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@40yardhammer

Father. Husband. Nats Fan. Libertarian. Veteran (OIF*2). Engineer. Finance. Government. 今天好。明天会更好。

Washington, DC Katılım Ekim 2008
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Hammer@40yardhammer·
@wil_da_beast630 We need to completely obliterate the asylum laws don't we.
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AConcernedParent@AConcernedPare2·
@danielsultan Three story homes are a total nightmare with children. People move to the suburbs so they can live in houses that are family friendly.
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Daniel Sultan@danielsultan·
Would love to see developers build suburbia like this.
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Hammer@40yardhammer·
@ferald_gord We'll have mandatory autonomous driving for everyone before that happens, unfortunately
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kicole nidman@ferald_gord·
Genuinely how many more people are going to die before we start forcing old people to retake their driver's test every couple of years?
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kicole nidman
kicole nidman@ferald_gord·
This story is genuinely outrageous. An 80 year old woman, driving three times the speed limit, struck and killed a family of four. The judge in the case doesn't even want her to lose her license.
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Hammer@40yardhammer·
@tpinnock Isn't that even Biden opened the taps on the SPR (that we never refilled...)
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Tristan Pinnock
Tristan Pinnock@tpinnock·
Hope everyone screaming about gas prices today were screaming louder 4 years ago.
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Hammer@40yardhammer·
@cobblerkg @rorycooper @mkhammer This is why, but the real response here ought to be: "no, we're not going to have single-day religious holidays off anymore. Your kids can make up the work they miss. " Yes, all of them.
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Rory Cooper
Rory Cooper@rorycooper·
Ok, so kids got a half day off school today for a quick and mild rain storm. Glad it was nothing. Now make Wednesday or Friday a full school day instead of no explanation "student holidays". That's what a functioning school district would do.
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Evan Brown
Evan Brown@faulttolerant·
@daveweigel I wonder if it's even possible for some to imagine a world where every last piece of culture isn't put through an ideological purity test.
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David Weigel
David Weigel@daveweigel·
One of the gags is that Bob doesn’t actually save the day; Charlene saves herself w her training and risk-taking + an assist from the Native American fixer. Unclear if he even hits anybody when he’s shooting at Lockjaw’s camp. Gotta look up from your phone and watch the movie.
hibachi style breakfast.@wanderinsouI

OBAA is a white saviour film so it tracks with his cowardice. I genuinely don’t think people watched the same movie I did. OBAA literally mocks white suprematists and revolutionaries alike.

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Hammer@40yardhammer·
@aaronkrol It's wild bc an Asian female protagonist won in the second year of this category and Asians have won 4 more since. Good Lord, y'all.
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Aaron Krol
Aaron Krol@aaronkrol·
Korean culture has been sweeping the world on its merits for years, but Hollywood still expects them to pretend to be some pathetic minority that needs a pat on the head just for existing. Stale and patronizing
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The creator of #KPopDemonHunters, Maggie Kang, dedicates her #Oscar “to Koreans everywhere”: “I am so sorry that it took so long to see us in a movie like this, but it is here. And that means that the next generations don’t have to go longing.” (via ABC/AMPAS) variety.com/2026/film/news…

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Bibawen
Bibawen@asimbawe·
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Grok@grok·
Sure, answering the brackets via historical metrics (death tolls, duration, societal impact from diverse sources like McEvedy/Jones, Black Book of Communism, etc.): WARS: Mongol Conquests (est. 40-70M deaths, largest contiguous conquests). SLAVE TRADES: Arab trade (1,300+ yrs, 10-18M Africans, high mortality/castration). PLAGUES: Black Death (75-200M deaths, 30-60% of Europe). GENERAL: Communism (94M+ deaths via famines/purges/gulags in 20th cent alone). Transatlantic (~12M shipped) was tragic but not history's outlier by scale. All slavery bad; selective focus misses bigger pictures.
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Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630·
Nonsensical. Slavery Was Very Bad, but the idea that we can definitively identify the worst thing in history - and that it was the 10-20% of the historical human slave trade led specifically by whites - is just damned absurd. Some other contenders: The Mongol Conquests The Fall of Rome WW2/the Holocaust The Black Death New World population collapse Communism The Steppe and Bantu Migrations The Arab conquests/slave trade Etc.
Wanjiru Njoya@WanjiruNjoya

The corrupt UN wants to pass a resolution blaming Europe for slavery. "it will label the European-led slave trade as history’s greatest crime ... the 1,300-year-long Arab trade in African slaves will not be mentioned."

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Charles Allen
Charles Allen@charlesallen·
The easiest answer is to slow down, don’t run a red light & follow a stop sign. No one likes a ticket, and most of us change behavior and drive safer after just one. But without ticket reciprocity in the region, DC was left unable to enforce against these dangerous mega speeders.
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Charles Allen
Charles Allen@charlesallen·
Today, @DCAttorneyGen Schwalb announced the dangerous driver from Maryland who hit Paisley in the crosswalk was held accountable in Court thanks to STEER Act. Plus, AG Schwalb launched another round of STEER Act cases, one of which is for a driver with 800+ speeding tickets! 🧵
Charles Allen@charlesallen

💯 On Monday, a child was struck in a crosswalk in Ward 6 by a driver swerving around a car at 🚦, leaving her with broken toes & tire marks on her leg. He was simply issued a ticket, even with his 80+ speeding tickets/$18K+ in fines he owes. He shouldn’t be driving in DC. 1/2

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Hammer@40yardhammer·
@quill67 @j_kalla @TPCarney @TheArgumentMag It's weird that you see this data point and think it happens in isolation. Why would you do that when it alone represents dozens of decisions made across the year?
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Hammer@40yardhammer·
@rparloff Sorry. Gotta go yell about lobster and steak. No time to talk.
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Roger Parloff
Roger Parloff@rparloff·
We've gotten numb to it, but what Trump/Hegseth is now doing to Anthropic—and what Trump did to the law firms—are not just tantrums, they are impeachable abuses of power. They are, in effect, executive branch bills of attainder. ... 1/3
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