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@nolightupstairs

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coconut propagandist, blorth carolina accelerationist, perpetual reformist, environmental urbanist, idealist, quantum chaos theorist. Alt: @NotSid9

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"if we see a bad poll, and we will, put down that phone" -- Michelle Obama Quote of the election LMAO @schlagteslinks
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> Be Japan > Not Japan > Also not Japan > Absolutely not Japan > What
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This chart is breaking my brain. Durham, a tiny city in North Carolina whose downtown is basically a single square, and is racked in its own housing crisis, is permitting more units per year than: Manhattan, San Francisco, San Jose
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“Why is Texas booming?” Yeah, it’s a real mystery.
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The responsibilities of man: Wife Baby Home Onion (yellow) Other baby Onions (green) Onion (red)
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Life is not easy as a Man🫣
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I had a 3.1 unweighted and D's in there and got into multiple of these. And Yes I'm Asian American. There must have been something very wrong with his essays.
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Despite earning 3.97 unweighted and 4.42 weighted GPA, scoring 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT's and founding his own e-signing startup RabbitSign in sophomore year, Zhong was rejected by 16 colleges he applied to.
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I know I'm being a whiny baby but genuinely how do people sleep in 90° weather without A/C. Like how??
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That's actually amazing. Usually you have to avoid arguing with Brie and Brie-types. But the moment you can force her to say "let's say Biden is 10 times better than Trump. I'm not voting for him" she's lost the argument. You've actually dislodged brain worms from listeners.
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I finally fixed it. Now I'm sure we'll all be level headed and reasonable about this graph.
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@HillaryClinton
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What's at stake for our climate in this November's elections? Absolutely everything.
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@ChadNotChud My brain literally read this as a rebuttal against anti-veganism at first because I know what a hippo is lol.
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@notkavi I don't think it's the inability to understand the argument. I think it's the inability to handle being told what to do. "Are you telling me how to do my job?" And that's the end of the conversation.
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@EvanRoden5 Don't buy it. The reality behind point 1 & 2 are too nuanced to make good sarcasm and 3 & 4 are more orthogonal to the truth than opposite to it. Also half the comments are groypers blaming feminism and the other half arguing as you see under my tweet.
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Sometimes I remember ~20% of rural whites vote for Democrats religiously and I cry a little. Heroes, all of them.
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Dumb person's idea of a smart person etc etc
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Elon Musk read the entire encyclopedia at the age of 9.
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@jaydec02 Houston, France
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I think scraping the subtitles of public YouTube videos is fine
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Very sad to have to say this - an AI company called EleutherAI stole tens of thousands of YouTube videos - including many of mine. I’m one of the creators Proof News spoke to. The stolen data was sold to Apple, Nvidia, and other companies to build AI
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"and can be affixed with no new permits required" There we go
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Why this design? It’s adaptable to streets that can’t get a bus shelter and can be affixed to existing bus signs with no new permits required. This simple treatment provides shade during the day and utilizes solar energy gathered to light the stop at night.
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I'm no fan of police but the fact that for every serial killer story, there is police incompetence you can point to might imply EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE CONCLUSION
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Jay Perk 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Hey so, I’m a lawyer, huge “true crime” fan and a police/prison abolitionist. Let’s play a game. Show me a serial killer and I’ll point out the police incompetence necessary for the killer to kill. Police do NOT keep you safe. Least of all, from serial killers. Prove me wrong.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is not remotely the most important person who ever lived.
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Christopher Nolan says “like it or not, J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived.” “He made the world we live in, for better or for worse. His story has to be seen to be believed.” #CinemaCon
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It's crazy how the police invented the fakest story imaginable and still Community Notes enthusiastically picked up on it.
@rulajebreal
Rula Jebreal
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3 Italian police brutally assaulted, pepper sprayed and kicked an unarmed trans-woman in Milan. Criminalizing & inciting violence against “transgenderism” has lethal consequences… the so called “gender ideology” is used to justify Gov’t discrimination.
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@TimRyanFan People are just mistaking acting for staging. E.g. the Obama call came off weird to some because all parties are clearly in character. Every politician knows when to turn it on without being told in advance.
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@hilaryagro I know, I know this is completely secondary, but who told this boy not to cry after his mother died??? Why are people like this???
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Meanwhile, on the actual Mediterranean
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@DemocraticShift
The Democratic Shift
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@realsaadasad Quality of life has been destroyed by the metasticizing cancer that is @UCSanDiego . It's turned a small, gorgeous region with a Mediterranean charm into an ugly, noisy and congested mini-city. If this is what it means to be a "world-class" city, forget it. We don't want it.
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@JUNlPER @lector_98 Always wild to me people imagine trans people popped out the ground in the 90's and never existed before then.
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Do people know what capitalism is?
@hilaryagro
Hilary Agro 🍄
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Just so we're clear on the morality behind capitalism: Making bombs to murder children = good, legal, respectable Consuming plants that make you feel nice = bad, illegal, go to jail
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It's pretty crazy how a one time injection of <5% of median (household) lifetime earnings can be completely life changing because we literally refuse to redistribute wealth to the young.
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Feels so good to finally unclench. I’m gonna go touch grass for a bit
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@N0b0dyMister Canadians are hourny
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@kc_poppinnn All of these people are happy. Let them be happy.
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Chuckling out loud about R's shutting down the government twice while they have a trifecta, lmao.
@SteveRattner
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Makes you wonder: what does every government shutdown in the last 30 years have in common?
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@CollieYimby Thanks Google
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Knowing what a zip file is is not a core life or computer skill.
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Remember folks, we created ONE and precisely ONE generation that really understands computers and computing in general. Everyone else thinks a "computer," in spite of its name, is just a communication device.
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@4MsBell @notjessewalker Or rather force all police departments to purchase insurance and pay for it themselves and see how long it takes when they have to foot the bill of their mistakes.
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I resent that 'cultural appropriation' as a concept has given cover to ordinary social conservatism under the pretense of being social justice. Cultural arts are beautiful and exquisite and meant to be shared. Few things me happier than non indians cooking Indian food.
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Chase Bank inserting fed propaganda in it's apps for some reason LMAO love to see it
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@NickTagliaferro If there weren't gender politics at play here, I'd want to suggest that Kamala could win a lot of relatability/celebrity points if she talked about her home cooking. She cooks American food and Indian food and could talk about either in the same breath.
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@vanillaopinions Very important cut off for 1924 lol
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@forestlemming 1.3 million years?? Where are these numbers even coming from?? Humans are at most separated between the new and old world by 15,000 years.
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@Ian_Gay_briel True! That will sink you.
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@ZackaryTweets It is a funny headline up until you realize it's a race joke.
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@cookiebot4521 Is that radical? Is homeschooling common in developed nations?
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@worsematt These high-price, standard-fare Italian restaurants remain amusing to me. Vancouver has 9 Michelin recommended Italian restaurants at a similar or lower price point. You don't need to be spending $25 for romaine lettuce.
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@DealsWellWithBS @nypost Do chicken nuggets usually do this???
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@_deltaVelocity_ Their whole thing is pretending obesity isn't an illness. It's sick.
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It's fucking embarrassing how susceptible nominal leftists are to esoteric nationalist projects.
@PplsCityCouncil
People's City Council - Los Angeles
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Kehlani during her recent Tiny Desk concert: “Free Palestine. Free Congo. Free Sudan. Free Yemen. Free Hawai’i. Free Guam. Beyond a ceasefire, we need an end to the occupation. It’s deeper than this.”
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(obvious answer is that your body adjusts to the heat with exposure and summer months tend to be low productivity without A/C but like fuck, my body is not adjusted for this!)
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I hope people realize this is a (disturbingly common) manifestation of black women's anxiety around desirability politics. This is a form of inceldom.
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@yhdistyminen I'm used to "pants vs skirt" so immediately read the left as pant legs and the right as just a pencil skirt ig
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@superinducting Trump panic dropping itself might be a useful news story and neutralize any lingering perceived weaknesses over Biden dropping
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The bill, in addition to banning practices such as no knock warrants and chokeholds, would grant the justice department power to subpoena police departments. That is a huge deal! That is a structure by which police departments are must answer to the law for their misconduct!
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Alec Karakatsanis
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THREAD. This is one of the most depraved copaganda campaigns in modern history. Biden's behavior here is shameful, and many Democrats who know better are going along, hoping people won't actually read what is being proposed.
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@alanthefisher Is it really impossible for you to read to the end of a thread before commenting?
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Kind of baffled when people cite Seattle/Minneapolis/Austin/Houston/etc as YIMBY success stories. Like, just no. There are no YIMBY "success stories". There are, at best, mitigated failures.
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@thechosenberg Have you considered that women are, in fact, conscious human beings responsible for how they treat other people 4 out 4 weeks in the month, including during mood swings?
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It remains strange to me that we don't have open borders with Canada and Mexico. Seems like a major 90's fumble.
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@colin_fraser "While True" has such a powerful aura
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@twinkhoncreole Best evidence yet this is a psyop
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Korea's study culture is actually just incredibly sad. Parents belittle their children into studying past the point of detriment to their test scores. Far far past the point of detriment to their personal lives.
@QCompounding
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Charlie Munger: Don’t be surprised when you lose to people like this
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This graph in a nutshell is why alcohol taxation is one the very most efficient taxes the state can levy.
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jesus christ
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@maxdubler My first rent in Houston two years ago was $425/mo
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You should not be allowed to be a lawyer if you do not understand cause and effect
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This is so politically illiterate it hurts. Every one of these cities are run by Democrats. Texas state legislature is actively attempting to punish Austin for densifying and undermining their efforts to build transit. Phoenix is heavily exurban.
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@leemahbo ...that is not how insurance works. Insurance redistributes money from the lucky to the unlucky. And bad drivers who get into frequent accidents do in fact pay more! Pricing risk is a core function of insurance!
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@vanillaopinions This is erasure of my people.
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Is it rude to point out to my friends that they can afford minoxidil/finasteride and that hair loss is entirely curable?
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@Pomatador @vanillaopinions @DeleteTheNats Wow, great point. We should have a constitution that more thoughtfully regulates apportionment!
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@VoidOfRoses Assassin Creed has had "woke" subtext ... Kind of since the first game. You just weren't internet brain poisoned when you were 11 lol.
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Remember "more conservative than Attila the Hun"
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@The4ourthBranch Are you sure? Cause the graph you shared kinda seems to show us emitting 5 billion tons of CO2 per year.
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Don't worry about the angle of the sun. In the mornings, you can find shade by laying flat on the street!
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@IDoTheThinking @KWofTysonsC It's okay. Feb 29th balanced it out.
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@CollieYimby But more importantly, in no reading on histamine intolerance did "leftovers" ever come up. The main thing was to avoid alcohol, certain fruits, and certain grains.
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The atom bomb would've been developed without him and every other scientific achievement of his, too, probably without any significant delay. Truman famously thought little of Oppenheimer and he had no serious influence on policy, including the decisions to drop the bomb.
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@worsematt Democrats trying to run such criticisms against Vance
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@ChadNotChud Okay but let people poast thirst traps? I really don't see how anyone else is bothered in this scenario?
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Fun fact: Montana only appears big on maps due to the Mercator projection. Here's an image laid on California.
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How is this a real take?
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@whstancil
Will Stancil
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Can’t overemphasize how foolish and counterproductive it is to argue that the solution to gerrymandering is voting your way past it. You often can’t! That’s the entire point of gerrymandering! Ask Wisconsin or North Carolina. There has to be outside action to fix it
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People are so weird about AI. What else causes people to have such a reaction to their work being used?
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Absolutely no one: Californians: Palo Alto is a middle class college town.
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@Kumkodi1 @ChadNotChud Legit that lion looks starved
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Please, keep running this stuff. Show it to your wife's friends too!
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@worsematt This might genuinely be the worst writing I've seen on this website
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IIRC Piketty argued America should give every 25 year old $250,000 in unconditional cash and I honestly think it's a good idea.
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@PopulismUpdates Someone needs to explain how Hawaii is so warm and Alaska so cold despite being so geographically close to one another.
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It does not feed 2000 families. It gives 2000 families a few vegetables (~<1 day's worth) a month at a greater cost of operation than purchasing those vegetables for them from a grocery store.
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Jaw on the floor.
@SenToddYoung
Senator Todd Young
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The #YIMBYAct promotes access to affordable housing by forcing communities to start to address discriminatory housing barriers. More on YIMBY from the @CATOInstitute here:
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@NatsSquid I didn't know this discourse was that old lol
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Nothing makes you feel more sympathy for the worst people alive than US sentencing.
@aviationbrk
Breaking Aviation News & Videos
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YouTuber pilot Trevor Jacob who bailed out midair and deliberately sent his plane crashing into the ground to bolster viewing numbers on his channel could be jailed for up to 20 years, US authorities have said.
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A warning in advance to all my oomfies: this is a 100% democratic partisan hack account until November 5th. I make no apologies for the cringe.
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@Nate_Cohn @tbonier I'm registered unaffiliated in NC and am a straight ticket dem voter. The reason is because democratic primaries are occasionally uncompetitive, while Republican primaries are competitive, so we can go vote in that one. This is a strategy employed by my whole family.
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Much is made of Trump's fabrications, but like am I tripping when I say Trump was a lot more incoherent than usual? At the beginning it was noticeable but by the end it was really anomalous.
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@oliyoung It's naive to consider it half right, either. All of the female models are conventionally attractive in every way that isn't age, color, or weight because the entire process is an act in cynicism. "Okay, the customers want fat models, but not ones with pimples."
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This is the "no way in hell am I gonna hire you back" stare
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@POTUS
President Biden
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Earlier, @VP and I were briefed in the Situation Room on developments in the Middle East. We received updates on threats posed by Iran and its proxies, diplomatic efforts to de-escalate regional tensions, and preparations to support Israel should it be attacked again. We also
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@_Lufthansa_ Oh I like how their outfits reflect the Argentinian flag. That's so cool!
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@clhubes I work very hard to remind my in denial parents that they are now rich. They grew up in relative poverty and don't know how to stop calling themselves middle class. "Well our lifestyles are middle class!"... "Your house has four stories, Amma."
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@BrainyRedhead @shouldhaveanima The rabbit is being tortured. It's tranced, ie in a high anxiety state similar to playing dead, and rabbits cannot comfortable sit like that.
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@worsematt I've never met anyone who "more or less" has a master's in economics
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@rieszscoffee "the problem with capitalism is that it has eliminated infant mortality in the developed world"
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