You don’t vote in your least favored party to vote for who you want to lose. You vote for who in that party you genuinely want to win - so even if your favored party loses, the winning candidate is at least not a piece of shit. It’s an ad hoc way to do ranked choice.

This is why black voters in the south before the 60s frequently voted in the Democratic primaries despite the Republican party being less racist at the time; they could at least get an OK Democrat if they couldn’t get a Republican.

Everyone should be voting in the primaries of their least favored party until ranked choice voting can realistically happen.

No idea why you’ve got any downvotes.

This is very true. You have to search for actual maple syrup in the US.

EDIT: Yeah. I know how to find actual maple syrup, folks. There was a time long ago when products actually looked like what you were buying and weren’t all imitation crap. There was no such thing as corn-syrup labeled “breakfast syrup” or “maple-flavored syrup” or “Real syrup” in giant bold text and “with maple flavor” in tiny font somewhere distant.

Stop defending deceptive product labeling.

It’s easier to just pick up security bits at any hardware store…

Random idiots that don’t know hardware stores exist

You’d have to be able to read it unfortunately…

Despite all my rage I am still just a cat in a rage.

Hilarious. It’s like a kid trying to shout “I swim just fine” when everyone can see they’re ten feet under water and still sinking.

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With that way of thinking any hate group can just remove every useful word by simply misusing it and having hapless people carry water for them trotting out the ole “language is mutable” line.

You know. Like they’re doing.

“Put eyes on X” is pretty common that I’ve seen.

Did the recipient eat it?

“Subcom” sounds like a bad movie genre or a very niche porn fetish.

Wobinidan is probably not widely known. It might not be amazing but it’s somewhat different from most music and has a cool raw indie quality: https://youtu.be/lrwDMkf-0lo?si=h_UjKIao0zx_hMnj

If you haven’t heard of Lovers, they’re genuinely awesome. Listen to all of it, but The Modern Art Museum of the Modern Kiss Goodbye is memorable in many ways: https://youtu.be/lrwDMkf-0lo?si=h_UjKIao0zx_hMnj

EDIT: Almost forgot about this difficult to find glam gem from Magnolia Blvd. I love this song; I don’t know why. I found it during the Napster days, always forget it exists then have to do an arcane Google search to dig it up again: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-961325120/stormy-eyes

Proving you can’t isn’t very convincing.

“How do speech bubbles work?”

I generally like Edgar Allan Poe, but this meme is why “Sonnet - To Science” is a bad take. (EDIT: Sorry I can’t figure out how to format it correctly here)

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,

Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,

Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering

To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,

Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?

Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,

And driven the Hamadryad from the wood

To seek a shelter in some happier star?

Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,

The Elfin from the green grass, and from me

The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

Thievery touring member Frank Orrall is also the lead singer for Poi Dog Pondering, which has a totally different take on world music. Their Pomegranate album is absolutely great, and a notable song from it is Complicated: https://youtu.be/-KLZMKNs7qY

For a cover, they have an awesome version of That’s the Way Love Is: https://youtu.be/k7iaA7x9oc4?si=aHd5ZJsR7KbqFy7o but I haven’t found a high quality audio YouTube version of it.

everyone*

*Exceptions may apply

It’s always good to have life on your team.

The particulate matter, specifically heavy metals, go through the roof.

There’s also a bunch of paperwork involved in removing those measurements from the pollution data sets with a rule that gives a pass for fireworks.