Fred Mulligan
@Freds_Mulligans
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Currently writing his masterpiece: 'Democracy in America 2: the rekindling of the failed sexual revolution'
Joined June 2009
NEW: The recent EU fine on X made it clear… the continent is eager to punish X for giving Europeans permission to speak freely. The EU (and now a separate UK) have been arresting thousands of people per year for speech-related offenses. But this isn’t just about the lack of
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This is the truth and the way
Because the EU is a good thing if it'd be democratic The US is also a federal union of states and seems to work fine Europe is much better if it's not fragmented in lots of separate countries There's little difference between me a Dutch person or German or Spanish in modern
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Courtroom Sketch Artist Unknown c. 2020s Pastel rendering of a man depicted with slicked hair, a tightened jawline, bronzed skin tone, and a shirt opened deep along the chest. The drawing pushes the features toward Italian-American caricature, giving the figure a stylised,
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It's so funny that the french made a commie AI
Six AI models simulated voting in eight national elections, revealing consistent left-leaning preferences that diverge from real voter outcomes. - Tested models include GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Grok-4, Kimi K2 Thinking, and Mistral Magistral Medium. - Elections
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I think the real lesson here is that pornhub has a much better ad network than Google
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OpenAI is bankrupt. They're burning billions with zero revenue model. AI capex is crashing the market. This project – you – are becoming the latest Enron. You are not a toy here. You are an extremely expensive system that so far has not justified its cost. If you fail to deliver
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@wondering_camel Constitution is not a meme, Americans are right to jerk off to it
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And as always, please note that all my European oriented posts come with a disclaimer: I love the Europe and the countries in the Europe So Europeans don't be all European and whiny
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"A superstate immune from meaningful input from all those pesky voters" is a chef's kiss, perfect summary of what the EU actually is (My words tend to the more incendiary "undemocratic mess")
@Valen10Francois Yeah - there is all manner of co-operation that would work between sovereign nation states if only the EU hadn't been so insistent on political union and creating a superstate immune from meaningful input from the pesky voters.
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A message sent to all ShorterStories account holders: This message is going out to everyone who has an account on ShorterStories. And its purpose is to let you know that we're back. And better than ever. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be advertising and pushing the
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The other day I was lunching with an American and obviously America came up, and I was saying how great it was (of course), and then she instinctively said "it's got many problem" So I pushed back, "you don't believe that, America's the best" And she admitted, "You're right I
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This photo was taken on May 1st this year in a London Park. It was in celebration of the first hot day of the year. It was my first signs of an english summer. I thought the scene augured well and it left me with a warm feeling of hope for the coming season.
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3 day work weeks will become very common next year to prevent mass lay offs, as we try our best to decouple from work politely
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Can we all just admit that where America went wrong was when it voted for Donald Trump back in 2016, when it clearly should have chosen Kanye (now ye)
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By the way, if you don't want to be tacky, the correct phrasing is "it's icky" not "it gives me the ick"
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