F1FantasyGuesswork
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As a non-American, this is just objectively going to be an improvement no?
Gwen ☕@GwenpostingTTV
I hate this trashy classless administration.
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@C1kt0r1A @mrs_g_rider @houshuang The two things aren't related at all, do you just use weird whataboutism on every conversation?
All you're doing is (in a tiny way) making the budget go to the wrong place - you're not increasing the budget. That money will come from other good things that have real demand...
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@ManchesterF1 @mrs_g_rider @houshuang This is like getting angry at a mosquito bite while a dog is mauling your leg
Libraries should never not get funding, doesnt matter if 3 people go there a day
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My coworker said he doesn't use the public library because he likes to own the books he reads. I told him he can do both - buy the book and check it out from the library. It helps the library and everyone who uses it as well as helping the author, plus he loses nothing. He was
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@venti_pelo @HazelAppleyard If it's good art, he signed it, you just don't know it.
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@Canteen33978132 @CerosTV Are you trying to equate actually saving lives with virtue signalling 😂
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What a literacy test
JUST PRESS THE RED BUTTON! NO MATTER WHAT!
vittorio@IterIntellectus
why would anyone even press blue?!?
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@questionableway @no2hater So you'd step into the blender?
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red is an unbelievably phenomenally disgustingly selfish decision and i do not have theory of mind for anyone who would choose it
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@kimei_yu @mrs_g_rider @houshuang This is an insane response...
Do you think these are the options? Do you think that's where the funding will pull from? Have you seen how the state works?
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@ManchesterF1 @mrs_g_rider @houshuang Man where do I want my taxes to go as an America citizen? The options are A: bombing children or B: a public resource that provides education, a safe place, material access, and the ability to borrow books for free to not only my community but to me. How will I ever decide
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@Reingehauen @mrs_g_rider @C1kt0r1A @houshuang It's intended to check out books you already own and not read them?
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@mrs_g_rider @ManchesterF1 @C1kt0r1A @houshuang Im actually mindblown by how using a public facility the way its intended is now considered "creating fake demand".
A library is there for you to read. You go there to read books. Sometimes you take a book home. Thats also its purpose.
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@ChrisAlvino @C1kt0r1A @mrs_g_rider @houshuang I'm not the one checking out books I'm not reading
"I support local food banks getting funding by showing there's demand - I go and take portions and throw them down the drain."
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@ManchesterF1 @C1kt0r1A @mrs_g_rider @houshuang Are you this anal about every other uses of taxes? Or just when it comes to public libraries that are already severely underfunded?
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@mrs_g_rider @C1kt0r1A @houshuang A lot of illiteracy in the replies...
Faking demand means other libraries and services you like get less funding for the wrong reasons. It also means the library will prioritise the wrong books because it's not got the data on what's actually read by people who need the library.
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@ManchesterF1 @C1kt0r1A @houshuang Before you put too much effort in, I'm just going to let you know up front you will never be able to convince me funding public libraries is a bad use of my taxes.
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@C1kt0r1A @mrs_g_rider @houshuang ...I agree with all those, do you think things that aren't getting enough taxes benefit from people faking demand at libraries?
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@ManchesterF1 @mrs_g_rider @houshuang You know what is a bad use for taxes?
Bombing children, funding Israel, massive salaries for governors, congress members
Your problem is not really the bad use of taxes, it's something else, because libraries are barely a drop in the bucket
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@Hockeyguy2278 @Jkineman On point that this tweet makes no sense 😂
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@Jkineman come on buddy if you’re gonna make an argument, at least have a little intelligence behind your thoughts to say Joe Biden known his best day was even remotely close to Trump’s intelligence what it’s a joke nobody wants anything bad to happen to Joe but come on
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Man fighting stage-4 cancer. Age 82. Lifelong stutter. Gives coherent answer on democracy. Every hesitation: “proof of dementia”
Trump can’t name his Defense Secretary. Forgets what country he’s in.
“Just Trump being Trump”
Pick a standard. Any standard.
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@capta1nmorgan54 @GreentextWizard You know nobody that died from the vaccine
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@GreentextWizard I know more people who died from the vaccine than from covid
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@C1kt0r1A @mrs_g_rider @houshuang I'm gonna say pointlessly creating fake demand is a bad use of taxes...
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@mrs_g_rider @houshuang ...you know where funding comes from right?
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@HSTemile @Ne_chloropterus @Chris_OH58D I've read the actual BS1363 standard, for fun, because plug/socket standards are a special interest of mine. Please take it from a plug/socket autist and actual electronic systems engineer: BS1363 is overrated and only really better than NEMA and JIS8303. AS/NZS3112 beats BS1463.
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@1OreoSpeedwagon @allenanalysis The pope is deeply educated and has a lifetime of experience in theology. Vance is a biased untalented politician trying to defend a terrible foreign policy decision.
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@allenanalysis IMHO Vance > The Pope dude.
Both are just men. Neither is holy. But one is actually intelligent and loves his fellow man enough to fight to save their lives and works to make lives better.
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BREAKING: JD Vance just told the Pope to be careful when opining on theology.
The Pope.
The head of the Catholic Church. The Bishop of Rome. The man whose institution has been the authority on Christian theology for two thousand years.
JD Vance — who converted to Catholicism in 2019 — is telling the Pope to be careful about theology.
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@AngryMaulLady @dalsault @ga_devitto Oh good point Trump talking about it changes how close they actually are to nuclear weapons and the real aims of the war so... Oh wait no not that
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Perhaps neocons will understand it with this example: if we were in the Middle Ages, the Pope would have already excommunicated the entire Trump administration and called for a Crusade against Israel for the harm it is causing to local Christian communities and pilgrims in the Holy Places. So, be glad we are in a peaceful era in which the Pope only advocates for peace and diplomacy.
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@simbasad2 no one of the lines is not necessarily perpendicular. the missing angle is 60
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@Danakin90 @FantasyWorldW1 You don't think it'll get released?
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@FantasyWorldW1 Why do people still think this is getting released?
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@dalsault @ga_devitto If only this war had anything to do with that
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@ga_devitto Right, he takes the easy path. It takes real guts for a Pope to recognize that sometimes you have to do violence for a greater good. WW2 was that. So is keeping Iran from putting nuclear bombs on missiles and threatening the entire world.
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