Casaubon
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“Ruby Bridges and ruby ridges” is the prescription for 21st century liberalism
i am not talking about arresting them. we need a ruby ridge every week for four years.
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The Qingli Reforms of 1043 are not yet complete and History will continue until they are.
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It's genuinely so infuriating that the Trump gender is seen as the rational gender. We will be paying for this era of maladjusted man feelings for the rest of our lives, and you think they are cool and rational!?!
legitimately it's hard for me to imagine having so little self-respect
lawyer brainnnnnsss
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god i'm so excited for eric adams to announce "the first official video game of the kingdom of bahrain" in 2027
Mayor Adams says that once he leaves office he plans to "go back to school" and get a doctorate. He says he also plans to write a book and work on "a documentary."

He says the job offers he's fielding at least in part relate to "things in other countries."
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Pantagruel would have loved hearing you talk about "rise and grind." Especially because he would know exactly what you're talking about: codpieces
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I liked this construction physics article on rising US traffic deaths. Very bleak.
- Too little on how poverty has suburbanized, although it's mentioned
- Canada has much stricter driving laws, I suspect this is a big reason even w/ big SUVs
www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-so...
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?
It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.
www.construction-physics.com
V much a junior role. I also don't think it's, as a whole, the *easiest* thing in the world but each individual task is *very* easy.
nahhhhhhhhhh I just sorta make spreadsheets and email them to people. sometimes I copy an old memo and edit it.
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Carr still having a career shows how shallow 'cancel culture' was
(okay maybe I only learned pivot tables later because I didn't use excel much)
Every single thing I do for work is something I knew how to do in 9th grade.
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increasingly feeling like I didn't learn anything whatsoever in college but it's possibly just because I have not had to utilize *anything* I learned in college for my job.
I've been wanting to be convinced of this for years but the scale of money printing from ads has me sure I just "don't get it" tbh. Like maybe it really is still worth it to run all those ads.
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I do know a lot of these IRL. And here’s me waiting for them to drop
a bad opinion that’s fully 90 degrees off from what I guessed their secret bad opinion might be
handling a glowing piece of metal with tongs
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honestly no that entirely checks out
Look, nothing he can post or say can be funnier than being an active r/antiwork user who is also a small business owner.
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God damn Donald Trump god damn anyone who won’t damn Donald Trump
The main issue with this take is that things were really bad in the 1600s for the groups that would later dominate much of the world and form the US. And then the world had already ended once before for “them”(assuming continuity) in the 1300s. I propose that history is simply bad things happening.
we killed God and have spent the last few centuries trying to crawl out of His rotting eldritch corpse.
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We should restructure American journalism so that the second sentence stops being true.

That second sentence is also probably one of the most important themes of the last few years.
I wrote in february that the administration had an apartheid refugee policy. As usual though in this business it's better to be wrong in a way that powerful people like rather than right in a way they don't. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Only
Trump wants to “promote the resettlement” of white South Africans.
www.theatlantic.com
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Unfortunately was bound to happen given Syria remains under existential threat by its US backed neighbor and also wants to be integrated into the global economy while the EU drags its feet. Anglo-Western skepticism towards Arab polities not immediately friendly to Israel is a constant problem.
Guy who lives in industry city
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