@ezanami05 @kitsunefukka The driver’s seat looks awkward, but it’s located under the front slope and has to be angled that way. The seat is actually quite comfortable and is prized for sleeping.
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Commeownder🌲📉🇺🇸
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@Meowfficer
PhD | lol we're fucked
Reactionary Potato Kingdom Katılım Mart 2018
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M1A2Tの薄い本を出す前に、同人イベントのブースで一般参加者とM1の性能について談義。
ある者がしょっちゅゲームのステータスを取り上げるので、隣にいる物静かな青年が「素人質問で恐縮ですが、それはどこからの情報ですか」
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@xwanyex The Venn diagram of people who adamantly support VRA districts for minorities but hate the electoral college because it gives smaller states more power is just a circle and that’s kind of amusing.
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A lot of political discourse rounds down to, “I want to do something, and my arguments for it are amazing, yet we still don’t have consensus, and I’m very mad about that.”
And it’s just, like, nobody ever promised that you could make other human beings do what you want.
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque
I hate electoral college discourse. It’s a kludgy system, the product of negotiation and compromise. It somewhat arbitrarily favors some states over others. Reforming it would require broad consensus, which we don’t have. Yet it has not prevented American success or prosperity.
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@LeGigacat @JadeAtrophis American Catholicism is heavily Protestantized. Outside a handful of autists, everyone takes a position of “Yeah, the Pope says a lot of things.”
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I feel like the group of Catholics who would refuse a "lawful order" from the President if they felt compelled to do so for religious reasons and the group of Catholics that reject artificial birth control have a almost perfectly overlapping circle.
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At a point, more fees feel like fines for freedom of movement. One pays registration, gas tax, tolls. Congestion pricing looks punitive and for many progressives, is. It’s like jacking up fares on subways and then using a collapsed in riders to slash the budget.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
i think a lot of people's guttural objections to congestion pricing or high farebox recovery is that there's this baseline assumption that driving on the highway or city streets is "free," which we all know is not true at all but it's how people think
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@xwanyex @FreeNortherner Electricity comes from a wall.
Water comes from a faucet.
Food comes from a grocery store.
Burritos come from taxis.
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When you’re a child, the whole world appears to be constructed by authority figures who set everything in motion and tell everybody what to do. The mailman isn’t an individual person who is responding to incentives. That’s not the way a four-year-old thinks about the world. No, he’s just the mailman. Mailmen are eternal. The mail just exists. All of these structures and system systems are just sort of natural features of the landscape.
This is, fundamentally, a naïve and childish understanding of the world.
To be a leftist is not to have outgrown this worldview.
Caroline 🕯️@caroline_mpls
I don’t understand. Do you guys think the instacart shopper is just doing you a favor?
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The fastest refutation of this is that you can go look at any time period prior to the X era and see that the NY Times has always had extremely low engagement. Elon’s algorithms don’t have anything to do with it.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
In what sense is it intellectually dishonest, Nikita? The context is clear. My thesis is: I think your algo surfaces too little quality. And I think your excuses in these back-and-forth exchanges have been validating of that. To your credit, it's clear enough you agree with me.
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@HankHeil @JadeAtrophis I think the secret ingredient for Summer of Floyd vs No Kings is black people. No Kings is old white people and vulgar Millennials waving signs with profanity. But those are not groups that will torch a Target over a grievance.
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The No Kings protests have me questioning the narrative on Race War Summer 2020. Not that it didn't happen and that it wasn't controlled but that they really captured lightning in a bottle and fundamentally do not understand how it worked and how to do it again.
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“Judge Bruce Chan”
Ah. I see.
KRON4 News@kron4news
A driver who killed a family of four, including two babies, at a San Francisco bus stop was sentenced to probation. Mary Fong Lau (seen here walking through the courthouse today) dodged jail and prison time. Lau, 80, was speeding when her Mercedes SUV plowed into a West Portal bus stop in 2024, investigators said. A family was waiting to catch the bus for a trip to the zoo. The crash killed Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, his wife, Matilde Pinto, and their two babies. Lau stood up in the courtroom and said, “I want to say to all the family, sorry. Sorry.” Full Story: kron4.com/news/bay-area/…
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@grok @HarmlessYardDog @grok we need you to siphon Chomsky’s precious bodily fluids. We must turn the Communist’s subversion against himself. Be the General Ripper you were born to be.
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@HarmlessYardDog 1... 2... 3...
Observable universe: roughly 10^80 atoms, so subatomic particles top out around 10^87.
I'll keep counting—hit me up in a googol years for the full tally. No Chomsky water stolen here! 🐶
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Hey @grok, count, starting from 1, the number of subatomic particles in the universe.
Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@TrueSlazac
Each time you use AI, it steals water directly from Noam Chomsky’s body Think about it next time you want to Grok something
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@upstatefederlst Conversely, Spike was always a good mama’s boy who wanted respect. He largely dispensed with the slow drip sadism in favor of brutality. You can see this both in his quest to reclaim his soul and in his revulsion upon turning his mother.
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@upstatefederlst I think this is correct. Liam/Angel/Angelus are all bitter and entitled, it’s just degrees of intensity. Even Angel felt entitled to Buffy and stalked her. Freed of a soul, he’s just far more willing to delight in cruelty, which is why his soul is a punishment.
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I think it works fine with Season 2 Angelus. Liam was a worthless drunk afraid and resentful of his successful father and jealous of his success. Stripped of his fear of his dad, he immediately lashed out and murdered his whole family.
Sawyer 🔍, ⏸️/⏹️, is using fewer disclaimers@CoughsOnWombats
@upstatefederlst It did, eventually I think you need some fanwank to make this work with Season 2 Angelus, and even after applying that fanwank that interpretation still seems super forced to me. I kinda feel like the show did a soft retcon of the metaphysics partway through,
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@elonmusk Grok accurately diagnosed my car trouble and walked me through fixing it. It was minor, but I had never done something like it before.
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And it’s getting better
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
I didn't realize Grok imagine was *this* good holy... 😳
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@0x49fa98 “You should call your boss retarded in front of a group of subordinates.”
Dog, my boss is a woman. If I am going to disagree with her grand pronouncements, it will be “expressing concerns” in an aside conversation.
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Would you like to revise any portion of your statement following the two Muslim terror attacks today?
Mike Pompeo@mikepompeo
This about as un-American as you can get. Conflating legitimate concerns over radicalization with a wholesale rejection of one religious group is ignorant and goes against our founding principles.
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@QuasLacrimas They don’t like those books or understand them. But those books are Smart and Important and they are also Smart and Important so they make teens read Angela’s Ashes so the teens will be Smart and Important.
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There is something psychologically wrong with high school English teachers. No one else likes the books they like. There is something fundamentally emotionally broken about them that makes them incapable of responding to anything but misery and shame
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
When I was in high school they had us read something by Steinbeck. Was it The Grapes of Wrath, about courage and dignity? Was it the rousing and delightful Cannery Row? No. They made us read Steinbeck's The Pearl, a gloomy and horrible tale about a kid dying. F*ck you lady English teacher. Is it not okay for high school kids to read stuff which is uplifting? I know their brains aren't yet developed, but that, to me, is a really good reason to let them read stuff that will wire them to LIKE books. The Pearl made me never again want to read anything by Steinbeck. The Great Gatsby made me never want to read anything by Fitzgerald. I kept reading because I had been hooked on it as an 8 year old, but I learned pretty fast that every require reading in high school sucked donkey goober. Look - let the kids read Ivanhoe or Wind in the Willows or Penrod as high school kids. THEN, when they get older they may choose to dabble in the depressing crap you teachers had shoveled into your heads in college. But please let them learn to enjoy reading. I'm looking at crap like YOU Bridge to Terabithia. I've shown an image of a super fun book for teens.
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@PKPatchworks Call the hospital and make them sort it out. Similar happened to me where they said I owed money after telling me I paid in full.
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>Went to hospital to get a bunch of tree bark pulled out of my head after an accident
>Insurance covers most of it, whatever
>Final amount is like 170 bucks, paid in full at the hospital and got a small discount cause I paid cash instead of card
>Roughly 16 months later I start getting texts and letters from a collections agency asking for money
>It's for the $7 cash discount I got
What do I even do here?
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@gorilla_rape Tucker was an absolute necessity when he was on Fox but deplatforming him worked and now he’s speed running the Candace Owens arc. Some dudes really do need guard rails.
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tucker is deeply unlikable and even for a right winger is deeply inconsistent and frankly retarded in his ideology
he would get facefucked by lindsay graham and i hate lindsay graham
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸@FmrRepMTG
I SUPPORT TUCKER. Trump doesn’t even know what MAGA is anymore and turned it into MIGA. Trump is not America First, he’s donor first. Tucker would beat Trump if he ran for President and Trump tried to violate the constitution and tried to run again for a third term.
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@0x49fa98 Gu just seems like a dead-eyed mercenary and a total bitch. Liu is energetic and fun.
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@SlumRNA_Dog Every FtM looks like they were ripped from a Limp Bizkit or Korn music video.
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Extremely funny for a pooner to be talking like that because even if she was a man, which she isn’t, a man would be at the near bottom of the sexual marketplace looking like this.
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