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no I never saw that, it was my own observation I always envisioned it as more coequal relationships but the parenthood theme works not having read it

I feel like every "Woody lesson" got a little more mature than the one before it. Toy Story 1 - it's ok to share the attention of someone you love Toy Story 2 - it's better to love knowing you will be hurt than to never experience love at all Toy Story 3 - it's ok to let them move on from you Toy Story 4 - it's ok to move on from them yourself idk how they can keep that streak going

things are going well

happy brithday @CaptainStarwind!

*snogs @Naraku4656*

The Biden admin is formally rescinding the mainline forgiveness/reform proposals stuck in the pipeline, so that the Trump admin can't inherit them and amend them to suit their own punitive ends. Everybody make your financial plans accordingly. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/20/biden-abandons-student-debt-cancellation-00195608

happy daysco

this is realistically the last relief anyone is going to see for a while: https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/biden-harris-administration-approves-additional-428-billion-student-debt-relief-nearly-55000-public-service-workers-0

the feel of being supplanted

An appeals court disqualified Fani Willis' office but declined to toss the indictments. https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-disqualifies-willis-georgia-election-case-trump-indictment/story?id=116944887

Richie Torres in the Bronx and surprisingly Antonio Delgado (her own Lt. Gov) are both apparently exploring the idea. But the fear isn't people switching to vote against her, it's just people staying home entirely.

you say that... https://scri.siena.edu/2024/12/10/hochul-job-approval-favorability-ratings-up-a-little-remain-negative-only-33-of-voters-would-re-elect-hochul-57-want-someone-else/

He's going to try and leverage something NY desperately needs to get Hochul to pardon him, or Hochul runs but completely fizzles out in 2026 and Governor Mike Lawler pardons him on day 1.

Maybe I should t have said "spot on" and should have said "most accurate presidential polls of the unending Trump era"

Can't read the full article but I think you're on point with regards to government. Local gov't (NYC in particular) wants to be responsive to all the convenience store and lunchtime restaurants etc. that built their business around catering to office dwellers who disappeared overnight, as well as the deep-pocketed real estate industry feeling that hit in demand. Are there merits to in-person versus remote, when it's all office work that's done on a computer? Yeah sure in some cases, but it's not really fair to the worker when they are being forced to commute because someone else made an investment with the expectation of that worker being in proximity during lunchtime.

Most polls/aggregates showed a tight race that would be decided by which candidate modestly overperformed relative to their polling. That it was Trump who overperformed in the end obviously defied my expectations, but mathematically it was not unrealistic. https://split-ticket.org/2024/11/10/2024-showed-the-value-of-polling/

The polling in 2024 was mostly spot on.

The Gaetz ethics report will be released, all it took was a secret vote after he wasn't the nominee. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/politics/matt-gaetz-ethics-report-committee/index.html

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technically yeah, but it's not as widely popular as internetizens think, at least outside the 18-29 demographic