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Michael Druggan

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3 months

@eyeslasho I think if you did a controlled study, you would find that the people who were hot in high school age better on average. It's just more interesting to pay attention to the counterexamples.

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Michael Druggan

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@DeepDishEnjoyer That's such an unaesthetic physique. Like, yeah, he has abs, but his midsection is so blocky. Line a barrel with hardly any v-taper. Plus, his wrists are thin, and his forearms are underdeveloped, and thst contrasting thinness makes the thickness of his core clash even more.

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@wolfstrength Is this form acceptable?

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@wanyeburkett Worse than nothing. By increasing the risk to the landlord, they decrease the supply of willing landlords, which increases the market equilibrium rent

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Michael Druggan

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@Duderichy On it

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Michael Druggan

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3 months

Me: I just pressed 335lb for 5 reps! That's a 10lb PR! Them: Nice bench, bro! Me: What do you mean bench?

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@OnlyAWorldAway 4/10 personality and his concern is that she doesn't make enough money?

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@News__Consumer @Strangeland_Elf Men who spent their early 20s partying and sleeping around get their shit together and find a girl to get serious with all the time. It's not men who lack this option, it's unattractive people.

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Michael Druggan

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@DisaffectedPod I think it's abusive in the same way a father who knocks up his mistress and then abandons his family to start a new one is abusive. That is to say, it's a terrible thing that deserves great shame, but it probably isn't the kind of thing we solve with jail time

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Michael Druggan

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@haydukelives_ @kenzietuff Would a black person who said they will never be ashamed to be black be considered racist in your book?

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Michael Druggan

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21 days

@sanariyawrites @bfalkon @aniruddhc_ @alisabets @deedydas @aakash_rewari It is bad for the world when top talent decides to pursue zero sum games like trading rather than positive sum games like research

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Michael Druggan

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3 months

@RichardHanania 0 push-ups in that video. I'm disappointed

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Michael Druggan

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@BWay124 @EricMorganCoach @OX_DAO > I’ve met 4.0 MIT engineering grads who are a flat 100 but extremely disciplined. Press X to doubt

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@pickover It depends on what distribution the random number generator is using. There is no uniform distribution over the integers

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Michael Druggan

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6 months

@paulspivak_ @WillemD19118035 @Steve_Sailer @whstancil This plot is a great illustration of how the old trope "variance within groups is greater than variance between groups" is true but it doesn't imply that variance between groups is insignificant.

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@thestratpack @Duderichy "I asked her out on a fancy dinner date and there wasn't the much chemistry" Story should have ended there

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@Liquid_Aids @TomsTrades @josephpmbrtn @extradeadjcb No lawyer is going to get you half the money if there was no marriage. Engagement has no legal power.

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@nathan_cervera @WallStreetSilv The government doesn't give credit scores. Private companies like experian do?

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Michael Druggan

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6 months

@timdaub @DeepDishEnjoyer He opened himself up to criticism when he posted the pic to brag. That's no longer "creating internal purpose". But you're right, anesthetics isn't the only possible goal. I'll retract my comment if he bench presses more than me. (Spoiler Alert: not happening)

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Michael Druggan

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4 months

@littmath The correct answer is: "it depends on how I model your decision process for showing me the coins" If you always show 9 heads whenever that is possible it's 1/11. If you always show the first 9 coins no matter what it's 1/2 If you only show 9 coins if all 10 are heads it's 1

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Michael Druggan

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27 days

@sebjenseb This analysis masquerades as being way more precise than it. Witn a SD of 12 your 95% CI is 91-139 that's huge

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Michael Druggan

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4 months

@besttrousers It depends on the dataset. Imagine a dataset with 100 data points that are 0 and 100 that are 1. The mean and median are both 0.5, now add an outlier data point at 5. The mean moves to 0.522 but the median jumps all the way to 1

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Michael Druggan

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3 months

@etirabys I would guess it's impossible for most women but "at least one person in the usa" leaves a lot of room for outliers

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

@DeepDishEnjoyer Did you just assume my discount rate? That's so rude, I'm calling HR!

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

I like to think I have an actually unique life path. How many people go from math Olympiads to bodybuilding and full-time sports betting?

Kitten 💖🐈

@kitten_beloved

6 months

@wanyeburkett Not me though, I'm so original I'm inventing my life path from whole cloth I'll probably travel internationally a bit, do some hallucinogens a few times, then ultimately get a desk job for a non-profit in a major city You've probably never met someone like me before

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Michael Druggan

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@_deepfates Jane Street has been extremely successful and has a high concentration of rationalists. The rest of the quant prop shops are similar. Openai and anthropic are killing it and have strong rationalist vibes. What more are you looking for?

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

1 month

@LRH_Superfan There's a difference between "I want booze" and "I will be upset if I don't get booze"

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

@DanFriedman81 @whstancil 1/ All of those are serious issues but there's also another one. It uses incarceration as a proxy for crime. But someone who has been in the country longer is more likely to be incarcerated here even if they commit crime at the same rate. Like imagine 2 people. They each

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

7 months

Words cannot express how deeply I hate the people who want to take away advanced math classes. I genuinely consider this on the level of treason.

Jelani Nelson

@minilek

7 months

2+ yrs ago I co-authored a letter warning not offering Algebra I in public middle schools was anti-equity, as the wealthy could go private. Yesterday I discovered a great example: the main CA Math Framework author put her kids in a private school teaching Algebra I in 8th grade.

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Michael Druggan

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@chasrmartin @lastpositivist You don't understand. They said the word. That's the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter if it had different connotations when the book was written. They said the word. The book is racist. End of all thinking.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

@Davidchap9000 @Anthony_Bonato Unpopular opinion. This equation sucks, it throws away useful information. e^iz = cos z + isin z Is way cooler. It actually let's you understand what's going on. Complex exponentiation is a rotation. The famous equation gives you none of that.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

3 months

@DeanTTraining Same with seed oils, keto/carnivore diets, gluten free diets for non celiac etc. Non fit people are always looking for some weird hack that makes it so they don't have to do the hard work of counting their calories and hitting the gym hard.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

7 months

@DeepDishEnjoyer Didn't you know that consumer surplus in the labor market is always exploitation? Also, producer surplus in every other market is exploitation. How dare companies make profit? Basically, any time anyone except me gets surplus, it's exploitation

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@__2Christine @eyeslasho No it's not. You're misinformed

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

What she and many other leftists fail to understand is that the primary thing holding most unsuccessful americans back isn't lack of money or opportunity. It's lack of intelligence, conscientiousness and responsibility and no amount of taxing the rich will grant them these things

Elizabeth Warren

@ewarren

2 months

If we tax the rich, we can fund opportunity for all.

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Michael Druggan

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6 months

@BernoulliDefect As an American the part about this that stands out to me is how low 1% income is over in Britain

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Michael Druggan

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@pachabelcanon He kinda has to say that, though. Imagine how people would react if he was like "yeah I'm just better than everyone else, and you guys could never possibly keep up no matter how hard you try. Sucks to suck"

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

You'd expect the most watched game of the year to have efficient lines, right? Nope.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

@SamDunn93 @kar_nels @yhdistyminen Even if you impose the condition the boxes are nicely stacked there at still multiple arrangements that give the same front side and top views. Try again

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

@wanyeburkett @AnechoicMedia_ One important point: overly strong tenants rights laws actually *hurt* the majority of tenants. This is because most tenants will never be a bad enough tenant for the laws to apply to them but the existence of such laws reduces the supply of rental housing driving up price

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

Imagine going through all the effort to make this and not knowing the difference between a spell and an ability or the proper phrasing for "enters the battlefield"

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Michael Druggan

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5 months

Having fun at a birthday party last weekend. I think it might be time for a career change 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

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@sebjenseb The problem is that precise/imprecise isn't a binary. I would argue that this estimate isn't just imprecise. It's imprecise to the point of being worthless. Speculating on it makes us look unscientific

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Michael Druggan

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@occultiscool @memeticsisyphus Also, not all lottery winners are poor. Some are middle class and presumably this group is less likely to go broke so statistics for solely poor winners are likely also worse

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

4 months

@tokenpilled65B @besttrousers This example was particularly extreme, but bimodal distributions do exist, and they can interact weirdly with medians

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Michael Druggan

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1 month

@ckreimendahl @ChrisExpTheNews Fairlife skim FTW 80 calories and 13g protein

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

Another probability puzzle I'll post a solution tomorrow. Happy solving. Alice and Bob take turns rolling a 6 sided die with Alice going first. They stop rolling when the same number comes up 3 times in a row. What is the probability that Alice makes the final roll?

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Michael Druggan

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@RaxKingIsDead You're working with a biased sample here. You're not describing rich guys, you're describing the subset of rich guys who patronize sex workers which makes up only a small fraction of all rich guys.

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@BravesRebsPreds @thechosenberg I'd be way more concerned if she was 9 but turning 11 this year. Might need to call the time police

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@Algorithmexist @thecaptain_nemo Wrong. GABA is the neurotransmitter. GHB is another drug which also acts on gaba receptors but in a different way

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

1/ An urn has 2 black balls and 3 white balls. The following process is repeated N times: A ball is selected from the urn at random and then returned, and then another ball of the same color is added to the urn.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

3 months

@Scientific_Bird It's the first term in the taylor series. (The function is a polynomial so thinking about taylor series is kinda silly but it's still true)

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

21 days

@MrlooneyMonkey @_reader_xx @StatisticUrban I've heard this before but it doesn't really work. Murder has one of the highest conviction rates and rape one of the lowest. Killing the victim will usually increase their chance of getting caught

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

This applies to humans as well

rob🏴

@rob_mcrobberson

2 months

you know just because you ask an LLM to describe its inner state doesnt mean that its answer was the result of it actually inspecting any kind of inner state lmao even

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Michael Druggan

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@pimm_michael @paulspivak_ @WillemD19118035 @Steve_Sailer @whstancil I agree, and so do most of us on the hereditarian side. I would never support using race as an excuse to not check individual capacity.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

3 months

I love math more than you love English. I hate English majors because of their lack of objective standards and their substitution of activism for truth-seeking

Brendan Fraser Crane

@bf_crane

3 months

People make fun of English majors because they deeply resent someone who actually enjoyed their studies. “You’ll never get a job!” is not only not true, but is the telltale sign of someone who hates their own job and has to justify it themselves everyday.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

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@trq212 @VictorTaelin Yes. At 2:11 scratch is super effective but scratch is a normal type move which is not super effective on the water type squirtle.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

21 days

@EneaszWrites The traditional solution is to not have close 1on1 friendships with the opposite gender while in a relationship

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

Protein Pancakes Recipe: 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1 scoop protein powder 1 cup egg whites 1 container ratio yogurt 1/4 tsp baking powder Mix all ingredients together and fry in pan. 635 calories 80g of protein. It's hard to beat that ratio

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

@spicy_bagz @DeepDishEnjoyer Building up his lats would be the best way to get a better v-taper. Training vacuums could help give him a tighter core.

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Michael Druggan

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@BWay124 @OX_DAO Yeah, this isn't true at all. If you go to an elite college and study a difficult degree like math/physics/CS, literally the majority of your classmates will be 130+, it's only 2 SDs that's not that high.

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Michael Druggan

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@focusfronting With 0.7 heritability, the kids in that situation would have an expected IQ of 126.6 with an SD of 10.7, so they're a little over 4 sigma outliers here

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Michael Druggan

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@FreddyTomato Everyone thinks they invented the problem of evil

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Michael Druggan

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@wanyeburkett Except somehow, they believe that in labor markets, buyers arbitrarily set the price

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

3 months

@MrAlanSchmidt @cremieuxrecueil Musk too. The mine wasn't worth that much and his dad didn't support him after he left the country for school

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

@TheBaconOvrlord @lporiginalg SP has consistently outperformed inflation

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

3 months

This is false. Someone could dislike all cheese and simply dislike their favorite cheese less than they dislike other varieties.

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3 months

Reject Gnosticism. Embrace reality.

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Michael Druggan

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@wolfstrength What's really cool is pressing 315

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Michael Druggan

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@scottswigart @eyeslasho The big thing is that when you see a disparity in outcome, you don't assume discrimination

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

@LinkofSunshine > Haus is obviously cooler, and I've been a fan for years. Are you rethinking that fandom after this reveal of their character? If not, you're kind of pathetic.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

Looks like I'm doing something right 😆

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@ahron_maline @Aella_Girl Probably not, insulting your clients by insinuating their bedroom problems are their fault (even if it might be true) is bad for business

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

4 months

@KennethMackie @besttrousers I mostly agree. But it's important to know the difference between rules that are always true and rules that are usually true

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Michael Druggan

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7 months

@whstancil You're doing a lot of name calling and not a lot of explaining how he's wrong. Very telling

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

1 month

@L0m3z Admissions should be based solely on a highly g loaded, very high ceiling test

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Michael Druggan

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1 month

@ciaodah @AnaKrivolapova Yeah that's not at all what I'm taking about

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

7 months

@TomMuller45 @L0m3z @QuetzalPhoenix It works for a different reason in the casino. There are cameras everywhere and everyone knows it.

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Michael Druggan

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@PhateOfMan @SomaKazima A real man would have won the 4 on 1 so she didn't need to throw a punch

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

7 months

@whstancil The right: we want all people to be held to the same objective standard regardless of race Stancil: OMFG they want to discriminate Get a grip

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

6 months

Next goal is to get @sama to follow me

The Bratt Pack

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6 months

Quote tweet this tweet with a Twitter account that follows you that it's kinda a flex that they follow you

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@jimo31351624 @thecryptomonk @ASvanevik Rent control is one of the worst policies

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Michael Druggan

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@HMBrough_ That's what you call an "excellent physique". He's just skinny, nothing impressive at all.

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Michael Druggan

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@MegaBasedChad @martinmbauer Take 400mg of caffeine with no tolerance and get back to me about how not psychoactive it is

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Michael Druggan

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@jstriebel22 @wanyeburkett The both ways is using tax payer dollars to support people 65+ because they're too old to work while still expecting us to be happy with an 81 year old president

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

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@JustAnkurBagchi @DaoistEgo No, because the full pixel map of the wing is not in the DNA. Instead the DNA codes for protein which produce a pattern randomly and certain proteins will tend to produce patterns that look cobra like

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Michael Druggan

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6 months

2/ Let P_N be the probability that at the end of this process the white balls outnumber the black balls Find lim N->inf P_N (Solution will be posted tomorrow)

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Michael Druggan

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@SCHIZO_FREQ Same guy, different parts of the year

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Michael Druggan

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@EAlluia @whstancil I agree, blank slatism is a terrible pseudoscience

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

Everyone: housing prices are too high Also everyone: OH no! Housing prices went down

Alex Cohen 🤠

@anothercohen

2 months

Austin residential real estate is not having a good time

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Michael Druggan

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@brosaleigh Bad example, 99% of men prefer the left pic

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

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@MsMelChen In my experience 80+% of the time a woman's first message was just "hey" which is really just an invitation for the man to message her

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

7 months

@siegemeister675 @whstancil Is this supposed to be impressive?

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Michael Druggan

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2 months

@Alt_Azn @robkhenderson "Teens"

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

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@animalologist You don't hate him enough. Stop feeling sorry for him. Men like that are trash and deserve to be humiliated and alone.

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Michael Druggan

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@AnaKrivolapova > Falling for the free money on sports betting apps, Sports betting sign up promos can easily be turned into risk-free money by placing hedged bets. You can literally make thousands in one afternoon if you have a decent bankroll to place all the bets and hedges.

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Michael Druggan

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6 months

And a second arb later on in the game

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

2 months

I'd drop the course if I saw that syllabus.

Marit Bovbjerg, PhD MS

@BovbjergMarit

2 months

On the final, I ask students how many classes they attended, & what might make them come more. One student said 0 classes, bc syllabus says “I encourage you to wear a mask. The pandemic is not over” this “rubbed [them] the wrong way” so they never came, to intro epidemiology

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Michael Druggan

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@lexluthor40 @wolfstrength I follow that guy. He's a beast, but he's doing a different movement there. That's a push press.

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Michael Druggan

@Michael_Druggan

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Both these things are true and not mutually exclusive - The prosecutors involved in the Trump case were motivated by political animus, and absent this animus Trump never would have been charged for these crimes - Trump is literally guilty of the crimes he has been charged with

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