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While true, there is another nuance missing here. The deficit was higher in 2020 & 2021 due to the Covid stimulus spending. Looking at 2017-2019 for Trump and 2022-2024 for Biden p…

>I think it depends on how you describe "wealthy". The life of someone who makes $200k a year isn't hugely different from someone who makes $50k. You still have to drive yourself t…

After fees is a bit tacky, but, at least in the US, I think it is considered good etiquette to tip on the original amount before discounts. I remember this came up a lot when Group…

Numerous people (Matt Levine, etc) smarter than me have written about how there was no $1B break up fee. That fee only came into play if something prevented the deal, like regulato…

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>Say what you will, the 27th Amendment passed. Sure, but the Congress that approved it never felt its consequences because it took another 200 years for it to become ratified. So t…

For a company that "stopped posting on Twitter" they sure post a lot: https://twitter.com/FoxNews

When push came to shove, how many Democratic leaders (Reps and Senators) voted against or objected to the electoral college results in 2017? It was less than 10 Representatives and…

dragonwriter was talking about the Democratic primary.

It's pretty much on a steady climb upwards though. So a show today probably has more ads per half hour than one 10 years ago, 20 years ago, etc.

Is there a reason May 2021 should be particularly instructive vs year-to-date (YTD) for NYC? [1] has murders down 1.3% (299 vs 303) and burglaries down 24% YTD. Felony assault is u…

You keep talking about Sturgis, which ended on Aug 16. There is known incubation time between contact and testing positive, and even by 10 days later (Aug 26) the rate was at ~1200…

You can change it to 20/100k if you wish, it doesn't really make a difference. SD case counts per 1M on selected dates: Jul 15 2020 - 463 Aug 15 2020 - 725 Sep 15 2020 - ~1800 Doub…

South Dakota is #3 in cases per capita and #10 in deaths per capita in the US. It's August-November stretch was just brutal, peaking with a death rate of 200/1M for the week of Nov…

>I really want to see how the US being the richest is calculated. I don't think it's really a mystery. When people say this, they are referring to the fact that the US has the larg…

>I mean, until Bernie Sanders, no politician openly called themselves a socialist. This is recent. Eugene Debs?

Does this actually disagree with what he said? OP said Trump doesn't put in the effort to persuade (aka, get McConnell to focus on his agenda) and used his bully pulpit ineffective…

The latest tag is 2.0.0-rc2 since it is technically a release candidate and not the final cut.

It's not a repeat of the spring...yet. The daily number of cases in Spain appears to still be on the rise, and the death curve is usually 3-4 weeks lagging the cases. So deaths is …

>Customers are also hugely price sensitive, an increase of a few pence can have a massive change on purchasing patterns. Looking at one weekly special[1] I see Pepsi selling four 1…