Usually, residency isn't required to obtain a marriage license in an EU country.

So what today's EU's supreme court ruling does is put Eastern EU (and 🇮🇹) in the same gay marriage category as 🇮🇱.

All explained here: davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-jus...

Editorially, AI slop in open calls has made it functionally impossible to hold open calls anymore, which absolutely sucks for new and emerging writers trying to break into the industry.

Strange to bring up plants here, given that many species don't have clearly male or female organisms.

I don't think he's been paying attention to what people say about girls.

I think that’s a fair criticism, although not one that really undermines the text.

I mean, it’s a seed and the obvious action for a seed is to plant it. Casting it as being about powerlessly haranguing industry seems like a stretch by comparison.

I’m not sure describing it as fatalistic is a good reading of the book. It ends with the Once-Ler tossing the reader stand-in a Truffala seed, if I remember correctly.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

God‘s gift to investigative reporters and auditors.

Now I'm wondering how many software developers learned the attitude that soft skills don't matter all the way in childhood.

Maybe too obvious to note, but seems less like Dreher is writing like "a gonzo socialist reporter" and more like the bigotry is so overt even Dreher can't miss it.

I don’t think what you said is untrue (perhaps I’d quibble with safety), but I’m in the relatively small overlap of being both a journalist and a reader of his research writeups so I wanted to offer more context.

Absolutely agreed on the quality of the piece. I think you are selling him a little short in a way: He‘s an excellent writer and public speaker, and those are a core part of his research work.