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Cormac McCarthy died. Haven't gotten around to reading his work yet

IIRC it's more that the feds copied Virginia. At any rate, it's because the people who designed this country's framework did not want it to function as a democracy, and were deeply committed to flawed ideas about how to create a government.

averagejoel posted...

there are approximately 10 "moderate republicans" in the entire US and they all have NYT Opinion columns

Correct. Even among that crowd, there's a deep realization that their politics can't win power. Or you'll see a brain dead take like "Trump was a response to the villainization of Romney."

https://fortune.com/2023/03/16/meta-hoarded-us-like-pokemon-cards-former-staffer-fight-for-work-mark-zuckerberg/

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Whats the point of posts like that?

He likes arguing. He thinks it's fun.

Media dorks will try to tell you over the next few months that this guy poses a serious challenge to Donald Trump in the primary. They are selling you something

https://twitter.com/DrewCurtis/status/1650906236936757249

People forget how popular jibjab was. These deep fake simalacrums of content probably be wildly popular even if they are utterly devoid of anything we might call creative merit.

How many did you read last year?

Smh censorship,

CRON posted...

I'm assuming you had everything in order by then, though. A decent enough job, enough money, a car, your own place.

I share an apartment with multiple roommates, make 40k a year, and rely on public transit.

I was 29 before I had a serious romantic relationship, and yesterday was my six month anniversary with my girlfriend. It can happen quicker than you think.

This is the blue check experience now: Twitter misleadingly suggests that noteworthy people and institutions have subscribed to its service, and when they say "actually, we haven't," they get harangued by the most obnoxious dweebs on earth, who have subscribed.
https://twitter.com/EricColumbus/status/1650199783716405253

*jerk off motion*

https://reason.com/2023/04/20/police-lied-about-death-of-cop-city-protester-they-shot-57-times/

Congratulations, you've bankrupted The Onion

It's the insanely bad one the Founding Fathers came up with

I could use a dollar, I could use a couple bucks

How many Democratic senators does Georgia need before liberals aren't gleeful to abandon them?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-delivery-by-drone/

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had a big surprise for correspondent Charlie Rose this week. After their 60 Minutes interview, Bezos walked Rose into a mystery room at the Amazon offices and revealed a secret R&D project: "Octocopter" drones that will fly packages directly to your doorstep in 30 minutes.

It's an audacious plan that Bezos says requires more safety testing and FAA approvals, but he estimates that delivery-by-drone, called Amazon "Prime Air," will be available to customers in as soon as 4-5 years.

People are recalling this due to 60 Minutes' recent coverage of AI
https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1647742247444553732

First Friday in August

https://twitter.com/keirenkun/status/1647642201609084934

Here's the secret: all generations are! They're a marketing tool.

Pas5wordFAQ posted...

I really hate to say this but

his lawn >> her life

You wouldn't have logged into your alt to say it if you hated it. You love saying stupid shit to get attention, is what I think.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/washington-county-20-year-old-killed-saturday-17901499.php

A 65-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old Saratoga County woman Saturday evening after the car she was in mistakenly drove up the mans driveway.

Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said Monday that Kaylin A. Gillis was in a car with three other people Saturday night looking for a friends house. The rural section of Washington County where the shooting took place is dark at night and many of the properties are only accessible by unpaved driveways.

Murphy said the group mistakenly drove up to a house on Patterson Hill Road, 19 miles northeast of Gillis' residence in Schuylerville. As they attempted to turn the car around, the sheriff said, Kevin D. Monahan came out on his porch and fired two shots, one of which hit Gillis while she was seated in the car. No one from the group had left the car or tried to enter Monahan's house before he came out and opened fire, Murphy said.

With Gillis wounded, the group drove to Cemetery Road in the neighboring town of Salem, six miles south of Monahans residence, at which time the shooting was reported to 911. Murphy did not say if the group was trying to get to a specific location, but said that the area has little cellular service. Emergency crews arrived and started CPR on Gillis.

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1648080083297468417

Idk I'd say not wanting to kill people is a better incentive

specialkid8 posted...

Nuclear. And harder crackdowns on countries and companies that are blasting out emissions and not taking proper steps towards renewable energy.

Would you agree with my assessment that this runs significantly closer to the left-wing consensus than that on the right?

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1647996695328833544?t=STe3ftBs7ycnbv2kXD3jJA&s=19

What is your view on how to address climate change, as a centrist?

It's rare to come across a conspiracy theory on here I haven't seen before elsewhere

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/11-year-old-stabbed-at-a-dollar-tree-after-calling-man-npc/ar-AA19U9zv

It is my firm belief that even the annoying 11 year olds should not be stabbed.

The Founder Fathers were

1. Bad at designing governments
2. Old

Crinkle up a piece of paper and toss it in the other direction

I feel like I forgot a major brand, oh well

Stardew Valley

Blocking rocks.

This sort of evisceration can be cathartic, but is a poor substitution for power.

You have to keep in mind that she's British. People are naturally more fucked up looking there.

Oh good, I'll be less embarrassed by my own sweatiness

It's easy to have some bad interactions in a row and feel like you're doing something wrong or there's something wrong inherent to yourself. Even after meeting my girlfriend, I still had that sort of thought process. I felt like I hadn't really done much differently in those early dates with her as compared to my other experiences. But what I've realized over the course of our relationship is, rather than something being wrong with me, I just hadn't found the right person yet.

It's trite and not the answer a lot of people are looking for, but sometimes "just keep trying" really is good advice.

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Yeah, the guy who was regularly on TV for decades had sway among Americans! Pompeo's biggest fans are op-ed columnists.

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None of those people live outside the beltway. There is zero constituency for this guy

This sort of statement seems almost designed to turn people away from identity politics. It's hard to imagine any other response to something this cynical

s0nicfan posted...

If someone is liberal in all aspects of society/culture except one, are they liberal?

The label matters significantly less than the impact of their actions, no? Being a "liberal" is not a get out of judgment free card.

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/KTVU/status/1646331069237698561

The most likely outcome of the cynical use of identity politics like this will be backlash against identity politics.

Given the statistical randomness of baseball:
https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=math_facpubs

In order to approach the level of parity (or lack thereof) of the NBA playoffs, MLB would have to switch to a 16-team tournament in which each round was approximately 75-game series

I don't think you should make sweeping declarations on national quality based on a sample-size of one head-to-head game between inequally chosen rosters.

"happened" is an interesting verb choice