Whenever you read polls that say 85-90% of Americans support X, remember that according to HuffPost/YouGov only 81% of Americans like apple pie.
If your idea is more popular than apple pie, you’ve won.
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Speaking of the Post Office (which is awesome and we should fund it better + allow postal banking)
Here's a visualization of the number of new Post Offices in the US by year since 1709.
source: guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=347656&p=2348310
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Fun fact: If Biden wins the election then the VP and Speaker of the House will be from California. Add in our two senators and CA will have an almost appropriately sized role in our government.
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To all those on the left feeling betrayed, remember this:
The Biden/Harris administration will sign whatever a Democratic House and Senate sends them. Congress will decide the agenda. The real battle is there.
We must flip the Senate.
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Neither Kamala Harris nor Joe Biden were my preferred picks for the ticket (I preferred and still prefer Warren), but I will enthusiastically support them.
We need real, competent leadership and Biden/Harris would deliver that.
Plus CA gets another voice in the Senate. I'll take that.
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Even if Joe Biden wins in a landslide, this will be an incredibly tense and nasty election.
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The Postal Service is a national treasure, an essential service, an example of what democratic institutions should be. USPS built this nation and we need it to thrive. As always, call your Reps and Senators. Let them know we need USPS.
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I see a lot of people raving about the Post Office now that it’s in huge trouble and the President is undermining it. Welcome to the fight!
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This week, I just discovered what Goodreads actually is. Good thing the site was only recently started in...
*checks Wikipedia*
2006... huh.
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If I posted: “This has been a productive morning,” you would be well within your rights to flag that post as misinformation.
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Lately, I have become a human Lending Library.
Perhaps the greatest thing about physical books is that they can be easily shared.
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Sing it with me:
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It’s not a Podcast if it’s proprietary.
If I can’t subscribe how I want then it’s not for me.
Podcasts are open, like by definition.
To publish a Podcast you don’t need permission.
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Pine.blog is going to go down for a few minutes. This is all a part of scheduled maintenance on the host servers.
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Pine.blog was down for a minute for some migrations to the host server. Everything should be back up now.
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I’ll go first. I’m reading a ton more than I used to. Since May I’ve read 4 books start-to-finish, finished 3 in-progress books on my shelf, and I’m halfway through another now.
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Poll: Do you find yourself reading more (books, long articles, etc) during the past few months? Yes or No? Why?
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Got a little distracted today, but even with that I hit 50,000 words! I'm halfway done!
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