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Thought I'd update my pinned tweet with a pic of the tattoo healed; my lazy ass still has to get the text inked-on, but at the moment, I can't be bothered to do anything.
Kind of funny when I think about the parallels between myself and Pete Buttigieg; gay, married Navy veteran who speaks many languages, and has Middle-Eastern ancestry.
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I can't possibly understate the political & policy consequences of this: Democrats just gained full control of four state governments today.
Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, and Minnesota.
(I have no idea what to make of the aliteration.)
Estoy siempre sorprendido de la cantidad de palabras españoles de origen árabe. Sin ellas, sería una idioma completamente distinto.
Now that Maryland has finally legalized Cannabis, I'm interested to see the impact this has on Federal legislation, given the dominance of this state and fellow legal state Virginia in the Federal government.
I've said it before, but the difference we'd see in our government if voting was mandatory would be astounding. Even small fines for neglecting the duty have been shown to heavily motivate eligible voters in Australia.
Crucial to this is making voting trivially easy.
Interesting fact: Since 1950, New York City is the only city proper in the Northeastern US to register positive population growth. While metro areas have boomed across the board, every other core city is smaller than 72 years ago.
1950 -> 2020 Populations:
- New York: 7.9M -> 8.8M
- Philadelphia: 2M - > 1.6M
- Baltimore: 1M -> 585k
- Boston: 800k -> 680k
- Washington: 800k -> 690k
- Pittsburgh: 680k -> 300k
- Buffalo: 580k -> 280k
- Newark: 440k -> 300k
The first open trans woman I met was my friend's mom, who didn't worry about passing. She told her son "I'm a fat bearded trans woman who's not on hormones and still have a hot girlfriend 10 years younger than I; if you don't have a girlfriend, you're not trying hard enough." 😂
Having already studied French, Spanish, and Portuguese, it's kind of funny how easily I can accurately guess the meaning of all of the Italian words I encounter.
Once one has studied enough languages in a particular subgroup, they all sort of start to feel like the same structure with a different skin overlaid.
Wild how US life-expectancy has been dropping since 2018, and how little coverage or attention is given to it. Life-expectancy hadn't dropped since the Great Influenza until the last several years, compounded by suicide, drug overdose, healthcare unaffordability and the Pandemic.
Just had the thought that, if we decoupled one's ability to live from arduous and time-consuming labor, people would be free to pursue creative outlets, probably preserving or even reviving dying crafts, like in Baghdad's struggling copper market, Souk al-Safafeer.















