Monica Baumann 🇺🇦
@MonicaBaumann
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Sacto enthusiast, legal nerd, privacy expert, automotive industry, runner, sports fan, intellectual dilettante. Beam Team. Go Pack! She/her.
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I'm doing something new. There are plenty of things I believe on insufficient evidence. The internet loves to tell you when you're an idiot. And I want to find out if there is something to my unsupported views. So I'll be asking AM I AN IDIOT each day with a new topic. Fun!
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One of my favorite bits of science revealing the universality of the human condition is a pair of fossilized footprints in White Sands, NM, that appear to show a toddler walking with an adult, then getting picked up, then put down, then picked up, then put down, on and on.
Has anyone else noticed that having small children is really hard
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Gandolfini. Tate looks like a successful car salesman, while Gandolfini looks like the car dealership owner.
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If you liked this, you can learn more about these footprints from this excellent NOVA program. At least half of the interesting things I ever say come from PBS.
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I am not a Pennsylvania attorney, so take this with a grain of salt, but your state has the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act, which shifts attorney fee's to the company if you win. May want to consider hiring a lawyer, you likely can with no money down.
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@TyegerRS
@davidhogg111
I don't think you understand what the word "technically" means.
(P.S. the US really doesn't have an official language.)
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@MamaOfSunshine
I have a 5mo old, we own a boat, we're very active, we live in a similarly hot climate, and I still can't imagine doing this. I read they left her in a bouncer seat on the boat while they swam. I wouldn't leave my baby alone in a bouncer in a safe room for more than 5 minutes!
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I don't know, guys, but if Whoopi Goldberg being suspended feels like a moral victory to you, I think you've lost the thread.
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@KatzOnEarth
@jordanbpeterson
Isn't it interesting that a man so focused on archetypes doesn't understand the use of one in this line?
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Earnestly, do we not make distinctions like this ALL THE TIME? Some cartoons are for kids, some aren't! Some music is music is good for kids, some isn't! You bring your kids someplaces, sometimes, others not at other times. This is the stuff of normal life.
Who in the world is going to distinguish between racy, stripper adult drag queens" and "fun, costumed non-blue drag queens"? What are you possibly thinking
@sullydish
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This makes no sense. It's a testament to Officer Sicknich that he performed his duty despite sharing some political views with his killers.
Neither Biden nor Pelosi reckoned with an uncomfortable fact: Slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknich was a Trump supporter.
Far from sharing the views of the
#Resistance
, he had written letters to his congressman opposing Trump’s impeachment.
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@pwthornton
@whstancil
The best theory I've seen is they waited until they got Republican cooperation on CHIPS.
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I read Atlas Shrugged in high school and found it exhilarating. I told my favorite teacher about it, and he commented that it is popular with HS students but that I would likely age out of it. It was the most devastating and effective literary critique I've ever experienced.
25 books that should be on every school curriculum but aren't:
Fiction:
1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
4. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
6. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn
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@tbrown6331
@deannagmcdonald
Apparently "narcissism" means pointing out the material consequences of a person's choices.
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@Redistrict
My mom, a lifelong Republican in Ohio turned Never Trumper, texted this to me a little bit ago. She's definitely a higher information voter than most, and had no idea how to spell Kamala (or what btw means).
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@gunsnrosesgirl3
If you like this video, check out this great PBS show about The Bat Man of Mexico, about the tequila bats that make the drink possible. It's about science, culture, and the power of normal people coming together.
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@J3ffMiller
@politicalmath
You're right, it is unfair to make fun of people who accepted easy money from the government for their for profit businesses without having to establish actual economic downturn, and it is cool that those same people are Big Mad a teacher in Des Moines gets $10k loan forgiveness.
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@TyegerRS
@davidhogg111
Bless your heart. I know there isn't a point to arguing with someone who could cure their ignorance with a little Google, so I wish you well in life. It's hard enough getting through the day without willful ignorance, so I have to think you have a hard road ahead.
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I think the least discussed cultural force in America is cynicism. It seems to quietly ruin everything.
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@peterboghossian
You know you're a clear thinker who is open to questioning or challenging your ideas when you make broad ad hominem arguments against people you assume you disagree with.
I put pronouns in my bio after listening to arguments and changing my mind, btw.
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@Jacob_Labendz
@bigsnugga
@Alt52823069
People should embrace it! My dad is super into genealogy, and I'm descended from dirt farmers as far back as the records in little Catholic churches in Europe will go. Now I'm tweeting at strangers with my pocket super computer. I think that's awesome.
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Dueling, unrelated protests in downtown Sacramento today. Trump supporters are still here as with every other weekend since the election. There's also an energetic group protesting Indian farm policy. Anti-Modi group is drowning out Proud Boys.
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I'm glad she is getting something. This video haunts me.
Mesa, Arizona will pay $8 million to the widow of Daniel Shaver, who was unarmed when he was shot while crawling toward police:
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I'm happy to share that I gave birth to James Joseph (JJ) Navari on February 1. We are both doing well and I am overwhelmed with love.
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If I ventured a guess, as neither a conservative nor centrist, the rhetoric described as "woke" has been convincing to a relatively small but significant chunk of Americans, and they disproportionately influence powerful institutions.
Centrists and rightists should be asked how they reconcile
1. "Wokeness" is bad at convincing people
2. "Wokeness" is now culturally dominant
3. Institutions at large have embraced "Wokeness"
Does "wokeness" fail to convince people, or has "wokeness" convinced too many people?
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@salliegoetsch
@vgonlin
It shouldn't be shocking, but it contradicts the narrative so it is.
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@MatBabiak
@GravitysRa1nbow
Zelensky's first language is Russian. He likely pronounces his name the Russian way with people with whom he is familiar.
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@jeffprattthoma1
@vanillaopinions
Crime, walkability, amenities like restaurants and breweries, public art, etc. Crime is it's own thing and started to go down in the 90s, but everything else is the influence of GenX/Millenial hipsters living in cities more than their parents' generation.
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@lizzie__lohan
@dailybravomail
@real_jaris
Grand high hag. 🤣
Ours was the English teacher who ran the theater department.
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@focusfronting
Subtle change, but A Memory Called Empire. It's a sci-fi political thriller, but please don't let that deter you. Full of really beautiful insight about belonging and separation in a cultural hegemony, I think you'll love it.
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Seeing this this morning is the first thing that makes me seriously want to leave Twitter.
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So, yesterday someone threw a stick at me while I was biking home from the gym and hit me in the head. 12 hours later I still have concussion symptoms. Not sure what's worse, how much much my head hurts or how sad this situation make me.
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Had a nice dinner out celebrating my husband's promotion and my new job.
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I love that Ukraine's contestant went viral for being heavy on the propaganda, while the US is claiming the moon for itself, and everybody is quiet. 😂
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@yashar
@pashulman
As someone who makes hiring decisions, when I see someone started at a community college I see someone practical, hardworking and self-motivated. California has especially good public secondary education, so that is a major factor, but I value CC to UC more than 4 year UC.
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I'm not a parent and I'm not telling you what to do, but it is worth nothing that the total number of infant abductions confirmed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s from 1964 through September 2021 was 335.
Today I learned that in Denmark, babies are left outside to sleep in their strollers without the fear of being kidnapped. Imagine feeling this safe in a country.
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This is NOT true of all social conservatives, but the type of social conservative who posits that being thoughtful about your wife or gentle with your children is "gay" or feminine is possibly the most depressing type of social conservative.
Matt Walsh: "Buying a Valentine's Day gift for your wife a month early is the gayest thing you could do"
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@derivedthoughts
@MaureenLamotte
@michaelianblack
And we happen to live in a country awash in guns. I'm the wife of a hunter who recognizes gun control is problematic. But we have to recognize you're more likely to use a tool if it's easy to get. The stats are pretty clear about gun access and suicide, for example.
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@cameroncowan
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Very cool that you'll care about an issue of public safety when all humans that you observe follow the rules.
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@dieworkwear
We just bought a new suit from a traditional tailor for my husband's upcoming job interview for a big promotion, and I relied heavily on your advice in steering him there. It's the first suit he has bought from somewhere other than Men's Warehouse. He looks great. Thank you!
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I may disappear for a while (or become a super poster...unclear) after this baby comes. I'm ready to pop any moment but will be heading into the hospital Friday to get this show on the road if it doesn't start naturally. Everything looks healthy, fingers crossed!
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@TimAlberta
Alphonso Cuarón's A Little Princess. In high school I had the evening shift at a Kroger VCR rental spot. I played that or Babe continuously. ALP is gorgeous.
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@fscii
@TyegerRS
@davidhogg111
My guy, you're practically making my point for me. English is our de facto national language, but it is not our de jure (of law, i.e. official) language.
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@lews_on_1st
@alanthefisher
@Robcampos4
She was wearing a helmet and riding in the bike lane. The driver was speeding down a residential road and driving in the bike lane.
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I've been arguing for years On Here that many of the complaints about SJWs and wokeness are complaints about human behavior common to every social movement, and I feel so vindicated by recent turns in the anti-woke and IDW sphere.
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Is Helen Pluckrose the only season 1 cast member of the anti-woke show who isn't a complete embarrassment by now?
Better to believe that a man walked on water than all men can give birth.
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@ScottGreenfield
I wish I had tried not letting a guy sneak up behind me, shove his hand up my skirt and stick his finger inside me. It was very dumb of me.
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@TmSouthFlorida
@rpetty
Yeah, it was probably that, not the growth of social media capturing shocking interactions with police, or the revelations of lying and deep corruption in some police departments, or the history of police violence against people of color....
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There are some good things about French culture. There are some bad things about Vietnamese culture. I've now defeated Thomas Sowell.
"What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”
Thomas Sowell
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@HistoryBoomer
These are such bait. It's crazy to feel "normal" while taking three vacations a year, owning two expensive cars, donating $1,500 a month, and still having cash leftover each month.
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I actually am this American. I arrived with friends at a rented house in rural Scotland after a long drive and put the electric kettle right on the stove. I melted the kettle and filled the house with plastic fumes.
the americans are sleeping
quick post things they dont understand
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@Patrici95236510
@BetoORourke
I am 31 weeks pregnant as of today with a very wanted baby and I can not imagine, in fact I would be devastated, to bring to term a child who will suffer so much and live so little.
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@breakingbaht
@MattBinder
Except it is both a factually incorrect statement (for example, 3 people were targeted and murdered in a Jacksonville Dollar General for being black 15 days ago) and conspiratorial. Seems bad!
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Periodic reminder that identity politics is, in fact, extremely popular on the right.
All the pansy Libs can stay indoors with 2 masks, celebrate milestones over zoom call with their impossible burgers/vegan sh*t and call social workers if they are in danger while the rest of us go on about living our lives in our free freakin’ country with our guns, meat & police
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@bfishbfish
It's me. I had my first and likely only at 40 after infertility and miscarriages, and while the pregnancy was healthy and my baby is thriving, the pregnancy was incredibly difficult. I can't imagine forcing another woman through that.
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I'm willing to bet real money that Whoopi was not in fact influenced by CRT. But if your whole shtick is CRT = bad, your hammer turns everything into a nail.
The vapidity of the concept of "whiteness" and its attendant conclusions reaches its apex in the Whoopi discourse. She clearly is influenced by ideas from CRT that racism only flows one-way (white on black) & hence deconstructs the Holocaust through a dichotomous, racialized lens
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@goretine
Next in my feed...
Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party, Norman Rockwell. (1894-1978)
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Say what you will about Biden, but it is nice he doesn't tweet mean things or otherwise actively try to inject more division into the country. I like that.
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@J3ffMiller
@politicalmath
LOLOLOLOLOL. I personally know a person who used their PPP money to buy an Italian villa for "client development." They were able to maintain payroll, so loan forgiveness!
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I did not expect to learn today that Andrew Tate's father was an International Master in chess and is considered an African-American chess trailblazer.
Greta, Tate and Racism
Greta represents the apex of liberalism. She is a white, blonde woman. She can do no wrong.
For liberals, racism by Greta, a white woman, to Tate a black man, should be cheered, shared and reported.
Let’s look at this deep rooted racism /1
#FreeTopG
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@Steve4Sac
@DemSocialists
@Flo4Sacramento
I voted for you in 2020. I understand believing this statement is not enough, but it is unfair to describe this as standing with terrorists and I am extremely disappointed by your statement here. This isn't what Sacramento needs.
We unequivocally condemn the killing of all civilians. It is imperative for international human rights law to be respected.
But we cannot forget that the Israeli state has systematically denied Palestinians the right to self-determination for decades. 2/5
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@the_great_hippo
@SordidRemains
@JuliaFtacek
Further, a reproductive justice movement can only live up to that name if it demands justice for all.
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@Beautiranye
@rahsh33m
The emotion on his face was so real. Like several stages of pain. Very familiar.
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@MatBabiak
@GravitysRa1nbow
As others have told you, Zelensky, like many other Ukranians, speaks Russian. It is the first language of about a quarter of the population.
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Interesting trivia about Saira Rao: when she ran for Congress in 2018, Andrew Yang endorsed her and she lost in the primary by 2 to 1.
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Maybe the strangest argument I've ever encountered on this app.
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In this specific case, the library staff who do programming for children as a job seem well equipped to decide, but if you aren't sure, don't bring your kids to this one event!
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This is me before the LA Marathon started yesterday. There is no happy picture at the end because I hit the wall hard at 19 miles. I finished but missed my goal time by 7 minutes.
In most of my life, if I put in the work, I reach my goal. Athletics is humbling.
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@mattyglesias
*Taps mic* Actual expert here on car dealership law. There's very little Biden could do, dealer franchise and licensing laws are mostly state laws.
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My work bestie is an arch conservative, devoutly religious Oklahoman who has been the most supportive, most thoughtful male coworker I have ever had.
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I support the pro-war US policies in Ukraine, and I believe the nuclear risk they carry are worth it because failing to support Ukraine poses major risks to global stability.
It’s mind-numbing. If they just said, “I support the pro-war US policies in Ukraine, and I believe the nuclear risk they carry are worth it” then at least you could have a rational debate on those terms. But you can’t even extract basic acknowledgments of reality from them
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@D_Kuehn
After growing up conservative, I was genuinely shocked as an intern in a Democratic congressman's office to find that nearly all of the professional staffers were normies with kids and mortgages. This was 2006.
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Where's Jordan Peterson when you need him?
I'm on the board of a non-profit that connects youth in foster care with mentors. We STRUGGLE to recruit men as mentors. We focus our advertising and recruiting at men.
Our latest orientation class? 13% men.
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I think a key trait of masculinity is taking responsibility for one's own actions.
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@RosaMSST
@PpollingNumbers
@DataProgress
Give him my thanks. My Republican parents in Ohio also voting Biden this time.
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"They're trying to force us to think fat chicks are hot" truly must be the most pitiful argument adult humans make on this website. My eyes have rolled out of my head and are in another zip code by now.
Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.
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@vanillaopinions
Having a pleasant surprise first child at 40. Husband is 47. It's exciting, but so daunting, how much change it means for us.
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This sucks. I enjoy Twitter and don't have a good alternative, but now I feel bad when I open the app.
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