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Despite being a family whose lives often center around food by virtue of running a restaurant, they tackle the holiday not with the polished reverence of a cooking magazine, but with the messy, absurd energy of a family who somewhere along the way realized that perfection is not only unattainable, but also entirely beside the point.

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That the ruling only affects around 1,600 voters is beside the point when it is a "wrongheaded decision in light of clear federal law," concurred Marc E. Elias, a lawyer and founder of Democracy Docket.

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“Etiquette is kind of beside the point. It’s like reading a ransom note and going, ‘This cursive is just so lovely.

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The last two reports have been revised up, but that is beside the point.

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People who believe conspiracies about the Trump assassination attempt or buy into QAnon are often seeking purpose or belonging — truth is beside the point.

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