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@MorlockP
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Prometheus award-winning SF author https://t.co/X1XAm8tVlh Learn how to homestead https://t.co/tsoohJ5emD Legislator @travis4nh
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this is what I voted for!
For years the United States operated as a “reverse Empire,” using its military to enrich foreign nations and foreign peoples, sacrificing our wealth, security and sovereignty for the sole benefit and advancement of those beyond our borders. All we got in return were migrants.
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"Hey guys stop asking what motivated the shooter" is definitely not suspicious at all coming from the president whose university sheltered pro-Palestine riots.
Brown University President Christina H. Paxson says it's tempting to lay blame for tragic events, but that Brown is just another school targeted by gun violence.
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been following a poster named "roman helmet guy" go to war with hundreds of ppl furious over his interpretations of ancient roman history, which he arrived at by interpreting original sources on his own, for like two full days at this point. absolutely riveting drama.
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Yuval Levin, in a tribute to Norman Podhoretz, makes an astute point about our culture: https://t.co/hXmFfaNpAq
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@tonydaniel777 @dafsharirad @DavidJohnButler 3/ speaking of research: tentative map of post-Wet Firecracker War Texas, including the new capital in San Angelos, and details of trade routes in the panhandle
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2/ @tonydaniel777 @dafsharirad @DavidJohnButler I caved on the "no skull mask on my official author photo" issue, maybe I can do at least 2-3 footnotes per page ? https://t.co/IDnKNPueCQ
@MorlockP Could your publisher be convinced to market you as "the only science fiction author with at least half of each page taken up by footnotes" I think there's a niche here
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2/ or Some People Are Worse Than Others (You Know Who I Mean. The Bankers. Come On, You Know Who I'm Talking About. The Hook Nosed Bankers. You See What I'm - Oh, Fine, I'll Say It : THE JEW!!!!)
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This is a very important point, and one of the reasons that I am very leery of the "OMG OMG Palestine genocide" people. Not one of them half dozen or so that run in circles near mine has spent any time at all talking about other genocides ...so either they're suckers >>>
To expand on Rev's point: Many imagine that atrocities naturally lead to public attention, and bigger atrocities get correspondingly more attention. This is false. Literally nothing gets attention naturally. Public attention always and only comes from successful PR campaigns.
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31/ relevant tangent: @stewartbrand 's "How Buildings Learn" which mentions that construction materials that are modular and hackable are more conducive to adaptation than those that are monolithic / require special tools. https://t.co/rP1KkpX5Bg
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When a building is finished being built, that isn’t the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they’re allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly...
@MorlockP I suspect material choice plays into this impression. Wood can be cut/glued/screwed/etc. Metals can be cut/bent/welded. Everyone can either do this themselves, or knows someone who can. Injection-molded plastic is astoundingly cheap... but nobody knows what to do with it.
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We’ve been correct for a decade. That hasn’t been enough. The important thing now is to build permission structures that allow the median person to be correct.
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Sleigh the season with the most personal gift around. Get them a Cameo video!
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30/ IDK, maybe ... but I don't think so. Every time I see this topic come up, people are ALWAYS talking about refrigerators, stoves, lawnmowers, cars ... things that objectively last 2-5x longer than they used to. https://t.co/AOh1GGPVK4
@MorlockP so I think there's a lot of people who buy mostly low-priced "replaceable" goods, and the high-priced goods they do buy are specifically the "technologically obsolescing" ones, like phones. so it *feels* like no matter what they buy, it breaks/obsolesces, in unfixable ways.
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29/ a 12 word tweet is worth a thousand pixels, sigh https://t.co/2OQu1shNt1
@MorlockP The phrase 'you get what you pay for' is a good guide.
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27/ now thinking through a 2x3 matrix 3 across: pricepoint (discardable / nice / professional) 2 down: users do / don't do maintenance bottom left cell doesn't exist bc products are designed to be tossed (sealed bearings, etc) >>>
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26/ this is a really good insight https://t.co/cwb4YUyIxS
@MorlockP vague notion: the shift from the paradigm "products at all price points generally need some repair" to "products at low prices generally aren't worth repairing, products at high prices generally don't need repair" has changed people's whole comprehension of goods' durability
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AFAICT half the DSA is like "antizionism is not antisemitism, we reject antisemitism completely" and the other half is "gas the jews, yes all jews, right now, only death for jews" and every time one of the first half starts to notice, they drag them out back and shoot them
infighting watch: DSA tankies have doxxed fellow DSA member OrganizerMemes for *checks notes* being opposed to the Bondi Beach shooting they have confirmed he is a member of a synagogue that supports Zionism and now want to expel him from the DSA
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25/ the good ("good") news was that paint technology was so bad in the 1970s that factory paint only lasted ~5 years, so there was a huge ecosystem of after-market car painting shops again, people have no idea how poor Americans were even recently https://t.co/R6skCHAET7
LOL. The Camaro of Many Colors was a high-school parking lot staple during the 80s. Every high-school had at least a couple.
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outlining prequel novel for Red State Mars, so I'm doing exceedingly necessary things like * finding the population of Amarillo, TX * researching Ebola survival rate * finding acres of land to support 1 cow-calf pair in the TX panhandle * researching "Pantex" nuke bomb factory
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