Will Truman
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Stay-at-home Dad. West Virginia by way of MT-WA-ATX-ID-HTX Editor-in-Chief of @ordinarytimemag . Got something to say? My DMs are open.
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Mom missed an emergency call from my aunt because she doesn't answer the phone because of scam callers because we ceded out critical communication infrastructure to bad actors because everybody just kind of decided this is okay.
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Now she needs to call all of her siblings-in-law, each of whom probably won't answer because they won't answer the phone because of scam callers, and on and on it will go...
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My wife doesn't understand why I changed my phone number again due to spam texts and calls. It honestly wasn't that I was getting spam texts and calls as much as it was because I was missing legitimate calls and texts because I stopped assuming they were legitimate.
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This person took it to the next level.
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Trump wasn't even inclined to save his vice president.
President Donald Trump would have gotten every single American, interpreter, and piece of equipment out of Afghanistan. The man understood optics. The media's kid glove treatment of Biden enabled this disaster.
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When I saw Jennifer Connelly's name trending, I didn't think she was dead... but I definitely didn't think it would track back to "Back in the 90's she was considered mid."
My friends, I was there. She was not.
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For those of you having difficulty understand why people don't trust the vaccine, let me shed some light on the matter. A thread:
Imagine you're a normal person, and you come back from your men's rights group meeting and you log on to a gaming review website and 1/
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Hey that tweet looks interest-
[Auto-refresh]
And now it is completely lost to the sands of time.
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@hassankhan
What's funny is that a lot of employers with these copious job skill requirements and unforgiving approach to resumes will then turn around and hire a guy who knows a guy.
And it works out fine!
But doesn't cause any reconsideration of the process generally.
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In modern history I don't believe there has been, and hopefully there never will be, a stronger argument against expertise than nutrition.
High fat intake: longer life, no greater risk of cardiovascular disease. High carb intake: shorter life (!)
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To jobboards: We only consider candidates with masters degrees and 10 years experience doing this exact job in our precise industry.
To existing staff: We're looking for someone to run some simple test scripts for our banking software division. If you know anyone let us know.
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Does anyone else thing Wordle guy got out just in time? Maybe a couple months early but that's way better than a couple months late.
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@annehelen
Letting me time shift by an hour, reducing my round trip commute from 3 hours to 2.
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One of the hills that I will die on is that the citizenry did not fail some marshmallow test as a primary contributor to our failure, but that we have been failed by leadership across the board.
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The Right: The left is grooming young kids sexually because they're perverts!
The Left: Is it supposed to be okay for a 30 year old to sleep with a 25 year old if she's still getting carded because she looks like she's 19? I don't think it's okay.
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So imagine you're this guy. Just for a minute. Would you take the vaccine?
That's what I thought /fin
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Covid Cases on 9/8:
USA: 55,692
Mars: 0
How did they do it?
* Aggressive social distancing
* No one out without masks
* Limiting size of indoor crowds
* No large gatherings of events
* Being an uninhabitable planet
Name one reason that couldn't have been us.
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In ADDITION to denying the efficacy of the miracle drug ivermectin, the so-called medical experts do nothing but take a dump on the Alex Jones concoction you've been taking that have been helping you bulk up.
Yet we're supposed to believe them when 34/
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This is the most supervillain picture of a world leader I have ever seen and that includes that picture of a bunch of world leaders holding a glowing orb.
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I stand by my prediction that Facebook is the AOL of this generation. If it's around at all in 20 years, it'll be as a shell of current self in the public consciousness.
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Yeah that's the part that looks bad here for sure.
In
@marthamaccallum
interview, Raffensberger sounded like he released recording of Trump interview as part of grudge against David Perdue. Shifty, evasive about circumstances. Timing questionable. A very bad look.
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Ladies and gentlemen we have found our nominee and his name is Tim Kaine.
WISCONSIN
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Donald Trump 34%
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Donald Trump 37%
OHIO
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@BaldwinWallace
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Because the applesauce has those rib things, you are invariably left with applesauce in the container that you can't get out!
Corporate America is stealing your applesauce@!@! You simply can't trust them or their drugs. 88/
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The same media reporting on the vaccine is the one that lets you sign up for their paper online but to cancel you have to CALL AND TALK TO SOMEBODY.
How is that trustworthy?! 71/
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Can't prove it, but one thing tonight suggests to me is that the Comey factor was overstated in 2016 and that Trump's support probably was what it was.
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If I were looking for an example of the virtues of privacy laws I would choose one that didn't involve more death on the privacy side.
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On the one hand Roe v Wade. On the other hand rumors of a bad labor sec nomination.
If you're on the left, how do you decide?!
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My prediction remains:
"Step aside, Roy."
"No."
"Step aside, Roy."
"No."
"Step aside, Roy."
"No."
"Okay. Here's some campaign money."
Hey Republicans: Remember the feeling when Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's seat in MA? It's about to happen in reverse in AL. The allegations vs Moore are serious. The right thing is for him to step aside.
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and Brie Larson wasn't even any good. She was stiff as a board. The whole movie was a feminist lecture. Count me out. But as soon as you say you don't care for the movie and call the lead actress an entitled bitch people call you a sexist. 166/
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This is like saying that Arizona must fight to preserve desert.
Seattle must preserve single-family neighborhoods, one of its most precious assets.
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@ScottAVancil
This is why
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Remember two weeks to flatten the curve? Yeah that was a big lie. I mean, it was Trump who said it but the deep state made him. We can't trust a government that forces honorable presidents to say things they know aren't true. 112/
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In the last twenty years ago criticizing the vapidity of John Lennon's Imagine has gone from one of those cranky quasi-contrarian anti-social rightwing things to a broadly accepted even if not fully agreed upon position
That, my friends, is what cultural progress looks like.
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Martin Van Buren has aged remarkably well. What a good get for CNN.
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And schools! Let's talk about schools! They're nothing but CRT factories and also the government kept them closed FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR! Can you believe it?
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And so the more they want you to take the vaccine, the more reluctant you get. If they would just respect your decision not to get the vaccine and never talk to you about it or talk about how they got the vaccine or show any sign of taking Covid seriously at all, then you'd 182/
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I love red meat but I would take the billions please offer me the billions.
If Bill Gates offered me his entire fortune, I would not agree to this. No amount of money would be worth going a lifetime without actual red meat.
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The human genome project was less than 20 years ago.
The world has seen absolutely no meaningful technological progress in my lifetime - all we've had are faster and smaller computers, bigger networks, slightly more efficient machines and medicines. No true breakthroughs, no world-changing discoveries.
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I hope he didn't write anything bad when he was sixteen.
This man is a hero. Twitter please figure out who this guy is so we can reward him.
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This is further proof that being a former president is the coolest job in the world.
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series for Netflix, potentially including scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and features.
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Is there a general outraged-at-the-police vibe or is that mostly just indicative of who I choose to follow?
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Argument: People didn't actually used to look older it's mostly just a function of prevailing styles at the time and the mental associations we make with chronology and age.
Counterargument:
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while the politicians who are supposed to be taking this seriously instead fly on planes without masks. Those Hollywood starlets telling people to be careful are throwing parties and having sex. A lot of sex, probably. Which they wouldn't do if they took the virsu seriously. 213/
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"Mitt Romney as Batman" is one of my test images for various style prompts and I love how frequently they put a suit collar on Mitt's Batman suit.
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@ABCwillresist
My current phone number is a Delaware area code. I've never lived in Delaware and don't know anyone in Delaware. The entire point was to give me an area code to ignore.
OTOH Mom doesn't take my calls because she doesn't know anyone in Delaware.
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This story makes Rufo look bad but it sheds light on something that makes Harvard look worse.
Please make sure everyone knows Chris Rufo — who instigated the racist culture war against former Harvard President Claudine Gay — LIED ABOUT HAVING A MASTER’S DEGREE FROM HARVARD.
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@Flippinsushi
A non-trivial number of people are saying the aggravation of spam calls is the receivers' fault for answering the phone, and others saying missed calls are the receivers' fault because they don't just answer anyway.
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You could ask people what percent of Americans are in the 1% and they would say 15%.
Honestly, my takeaway from this is less that people have terrible perception (though that’s part of it) and more that a lot of them genuinely do not comprehend what a percentage actually means
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So I guess this is my Soundcloud moment, except I don't have a Soundcloud. I am, however, the editor-in-chief of the
@ordinarytimemag
website. Stop by and read for some great commentary and one of the best online communities around.
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This sounds like peak economics and all of that, but price reliability has economic utility. I'm not going to go into a Wendy's if there's a chance a burger is $2 and a chance it's $8.
Wendy’s planning Uber-style ‘surge pricing’ where burger prices fluctuate based on demand
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Stop trying to get me to like Donald Trump it's not going to work.
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@HermanZeGerman
I did that for a long time, but in recent years that has lead to too many calls being missed. So now I have to screen manually.
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My favorite fact checks are the ones like "We rate the claim 'alligators eat dogs' as 'Mostly False' because alligators eat dogs because the amphibians need food to survive."
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Apparently this is an issue if there is an incident on a cruise ship that last stopped on US shores. There's no medical emergency exception to this. (Fortunately they worked it out and my aunt will recover.)
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This would be a win all around.
This may not be a popular opinion but couldn’t D’s and R’s compromise on voter ID by requiring it, but making ID’s free and very easy to get? Add in mandatory 2 weeks of early voting including weekends and after business hours?
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Almost every defense I hear where it comes down to "If we'd been straight with the people they would not have responded correctly" has been something that has backfired.
Fauci said US government held off promoting face masks because it knew shortages were so bad that even doctors couldn't get enough.
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Ahh yes, the well-known grift of repelling an invading foreign army.
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People who are required by their employer to be at a particular place at a particular time should be paid for the time they are there.
Boarding for flight attendants, security checks for warehouse workers, and so on.
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If Roy Moore isn't on the other side of your line, you probably don't have a line.
The question of when to draw the line on a bad legislator in your caucus isn't easy. I was for dumping Ted Stevens. That gave us Obamacare.
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From
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Every time you read a story about the royal family from ABC remember they killed a pedophilia story to get it and the only regret they have is someone leaked a tape saying so.
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will spend this Christmas, their first as parents to son Archie, apart from the rest of the royal family.
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So three views of mine changed by the Pandemic:
1) We need universal banking
2) While I believe it an inevitability, we need to accelerate universal broadband (and my definition of "broadband" has gone up)
3) School boards are bad actually.
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A looooot of people walked right in to this one.
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People overestimate the reasonableness of people they do not regularly get into disagreements with.
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Tough talk from someone who melts down after wearing a mask for 45 minutes.
No, I don't believe that it is. Despair is not a medical condition. Neither is anxiety, anger, fear, etc. All of these are experiences natural and universal to the human condition.
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God bless those who are going out there and working through this, but attaching moral value to the essential/nonessential distinction is dumb class-populist claptrap.
Food delivery drives are categorized as essential and waitstaff not. The former aren't better than the latter.
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This is what happens when you get in the car, go to the store, buy nothing but sh*t, then come home and put it in your fridge.
🚨 "We're eating sh*t for breakfast, lunch and dinner right now," a McCarthy aide told
@axios
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@AlexGodofsky
Someone on here pointed out that increased sensitivity towards them have essentially resulted in their erasure from the national consciousness.
I believe the sensitivity is a very good impulse! But I've been thinking about that ever since.
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Half of Crank's tweets are like "Eating glue is bad but chicken when raw can give you ecoli I'm not saying eating glue is good but it won't give you ecoli."
Unfortunately, the candidate I voted for in 2016 - Evan McMullin - is every bit as embarrassing as Mandel, & for the same reasons.
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Of course, the worst degrees aren't the abstract humanities. It's the Fake Vocational. Majors that promise career paths the jobs that don't exist it don't need the degree.
@cwood881
@trumwill
@FirstClassDuck
Yeah, I think college is good, and we probably have roughly the right ~ of people going, but some of the degrees are a bit grifty...
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I would pay $1 to be here but I would not pay $1 to be here only with the fraction of users willing to pay $1 to be here.
Literally no one on this planet that uses twitter on a daily basis can rationally believe it’s not worth $1/month to them. This person does not exist, except in the middle of the bell curve meme.
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Screaming passengers is sort of implied by the initial premise here.
Man dies mid-flight when 'litres of blood' shoot out of his nose and mouth in front of screaming passengers
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Without news stories on gas prices who would even notice the price of a short term inelastic commodity purchased regularly that adds up to three figures nobthly?
GAS PRICES DON'T SWING ELECTIONS
ENDLESS NEWS STORIES ABOUT GAS PRICES SWING ELECTIONS
this is not rocket science
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There was a lot going on about weight at the time. Like being a normal weight now is a bigger premium, but that's an out-of-Hollywood thing. In Hollywood, normal weight was more often considered fat. That was not actually good (still not great, but improved).
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Setting aside questions of freedom and religion and all of that. Parking lot church services are an example of people trying to make this all work. If you want shelter-in-place to work, you have to meet such people half way. Especially when they're meeting the basic requirements.
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Liberals are largely the people I hated in college. Conservatives are the people I hated in high school. Trumpists are middle school.
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Elizabeth Warren is too rich, AOC is (apocryphally) too poor. What is the goldilox amount of wealth a woman (or man) can have to have the standing to be an opponent of inequality?
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I was actually wondering how he was going to stay in character while making sure to be the side of the slob.
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One thing that I don't have in common with Hillary Clinton, Matt Yglesias, and Jon Chait is that I never tried to increase Trump's viability as a candidate at any point in the 2016 cycle.
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