@JamesSurowiecki It's a very specific defense I think. He's a former DoJ lawyer - he probably knows not to say an easily disprovable falsehood (and also that this will likely get dismissed, b/c god help him if it goes into discovery)
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This was an oddly specific defense from Patel, because The Atlantic article doesn't say he's been intoxicated on the job - it claims he has drunk to excess while off duty.
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@agraybee Philadelphia, I forgot that too. Although Ryan Cooper's piece about there being 15,000 credentialed journalists at the thing was seared into my brain: theweek.com/articles/63980…
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The 2016 election is permanently seared into my brain and even I forgot what city the convention was in.
Alex Thompson@AlexThomp
New: the fight to host the DNC 2028 convention ramps up this week with DNC officials doing site checks in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia. The whisper campaigns have already started: Atlanta doesn't have enough union hotels, Chicago hosted the convention in 2024, Boston signals "liberal elite," Denver isn't in a swing state — and Philadelphia, the 2016 host, is a reminder of the year Hillary Clinton lost the election. axios.com/2026/04/19/dem…
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@jdcmedlock They look pretty awesome for the drivers. Maximum visibility, low step off to the ground, standing room package area, and finally A/C.
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@xenocryptsite And even that's not a universal rule. Doctor Strange 2 made a lot more than Doctor Strange 1
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@xenocryptsite They've just turned into more traditional sequels, where you'd expect they wouldn't make as much as the ones before (like the original Star Wars Trilogy - each one made noticeably less than the one before it).
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Bit of a false memory here. A lot of people say the MCU was doomed because people tuned out right after "Endgame" but they had three of the ten biggest movies of 2022, three years after Tony Stark died.
Joseph Kahn@JosephKahn
Marvel ended for me as soon as Tony Stark exited, and frankly from most people judging by the collapse of box office afterwards. Killing beloved characters will always feel more like salacious corporate mandates than real story beats. The execs may not believe in Iron Man, Han Solo, James Bond, but we do.
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@rustbeltjacobin High-Eds kind of just don't do unionism in practice unless they're some combination of really mission-driven and sometimes lower paid (like teachers, nurses, and reporters). It's weird they say they like it so much.
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There are 2 dynamics here, both edpol
High-Eds have become uniformly pro union despite mostly not being in one
Low-Eds increasingly anti / ambivalent, such that most private sector jobs can prevent unionization unless forced into neutrality
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
another data point here is that the union share of the workforce is near an all time low while approval for unions is really high
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@bataille_chris I think they were averse to the kind of disruption it would entail in their supply chains. They'd have to go tell suppliers they've known and worked with for 50 years that they won't be renewing contracts (and the latter will thus likely shut down and lay people off).
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Why was this so clear to anyone watching what was happening in China, especially once LFP hit the market, and so unclear to the Japanese (and US) car makers?
Ed King@edking_I
Japan's car giants are in trouble. They ignored / lobbied against electrification - and now it's come back to the bite them in the exhaust pipe @TheEconomist economist.com/business/2026/…?
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@jdcmedlock That's kind of bad for immigrants, though, judging by Scandinavia. The cheap firms tend to hire more immigrants and lower-income workers.
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We're costco guys, of course we support employer federations and union federations bargaining over sector wide wages to stabilize aggregate demand and use solidaristic wage compression to reallocate labor from low to high-productivity firms
James Medlock@jdcmedlock
Yea, I'm supportive of antitrust as a tool in the tool belt, but skeptical of it as a theory of everything. Small firms will always have a role, but I don't want to be a nation of small holder yeomen farmers. I'm a costco socialist: big firms, big unions, big government.
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@CJHandmer How to keep them clear of settling regolith and micro meteorite impacts, plus rail life issues (the bane of railguns as IRL weapons)
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Writing about lunar mass drivers - what do you want to know?
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@arpitrage World of Aristocrats. Everybody doing a performative attire, performative home, competitive behavior in public, etc.
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A post AGI world without the use of wages to allocate scarce and positional resources (for houses, cars, etc etc) will need to find new status markers built on consumption
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@TheBrianMcManus It's so wild how cheap Euro Discount Fares are. You never see that here in the US.
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I just got tickets from Paris to Cork for $25 each.
At that price you can slap me on the arse and call me princess during boarding for all I care.
The Driven Man@Thedrivenman
When the CEO of Ryanair wanted to charge passengers to use the toilet in flight.
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@StatisticUrban Given how readily she jumped into that kind of corruption, I wonder if she used to have shady practices when she was working for Sean O'Brien at the Teamsters.
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Kind of incredible how deep the corruption goes. It's seemingly almost everyone in the entire Admin.
Enforcement is selective, though. Used a cudgel against disfavored members.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
LABOR SECRETARY CHAVEZ-DEREMER RESIGNS
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The big mistake Blue Origin made IMHO is trying to jump from occasional suborbital flights all the way to heavy lift rockets with methane-oxygen engines. Developing an easier Falcon 9 equivalent with the easiest possible kerolox engine would have gotten them into space faster.
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Unfortunately, space IS hard; the 100% success of SLS so far shows that the extra degree of oversight can be beneficial - neither Starship nor New Glenn are ready while SLS has already sent people back to the moon!
Stephen Clark@StephenClark1
Mission failure overshadows Blue Origin's rocket reuse milestone, with AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 cellular broadband satellite declared a total loss after launching into the wrong orbit. arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/…
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@schuld3157 There’s definitely smoked and BBQ chicken, but it always feels like it takes forever compared to beef. Plus a lot of people here just eat chicken breasts from chicken, which dry out too easy
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海外の友人達、君達が今も素敵なBBQの画像を送ってくれていることを嬉しく思う。
ただ、気になったことがあるんだ。
鳥肉でやったりしないのかい? あるいは他の肉は?
日本人は焼き肉であらゆる肉を食べるから、気になって仕方ないんだ。教えてくれよ肉のプロ達よ。
迷えるラム肉を導いておくれ。
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@PythonMaps It’s always wild to see how rugged western North America is.
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Fun concept, the distribution of elevation levels on the earths surface
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@SwannMarcus89 That would require these folks not to be the most narcissistic and selfish people on Reddit. Even their answer is about the impact on them, rather than the SO and kids.
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Have you considered just not cheating and spending time with your kids instead?
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@quantian1 Wasn’t Perplexity also the company that got caught web-crawling on Reddit without paying?
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I always thought it was strange that accounts were talking about Perplexity (bad product) instead of Claude. Turns out they were being paid lmao
Dr. Simon Goddek@goddek
@realpeteyb123 Hey @nikitabier – is this against @X’s TOS?
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