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the fitness world is also, let me say, is difficult to navigate for most people, in my experience fitness in that sense is like money or computers - things that people are intimidated by if they're illiterate not so much fitness itself but the supplement industry especially is a vast sea of...

I mean yes and no. You have to remember that at the same time over 40% of adult Americans are obese. it's a pretty wild split that is thoroughly tangled up with things like class and race Manhattan, SF, etc is exactly where you'd find that kind of $$ == health it's not new tho - think of...

Rest in power to a real one Read City of Quartz in high school and got to see him speak at a local college, a defining memory. Suburbanization, how power functions in the American city, how public space is captured/recaptured etc. He was so incisive and focused, unlike many of the more famous...

Idk if there are any specific issues - not counting Brexit which already happened - that foster a no matter what attitude in the electorate the way abortion access does here? Like many people I hold most Democrats in varying levels of contempt but ofc I'll still vote for them so as to not wind...

Perhaps it the last few years have just been too much? Brexit and May's inability to get a deal through, a COVID response surpassed in ineptitude only by ours, endless scandals under BJ (didn't Sunak resign from the Cabinet over one?), etc Not only have the Tories presided over seriously bad...

But procedurally this is just how parliamentary systems work. The Knesset is forever dissolving over scandals and/or deadlock and holding snap elections. Belgium and Italy have both had repeated recent crises over inability of the parties to form governments and/or incumbent governments...

The real difference - from the U.S. - is in the mechanisms of election and governance. Political culture follows on from those mechanisms, i.e. you elect a party, not an individual. American elections allow for split ticket voting. British elections, to my understanding, do not (at least at the...

Wrigleyville is notoriously terrible for those exact reasons, an endless parade of tourists and suburbanites puking in the streets outside a row of shitty bars

The same way an American can basically sidestep the leviathan of cultural detritus underpinning soccer, sure When you've lived thru decades of this American pastime nonsense, including the cartoonish 90s-00s steroid era, the hokey sanctimony is hard to swallow I 100% agree that playing...

Also, all drunk sports crowds are as a rule awful, but baseball crowds are particularly bad for some reason. I was at a show in 2016 the night Cubs won the World Series and we emerged at midnight to an endless sea of drunk frat bros and Karens, just the absolute worst.

The problem with baseball is not the lack of scoring The problem with baseball is: Pitcher shakes off sign. Perfunctory pickoff attempt. Batter calls time, steps out of box. Perfunctory pickoff attempt. Pitch fouled off. Perfunctory pickoff attempt. Batter calls time, steps out of box. Repeat...

When have new, confusing electoral procedures ever caused problems

That always bodes well

So will the new leader be chosen by Tory MPs, or by Tory membership like Truss was? That's the distinction

This is the succinct answer to the original question Presidents are virtually impossible to impeach, so whoever you elect here you're stuck with no matter how unpopular they get

There's basically no benefit here to being a registered party member here unless you live in a state with closed primaries (i.e. party members only)

See this is interesting: I somehow never realized yall's party leadership elections were made by party members. I thought it was like the Speaker of the House, who is elected by Representatives (in your case PMs) of the ruling party. Technically I guess you could say the Presidential primaries...

Her party still controls Parliament, she's just wildly unpopular, so they can try again with someone else. It's different from a vote of no confidence, which (I believe) would trigger a new snap general election

This is harder to understand than the structural differences between US/UK which are straightforward But: she didn't actually pass a law, she unveiled a disastrous budget everyone hated. I believe tho I'm not sure that Parliament would still have to pass such a budget to actually enact it. And...

See above And also bc they can replace PM with someone who can better carry out party agenda, which American parties can't do Dems couldn't be like Biden is unpopular, pressure him to resign and just replace him w/someone. If president resigns there is strict order of succession, not internal...