@EveKeneinan It's not odd. My wife's a bit like that. Actively listening to music is huge for me, though.
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C. S. Lewis once noted that his dislike of children was a defect of which he was aware.
One of mine is, I think, my disinterest in music. I don't dislike music, but some people seem to think it's something they need daily, if not almost constantly.
I can go for weeks without any music. Is that odd?
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@PatrickLawren20 @moebius_strip Shhh... Let the 51st Staters dream their poisoned dreams.
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@moebius_strip there certainly are elite colleges in Canada and many national rankings to refer to
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The fact that elite colleges aren't a thing in Canada is a top-10 argument against 51st statehood
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad
Tour guide at elite college: > I'm really bad at math > We have quirky clubs! Like one where you take naps! > I'm taking a class where we only watch Disney movies Guide at mid-tier engineering school: > this is our team’s drone swarm, we have a DARPA competition next month
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@IonaItalia Why should immigrant status be a mitigating factor for anything but the most minor offences? "If we knew you were going to do something like this, would we have admitted you to our country? If the answer is no, let us use this new information to correct our mistake."
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We've had a few such cases in Australia too. Judges are sometimes instructed to take immigration status into consideration when sentencing. This might be OK if we're talking about a parking fine but if I ever commit a crime a fraction as heinous as this, please, deport me.
Fox News@FoxNews
New details are emerging about why Gov. Tim Walz's board of pardons gave clemency to a 42-year-old illegal immigrant convicted of repeatedly raping a child. Documents reviewed by Fox News Digital show that while the two board members who voted against granting a pardon noted the serious nature of Tou Lue Vang's offenses, the four who recommended a pardon each listed concerns about him being deported. One commissioner, Zach Linstrom, who voted in favor of granting the pardon, wrote in his recommendation, "Very tough case but the kids not having a father is not in the best interest of society," referring to Vang’s six children. Artika Roller, another commissioner who voted in favor of the pardon, wrote, "The applicant stated the need for clemency related to immigration issues." Following the recommendation, Walz's Board of Pardons granted Vang a full pardon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio then revoked Vang's legal status, allowing him to be deported despite the pardon.
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Anyway, a good day involving chat, swanning around Suffolk in a Jag, and good food and drink.
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@Empty_America That fine local history, Horses on Denman, made the point that,for decades after the transition to mechanized agriculture in the
1930s and 40s, horses were still widely used on Denman Island (BC), and you could ride freely over the most of the landscape.
No longer!
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"Why did you fly all the way to Alpha Centauri?"
"To get away from posted signs."
Noble Savage@sonofcomely
What it actually is, we long for a world free from the suffocation of owned space. Open fields, seas, skies
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Gaaa! If you’re going to make one of them permanent it should be standard time not DST! This way, it’ll be 2 or 3 hours between waking up and the sun rising in northern cities.
You want evenings to be dark. That’s what they’re for. But sun rising at 9am kills the day
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@stanfordNYC ...planning the planning, endless conflicting emails chains aren't just expensive, they undermine the ability to and execute purposely.
4/4
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@stanfordNYC But from the bullshit-jobs perspective, this project-choking information overhead is what creates. These jobs managing internal organizational information flows aren't bullshit in the purest sense: these people work hard. But the endless meetings about meetings, planning...
3/n
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The idea that employers are shelling out cash for people to do "fake jobs" (aka "bullshit jobs" or "Jew daycare" depending on your persuasion), is almost entirely false. Lots of sit-at-a-desk jobs in supportive or intermediating roles are simply able to create sufficient value.
FactPost@factpostnews
Vance: A lot of the people who are going and getting 4-year degrees, they're not like engineers and doctors. They have fake jobs
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The most overlooked fact about the Woodstock music festival is that Sha Na Na, the late-1950s nostalgia act (in 1969!) attracted a crowd several times larger than Jimi Hendrix did. The entire subsequent political history of the United States can be discerned from that fact
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ok, this is funnier: a few months ago was at a bar and small group of us were arguing with a married lesbian couple...and minneapolis came up, and i said that i thought somali women could be quite attractive. the couple flipped out and told us we had to leave the bar! (we did)
Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️@razibkhan
i have a big social group in austin. most of us (not all) are right-leaning. we got banned from a local bar for whatever we were talking about (a bar we frequented regularly for 3 years). it is what it is lol
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This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…
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Historians need to copyright the term historian and sue every pop historian who doesn’t even have an undergraduate degree in history to the ground
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@mysteriouskat She would come to parties at the house I lived in, cos she was friends with my housemates.
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@EvanMcM I hate the idea of surveillance cameras everywhere, but I'm afraid there's little choice.
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There are literally tens of millions of people living here now who think red lights are just a suggestion.
There is only one solution.
Manfred Wendt🦬@wendtmanfred
My family was almost killed twice on Sunday by people running red lights 5 seconds late
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