about Pharaohs’ origins

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Yeah but they're the two most lovable quarterbacks on the two greatest teams so think of the ratings

One thing that becomes clear when listening to a) neighborhood discussions about new buildings and b) the exact same people discussing planting more trees in the neighborhood is that shadows are bad and shade is good

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These are good but IMHO the post below is the Shohei Ohtani of Palmer Luckey takedowns bsky.app/profile/klei...

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I remember people goofing on various African militias for wearing wigs and amulets and whatnot to protect them from bullets, but if you told me Hegseth and his maniac pastor think our military's uniforms need crosses on them for a similar reason I'd be like 75% sure you're telling the truth

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Give me Saudi Homelands Independent Territories or gtfo

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To be fair you could make every voter watch an AI slop video titled "When FDR Disrespected Michael Jordan And Instantly Regretted It" followed by a one-question test that asks "did this really happen?" and it would disqualify like half of the MAGA vote

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FDR’s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins (featuring Mae Whitman) - Drunk History

Professor, new scholarship (a new Drunk History episode) about Frances Perkins has come out and your syllabus is out of date. None of your sources mention FDR singing the New Deal song in front of Congress. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YAw6...

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

American here, who once almost hit a moose on my way to a meeting with a guy who was in a wheelchair because he had hit a moose. I for one welcome our new Canadian overlords

George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No Santa in Israel, pal! (b/c Santa doesn't ride a C-17)

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As your financial advisor I personally wouldn't recommend investing very much in that kid. Which is fine because that means you can up your contributions to the college funds of your other kids

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The Atlanta Hawks are one of the most uninspiring, frankly depressing franchises in all of American sports. The allegation that I would ever pay money to see them is outrageous."

George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's a foursome not a threesome

I'm in favor of progress but one thing that turns me into a RETVRN weirdo is the idea that online ticket sales make anything better. That ticket adjusted for inflation would be $40 and the online shit makes it possible to add zeroes to that. That's all it does, that's what it's for.

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It was the stone age so no online portals and qr codes and accounts and different online payment methods. Online = you can buy a ticket from the comfort of your couch, but also some Macedonian kid can buy all the tickets from the comfort of his couch and charge you $1 zillion on the secondary market

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Here's a story to blow your mind. I saw Nirvana in 1994 which entailed: 1. Walk downtown to the venue 2. Give the box office guy $20, get change and a ticket which went into my wallet 3. On the night of the show, go to the venue, give them the ticket, get in, the end (great show by the way)

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been spending time with rural fire departments and depending on whether the fire chief thinks it's still 1986 some of those crazy bastards will drink anything. Others have newfangled professional norms about not being drunk on the job

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New Structural Engineering Techniques To Build Distributed Thermal Exhaust Systems In Large Orbital Structures Without The Necessity Of Open Ports

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading this through to the end is a damn rollercoaster

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It's tough to track b/c "cops saw a guy smoking fent behind a dumpster so the property manager decided to keep all lights on 24/7" or "cops saw a dealer hide behind a tree so the chief complained to the city arborist who cut down all trees in that zip code" probably won't show up in the literature

Whether some city actually cut down all the trees in public housing or whether it was just cops complaining I'm not sure

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Crime and Public Safety :: Green Cities: Good Health

There are citations at this link (seems like Fisher and Nasar were scared of trees back in the 90s) but I can't remember where I heard cops talking about it and it's driving me nuts. Maybe I saw it in Newsweek or something back in the day but I know it was real depts.washington.edu/hhwb/Thm_Cri...

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A summary of social science evidence about urban greening and reduced crime in communities

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"Every nice feature in your neighborhood must be removed so you can be visible to the cops at all times, for crime control" and then it doesn't even help with crime control

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What's wild is Michael Baumgartner is in a rematch with Carmela Conroy, a meh candidate whom he beat by 21 points two years ago. The last time this district voted blue, Kurt Cobain was alive. What do the internal polls look like if they're worried about it now?

I don't know if this is anecdotal, but I remember cops advocating for cutting trees down in poor neighborhoods b/c criminals could hide behind them, objecting to courtyards in public housing that aren't visible from a patrol car, etc. Basically wanting whole neighborhoods built around line of sight

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Say more about this. Like I get it in principal but it doesn't seem like the government in France is worried about the ICC when they're making decisions about troops in west Africa, right? Or does it still restrian them to an extent?

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I mean that's basically term limits