Adso Of Belk
@AdsoOfBelk
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But one loves these digressions; it's an easy matter to start nattering, to fill up a dark night and the slow hours. Not associated with the department store
Joined November 2020
A chance encounter, furtive glances —reciprocated gently, an eyebrow raised, pleasantries exchanged, “oh, and what are you reading?”, a wry smile, literary ribbing — periapsis. Fingertips brush a stray hair…. It can only happen at the Capital One Cafe, where Banking Meets Living.
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3000 BC black mirror episode, a man drowns in a Mesopotamian irrigation ditch.
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The psychological difference between things within a 7 minute walk of your apartment and a 15 minute walk is immense.
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Frankly the tariffs on Sweden should be higher because Paradox games are a form of fentanyl for our sensitive young men.
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There’s like a reverse dog whistle effect going on where an awful thing is said and people assume there’s a hidden more moderate message within it.
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Maybe I’m in the minority but if a family member of mine became prominent for any reason, I wouldn’t be giving interviews about them regardless of my relationship with them. It just seems tacky and immoral.
Pope Leo’s MAGA brother: “He’s much more liberal than I am, but he’s not woke.”
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They will continue increasing until Sid Meier can put out a product competitive with their offerings.
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Ultimately I think the biggest thing is the Anna Karenina fact that cities like NYC and Chicago offer you what is essentially a unique nonfungible good whereas every mid-sized city in America is functionally the same (excepting geographical differences).
By far the worse take you see in the city vs suburbs discourse is “all there is to do in cities is restaurants and bars which I don’t like so why bother living there” or “cities are less valuable once you have kids” lol this is code for imma boring incurious philistine and am.
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Increasingly the only rw accounts still dug in here are basically theater or lit people who have no idea how anything works in the material world so they’re left spinning ever more fanciful narratives that dissolve in the face of reality or any scrutiny.
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I would love to pay $100 more for a pair of shoes if it meant it was made in America and created American jobs but I hate paying $100 in taxes to create jobs in American made healthcare to save American lives or $0.25 to save a million African lives.
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@Forever_Wario It’s like the naive people who go into every thread about locking phones away in class saying “well, if you just keep the kids engaged they won’t feel the need to go on their phones”.
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@CartoonsHateHer It’s the whole:. “id kill for my family”. >Would you suck a dick for your family?. “…”. Thing.
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Biden tweeting “now would be a great time to sell” right before he turns the woke dial and crashes markets.
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Ok, I have to actually be honest about Chicago rent prices for one, this one is actually a hefty $2300/month
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@lxeagle17 @_rotimia Also regardless of his views he seems to be below average in every area of competency a mayor needs. This is someone who reportedly owed the city four figures in traffic tickets and unpaid water bills.
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@TheMakerPatrick @StatisticUrban Why did I caveat the *labor* participation rate with *working age*?. Our society is getting older, the median age is rising, more people are retired. Is your contention that the economy is bad because most senior citizens are able to retire?.
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@TheMakerPatrick @StatisticUrban Working age labor force participation rates were almost as high as they’ve ever been.
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Unfortunately no direct YIMBY writings survived so scholars are forced to go off of their characterization in polemics by twitter comedians and NGOs but most experts agree they were likely a gnostic sect that worshipped developers and practiced child sacrifice.
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I joined the White Sox subreddit to try to keep up with scores and roster moves but it’s mostly a sort of collective postmodern reimagining of the Book of Job
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You have two years to accumulate soul gems before permanently becoming a warlock’s thrall.
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I’m getting extremely tired of having same conversations every day with people who believe that if you build a new apartment a cohort of young professionals spring out of Zeus’ head to occupy every unit and result in no change whatsoever to the rest of the housing market.
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These people are literally retarded and by reading them you’re hitting yourself in the head with a hammer
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There’s really not much that’s funny about it anymore and two months from now things may be dark.
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It was a real stroke of good fortune for his parents to name him Walter Bloomberg.
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@himbopresident Yes to the former, but it’s not like left (or right) NIMBYism doesn’t arise out of self-interest (or mistakenly assessed self-interest) either. For the latter think it depends on the specific situation and how narrowly (both temporally and spatially) you want to draw your lines.
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Look, there’s a big coalition under the bolsheviks and there’ll be some jostling. Some want to liquidate your entire social class while others just want improvements in rural health care and education outcomes. It’s a big tent! You worry too much.
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@TheMakerPatrick @StatisticUrban I think your inability to critically reason will likely lead you to difficulties in your everyday life, that you'll forever blame on external forces rather than yourself. Have a good day, Patrick.
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What’s even left of your politics if you’re shrugging off being “mistakenly” sent to a foreign prison by your government?. Like what is your telos, what’s the “well sure my life and liberty is constantly at threat from my ostensible protectors but at least we get ——“ ?.
Let’s say you’re a US citizen and ICE grabs you off the street and puts you on a plane to Mongolia. Don’t you just go to your consulate, give them your name, date of birth, etc., they make you a new passport, and you fly home? They do this all day for tourists who had their.
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I’m protesting capitalism by paying the capitalist his asking price for goods and services and then deriving no utility from them.
at my last escape room they let us out without completing any of the puzzles bc we striked and sang all 4 stanzas of the Internationale until the game master got sick of it.
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People are showing up to the bar an hour early for trivia and pulling tables together so their massive teams that always gets 15th place can all sit and gorge on mango cart.
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People talk about the “dignity” of hypothetical manufacturing jobs yet no one is extolling how dignified they feel assembling IKEA furniture, which is essentially the same activity.
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Rw red scare egirl:. Tweet 1: [overt racism usually involving the subway and commentary on how normies are not ensouled]. Tweet 2: “wow the world is so heartless and mean to me, you all online revel in negativity and bullying”.
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Guys will act like they’re free-thinking titans of industry and then let themselves be steered by a courtier who explicitly tells them he’s manipulating them
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In medieval Europe, forum moderators suffered a similar stigma as executioners, and often their families would intermarry, having few other prospects.
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Early modern black mirror episode where a disgruntled monk uses a newly invented book machine to profane God and the Holy Church and drag millions of Germans into heresy.
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@FabricioNakata City A is connected to City B by a road that’s a perfect half-circle arc. When asked if the construction of a straight line road between A and B would improve travel times, a motorist replies that the main constrain isn’t the existence of a road, but the speed limit.
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Sensitive young 27 year old man less than a month from his birthday
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Being a “based” Red Scare person in NYC at this point is embarrassing because you’ve shown yourself capable of performative cruelty for no other reason than cultural fashion, and you’re not even fashionable, already 10 years late to the party. You’re wearing skinny jeans in 2020.
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I’ve come to terms with the fact that the 23andMe bankruptcy likely means that there’s a billionaire somewhere constructing an underground vault filled with clones of me that have been trained in the combat arts.
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@vanillaopinions We were so close. Billie was basically a perfect lab-grown blue dog candidate and Noem had had a bruising primary battle.
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@tszzl No roon, you just need to read this one Heritage foundation piece from someone who went to the 82nd best school of law in our country and ignore all other sources of information and your own eyes.
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Economics, engineering, law – even basic math eludes them. Of course, it’s never been solely an issue of the right. There are always people out there who mistake elegant prose and clever references for something true. They think the chalice is the elixir.
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Which of these looks more like something a sensitive young 27 year old man would have?
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I got initiated into the Mithraic Mysteries to appease my wife’s family but now that we’re divorced I think I’ll stick with it because I enjoy the camaraderie and the structure.
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@tracewoodgrains I don’t really have the economic chops to comment deeply but in my opinion we see all the productivity gains in the “fake email jobs” that are formally wedded to a 40 hour work week despite requiring less than 20 hours of “real work”.
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That first trip to Target after moving into a new place always feels like the song We Are Young.
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Given the current state of the world, it seems morally irresponsible to birth a novel into it, knowing that in all likelihood it will experience nothing but suffering and neglect.
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@jeff82874662 I don’t know if it would be any consolation, but if it’s far enough advanced he may not recognize her as his wife. When my grandfather was far into it he would get introduced to his grandchildren and say “how can you tell them from anyone else?”.
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I libbed out
Knuckle tats. ABUN DANCE.
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Sorry to disappoint you all, I am leaning towards this one
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New construction in the middle there. Looks quite nice and appropriate!
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I don’t care if it’s broscience, ever since I added squats and deadlifts back into the routine my gains have soared.
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The culture war is this endlessly roiling river of toxic sludge that topics are dipped by the heel into to become impossible to have any reasonable conversation about. Anti-Achillean.
only psychopaths and europeans (but i repeat myself) walk to the grocery store no matter how close it is, we should be discouraging that kind of pathological behavior.
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People talk about the “dignity” of hypothetical manufacturing jobs yet no one is extolling how dignified they feel assembling IKEA furniture, which is essentially the same activity.
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I had an idea for a podcast I could host and then I realized it was basically the lex fridman podcast and I hate and dont listen to that one so I gave up.
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I was going to subscribe to some print publications until I saw the price. You truly do have to be a capitalist to afford the financial times.
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New b/w roll, featuring my trip to Milwaukee a while back. Nothing really particularly interesting here
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I think the blunt assessment is that a large portion of these “artists” are more interested in living a specific lifestyle and self-image and don’t really have much talent for or devotion to their professed craft.
I saw a thing about 'We need to get cheap art collective housing in New York like the 60s and 70s' the other day, and I think people forget the context that the housing was cheap then because NYC was not great to live in at the time lol.
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Bit where I go on small city subreddits and ask if it’s safe to drive in them the way tourists ask if the train is safe in Chicago.
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@evilvillain1231 @b1g_damage The jackedness inflation has gotten so out of control. I was rewatching 300 and Gerard Butler looks great but compared to everything we’re bombarded with now his physique doesn’t even seem notable.
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[reichstag member who just missed the vote on the enabling act] . just left revenge of the sith remastered in imax. Wow - Highly recommend!.
49-49, Senate fails to rebuke Trump's global tariffs. Whitehouse and McConnell missed the vote. Had they made it, the resolution would have been adopted.
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Reading about an 18th century intellectual retiring to a sleepy provincial university town and you look it up and it’s like 10 miles from the capital. Every time.
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What does it mean when someone is really enamored with the idea of having a Lee Kuan Yew so we can top-down enact good policy but then they seemingly have no interest in what good policy is.
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@MattZeitlin Obama might be aware of the legendary Martha’s Vineyard seniors vs teachers game where Russilo put up 20 at the half and everyone was asking why he wasn’t varsity.
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I still keep an eye on the Facebook group for the smallish South Carolina town I used to live in and there seems to be an insurgent write-in campaign for mayor by a guy using nimby rhetoric to advance yimby policies.
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@MattZeitlin I have no idea if Tuscany features in Mona Lisa Smile but they feel grouped together in my mind aesthetically.
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