drac
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I went to the Queens Italian restaurant where George Santos has somehow spent almost $50k in campaign funds since 2020, often in installments of exactly $199.99, one cent below what you have send the FEC receipts for. I tried to recreate his favorite meal.
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The owner’s brother, a Santos donor named Rocco, was once charged with human trafficking.
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lonelier than I realised, being an author
The career of an author is a strange beast and it is rarely what most people perceive it to be from the outside or what is happening on the surface. This has been on my mind a lot lately, for very personal reasons. So I guess I'm going to write about that a bit.
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English has many pairs of words where '-th' was once added to make a noun out of the other, like 'width' and 'wide'. My favourites are the ones for which the link may not be obvious now, like: - 'mirth' and 'merry' - 'drought' and 'dry' - 'filth' and 'foul' - 'sloth' and 'slow'
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Chess (.) com is a fascinating company. • Founded in 2005 • Bought the domain for $55,000 • Have 400+ employees (100% remote) • Crossed 100 million members this year • Finished 2022 with ~$100M in revenue Here's the story: https://t.co/kCWqNs4esg
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https://t.co/aOVdR6oiQ8 | what a 40% reduction in funding can do to a metro system
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Cellphone use is banned, but conductors say their work radios have been failing for years.
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you might agree with them, you might think there’s no good options, whatever. But backing politicians to do the right thing in SL just makes you an easily exploitable mug. The PR win from just using the money for food kitchens on the 4th was right there, but they won’t take it
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going to have to pay it all back eventually, but mañana serà otro dia and all that
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have reached the frantic dive-for-the-deck part of a project where I take on technical debt like SL did currency swaps
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🤔 Does paying people for vaccination have negative consequences, such as reducing future vaccination and eroding moral values? No. Our new paper in Nature: “Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences” https://t.co/1iYmtZRdJx 👇🧵
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getting mild whiplash when the local tankie gets off his “we do not interfere in internal affairs” high horse, and rages at a country deciding not to let some people in
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Mike White is so drunk and hilarious. he just called out every famous person in the audience for passing on White Lotus. a true icon lol "I know you all passed! You all passed on this show! So, yes, it's very gratifying to have this moment." #GoldenGlobes
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a very wide range of local life experience on this site, including people who I am convinced have never lived here
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“Everything luxetarian is built on somebody’s back; somebody has to pay,” -
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The Copenhagen chef René Redzepi says fine dining at the highest level, with its grueling hours and intense workplace culture, has hit a breaking point: “It’s unsustainable.”
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