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James Tanner
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this is how government has “worked” in Texas for two decades now
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Middle-aged straight Texan man with YIMBY/centrish opinions who believes it's good to rethink historical race narratives, that trans folk deserve respect and guns do not have inherent rights. And no I will not call them "skeets"
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James Tanner
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this is how government has “worked” in Texas for two decades now
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James Tanner
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I suspect both sides get their way if the Biden campaign ignores the ballot measure itself while attacking Trump's role in dissolving Roe. Conservative pro choice voters can then either stick with Trump while supporting local choice, or connect the dots and vote for Biden, but it's their call
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Four Years Ago Today
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On a morning conference call with state governors, Trump suggests they get medical supplies on their own instead of looking to the federal government. This will end up pitting governors against each other in the bidding for ventilators, respirators and protective gear.
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James Tanner
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There's a setting for automatic displaying of sensitive material that appears to be on by default - I don't recall ever setting it, at least. If you turn it off (settings -> privacy and safety -> Content You See, checkbox at top) you'll see that the post was flagged for sensitive material
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Popehat
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I feel like the intended message is “you’re safe here, no gay person would be caught dead in this kitchen”
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James Tanner
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while I don't want to exclude the possibility that they're shoving blockchain into this for no reason, "tokenization" is also a normal data security term for replacing identifiable info with strings of random characters: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokeniz...
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Casey Johnston
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10 years ago, if a story got taken down, esp for questioning power too much, there'd be weeks-long rioting. now it's like the part in Clue where the gang goes in the kitchen, finds a new dead body, and instead of freaking out, trudges sullenly back to the drawing room web.archive.org/web/20240301...
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James Tanner
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It's not just Biden's capacity to govern though. The average life expectancy of a 82-year-old white American male is 7.3 years. That's the longevity profile of a Stage 2 lung cancer patient. If this is indeed the Most Important Election Ever, why go all-in with that candidate? Do we remember RBG?
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Steven Rich
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a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.
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James Tanner
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breaking news: the first time i’ve ever heard a word about the new season of stranger things was in the middle of a movie and i was like oh my gosh i love this show so much and i was so excited
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James Tanner
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I still do not understand the wildly common take that this answer was some kind of faux pas. Haley in fact *aced* the answer. The currency of credibility in the GOP today is to pointedly refuse to frankly discuss any topic related to America's racist past, and that's exactly what she did
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James Tanner
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Tesla has shoddy reliability. At 1.71 mechanical issues per car, they're 27th of 28 brands Consumer Reports tested, with repair costs 30% higher, fewer repair options, more expensive parts, excessive tire costs, etc. It's basically an EV with a Jaguar cost profile: www.topspeed.com/tesla-reliab...
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James Tanner
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simultaneous thoughts: a) this is just better visual design...and it came from a ChatGPT prompt b) Cybertruck can float and weighs 6600 lbs? In a flash flood, that's a house torpedo
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James Tanner
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lol, my bad
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James Tanner
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whatever troll
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James Tanner
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I'd rather you explain how vacancies are driving high prices when the cities with the highest price gains are the cities with the lowest vacancies (Austin, DC, San Jose, Portland), and vice versa (NO, Tampa, Memphis, Pittsburg). Strong inverse correlations are um, not a sign of direct causation
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James Tanner
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The only, and I mean only, good reason to have movies playing on the dashboard of your car is to entertain your young children on long trips. So it stands to reason that anyone who cares about this feature would be kinda pissed about Tesla ditching Disney+, right? Customer-focused, my ass
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James Tanner
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What do we call this hairstyle? Business in the front, skinhead in the back?
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James Tanner
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Sure - the social media ecosystem has been hijacked by outrage merchants, and it's driving people to gloom and doom. I'd also add the psychological effects of inflation. Prices may have stopped going up but I still feel a ping of sticker shock every time I shop. That should diminish over time fwiw
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John Scalzi
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Just reached 50,000 followers here, which is an astounding and humbling number to see. Thank you all so much for making Bluesky an amazing place to be every day. To celebrate, I have donated to Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas because a) reproductive rights are human rights, b) fuck Ken Paxton.
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James Tanner
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It's the kind of statement that can come across very differently depending on the tone. Sounds like you meant it in a light sarcastic joking way, but without the benefit of tone it looks like a sincere accusation of coasting on privilege, which would indeed be odd coming from a stranger
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Convolver
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Man, if a potential DCI openly telling folks he’s going to go full Tertia Optio on his political enemies doesn’t ring alarm bells at the Post and Gray Lady then the media probably deserves the headbaggjng it’s gonna get.
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David Dayen
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Obamacare was supposed to end denial of insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions. But in 46 states, if you select Medicare Advantage at age 65, you can be denied coverage if you try to switch out. Matthew Cunningham-Cook has that story:
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James Tanner
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MICHAEL VICK: (nods)
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James Tanner
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This is true, but it's also unreasonable to expect a sitting president to fix that by himself given the composition of Congress and the global economic context. Fully in context, Biden has done as well as anyone could reasonably expect. Being disappointed is fine, blaming Biden is the mistake
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James Tanner
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Literal explanation from Heathrow airport security: "Is it solid?" (knocks on table to demonstrate) "No?" "Is it a gas?" (waves hand through air) "No?" "Then it's a liquid. NEXT IN LINE"
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James Tanner
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A perfect album that came out when I was 21:
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James Tanner
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Right. Seems to me that the only sensible reason the GOP MAGA caucus kicked out McCarthy was to install someone who would refuse to compromise with moderates or Dems and thereby put the government into an extended shutdown in an election year. The shutdown is the point
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James Tanner
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This is the enshittification cycle of digital capitalism - when money's cheap and investors are desperate for any kind of return, start up a bunch of disruptive ventures that capture market share by losing money hand over fist; when money's tight, pull the rug. Let them eat cake 2.0
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Popehat
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Reminder: Trumpists’ goal has always been to delegitimize the judiciary, the entire concept of judicial review, in service of authoritarianism; this is just one aspect of it.
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James Tanner
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Yes, exactly. Lots of lecturing about spending and lazy application of simple models from the 70's, not enough thinking through the process by which prices go up, how today is different from the 70's (e.g., global supply chains, no labor union COLA contracts), and how that affects price dynamics
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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James Tanner
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odd, that case is about regulating speech of foreign companies getting grants to do HIV prevention exclusively in foreign countries, the case does not touch the issue of online activity at all. Seems like with porn streaming in particular they'd often be using CDN assets stateside, at minimum
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James Tanner
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It's official: what we now have in Palestine are two groups of angry ultra-rightwing religious zealots, Likud and Hamas, taking turns meting out bloody judgment on entire civilian populations. The right path for the US is to distance themselves from Likud ASAP and start calling out ALL war crimes
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Elad Nehorai
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Multiple things can be true at once: 1. Oct 7th was the worst collective trauma Jews have experienced in our lifetimes 2. The war on Gaza is a horror 3. Antisemitism is rising 4. Islamophobia is rising Those trying to use one of these to cancel others are making things worse
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James Tanner
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I suspect the reason the House GOP radicals are fucking around is because that's what Trump wants. Either he gets a lackey as Speaker, or he gets a gov't shutdown in an election year. Or both. But a shutdown may backfire - could halt inflation, bring rates down, inspire furloughed workers to vote
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tyler walk with me
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wikipedia shows what's possible when accessibility is prioritized over profit and the principles of free speech are buttressed by strict moderation. its very existence proves that the techbrocracy is both wrong and entirely unnecessary, so color me shocked that they're circling it like sharks.
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James Tanner
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Bomani's back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Z0...
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James Tanner
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I thank Elon Musk for giving Silicon Valley bigwigs permission to also stop pretending and show the world that they, despite their constant happy-talk, are the most straightforwardly rapacious capitalists ever, finding ways to oppose every rule that would constrain them and sell it as optimism
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James Tanner
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especially while simultaneously shilling web3 and NFTs
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James Tanner
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Andreesen talked up NFTs as a legit investment opportunity a few months ago, web3 a few months before that, and self-driving cars before that. Hyping up his investment book as if the underlying tech worked/scaled and had a profit model not written by underpants gnomes. We are being lied to, indeed
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James Tanner
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This. Trump isn't trying to win these cases, he's trying to win re-election so he can abuse Presidential power to make the cases go away. Winning election when under indictment requires building a plausible witch hunt narrative and unfortunately judicial gag orders play right into that
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James Tanner
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IMO we have experience as a society with narrow supply shocks affecting one or two basic goods, not broad based inflation. Price spikes go back down, so that's the naive expectation (exacerbated by politics of course). Inflation is also a recent memory. By next fall, it will actually feel over.
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James Tanner
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Success in big tech is a very long play. Subsidize disruptive tech with VC/institutional savings so that one's products seem almost magically useful for the price, wipe out all competition, and then cheapen the product and recoup the money. This outcome is exactly what we should've expected
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James Tanner
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He's not trying to play chess IMO. Sure he's behaving quite naturally for him, but he does have a pretty clear strategy in all of this - pure power. Act the victim, rile up the base, get elected, use power to stave off accountability. It may not be coldly calculated but there's a plain logic to it
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James Tanner
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He's not trying to win this case, or any of his cases IMO. He's just rallying his voter base to put him back in power and pressuring conservatives in the SCOTUS to undo all his troubles. He knows winning in court is both very hard and completely moot if he becomes dictator-for-life in 2025
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James Tanner
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Ho-o-o-ly shit, this is actually...listenable? That helmet safety beat is so De La Soul it might owe Prince Paul royalties
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James Tanner
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indeed, no woman wants to be left alone with Bill Maher
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
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*to the tune of Eleanor Rigby* Beetlejuice handjob Rubbing a guy at a show while he squeezes my tit Take a vape hit
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