TheSanSabaSongbird

Yeah I'm a little confused too. The thing with windows is that you get what you pay for. It's ridiculous to think that there's some kind of window design that's magically available in Europe but not in the US. There are probably designs that are more common in different parts of the world, but it's absolutely not the case that if a homeowner wants to pay for it they can't get whatever they want in the US.

I have to think this post was made by someone who knows nothing about construction.

Lol! Imagine thinking this is true.

They aren't that difficult to repair if you have basic carpentry skills. All you have to do is take the sash out and open the side of the frame and you'll have access to the weight and pulley. They're designed to be pretty easy to do. YouTube probably has hundreds of videos on it. You just want to be careful about lead paint if it's an old house and you're producing dust or disturbing old paint.

They open from the top as well.

Yeah, my Nancy Reagan does similar shit on the regular.

She's nearly lived up to her namesake in the sense that she doesn't really like anyone and is pretty strong on the "just say no" aspect of things.

I love her anyway in spite of her being a cold hearted bitch. In spite of all her great upbringing, she's never met anyone she wasn't prepared to scratch or swipe at, drawing random blood.

This is a pretty stupid point. Increasingly consequential national elections are exactly what you would expect in a country that, like ours, has become increasingly polarized since the Reagan revolution of the 1980s. The right keeps getting crazier and crazier, so of course the stakes keep going up.

Edit; it's also, simultaneously, to be expected that in a politically polarized country, in which each side has roughly equal electoral power, that no radical change will occur.

NATO needs a similar mechanism as well, but for similar reasons doesn't have one either.

I don't know why this should be an unpopular opinion. It seems to me more like a truth claim or a hypothesis that can probably be supported or refuted on the basis of research.

I read "Anthem" when I was about 19, I think, and at the time I liked it. I tried to read "Atlas Shrugged" when I was in my 30s, but didn't get very far before I put it down in as a waste of time. There's one data point for you.

True, but it still amounts to a vote for Trump, due to the electoral college.

Newspapers were a very different beast in Jefferson's day.

Yes it is. I guarantee you that someone who regularly reads a reputable major daily is going to be better-informed than 90 percent of the public. Your attitude is part of the problem too. The vast majority of Americans are functionally illiterate when it comes to news media and don't have any idea of how to evaluate credibility and accuracy.

I mostly blame the Internet for trashing the signal-to-noise ratio, but I also blame our education system and the profession of journalism itself for not giving people better epistemic toolkits.

The Biden administration is quite possibly the worst administration I've ever seen when it comes to messaging, and I am in my 50s. Someday in the future someone will write a PhD dissertation on why they are so dysfunctional in this respect, but for now I just don't get it. They are singularly inept when it comes to publicizing and taking credit for their wins.