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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 9h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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AE Double @aedouble.bsky.social · 5h

Wanted to draw the "Bumblebee Revenge Squad" image you joked about on the stream.

The Bumblebee Revenge Squad, consisting of Barricade, Wasp, Shadow Striker, Stinger, and Steel Jaw, stabbing a big image of Bumblebee.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 6h

A mistake to see the Republican majorities in Congress as “abdicating.” They want the same things, the same substantive political agenda, as the executive and their acquiescence to the president’s leadership is a form of _action_, not passivity

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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PoloBlue @therealpoloblue.bsky.social · 2d

Putting far more effort into this than I reasonably should tbh

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 7h

Found it

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Fly Away (Digimon Frontier Insert Song Dub)

YouTube video by DrizzIe

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 7h

Do you know which track?

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 7h

just hit the patterson-gimlin pose and your feet will grow to match.

Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 8h

bigger feet

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 11h

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market

Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 11h

When you choose your own data points because including those points, and excluding others, bolsters the conclusion you already have emotional investment in, that is extremely bad science.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 11h

Compile that evidence. And don't just look for the evidence that supports your theory - factor in the evidence that doesn't. And don't stop collecting that evidence when it becomes convenient - keep looking into the past. There is no moral righteousness that absolves you of rigor.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 11h

I agree that it's very difficult to be confident about these things. I think people staking their egos and such like on confident statements about the role of inflation are making mistakes - even if they happen to be right! - because *guessing* right is still being wrong.

Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 12h

It doesn't matter who is saying "you need to back up your assertions with evidence." It doesn't matter why they're saying it. It's just true.

There's nothing ad-hominem-adjacent (???) about saying "evidence is important, even when you think your opponent has none".

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 12h

You're a teacher, according to your bio. You know what it's like when multiple students break the same rules in a classroom. Bobby always says, "But Tommy was doing it too!" as an excuse.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 12h

Please decouple your disdain for Stancil/his theories from the need to be rigorous in your own theorizing and thinking.

Just because someone else is, in your estimation, lacking in rigor or otherwise misbehaving doesn't mean you can abdicate responsibility for your own rigor and thinking.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 12h

Because "all/most elections in 2024 went this way" may be true, but if you want to pick out a causative factor, you need to separate out variables, and that necessitates comparing to other elections through history and doing tons of material and cultural analysis, which is very difficult

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 12h

Now if you cast a dragnet back through history + across countries and you find a large number of other elections where first-time-inflation-sufferers voted against incumbents then we can talk turkey. But If your theory is only using 2024 as a data point then it's not a robust theory.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 12h

When you narrow your statistical base to a small number of "eligible" data points you can make the stats say anything you want. When you say "a generation that has never experienced significant inflation" you have narrowed the data points to just one or two elections.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not demanding actual answers to these questions. But asking them internally is how we keep our thinking rigorous and stay away from dead ends and circular thinking.

Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 12h

This is more p-hacking. What does this predict? Do you have more than one data point that aligns with this model? What action do you propose we take based on your model being true? Why is it more convincing to you than alternatives?

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 13h

I think more precisely, bigotry/prejudice make you more susceptible to lies because the prejudicial preconceptions offer the lies a shortcut around critical thinking and truth-assessment. But people with poor skills at assessing truth-values can be hoodwinked regardless of race or prejudicial level.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 13h

Do black voters see through specific lies or are they so (correctly) negatively polarized against the barely-concealed/overt racism (anti blackness in particular) of the GOP that the lies don't move the needle as hard?

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1d

dewey it’s a psp. you don’t want none of that shit.

i hear it has terrible battery life

it lasts ALL DAY

there’s probably no games anyway

with ps1 games there are over five thousand

there’s no way i can watch pirated movies on it

you can upload any media files that you want

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