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Twice around the hickenloop.

As she should.

We have them in Torino in Italy where I now live. There are a lot more than I would have expected.

But don’t get complacent. It’s possible the polls this year are over-correcting for that. We won’t know for sure until the election is over.

Not only that. You may need a quite healthy margin to overcome the various voter suppression and other plans the Rs have in place to steal the election. A Texas sized margin might do.

The republicans pretend to be smart? IDK?

Frankly eating in all the time was a net positive, I’m in the best shape of my life

Eating out is a lot better for me after I moved to Italy, so there is that. And living in Italy and having to make do with my own cooking would be Very Sad. But yeah, context matters a lot. The Italians took this stuff very seriously the first time around and vaccination rates were really high when I was neaurotically tracking it. I should look up the annual booster rate.

I don’t know where you are, but I’d be less comfortable in an air conditioned eatery in Texas than outside a restaurant in Rome (where I was at the height). And with the current numbers I should probably start avoiding crowds and recirculated air again.

I’m fine with never eating out again.

Yeah, that would be a severe degradation of life for me, so that’s a no-go unless the probabilities shift back to where they were in 2020-22ish.

Posting from a restaurant in Sardinia.

Are you waiting for something to change or will you do this for the rest of your life?

I stopped when we had as much vaccine protection as we were going to get and the virus wasn’t causing quite as severe disease any more. Forever is a long time.

That’s because the “Did Vote Too” vote is split by the two parties. Clearly we need one of them to drop out to defeat the real enemy.

Edit: although the real real enemy is FPTP and the EC which is the root of all this nonsense.

I don’t actually see an argument anywhere? Just an observation, so the downvote confuse me. Is everyone on a hair trigger because of all that manufactured controversy?

She’s also got tan lines that would make a cyclist proud while blonde needs to get out more.

Having runoff elections allows for another round of campaigning and the voters can make a more informed choice given the results of the first round. There is some value in that, but personally I’d lean towards instant runoff or just proportional representation etc.

34th Rule of acquisition.

so I’m unclear about why they follow EU mandates at all

We’re in the EEA which at this point includes EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. We get to be part of the common market and have free movement of goods and people and whatnot. But it requires “harmonising” rules across the market so that you don’t get technical hurdles instead of straight up tariffs. And then we have no say in these harmonised rules because we’re not in the EU 🤷🏼‍♂️

Correct. But if we stop blowing money on Orban and his cronies, then it can be sent to Ukraine instead.

Noice. That makes €10.8billion for Ukraine.

You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

You can probably update the, search url template for Google in the Firefox settings to go to the Web tab. Or make a new one and make it default.

Here guys, have this banana 🍌 reward for a civil and informative discussion thread.

No where did they say that won’t vote for him over Trump.

Right here:

lesser of two evils isn’t cutting it

Ah, that’s why my pasta tasted so salty at lunch.