Yep. In order for the Dems to make progress they need more than a seat at the conservative table.

a right wing peice of shit

Centre-right. A marginal improvement isn’t perfection but … it’s an improvement. If an end to cronyist conservatism is the only win we get today, let’s take it; and plan another improvement for next time.

#bothSides? Whither nuance?

God forbid Biden forgot one word that one time.

The Republicans were on Biden the moment he paused to gather his thoughts or reorder what he planned to say. The guy was no Obama for speaking, but he could stay on-message and deliver a speech, instead of going back to comfy griping or shallow pandering.

I miss Obama’s particular soundbyte-friendly rhythm; and the delivery was odd to begin with, but a measured, calm delivery is sorely missed right now. I’ve listened to the Canadian guy and he’s okay, and he can deliver a great talk, but still no Obama.

So he performed something Tarantino made up? In a broadcast?

That’s a copyright infringement, right?

1. There is precedence
2. There are precedents

One is a countable noun (like ‘letters’) while the other is an uncountable mass noun (like ‘e-mail’)

Well, zero is still under 25% :-p

a lot of people are terrible writers, and as such, the idea that another user can actually write is offensive to them.

I worry you’re right, here; but only in brief episodes. I mostly want to assume otherwise.

I LOVE great writing: proper punctuation, good delineation, awareness of mass nouns, etc. I love when I see great writing and wish I could be as good.

I feel for people who don’t.

Are there 7-11s? I thought the ABCs pushed them out. (ABC: All Blocks Covered)

It could be regional or arbitrary. I say ‘coding’ a lot because it’s shorter. I could say one is about the keyboard work and one is about the architecture and design, but it’s really the fact that one’s shorter.

But in my environment, they’re interchangeable as much as anything can be. And I’ve grown up using both; even in college in the '90s, coding C and m68k.

YMMV?

I’m offended. I have no less than TWO Nickelback songs on repeat: Photograph and How You Remind Me . I also have a SpongeBob track and always, somewhere where it’s quiet and dark, the Littlest Hobo theme. And maybe Airwolf.

You think so little of me ;-)

The medium, apparently, is the message.

But I do love the oppositional/defiant “screeching” comment.

Both are equally valid, which is to say incorrect. Mass nouns get no S. You’d just as soon write “I got 3 mails from the mailbox” and wonder why you weren’t taken seriously.

Gen-x are called Boomer now.

We’ll survive this too.

Since you can’t open the case and salvage much, engraving the case is a solid measure to confirm ownership.

The gaza angle is comical, even now. “No better than the only viable alternative, but maybe there’s hope” so people voted to ensure it’ll only get so, so much worse, on that and almost every other metric imaginable. It says a lot about education when people can’t do the equivalent of reducing an equation.

Hungrey

Hungarian ?

George Conway may want a word.

At least they wrote “'til” with one L. I’ll give them a pass here, as it’s an increasingly rare bit of adequacy.

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