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Home, is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there. I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place.
Joined December 2010
Ezra seems like a smart guy, did he like nod off halfway through posting that? is leftism like a brain disorder where you can’t follow your own thoughts from one sentence to the next? what happened there?
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what a perfect tweet. “Trump lies and says Democrats did [thing] but a leading Democrat is proud Democrats did [thing]”
Trump often lies about Democrats giving healthcare to undocumented immigrants. In California, Newsom actually did it. And defends it. "I'm proud of that. I believe in universal health care." But, he says, "we failed on the border. We need to own up to that."
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We think AI is the bottleneck. Ashfaq Munshi says the real choke points are underneath it — wasted GPUs, heat, power, and an aging grid.
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it deters that guy 100% so folk like the innocence project or whomever can’t spend the rest of his life conspiring to get him out of jail
Is there anyone who actually believes the death penalty works as a deterrent and has the evidence to back it up? I am not against the death penalty but this seems like bullshit to me.
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ladies and gentlemen: they got him. (did anyone claim Trump didn’t call some countries shithole countries? I remember discussion about that being inappropriate but true or true and wtf cared if it’s appropriate. and of course on the other side — Jake’s side — we had the “Haiti
Trump last night acknowledged what he and his supporters denied in 2018: that he called African countries “shithole” countries.
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really excited to see the next entry in the Heat cinematic universe! #makenewthings
Michael Mann’s Heat 2 is expected to begin filming in August, producer Jerry Bruckheimer confirmed. Dion Beebe, known for his work on Collateral, will serve as cinematographer. Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale are the reported leads, with additional rumored casting that
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A Redditor tested 312 people to see if they could distinguish AI-generated photos from real ones. Even with a non-SotA AI model, people barely did better than chance. The age of photographic evidence is about to be over.
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i also never really ever "talked down" with my kids. i talk to them like i would anyone -- though i will stop to ask if they know some words. and even there i expect them to take a stab at defining it before i tell them.
My vocabulary level when speaking to my 2yo and 5yo children is somewhere around “smart undergraduate”.
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agree. saw people defending this and had the same thought that this is pretty indefensible. unless he had people maybe blocking traffic but then you've got a different set of issues. and while i agree our system clearly lets criminally violent people off way too easily, we've
He's not a criminal. He's just <checks notes> riding a 200 lb machine with big lug off road tires on groomed and maintained lawns and jumping over roads where he might go through a minivan windshield and kill a mother and her children
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fascinating exchange. so thought provoking. 1) Megan is correct on this point and Phillip -- who i admire as a thinker -- is simply wrong in his pro-China diatribe. (and there are other examples of Chinese global expansionism aside from the "exporting its censorship" one Megan
China has used every leverage point at its disposal to export its domestic censorship and propaganda regime to the west
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so Megan McArdle has a new podcast. which is exciting. i just watched the first episode featuring Neal Stephenson who i have not read much in years but loved back in the day. and it was a good episode. honesty compels me, though, to say that i followed that by watching the
Hey, y’all, I’ve launched a podcast called “Reasonably Optimistic “ at the Washington Post. First guest is Neal Stephenson, talking science fiction, prediction, normies vs nerds, and AI. Please check it out on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
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When people fear medical bills more than medical problems, they make absurd trade-offs. Like swapping the ambulance ride for their buddy’s hatchback. Take care of your health tax free by opening an HSA at HSA Bank. Have a Bronze healthcare plan? You’re now HSA eligible.
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this is funny and true but also -- despite the name -- "rare earths" are not actually all that rare. what they are is difficult and incredibly dirty to extract and process into usability and the US for a variety of reasons decided years ago that we were fine getting out of that
Strongest argument that America is God’s favored nation is that we have a habit of falling ass-backwards into vast supplies of whatever thing we happen to need
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it is amazing: Canada is literally committing suicide in every way it is possible for a country to do so. 1) here they decided that Canadians, perhaps the nicest people on earth, were actually secretly genocidal monsters. they decided this with no evidence and then looked for
While Canada’s residential school era has become a key piece of our national identity, there has been an eruption of late of what some academics call denialism. That eruption & efforts to counter it, is the focus of the new episode of APTN Investigates: https://t.co/Lhy1bSGEff
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same.
I always wear an undershirt when I go out in public to have a fight loudly with my wife.
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remarkable how literally every day a new anonymous source from a different institution or country or both reaches out to Candace with even more shocking details about all of this
JUST IN: Candace Owens now claims she has proof the U.S. Military was involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Owens says she received an email from “a man in the military” which she claims she received last night. “It feels like today will be the day that the government can
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true but also things that *Jack Nicholson* can rock may not be quite as attainable for *literally anyone else*
I think we’ve gone too far on bald. When you watch media from the 90s on back you realize what a world of male pattern baldness haircuts people used to rock and they were honestly fine.
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"the lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time"
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Britain is “no longer capable” of running a nuclear submarine programme after “catastrophic” failures pushed it to the brink, an ex-Navy chief has said. Rear Admiral Philip Mathias said the “silent service” was highly unlikely to recover:
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"three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead"
can a “no shoes in the house” person and a “wears shoes indoors” person actually work as a couple?
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final link to Oren Cass's outfit American Compass's original dive into the unsavory predatory mess that we have allowed the financial sector to metastasize into in recent decades: https://t.co/cEt3TuHJsz
americancompass.org
Coin-Flip Capitalism aims to help policymakers and the public better understand how the hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital industries function, what social and economic value they create...
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