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It is my right as an American to have sex with the President.

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Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum

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@eggshellfriend There is a girl out there who installed the Wikipedia app on her phone because her boyfriend told her about it. Now she knows what the Albigensian Crusade is. Because of a boy she dated. She started watching The Wire. Because a boy taught her.

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@Whatapityonyou Ian Miles Cheong spending $75k for a plate at a Trump fundraising dinner, begging him for help getting pussy.

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@teodor_io A weird assumption which most people don't think of: the prisoners have to have perfect knowledge of each other's behavior. Without it, two prisoners try to leave at the same time, and with >0 probability each one believes they will be the 2nd. So they try to escape.

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@AlexGodofsky Communism is when the government lowers barriers to entry and makes my business uncompetitive.

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@AnaDeCouture @EFVnation You get that he's the Karen here, right?

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@Atlanticesque It's an illustration of an early, defective White failing a test delivered by Jakub the Big-Headed Scientist.

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@bajablastbabee Why are you posting your L

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@nyjets8 @lickeddrip @jotiemondair @JoshMalina ‘Sanctions’ are, quite literally, an organized boycott of Russian companies.

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What’s the message here? Is the New Yorker never supposed to publicly acknowledge a fact of life that everyone living in New York notices daily, that at 10am on a Tuesday, all the parks in Fort Greene are filled with Nannie’s caring for children who are separated from them by

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White children in particular evoke ethnonarcissist rage like few other signifiers can. There’s a reason they figure prominently in the fourteen words, which is in essence the totemic underside of this cover. Since I have a white baby now (who I actually spend most of my day

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@nycfreethinker @BSmallie @char15299 @JimMagee2022 Cancer wards: superfluous, silly, inhumane, oppressive. Your UES apartment's view: vital, working class, healthy, important.

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russia tried this exact thing in the 1990s and ended up having a years long shooting war between gangs until the state reimposed a monopoly on violence

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@foresteagle45 I don't think Jews are indigenous to Israel because "indigeneity" isn't well-defined. What matters to me is the basic fact that in 1947, most Jews in Palestine had recently arrived from Europe, whereas most Arabs had lived in the area for generations. I don't care about 73AD.

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@aprzhu This is the sort of self-indulgent, self-destructive, ouroboros-style tail-biting that does nothing for the people of Palestine, nothing for the literary world, everything for you and your friends. The essay was good. Calling it "normalization" of Zionism is absurd. Shame on you.

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@shakoistsLog I don’t know how people haven’t caught on to this pattern yet. We snicker at Arabs for being gay because men hold hands, & pat ourselves on the back for accepting non-traditional sexualities. We call republicans homophobes & try to own them by posting Grindr stats from the RNC.

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@MaddySukoru @ChocolateyCrepe 100% guarantee this is less reliable than the product a decent faang or startup would come up with. It’s not about tradeoffs, Oracle just isn’t a very good company technically.

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@coldhealing They like attention online & their husbands are right-wing.

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@nyjets8 @lickeddrip @jotiemondair @JoshMalina You’re saying sanctioning Russian businesses isn’t bigoted, but boycotting them would be. This makes no sense. Sanctioning businesses *implies* boycotting them. That the government organizes it is irrelevant. BDS would love government sanctions on Israel. It’s the same thing.

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@eggshellfriend There is a girl out there who installed the Wikipedia app on her phone because her boyfriend told her about it. Now she knows what the Albigensian Crusade is. Because of a boy she dated. She started watching The Wire. Because a boy taught her.

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@I_Heart_Frisco I’m sorry man, but this just isn’t accurate. I lived there for a long time, walked this intersection multiple times a day. It’s a really messed up part of the city. Have you ever been chased around Berkeley by a guy with a 4x4? I was, right in the TL!

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I used to live here, lol. I nearly died at this corner b/c a dude on heroin zombie-walked into the bike lane with no warning. I had to front-break hard & I fully flipped, landed on my back. Thankfully there were no cars behind me. He mumbled 'sorry' and shuffled away.

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@KelseyTuoc Very unfair. It’s a rock painted with ‘Incumbents win reelection if the economy is good.’

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@MostlyMonkey Why mock a guy trying to learn? He doesn't know how finance works and he's asking about it, big whoop.

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@wanyeburkett @zanezid @dmalcolmcarson People also correctly intuit that prospective parents will not behave recklessly with the lives of their unborn children. A woman who's seven months pregnant simply does not flippantly decide to abort her child. She doesn't need Ted Cruz's moral wisdom to enter into the picture.

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@Delicious_Tacos We engineered a super-intelligent robot and its first act of cold & unassailable logic was to give women on LinkedIn bigger jugs.

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@Cominsitu I see we're entered the "Sure they can't produce but they can't feel or innovate" stage of cope. In a few years we'll get to the "we need a tariff on AI" editorials.

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@DavidKlion It's bad but inevitable that this will happen, given how determinedly Zionist orgs have been bleeding the term "antisemitism" of meaning for the last 80 years by cynically deploying it against every reasonable critic of Israel.

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@LittleMammith Obviously people are chasing transgression, but ultimately that doesn't explain much. The most productive frame for understanding this is "smarm begets snark." It's very simple: Israeli propaganda is smarmy & sanctimoniously wields antisemitism as a cudgel. People react w/ snark.

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@stanfordNYC @SwannMarcus89 I am a typical listener and I would not have assumed that at all. it’s only impeaching if you’re primed to expect him lie about his military service…

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@KojimaErgoSum Jesus what a mean thing to say. Across the whole society, people have fewer and fewer friends, spend less time with family & more time on screens. "Maybe you all just suck" is a horrible thing to say in response to the phenomenon of mass isolation.

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@Meaningness I do not believe this at all. If you do not have any knowledge of physics you simply cannot ace the AP physics exam. It does not matter how good your "test-taking skills" are. Something basic is missing from this story.

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@gbrl_dick This is glib. Caffeine is not the only wakefulness-inducing molecule in green tea. I switched because I discovered, in a way which was both accidental and completely empirical, that green tea kept me focused for a longer time, with a less serious high and a less serious comedown.

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@LeighA_07 @martyrmade The conflict did not begin in the 1st century.

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@stanfordNYC @SwannMarcus89 Honestly, I watched this expecting something misleading… it isn’t at all. He never comes close to implying he went to Iraq unless you are primed to look for it.

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@ArmandDoma All joking aside, it's pretty cool that this stuff actually happens in board rooms. It's not just for HBO!

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@tracewoodgrains I would proudly wear a shirt with the Shoggoth on it that says Machine 2024

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@daniela127 The distinction is numbers and relative power. If 175M South Americans came over the border in the span of ~2 decades, armed & protected by, say, Chinese weaponry, & with the plan to secede from the US -- then the "settler colonialism" would apply.

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@browserdotsys They're very expensive, hard to install, & can't be moved if you move.

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@HegelwCrmCheese Should have called it "Wet Hot American Summer"

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Petition for jesusdasupajew to start writing bars as Matt Yglesias.

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It's been a long time, frankly I feel like I see the world thru the lens of this image now. But all arcs must come to an end and I think now is the time to retire the greatest picture of all time. Pop in the replies w this pic and send him off with a thanks Nathan J Goatinson 🫡

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@AliceFromQueens @keithgessen A hysterical woman needing to be talked back down into family life by her patient, loving husband is the tradest story of all time.

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@DailyCaller Imagine thinking this is a win for you guys hahaha

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@AlpoPup69 @foresteagle45 The Ottomans don't seem to have recorded details of internal migration, and whenever you check people's sources for this argument, they end up looking like propaganda, not careful history. Evidence points to the Arab population of Palestine having 100s of years of continuity.

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@Kraft4Prez @brhodes ‘We’ve tried nothing and we’re out of ideas.’ Stop. Sending. Them. Weapons.

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@traxus4420 @emializh FYI there’s a reunion in less than a month. They screwed up the emails but let me know if you want them and I’ll get you one forwarded.

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@sock_dem There are living people who have title. It's not based on vague ethnic affiliation. Many who were kicked out are in their 70s today.

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@AdrianDittmann No one cared about Destiny or Corey Comperatore talking this way about Palestinians. Civility is fine but it's hard not to notice that people apply their standards very selectively.

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@zanezid @wanyeburkett @dmalcolmcarson That's exactly who laws are written for, so much so that it's a judicial philosophy taught in law school and invoked by the US Supreme Court.

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@ilikeadamsmith During WWI, Chesterton was asked him why he wasn't “out at the front.” He responded, “If you go round to the side, you will see that I am." This is a very funny response, but forgetting wit for a second, he was definitely never out at the front.

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@SamBuntz This is a reflection of their interaction with it, not the real place. Switzerland is, by far, the most aesthetically intentional country I have ever spent time in. Zurich is basically an architecture museum. Alpine Switzerland is a meticulously constructed paradise.

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@Calamondins1 @kunley_drukpa He's reflecting on his own resentment. Unfortunately, Baldwin tended to end up justifying these sorts of feelings rather than rejecting them as understandable but ultimately harmful character defects.

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@nyneuropsych @ninaturner No, people are mad that a foreign government's lobby uses a legal loophole to avoid being classified as a foreign agent. The Saudis, the Germans, the Chinese -- all have lobbyists here, but they are forbidden from donating to our political campaigns. Not so with AIPAC.

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@ErikPBrown1 @maxg_econ @bryan_caplan @PhilWMagness That's what France used to be like. It was terrible. You had to pass through dozens of tax jurisdictions to get from the north to the south. Getting goods to the ocean meant paying dozens of random noblemen tariffs for the privilege of navigating their waterways. Good riddance.

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@ellegist @DeSkereStudent You can say stuff like this if you want, but in real life people will react with horror, and your indignant insistence that technically the facts are on your side will make men exactly as sympathetic as women are to incels spouting off about females' romantic treachery

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@a_cerbic @ChrisSeltzer1 @vin_acct Almost no serious engineers work in code bases that are entirely their own. Programs are distributed. They are complex systems. You can’t be certain which assumptions you’re making are wrong, until you look directly at the program state. A debugger helps you do that.

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@sgodofsk Max Boot doesn't look like the kind of guy who buys his wife the things she needs to feel like a lady.

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@AlpoPup69 @foresteagle45 If you have an actual scholarly source (not "librarians" generically) you want me to look at I'd be glad to. Not trying to be a dick here, but I'm genuinely curious what you consider trustworthy evidence from this, and to my eyes you're being much more generic than me.

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@AkkadSecretary This is what hell looks like

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@zanezid @wanyeburkett @dmalcolmcarson You are confusing who criminal law PUNISHES with who it applies to. It applies to *everyone* but only *restrains* a tiny subset of people. The problem with abortion restrictions is that they inevitably restrain substantial portions of the female population.

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@MaximumMiri @RedmondBarry7 The first time I ever encountered him, it was via his deFOOing page. Beneath a paragraph explaining why you should cut off contact with your parents, were rows of pictures of his lapsed followers, each decorated w/ a paragraph grossly detailing their sex lives. Normal guy!!

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@Boxy_FT Westerners can understand just fine, it isn’t that complicated. Israel is a hated colonial holdover that oppresses their Arab neighbors & recently invaded / occupied them for decades. Imagining a military org which exists in that context would just disarm is willfully naive.

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@feelsdesperate @jessesingal It’s so funny that on this occasion, there actually was a conspiracy, whose progress was reported in more or less real time by every major newspaper, and yet that’s not enough for the conspiracy theory guys. They need there to be a deeper, more hidden agenda. Take the win!

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@DanielleFong Reading the Elon texts was such an eye-opener for me. Imagine you spend all day thinking about rocket valves, while Jason Calacanis does nothing but scheme how to profit from his proximity to you. Such a gross way to live.

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Eigen with a thread laboriously explicating the reason why discussing one's IQ is impolite. I prefer the simpler analogy, which is that it's like discussing your cock size in public. The IQ discourse exactly matches the dick-size discourse.

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inequality between men is a central problem in society but it is a solved problem however, this requires _cooperation_ there are two primary modes of defecting, each of which make people worse off i will explain

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@AlanMCole ‘Punk girls love guys with ornate, evil tattoos. Why don’t you, a regional manager for Applebees, just get one? They’d love you.’

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@EFischberger @DovWaxman Shame on you. It's people like you who do harm to Jews everywhere. You threaten our physical security. You have no relationship to our best ethical traditions. Your "Judaism" is nothing more than Israeli jingoism. Real Jewish ethics threaten you, and make you lash out. Shame.

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@lymanstoneky This is very plausible but measuring per-mile is probably misleading in relation to what people care about, which is net fatalities. Every highway ride juices the car numbers by upping their miles driven w/o adding pedestrian fatalities. Per-commute is the relevant number here.

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@tunguz @saaatyaki Yes, but that is what is meant by productionization. The technique of plasma confinement works in practice, but to be useful for *power generation*, the confinement time of the plasma has to be scaled upwards.

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@kevinb9n @cromwellian @Google Yep, definitely. It's crazy how much of your doc I've read, how many of your replies in random threads on java-users & such. Good luck on the hunt.

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@ZaidJilani After attending law school, Obama went straight into community organizing. It's dryly accurate to say Vance picked the money route and Obama picked the 'community' route.

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I used to live here, lol. I nearly died at this corner b/c a dude on heroin zombie-walked into the bike lane with no warning. I had to front-break hard & I fully flipped, landed on my back. Thankfully there were no cars behind me. He mumbled 'sorry' and shuffled away.

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@MrDrewHashtag @JuddLegum @CommunityNotes In this case, "nuh-uh! It didn't happen that way!" is just a derisive way of describing the fact that Elon Musk is lying about this.

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@NathanpmYoung I don't think it's crazy. I wouldn't buy at 90%, for instance. Imagine Biden bombs during the debates, and in the aftermath we get a few solid polls showing dipping performance in swing states. Important people might freak out call for him to step down.

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@neontaster @Carrotriot79 Either Hezbollah are Iranian proxies or they aren’t dude. You can’t tell everyone that Hezbollah is Iran and then change your mind when it becomes convenient.

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@nyjets8 @lickeddrip @jotiemondair @JoshMalina It's very hard to understand. Why would a non-governmental organization organizing a boycott be racist, but a government organizing a boycott wouldn't be? It feels like you're reasoning backwards from wanting BDS to be bigoted rather than operating w/ a coherent set of principles

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@BGrueskin @nytopinion If you think Luntz was literally saying he could not find a single undecided young woman, you do not understand figurative speech. That Luntz was ultimately able to recruit a focus group of undecideds should not be taken to contradict his first statement.

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It's extremeley rare for someone on Twitter to ask a question in this tone, and have their subsequent responses indicate the question was asked in good faith. "Hey, I'm just wondering --" no you're not shut up. "Honest question here --" you don't have one shut up.

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@NathanpmYoung @Aella_Girl The confusion over this clip is funny to me. It is very straightforward flirting (of the middle-school variety) from both sides. They’re playing roles. She’s playing childlike and hurt, he’s playing rude. There are no stakes for wither. It’s just a fun little game.

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@cremieuxrecueil I stand alone, a free thinker amongst slaves

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It is my right as an American to have sex with the President.

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@christinadirkes @robert_stegmann @lunaleporidae @teacupbun "Stealing data for training" is a good description of the normal training process that human artists go to. Walk into any atelier or art school class and look around. You'll see students copying artwork they didn't pay for, to learn other people's techniques.

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@SwannMarcus89 The video in question, start at 1:37:30:

9/11 Day of Remembrance at the MN State Capitol (9/11/21)

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@OwlLawrence @LittleMammith Yeah, right, that's totally logical: Ben Gvir needs to pray on the temple mount because Americans aren't making him feel safe enough. It's always someone else's fault with these people.

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@SpecialPuppy1 Lol

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@the_ason @perdricof Yes it was.

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@BlancmangeBlob @short_straw @RokoMijic @lisatomic5 Yeah, but not everyone is going to choose that, so outside of your utopian world where everyone behaves in exactly as you'd prefer them to, choosing red kills people.

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@NGKabra This doesn't make any sense to me. A small group of foreign men arrives. Soon after, they constitute 30% of the population's genetic ancestry, are the upper caste of their society, and everyone speaks their language. How does this conceivably happen without military force?

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Richard Feynman's son is a lw poster. Huh.

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@InVitroFuture @QuicksilverClay @arash_tehran @CoreyRobin Yes, but the Israeli peace movement is *also* weak because Israel suffers nothing when they behave outrageously, thanks to unconditional support from the West. The absence of international pressure to obey norms is an argument for settlement & occupation.

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@Nexuist Who in academia was claiming that Israel could never get a peace deal with Saudi Arabia? I've never heard someone say that. Israel/Palestine is the hard one, and on that Kushner did nothing but inflame the situation.

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@skooookum No. It was always mostly bad, with some jewels buried beneath the offal. Same deal now -- you're just used to reading 'greatest hits' compilations.

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I have long held to a completely personal theory that the insane material abundance humans achieved in the last ~1M years kicked off a spiral of sexual selection which made human beings by far the most beautiful animals on earth, as judged by most animals.

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So why would animals have a pre-adaptation to music, which wouldn't have existed before a million years ago. Did human music build on such a pre-adaptation?

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@marquisdcustine It's rational & I don't think individuals should feel guilty for anything, but stark divides like that are vivid illustrations of underlying inequities that the human spirit instinctively understands & rebels against. Which is why artists notice them & point them out.

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@RichardHanania People love and hate you for your politics, but what I find incredible about your work, Richard, is how much you just love to have fun.

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@jh_swanson He’s a slightly more confused version of Hitler.

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@Nexuist It's this sort of radically positive thinking that first led the 12 tribes of Israel to put aside their differences & invade the land of Canaan -- an inspiring story about how if you work together, you too can put your enemies to the sword and haul their daughters off as booty.

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@jonathanchait Really? Seems like a list of breezy put-downs & guilt-by-association without much substance to me. E.g, he dings Hanania for calling conscientiousness "highly heritable" & suggests this is only believed by cranks. But when I research, I find conscientiousness is 40-50% heritable.

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@drbabe_ @WeeboJones @Billem_DaFoe "You never see a man…" “You never see a woman…” Anyone who talks in absolutes like this is pushing a fairytale version of the world. Some percentage of men AND women who treat their partners well are not treated well in return. Life has all sorts of stories.

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@saviorshoney @carmguti What does "maintains and enforces its network rules" actually look like? Are you saying that Visa basically audits & approves of each bank's card issuing guidelines, dispute resolution procedures, and so on?

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@asafkraus @paulg Israel is methodically mining and detonating entire city blocks, uploading the videos to TikTok, and your response is, ‘well what else can they do????’

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@gigameth @teodor_io Ooh this is good. Requires the prisoners to know each other's heights but this is more plausible than them knowing exactly when each will leave.

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