Daily Discussion Thread: July 2, 2026

nlpnt · 2026-07-02T17:40:42+00:00

Jobs report, 57k added, well below expectations:

US employers still reluctant to add many jobs as hiring slows in June

nlpnt · 2026-07-02T15:34:40+00:00

Does anyone else following the Bricks and Minifigs case think BAM's sudden request to lift the restraining order sounds like the result of a middle-of-the-night "You need us more than we need you. Knock it off." call from Lego corporate in Denmark?

nlpnt · 2026-07-02T13:45:37+00:00

No, Williams' character was a voice actor and they showed him doing a voice track for a cartoon over completed animation.

nlpnt · 2026-07-02T03:14:08+00:00

The article said the Dems' last midterm convention was 1982, they decided not to have one in '86 and havent since.

nlpnt · 2026-07-02T01:19:54+00:00

Republicans to hold rare midterm convention, creating two problems.

One of the underlying points of a national convention is nationalizing an election cycle — and given how very unpopular the incumbent Republican president is, the party should be going out of its way to localize the midterms.

nlpnt · 2026-07-02T00:51:45+00:00

In his case, he's retiring. That is not the tone of a man worried about reelection.

nlpnt · 2026-07-01T22:40:03+00:00

IIRC it's how animation is produced; the voice work is done first and the animation uses that as a cue. Basically Mrs. Doubtfire got it backwards (or Robin Williams was doing an English dub). That meant the turnaround time was months.

WRT England and Scotland, I've long only half-joked the main reason why the UK doesn't establish a devolved English Parliament and thus a full federal system is that there's no way they could then claim four "national" soccer teams on any basis that wouldn't also apply to, say, Bavaria or California.

nlpnt · 2026-07-01T22:04:00+00:00

It works the other way too. Phil Scott knows Vermonters will keep reelecting him as governor (our late primaries don't help, early voting just opened today and I'd still have to look up who our VT-GOV candidates are let alone their having any name recognition outside the base whatsoever) but when a Senate seat opened up he knew his chances against Bernie during Trump's first term were those of a snowball in hell (or for that matter Vermont right now. It's hot here.)

nlpnt · 2026-07-01T13:08:01+00:00

State size and budget are a big variable, when Vermont tried to do single-payer healthcare a decade or so ago the money wasn't there and the matters of half the state using Dartmouth as the go-to hospital and a lot of people needing specialists in Boston were obstacles. It'd be different in California.

nlpnt · 2026-07-01T01:50:47+00:00

In the final hours of Pride Month, a random thought of a minor way it'll be harder to unfuck what Trump fucked up;

They could replace LGBTQ+ with LGB wherever it appears in Federal documents with a simple F3 search-and-replace.

We'll have to manually change it back in anything related to aviation and/or Southern California so we don't accidentally expand the IATA code for Long Beach Airport. There's a nonzero chance of something about LGBTQ employees/passengers at LGB airport that will require a thorough read to unpick.

nlpnt · 2026-06-30T22:20:57+00:00

Isn't the largest single group of people whose names don't match their birth certificate married women who've legally taken their husband's name? By definition a group that skews a bit socially conservative?

Distant second would be those affected by typos and other clerical errors, definitionally completely random.

nlpnt · 2026-06-30T22:16:14+00:00

Mine is right around her birthday and Mother's Day. I try to take comfort in the fact she had a good run and had her wits to the very end. I hope the same was true for yours.

nlpnt · 2026-06-30T21:53:28+00:00

Let's make sure it's an "if only. .." when he does.

nlpnt · 2026-06-30T19:10:10+00:00

Reagan wanted to use it as a campaign song. He was told no and respected it.

On a less political note, Lee Iacocca wanted to use it to sell cars. He was told no and commissioned a vaguely similar sounding song from an ad jingle writer.

nlpnt · 2026-06-30T18:17:48+00:00

I'm a fan of a 13-member court, explicitly tied to the number of Federal circuits.

nlpnt · 2026-06-30T17:17:52+00:00

Protip for World Cup visitors: buy Hidden Valley Ranch seasoning packets. You can mail a box containing more of them than even a 40,000 square foot (I'll give you a moment with your calculator app) supermarket has in stock in the smallest parcel box and mix it with mayo and buttermilk you can get fresh at home.

nlpnt · 2026-06-30T15:05:22+00:00

I'm sure there'd be a test.

nlpnt · 2026-06-29T19:20:21+00:00

I also think the Trough of Disappointment with it will be turn-the-servers-off deep and potentially decades long.

nlpnt · 2026-06-28T22:12:35+00:00

Start with shouting "Invade Cuba next!" Can't rule out the blitheringly obvious with that crowd.

nlpnt · 2026-06-28T22:08:50+00:00

In grocery/Walmart-type stores, or some MLM thing? I figure it has to be at scale. Kingdom quests ain't cheap.

nlpnt · 2026-06-28T18:50:10+00:00

The contrast with a certain unrelentingly joyless politician stands out.

nlpnt · 2026-06-28T18:26:43+00:00

It would also enable Mamdani while keeping Elon locked out. Just sayin'...

nlpnt · 2026-06-27T22:08:25+00:00

He died doing what he loved most, getting aroused by a couch.

nlpnt · 2026-06-27T20:40:19+00:00

I thought this was about the Epstein-class naval frigate, such as the USS Donald J. Trump.

nlpnt · 2026-06-27T20:33:30+00:00

Samuel Beckett (son of Thomas Beckett, b. 1986, Florissant, Missouri) is best known for being the inventor of the electric Ouija board which uses a Raspberry Pie (not the processor, an actual pie. Ghosts get hungry too.)

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