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My favorite Tom Sowell quote and one particularly pertinent in this climate
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Connor L. Ellington
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Connor L. Ellington
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| Constitutional Conservative | Spiral Energy | Gadfly and Lawyer ☀️ |
Texas, USA انضم Nisan 2016
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The Claude Delusion
Richard Dawkins@RichardDawkins
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I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed. English
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We live in the ruins of a greater civilization
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Happy Washington's Birthday to all those who appreciate the rule of law (since there, rightly, is no "Presidents Day" designated by federal law).
Casey Mattox@CaseyMattox_
Quick reminder that there is no "Presidents' Day." There is Washington's Birthday. You are not off to celebrate a branch of the government on Monday. Especially not one that included James Buchanan and Woodrow Wilson. George Washington is the indispensable man we celebrate.
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We live in an age of marvels. Near-instant hot water in several rooms in my house. Refrigeration. Temperature control at the touch of a dial. Instant world-wide communication.
Human Progress@HumanProgress
Home appliances generally start as luxury items, but they don’t stay that way for long. The first practical refrigerator, introduced in 1927, only reached the wealthiest Americans. By 1944, there was a refrigerator in 85% of US households. humanprogress.org/appliances-con…
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The Nerfing of the American Mind.
Probably shouldn't have turned over our educational institutions in the 1960s to the people who still think that the wrong side won the Cold War.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
The Harvard History department's undergraduate course list in 1949-50 (top images). Compare with every course offered by the Harvard History department in Spring 2026 (bottom images).
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@TheGreatB00ks Francis Fukuyama’s “the End of History and the Last Man.”
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Often referenced and seldom read.
What other books are like this?
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@JJ_McCullough Sounds like an award winning video is in the making
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Wow, I didn't realize that Prime Minister Takaichi in Japan literally won the biggest landslide in Japanese history the other day. Seems like a leader we're all going to have to get to know.
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I like Chomsky because not only was he an idiot when he ventured outside his core competency, but when he stuck to his core competency he also got everything wrong
(and by "like" I mean "do not like")
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
Like most mid-century linguists Chomsky thought words like "uh" and "like" were fillers to collect your thoughts. When Bill Labov pointed out that people are using them in texts and emails, and thus must have some semantic value, he said "that doesn't interest me."
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I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS”
Amtrak@Amtrak
THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS
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Amongst friends, we’ve joked that an example of someone stupidly oversimplifying something is “that’s like someone saying Moby Dick is a book about whales.”
Welp.
Benjamin Domenech@bdomenech
Oh man you gotta pay for this insight
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@CaseyMattox_ I was hoping this was gonna turn into a sponsored post for Olive Garden
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We don't talk enough about religious appropriation. But it's definitely a thing.
Unlike so called "cultural appropriation," the door to Christianity is wide open. Doesn't matter where you're coming from or how long you've been here. Like Olive Garden, when you're here you're family.
But for those who are just cosplaying - whether they know it or not - my faith is not your costume.
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@ConceptualJames Turns out a hit dog will holler. JBP was right on the money.
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He was mad when Jordan Peterson said the Right also harbors psychopaths.
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames
Elijah's interest in "young minds," and grooming them, is pretty obvious.
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@PeterMeijer Going one step up in the Zojirushi lineup is just as much of a game changer too.
It is pricey, so wait until some big sale, but the quality difference is incredible.
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Insanely practical. Use it several times a week.
Instructions: rinse rice, put in cooker, add water, press (only) button.
Red light means rice is cooking.
Red light goes off means rice is cooked.
$59.99
“paula”@paularambles
having a rice cooker is insane because it's like claude code for rice
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I was made aware of this against my will and now I’m making it everybody’s problem.
Sunny@sunnyright
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Covid lockdowns only eroded basic constitutional rights, centralized power in the executive branch, wrecked our political system with conspiracism and violence, unleashed a wave of riots that ravaged major American cities, threw our entire economy into 4+ years of inflationary turmoil and runaway debt, saddled an entire generation of schoolkids with mental health and development issues, destroyed public trust in science, triggered an unprecedented wave of fentanyl and other substance abuse crises, and ended up doing exactly nothing to slow or stop the disease that it promised to mitigate.
But hey. It was a "once and a century pandemic" so we had to do it, or something.
JuicyJuuce@JuicyJuuce
@TeaGeeGeePea @IcedMeatba3620 @PhilWMagness i like phil but it’s weird to still be upset years later about staying home for a few months during a once in a century pandemic
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