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The Bricktosser
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Tis a thing of beauty(ful violence)
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The Bricktosser
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Tis a thing of beauty(ful violence)
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The Bricktosser
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I ended my subscription the day that story broke, but I didn't really get the NYT until much later when it clicked that their wealthy owner class is a lot more conservative than their average reader and their Trump diner stories and such are showing their ownership's lean
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The Bricktosser
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when there wasn't really new news. The current behavior of the NYT is not new, it's just more obvious. Conservative-owned paper with a mostly-liberal readership that it tries to steer more conservative. They want Trump and not just for clicks.
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The Bricktosser
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was regarding Russian interference (hacking and leaking, and coordinating with Trump). This is while they were breathlessly reporting every minor note of the Clinton emails investigation, making it seem like there was more going on even when...
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The Bricktosser
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Since NYT discussion is ongoing: I wish I could find the article where this came out, but sometime in the middle of Trump's term, a story revealed that the NYT had (in 2016) declined to publish the story that they knew Trump was under investigation by the FBI. This...
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Nathaniel Glasgow
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A lot of the current deluge of pernicious bullshit seems tailor made to sow even more division among the liberal to left spectrum. If you find yourself fighting with, scolding, and alienating people with whom you agree on 80% of stuff, consider who benefits from that.
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The Bricktosser
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Conservative publisher trying to push its liberal readership rightward.
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I posted this the day before the debate and nothing since has convinced me that I'm wrong.
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The Bricktosser
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threadreaderapp.com/thread/18093...
A thread about how everyone is incentivized to run down whoever the Democratic nominee is, whether Biden steps aside or not.
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The Bricktosser
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Super glue works well for most 3D printed items
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Joe Katz
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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The Bricktosser
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This is something Trump could do without Congress being involved. Why isn't this a major talking point? Why isn't every reporter asking Trump his plan on this?
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The Bricktosser
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"FDA should…reverse its approval of chemical abortion drugs because the politicized approval process was illegal from the start.”
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The Bricktosser
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I downloaded the Project 2525 policy doc from their own website. This stuff is not secret! And I'm it, they explicitly argue the FDA's approval of abortion drugs should be reversed, creating a huge roadblock to women's healthcare even in blue states.
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The Bricktosser
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The guy who shot up the Highland Park 4th of July parade was a major Trump guy and showed up at a lot of counter protests on the conservative side and this wasn't mentioned in any of the stories about it.
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The Bricktosser
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The best I can say for myself is that they are both clearly excellent and have huge bodies of work, and are influential; and I clearly enjoy the Beatles significantly more while still loving a lot of Beach Boys music.
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The Bricktosser
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Luckily for me I find people making those kinds of absolute statements very easy to dismiss. Also one of many reasons I enjoy your podcast so much as it avoids treating such subjective things as concrete while still being able to comment on quality. Excellent needle threading.
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The Bricktosser
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Seems like so subjective a question over such a huge amount of material that there cannot be a definitive answer. If there were only a few albums each this might be possible.
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The Bricktosser
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It honestly reads like fanfic on the NYT's part.
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The Bricktosser
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Never got a good Vectrex emulator going, which is maybe why I still have one!
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The Bricktosser
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What a huge disappointment it was to slowly realize that some of the stuff in the book was actually what he thought. I absolutely had enough with Reads but it has been bad for a while before that.
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The Bricktosser
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It's the Torment Vortex meme!
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The Bricktosser
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For a short while it was a little bit of a paradise, where you could buy a ton of games for very little money as they were put on clearance.
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The Bricktosser
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True. But demand didn't slack off, so much as the glut and race got he bottom pricing killed the retail market. My friends and I kept playing games right through the gap before Nintendo came out
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The Bricktosser
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Indeed. I was sure they would (and for gaming, for me, they did). I went to CES a couple times in 83 and everyone was hawking a keyboard addon for their console or computer/game console hybrid.
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The most amazing thing to me at the time was that the popular view was that videogames were a fad that was over. Though just a teen, I could see the issue wasn't a big slump in demand but a huge glut in the market. Everyone rushed out games then slashed prices when they underperformed.
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relatedly, i am going to lose my mind at how 90 percent of trump coverage treats him as if he wasn't president for four years
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The Bricktosser
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This, and the quiet solar revolution, really needs more press attention. The two candidates are not the same.
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The Bricktosser
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*future
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The Bricktosser
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This actually worries me more than January 6th did, back when it happened. My analogy at the time was that they were casing a house and checking to see what doors were unlocked, and that it was a trial run for the fire as well. I expect a lot of shenanigans this year.
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The Bricktosser
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More please!
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The Bricktosser
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Oh, and the stakes of being trapped at tiny size too.
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The Bricktosser
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I'm in my 50s and I'm captivated right now! I've never seen this cover before, which surprises me. It's riveting. Lots going on; the malevolent ghost as noted; man fighting his own split-identity nature; giant matchbook! A shame the stories were not usually as good as the hook.
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The Bricktosser
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Being active on Bluesky in a way I never was on Twitter (a dozen posts in a dozen years or so there) means I get the buzz that I assume early Twitter users got way back when.
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I knew that was going to be too short to be clear. All republicans are complicit, but I don't think all of them hold those extreme views and will go along with whatever the mass of the party is doing. This is not excusing them, but it gives me some hope for the post Trump future.
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The Bricktosser
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Oh, and we fix it by beating them badly in elections. Which is why I don't abide by both-sides people or abstainers.
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The Bricktosser
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Exactly. I'd say it's less than half, but they've taken control of the GOP and that gives them far too much influence. Their extremism makes them have bad vibes about everyone else, and most of everyone else has bad vibes about THEM.
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The Bricktosser
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The New York Times started making sense to me when I thought about it as a paper run by conservatives who know their audience is mostly liberal, and they wish it were not so. Hence the horse race, hence Pennsylvania diner stories, hence their Op Ed pages. They know who Trump is. The cover for him.
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The Bricktosser
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I think an underrated cause of general malaise is the fact that most of the country thinks that half the country has horrible political views. People think things are bad because there are people with such diametrically opposed viewpoints that are highly visible. Not an argument for centrism, btw.
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I DO play and I am extremely excited at the prospect. However, the game is basically a combat sim and Dream is an extremely odd fit for that. But that won't stop me from getting this and playing with it.
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The Bricktosser
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Comics: I had the second half of an All Star Comics story, didn't read the first half for a decade or so. Heard about the Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics, but only had read a couple of random issues for years. Gwen Stacey death story? Heard of but unread for years.
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Yeah VR is sort of an outlier on the list. Not as hyped, and actually more applicable where it is most hyped (entertainment). I still don't think 3D printing has been hyped 1/10th the amount AI and Blockchain have been.
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The Bricktosser
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AI and Blockchain are far more flexible and abstract technologies, and therefore more prone to being picked up by executives. I think there's a difference between selling the hype (Adidas) and believing it (what's happening with AI). Adidas knows 3D printing is worse, but AI has true believers.
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The Bricktosser
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I'm not saying it's not out there, just that it's an order or two less than AI and Blockchain. I suppose it's on par with VR. I think a better comparison is with the hype surrounding the launch of the Segway. 20+ years ago that was supposed to change society.
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The Bricktosser
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No argument here!
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The Bricktosser
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That's a far cry from every single business saying "how can we use AI?"
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The Bricktosser
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I think I missed that wave of hype. I do think they might become the kind of item that a fair number of people have, like specialty power tools like a table saw or drill press.
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The Bricktosser
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3D printing seems to be gaining steam actually. Printers are getting cheaper and more plug-and-play all the time. But also 3D printing was never an invasive apply-this-to-everything buzzword like those others. Boardrooms never had talks about how to apply 3D printing to their random business.
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The Bricktosser
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Punk wasn't a reaction to Prog Rock. It was a reaction to variety show pop like Captain and Tenille.
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