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What I don’t get is why we aren’t seeing this in his approval ratings. Are they just lagging? Is his hard base like 40% of the population?

Yeah, me too. I visited one in London a few years back, and it looked like a ton of fun

that is a fine idea, and also totally a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_playground

and that is why we organize

IMO the people who design children’s play areas are generally not that great at it. I say that as a preschool teacher.

search for Markdown syntax, I guess?

<small>maybe html works?</small>, edit: it does!

last I checked, you were still allowed to hit your own children in the UK

or just have longer and more convenient early voting? In Norway you can vote for at least a month at local public institutions

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good point, that might make it more likely

I so hope this will be available in Europe outside the EU

I don’t expect it, though :L

I think it’s most common to call it a “transactional” personality – and the way of thinking is often called “transactionalism”, although that’s kind of unfortunate since that’s also the name of an approach within philosophical pragmatism. I’ve heard “instrumentalism” as well, which is also unfortunate in that it shares the name of a sort of pragmatist philosophical approach.

The latter term has been used some in discussions about kindergarten policy here in Norway, to criticize perspectives that only consider kindergartens, and childhood, to exist for the sake of adulthood or adult society.

I’m Norwegian, not British, but we also have a constitutional monarchy. I like it for mostly cynical reasons. They take care of ribbon-cutting and other big ceremonies so the politicians can focus on policy, and they give us a “head of state” that’s statistically less likely to become a dictator than an elected president is.

And all the drama and bullshit is a continuous reminder of what a bad idea it would be to institute genuine monarchy.

if you liked The Wire, you should check out the other shows from David Simon and the rest of them. Especially Generation Kill and The Deuce.

pretty sure this is just what American sports are like

He also writes

They need, in particular, a commitment to a constitutional order centered on the power and prerogatives of Congress

which yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me as a European – but as I understand it, congress is not a very popular institution in the US. I’ve been following the aggregators for Trump’s favorability/approval ratings - and while they’re not very high, they are a lot higher than the ones for congress. This is going to be tough to do.

Still possible, but I think it depends on the “good things” you mentioned being very clearly good and noticeable in peoples’ lives.

Also, nice to read a comment from someone who actually read the article

Okay, let’s say he’s an opportunistic neo-nazi… why is he not a Republican?

yeah, and nobody is talking about it because the zone is flooded, as they say

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