@wyatt_browdy They are cutting history and language departments everywhere.
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Major in history, learn a dead language, do cool work. Nothing to cry about
Kevin Xu@kevinxu
friend’s kid asked what they should major in college i almost cried what do you even say anymore
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There's a passage in Gravity's Rainbow where Pynchon talks about how even during wartime all sorts of economic exchanges between waring nations continued because capital had needs that were separate from national agendas.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
Well, I did not anticipate this: *BESSENT: US MAY UNSANCTION IRANIAN OIL THAT’S ON WATER
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@nreooww @AlHendiify That’s literally the plot of Ringworld by Larry Niven.
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@AlHendiify Post apocalyptic future in which tech regresses really badly because of plastic eating fungi rotting infrastructure...
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The other day my brother put the idea in my head that when plastivorous microorganisms start getting widespread one of the first signs will be unexplainable fires.
For all Curious@fascinatingonX
🚨BREAKING: Scientists have discovered a Fungus in the Amazon called "Pestalotiopsis microspora" that literally feed on plastic. It's not a common fungus. It can survive exclusively on polyurethane, one of the most common(and most persistent) type of plastic - and it does so even in oxygen-free environments, like landfills.
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@EigenGender Literally every time people on here talk about veganism.
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it’s really very suspicious when people think about a problem for 10 minutes and then conclude “luckily the thing that I want to do for selfish reasons anyway is actually the optimal thing for the world and I don’t have to change my behavior in any way”
Jerusalem@JerusalemDemsas
There are so many ways to give money and avoid any of the nonprofit pathologies you want to. It is pure cope to pretend that these very smart people can't figure that out. Some good ideas I've seen around include: - Prizes for vaccine development - Purchase some high-social-value patents and release them to the public - Direct cash transfers - Scholarships for people to study specific questions you think are important - Advance market commitments for important high-value tech innovations (drought resistant crops, cheap desalinsation whatever) - direct funding of open-source infrastructure - Hire a right wing person to think of more ideas than the ones I'm coming up with off the cuff
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Because there are a million other types of social structures that get in the way of this. You need your whole society to simultaneously agree that the law overrides the will of a clan's patriarch.
space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪@actsmaniac
purely technically it's pretty easy to get rich as a nation, you just need rule of law, basic property rights and a functional court system. the weird question is rather why these basic features are so rare on a global scale.
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 20 days to make your voice heard.
They filter drinking water for downstream communities. They hold soil on steep slopes above salmon streams that are already in crisis. They’re home to the northern spotted owl, the marbled murrelet, coho salmon, steelhead, and hundreds of species that evolved over millennia in conditions you can’t replicate by planting seedlings in rows.
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announce…
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@sp6runderrated We need to make the general population realize that recession = house falling down because it wasn’t built sturdy enough, rather than a forest fire clearing out the weedy undergrowth.
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Many republicans believe recessions and job losses are healing events.
This belief partly explains why the country does better under Democrats
Trip Gabriel@tripgabriel
198,000 -- net jobs created in first 13 months of Trump 1,400,000 -- net jobs in last 13 months of Biden h/t @peterbakernyt
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@EFemboycel Nostalgia is one of the roots and faces of fascism.
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lowkey starting to understand why the Greeks thought nostalgia was an actual mental sickness
James Medlock@jdcmedlock
So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"
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@abcdentminded @LegoRacers2 Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck (1434). The POV is from the eyes of a person in the doorway looking at the couple, who can be seen in the mirror on the back wall.
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Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?
Noem: I don’t know.
Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out.
You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?
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Some U.S. military commanders have reportedly been accused of telling their troops the Iran war is part of a biblical plan to trigger the end times huffpost.com/entry/troops-b…
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the sunni/shia split over Charlie's legacy is divided along the lines of the ones who believe the leadership should follow through the family line (Erika Kirk) or the people who believe it should be decided by community consensus (Candace Owens)
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I like the community note, we’re getting scholarly debates over the authenticity of the various Hadiths of Charlie
Turning Point USA@TPUSA
CHARLIE KIRK: “If you are serious about actually protecting human rights, you should want to make Iran Western again.” @charliekirk11
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@agraybee Every so often a taxonomist will go through a group and reorder, split, and merge various species. Modern phylogenetic analysis also allows DNA-level distinctions between species that visually are not at all distinct, which is where a lot of new species are found. 2/3
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Can any entomologist explain how we discover 8,000-10,000 new species of insects a year? Are we actually discovering new ones in the untamed wilds or are we determining that various subspecies are actually different enough to be their own species?
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Are there any good sources I can read about No Lives Matter/764/Order of Nine Angles?
Slazac 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🌐@TrueSlazac
“One of the biggest national security threats in America today is a Satanic pedophile neo-Nazi group roaming around Roblox to groom children” is a sentence that is 100% true but will make you sound utterly insane to 95% of the population
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Really don't understand how this isn't a bigger scandal. This is conspiracy to commit federal witness tampering (and likely witness murder) for the purpose of covering up a foreign government's deal with organized crime, a deal that has been affirmed by the DOJ.
Anonymous@YourAnonCentral
In 2025, Rubio and Bukele reached a deal where gang informants, key to combatting cartels and gangs, would be betrayed by the US and sent to El Salvador. The deal hands Bukele custody of people who threatened to reveal agreements between Bukele's government and MS-13.
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How much more open does he need to be before people accept that he’s telling the truth about his intentions. He’s going to screw with the election, and he and his cronies are not ceding power. January 6th was a test, and we failed it. Stop minimizing what he’s flat out saying.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: “We don’t want people who can’t love our country voting in elections”
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