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For hvad det er værd, har jeg studeret dansk i et par år. Hvorfor? Det ved jeg ikke. Current preoccupations: go (tsumego), Jean Shepherd, Fela Kuti, trying to read Isak Dinesen in Danish.

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"mainstream libetarians" Hadn't heard that one before. Thought that they were always outside the mainstream -- "edgy" -- as a matter of principle of course.

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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

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Chinese food and Columbo. Questioning my sexuality.

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I absolutely loathe "Wonderwall". Don't really mind Oasis or most all Britpop -- actually, I love Supergrass, but I hate that song.

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It's really weird (it's not really weird) how states that ban abortions are also states where women can't get leave to take care of their children.

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That's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous!

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A lot of those people who say "just here legally" know it is difficult. If pressed they might even admit that they don't want any immigraton at all. And now they're talking, they'll tell you all about the great replacement conspiracy. They can pretend to be thoughtful moderates when it suits them

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Read Thomas Hardy if want to know all about being "unglad"

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That's a southern California thing. Grates my ears.

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That assumes there was milk in that "milkshake". Fast food restaurants sell "shakes", "burgers", and "fries" because nobody has time for those extras syllables. Anyway, "shaked"

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Generally, agree. If I only had a dollar for every review of a Godzilla movie that said "No, really this one is actually good."

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My cat does that after a three hour nap. Give them time. They are young and have much to learn.

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Ridley Scott with The Duellists for the win. Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel.

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Lady In a Cage (1964) Was on local TV in the early 70s when I was in preschool. My cousin (a middle schooler) was baby sitting and we watched that thing.

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I have never watched anything related to video games ever. They are constantly recommended to me. That and Thomas Sowell videos. WTF

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Billionaires aren’t just supporting Trump for the tax cuts. As Peter Thiel once admitted: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Make no mistake: The goal of American oligarchy is to tear down democracy itself.

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North Korea is an option too. He should move now.

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As much as I love Peter Cushing, that fellow who plays Van Helsing in Herzog's Nosferatu is definitive for me.

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Ok, yes Lydon is an misogynst ass. But this isn't news Harry & Blondie were the targets of a lot of criticism frm other punks. Patti Smith wasn't shy about expressing contempt for Harry and the Ramones (well, Johnny) were quick to label them sellouts for Heart of Glass.

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John Lydon is an ass. He was a terrific lyricist and performer. The Sex Pistols album is great. The early PiL stuff (metal box) as well. John Lydon is an ass.

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There is no justifying felons being disenfranchised if it’s also okay for felons to run for president.

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It's part of their Muscular Christianity trip. They worship power and spite.

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It's a sort of vertigo. The more you know, the less you know. I keep opening doors on stuff I had no idea even existed. Oh, that's something else I know nothing about.

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I lived in San Francisco during my college years and had a car -- took me a while (and many street cleaning tickets) to figure out I didn't need the damn thing.

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Many "libertarians" worship dictators as much as Trump does. A tide that will lift all thugs.

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Keep thinking it would nice in move into a city where I didn't need a car.

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Good. (Another reason to vote against Trump and the inevitable Presidental pardon.)

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"On Jan. 22, after a third break-in and theft, the carpenter said, he drove around D.C.’s Maryland suburbs for hours, following an intermittent blip on his iPhone, until he arrived at a storage facility in Howard County." A regular Chigurh this guy

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I bought an affordable hybrid. I use gas only on roadtrips. I go months -- months without filling up. Hyundai Ioniq. Delighted.

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Gen X college students. True professionals.

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Yoïn van Spijk's avatar Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social
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'Enough' has the same origin as German 'genug' and Dutch 'genoeg'.
 
However, 'enough' doesn't start with a g- and contrary to what its spelling suggests, it ends with an /f/.
 
When did these changes happen?
 
Listen to how it evolved over the past 2300 years:
www.tumblr.com/yvanspijk/75...

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At the time I was convinced everything was the worst it had ever been or ever could be. I don't feel nostalgia for my youth, but realize it wasn't that bad. I still hate the 1980s

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I'm still not over that this happened last year and it's had absolutely zero bearing on our political landscape and no one ever mentions it anymore

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Alito lied about the reason the flag was up because he didn’t know the couple had text messages establishing the date of when the incident took place. They were supporting the insurrection. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...

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I guess. Was told that once at an old school hot dog stand. Think they wete from back east. This Californian can't do anything right. Guess I 'll have to subsist on avocados.

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"Hot dogs on a grill? They're supposed to be boiled."

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I am never on Sam Harris' side. Ever. The point is not to be an asshole. That's what I am fighting.

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The New Atheists were mocked for being assholes. You cannot rehabilitate Sam Harris. He is as bad as any evangelical.

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How many states will he even be on the ballot? I hadn't really been paying attention, and just assumed he was presumptive nominee or something. But no, it's a bigger vanity project/grift than I imagined. There's always the Green Party.

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