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"But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency" "Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin' , everything is broken" - Bob Dylan

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3 months
@julesterpak @coldxman IQ on that set doubled on that day.
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@homo_adorans And there's two more stacked inside that one.
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@EricAbbenante "Quite honestly I thought someone's dad would come down there and yank this man out of our locker rooms." If I'm being honest this is the way I think about this stuff. Why isn't some girl's dad going off the rails standing up for his daughter and bringing an end to all this
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@Rothmus Not sure how anyone survives without an in home printer. Between things like "paperless billing", taxes, documentation for any number of things, I find it essential. I get that it is a frustrating piece of equipment to own though.
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@indexnforgetit Try to find a single specialty screw, nut, washer, bushing at a big box "hardware" store.
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@sentientist Since this is the first time I've ever heard of that in 66 years I'm guessing it's not really "many" women. I'm guessing many wome have never even heard of it either. Usually comments surrounding childbirth are centered on pain.
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@RebelNewsOnline Almost a million Canadian snowbirds. I wonder how many will seek asylum come Spring rather than return to all that.
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@HeidiBriones @johnv5 If you saw me today you'd know exactly what a man is. Cargo shorts, T-shirt, flip flops, pushing a fertilizer spreader.
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@pmarca Prediction: It will be replaced but only as part of a multi billion dollar port improvement project that will take 10+ years with multiple cost overruns.
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@SteveWps Agreed dropping anchors is correct procedure and the sharp change in course points to that. However the frontal picture of the ship shows no anchor chain coming out of the hawespipes. It certainly could have all run out with final link breaking off of chain locker wall though.
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@notlouisck Pretty easy to see he's a conservative. Either by his command of civics and what it means to have a democratic society or by his repudiation of the other legislator who thinks non governmental recommendations should be listened to over the will of the public.
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@kittypurrzog "I did a 20 year stretch in prison and that's why I experience time differently. Please make the appropriate accommodations for me."
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@jessesingal That is the life's work of someone that demands that you use their Dr. title when addressing them.
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@who_shot_jgr Ticino Canton of Switzerland.
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@mysteriouskat All those unnecessary administrators with nothing to do but try and justify their being there.
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@JoshuaPHilll Bright and articulate young woman. Let us all hope that she uses her capabilities for good. It is not always easy to see what is the comparative good and more importantly how best one should comport oneself to see that good realized. I DO wish these kids were a little more well
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@wokal_distance She is making an argument in favor of misinformation while in other clips talking about the need to censor misinformation. She can only be talking about favoring some narratives over others and I'm guessing hers will the ones that make it to NPR.
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@i_zzzzzz @Liamjsm The problem with moving to a new smallish town is, there's always something everyone else there knows that you don't know YET. Usually you're not too pleased when you learn of whatever it is.
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@zerohedge Nearly enough to add another mile to their rail system.
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Tweet media one
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@CaitlinPacific My mom had certain issues with feminism because according to her it meant she "would have to come down off her pedestal". I'm glad she never had to see how far down that has become.
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@NicoleMcMilllon That's the reason I don't watch NBA ball any more. I just can't abide all the traveling and the palming.
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@seanonolennon No idea what's going on there, but whatever it is, if you allow it to go on, you should expect much more of it.
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2 years
@mtaibbi Not "even if", "especially if".
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@elaifresh Asians leave last night's remaining rice on the table overnight. Usually covered by a fly/mosquito screen but sometimes not. They'll eat it with breakfast, cold.
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@KeenanPeachy My daughter has just recently spent $6k dollars on an 8yo large dog whose breed has a 9 year average lifespan. My opinion on the matter didn't gain much traction. But here's the bigger issue that confronts us all:
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@EricRWeinstein What does a prof who teaches Constitutional Law on this campus do when he sees this sig? When he talks to his class? Does he set his students straight or does he keep his head down?
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2 years
@BeijingPalmer @SCOTUSblog The court could overturn Roe and abortions would still be legal in all the jurisdictions lawmakers have made laws making abortion legal. It's not really a Constitutional issue.
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2 years
@mattyglesias I substituted you for Krugman and Friedman for my "person I dislike with bad takes" follow. You've never disappointed in that context.
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@Rothmus "It doesn't mean she wants sex" is not something rapists generally consider.
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@HeidiBriones Jesus, Heidi! I haven't even had my breakfast yet!
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@eigenrobot Didn't know that, never saw it before. How many millenia did that take? It's a rare human that has a survival instinct so strong that it becomes incoded in their DNA. We're probably not going to make it.
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@johnrobb And are they wrong? We've gone from being that "shining city on a hill" to becoming a cautionary tale.
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2 years
@ACLU Instead of being first to defend free speech you are among the last with respect to Salman Rushdie. Disgraceful!
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@Ran_Dumb_Libs That's Got To Be some kind of spoof, right?
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5 months
@GentlemanRascal What's the gratuitous "white people" about? Was that someone's college humanities class project or something?
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@RonanFarrow It happens to everyone in the Phillippines sooner or later.
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@Liamjsm When I was a kid applicants for jobs at the State Patrol had to be 6' tall and possess a "military bearing". That prevented a lot of "I was in fear for my life" shootings of suspects.
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@FreeMars2020 @EricAbbenante Well, yeah. But if I had to go to jail this seems like something worth going to jail for.
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@Partisan_O Another distinction being that only one of these people will be doing the actual fighting and dying in either scenario.
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@realEstateTrent My realtor says current rates are historically pretty good and you'll be happy you bought now should they go up and you can always refi should they go down.
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@S_U_Network So many. Tough one. Going to go with "float like a butterfly sting like a bee"
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2 years
@angrybklynmom Not so much spying as buying influence. That is pervasive across all Western governments.
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@RealJamesWoods I'm one of the thumbs up guys. That's my way of telling you that is the limit of the engagement I want to have with you. I'm sure others feel the same and I guess I'm going to have to be the one to tell you.
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@FreeBlckThought They acused him of being a conservative as if it were akin to being a child molester. The audience heard him and that's what counts. It was funny to see the hosts disturbed by the audience applaus to Coleman's message.
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2 years
@FreeBlckThought "Nuclear War is coming. Are you moisturizing enough"
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@wil_da_beast630 I love the irony of Norway being an example of a Socialism paradise. Used to be the poorest contry in Europe till they struck oil. They owe everything to oil but the same people who are climate change extremists hold Norway up as a shining example of what we should aspire to.
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@JessicaVT76 @sullydish In Thailand, where transgenderism is much more prevalent than it is here in America, though for different reasons, the society created a "third gender" classification. It works and no one seems hellbent on changing the nature of reality and shoving it down people's throats.
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@clairlemon @MsMelChen It's bigger than that. Mentally ill people living in the streets have access to free healthcare. They need halfway houses for those who will accept treatment and sad as it is to say some institutionalization until they can be released to halfway houses and ultimately self care.
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@DanRegan_Comedy Even bank tellers mess it up. I will stand at the teller window as long as it takes to get it sorted correctly.
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2 years
@marmavandam @realchrisrufo Hopefully it's to encourage ethical teachers to renounce these methods. There are not many dissenters within the teaching ranks currently. Just teachers who leave the profession.
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@AlexisMcGee @drvolts This is the way. Used to be way easier when the Edmunds Guide told you exactly what the dealer paid for every car and their cost for trim packages and extras. You add a $1,000 bucks to it and the get on the phone and find it. Edmunds even told you what they got kicked back from
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@davidminpdx Is this one of those "tell me you've never been to California without telling me you've never been to California" tweets?
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@weirdlilguys It may be the human that's weird in this case.
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@lowiqmoron The pharmacist knows about 10 times more about pharmacology than the physician who prescribed you the pills. The pharmacist will also know if your prescription presents a chance of a risky interaction with other meds you may be taking.
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@lukerosiak @BullyMaus @realDailyWire Wow! We're pretty far down the rabbit hole now. I could have been that guy, but maybe they'd of had to shoot me.
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@redsteeze Welcome to the matriarchy where all good judgement is replaced by bad policy.
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@EsotericCD @BullyMaus So the answer was bi-polar after all.
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@Rothmus Werner Von Braun is laughing hysterically in his grave.
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@IAPonomarenko @BullyMaus The Spanish Civil War had 10's of thousands foreign recruits. Maybe the invasion of Ukraine will strike a similar chord around the World.
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@TheSK2023 @eigenrobot Maybe a large crocodile if they find themselves at a watering hole.
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@pmarca GIGO was the first concept I was ever taught in a BASIC class 45 years ago. Some things never change.
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Crows are cool. Don't know why they get such a bad rap.
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@NellieBowles @ShellenbergerMD The sweet spot is passing out enough drugs so the population is docile but not so much that they OD and you lose the grant money. El Chapo should give a TED talk on this.
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@ThatsHimAintIt @WandBSports @HEREFORAMC1 @ChrisJBakke Are you the guy that takes the picture of the expansive bathroom that turns out to be 6 sq. ft?
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@HeidiBriones All that stuff is just a roundabout way of justifying why a husband and wife making $800k/yr don't eed their taxes raised. They're considered "middle class".
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@BrookeJenkinsSF @SFDAOffice That was not an "exercise of free speech". Free speech doesn't hold it's audience captive.
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@AliceFromQueens I don't think it serves them well to insinuate everyone who is considering voting for the other party is a fascist. It's a poor strategy IMO and will likely lead to preference falsification in polling and surprises on election night.
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@Jacob__Siegel Yeah, there's a whole parasitical network that surrounds the "homeless". A whole lot of money being skimmed off to keep people in tents till they OD.
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@ScottAdamsSays I'll believe it's real when Don Lemon and Jim Acosta are gone.
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@anguillaman2 @SethAbramson No. He has the blood of millions on his hands.
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@nntaleb @mtaibbi Russiagate and Russian intervention aren't the same thing. Russiagate is BS. Russian intervention is their standard mode of operations
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@TheAnnaGat In America everything's about money. They're working an angle until a new more profitable angle presents itself. Nobody rational believes any of this woke bullshit but there's money to be made in it now, Same as Crypto or NFTs.
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@GeorgeGammon @joerogan Joe Rogan knows all this already. He went out of way to play devil's advocate in this interview.
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@horatioalgorthm Quite a feat driving across Texas in a day much less having time to stop and talk to folks.
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@politicalmath Remember a couple of years ago we were in a recession but everyone agreed to not call it a recession because it was temporary? Have you noticed that almost every single economic metric is revised downward the following month when no one's paying attention anymore? That's why.
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@abettertake I would not have been insistent on a hug as the visiting uncle was but I also would have stood up and started packing about 30 seconds into the therapy addled father's lecture.
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@user351513 @pitdesi @dieworkwear My sister was thinking of moving to NYC and was looking at condos. Beautiful units $250k-$300k, She couldn't believe it! I told her to check the HOA dues. Many of the units she was looking at had $8k/mo HOA fees.
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@Acion_Next Remedial courses should not even be offered in universities. There's no reason to spend $500/credit hour for a junior high school class. They should be offered in Community Colleges however as so many people there find themselves in career transition. And CC should be free.
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@sullydish @FirmScwaz @TShampling @MattWalshBlog I'm happy you came around Andrew. I respected the fact that you were hesitant to believe this could be so pervasive based on the act that not EVERY teacher engages in this sort of behavior but the fact remains this is becoming policy now.
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@LamboDreaming @wil_da_beast630 @DrIbram The core premise of his brand of anti-racism is that it pays very very well. If that ever changes maybe he will pivot to another brand that pays equally well.
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@clairlemon The difference with the woke mobs and the anti vax mandate mobs is that the one depends on lies and power to push their agenda. The other uncovers other's lies and had virtually no power against establishment narratives, until now. Now the estblsmt. narratives are falling apart.
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@matthewstoller I think he drained the SPR mainly to goose GDP, same as all the funding for war.
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@gimli281164 @RetroTechNoir I did study Admiralty Law. The ship remains the property of the owner if the owner pursues a remedy and states as much. That doesn't mean they won't incur a debt to independent salvagers that pursue a remedy first. The ship's operators may or may not be the ship's owners.
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@MikeJackBauer @ThatEricAlper In the liner notes to Biograph, Dylan said: “I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way. Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way.”
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@AvdullahYousef @CityBureaucrat Widows, divorcees, parents helping, etc.
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@razibkhan Because we sent our daughters to university. My daughters reported back that the first 5-10 minutes of every 50 minute class was the prof going off on a political rant. And neither one was in the humanities where I expect it would be worse.
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@MsMelChen Two of the 20th century's greatest monarchs:
Tweet media one
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@steveislegend @KILLTOPARTY She's providing an excellent record for when he seeks custody of the child.
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@bariweiss @jaketapper Why does it always take these media outlets years before they get around to talking about something everybody else already knows?
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@lwoodhouse I was born in the 50's. Educated in the 60's and 70's. I don't recall us learning about it in elementary school but it was certainly featured in both junior high and high school curriculum of that time.
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1 year
@EastsideBodega_ That girl's a keeper but don't get on her bad side.
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2 years
I gotta say. Speaking as a lifelong Democrat, the people residing in the red states are much, MUCH kinder than the blue state people I interact with frequently. Not to mention more competent at practically everything.
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@unusual_whales What does that even mean if not taking networth into consideration? Some people have a $400k mortgage and $500k in their retirement account. Others are debt free and maybe $200k in retirement acct.
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@RichardHanania You don't seem to understand the difference between knowledge and wisdom. I would say non seniors are perhaps marginally more knoledgeable thann seniors. mstly in areas of little consequence. But there's a dearth of wisdom in younger generations. You are a good example of that.
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@ChefGruel America is the friend that owes you money and sends you pictures of their Hawaiian vacation.
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@MerissaHansen17 Nothing heroic about finally admitting something that everybody already knows.
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@W96Emily Because some things have to work every time.
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3 years
@RealJamesWoods The cable guy wears rubber gloves when he comes by, but not the smallpox handler? Weird.
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@ZaidJilani @McClellanOsc Their dads know who he is.
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