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I was once buying stuff from a grocery that was going out of business that day. I took an item that was in a 75%-off aisle to be checked out, and learned that furthermore there was a store-wide 50% off sale. How much did I pay for the item?

It's a trick question. The clerk plugged in all into the cash register, and the cash register computed that the item was 125% off. The clerk (who was getting laid off that night) put the thing in the bag and handed my 25% of the thing's price back, in cash. By Grabthar's Hammer: what a savings!

Maybe the U.S. shouldn't be run by people who went to the same four or six colleges. Perhaps elitism is a problem. But maybe it should be run by people who passed middle school, and maybe that isn't elitism.

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"[The] use of sustained “gaslighting”—distorting facts and denying reality—has undermined trust, damaged alliances, and weakened democratic governance." Exactly. And those on the left who engage in the same practices are undermining their own credibility.