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Dashiell Bennett
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Just remembered when one of the guys running for president actually was president and Congress had to quietly take him out of the chain of military command. Maybe worth mentioning why in an ad or something
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Jacob
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I noticed the exact same thing a few days ago, lol.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT
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Elena Shekhova, PhD
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Interestingly, egg white proteins are even less digestible by the host than the soy and pea proteins!
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Danna Staaf
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I'm delighted to return to Smithsonian Associates this summer with a talk on Understanding Cephalopod Behavior! (unofficial title is "From Greedy Trickster to Kindly Teacher: Octopuses Have the Range") 🐙🧪
When: Mon, Aug 26, 6:45-8:15 pm ET
Where: Zoom
smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/ti...
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Alex Cruikshanks
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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
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Jacob
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"Politics would be interesting again." Nobody outside of the media wants this. That's why Trump remains unpopular to this day. People want to not have to think about any of this and have everything just run smoothly.
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Jacob
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I like Biden a lot and I'm not a fan of the incumbent stepping aside, especially in a solid economy. I think that carries a lot of risk. But I do think he needs to ask himself if he can get out there and campaign like a young man of 60 and if the answer is yes then he needs to do that.
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Materialist Gnostic
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Between this, Ozempic, and the MRNA malaria vaccine, we're seeing some really big advances in medical technology. Hope it keeps going.
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Jacob
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I just finished my first read through and it's excellent. I feel like I've been waiting 25 years for this book. I expect to go back to it often for clarification and as a roadmap in my future reading and thinking. Thank you so much for writing this book!
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Jacob
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I remember my dad and uncle playing it, but I also never got through any of it. Sometimes I think about loading it up and trying it now that I'm not 10.
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Patrick Cosmos
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This is what they drive in the Money For Nothing video
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Jacob
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If my kids are any indication, the alpha kids are still into skibidi but slay definitely went out with the zoomers.
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Jacob
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One of the reviews on goodreads says "I'm not sure who this book is for. A lay audience who likes math, I guess?" and buddy, that's me. There might not be many of us, but we're out here!
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I remember someone explaining the marketing balancing act for the WNBA: two of their biggest customer demographics are lesbians of color (basically the most left-wing demographic possible) and middle-aged, sports-obsessed dads who want their daughters to like sports (one of the most conservative)...
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post malone ergo propter malone
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iirc there’s scholarship on fathers who live with their daughters being considerably left of peers who don’t have/don’t live with daughters by a number of metrics
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Jacob
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
I'm doomed. #nba
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Amy A
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Every day Hunter Biden is accused of something Sterling Archer would have a three second flashback about
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Jacob
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Several years ago, some homeless people pitched a tent in the woods about 30 yards from the house I was renting. I peaked out the window every day to make sure that they didn't freeze to death overnight. I didn't know I was supposed to rob them instead.
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Jacob
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I feel like a large percentage of the population has felt like we were "already in a recession" ever since the GFC, and that was only actually true for a small percentage of that time, lol.
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yarrriv
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Jake Grumbach
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voting is now rational
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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like being 5-10 years into your career in 2008 meant maybe you were slow to get a promotion or it was hard to switch jobs, if you were a college grad in that era your career probably got ruined or at least severely delayed
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Jacob
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I bet Satya Nadella heard that explanation and was like "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I have jobs for you and any non-crazy person who wants to come over."
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Jacob
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They haven't won since I posted this. :(
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Jacob
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FYI, if you leave the unopened box outside, birds will still get through the cardboard and plastic packaging to get at your worms.
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Nicholas Grossman
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Most salient 2024 issues: 1) Trump: president or prison? 2) Abortion: legal or not? Some want "Biden too old?"—reluctantly accepting it won't be "Hunter Biden shady?"—or "Inflation: bad or the worst?," but it's looking like Trump and abortion. Maybe voters know 1 and 2 are choices, not simply facts.
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Lord Businessman II
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Like no amount of Frank Luntz focus groups and Dr. Huxtable fits unmakes a 15 week ban you fucking dunce
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Nicholas Grossman
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Political media is built around the president as main character; the protagonist who causes and is affected by events, and to whom others react. They have trouble without a cult-of-personality president, in which presidential approval doesn’t measure what the public thinks about everything.
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
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I have very little patience for doomerism in general, which I tend to think is an embarrassment to every ape that ever threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. We are social creatures and the work never ends. Doomerism is a selfish concept that aims to destroy solidarity, and thus it is my enemy
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Jacob
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Is it true that Pence refused to get in the car with the SS because they'd drive him somewhere? Plan might have been to not even kill him, per se, but to drive him someplace "safe" while Grassley filled in and "had the courage to do the right thing."
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Jacob
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I haven't been this excited about the team in a long time. It's a fun team.
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Jacob
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They may never lose again!
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Jacob
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Me: "I wish they would bring back real conservatives so that I know where they stand ideologically." Me, when they bring back conservatives: "Not like that. >:( "
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Jacob
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It's been a long time since I've been this excited about a Pistons team.
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Matt Novak
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This isn’t just a problem in Maine. Virtually every political actor in our system has machinery in place to neuter local news by controlling access, whether it’s cops, mayors, congressmen, etc. And then they can get blindsided when asked real questions under a national spotlight.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Seems fitting that Elon Musk would search the world for wisdom and settle on a random anonymous teenager posting through it.
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Jacob
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Snapped a picture of this gaya pitcher. It's probably about 4" long.🌱
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Ellie Margolis
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It was a chicken and biscuits kind of a day.
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Jacob
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Still a baby, but the Nepenthes lowii x ventricosa 'Red' is coming along!🌱
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Jacob
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I saw evo bio people at the other site were mocking it, so this doesn't surprise me.
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Brian Teaser
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I Have To Know Everything Or I Will Die. Haha
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Jacob
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My partner and I always argue about this. She thinks people are malicious but can't possibly be this stupid. I insist that they may also be malicious, but they certainly are also just that stupid.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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We created a landscape designed to prioritize cars over human beings and the result was that human beings are only permitted to exist there if they hide inside a car!
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Jacob
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Drosera derbyensis
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Jacob
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Bob Seger said he'd sit and listen to those old records by himself, not out at the bar.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Can't do polls on here yet so just think about this one: Scientists invent a pill that extends your life by 5 years but also causes 10% of people who take it to become tempermentally conservative who vote Republican regardless of what their prior beliefs were. Ethical to release it to the public?
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Anyway this is more or less how I think smart conservatives are conceptualizing why they oppose stuff like lead mitigation efforts these days
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Jacob
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Stealing money from Republicans is probably the only thing I like about Trump.
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Jacob
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"Do you think it's ethical for people to call in sick when they want a mental health day?" Yes, absolutely. I don't even understand why this would be frowned upon or why it's being posed as an ethical dilemma.
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