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I prefer grooves, but you really can't go wrong

There's not a slogan you could come up with that would
- be actually desirable
- not get smeared by right wing media.

Given the choice, you should tick the first box. You cannot make a reality that liars won't lie about, but you can make reality better for those actually experiencing it.

andel posted...

should just be pushing police accountability and tougher penalties for rogue cops

This has been tried. At every turn for 50 years police "reform" has been tried, implemented. Chokeholds have been banned, body cameras put into place, more training paid for, bad apples rooted out. How's it going?

https://twitter.com/Yonklerr/status/1687112594111524865?t=0VywV4rN4vMrzSd9eTxV1g&s=19
Lmao

My AP psych class was first thing in the morning and I was always half asleep.

Important citizen journalism
https://twitter.com/mattybtweets69/status/1687076131881586688

https://twitter.com/BGrueskin/status/1687069531825426433

California has a high homeless population because it has high housing costs. It doesn't have more drug use or mental illness than other states, it has higher financial barriers to affording a house or an apartment for those who have come upon hard times.

Sad_Face posted...

there are multiple clones out there like it in addition to tons of investors and developers are salivating at the opportunity of replacing it using more innovative technologies.

It's not technology that draws people to Twitter, any more than it draws people here. It's communities. People have an audience or accounts they follow that can't be replicated on other outlets because those people aren't on other outlets: they're on Twitter.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/08/18/name-discrimination-jobs

"You can't stray from the established hierarchies lest the powerful discriminate against you" is an argument against the powerful, and not for conformity

Chillscream123 posted...

It was widely advertised.

Are you this credulous about every ad you see?

DUKLegend posted...

On one hand, these seem like they were written by someone trying to frame somebody else.

On the other hand, I can DEFINITELY see Giuliani saying these things.

This is an audio recording

Dead pigeon do not eat dot jpg

Ricemills posted...

Why didn't you read different books from the same author this year?

It wasn't planned going in, but at some point fairly early on I realized I could do 30 books by 30 authors and set that as my goal.

refmon posted...

How do you pick which books to read?

So I'm weird about this. But I've tried to balance my reading via contrasts: following up a newer book with an older book, an author from the US with one from elsewhere, trying to read more women authors in general.

Bishop_Hastur posted...

I've read two of the books on your list, so other than The Jungle, and The Idiot what from your list would you suggest I read first?

If you liked The Jungle: In Dubious Battle
If you liked The Idiot: The Flamethrowers

KINDERFELD posted...

Listening to audio books IS NOT READING.

These are books I read! I reserve audiobooks for stuff I've read before

This mf would put up a literal bat signal and then send a tweet with the cry-laughing emoji.

Tuesday night bump

Been a pretty significant effort to tie criticism of this curriculum (including and maybe especially from black Republicans) to Kamala.
https://twitter.com/search?q=Tim%20Scott%20kamala&t=BdnTCDVMn1Kw5qEz0_oWaw&s=09

https://twitter.com/AlexShultz/status/1686420085643137042

There has been a measured decline in kids' participation in organized sports:
https://tinyurl.com/5n7py6uw

As for a decline in TV ratings, basically everything has declined owing to the proliferation of entertainment options.

https://twitter.com/LiveBoston617/status/1686442418403495969

Well at least there aren't any old people in higher positions.

It has a big impact on stuff

Do trans women have an unfair advantage at this or

FunWithAFryPan posted...

The Decagon House Murders sounds interesting, whats it about? Is it a mystery novel?

Yeah, it's a mystery novel. I don't know if the translation let it down or what, but I found the writing pretty bland and uninspired, even if the mystery itself was neat.

I live in Brooklyn and love it

Buddy,
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80522845

The power of organized labor: his predecessor had come off as a real villain during the teachers' strike:
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/11/6/20951459/kentucky-democrat-beshear-bevin-teachers

CyricZ posted...

Have you read Vita Nostra?

I have not

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It's really strong. For a variety of reasons, Okonkwo is often an unsympathetic protagonist and yet his fate feels unjust and unfair in the end.

KanWan posted...

if you had to recommend 3, what would they be?

Signs Preceding the End of the World
Tinker, Tailor
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

So about the legality here:
https://twitter.com/Jesse_Brenneman/status/1685358222373224450
Click for the full image, where Musk mocks the landlord calling authorities re: the obviously illegal sign.

I played a lot of Sniper Elite 5 last year

a-c-a-b posted...

What Vonnegut novels have you read? I remember you mentioning before about reading him.

Breakfast of Champions
Slaughterhouse-Five
Cat's Cradle (actually re-listened to the audiobook recently, so it's the freshest in my memory)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Mother Night
Deadeye Dick

Slapstick is on my shelf, just waiting for the right moment to join this list.

Mike_Xtreme posted...

Did you like The Idiot? I read it last year and was pretty disappointed with it, I expected more after reading Crime and Punishment and The Brother Karamozov (I thought both were fantastic)

I really did like it, yeah. You can feel as you read it that it was sorta unplanned, it was published serially and he changed his thoughts as he went along. But it still packs a lot in there.

I'll get this question out of the way:
In Dubious Battle, John Steinbeck
Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera
The Sound And The Fury, William Faulkner
The Decagon House Murders, Yukito Ayatsumi
We Had To Remove This Post, Hanna Bervoets
A Dead Man's Memoir, Mikhail Bulgakov
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre
The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker
Grime, Sybille Berg
Rum Punch, Elmore Leonard
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolao
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

Quake-64 posted...

Why does muskrat hate the people in front of his building?

He hates everybody

BurmesePenguin posted...

What does it matter if Twitter HQ has a bird logo or an X logo?

The X logo is absurdly bright

Truman in 1941 advocated for supporting whoever was losing the eastern front to maximize the death toll
https://twitter.com/nkulw/status/1685317994241507329

Jabodie posted...

Was Twitter ever profitable?

It was very profitable to its former owners when they sold it for $44 billion

andel posted...

he showed up and detained a dangerous and violent criminal

How violent was he before someone showed up with a gun?

A podcast I listen to from time to time is Sticky Notes. It's a show about classical music whose host is a conductor. And one of the things that comes up frequently in his discussions of famous pieces is the vagueness and ambiguity of written music: all the notes are there, but the tempo, the emphasis, these things might only be described using a single word, or if you're lucky a footnote from the composer. On top of that, there are composers infamous for changing their minds about their work after it was published, who put out revisions and new versions and changed the order (or even the number!) of movements in a symphony, for example. The interpretations of these works has shifted over time, and recordings of the same exact piece might carry a different tone or feeling as a result.

Among other things, it is on conductors to make the final decisions as to how a piece is performed, what version of it will be performed.

RuneterranSnap posted...

At no point was the thief ever justified for any part of this.

If someone is pointing a gun at you and someone else, does their reasoning have any impact on your right to defend yourself from that threat of lethal force?

I can't speak to the critical reception, but platforms like Netflix like Korean programs because they aren't unionized:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/21/netflix-south-korea-india-sag-strike/

brestugo posted...

He has a lot of money and an agenda. He can still be influential. He's gotten most GOP candidates to commit to a Trump pardon already.

Did he do that? Or did the fact that they're chasing after voters who all want Trump pardoned?

Key to a healthy life is not knowing the names of any Youtubers

Karovorak posted...

Seems like the truck thief shot first.

Are you allowed to shoot first when you and someone else are being held at gunpoint?

Southernfatman posted...

Doesn't he come from old money or something like that? Probably was never "good".

As old as frozen food empires can be, anyways.

Andrew Yang for people who hate China