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Forgot it? I never even knew it! Canada’s Forgotten Prohibition Plebiscite of 1898 Read all about it if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1898_Canadian_prohibition_plebiscite

The most surprising this here is how close England is to Spain, given the Moorish invasion and 700-plus-year occupation of the latter.

@oblong Map of the Moon If Its “Seas” Were Really Seas

Final Map Of The Republics of the Soviet Union Published By The CIA In 1991

These are all the states that have voted the same way for the last nine elections: Push it back to the last eleven elections, and something has changed. I think that something is Newt Gingrich.

And Louisiana's was in 1872!

Too bad for those guys that land doesn't vote.

This is fun!

Which version of Germany existed when each US state became a state:

Reigning British Monarch when each US state became a state:

The Korean War in four parts.

good lord, we're gonna get run out in round 1, aren't we?

Meanwhile ...

Oh, the flailing ... MAGA Republicans want Trump to annex Arlington for D.C. The plan for Washington from 1972, with territory from Virginia and Maryland. Image: Courtesy of Maryland Center for History and Culture/366 It's been a fringe fantasy for D.C. die-hards, but now it's finding common cause among MAGA: taking back Arlington. Why it matters: A Trump ally wants to weaken Virginia Democrats by removing the blue NoVA suburb. What's happening: For some very-online urbanists, "Recreate the Diamond" has been an irredentist dream (D.C. was originally 100 square miles — almost 50% larger than it is today) and seizing more city (hello, 400,000 new Washingtonians). For Republicans, it's a counterattack. It would blow up the congressional map Democrats just redrew 10-1 in their favor. That's the thinking advanced by Chad Mizelle, a former Trump DOJ official. Mizelle thinks the president should sign an executive order declaring Virginia's 1847 retrocession unconstitutional, forcing the Supreme Court to decide for the first time whether Arlington and Alexandria (yes, Old Town, too) are rightfully the District's. "Residents of this region should feel right at home as part of D.C.," he wrote in a Fox News op-ed, telling Trump to "fight fire with fire." Would Trump do it? The White House didn't comment. Mizelle — an ally of Stephen Miller — tells me it's "worth a shot." State of play: Taking it further, Republican Georgia congressman Rich McCormick introduced a bill Thursday, under the banner of "Make D.C. Square Again." Democratic Virginia Rep. Don Beyer called it a "stupid waste of time." The intrigue: Politics aside, would being reunited feel so good? D.C. would get skyscrapers, rich taxpayers, Clarendon bar fights, double the number of Cheesecake Factories, car dealerships (the lack of which has spawned anti-statehood arguments). Amazing Vietnamese food! Plus an airport and strategic control of the Potomac. The bottom line: Some conservatives call it the "People's Republic of Arlington," but even liberal Virginians might not stand going back to Taxation Without Representation.

Then I will no longer waste my time telling agent anything about it, if all it gets me is a doubling of my effort. It's so much faster and easier to just say "agent" until I get a human—unless you can tell me that just makes it worse, and why.

I'm not throwing in the towel on the Tigers at this point, I'm not accepting that we're fated to be a .500 team, and I'm loathe to accept that the Tigers bullpen is exactly what we will see the rest of the season or worse as we see now. It's April 25. We haven't even hit Sparky Day. I'm not about to throw Harris, Hinch, the coaches, and half the roster onto the fire just yet.

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Great, just what we need, something new and meaningless to distract us and argue about.

The video circulating is fake, but pictures of him nodding off are real. But that's not even the point. While we are arguing about this, real long-term, even permanent, damage is being done to government by this anti-government government, and we are hardly talking about that because we are too distracted arguing about this..

Never mind that what about this!!!

Maybe I posted about this before but I don’t remember, but: When you’re phoning for customer support, the AI voice gets all your information—name, address, birthdate, last four of social, and a description of your issue—and then when you get passed to a human, they ask you all the same information again, claiming they don’t have it in front of them. This appears to occur in the vast majority of customer support phone call situations. If the support human doesn’t have all the info passed to them, them why is the AI voice asking it of you in the first place? I don’t know whether I’ve merely lucked into substandard support systems repeatedly, whether the companies intentionally use AI voices to harvest the information and keeps the support human in the dark, or whether the support human gets the info passed to them but is instructed to ask for all the info all over again, but no matter what the deal is, it’s bad. Furthermore, I have no feel for whether this entire situation is intentionally deployed with the specific goal of training people to stop reaching out to customer support, at least by phone, by frustrating them. There’s a non-zero chance of that, too.