It's not clear to me that 80 billion pounds of savings very unevenly distributed has the same benefit as 80 billion pounds of savings evenly distributed, though. The latter means everybody has a… (View Post)

Mmm, but if you're not used to it and don't have much experience beyond absolute basics it can be a bit daunting. As somebody who never has cooked much I don't have the cupboard full o… (View Post)

Well, yes and no. I'm one of that group of post-2015 members -- but I'd been consistently voting LD for 20 years before that. The post-2015 events were just the trigger for me to actually g… (View Post)

If you are in the mood for some long blog posts on that topic by a Roman military historian, I can recommend Bret Devereaux's just finished 5-part series of posts on Roman identity and diversity… (View Post)

The stuff I see on youtube is on the "let's not go back [to lockdowns]" theme, basically "vaccination is the way to get back to fun stuff like festivals and what-have-you. Not ver… (View Post)