Sean
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Is Pixies' "Doolittle" the single most important alt-rock album of the 80s? Change my mind.
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@RadioFreeTom It’s the failure of religion, not in the strict sense of the morality of the bible, but in how religion shapes our metaphysical outlook, which frames our judgments. It is also a failure in education to a degree, although the boomers were not being taught Epictetus generally.
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I’ll just say it again: the most determined Trumpers are people of my generation who went to school during the supposed golden age of public education. But basic education cannot help the average person understand some of these documents.
Ellery Johannessen@JohannessenLaw
@RadioFreeTom Because the GOP has spent the last 40 years meticulously destroying public education and giving rise to right wing media, people will not know how to read these documents and understand them. They will take his word for it and we will be weaker as a nation for it.
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@Th_Midwesterner This is an idiotic take. The issue is a global one, not a national one. Fighting this problem as a nation v nation problem is not only impossible, but directly counter to any workable solution.
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Absurd. We’re being poisoned by another country and our representatives are writing letters.
Is Gretchen Whitmer even here to care?
Blake Harms@wxblakeharms
Goodness gracious. This is the scene near Petosky this afternoon as smoke advances south through Michigan. 📸 John Hogan
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For the fourth summer in a row, Canada has made its wildfire smoke Michiganders’ problem.
The implications are real — and hazardous for you and your family — yet zero accountability for the country that constantly pushes crippling environmental regulations.
Canada has to get its act together—and as your Senator, I’ll make sure of it.
WXYZ Detroit@wxyzdetroit
Canadian wildfire smoke is heading toward metro Detroit, and an Air Quality Alert has been issued through tomorrow. Here's a photo from the Mackinac Bridge earlier this morning.
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@SaxondaleCity @Panurgien @JoshTBVO I want a reggae album out of the Stones and heavy metal from Paul
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@Panurgien @JoshTBVO Lame response. Every album since 1997 has sounded essentially the same. Same instrumentation, safe mid-tempo shuffles. This is because Dylan has self produced every record since then. No outside influences. Not knocking him. Just stating facts.
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No offense to the Stones or McCartney, but Dylan has had the best 21st century — by far — of any of his peers, and Dylan isn’t even my favorite of his peers. He could put out a polka record next and everyone else woild still be like four albums behind him.
Niall@scriobh
The Stones have made a damn good Stones record, McCartney has made a bloody brilliant McCartney record. The ball is in your court, @bobdylan.
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@officialctpod @woodwardsports @boonersports @jeffiafrate @calebczarnik I won’t watch a game again until he loses the C
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With Steve Yzerman out as GM…
Do you believe Dylan Larkin will end up STAYING with the Detroit Red Wings? 🤔
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@Dostoevskyquot I had a great life long friend who epitomizes this principle. He is also the most competitive person I’ve ever known.
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth, well known to all intelligent people.
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Trump claims that "illegal alien truck drivers are killing a lot of people," so instead his administration is going to "replace them with proud American veterans. We're gonna take our veterans, we're gonna teach them a lot about driving trucks."
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have there been any recent breakthroughs among metaphysicians about the question of whether socrates could have been an alligator?
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@MilesTaylorUSA Truth is he stomped on his own grave. He wrote his epitaph. He could have written it differently but he chose what he wrote. I wish he wrote it differently, I wish he had more time to write it differently, but I’m also glad that the story he chose to write ended.
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When his enemies die, Trump stomps on their graves — and we rightly call him a ghoul for it.
Don’t be like Trump.
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Toad the Wet Sprocket never got talked about the same way Counting Crows or Matchbox Twenty did and that's a genuine injustice.
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@SirAnthonyGames @JoyceCarolOates Game theory isn’t a strategy being employed by our youth. It is default carcass of dead virtue. To call it strategy is to give it an impetus that doesn’t exist.
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It's precisely Game Theory that promotes deceit as a successful strategy. Machiavellian perhaps, though the man saw them as virtues.
And to Joyce's point, one can't expect our youth to ignore how this is socially implemented and rewarded, nor get mad at our youth for thus implementing it.
At any rate, kids cheating on their schoolwork not only robs society of our future Einstein's and Oates' but robs themselves of a world where new discoveries are precisely the point of education. They'll just drift from position to position, ever at the whim of market forces, leveraging whatever tactics land them a higher rung.
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now they--("adults")--are pretending to be outraged, scandalized that young people "can't read"--"cheat with AI"--when virtually everyone in power in public life not only cheats with impunity but openly like T***p & his insider trading family, obscene pardons for convicted wealthy criminals, complicity of Congress & the Supreme Court. deregulating of every industry bent upon poisoning the environment in which young people will be coming of age. insane war in Iran costing billions of dollars to no purpose but T***p's vanity; & adults enabling him as in all his criminal enterprises.
but yes, teenagers are supposed to pretend that honesty, dignity, decency, maturity will be properly rewarded when anyone can see that the very reverse is true.
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@mr_mxyplyzyk @RadioFreeTom I think there is something very wrong about anyone who thinks there’s nothing worrisome about a president, or any elected official, who “posts outrageous stuff like this to annoy, rattle and infuriate people”.
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@SeanscSs @RadioFreeTom I don’t buy that this, or any of his posts, mean “something’s very wrong” with Trump.
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So much weirdness in this most recent threat to destroy Iran. (Why one year? Praise Allah?) The Iranians have, I suspect, learned to tune all this out.
But something's very wrong with the president.
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@SirAnthonyGames @JoyceCarolOates It’s not game theory. It’s the death of virtue. Virtue survives on community not ambient things air.
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@JoyceCarolOates Game Theory aside, an education is an end in itself. One needn't monetarily incentivize new discoveries to make them of value to humanity—anyone cheating their way into a lucrative position robs themself of that and more.
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@mr_mxyplyzyk @RadioFreeTom Say you are right. How does that negate what Tom said?
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@RadioFreeTom He’s been president for 6 years, he’s literally been quoted saying he posts outrageous stuff like this to annoy, rattle and infuriate people like you and you take the bait every single time.
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@DavidAFrench Purity contests in a democracy are unfair and frankly stupid. What matters is influence and control, not membership.
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“Roughly, you could say science is what we know and philosophy is what we don’t know. For that reason, questions are perpetually passing over from philosophy into science as knowledge advances.”
—Bertrand Russell
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@JamesMartinSJ I wish we could frame the issue more accurately. He is every bit as Catholic as the Pope. He is what you’d expect from a new Catholic as you would a new student - total ignorance of the faith. His unrestrained pride is what keeps him stupid and dangerous.
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"It is a remarkable scene to place near the center of a conversion memoir, and Vance appears not to notice the import of what he has written. A dying pope spent some of his last hours receiving an emissary of the government then assembling the machinery of mass deportation, and the emissary’s recorded emotion is irritation."
americamagazine.org/books/2026/07/…
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@davidclowery These people have traded Christian virtue for nihilistic virtue.
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My father was working class and career military. I never heard him curse. He was married to my mom for nearly 60 years. I'm not sure where folks are getting the notion that working class/military authenticity requires vulgarity and a measure of depravity?
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@JoyceCarolOates It aligned itself with all classes, including the wealthy and the artists.
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these great cathedrals are indeed massive, astonishing. but look beyond surfaces & what are they?--monuments to the overwhelming authority & power of the Church displaying such wealth & aligning itself with wealthy ruling classes from which its highest priests were drawn.
institutionalized religion is surely the first, the biggest, one might say the best con in human history; proof that humankind will believe & even pay for any fantasy so long as it assures them that they have immortal souls & are very special.
James Lucas@JamesLucasIT
The first time you turn a corner in Florence and the cathedral appears in front of you, it does not look real. This is Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral of Florence, and it is one of the largest churches ever built. It stretches 153 meters long and rises 90 meters from the floor to the base of the lantern. When it was completed in the fifteenth century, it was the largest cathedral in all of Europe, with room inside for tens of thousands of people. Even now, it is among the largest churches on earth, surpassed in size by only a handful of others in the entire world. But the real marvel is the dome. Filippo Brunelleschi built it between 1420 and 1436, without the wooden scaffolding everyone believed such a thing required, laying over four million bricks in a self-supporting double shell in a herringbone pattern he devised himself. It weighs tens of thousands of tons and it rises to nearly 115 meters. 600 years later, it remains the largest masonry dome ever constructed anywhere on the planet. Nothing built since, in brick and stone, has ever surpassed it.
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