Despite firebrand progressives winning Senate seats by healthy margins in states like Michigan and Minnesota, an adviser for the centrist think tank Third Way told the Financial Times that the “majority-makers were mainstream and centre-left Democrats.” The empirical argument here is that moderate candidates were both more numerous and overperformed their progressive counterparts who also won.

There it is, like clockwork: “the progressives didn’t win by enough, it’s not a winning strategy”

Explain how!

Great news, there’s a down detector for the down detector’s down detector. They even have a down detector for the down detector’s down detector down detector

Maybe unpopular opinion, but not really. It just takes a few extra seconds. I appreciate that moment with patience

Also could someone please give me a link to the transparent version

“we’ll keep sports fair and protect little girls by exposing themselves to adults”

Fucking brilliant.

How dare you insult the Bloody Mary. Don’t go into the bathroom with the lights off. She’s coming for you

The presidents of international unions are not the ones negotiating contracts. That would be the bargaining committee, and some staff from the union local.

I’ve been organizing unions for years. I’ve never once met a union staffer that wanted private healthcare over public healthcare to maintain bargaining power. Unions bargain healthcare because we have to, not because it’s a bargaining chip. If private healthcare dies, that creates substantially more bargaining power for workers.

I look at all of my options, select 1, and then wait at least 2 days to think through whether it’s the best move. If a stable plan starts coalescing around that option within that time, then it’s a winner. If not, I reconsider the other options, but usually the plan changes the initial options anyway.

This may seem excessive, but due to this extensive planning time, I can usually make good snap decisions when the plan falls through

Ugh… Pointless tribalism…

Hey, something similar for me too! I used to do close-open shifts working at a grocery store, while also doing all-nighters constantly in highschool and college because I’m a chronic procrastinator. And then I started to work at Activision on the night shift, with day shift friends/roommates. I worked 10 hour days 8 days straight with a rotating day off every pay period, for 6 weeks. So I’d usually get to sleep at 6am and wake up at 2pm.

My insane trick/strategy to swap between day shift and night shift activities is to stay awake for 24 hours. I’d do it to get adjusted after coming back from vacations, to make appointments, and any other reason I needed to be awake before noon

Listen here you little shit, right after this nap I’m going to kick your ass

I’m capable of sleeping at any time, anywhere, on command. I don’t usually let people watch me sleep

Communities page, all instances, scroll until an interesting one is spotted

It’s going to be longer than some books

Tbf, a few Native American cultures use variations of Turtle Island which reference the creation story of living on the back of a giant turtle

All praise the Great Pumpkin!