@digby56 Which is why Democrats need to quit pretending they'll get rewarded electorally for fixing Republican messes. “Eat your veggies” is a loser of a message every time.
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Luke Maurer
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Luke Maurer
@Jyrinx
Software developer at Jane Street. Also a mediocre local stand-up (pending the end of the pandemic). Oregonian expat. he/him
London, England Se unió Temmuz 2009
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If Trump wins he will come in and immediately take credit for all the work that Biden did to fix the mess he made. Same as it ever was.
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@sophieey07 @apollo_owl @aurorawatchuk Guh. I can't get the app or Web site to say anything *at all* for going on an hour now
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Red alert: aurora likely. Issued 2024-05-11 15:57 UTC (16:57 BST) by @aurorawatchuk. #aurora
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@ddayen Could be that he was bluffing and he now finds himself not bluffing.
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The memory hole which the fact that McCarthy already threatened to hold the debt limit hostage over 2 months ago will be thrown down is as big as the Grand Canyon.
This was 4 days of useless posturing
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@bluesmank_k @DavidOAtkins They won't care about this. It'll be old news. But if this is a glimpse of what's to come …
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@DavidOAtkins Feels like you can make voters care about it when the time comes.
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@StateAbolition @JayBeaThree @Magpie1928 @Redistrict Not if it's Peltola versus Palin. We already know how that would go down (assuming nothing changes).
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@JayBeaThree @Magpie1928 @Redistrict It’s not even that. The Republican votes were split but they carried nearly 60%. The Democrat won with 40% via ranked-choice. If it’s a two-candidate race, Rep. vs. Dem., Republicans probably win the seat back in November.
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Breaking: Mary Peltola (D) defeats Sarah Palin (R) in the #AKAL special election.
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@DavidOAtkins I don't think that explains it entirely. *Some* rich liberals surely do want their ideas to win. But *none* (or very few) are doing it this way, which tells me it's seen as not just ineffective but *wrong.* Who wants to be the Sheldon Adelson of the left?
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@DavidOAtkins I wonder if it's just the one weakness that unifies just about everyone left of center: the attitude that their truth is so true that everyone will believe it if only we can reach them. Dumping money like this means admitting their ideas won't win on the merits alone.
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@ELS1F @drmistercody I can never stop thinking about his resting dog-trying-to-understand-calculus face.
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Tucker Carlson's staff spending all day finding out that "Qanon" is not a website.
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew_lawrence
Tucker Carlson says he couldn't find any evidence that the Qanon conspiracy theory even exists, like theres nothing out there proving that it's a thing
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@DrNerdLove My personal ADHD lifehack is to drink coffee straight out of a Nespresso. That way the entire cycle from “I should drink coffee” to drinking coffee *usually* fits inside my attention span. (Though occasionally I still find cold coffee sitting there in the evening.)
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@AlphabetMethod @chrisderose @ThomasGalvin @Popehat Yeah, but it makes closing off those routes *trivial.*
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@Jyrinx @chrisderose @ThomasGalvin @Popehat Maybe that island doesn’t have as tight of control on who enters and leaves it? Maybe people can ride cars and trains to it
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“Nothing that could’ve been done, policies and leadership don’t matter, it’s just a virus that’s going to take its course.”
David P Gelles@gelles
Covid-19 deaths since the pandemic began South Korea (pop 51M) : 1,557 South Carolina (pop 5.1M): 8,324
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@AlphabetMethod @chrisderose @ThomasGalvin @Popehat Yet somehow the United Kingdom has been much more like other Western countries than like New Zealand.
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@chrisderose @ThomasGalvin @Popehat Most international travelers don’t arrive at all lately, very easy to control that when you’re an island nation
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@JennieTetreault @opinion_left Sure, but they're not entitled to them.
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@eegorebeaver @AStrangerJ @AirWaterSnow @david_mutrie @jtemperton The maintenance costs are absolute murder.
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Breaking: Uber has lost a landmark gig economy case in the Supreme Court. Uber drivers must now be classified as workers and receive minimum wage and holiday pay
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@DavidOAtkins Technology that's supposed to empower everyone keeps on empowering the powerful. No reason to think this'll be any different.
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@pwnallthethings @RMFifthCircuit Yeah. ValuJet was back in 1996, more than two decades ago.
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Look, world, can we just cool it on this stuff for a little bit?
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JUST IN: Denver International Airport officials tell us United Airlines Flight 328 bound for Honolulu returned to the airport after an engine problem. Neighbors heard a loud boom, took these photos of what look like Boeing 777 engine nacelle in their yards.
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@petemuntean I was today years old when I found out that the word “nacelle” wasn't made up for Star Trek.
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JUST IN: Denver International Airport officials tell us United Airlines Flight 328 bound for Honolulu returned to the airport after an engine problem. Neighbors heard a loud boom, took these photos of what look like Boeing 777 engine nacelle in their yards.
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@daralebrun @SoCalLakerGirl @kesayers @sarah_in_ny Sorry, must've missed when “$2,000 check” became a figure of speech like “just a sec.” Last I knew, people still thought it meant “check in the amount of two thousand dollars.”
Anyway, have fun explaining fine print to angry voters.
(Also, why do we want Trump to share credit?)
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@SoCalLakerGirl @kesayers @sarah_in_ny You're like the kind of idiots that, if your friend asks you for "just a sec" on the phone—and they take a minute—you come back with "It wasn't a sec! You lied!" Is that how you want to live?
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@snakefield1 @traveler825 @marcusdotM @rubytheretailer @jtemperton That's why no one makes it that obvious.
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@traveler825 @marcusdotM @rubytheretailer @jtemperton It's has nothing to do with Uber. If my job cut my wages in half...I and the rest of my coworkers would leave. If Uber tries to pay the minimum then Lyft will pay more and all Uber employees will become Lyft employees and then Uber will have to pay more or go out of business.
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@AirWaterSnow @david_mutrie @jtemperton Uber also rely heavily on investor capital to subsidise costs in order to survive. In New York, for example, it was found that on average fares were subsidised to the tune of 41% as Uber attempted to bottom out the market and drive competitors into the Poor House.
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@JhonBidon @kevinrns @jtemperton That … doesn't seem like a crazy amount of money for a professional license. You should hear how much it costs to drive a New York cab.
Probably doesn't take long to make up the difference (especially after maintenance costs).
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