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Glumly doomscrolling since about 2015 I'm a #BrokenRecord He/him/his

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@j_n_foster @hollykmichels I’m not sure what paper covered real estate for the pre-Revolutionary French aristocracy, but they would have nothing on The NY Times
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@SaeedDiCaprio CELEBRITIES: I signed up for verification so people can't impersonate me TWITTER: The blue check doesn't mean that any more; plus, you owe us $8 CELEBRITIES: Ooooookaaaay so I guess i'm not going to do that TWITTER: Oh you think you're better than us
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@bhinnybaby @queasy_f_bby Ah yes, the Mini-Muffin Memorial Discount A traditional, by now indispensable component of any 9/11 observance
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@toriimacdaddy So this wasn’t even a hospital or research facility that theoretically could eat the cost The MRI is the business’s bread and butter; this could put them belly up Looks like they’re suing; I hope the judge garnishes this guy’s salary for the rest of his life
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@edburmila To make matters worse, between downsizing and staff losses from burnout, Peggy’s workload has increased a hundredfold since the new President was appointed But she earns the same as she did when she was just taking minutes and writing up memos
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@carolinespitzer @maybe_dan_ Having visited family in one of these developments, what is especially depressing and demoralizing about them is how the communities would already be low-density sprawl without the canals; the canals just make them worse, in return for I guess a bit more aesthetic pleasantness
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@lilbabygandhi No. The reason young men flock to alt right MRA movements is because someone is telling them precisely what they want to hear--that their worst, most selfish impulses are right on point Left advice is not "brain-dead" so much as it is lacking in this kind of transgressive thrill
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@JeremiahDJohns I’m going to go with committed to the bit
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@Delavegalaw @IfyWorks @Delta It's a shame. @Delta was actually the airline that did more, earlier in the pandemic, to provide social distancing between passengers than either United or American, in my experience. They had established a brand of public health responsibility that they have now tarnished.
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@TheMcKenziest On the upside, we’re all looking at a subtle yet devastating critique from the menswear guy in a few hours I’ve followed him enough to zero in on the key points, to get us started
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@dennisbhooper I also love that he goes seven seasons in an apartment in a presumably desirable part of NYC with no discernible source of income
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@MattBinder "I have to pay $11 a month" No! You don't! You really don't. Amazing how quickly the Blue Check set has moved from treating the fee as a badge of privilege to seeing it as some kind of onerous tax they're being forced to pay at gunpoint
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@focusfronting Their name better be Jay
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@BreeNewsome Possible things this tweet applies to: -- climate change -- COVID -- erosion of democratic institutions -- economic inequality -- housing crisis -- [insert apocalyptic scenario here]
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@eyelessgame The point, to be clear, is not the valuation of STEM, which is amazing, but the devaluation of the humanities I even dislike the neologism "STEAM," which purports to be interdisciplinary but in reality often kind of wedges the Arts in there as an afterthought
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@420mercymain69 What did he even mean in his follow-up QT? "I guess freedom doesn't ring on this site" I'm sorry, you wanted freedom....to or from what, exactly? Knowing who actually made the statue?
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@xgigglypuff I guess I personally would wait to ensure I had all my factual ducks in a row before I leaned on “moron” with such rhetorical emphasis
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@tressiemcphd Let's set aside J.C. here for a second. Since when has it ever been cool to break out an acoustic guitar at 16,000 feet? People get ornery if someone unplugs their headphones and plays stuff over the laptop speakers -- but now faith-based jangle-pop is just fine, I guess?
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@arvofart This schadenfreude is, I'm sad to report, especially sweet, given that the smug arrogance in all of those "learn to code" taunts was quite often deployed as a means of disguising their near-total inability to understand the ambiguities of humanistic or artistic thinking
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@lionel_trolling This account wants so badly for the answer to be that "Western culture declined into impure decadence" or whatever, but the answer is probably closer to, "late capitalism can't price in that considerable outlay of time and labor power on a single artwork"
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@how_do_i_pdf Menswear Guy thread on this dude’s collar gap imminent
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@destroycoral The irony is that Kurt Cobain himself wouldn't have the time of day for this gender panic He wore dresses in concert; he said he wished he was gay in order to piss off his homophobic fans; he despised the sexism and homophobia in rock music
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@emme_lund @lydiakiesling Yup. I'm thinking of those diagrams that show the relative carbon footprint of a car driver compared to an individual riding public transit Now put that same comparison in the sky 😳
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@Sababylon @wordwestpress Los Angeles 2019: no Tyrell corporation ziggurat Total f__king letdown 1 star
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@JarJarFan69 From Thomas Frank, *What's The Matter With Kansas*
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@danlehnermusic Peggy on one episode, smoking a jay, said something like, "I'm in a very good place right now," and my immediate thought was that, no way she said that in 1963. 1968, I could believe it; not so much 1963, unless she spent far more time in the Village than the scriptwriters let on
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@AKBrews “What do you do, just say goodbye to $2 billion in property?” This is just moral hazard reasoning here This guy is so confident that the taxpayers of his state are going to be willing to redirect much-needed resources to save aunt Edna’s summer house
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@marzipanlord Before its rebrand as a more upscale clothier, it was even more cringe than that They not only had the name, they went for the whole vibe of that name, too, with, er, problematic results
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@TheTumboy POLANSKI: Women, amirite? CASSAVETES:
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@YouStoop @YNerdcast @bdotpriv @_celia_bedelia_ @AmarelCharitas “Only members of Congress can officially introduce legislation” …..Exactly. Rather than running for Congress, or building a coalition of lawmakers at the local level, Stein is constantly reaching for the brass ring of the presidency. Which is just acting as a spoiler.
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@amykaycannon HINKLE: PUTIN DID NOTHING WRONG PROFESSOR: Sir, this is Intro to Music Theory
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@BrankoMilan I have to say it’s deeply ironic that you’re a specialist in income inequality, but you’re advocating against one of the few mechanisms that faculty have for addressing their own exploitation, in the absence of collective-bargaining agreements or even transparency about salaries
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@pumpermikefan "I get paid to make Google's search results less accurate" Fixed it for her
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@JreeYu @gbrl_dick Given that the fetish for productivity in the US economy is leading to crushing levels of unhappiness, maybe there’s something to be said for a country that gets bailed out by the Eurozone every now and again
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@stockhassler @francska1 This is not a funny thread at all, but as a Canadian, I had to laugh at “Apologetic Nazis.”
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@BadBoyCroy Someone on here a couple of weeks ago hilariously pointed out the contradiction inherent in postulating liberal urbanites as snowflakes huddled in their safe spaces who nevertheless simultaneously brave what conservatives see as the most violent, corrupt spaces in America
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@anndaraabrams Is AP credit still disproportionately offered in affluent school districts? When I moved to the US, it definitely seemed like a scam that property taxes would determine school resources -- and then students in those already affluent schools would get this additional advantage
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@JessicaHuseman Not sure if they pondered the national security implications of that thank you at the end Should redact that shit, too, just to be safe
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@Eve6 Hey I wonder if any residents in the neighborhood were warned they were going to subject to the visual equivalent of a rave That's annoying AF, and I'm just looking at a two inch Twitter video
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@RealDianeYap What's unreal is the unbelievable degree of privilege it takes to think that your extremely temporary inconvenience trumps the considerable suffering of those without shelter
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@MikeStuchbery_ I don't get it. He's getting bent out of shape about the loss of a Bovril sign? He's upset that the brands have changed? This RETVRN nonsense is worse than inane sometimes
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@ArmandDoma I'm picturing this as a Hollywood pitch in the Player ROBBINS: So, what's the story? SCREENWRITER: Well, it's not unlike... Zero Dark Thirty meets.... Revolutionary Road. ROBBINS: Charlie Wilson's War meets Office Space! SCREENWRITER: Exactly.
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@rosaslutzemburg There is a Russell Brand standup set at an Amnesty International gala back in the aughts where he is excoriating the Daily Mirror and rightwing boneheads I watch it every now and again just to make sure I didn't hallucinate the aughts
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@its_Xopher It's so perfect, strikes exactly the right tone of defiance Which is exactly why Democratic political consultants would drown it in the bathtub given half the chance
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@gayhomohistory Grand Moff Tarkin stomping around the Death Star with Vader has done a number on people's brains "If you are evil, you must glower evilly all the time" is probably pretty inaccurate, as real evil people go
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@MtStHelensWA WITHOUT GOOGLING Name a famous historic battle.
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@eyelessgame The problem is a focus on productivity at the expense of all else You've got executives and policymakers who can ramp up productivity with ease but whose failure to engage with social and cultural analysis means they can't see the profound injustice at the core of this chart:
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@Jesse_Brenneman Wait'll they all get a load of the lunch counter sit ins Such brutal coercion, flagrantly occupying a space illegally and stuff
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@DerekLeClair3 Follow the money? Is he in the pocket of Big Men's Fashion Criticism? Didn't think that was especially lucrative
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@CrabLordKel @incelReplies It was also about half an hour between texts, and he’s already attributing “attitude” to her Dude is fragile beyond all human comprehension
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@HannahPosted Growing up, it was just so common in our household for my folks' friends to pop by, that I really can't imagine the parents of my friends getting bent out of shape over it This is a baffling level of parental protectiveness, IMO
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@lmhuber1982 @hellenkeniford Good thing they wrote it so that it takes like half the US population to amend the damn thing
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@maxtmcc Before 9/11, in some border town in New Brunswick some dude used to cross the US border in his bathrobe every morning for his newspaper and coffee, then meander back to his house in Canada But because you all absolutely flipped out, that guy now needs a passport
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@rosskay @Fallenfromkevin @HousingSpock Call us back when everyone in your cul-de-sac drives a Tesla, rather than the Super Duties that are more likely parked in your driveways And don't even call us then, because so much of the environmental footprint of cars is in manufacturing them in the first place
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@kennedytcooper I think it's time he gets to know his own wife It's clear that this part of her identity is crucial to her, and he's telegraphed in every conceivable way that he doesn't support her in this I guess I don't know how you get married to someone you disrespect to this degree
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@AaronLecklider I can’t get away from the fact that this thread disguises itself as a critique of a certain kind of obnoxious opposition to children, when in fact he seems to have open contempt for the decision not to have children in and of itself
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@nhannahjones If he’s worried about safety in the airline industry, he would be better served worrying about overwork, sleep, and labor conditions generally among pilots than about whether the industry would hire additional qualified pilots that don’t look like he does
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@Phil_Lewis_ It's not even subtle anymore
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@9erm4n1c @BrianJJi @SpiceBaked You know, you can brag all you like about your ancestors' 17th century arrival date, there's still a whole continent of people who have you beat by at least 6000 years You might ask yourself whether *they* think you are entitled to be here
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@RaxKingIsDead He's absolutely got a point about the privileged position occupied by Raygun and her disconnect from the culture of breaking I don't see why that has to come packaged with a long "anti-woke" rant, though, trashing academia, feminism, and cultural studies
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@miriamkp I'm cautiously optimistic that all this guy has to do is open his mouth and his unavoidable repugnance will peel off a whole bunch of swing-state normies right there
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@WillSloanEsq One of the many ways that Nolan was able to bestow a backstory of infinite benevolence upon a family of the über-wealthy. Hell, Bruce Wayne's dad built Gotham a subway system, which is just so totally the kind of magnanimity we've come to expect from billionaires
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@blgtylr My favorite genre of tweet is the self-own so confident that it's a dunk on someone else that it seems almost a little high on itself
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@ChadNotChud That would be pretty sweet, if his base suddenly dumped him for being insufficiently hateful towards the people they hate I'm not holding my breath, of course
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@lionel_trolling WESTERN EUROPE: [Condescending smirk] I think it will be some time before we see the kind of musical achievement in the provinces that our classical composers have accomplished US: [Black Americans develop, jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, hip-hop] WESTERN EUROPE: Oh shit
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@Ugarles NY TIMES: We will gladly suspend all critical scrutiny and help your wife explain to our global readership
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@jbouie Kind of revealing that "weird and awkward" is an electoral dealbreaker, but "unhinged and insurrectionist" is apparently not They're going to "Dean scream" DeSantis over bizarre facial expressions; in the meantime, the frontrunner tried to overthrow democracy
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@maxtmcc ME, A STUPID CANADIAN: [calling Detroit hotel] Yes, I would like to book a room at the Hotel *po-cha-tra* DESK CLERK: [dubiously] You mean the Hotel Pawn-Char-Train?
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@MikeRos59 I'm still wrapping my head around the Boss sporting a wool sweater and button-down shirt That's this dude below we're talking about, just to be clear
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@sam_d_1995 Couple of things: 1) There's a lot packed into that phrase, "passing non-residents," which is meant to sound neutral but just seems to convey a whole bunch of implicit demographic info that the poster is too chickens__t to be honest about 2) Otters at the gates sounds appealing
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@ajbauer @washingtonpost LOL This is what I get for having the same name as the world's most famous NASCAR driver
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@doulbedoink Once again Twitter nails the taxonomy here
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@TheMcKenziest The fact that the extremely inadvisable decision to go with carbon fiber was easily communicated to a physics dunderhead like myself in a one-minute TikTok video makes me wonder who these clowns had hired as engineers
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@_mrpussy “Oh s__t, I guess we don’t get collective bargaining rights because of one person’s dietary needs” Don’t ever change, Twitter
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@ChadNotChud LOL Tim, dude, you do not have dominion over your cat *No one* has dominion over their cat This is a fiction we tell ourselves
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@Gryffix Just the latest in a string of willful misreadings of lefty ideas by rightist propagandists "We think urban design should try to put everyone in 15 minute walking distance of stuff" "What?? You want to use armed checkpoints to prevent anyone from going beyond a 15 min. radius?"
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@kennedytcooper Calls for mandatory screenshot of tweet where dude likes waffles, is accused of hating pancakes
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@rachsyme LOL that's easy. One of these head-scratcher thingees. For extremely cheap, this thing will bring you all worldly pleasure beyond human imagining
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@kennedytcooper I dunno. What I remember about the transition from the 90s to the aughts was the shift from baggy fashion (cargo pants, huge t-shirts) to unforgiving pipe cleaner pants and tailored shirts. I felt like it was actually in the 2000s that I no longer had permission to be overweight
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@ExplainThisBob Lol it’s the kind of answer you get when you haven’t done the homework “Uh, yeah, Tale of Two Cities is a story about…cities, two of ‘em”
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@beccalew You’ve got to show the weird vague weeble-wobble bodies that Meta dudes had in the absence of legs Now *that* was the future
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@LukewSavage I honestly don't understand. Did these clowns melt down the first time someone called them straight?
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@WilliamDamon @JoJoFromJerz [Attenborough voice]: "Please note the strikingly reflective epidermis, which is variously used to signal to other Musks in the event of an emergency, but also can be used to blind predators, part of the Musk's daring deterrent to carnivores."
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@AShihipar In my mind's eye, I guess I picture it going something like this
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@tressiemcphd ME: Uch, I'm so completely knackered after failing to sleep through that transatlantic red-eye. Good thing I can kick back on this connecting flight and get some much-needed shute-- DUDE: 🎶 HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS TODAAAAAY 🎶
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@TheMcKenziest What I'm not understanding is why he considers what his sub is doing "innovative" rather than just "cheap" James Cameron pointed out that almost every other similar submersible was designed according to proper protocols, precisely because of the extreme risks involved
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@AnonymousLeftie Amazingly, the key gripe in the comments seems to be that he uses his hands, which…. I’m not sure how familiar his followers are with, y’know, pizza dough preparation, making pasta, or baking or even cooking anything of any kind
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@sepinwall Definitely Severance. But if I can slip in a second recommendation, I also enjoyed 1899, by the producers of Dark
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@BigBluMiku @WhackNicholson FASCISTS: Into the camps you go MAINSTREAM LIBERAL: Please let me retort with the following well-reasoned enumeration of my constitutionally protected rights FASCISTS: Ah! Well-played, good sir; you can go
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@Komaniecki_R It’s political malpractice Like, a) why aren’t they attacking the top of the ticket? No one decides how to vote based on the VP. And b) if this is the worst of their oppo research, then Walz must be as close to sainthood as it gets in this business
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@blagojevism SENIOR DIPLOMATIC STAFF: [PhD in relevant area studies, fluent in multiple regional languages, hyper-attuned to nuances of cultural practice and interpersonal communication] AMBASSADOR: So, like, do you guys still [redacted racist stereotype]
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@Universe__Lover He's a keeper! JFC. "Unnecessary arguments" -- LOL. "This argument over whether you or I should make me a sandwich was just entirely unnecessary, had you followed the firm hierarchical guidelines I laid out at length on our interminable first date"
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@Pickledfins @vagrantcow @nycsouthpaw -- Blue checkmark: check -- DeSantis shilling: check -- Asserts "fake news" with no evidence: check Congrats, you've achieved the trifecta of derp
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@madisontayt_ Europeans trying to pinpoint why American servers are all bent out of shape about a $500 payment on a $640 bill
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@Sonic_Screwup In the MoMA lobby in New York, I walked at great speed towards what I was convinced was a door to the outside patio that turned out to be the window wall. Like a bird. I spent the next three days combing social media for footage of the event.
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