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Pretty weird tbh

Nib sizes generally come in extra fine (XF on the nib), fine (F), medium (M), and broad (B), though some brands produce other nibs

This premise gets thrown around a lot but I actually disagree. "Every time people turn out" is always also thrown in there like some arbitrary thing--when I think the past several election cycles have shown that when there are younger, more progress candidates who make it past the primaries turnout shoots up. Courting the 3% uninformed flip-floppers by moving right is a losing strategy when you could be motivating your own party to turn out by moving left and driving turnout up. There's no money in that though, so dumb centrists get wooed

What you're describing definitely sounds like a fountain pen--specifically, an eyedropper (where the body acts as the ink reservoir), desk (long, gently sloping body coming to a point) pen--did it look something like this? https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-5ko0zosub2/product_images/description/sheaffer/sh_deskpen_greymarble_2.jpg (Sorry, can't get images to embed)

For your thinish line requirements with a non-scratchy nib, I'd suggest a European/American fine or Japanese medium nib size (Japanese brands tend to run thinner). Most pens you can buy have some sort of cartridge, as well as a converter that would allow you to use a bottle--you can also get a cheap blunt tipped syringe or pipet and refill washed cartridges with whatever ink you want. I use a hot glue gun to reseal mine for transport, and peel it off before reinserting the cartridge.

I would recommend going to a stationary store/office supply store and trying some out! If you give us a general geographic area we can try to recommend stores near you that cary pens you could try--in Europe I've found this much more common than the US. If in-person testing isn't an option, I would tentatively suggest a pilot kakuno--they look like they cost ~11€ in Europe, and come with one cartridge of ink. They're Japanese so I would recommend a medium if you want to avoid scratchy at all costs, or a fine if you have some tolerance for a bit of feedback and want a thinner line. Any of pilot's converters should work, looks like they cost ~6-12€ depending on refill mechanism and capacity.

A kakuno or other budget pen won't look as amazing, but in my experience write almost as well as pens costing 10x more, and honestly if it's your first one you probably won't be able to feel the nuance yet.

if her resume is anything like any of the well-made mid-career resumes I've seen then she's probably left off a lot of experiences, and she can simply handwaved it with a line like "I didn't list X law clerk internship or y legal work at a corporation either because they aren't as relevant as the jobs I chose to list" and move on

Look, I'm with you most of the way in theory, but a lot of rural areas don't have plumbing and drinking water from public utilities, they have their own septic and water wells. I know it's pedantic but a lot of parts of the world are so rural that it probably doesn't make sense to have fully public transport, like it doesn't make sense to have centralized water. The scope needs to be great systems within towns and cities and lots of park and ride hubs around the perimeter

Any idea what the huge season 6 single episode dip was? The musical?

Most of these look good, green+orange and purple+orange and purple+green are all really rough without a lot of care though

Yeah, if she was a mother of 1 or 2 maybe, but feeding 10+ people it makes tons of sense!

I don't normally bite but so much of this is wrong.

American here... If you never leave like a 40 mile radius of your home, and you don’t live in a location that sees extreme temperatures, and you don’t live in a hilly or rural area, they’re probably fine.

I work in agriculture and drive 120+ miles most days for work in very rural parts of the Southeast USA in my EV, and this summer the temperatures have been around to 100F with high humidity almost every day. I exclusively charge at home with the free level 2 charger that came with my car.

“I cut my gas expenses by going electric,”

CA seems to be an anomaly, but here gas was $3.44/gal this morning, electricity is ~$0.10/kwh. For my normal operations in my Honda accord, my weekly gas cost for work is ~$60. That same travel comes out to ~$15 in electricity, for a yearly saving of $2000+ in the EV. My electric bills have largely born this out. Additionally, in my area a new Chevy Bolt was the second cheapest vehicle with a warranty--a used mazda 3 with ~5k miles left on the warranty was $400 cheaper. The home charger came free with the purchase, so if you're looking at cars with warranties (which many people without the time/skill/space to work on their own vehicles are) there are EVs that are hands-down cheaper to buy and run, and it's not close.

Good for people that don’t care about cars and don’t travel much, but impractical for most people, IMO.

Road trips aren't as good (except in a Tesla imo), but there's very few advantages irl of modern gas cars over comparable modern EVs. Hell, my bolt, currently the cheapest EV on market (well, now discontinued), has most of the same performance specs as my '01 3-series BMW: same 0-60, same turn radius, same stopping distance, lighter with a similar center of gravity. The BMW is more fun out in the country (can't beat the feel of a perfect manual shift), but the bolt easily beats the Honda which is the actual market-class comparison, and on crowded roads with merging the instant acceleration is a huge bonus.

Not that I ascribe this to strategy, but I wonder if this will work in their favor. The last minute change of jockey has been dominating the news since it happened, and pushing Trump's ridiculous things to the side. This ticket will have huge and new name recognition in voters' minds, and a lot less time to get mud to stick

The people viewing it as a weakness were going to attack her no matter what, whether she was just black, just Indian, or just a woman. Adding the extra labels doesn't really amplify their thinly veiled bigotry, she's going to lose negligible support for being biracial than if she was one or the other, and will possibly appeal to a broader cross section of apathetic voters.