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@dmesg

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Food, early baroque lit and music, and audio processing, in no particular order.

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@benegotherit As a 13-year-old I came in bleeding from the head and my mom asked what happened. I said my friend hit me in the head with a rock. She asked what we had been doing. I said throwing rocks at each other's heads. I'm frankly amazed the Y chromosome has lasted as long as it has.
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@first_merch @Brizzletrips I have never in my life had anyone "push" drugs on me (who are these people who are supposed to be giving out free drugs?) but pushers of alcohol are *everywhere* and get really mad if you don't have a "reason" for not drinking that satisfies them.
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@dmesg
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@Arianedevogue Welp. There goes that. If you think they aren't coming for contraceptives next, you're too gullible to be allowed outside unchaperoned.
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@Immawarewolfe @JeremyMcLellan I bet you also think punching the elevator button repeatedly makes it show up faster?
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@Madame_Ennui The sad sack passport bros in SE Asia who believed her when she said "for tax reasons the house will need to just be in my name" and are now broke and looking for airfare back to the US are almost pitiable. But not quite.
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@unusual_whales He said he cut the annual deficit, not the aggregate debt, and this is true. A finance account should really understand the difference.
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@mangiotto My favorite fan theory about the movie is that the rest of the world is actually just fine and the UK is having a decades-long nutty.
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@EndWokeness "The environment" doesn't mean "the presence of plants". This is a much more energy efficient way to live than a bunch of SFHs and it's not even close.
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@_ZacharyMiller lol those states can't even pay their own bills without federal funding. It would be a third word country.
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@medevoto @danielleiat @clairewillett And then dudes on Twitter will point to those literal proximate causes of the gender pay gap and use them to argue that the gap doesn't exist.
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@nikicaga With Kissinger finally gone Chomsky now has to support the Khmer Rouge all by himself.
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@BradleyAllanD @pmarca What's weird is that Office Space and the Matrix are at heart the same movie: a computer programmer experiences an altered state of consciousness that leads him to destroy the system he works in. Even Lundburgh and Agent Smith kind of talk alike.
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@BrandonLBradfor @resistredaction There's a whole aisle of 7-11 that people who have never been out of doors probably don't notice. Prepaid mobile, prepaid debit card, prepaid mailbox, check cashing ID card. The hardest working people you have ever met spend *years* in that aisle getting back on the grid.
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@CougarSpider His defense in NY was that he shot him in NJ and his defense in NJ was that he died in NY and they both bought it. Ballsy.
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@ScrewballDetctr This map literally makes the opposite of your point, doesn't it?
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@bramobin I didn't realize until I lived there that a country could simultaneously be Catholic chauvinists and anti-clerical, but they managed to.
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@BrandonLBradfor @resistredaction Ding ding ding. And remember that banks will now charge a fee for cashing a check drawn *on that bank*. It's often actually more than the skeezy "checks cashed" storefronts, but can be your only choice for a personal check.
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@fakegreekgrill The religious right stopped going to church over the past decade. It's weird and the only person I've seen talking about it is Tim Carney at the Examiner, but the numbers are absolutely staggering.
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@TimBroderick20 @Imposter_Edits Yeah it's funny how none of these people cared when Joshua Bell was handed a 300-year-old Stradivarius. They're just scared the big black woman is going to break a flute.
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@MattZeitlin Remember that in 2022 the best idea we have for getting into orbit is still strapping stuff to a bomb and setting it off.
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@visakanv 9199999999 is both prime and a valid phone number under the North American Numbering Plan and it really looks like it should be neither.
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@Heritage The US has had a plan since the invasion started: Russia leaves Ukraine and the war ends immediately. Why not pressure Putin to accept that offer?
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@maiamindel @UrsulaV I stayed at a hotel in Florence once and the guy at the desk said "It's been in the family since 1100 AD". Still think about that sometimes.
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@vituperativeerb @revhowardarson @fakegreekgrill Bingo. The single biggest predictor of Trump support among white voters is "used to attend church weekly and no longer does". That's stronger than any economic or regional signal.
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@bperez1776 @ObsessedTeach How do you become a person who tweets something like this in response to something like that? Like, genuinely, what's the life path that leads here?
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@FiveTimesAugust Awww is somebody triggered and in need of a safe space? You guys really really need to toughen up.
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@ruby_darling98 Duolingo is crowdsourced, so that means Klingon speakers are more willing to do free labor for a for-profit company than Tagalog speakers are.
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@IDoTheThinking We will never be the kind of country that can have universal healthcare until we're the kind of country where customers at Aldi don't complain that the cashier is sitting. We can pass whatever laws we want, but it won't happen until people stop being trash.
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@maraleia @AngryBlackLady "Stop fear mongering" people would say. I kept wondering why they *weren't* afraid.
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@mattyglesias "A Serbian terrorist assassinated an Austrian prince so Germany invaded Belgium" manages to get across, for the most part.
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@LegoRacers2 @steamyporkbuns Sri Lanka is crawling with disappointed white backpackers expecting Zen and getting highly-politicized Theravada
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@dray_2009 @matias_kaplan Oh my sweet summer child. Try to publish results adverse to your lab's funder some time.
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@RadioFreeTom @ericowensdc Interesting how nobody glorifies switchboard work, or calls for bringing back typing pools.
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@shift_in2_turbo They did, it's why almost nothing passed during Trump's term except a tax bill, specifically because that only requires 50.
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@bengrossbg Sisters, somehow still managed to produce a baby out of wedlock with Virginia. His marriage to Minnie was so short that Wanetta's entire pregnancy with his next child happened over the course of it, and he could marry Wanetta in time for the birth. The South, man.
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@redsteeze Wait until you learn about this
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@dmalcolmcarson @JoelBlunt8 @bryan_caplan "It's an objectively large amount of money, but it's all gone when I spend it on nice things!" remains such a stupid take
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@BrandonLBradfor The idea of your house being an investment. Because that means housing has to rise in value faster than inflation (otherwise it's an awful investment). But that means your kids can't afford to live anywhere.
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@CyrilleViossat @femmesforchrist @LemieuxLGM It's pretty clearly a riff on Matzneff and Foucault. This isn't a very difficult joke to get.
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@GadzooksB I have terrible news for you about the groundwater in countries where the state owns the factories
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@michaelgeller @BobRansford @neil21 Thanks for implying that those of us who live in tall buildings destroy nice neighborhoods! I have no idea why people call you a bunch of out of touch elitists!
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@IRHotTakes 2nd-largest overseas military footprint after the US. They actually are what the UK pretends it still is.
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@meanunclejack If "the guy about to deliberately set himself on fire" shouldn't be involuntarily hospitalized who should?
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@ChadNotChud The Iliad opens with the Olympian gods going to a party in Ethiopia because it's a better scene than Greece and Anatolia.
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@Habiboooo4 @MarinaMedvin Because nobody is forced to be a nun, they can stop being a nun if they want to, and there's no police force that beats them to death if they take their habit off. (Also a whole lot of orders don't wear habits anymore)
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@PunishedLink They also call themselves "working class" but own two businesses and a boat
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@roddreher @conor64 Literally a real estate heir. Sorry, Rod, that's as ruling class as you get.
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@dwaldenwrites I honestly think the entire young adult population self-diagnosing with ADHD based on online videos is probably not a good thing.
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@vanillaopinions The part where they want to end rich neighborhoods' ability to segregate the poor away from them through zoning
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@Timcast A dreary hellscape of identical SFHs on cul-de-sacs?
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@MatthewDownhour @CryptoKaleo @BrickOverton The demo devices don't even have GSM antennas or full iOS installs or batteries. They're colorful paperweights.
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@existentialcoms The whole setup ignores how most theft actually works. "I need this and can't afford it" doesn't really explain most theft; "I'm strong and the victim is weak" does, particularly wage theft (the largest theft category there is). But even shoplifting is mostly UMC people.
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@_BarringtonII Guy who thinks Ukraine has gotten 20% of Federal revenues over the past 10 months
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@redsteeze I admit it's an odd painting for a Senatorial office but it's pretty clearly of three ice climbers attempting a traverse with the last one holding a belay. It's a bit dangerous but sometimes it's the only way to go forward
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@worsematt Any Eurasian food that contains potato, tomato, or chili peppers
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There should be a journalistic award for headlines
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Johnny Depp says ‘no one safe’ from cancel culture as he accepts lifetime achievement award
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@dinahashem_ Trump cut off all aid to the Palestinians and Biden restored it, but go on.
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@kduggan16 You guys had to pilot dumpsters?
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@baegislash @GadzooksB (Checks his old copy of Marx) Nope, not capitalism. You might want to read up on the theory there.
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@Karl_Was_Right Not really. The obsession with Israel isn't universal among Islamist militants -- Central and South Asian Islamists don't particularly care for the most part, but have a long series of grievances with Russia.
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@MirekIGG @enteredgyname1 Right but you have arrows moving not along major roads and railroads, which means you don't know what the hell you're doing
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@AvengerResister I mean, yes. And if Russia is still off the financial grid in November it's going to be a huge problem for the GOP
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@AlecStapp Fewer than two thirds of Vietnamese teens attend high school to begin with, and you have to attend high school to take the tests. Lots of countries do that trick.
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@walkabilityfan I'd love a UK-style walkable village: cluster of maybe a few hundred homes in walking distance of a central district with retail and services and some public space, but self-sufficient-ish; you don't *need* to leave the town.
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@reece_brah @jzux Jesus no. That sounds miserable.
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@nextdoorsv Man, inheriting a nearly-2-million-dollar house sounds awful. I'll gladly shoulder that burden for her if she can't handle the hardship.
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@LqLana I don't even understand the 4% thing. Are they saying 4% of the population was enslaved? 4% of slaves in the US were born in Africa? 4% of the trans-Atlantic slave trade went to the US?
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@101Darwins Wait you'd be OK with putting people in shipping containers on this lot but not in actual permanent housing?
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@brent_peabody @ECaliberSeven What will be hilarious is if Alaska Republicans not being able to bring themselves to mark Palin as their #2 choice is what decides control of the House.
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@BenedictTown There's one banjo player who plays old bluegrass songs. She tells you the name of the song and the key. She plays it once full speed full screen, then half speed close-up on the left hand, then half speed close-up on the right hand, then plugs her patreon once. Heroic.
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@baegislash @GadzooksB But, fine, take West Bengal in the 1970s: the factories were cooperatives owned and managed by the workers, and they polluted the hell out of the Hooghly
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@cheer_wine @Sunni_Labeouf @JHead1984 I'd probably spend as much time out of the house as possible too
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@baseballcrank You guys have to actually connect Joe Biden to some kind of crime before this will work, though.
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@AmiriKing @Black_Pilled You saw it in the first place because of the algorithm.
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@KarlyKavanagh @CitizenFreePres Is it the people selling luggage that bothers you or the people selling scarves? Is it all capitalism in general that you hate or just something about this particular case?
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@waxyjax @Madame_Ennui The State department used to do PSAs that said "you aren't in better shape or less bald overseas". They should probably go back to something like that.
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@SwannMarcus89 Even the poorest Indian village has a store where the kids top up their mobile phones
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@ArmandDoma Muslim financial law is legit fascinating. Pure arbitrage is not allowed, so there are clearinghouses in Dubai where a stack of gold is moved an inch with a transaction and the arbitrage is marked as "freight", which is allowed.
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@mattyglesias Dude distinguishes between Irish and Italian but considers "Asian" a meaningful word.
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@DavidAstinWalsh Most millennials vastly underestimate how poor most boomers were.
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@katkatkatkat7 @Utwitily We didn't have Pokemon yet. It was Magic: The Gathering. That one game kept more kids off drugs by taking all our money than all the DARE classes put together.
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@ejrosetta @AlexandraErin Not "too", "cistern" is etymologically unrelated to "cis-" as a prefix (it comes from Latin "cista", "box"). "cis-" was introduced more or less as a joke based on the Roman provinces of Transalpine Gaul and Cisalpine Gaul; it's not like the prefix was pulled out of nowhere.
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@_DarKnightYT @JerryTurin @Inhumansoflate1 There have been like 5 referenda and independence never even gets a plurality. Statehood is most popular, followed by status quo, followed by independence.
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@yumtapwater @vituperativeerb @revhowardarson @fakegreekgrill The question is not well-studied, unfortunately. In the surveys that have been done the most common response is they prefer the free time, but that's only a plurality.
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@DeanPreston @damienISgoodmon I mean, since 2 million people are trying to live there and you only have 900K units, yeah: a million new units or so is what you need. Not sure what's so confusing about this.
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@Utskier2 @TheRickWilson Wait until you find out how actors know where to stand
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@JonahDispatch So stop conflating all teaching about historical racism with the niche field of CRT. Easy fix.
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@Transthropology @elonmusk People have this exactly backwards. The right of free speech means Twitter (or any person or company) gets to decide what messages their property (servers in this case) are used to send.
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@egyptianhotgirl Um...They have definitely stopped a non-zero number of shootings.
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@samgee_gamwise Those mean different things though
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@InternetHippo I love that Twitter has already forgotten the Afghanistan war
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@Timcast Having to drive to buy a loaf of bread? Having nowhere you can walk to and have a beer with your neighbors?
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@roddreher @LPJamison @conor64 I don't think people misunderstand you, you're just wrong about who the ruling class is. it's not the humanities professors you find smug and condescending; it's the crass, boorish, tasteless heirs of real estate fortunes.
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@Weedledouble @CenturiiC In Boot Camp we learned the end of that quote as "Excellent. We can shoot in every direction."
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@paulg Can't die of cancer if heart disease kills you first
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@yashar @_AndrewAllen OK but "I'm very angry at you but can't name a specific thing you can do that would make me less angry" isn't a very good position to advocate from, just as a practical question, right? We abstained on a UN vote and are starting visa bans on WB settlers, which are steps (1/)
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@IRHotTakes The production company I worked for pitched a barracks comedy 20 years ago and everybody we talked to said somebody pitches one every couple of years but there's never a market for it because so few people have served in the military.
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@revhowardarson It's also weird that so much energy was spent on the question "Did Trump request Russian assistance for his campaign except for the time he did it on live television?"
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@0xabad1dea You can set appointments in Google Calendar up through 2039, which is one of the most geeky flexes I've ever seen
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