That would be after the low hanging fruit of Moldova. Neighbors Ukraine, Constitutionally neutral, does not admit stationing foreign military troops on its territory, can only be altered by referendum, and not at all during a state of national emergency, martial law or war.

I’m from the school that says Harris’ is settled law and it’s Walz’ vs. Walz’s that needs litigated.

Yeah, Entertainment Software Association representing all three.

I’m less surprised by that than the exclusion of video game consoles.
Didn’t know the Nintendo lobby was a formidable adversary up there.

It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.

And if there were, we know from 2020 there’d still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn’t progressive enough.

She isn’t on the Republicans for Ukraine report card because (duh!) she isn’t a Republican, but the only criteria that would get her mildly dinged there would be that she didn’t sign Discharge Petition 9 or 10. Republicans with identical records as Omar get an A - Excellent rating.

Early into the 2022 invasion, she was among fifteen Progressive Democrats to vote against the Consolidated Appropriations Act, receiving some press attention on that. Around the same time, she voted against the Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act, criticizing it as a symbolic gesture substituted for practical assistance. Neither count on the above report card, but are examples Samuels might cite to impugn her record.

If I were in MN-5 voting singularly pro-Ukraine, there’s little for Samuels to genuinely improve upon, and the pretense that he could suggests disingenuousness on the issue I wouldn’t consider preferable.

Odd. I wondered why friends from Chicago always order tuna salad whenever they visit.

As I write this reply, three buttons appear below the text dialog, “Reply,” “Cancel” and “Preview.” Not having deleted the text from dialog, nor committed to “Reply” or “Cancel,” if I now decide to view your profile on this page by clicking your user name, it has no effect. This appears true of all links except !main and those to off-site URLs, for example, the donation heart you mentioned.

I also observe the “Cancel” button is not offered when typing a reply to your initial post.

6 Degrees in Bucktown had them for 13 years, but closed down last year. The owner was the daughter of Paul Keefner of Bachmann & Keefner Drug Store in Springfield, the last in the city to still have a lunch counter when it closed in 2004.

I speculate that horseshoes will migrate north as poutine migrates south, eventually to breed a hybrid called a “mooseshoe.”

i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days

I was recalling BBS days with @TurtleTourParty’s “99.9999% uptime is overrated” remark. We really have become spoiled in little better than a quarter century. The typical BBS had one phone line. Once you got past a busy signal, you had to economize your time online to give other users a chance. You’d install an offline reader to download new mail, disconnect, reply at leisure, and upload when you got back in.

Aside from the local quality (enforced by a forgotten fact-of-life called “long distance charges,” defined as “not far outside city limits”), you never posted anything to discover someone else had replied simultaneously, because you were preventing them from doing so. I have fond memories of message boards that were games designed around this fact.

Have not tried it yet, but this promises to recapture some feel of the “good ol’ days.” I wish it included a sound effect of that satisfying “connected” modem squawk when you fired it up.

I found it curious, back in December, that Twitter suppressed tweets notifying followers of a Mastodon address, acknowledging no such threat from links to other social media companies, including a few that have in shorter work surpassed Twitter’s user base.

Similar behavior from Reddit briefly banning r/KbinMigration. There’s been a r/RedditAlternatives sub for over eleven years. Awkward if they suddenly decided that to be spam. For nearly as long, there’s been r/Facebook providing unofficial tech support for its users. Upon resolving their issue, one easily supposes they return to looking at ads on that hellhole rather than those on Reddit. That one, I’m confident, was subject to no interruption at all.

My preference is usually Chicago style, but this Detroit stuff will do.