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Were any of them any good?

We should mandate that all large trucks, including pickups, have hoods like these. Such hoods would save lives, and requiring them on large vehicles would undoubtedly lead to newer, smaller sized pickup designs that wouldn’t be required to use them. Win-win

… something something even war criminals right twice a day

It’s always bats

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If we could just work out how to efficiently mill waste plastic into 15 μm or so sizes, we’d then be able to mix the plastics directly into our wheat flours and whey protein powders. Why try to beat plastic when we could just become plastic?

The Matrix

I bet they all got paid though

Bravo!

the margin of his election was thin enough that not trampling over the progressive side of the party would have kept him out of office

There, see. There’s the fault in your argument. The Democratic party can’t seem to stop trampling over progressives

The expert quoted has had quite a life:

After earning a BA in English literature from UCLA, Austad left academia for a number of years during which among other things, he drove a taxi cab in New York City, worked as a newspaper reporter, and trained lions for television and movies.

He sounds pretty cool.

I admit I looked him up only because his view challenged what I’ve been seeing in reporting on studies done in this area. I’ve seen what seems like a trend in studying and comparing changes in lifespan and healthspan in male and female subjects (in both human and mouse). I suspect I am suffering from some recency bias, but it really does seem to me like studies in this area are better at teasing out sex differences than in non-longevity lines of research.

Anyway, thought I’d mention the expert’s colorful past

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It is an often used and well known colloquialism

It is a bastardization of a well known colloquialism

To a non US English speaker it would understandably sound strange

To English speakers who’ve heard it and have given it any thought, it just sounds careless, or stupid

If someone were to point out something like this to me, I’d just say “oops”, learn from it, and move on. I wouldn’t double down on it. It’s like defending ‘would of’, or ‘supposably’ - obvious mishearings of other words. People know what you mean; it is just that you are also telling them something you probably don’t mean to.

Ha! According to the supreme court, Biden could explain all of this to Johnson and the rest of the republicans using guns.

If you can care less, why mention it? It is an empty statement, supporting nothing. It has no rhetorical impact at all, except that reinforces the idea in your audience that you haven’t even a good grasp of the language you are using.

Trump has been overcharging the secret service for years. Why wouldn’t efforts to limit his grifting be in place?

We are just so focused on the stupid horse race that we’re not actually picking a leader.

This ‘stupid horse race’ is all that stands between us and four more years of Trump

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Yeah, it’s just like when you kill someone in an automobile accident. So long as you sell the car involved, you can pass the liability to the buyer