@a22kay @MattZeitlin @tobiaschneider Listen I agreed you had dominion over the faith of our future children, but it's going to be a Coke Zero household
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ProfessionalReplyGuy
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dumbass patrician cruise missile lib
Katılım Aralık 2014
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Coke Zero drinkers are not persons in any morally or intellectually significant way, they’re philosophical zombies
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
As Coke Zero gets bigger, and threatens to dethrone Diet Coke as the most important diet soda property in the Coca-Cola extended universe, the feud between Diet Coke fans and Coke Zero drinkers is getting pretty fizzy. on.wsj.com/4wKhvI5
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My unpopular opinion is that Biden’s econ team achieved their stated goal of world class Covid recovery, avoided recession (once thought inevitable), prioritized employment, navigated global inflation, and delivered benefits to the working class. it’s just that voters hated it.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Definitely ... but how about not bringing the entire Bidenomics team while we're at it, too?
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One of the worst parts of American decline will be having to read about Internal Ethnoreligious Strifes 1-1000 in every psycho middle power ascending into regional relevance
Octavian 🇪🇺@posta_octavian
In case you missed what's going on in Turkey, I got you covered: - the ultranationalist party is becoming friendly with the Kurds - Islamist Erdogan just passed a law banning Islamism - the leader of the Kemalist party is trying to destroy the Kemalist party
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the meta-problem is this is literally every single field of science
we have created a system where science gets funding by shrieking about the possible dangers they are trying to prevent
this is how you get epidemiologists making diseases stronger, climate scientists predicting apocalypse, etc
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It's a big problem that tons of climate journalism/ discourse has consistently used the worst case outlier model and presented it as a prediction of what was most likely to happen. But as it stands, even the worst-case scenario is being radically adjusted down. Hopefully climate journalists/ advocates don't just adopt the next worst-case model and instead discuss the most likely scenarios modelers have painted.
There's lots of work on this: it doesn't help motivate action to do doomsaying. It feed fatalism on the one hand, and mistrust of models/ climate science on the other (when we remain far from our goals but nothing like the "predicted" outcomes manifests).
Steve Guest@SteveGuest
Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5. “Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.” vox.com/future-perfect…
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@StatisticUrban @alargemike Social media makes it salient in a way never before seen in history
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Everyone has a theory. Is it the rising cost of housing, healthcare, and childcare? Is it long-term inflation sticker shock? Is it social media? Is it the prospect of AI? Is it the beginner job market?
No one knows.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
The permanent vibecession is here to stay
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"you don't understand, I was told pushing the red button would keep me safe! I'm a part of the in-group!"
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
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@evanf1997_ Scourge of the Past was so cool because it wasn't some ridiculous god. We fought so many of these so-called gods it got boring.
No, a bunch of NUTJOB ELIKSNI JIHADIS are going to launch the 1000 BLACK CRUISE MISSILES OF THE MACHINE at the city and just MURDER EVERYONE
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this person lives in saudi arabia btw so the only "secular trauma" i can imagine is that they let women drive a couple years ago
Timsa7@Omarnksa
secular trauma that religious people endure is a million times worse than your religious trauma
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She is farming you all for engagement. She is making money off of this manufactured outrage. None of it is real.
LB@beyondreasdoubt
Taylor Lorenz has to be top ten social media personality who is completely out of touch with the real word
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this past weekend i had a conversation with a mutual about how, as our lives in the West have improved, we have lost sight of just how good we have it
how do you think most people ate throughout history?
how do you think most people eat today?
Mayne@Tradermayne
So the solution is to eat PB&J sandwiches, apples and bags of chips for lunch every day for a week? Are you fucking 5?
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For the same reason that people in the West stopped having servants around the turn of the 20th century. The West is rich, so employing humans is expensive. Cars started off as a luxury while many middle class people had servants. Now it’s reversed. A lot of the time what people mean when they talk about QOL abroad is there are a lot of poor people to employ as servants
Lauren Chen@TheLaurenChen
Why are restaurants so expensive in the West? I'm honestly asking. In Asia people eat out almost every day, there are options cheaper than cooking for yourself. But even "street food" is expensive here. I paid $17 for 4 tacos out of a truck from a guy who spoke no English.
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They're combining shit in Photoshop that ain't ever been combined before
Mlyniash@Mlyniaaaarz
@ShitlibSupreme Taiwan should be and will be liberated
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@Viscountpost I love this discourse because like if I wanted to eat out more often I would just try to make more money
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During ZIRP, middle class Americans got a little taste of what it's like to have servants, and some ppl are really mad it went away. But the US doesn't really have the class language for that flavor of resentment, so we get the silly-sounding human right to burrito taxi discourse
The Viscount ⚓️🇺🇲@Viscountpost
Okay but this very much is an "everyone deserves a pony" thing. I'm a mid-career attorney. I can definitely "afford" to eat lunch at a restaurant every day in the sense that I have that much money in my bank account. But I don't because that's wildly irresponsible. 1/?
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@GwenpostingTTV A generation of boomers that grew up smashing action figures have to die before the mouse is allowed to consistently do anything with this setting
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Insane how Star Wars can go back and forth from this to "somehow Palpatine returned" at a moment's notice. It's basically a 50/50 coin flip of peak or slop.
javi@1610SPlDEY
I still can’t believe Bill Burr of all people gave us a performance this great like ??
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@CartoonsHateHer Should we throw a party? Should we invite Bella Hadid?
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oh dear I fear I have just been Inspired. the yellow one. I must sew a dupe.
Geordan@geordanavar
Bella Hadid wearing Louis Vuitton by Marc Jacobs ss03 in Cannes today
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