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I will never understand the obsession with 'gun deaths'.
The 20 years after the gun buyback had more deaths in Australia (in total and per capita) from 'mass casualty events' than the 20 years preceeding port Arthur. It's true that before the gun buyback, they were mostly (but not exclusively) perpetrated with firearms, and after the buyback they rarely (though not 'never', as the cathedral often claims) were committed with firearms. But why does anyone care *how* mass violence is committed?
:nord: Without guns to defend themselves, more people died
:NPC: Yes, but they didn't die *from guns*, so it's cool.
🤦‍♀️

2025-12-04 14:05:49 GMT

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Keeping it real **pirate** on clew 🏴‍☠️

2025-11-26 17:37:01 GMT

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Saw it, wasn't that good. Seemed more like an attempt to capitalize on Project Hail Marry before the official movie came out than anything, tbh.

2025-11-07 06:35:01 GMT

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Careful, he'll fight you if you talk about his dad don't you know.

2025-11-05 23:45:12 GMT

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2025-11-05 02:49:35 GMT

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I mean, pretty sure it's gonna be the wealth taxes, legalization of theft and violence, and crushing business and industry under wage and price controls that's going to destroy the city. Drugs and prostitution are *basically* legal now 🤷‍♀️

2025-11-04 13:07:04 GMT

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Yeah, proof that they can interdict these boats just fine. Extrajudicial murder being unconstitutional aside, do you have any idea how much the missiles they've been using cost apiece?

2025-11-03 04:41:36 GMT

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But filing false reports to aklp.club will get clew.lol's reports added to the 'drop' MRF :roll_safe:

2025-11-02 16:36:42 GMT

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>Based Lunatic
Okay, well your username is **half**right....
Some people should not have reporting privileges.

2025-10-31 15:32:52 GMT

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In Alaska, 'the bush' means anything not connected to the road system, which is about 90% of the state. There is also an establishment called 'the Alaska bush company' which is a famous strip club.

2025-10-29 04:17:52 GMT

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>idgaf either way as long as the software is good
Funkwale crossed the Rubicon and now folks are developing code to detect 'problematic' software and configs during boot that any distro can drop in an update at a moment's notice.
We no longer have the luxury of not caring who is upstream.

2025-10-25 04:14:59 GMT

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Working out, or dieting?

2025-10-24 14:51:18 GMT

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Whatever else you can say about them, they are clever.

2025-10-24 14:31:21 GMT

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In academia they call it "authentic voices" so they can dismiss out of hand any people with the 'good' identity characteristics that would entitle them to 'be heard' by the left, but don't conform strictly to the left's stereotypes, so they would say things the left doesn't want to hear.

2025-10-23 01:22:44 GMT

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Captain, it's a week!

2025-10-19 15:03:36 GMT

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What about "Auntie Pfau"

2025-10-19 02:41:15 GMT

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AOL

2025-10-16 05:56:10 GMT

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Sr or W? Or did you mean Jeb? 🤔

2025-10-05 17:30:35 GMT

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Traditional gas stations aren't well suited to ev charging for a variety of reasons. If EV charging demand was anticipated by the market, you'd see them crop up where people will park for an appreciable amount of time, like at restaurants and parking structures.
Regardless, biden tried to end-run the market process with $7.5B allocated for new charging stations in 2021, but the money came with so much red tape and DEI hoops to jump though that by the time he left office they had completed iirc 7.

2025-10-03 12:58:09 GMT

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The point is to compare the tone and substance of the articles. The point is to demonstrate that Wikipedia is trash when it comes to anything remotely political.
And it doesn't matter if woke is on the article or not, because 'woke' isn't just some derogatory term for 'far-left', it's actually how that faction of the left self identified, so it's just using their own descriptor, unlike 'right-wing extremist' for moderate conservatives.
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2025-10-03 12:36:35 GMT

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Lmfao
>Far right politics = right-wing extremism
>Far left politics **not to be confused with hard left or ultra-leftism**.
What a steaming crock of bullhonkey.
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2025-10-03 12:29:16 GMT

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>Pretending Wikipedia is politically neutral
Okay sport, then explain why you would need an adjective that is synonyms with its own subject?

2025-10-03 12:20:49 GMT

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I would be shocked if lunduke has ever called himself *far* right. That's just as loaded and derogatory a term; unlike 'woke' which was actually how that faction of the left self identified.
Certainly you must agree adding the "extremist" epithet isn't an exercise in objective description, no?

2025-10-03 12:05:09 GMT

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- "Don't just call people 'woke' there's nuance!"
- Just calls people 'right-wing extremist' without any nuance
Oh, hello pot; can I introduce you to my good friend kettle?

2025-10-03 11:36:21 GMT

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He obviously cares about software, his career and older work e.g., conference talks, history of Linux, etc is undeniable. Then he got unpersoned from the entire foss community for being mildly conservative. If you want him to start contributing to software and the foss community in a productive and meaningful way again instead of sniping from the outside, all you have to do is **let him** :whaaaa:

2025-10-02 15:22:08 GMT

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China has had a 2MW proof of concept plant operational since 2021 and is currently building a 10MW plant.
Meanwhile India completed their prototype 500MW thorium plant last December.
Since 1978 only 2 new uranium reactors have come online in the US, I'm not sure we have very much experience with it 🤷‍♀️

2025-10-02 15:00:25 GMT

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Tf you on about m8, they built 2 of them. The man hates facts, I guess 🤷‍♀️

2025-10-02 14:52:41 GMT

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Uranium is a terrible fuel. We only use it for power so we could have an alternative weapons pipeline.
They built and tested 2 separate Thorium salt reactors at Oakridge for use in airplanes, but scrapped the technology when it was determined there was no way to produce plutonium from the decay chain. They would rather cancel the whole nuclear plane program than introduce a safer nuclear power technology that *couldn't* be repurposed for weapons.

2025-10-02 14:43:32 GMT

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I don't know why that would be necessary, but even so, we don't have an energy problem; we have a policy problem stopping nuclear power.

2025-10-02 14:39:31 GMT

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LLM is not the only kind of AI. I agree that the llms seem to be hitting a wall after consuming all available training data. It's going to take a revolution, not an evolution to reach agi, but it is inevitable if we can just skirt past nuclear war for a few more decades.

2025-09-25 03:54:08 GMT

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What are you reading now? What has been your favorite book this year?

2025-09-24 23:56:22 GMT

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Or like, an impromptu blood donation? No way you have more that a pint of volume in there, and any nurse in the hospital can stick a needle in ya, no diamond saws or fire trucks needed 🤷‍♀️

2025-09-23 15:00:19 GMT

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Are you making a distinction between rug and carpet here, or treating them as synonyms?

2025-09-23 14:21:37 GMT

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2025-09-22 18:39:15 GMT

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>It just means I love you in 'Zona
In Zona? Pretty sure it's recognized throughout at least the whole us; its ASL for "I love you".
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2025-09-20 15:03:53 GMT

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2025-09-19 22:02:45 GMT

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I don't know what you mean by "ok". I was not a kirk fan, I don't endorse his statements, I characterized them as "unkind, acerbic, crass, and demeaning", I'm not sure how more forcefully I could express my personal disdain for some of his commentary. As distasteful as I found them though, they were no justification for his cold-blooded murder, or for celebration of his cold-blooded murder.
As for government force, I assume you're referring to pam bondi. As far as I'm aware, she was universally lambasted by all quarters of the right for trying to invoke "hate speech". I am not aware of any appreciable number of folks on the right who want anyone put in jail for their ghoulish tiktoks or social media posts.
As far as "cancel culture" goes, there is a very big difference between dredging up a years old off-color joke someone made on Twitter and starting a social media pile-on to get them fired over it, and people not wanting lunatics who have just publicly announced that they think they would be more than justified in murdering approximately half of the US population walking around the office behind them with access to scissors. I don't begrudge any co-worker of anyone celebrating a political assassination telling HR about that liability issue. Though I do find the website and doxx sleuthing to be very cringe. I get the turnabout is fair play thing, but I'm more of a rise above it guy myself.

2025-09-19 21:27:24 GMT

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While virtually everyone admits Charlie was generally cordial and respectful to folks at his live events, he often had a more acerbic and crass attitude on his podcast. The handful of quotes of his being circulated as particularly damning are either misquotes or taken out of context, however he did make jokes in bad taste and say unkind and even demeaning things about democrats, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, and affirmative action beneficiaries. I was not a listener to his show, these are just some examples I have heard for myself since his death while investigating the allegation against him.
William's view is that kirk was 'spreading hate', and 'hate' leads to 'hate crimes' e.g., violence against minorities and democrats. Ergo: kirk was 'endangering' people with his mean words; Q.E.D.

2025-09-19 20:41:24 GMT

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>I never see the right telling each other to tone down their shit
Why are you denying the existence of Libertarians? Civil rights, non-aggression; 'tone it down' is basically our whole deal, and a whole lot of us identify broadly as 'right'. You're literally committing Libertarian genocide RN.

2025-09-19 15:41:31 GMT

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Edit accidentally posted too soon, deleted and redrafted.
>he wouldn't be endangering them
This is nonsensical. You can't seriously argue that one guy making oblique references to some lifestyles being a sin in his religion on a poscast causes real world harm but thousands of people openly advocating for the murder of more or less half the population is innocuous because it's a small percentage of the population. A little bit of consistency would be appreciated.

2025-09-19 14:44:17 GMT

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>neither of us is actually committing violence or even advocating it.
Don't pretend there weren't thousands of 'do jk next'; 'do joe rogan next'; 'do trump next'; '**do his wife and kids next**' posts and videos. One side is gleefully advocating further killing.
And yes, celebrating is also advocating because it's logically incoherent to simultaneously argue that it is bad to do, but it is good when it happens.

2025-09-17 05:17:10 GMT

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Oh, is that why everyone is talking about sneakers today? I thought we all just liked the movie 😢

2025-09-16 21:34:19 GMT

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This is some weaksauce BS. you obviously didn't click through on any of the links. Just from the couple I spot checked, in one he exaggerates the allegation far beyond what the source itself claims, in another he asserts an allegation as facts when the cited articles makes clear the claim is a disputed he-said-she-said with no hard evidence in either direction.
Coates makes his living off stoking outrage, I guess he earned his paycheck from you today.

2025-09-13 01:17:35 GMT

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I don't have context, but if you squint, the sentence could also mean "I contacted a Nepalese military official on discord, and they confirmed that they had verified the validity of the election."

2025-09-12 20:31:36 GMT

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Better at taking pictures?
Unless you're going about your business like so, you get better shots from your phone than from your fancy dslr in a drawer at home 🤷‍♀️
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2025-09-12 19:51:16 GMT

JE SUIS CHARLIE
#JeSuisCharlie #CharlieKirk #CharlieHebdo #USPol
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2025-09-11 17:56:59 GMT

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I saw Stein do standup, it was... not good.

2025-09-08 12:47:19 GMT

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Wait, but we're burying the lead; they're making a live action Reboot movie? 👀
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2025-09-04 16:44:21 GMT

If a single bueacrat in DC can compromise the health of millions of Americans, maybe that's a sign that the government has entirely too much control over healthcare? 🤷‍♀️
#note1ycz…hrhx

2025-09-01 04:04:03 GMT

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So can Jim Carry make Ace Ventura 3 now or.....??

2025-09-01 02:48:03 GMT

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>i expect them to have lawyers to advise them on it.
What exactly do you expect these lawyers to advise though?
A. Spend a ton of money to implement a one-off system that would probably be fine legally, but you never know until it's litigated. Oh, and if your service changes at all it will need to be rewritten from the ground up. Oh, and Implement it *perfectly* because if it has 5-nines of uptime but is down for a few minutes every year, or you missed a one in a million edge-case it doesn't catch, you're actually up a creek without a paddle.
OR
B. Spend 10 minutes adding a pop-up that 100% indemnifies you in all cases; then get on with your business.
I know what I would expect a lawyer I was paying to advise me to recommend.

2025-08-30 07:07:20 GMT

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Your wife works in Minecraft? 🤔

2025-08-29 17:22:15 GMT

...Its almost like letting a government agency make nation-wide health decisions just because they are in a position of authority was never a good plan 🤔
#note1unt…sm7h

2025-08-27 16:07:23 GMT

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Now imagine this but vide-coded; I think we're gonna be safe from terminator for a few more years.

2025-08-27 06:19:09 GMT

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That is just restating the premise of the question. It neither explains how, nor why the moon would orbit in such a manner.
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2025-08-23 16:43:13 GMT

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Just an observation, or do you have a theory?

2025-08-22 14:01:56 GMT

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People become philosophers all the time without inventing their own philosophical schools. Even if there is nothing new in objectivism, that doesn't preclude Ayn from the title. Afaik though, there were at least a few novel features such as deriving a theory of esthetics from individualism and her approach to intellectual property.

2025-08-07 07:25:32 GMT

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I had a roommate who read that book around that time. I just rode my motorcycle.

2025-08-07 03:49:29 GMT

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But this is **you** posting them, tho
..... am I confused? 🤔

2025-08-07 03:13:13 GMT

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But it's always someone else posting him. Why doesn't he just post for himself? It feels like a trick somehow 🤔

2025-08-07 02:37:13 GMT

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What's the deal, is this a real guy, or is ot just a meme? I could never tell. 🤔

2025-08-02 00:15:52 GMT

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*Never* forget 🗽 🫡

2025-08-01 05:40:24 GMT

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Man, some episodes are about food, and that's awesome, and some episodes are about feelings, and its like what even is a script?

2025-07-30 04:13:03 GMT

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Cheers!

2025-07-28 14:43:56 GMT

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Even scott adams gave up the L on that one; probably time to move on.

2025-07-25 12:29:07 GMT

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No anarcho-capitalist I know of takes issue with collective bargaining in the abstract. The current form of highly-regulated unions we have in the us though are completely neutered. Mandatory negotiating and cooloff periods, no wildcat or sympathy strikes allowed, it's basically controlled opposition: "sure, you can strike, but only in very regimented ways we can easily plan for and won't effect stock prices too much". Of course we also don't approve of laws requiring businesses to unionize or prescribing how they must deal with unions if they don't want to.
>they lie about the point of their ideology and its consequences for society
Nobody wants to leave the world a worse place for their children and grandchildren. To ascribe secret villainous motives to any large group of people probably just means that you don't actually understand their ideology or values.

2025-07-23 06:15:35 GMT

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...That you know of; Dr. bacon and Mr. hyde

2025-07-14 18:59:13 GMT

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And people say chivalry is dead

2025-07-13 16:20:16 GMT

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Everyone watched him rolled by the deep state for his entire first term, how is anyone surprised?

2025-07-12 17:57:11 GMT

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1 dose was 7 shots? That's crazy!
I read a book about Rabies (called: *Rabid*, it was really good if you're into nonfiction). When the vaccine first came out it was 12 doses; and before that rabies was just a death sentence.
It is able to cross the blood/brain barrier, which is why it is so devastating. But it has a crazy-long incubation period, like months, which is why you can get a vaccine after exposure and have it be effective. A really wild virus. Glad you're ok.

2025-07-10 15:07:53 GMT

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Congress has not declared war since wwii. Every bomb and boot deployed to forign soil in anger since then has been in violation of the constitution. Congress doesn't have the power to pass a law making violating the constitution legal, they need to actually amend the constitution for that.
And absent due process, we have absolutely no idea who has been shipped where. You're just taking their 'trust me bro' for it.

2025-07-10 14:51:41 GMT

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He may not be able to unilaterally write tax code, but he can unilaterally state wars in contravention of the constitution, and unilaterally snatch anyone off the street and ship them to a forign dungeon without due process in contravention of the constitution.
I guess the question is do you think tyranny is a binary or a spectrum.

2025-07-10 14:48:13 GMT

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2025-07-08 23:11:52 GMT

#maga
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2025-07-08 14:56:23 GMT

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>The lack of warranties and ability to unwind transactions is missing in crypto.
This was also a feature of cash and people never had issues. Also power to 'unwind' your transactions is the same power to freeze your transactions ala truckers honking.
Crypto has smart contracts if you're into that kind of thing though.

2025-06-27 15:44:37 GMT

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>Idiopathic scoliosis, which has no known cause is the most common type. Usually diagnosed in girls in their teens, and associated particularly with growth spurts.
👀 TIL

2025-06-27 14:49:21 GMT

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🤔 I guess I assumed it was genetic, but that seems to largely *not* be the case....

2025-06-27 05:15:31 GMT

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Is.... is *scoliosis stacked* a thing??

2025-06-26 06:06:40 GMT

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Sure, Jan.
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2025-06-24 01:06:19 GMT

#gnome
Edit
Source: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Further reading: https://woltman.com/gnome-bad/
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2025-06-23 03:29:05 GMT

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Leaves: secret message "let me join you!"
Doesn't leave: email address
👀 not quite cute enough tho.....

2025-06-21 14:58:35 GMT

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I don't think the US will have much trouble defeating the Iranian conventional military elements or deposing the existing government. Air superiority all but guarantees the outcome of that part of the conflict.
But if recent history teaches us anything it's that they will have very little influence over who assumes control of the power vacuum, and that a few dedicated goat herders with aks can send the most sophisticated fighting force in the history of the world running with its tail between its legs when it tries to nation build instead of nation destroy.
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2025-06-19 21:45:19 GMT

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>makes you all puffy
Hey, as long as it makes the muscles puffy too, I'll count that as a win
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2025-06-19 06:04:41 GMT

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The NPR comedy news quiz "wait wait don't tell me" had a story in the obama administration about a study that showed dark beer restored more electrolytes than Gatorade. It's a story entirely too good to fact check. Now after a workout and run I recover with a good Irish stout. 🍻

2025-06-19 06:00:59 GMT

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Get in *the real-estate market* early makes a man wealthy enough to pretend to be healthy and wise :roll_safe:

2025-06-07 19:36:58 GMT

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Pic related
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2025-06-04 00:54:44 GMT

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>BA in mathematics
Usually when a discipline has a BA and a BS available the difference is the BA skips the maths, so what the heck is taught in a BA *in* maths?? 🤔

2025-05-30 23:18:55 GMT

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Remember that one time when that congressman Wheels-McGee, or whatever his name was said he got invited to drug-fueled orgies by mitch mcconnell and then *someone* mysteriously leaked photos of him in drag and a video of him humping a passed out dude to the press and he lost reelection and nobody ever asked any questions about who leaked those or how they got them?? 🤔

2025-05-17 21:04:54 GMT

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Hopefully that will translate into a mild wildfire season 🤞

2025-05-16 03:37:22 GMT

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I did, but they're hard to use. Duller when I'm done than when I start half the time. Now I get them sharpened professionally

2025-05-14 04:38:39 GMT

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It was definitely something like that, because that's when I decided it was an existential risk to use gmail as my primary account for basically the entire internet and started de-googling and started paying for my email for the first time in decades.

2025-05-14 04:35:39 GMT

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Iirc, they were banning folks who uploaded the pandemic movie to their Google drives. I think I also recall a story about an app developer who had their whole google account nuked for non-woke twitter takes 🤔

2025-05-14 04:32:31 GMT

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>when are they going to start dinging people for hate speech
Bold of you to assume they aren't already.
Weren't they banning anyone who saved that plandemic movie to their Google drive?

2025-05-14 03:18:51 GMT

New google I/O you say? Well, let me guess:
-Removed even more user and/or developer control
-Added more spying
-Made the UI more like ios inexplicably since you explicitly bought **not** an iphone
-Full of AI slop nobody asked for
-Raised prices for all these new "features"
How'd I do?

2025-05-11 21:48:33 GMT

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Don't you curl paint cans all day?

2025-05-07 01:41:43 GMT

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What now?