Paul C. Jeffries
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@eyishazyer
I only read the first few and realized they were all widely publicized already, none is them are scary, and in any case I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who isn’t a teenager who thinks their boss is scary.
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@lishiyori
When I was a grad student, one of my favorite social milieu indulgences was to go to the 24-hour 1950s style diner in our smallish college town, at 3:30am to 5:30am. It was very crowded, with shoulder to shoulder at the counter and loud booth conversations sometimes getting
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@elonmusk
Why “wow”?
You know when they do Shakespeare in China, the actors are Chinese, right?
Non-pluralistic content is going to have a pluralistic interpretation in a pluralistic society. If the perceived superficial quality of the character isn’t pertinent to the story told by the
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@antoniogm
Why wouldn’t a human get a ticket? Isn’t standing, and/or loading, still illegal? Or is it permissible to block the bike lane for loading and unloading?
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@eyeslasho
Maybe. But I suspect there is another factor also at work:
Average Age:
Pakistan: 89% 20.6
Vietnam: 89% 32.5
India: 75% 28.2
US: 44% 38.5
Canada: 30% 40.2
Germany: 18% 44.7
Japan: 11% 49.1
Well, well, would you look at that?!
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@mcuban
@the_bentist
@Tesla
@elonmusk
Thanks, Mark!
To The Bentist: Note that, per Mark’s first image, Tesla has a DEI program for developing leadership.
There seems to be a conflation in the public discussion between DEI and affirmative action. Indeed, while DEI can be an important part of hiring and promotion,
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@eyeslasho
Displaying the power of unity, when it’s not forced conformity, but rather voluntary aligned collaboration, is what the Olympics is all about.
I know a lot of us react adversely to the power of synchronized crowds. But a crowd cheering for Hitler and saying a prayer together
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@stillgray
I see a lack of protests and lack of public discourse about politics, and a population too frightened or misled to object. What do you see? Your employer?
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@Kazanjy
@TheSalesBull1
Who cares how much time people “spend” on “work”?
Why are you buying time when you could be buying performance that is optimific for the results you seek?
I think maybe you don’t know how to measure nor motivate what you want.
The less time an employee needs to spend to get
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@cosmicfibretion
That shows that brain states are a necessary condition (modulo some assumptions), but not that it’s sufficient. For example, turning off my car radio doesn’t prove that the music is made in the radio (and indeed we know it isn’t). Descartes and many others were savvy about this
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@mamatha9
@jthomsonPHIL
1/ When in transit, w the cup mostly closed 2/ When there are solid objects you don’t want in your face (fruit, big ice) 3/ When there are solid object you do want, such as slush or boba 4/ When you’re in one place but your hands are a mess and it’s hard to not drop a cup 5/ Fizz
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@EricRWeinstein
Folks keep pushing this.
I honestly don’t get it.
The party is a private organization. Within bounds is the law it can pick its nominee any way it wants.
There is no need for it to be democratic. It’s not a federal election. Before the 1968 riots drove revisions, it wasn’t
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@ChrisJBakke
Housing cannot be both a good investment and affordable for entry into the market.
We’ve had these contradictory political ambitions since WW2.
We need to stop subsidizing home ownership as a social good — the stability of community it was supposed to create just undermines
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@ItsJuliansRum
@elonmusk
Again? You mean 2020? That is the most thoroughly verified and assured fair US election ever.
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@CollinRugg
@MattWalshBlog
There is zero basis for that claim. I mean, not only is it not true, there isn’t even any appearance of it being true. Having an early in your career romantic partner in politics doesn’t get you “sleeping to the top”. Willie’s willy didn’t win her the campaigns she won again and
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@Kazanjy
@TheSalesBull1
That doesn’t make any sense.
This can get complicated but the short story is that most vendors these days are doing transaction pricing analysis and use that to set value-based prices (instead of cost-plus, while is what your response implies).
You don’t even know, from my
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@VivekGRamaswamy
I don’t get your point. There are many easily accessible places where you can cross surreptitiously between Canada and the US. The fact that there is a hiking trail adjacent to a border crossing doesn’t seem significant given all the other options.
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@RpsAgainstTrump
Maybe he meant restore the TV show “Law & Order”? Trump could fill a whole season just by himself!
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@Ana_thera
@arealicehole
@BillMelugin_
The US has low unemployment. US workers tend to not want to take the jobs these folks do. US businesses are eager for this labor and if you have an issue the employers are the ones to take it up with. And these folks pay taxes they don’t benefit from (or file for refunds), etc.
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@epilepsy_artist
@elonmusk
Why “instead”? Why not both?
We always make the past relevant to us today. We can by jazzy. In fact, that’s what jazz is!
Do the actors playing George Washington pull out all their teeth and replace them with wood? Do we make sure all our historical dramas have actors on
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@josettecaruso
@krassenstein
Can you talk a bit about the notion of team support / MAGA as an identity affiliation, as opposed to politics as a policy matter?
How far could your team’s policies drift before you’d not want to be on / support the team anymore?
And if you could replace you team leader with a
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@BillAckman
I think the metaphor isn’t quite informative because while there is physical adjacency, there isn’t any of the rest of the context.
But I think we don’t need a thought experiment. We had 9/11. That’s seems more analogous.
We can leave it as an exercise to the reader about
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@stillgray
For someone who isn’t an American, you’ve done a commendable job of picking up on the MAGA infatuation with whining. Or do you folks call it “whinging” in Malaysia?
Given that Trump is frequently sued over not paying what he owes, and keeps getting caught making false
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@GadSaad
Can you specify what ideological issue or structural dysfunction you’re talking about?
The thesis seems implausible based on what I am aware of, so it’s hard for me to know what you intend for us to consider.
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@RichardHanania
These seem to be IPA phonetic text read by someone who is treating them like Standard English.
For example, this is “Virginia”:
/vɚˈd͡ʒɪn.jə/
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@SMB_Attorney
@bradford_hardin
4/ They’re willing to work at startups and they move on when they fail or they want to diversify
5/ They are a really excellent employee and they keep getting poached because they current employer isn’t in the ball enough to up their comp fast enough to retain them.
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@TeslaBoomerMama
@rAndOmHaMlifE
Why doesn’t it “count”? Can you explain your point?
If you want to see her seem “Presidential” (and here I am granting that any oratory stereotypes are important to the role), tune into the DNC. You won’t see an awful speech like Trump’s — where he has a good opening written by
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@ylecun
My French is pretty rusty and for a minute there I was thinking that “Elon fanbois” is a raspberry custard dessert.
Which I suppose is better than twenty years ago when I thought “Elon Musk” was a lively perfume.
Now I know, it’s a kind of very rich nut.
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@Austen
I am not sure what you mean about it not being one time. Isn’t it just like any other capital gains tax?
I invest $100 into a stock and years later it’s worth $300.
If I sell I recognize $200 in capital gain and pay tax.
Under the proposal I would be taxed on the $200 even if
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@solveiggold
What happened to the stereotype of the super beautiful lefty young woman, or handsome surfer dude yoga instructor vegan left guy?
Show me the data and then we’ll talk. I don’t buy your premise.
In case you’re under the sway of confirmation bias, remember: 1/ half of all
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@Grady_Booch
Why? Once you have the code, why do you need to worry about all the rest?
I don’t put my programmers into a version repository, just their work product.
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@tobias_rees
@elonmusk
@BillAckman
I don’t want Trump to win but at this point I blame Biden and the Democratic Party establishment for these turnings away.
It’s hard to say you’ve got the integrity high ground if the reason you’re keeping an obviously unqualified person on the ticket is because “he can beat
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@KanekoaTheGreat
@elonmusk
@joerogan
You don’t see any irony in having a nostalgic appreciation for a time when racism was not seen as a major issue by the majority of people?
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@DebbieforFL
It’s so interesting to me that she thinks it’s a good idea to never ever mention that she’s a Democrat. Not in the post. Not in her account. Not on her website linked from her account!
Florida is fascinating, man.
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@Austen
You seem to be correcting her? But there is a lot of human labor in doing the laundry and the dishes, despite the machines in the hard middle steps.
We don’t have machines that decide what clothes to wash when, retrieve it, load the machine, dry it in a machine or laying it
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@elonmusk
Sigh. You’re being petty. It might look like you’re afraid of reliable information sources that are ad-free and cost-free, as you struggle to find a business model that works.
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@naomhtite
@GadSaad
How can this have all these views and engagement?
What’s wrong with X? Is it the algorithm or the AI rhythm or the lack of rhyme a reason of all of us?
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@Grady_Booch
Listen Greg Brady, that’s a category mistake.
“What do you call something that has the detail and precision and expressiveness sufficient to produce a useful playable piece of music?
“An mp3 file. We call it an mp3 file.”
Come on.
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@Aella_Girl
This question doesn’t make any sense. It discusses facts immaterial to the issue, and then asks a lay person without any sentencing guidelines or other context about the offender or the law or social context to pick a sentence length.
It’s pretty weird to ask, and of course
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@BillAckman
@MIT
You’re making it increasingly harder to be sympathetic to your position, which I was trying to do. As a tactical point, it’s starting to look like special pleading, which plays into an accusation of hypocrisy or double standard that the BI stories implicitly are about.
An
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@BillAckman
Can you clarify what your accusation is concerning BI ethics violations?
I’ve tried to respond to some of your posts about that, and maybe I missed some of it, but in summary: you raised questions and made insinuations, and didn’t lay out a case.
If the case were obvious,
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@krassenstein
Assuming Trump is a typical American male age 77, the odds he will die from accident or natural causes before the election is 3.3%. That alone is reason to Haley to stick it out. Add in that some terrible news about him may arise, or he may be convicted, or even incarcerated, and
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@Austen
Got it! Ok, thanks.
I said below in reply to someone else but let me put it onto your response.
I didn’t realize that was your point about 25% every year. I interpreted that to mean it is like a recurring wealth tax. I see now what you mean.
You’re saying that deferred tax
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@skdh
In fairness, at least they didn’t need to build a $10b circle to go looking for the value.
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@DavidSacks
I just don’t get this.
Let’s grant for the sake of argument that Biden was pushed out by influential people in the party.
That doesn’t mean he was deposed from power in a coup. It means he is being denied the chance to run for re-election. “Deposed as nominee” is just a
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@Jingping_Biden
@WalterIsaacson
Being the child of a wealthy and/or famously admired person is often pretty awful. It’s so universally true that I’d just say go ahead and ask them, if you know any. I’ve certainly seen enough to think a random sample is sufficient.
It doesn’t have to be awful, of course. But
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@MonmouthPoll
@taylorswift13
@POTUS
No. 1 in 5 say so in a poll. Polls at this point don’t measure belief in the epistemic sense. They detect commitments to tribal affiliation in the guise of statements to others.
Run an experiment. See how many of those 1 in 5 will bet on it with a lot of money.
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@BarbaraCorcoran
Barbara, I respect and admire you, and love your spontaneous risk taking with what you say, and your transparency and authenticity. But this video is upon reflection, and digs a deeper hole. Please give it some thought and try again.
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@eshear
Well ok, then I’m really puzzled. It’s just not true (if you’re speaking to an audience of typical Western culture folks) that the obvious answer is to intervene to get a utilitarian maximalist outcome.
I don’t mean to deny the self-reporting of your own intuition. Maybe it’s
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@michael_nielsen
By “book” I am assuming you mean, the generic sense that refers to the contents, rather than a particular instance of a physical book. But for good measure, I threw in a few of those.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Finnegans Wake
The Master and Margarita
The
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@vegant42
@Kazanjy
@TheSalesBull1
I am so glad it was of value to you, and especially I appreciate that you went out of your way to let me know!
This is what I hope for when I try to write such things. It helps me get my own ideas straight — which maybe is purpose enough — but I’m always hoping it adds value to
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@ryanseanbadger
@GaryMarcus
@Rahll
I don’t understand your point. A tool that stores and delivers infringing data isn’t the same as a tool that lets the user input the data.
And the tool that stores the data, if it’s not UGC but rather comes from the tool provider, isn’t acting like a platform to network access
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@RareImagery
@krassenstein
You can make racist stereotype jokes implying that Black women are masculine, but all you’re doing is showing what you’re afraid of, and it’s not exactly flattering to yourself.
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@GaryMarcus
But even with any one case we would know it’s not a bug, right? It’s an anticipated characteristic of a generative method.
Indeed it seems odd to say that “hallucinations” are a distinct thing. Every output is a hallucination. It’s just that some more than others hew closer to
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@krassenstein
Yup. If kids are old enough to know about gender roles and notice this and ask about it, then they are old enough to have their questions answered. It isn’t traumatic or weird. And if it goes against the values of the parent — it’s hard for me to understand how a medical and
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@xgigglypuff
“Mack”, who I suspect is a young man but says they are a “wife”, just pivoted to using their bootstrapped attention to promote white nationalism, with their big coming out announcement on their website.
The nonsense on X is meant to generate outrage traffic to find true
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@lishiyori
Rituals of mutual self-abnegation or disarmament doesn’t need alcohol. That mostly makes sense where the prevailing social norms block truthfulness or intimacy (as with the stereotypical Japanese salaryman after work blast).
Shaking hands famously was for this.
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@cmclymer
I think BTS gets similar grumbling. Ye when he was Kanye and before there was all the recent drama. I don’t think it’s a gender thing.
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@RpsAgainstTrump
Trump may be the only American politician who could be elected to be president of Russia
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@ylecun
@andrewgwils
As a former physics faculty member with a PhD in philosophy of physics who also is very interested in cognition and artificial intelligence, I am happy to call this one a draw.
Quantum mechanics in particular tells us that the metaphysics of the world isn’t at all like what we
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@mamatha9
@jthomsonPHIL
To clarify on the fizz: Some folks like fizzy drinks but not the volcanic burble onto their face. If you wear glasses, fizz can drive drops onto them. Oh, and glasses can also make it hard to drink some configurations. And some stuff is too cold to hold.
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@OurDailyPost
I don’t think a single one is taller than we imagined. Indeed, not even taller than we actually knew.
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@RedWave_Press
@mcuban
@X
@Threads
I don’t see how MAGA folks would say that.
What they like about Trump is that he’s radical. He��s not a gradualist and he wants to re-do many core element of governance.
If you think there is a “deep state” and you want to get rid of it, that’s radical.
If you want to
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@RichardDawkins
That’s an absurd equivalence.
The left perhaps spans a big range of views and I’m sure we can find folks who don’t meet what I’m about to say. But for the most part people get that gender is a social construction and as such can have a big range (if that’s what the culture
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@DavidSacks
This is an unfair generalization.
The disapproval of him (“hatred” doesn’t really capture the relevant issue, and I assume you’re meaning to make a broad comment not a fringe remark I can dismiss easily as a tautology) is rooted in his values and behavior, not his ability to
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@mlstrat
Ask her to go undercover to check out a salon as an investment. Maybe as a friend’s investment if that doesn’t fit. Or ask her to hand model for startup’s photoshoot. Propose to her during shoot.
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@DineshDSouza
@mcuban
Wow. For those of us who don’t have much exposure to to you but are open-minded about seeing what you have to contribute, you really made an unforced error here.
You never come out and say what you think, so it’s hard to refute without a lot of work to steelman your possible
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@Austen
@spencerforhire
It would have been better to say: “We don’t report statistics on that cohort because it was too small to be statistically significant. Statistical claims would be inaccurate or misleading.”
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@kleavittnh
Ok, these comments have me super confused. This isn’t a spoof account? That can’t be possible. Can we have a press conference at Four Seasons to clear this up?
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@cosmicfibretion
Well, that wasn’t the thing at issue. But on this new question, it’s probably too big for here, because the task is now to carve room for a theory, which can be very elaborate. However, this is all standard stuff about philosophy of mind and neuroscience, so tons of stuff to
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@asymmetricinfo
This is a bizarre comment. If nothing else, you can’t copy words without copying ideas. In any case, people put effort into their writing and of course they care if it represented as someone else’s.
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@lishiyori
Thanks for your wonderful original post and question!
Like many things in life that were magical, though often not recognized by me until much later, it kinda was just “there” and I somehow took for granted that it should be, without much thought.
But I think probably it was
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@michelletandler
That is the issue. The right populism of Trump embraces the erasure of key institutions and traditions of the Republic. Do we want that? Or don’t we?
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@SteveStuWill
Interesting that people find this surprising! I thought most parents were inclined to think that with respect to the classic “big 5” traits, their kids were “just born that way”. That they exhibited characteristics early, and different from their siblings. Furthermore, we seem
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@RedWave_Press
@elonmusk
If that’s what scares you the most, you can sleep well because folks agitating to overthrow their government in Haiti and rule their streets with chaos are not looking to come to the U.S. to pick fruit and work as maids in hotels.
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@Jason
It’s funny to me that you say they are ubiquitous in Austin. You grew up in the NYC metro like I did, where especially in our era they were very common. And named for the nearby region as people say.
I am curious. Did you not see a lot of these in the 70s and 80s?
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@Jason
So, what you just said is identity politics. It’s just that the identity you separated out for specific attention is economic family status.
Perhaps that is all that should matter. But I think it’s plausible that other aspects of identity that go into how you’re seen and what
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@Aella_Girl
As an older man, I can attest that low hanging fruit is, unfortunately, not as desirable as one would hope.
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@ylecun
Under U.S. law, facilitation of infringement is actionable. That is distinct from infringement. If a person uses a tool to make an infringing work, the person is the infringer. If someone then publishes that work, that is a further infringement by the publisher. In most cases in
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@iheartmindy
@CollinRugg
1/ English is admittedly weak on this type of thing, but to be clear the protest was the claim of a rigged election; there was in fact no such thing.
2/ He was not in fact given even a moment in jail — or prison, which I presume is what you mean — for protesting.
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@harikondabolu
I think the issue is when the host doesn’t provide house slippers nor booties nor an elevated platform nor a place to wash their hands after nor — this last irks me — a shoe horn.
Also, if you are having a formal party and people are in formal shoes, the often don’t want to
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@raymond1082
@ScottAdamsSays
I feel your pain. I don’t understand how we can let the police run rampant, making extrajudicial executions of employed white Christians just because they’re freaked out the Bible you’re pulling from your pocket might be a handgun. It’s getting to the point where if you have a
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@T54321X
@patrickbetdavid
That just isn’t true. There are quite a few policy initiatives.
The Biden administration is pretty accomplished and has an agenda for what they want to do next. We shall see if it gets modified.
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@skdh
I am not finding any sudden news that Trump is ill, or that someone close to him is. Can you explain the context for your post?
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@billmaher
This is not a criticism but in all sincerity I am hoping you can explain a bit. When the strike seemed enduring it was ineffective for you to support, or too costly? Is your view now that you can make a difference? Or you are willing to show solidarity but only up to a hiatus
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@aginnt
I can’t figure out what you’re saying.
There is a minor conflict in the video, for reasons we aren’t aware of. It’s pretty trivial.
The rest of the video is a bunch of normal people who have nice normal cars and nice normal family units having a nice normal good time in a
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@Travis_in_Flint
@elonmusk
It’s because people can’t be illegal. And because for many people it conflates civil and criminal offenses. Are people who enter legally and overstay their visa “illegal immigrants”? Probably not by any reasonable definition. Yet maybe you mean to include them in the scope of the
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@SKDitta
@BretWeinstein
Asking people to avoid nuts isn’t a practical solution? You’re a MD so you tell me. But I know several cases where epi didn’t save the day and the person died. Plus diverting an entire flight?
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@SethCotlar
I mean, it’s also historically important in context to bear in mind that, however it seems to our sensibilities today, it was at the time still a party.
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@WKCosmo
It would have to be sort of by definition, right? We are referring to the limit of luminal/causal access, which has to be the event horizon.
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@Givepeace_chanc
Exactly! And in contemporary America, carrying forward deliberately white characters who are white for no key reason to the story, just palatability at the time of original publication, is unusual and out of place. It’s super *weird* to see American stories the are all white. Try
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