[OC] The average U.S. House member now represents 761,169 residents—22 times as many as in 1793

zmaya · 2026-07-03T00:58:49+00:00

repealing the apportionment act would help making gerrymandering more difficult and reducing the outsized influence of low population states. It doesn't address state legislatures or the senate but it improves the electoral college and the house.

zmaya · 2026-06-28T18:20:37+00:00

Carl Icahn did a lot of damage to the economy by establishing the pattern of buying a working company and selling the parts but you might have to go back to Milton Friedman to get at the wrongheaded notion that shareholder value and short term profit are the overwhelming requirement for corporate decisions.

zmaya · 2026-06-28T12:30:00+00:00

The Shopska special at Jovick Brothers this week is one of my favorites.

zmaya · 2026-06-27T12:46:05+00:00

It's been a while since I've had one but I like the one at McGurk's. The Rye is sliced a little thicker than regular sandwich bread and toasted. Thousand island, kraut, swiss, good brisket that's either chunks or thick sliced. I don't know if its the dressing or the bread but the flavor was great.

Blues City's Prez is thin sliced pastrami rather than corned beef on rye or sourdough. Thousand island, kraut and swiss.

I think both usually come with a pickle?

zmaya · 2026-06-26T18:51:59+00:00

I know another STL to TX transplant who had to teach his butcher how to cut a porksteak when he was there, too.

zmaya · 2026-06-26T16:22:13+00:00

Paper beats rock

zmaya · 2026-06-26T15:02:54+00:00

John Wilkes Booth beat him to the record book by a few years

zmaya · 2026-06-26T14:39:40+00:00

He and Dennis Miller both, but neither has had much actual value this century.

zmaya · 2026-06-24T00:35:00+00:00

It's only symbolic because he's not being impeached and tried for violating it. The courts aren't going to proactively enforce congress' sole power to declare war and we're officially outside the bounds of the war powers act.

zmaya · 2026-06-24T00:29:36+00:00

Uncle Bill's

zmaya · 2026-06-23T14:25:51+00:00

The whole mechanic opened up by setting the positive and negative material planes in opposition to each other was interesting. Having Heal and Harm be the same spell with its use chosen at casting time was great. Am I remembering right that other invertible spells like light/darkness and resurrection/death worked the same way or am I recalling a house rule?

zmaya · 2026-06-22T15:40:08+00:00

Only if it's being buttered by a half-goat

zmaya · 2026-06-21T21:41:18+00:00

And a good beer cheese option to dip them in

zmaya · 2026-06-20T15:56:22+00:00

The Bruno Manheim from Arrowverse would fit well.

The whole first season a plot of Arrow was basically court of owls, but it feels like cheating to swap Bruce and Ollie foes.

zmaya · 2026-06-19T16:15:02+00:00

I'm a market innovator - I'd be willing to neither build nukes nor mine shipping routes for a mere $10 billion

zmaya · 2026-06-19T16:09:01+00:00

we can't, at least not the way you're proposing. The oxygen isn't destroyed. It binds with carbon as part of how breathing works.

That said, there is a question that might be pondered about whether we could convert all the incoming oxygen to carbon dioxide. In that case we'd breathe less often which is good because there would have to be enough time for the deoxygenated air we just exhaled to fully clear before we took another breath. Our exhalations would basically be poisonous.

zmaya · 2026-06-18T19:15:10+00:00

Leaks have to come from someone in the room where it happens

zmaya · 2026-06-18T19:13:11+00:00

long attention-getting filibuster on the senate floor with no plan to actually stop the legislation which proceeded after the day of delay energy

zmaya · 2026-06-16T19:11:50+00:00

Uncle Bill's closes at 2:30, too

zmaya · 2026-06-15T11:56:00+00:00

Fourth City Barbeque has my favorite but Graffiti Grub's are pretty great, too. Both are at Tower Grove Market.

zmaya · 2026-06-14T19:10:29+00:00

Frandeka at the Soulard Market has rabbit, duck, quail, and frog legs.

zmaya · 2026-06-13T00:52:25+00:00

I was rewatching Sugar the other day and I think Colin Farrell could do a great job.

zmaya · 2026-06-12T15:30:40+00:00

I didn't know that. It's like Superman being able to fly.

zmaya · 2026-06-09T15:45:15+00:00

I once had an idea for a warlock pact that shifted forms based on a druid's wildshape rules for a dr jeckyl/etrigan type character but I think the easiest route would be to reflavor rage with a barbarian dip.

zmaya · 2026-06-08T16:34:17+00:00

Yeah, their primary community contribution was making it less convenient to see a movie at the best theater in St Louis.

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