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a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna
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The problem with questioning birthright citizenship in the US context should not be looked at with its economic peers, but its geographic. There’s a historical reason it exists and it underpins the entire state organization in the Western Hemisphere. There exceptions in the WH also tie into that:
December 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It might feel like making and showing art is yelling into an unfeeling void, but people notice. It keeps people going. Even if that person is just you. Art makes us human!!!
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"The sun rises. It's always doing that." is too goddamn funny to be used in this book as a way to indicate that time marches on [without people paying attention to the author]. There are so many better ways to use those exact words in that exact order, and yet. And YET.
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner and DirecTV alone triggered a massive layoff wave of more than 50,000 (!) people.

But each time the press covers a new chapter in Warner merger history that stuff is just completely memory holed.

Why do you think that's done editorially, do you wager?
After 50,000 Layoffs And Absolute Chaos, AT&T Ends Its Bungled Media Experiment
You might recall that AT&T spent nearly $200 billion to acquire Time Warner and DirecTV, believing this would turn the dodgy old phone company into an innovative new media juggernaut. But desp…
www.techdirt.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"A Harvard scientist told me" she just had to maintain that conceit of never calling anyone by a name and now we're all assuming it's Avi anyway.
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Genuinely concerned it may be the tipping point t that makes him express his mutant powers, though, and don't you want to know if Peter secretly has telekinesis or claws?
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM