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Alexander Popemobile

@J_K_Chesterton

3 years

My latest vase!

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2 years

@fasc1nate Weathermen, as far as I can discern, appear to be the closest society has come to employing golden retrievers.

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@qntm My arachnophobic sister:

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This great speech is somewhat undercut when you learn that in real life Zuckerberg was already dating his future wife when he founded Facebook.

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In his Cooper Union speech, Abraham Lincoln sarcastically said “that’s cool” in exactly the way you’d use it today.

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My wife is watching MANHUNT on AppleTV, a miniseries about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Patton Oswalt's character just called John Wilkes Booth a "creep," in case you were wondering exactly how much work went into faithfully recreating the language of 1865.

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“Rich guy with a hall of statues of generals and tyrants” is literally a James Bond villain.

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@patriottakes It's not a tribute to evil or something to be mocked. It's an attempt commemorate the horrors of the 20th century in the spirit of "never again." Harlan Crow is a deeply honorable, decent, and patriotic person. He's not the strawman Thomas haters are trying to make him.

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All destroyed cash is effectively added to the government’s balance sheet, so the joker is just donating billions to Uncle Sam here. The madman.

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What are walls to the criminal?

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One enormous benefit of Listening To Women is realizing that most women really like men. Inoculates you against 90% of terrible Gender opinions.

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@byPeterParadise “It was so fun to shoot people without hesitation with a legitimate justification” is a window into a mentality rather different than my own.

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@katiecantspell I actually suspect this is in part because of porn wrong. If you habitually masturbate by watching degrading shit and then immediately jump up and turn off when you orgasm, consistently, you’ll react the same way to orgasming during sex.

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The Fremen don't start out brainless fanatics. They become so after repeatedly seeing Paul perform supernatural feats. Paul notes as much about Stilgar, and views it as a tragedy because he was such a clever, reasonable man.

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Can’t get over the secular young Fremen Arrakeen freedom movement and what a smart addition it was to include in order to underline and delineate the film’s themes, and how it never occurred to Frank because he doesn’t really think the Fremen have minds

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@coherentstates It must be particularly rankling to hear that take from people you can deadlift.

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@GoingMedieval @aethelfleds Effie Gray then got an annulment and married the artist John Millais, an artist Ruskin deeply admired, with whom she had eight children.

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@burgeroise @bacchusrights People will be like “this tumblr post sounds like it’s from the Bible” and then show you something about gay cowboys denying God.

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Nerds are not single because they are nerds or because they are assholes; neither is a bar to romance. Men are single because they do not interact with women socially. The ur-dating advice for men and women alike is “talk to them.”

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@punished_cait If it was pointed out that I attributed a tweet to a feminist author who died in 1963, I would simply assert that the tweet author was the reincarnation of the feminist author.

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@punished_cait “My daughter in law appreciates my restraint and the respect I treated her with. How do I fix that?”

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Georgetown professor explains that no one was really excluded in Muslim states because anyone could convert to Islam merely by reciting the Shahada:

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@realMaalouf So, in general, it's correct to say that in Islamic civilization, both in theory and in practice, non-Muslims living under Muslim rule were called dhimmis and were lower in status than Muslims. But all they had to do to become part of this elite was say "There is no god but God

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@EDRMesa It doesn’t bother me, because I understand the intent, but if you say “we accept <long list of groups by name>,” groups conspicuously absent from the list may feel that you don’t really accept them.

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@hollowearthterf The demand for equal custody isn’t based on a desire to spend time with their kids so much as a demand for leverage over the ex.

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@MEPFuller Given that this happened because cops didn't take this seriously while violently oppressing protests all summer: no.

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@catsmeatsman I question the description "walked up to him and bit him." According to the article, it sounds like he got in a fight with the admin and the bite was in self-defense.

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@lefttwick Rwanda, famously a place with no ethnic conflict.

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@uncledoomer Alternatively, imagine joining the Army because you’re sick of working at McDonalds only to be made to work at the Bagram MacDonalds under military discipline.

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@ryxcommar “What is the smallest number of boxes that would account for these images, and what is the largest number of boxes?” Is an fun little question.

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@zinjanthropus64 I think it undermines anything the movie has to say about Zuckerberg as a person, but the movie is mostly using him as a vehicle to discuss relationships, so that’s fine.

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@ArmandDoma The solution would presumably be a poster saying "no matter where you're from, no matter your race, culture, religion, or identity, you are welcome here. All students will respect and learn from each other."

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Tech moguls never have normal names. Here's a list of the best (and worst) names in tech: GOOD TECH NAMES: 1) Sam Altman: A testament to nominative determinism, Sam's name combines the hopes of AI (alt-man) with a simple, regal title: Sama.

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@1929stockcrash Boymom whose self esteem is crushed by a psychologically healthy son because she’s so committed to Freudian theory.

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@mauddweeb @thechosenberg No, he’ll just make time with his girlfriend somewhere else. Notice that *she* closed the door?

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@maxkatz515 @revhowardarson @ExistentialEnso It is wrong to buy land when you know the land was forcibly taken from the previous owner without cause or compensation.

Political Science B.A.

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New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

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@ArmandDoma Excited to find out which CA suburb will invoke the Divine Right of Kings to refuse to build housing.

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@mauddweeb @thechosenberg I struggle to see the point of a man using force to maintain authority over a 13 year old boy when he cannot even maintain his authority over his own daughter.

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@ImpemboGanecue Japan is so good at gun control that the last time they had a newsworthy shooting, they collectively decided he had a good point. Imagine if the US was so good at gun control that the modal shooting was a woman killing her abusive spouse.

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Sunnyvale, CA. The land use is INSANE

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@DiabolicalSpuds 401ks don’t tie you to an employer and you don’t need to worry about the employer going bankrupt.

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@WilksBecca As an American, I am often befuddled and disturbed by the English tendency to use diminutive forms without regard for context.

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It would have been neat to highlight that there is a native population on Arrakis who are NOT FREMEN and DO NOT FOLLOW PAUL who want the Harkonnens gone and end up subject to the Fremen afterwards, but that's a different, more interesting story.

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@ring_of_kafrene My dad always said “I’m watching the same movie you are” when we asked those questions.

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“Machines that do a mediocre version of something they could have paid a person to do” was the basis of the Industrial Revolution.

🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥

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If companies are mostly using AI to do a very mediocre version of something they could have paid a person to do, then the primary contribution of the AI is just saving folks money. The "transformative innovation" in that scenario is the equivalent of getting a discount coupon.

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@MenshevikM Two possibilities: 1. Boss babes are heightening the contradictions inherent in capitalism, or 2. Boss babes are proving that wfh is a productive approach.

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@robberytutorial @b1g_damage I’ve met very intelligent, well adjusted homeschooled people, but 1. They were homeschooled by people who cared that they have a good education; 2. They worked very hard to give their kids lots of socialization outside of the immediate family.

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@DaSkrubKing Going into the factory and telling the workers on the line “you didn’t build that.”

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@EOpsych Worse: they’re blaming her for being a victim of domestic abuse, because having an abusive ex boyfriend means you’re an abusive parent.

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@StatsLime Women like men. Most of the insane things people say about the nature of Men and Women cannot withstand this basic truth.

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@thechosenberg I mean, this is the sort of thing you’d expect to sue the child’s parents for, surely? Destroying a cherished flower garden is easily thousands of pounds in damages, akin to keying the shit out of a car.

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Among the strangest details of the Palestinian crisis: the life expectancy in Gaza is several years longer than in Egypt. Living in a city ruled by terrorists under siege and bombardment is still healthier than living in Egypt.

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@kenthesimp I pay $200 a month to go to my ceramics studio where I make my own dishes from raw clay. So that's just about the opposite extreme, I suppose.

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You have a parasocial relationship with a twitch streamer? That’s weird. I have parasocial relationships with a transgender macroeconomist, several Midwestern housewives, and a Serbian guy who’s really into California land use policy.

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@merovingians It's incredible. Like becoming a corncob in reverse.

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@BitwiseCyclic Yes, it’s deflationary—that’s why it’s an in-kind donation to the government, which prints more money to cancel the deflationary effect.

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@worsematt Credit scores are like the SAT: they reflect systemic problems, but the old methods were themselves discriminatory.

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@souljagoytellem Imagine being a communist and having total conviction that doing “the right thing” on a matter of foreign policy will lead to re-election. In America.

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@quantian1

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@MGBGE @keffals It actually varies by sport. Sports where size and muscle are decisive, yeah. But a lot of sports (like shooting) were segregated because men got mad when they lost to women.

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@olivesagan 100%, though it is worth noting that shaving body hair this way is not that new. We know because the Romans: A) talk about shaving their pubes and pits B) talk about the Samnites doing so as well.

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@JulianeWriter If a total stranger called you and said their friend needed $325 for their water bill, would you pay it? Are you a member of any organization that would pay it?

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@Ljiljana1972 “I don’t want to make a fortune—a trust fund will be fine.”

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@eigenrobot Almost all missing person reports are "my estranged ex/relative took the kid." Now consider how many estranged parents there are in Baltimore.

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@BrandyLJensen An argument I saw was “oh, women’s chess isn’t because women are worse players—it’s because men in chess are so appallingly sexist that women need their own competitions or they will be harassed endlessly.” Which, uh, suggests an alternative solution.

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@OpenBordersJon I hold that they aren't really oppressed. The Empire isn't even aware that 99% of their population exists and has ~no control over the population they are aware of.

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Medieval English peasants were unlikely ever to leave their hometowns except to visit the nearest Cathedral city on market days to truck and pray. There are 42 in England, and most people would absolutely be able to visit them.

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@maxkatz515 @revhowardarson @ExistentialEnso Land north of Tel Aviv is not stolen. Land which was seized from the WB in the 70s and 80s is. I cannot fathom how anyone could not know Israeli deeds to land in the West Bank is of dubious legal status.

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@sparkyabraham Social workers, public interest lawyers, and rural doctors* all qualify for full forgiveness through PSLF. It should be expanded and made easier to qualify, but they already have a special program just for them.

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I don’t know whether Lucy Letby is innocent, but this would not be the first time the UK courts used flimsy statistical evidence to imprison a woman for killing babies in her care.

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incredibly disturbing read

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@itsnarimann @LowRhoUfo Counterpoint: My cat is high on gabapentin and has no thumbs, but HE could outshoot 25% of the LAPD.

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Most diet sodas try to replicate the real thing, but fall a bit short. Not Diet Coke. Diet Coke is magnificently artificial, barely even sweet—just satisfying. Like drinking the blood of a robotic Seraphim.

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@shaabiranks Why would they be a problem?

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@nikicaga Drag show is when kids are dragged to a strip club by their divorced dads.

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@FaZeTam @byPeterParadise I don’t disagree, I just wouldn’t get a thrill out of being the one to do it.

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The motte and Bailey of “kids are too young for hormones and surgery” and “I’m going to sue a school for calling my kid by their preferred name” is obscene.

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Heartbreaking piece from @kelseybolar on how the transgender social contagion took over an Alaska town, permeated a school, and turned a family's life upside down.

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@GRONreturns Not aggressively, no. Just continuously.

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@Aella_Girl This strikes me as an excellent place to use a logarithmic scale.

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The left-wing counterpart of those insane Republican state legislators people gawk at isn’t a Democratic politician… It’s someone running one of the nonprofits which have cannibalized local governments in blue states.

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A Bay Area school struggling to boost low test scores and student attendance is paying $250,000 for an organization called Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to disrupt racism and remove those barriers to learning. Its test scores fell even further.

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The Spanish, being Catholic, did not invest the vast profits of empire into mass literacy, so their immense wealth was just spent on brutalizing Dutch people. Noble, perhaps, but short-sighted.

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"Spain was a shithole for 400 years" > colonizes an entire continent > gets massive wealth from it > Spanish tercios dominate Europe militarily for over a century > Be a major power until Napoleon ruins you for good Most historically informed western communist

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@bj82 @JStein_WaPo It’s easy to go after poor and middle class people because they can’t fight back. The IRS is hiring more people to go after richer folk.

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2) Stephen Wolfram: a more elegant name from an age gone by. An archaic word for Tungsten, the element with the highest melting point of all. Hard, but musical: the two iambs of the name flow perfectly.

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@MattZeitlin Even if you can’t pick stocks well, Index funds are the equivalent of betting that the casino will win.

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@ryjlocal Aside from simplifying the language, the difference is that Wilson's in iambic pentameter, which flows naturally in English, while Lattimore's in dactylic hexameter, the original Greek meter. Both are interesting and valuable, as neither is meant to be authoritative.

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@ZyMazza My hobby of ceramics is almost exclusively women, but that's not particularly relevant because they tend to be much older than I am.

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@conzmoleman The fair question is “how were Nazis so effectively de-radicalized?” They may have retained their views and status, but they overwhelmingly ceased to pursue the program of nazism.

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@ampol_moment Leslie Cockburn is going to be the name of the first bisexual Bond Girl.

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@thechosenberg It could be worse.

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New gf failed to mention until just now that she made a significant amount of the furniture in her apartment. She’s so cool

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@halomancer1 I can't get over him flatly saying post-menopausal women aren't women.

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@osamabishounen Flawless

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“No candidate has ever been left of center.” Perhaps the enlightened Icelander should consider the existence of perspectives and reference frames other than the one he learned in the most parochial nation on earth.

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No major political candidate in the US has been a communist. In the last 30 years, no major presidential candidate has even been left of center. I hope this helps.

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@MostlyMonkey When I was a teenager my older sister once wildly-underestimated our family's income and my father politely corrected her. She then asked why we still flew coach. We were on vacation in the Swiss alps at the time.

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@aethelfleds She’s reading Dracula Daily and hasn’t gotten to the end yet

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