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Fri, 05/05/2023 - 22:00

1. Many dishes are served in a deconstructed manner, with no components touching each other.

2. There is a lot of concern over one tiny drop of sauce on a plate.

3. The basic counter seating has some fancy name like “Chef’s Counter” or “Dad’s Emporium of Dinosaur-Shaped Chicken Nuggets.”

4. If the carrots are not cut correctly, someone might start yelling.

5. You do a lot of deep breathing and counting to ten.

6. Throughout the meal, crumbs must be periodically cleared from the table.

7. The diners are unusually obsessed with smells and textures.

8. No matter how absurd their requests are, you’ve learned it’s better not to argue with the diners.

9. You frequently question what you are doing with your life.

10. Certain foods are disguised to look like something they are not.

11. There are sometimes a lot of questions about where the meat comes from.

12. Someone might be wearing a sequined romper.

13. Someone might be wearing on your nerves.

14. At least once a day, the food will bring someone to tears.

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Fri, 05/05/2023 - 21:44
När tankesmedjan Katalys nu firar tioårsjubileum har man passande nog valt att bjuda in författaren till en av årtiondet största megahits inom ekonomiområdet — Underskottsmyten — Stephanie Kelton. Har ni vägarna förbi Stockholm i morgon tycker jag definitivt ni ska lägga ett par timmar på att besöka ABF-huset! Yours truly har under flera års tid […]
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Fri, 05/05/2023 - 19:31

On the second centenary of Karl Marx’s birth, global capitalism is stumbling from crisis to crisis. In the wake of the financial crash, interest in Marx’s ideas has blossomed once again. This should come as no surprise: they remain vital to understanding not only the dynamics of capitalism itself but the manner in which it […]

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Fri, 05/05/2023 - 19:00

Whether the bill, which Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to sign, ends up as law or not, the discrimination is already stinging marginalized communities.

The post Ban on Property Sales to Citizens of China, Iran, and Others Is Cruising Through Texas Legislature appeared first on The Intercept.

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Fri, 05/05/2023 - 17:54
Unfortunately, social sciences’ hope that we can control simultaneously for a range of factors like education, labor force attachment, discrimination, and others is simply more wishful thinking. The problem is that the causal relations underlying such associations are so complex and so irregular that the mechanical process of regression analysis has no hope of unpacking […]
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Fri, 05/05/2023 - 17:00
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Fri, 05/05/2023 - 10:00
Now they’re just letting Republican officials throw out elections whenever they want — in Democratic counties. Texas of course: The Texas Legislature is advancing a bill that would allow the secretary of state to redo elections in Harris County, where a number of Democratic candidates posted strong midterm election results and which has been dogged by GOP claims of election mismanagement. The Republican-controlled Senate passed the bill Tuesday and sent it to the state House. If it is enacted, it would allow the secretary of state to toss out election results in the state’s largest county and call a new vote if there is “good cause” to believe that at least 2% of polling places ran out of usable ballots during voting hours. The bill would apply only to counties with populations greater than 2.7 million, effectively singling out Harris County, which is home to Houston and has by far the largest population in the state, at nearly 5 million. In recent decades, Harris County has become more Democratic.
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Fri, 05/05/2023 - 08:30
Tarrio’s going away along with his cohorts: Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election. A jury in Washington, D.C., found Tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy after hearing from dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases brought in the stunning attack that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, as the world watched on live TV. It’s a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Democratic President Joe Biden out of the White House at all costs. The charge carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years. Tarrio, behind bars since his March 2022 arrest, didn’t appear to show any emotion as the verdict was read. He hugged one of his lawyers and shook the hand of the other before leaving the courtroom.