John Foland

@smerconish In an open primary scenario, what will stop members of the opposite party from intentionally voting for the extremes, defeating the purpose altogether?

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Pour calculer le produit de deux nombres qui diffèrent de 2, il suffit de prendre le carré de leur milieu et de retirer 1. Exemple : 7 × 9 = 8² - 1 = 64 – 1 = 63

@terrelljstarr Context please

Ukrainians got them hands.

Il y a 52! ≈ 8 × 10⁶⁷ façons de mélanger un jeu de 52 cartes. Si on avait fait 100000 milliards de milliards mélanges différents chaque seconde depuis que l'univers existe, à ce jour on n'aurait à peine vu que 0,00000000000000000000000005% de tous les mélanges possibles.

Yes on H.B. 6071 & H.B. 6246! No on H.B. 6074! End Daylight Saving Time, restore permanent Standard Time—for health, safety, and education. @GreggHaddad @khanna_rachel @RepRosario128 #CTLeg

@MarioBrothBlog In the French game of Tarot, one of the special cards is called the "Excuse". It allows the player to not have to use one of their other cards that they might not want to use but might otherwise be obligated to play. Probably unrelated, but voilà.

In almost all language versions of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the password for the quiz room in the X-Naut Fortress is "014029". However, in the French version alone, the password was inexplicably changed to "excuse" instead.

When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the…

The penalty kick is the Rock -Paper - Scissors of sports.

On ne « supporte » pas les Bleus, on les « soutient ». Supporter signifie tolérer, endurer… Vive les Bleus, vive la langue française 🇫🇷

@AlecBaldwin Very true. Started with the 1987 fall of the FCC fairness doctrine.

The problem 4 the avg American voter is that u allowed the communications arm of a political party to call itself a news channel. It screamed a stream of lies + misinformation for years. Now its toxic effects are everywhere and have poisoned everything. Like microplastics…

@HabibKhanT @khadija_gardezi "How's Pakistan?" -- "So great!"

Queen Elizabeth II was older than Pakistan.

@CoyWire One mark of a superb sports reporter has to be the ability to enthrall people who don't watch sports. Don't know how you do it. Delivery, vocabulary, and perspective all top notch.

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