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Aura @aurahack.ca · 49m

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 35m

Id watch this.

AAMS @culticon.bsky.social · 37m

I have pledged to write a remake of The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by James Cameron.

Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 35m

I'm now absolutely doing it as a bit for you.

Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 40m

I've pledged to go on a date with Sydney Sweeney

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2h

OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.

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Aaron Gleeman @aarongleeman.bsky.social · 46m

Matt Mikulski has been released by the Twins after posting an 8.44 ERA in six games for High-A Cedar Rapids.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 48m

I'm glad to see this guy has gone full mask off.

Among the more repulsive online figures.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 49m

The fact is Kwan probably has 90% of the vote so the threshold to get on the "podium" is probably tremendously small.

Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 49m

I do think incentivizing tiers in the playoffs teams does at least maintain an element of it mattering.

Play-in games, and/or byes seem a worthy thing teams will strive for.

Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 53m

Valve seems like a really good company.

I'm aware they're essentially a monopoly at this point, but it's a good product.

Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 55m

Windows is putting no real effort into it, and Valve is the only company that really has the resources and motivation to get a functional platform.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

The OS is gonna be the killer app.

I'm not buying something with a hacked together windows solution.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

Fisher?

There is such a vermin problem where I live that if they wanted to depopulate some of those I'd be over the moon.

That said I've also worked in a bird sanctuary so, I do understand

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

The ones that present as the most normal are the most fucked up.

Especially growing up in a super rich neighborhood like I did, the idyllic family in the mansion all have horrific skeletons in the closet.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

The indoor/outdoor cat thing I find so weird.

Like, yes cats get run over by cars and eaten by coyotes, but if I want my cat to have a fuller but shorter life living in the "wild" rather than locked in my apartment that should be up to me.

The SPCA says otherwise, or at least did.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly.

Can you afford to feed the dog? Are you going to abuse the dog?

Ok man here you go.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

People are really weird.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

This is also the inverse of this Jazerli law of catcher defense. No one knows how to properly evaluate catcher defense so the bad hitters must be the good defenders

Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

Naw I used to work in pet adoption and there are people who think you need an FBI background check to be given a dog, it's weird.

The easiest ways that manifests is in regards to outdoor cats.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine thinking family group chats ARENT the weird ones you don't want to be in.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

They're just saying stuff. This definitely isn't happening

Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

96 is an absolutely comical number of teams.

Karim Zidan @karimzidan.com · 1d

Imagine: the “Peace Cup,” a 96-team event held in the demilitarized zone between two historic enemies. North and South Korea? India and Pakistan? Israel and Palestine?

For Infantino, anything is possible, so long as it is sponsored by Coca-Cola and Aramco

www.sportspolitika.news/p/nfantino-p...

Gianni Infantino, Peacemaker

Infantino’s diplomacy is not the diplomacy of treaties and compromises. It is the diplomacy of branding and spectacle. Where others see conflict, he sees opportunity.

www.sportspolitika.news

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

I'll say sun placement matters alot, tho I guess this is a question about a literal subway rather than an elevated one.

Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

If someone sits in 5 while 4 is unoccupied I'm judging you, unless its a very empty train.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

Do you think direction of travel effects seats 1,2 &3?

I don't think it would effect my overall rankings, but clearly the front facing 4 & 5 is preferable to the rear facing ones.

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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social · 1h

The benchmark charts in here are shockingly bad.

I'm not paying $1000 so I can get 20 to 40% worse performance than competitors.