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Noah Frank@noahafrank.bsky.social |
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Writer. Days doing comms at Virginia Tech, evenings teaching at Loyola Maryland. Musing on baseball and other maddening pastimes.
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Noah Frank
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I’m sure at some point I’ll have to go wade through the crowds to watch fireworks for my daughter’s sake, but up until that moment I will enjoy every July 4th not in D.C.
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Noah Frank
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Current view
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If you were a journalist in a newsroom, this was especially insidious, as you were (likely) told repeatedly by superiors that you were not doing your job correctly by pointing these things out
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Noah Frank
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Death, taxes, and Bob Roll mispronouncing David Gaudu
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Noah Frank
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TAYP-wurm
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I’m not even a smidge Italian and I know this is cavatappi. This isn’t even close to fusilli. Just trying to teach my daughter some simple pasta shapes and I can’t even do that smh
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Noah Frank
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I want my money back
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Noah Frank
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These results probably will not surprise anyone on here, but worth looking at as a case study of what the platforms have become
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Noah Frank
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There are plenty of good journalists with proper survival instincts, but good luck finding any in the White House press corps
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Noah Frank
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Big scams and little scams. We live in a scam-based economy, from top to bottom
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I think the hard part about watching the USMNT is that they’ve gone from one of the better bad teams in international play (exciting! chances to overperform!) to one of the worse good teams (disappointing, leave you wanting more). They’re more talented, but not as fun to watch
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Noah Frank
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I don’t, but I also feel like I’m the only person who doesn’t group text
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I used to say this to the professional athletes who played for the teams I worked for. In their case, it was especially true
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I can’t emphasize how much of *all of this* comes down to the same thing: The realization by a small, but powerful interest that they are never going to win fairly again. It explains the full embrace of someone who cheats at/on everything — his business partners, his taxes, his wife, even golf
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He’s the perfect avatar for it all, honestly. With anyone less shameless or self-absorbed it wouldn’t be as impactful of a message of how committed they are to power
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Noah Frank
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Congratulations on surviving the easy half of 2024
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Noah Frank
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The NYT summing up the whistling past the graveyard of our republic better than I ever could
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Noah Frank
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If you can keep it
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It’s also avoidable misfortune, which has likewise been brought on by a combination of hubris and inertia. “Just make it through the next election” is not a sustainable approach, but it’s one we’ve been stuck with for a stretch, now
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Brendel
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I think the last good tech story was the people of Philadelphia murdering Hitchbot and leaving his body as a warning for other robots
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Noah Frank
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He was absolutely dropping down to try to grab one of the stray beans that had fallen down there, so
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I feel like I saw this the most clearly in tennis. So many dudes bending over backwards with contorted logic to say Maria Sharapova was as good as (or even better than!) Serena Williams rather than admitting what that was really about
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Noah Frank
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Interesting. Beauty standards (and the way we deviate from them) fascinate me, especially as an extremely normie-looking white guy
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Interesting. Probably because the (mostly male) sports media doesn’t seem to fawn over her the same way as they do some other women athletes, I guess I always thought she was sort of fly-under-the-radar attractive. But maybe there’s more to that in terms of which audience views her like that
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Noah Frank
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I always try to explain this to people who say they don’t care about cycling. You get a daily, free, 5-hour helicopter tour of the French countryside for 3 weeks. Do you have any idea what that did for my mental health in 2020?
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Noah Frank
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(Wait what’s the Paige Bueckers treatment)
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Waiting for my car to get serviced at the dealership and watched a whole-ass mouse fall out of the bottom of the cabinet under the coffee maker, then scamper back up inside
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It's important that all these moves are transferring power to not only the least democratic branch of government, but also the least representative one
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I’ve been dreading this basically all summer, trying to talk my way into it somehow not ending up this way. But the longer the term stretched without the decision coming down, the more I knew it would end up being exactly this
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Instead of any of the agencies filled with professionals in their fields regulating ANYTHING, it defers these decisions to a judiciary packed with ideologues to make sweeping decisions (or, to eventually send those decisions up to the Supreme Court to make them). It’s the state rotted from within
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I’ve been trying to explain this to anyone who will listen today. It’s so, so much more important than the debate (or even than a lot of the other decisions that will get more attention)
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Yeah, I really refuse to ingest any of the video, even in recap form. Just absolutely not worth the damage to my mood and mental health for whatever I’ll gain out of it
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Noah Frank
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Looks like I nailed my debate prediction
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I can’t stop you from watching the debate tonight. I can’t tell you that doing something else will make you feel better. But I promise that watching it will almost certainly make you feel worse.
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Wild that ESPN lets him do this, given his contract, for a number of reasons
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I can’t stop you from watching the debate tonight. I can’t tell you that doing something else will make you feel better. But I promise that watching it will almost certainly make you feel worse.
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Noah Frank
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Found myself in an absurd argument on here with someone so tedious and stuck in circular logic that I legit considered they might be a bot, so I suppose this place does, in fact, have the juice
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At no point have I said that, and your refusal to acknowledge the reality of our political system is, frankly, not worth anymore of my time
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Noah Frank
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And you’re apparently fine with living with the consequences of that
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I am upset with Democratic leadership, but I think they are more persuadable than the alternative to actually doing good things (and, more urgently, not doing catastrophic things). They suck, they should be told they suck, every day, but they’re still better than the alternative. It’s that simple.
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I am not. You continue to accuse people of doing things they aren’t actually doing, so I think I’m done trying to persuade you to spend these efforts more usefully
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Nobody is pretending that. What we’re saying is that choosing to not vote for him materially, in a very small way, helps his opponent get elected, which will unquestionably make things worse. It’s your prerogative if that’s what you want to do, but you should be clear-headed about the outcome
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It’s not at all the only thing you can do. What do you think is more productive — holding a protest vote, or voting for the guy who sucks less, but who actually might budge toward your position on issues if you yell at him enough?
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It’s only selfish if you think you’re doing the “right” thing by making yourself feel better about your choice while actively increasing the chances of making the world a worse place for yourself and people you care about
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I feel like it happens a lot! Especially for something that doesn’t seem to get any real governmental scrutiny!
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Noah Frank
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Feels like we’re reaching Yugo levels of accidents and recalls, but stock still go up, huh
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Noah Frank
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You don’t say
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I don’t begrudge anyone going to Shake Shack for lunch. I love me a good burger. I’m just saying, there’s no clearer sign that you have zero plan to get any more work done the rest of the day
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Noah Frank
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Ehhhh amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/...
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