Typically, one expects a “bar” to have beer and liquor and the ability to make at least basic mixed drinks (rum and Coke, gin and tonic, etc.).

A “beer bar” usually has a wider variety of beers on draft and no liquor or mixed drinks.

If he’s assassinated, they’ll try to canonize him like they did with Charlie Kirk.

Rotting in prison is the greater humiliation for a narcissist.

Culture war is basically the only thing left that the Republican base approves of. He’s trying to play to his party’s “strengths.”

This is the real bottom line. MAGA seems to think that Russia is on their team.

Hello, fellow A/G kid. My church didn’t have shofars – that actually sounds a lot cooler than just announcing that the spirit is moving.

I think you’re right about evangelical support for Israel. They think they’re hastening the End Times.

I’m so glad I got out of that entire scene. The rest of my youth group cohort are still faithful members, decades later.

Bon Jovi was one of the most popular bands of the '80s. They were a part of the mainstream that Alternative Rock was supposed to be an alternative to.

And, ideally, when the City of Fargo has to eat the cost (because the contract with the tech company likely specifies that a facial recognition match is not sufficient grounds for arrest), it and every other municipality using similar tech will change its policing practices.

But probably the city will just quietly take responsibility for the damages after a session of contractually required private mediation, and nobody will learn a lesson.

Even just a couple of commas would help.

Grandmother, jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake, launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective

Because with AI, no bad can happen, it can only good happen.

To clock: to register on a mechanical recording device

Code violations: things about a property that do not meet standards according to local ordinances

It’s been nearly 30 years since I fervently believed that an afterlife was real. This comment made me wish it were true.

Dante could add a whole extra ring of Hell for the MAGA faithful.

I’m in a country where this is apparently still the case. It seems that the major mobile carriers all charge for text messages to other networks.

WhatsApp is free regardless of your mobile provider. Most here even provide free access to WhatsApp that doesn’t count toward your data allotment.

A lot of the rural Trump voters I know had made being uneducated a key pillar of their personal identity even before 2015. Those are the people who think he’s a charismatic speaker.

The urban and suburban ones held their noses and voted for him because “at least he’s not a Godless Democrat.” They don’t listen to what he says, but they vote for him anyway.

That is likely true. I can’t imagine him calling anyone else “sir” or “Mr. President.”

It’s interesting to see the lengths that established media are going to in order to “both sides” this political opinion that is obviously not a 50/50 split.

The headline is, “Mayor Mamdani finds favor in New York City, but struggles with state.”

Has any other New York mayor ever had this kind of approval rating? Maybe Giuliano immediately after 9/11 …

I sincerely doubt that most NYC residents give a rat’s ass about what other residents of their state think about the city’s mayor.

“Small enough to fit in your reproductive organs” appears to be the goal.

It turns out that operating industrial production equipment while distracted is a huge safety liability.

I live in Colombia, and digital menus via QR code have become pretty normal here. They save on printing costs and allow for frequent updates.

But there are still servers to take your order. Ordering through your phone while you’re actually in the restaurant is very rare.

2020s Democrats are mostly 1980s Republicans that are more okay with diversity.

That sounds more like the job of an editor than the job of a writer.

When I was an editor, my job was to assign stories to writers and then to work with the editorial team to revise and refine their output into an end product that the publication could stand behind.

Your process sounds a lot like that.