@theodoricitalia @dilanesper Litter cleanup and graffiti removal are time honored traditions
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@_themoman @dilanesper Perhaps a stopgap could be really sucky community service. I'm talking fixing potholes in 90 degree heat, wearing a jumsuit with what you did printed on it.
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Good tweet about a controversial issue.
I'd put it higher than 30%. But the basic points are:
1. Drunk teens do bad things to impress friends, and grow out of that to become good adults.
2. You can't admit to (1) given modern politics.
3. Democrats got desperate and elevated crazies.
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630
This was one of the craziest modern-era stories/scandals. I still think there's at least a 20-30% chance Ford was telling the truth - 80s-90s HS and college parties were WILD. But remember the other allegations about rape gangs and fights on boats and such? These scum threw the whole chamber pot at the boy, missed, and just yelled "BELIEVE ALL WOMEN" and moved on.
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@dilanesper @theodoricitalia This is where law and order types really need to focus on confinement conditions. If a weekend in the juvie poke just kinda sucked for a teenager, but the conditions were great, people would be more open to a night or two in confinement for teenage monkeyshines. But they're not
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@theodoricitalia @_themoman In other words, all of the mailbox bashers should probably face some serious punishment-- some time in confinement, suspension from school, loss of privileges. But the point should be that if you move on and stop bashing mailboxes, you'll face no serious lasting consequences.
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@JamesSurowiecki Tim Walz didn’t write that, some staffer that doesn’t know ball did. This is the main danger of having staffers trying to write in your voice on a social media account.
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I still don't understand how Tim Walz could possibly have tweeted that AOC could "call a mean pick six." He was actually a football coach, right? He is, presumably, a Vikings fan. But no one who has any familiarity with football would ever say that. So what the hell happened?
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the internet is so much more ephemeral than the old print based world
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
Honestly what a bunch of assholes @ABC
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@dilanesper There were some kids that got caught streaking at my h.s. in the 90s. They threatened to put them on the sex offender list (for exposing themselves to minors?). While I don’t thinking they should be let off Scott free. Living their whole lives as sex offenders isn’t proportionate
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@dilanesper Depends on what you mean by “much tougher”. Punishment should be more than a slap on the wrist, but we shouldn’t go full “that’s sexual assault”
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@emzanotti Flammable water due to gas exploration wasn’t a hysteria. There were multiple studies linking it to leaking wells that contaminated groundwater with methane
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I’m not pro-data center, but this is starting to feel hysterical, like when everyone thought fracking was setting the water on fire
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
META built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Water pressure collapsed. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are common.
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@cars0000n @SeanTrende Districts are so big that unless you uncap the house significantly, local representation is pretty weak. With multi-member districts, parties can give each member coverage of different parts of the state. It would be good for rural Ds & urban Rs to have an effect on the election
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@SeanTrende Hot take but what’s the point of single member districts versus just going full PR when most people can’t even name their member of Congress? We’re in such an interconnected world plus politics is so nationalized now that sometimes I struggle to see the point in districts anymore
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People treat a simple compactness/minimal splits criterion as if it does nothing. That’s wrong. It’s basically what Bernie Grofman and I use for 95% of our work in Virginia. It would help a lot, and be far less controversial than the so-called partisan fairness measures.
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
A maximally compact map would, in many states, genuinely much better than what we have right now.
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@_themoman @greggnunziata Yes, obviously that ignores the timing issue. Under normal circumstances, I'm sure many Rs would've voted for him. They weren't going to vote for him in the vote that everyone's complaining about.
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OK, a lot of, "but Garland" in my replies.
I was a senior Senate staffer at that time and opposed moving on Garland. I argued that we should be clear that we weren't moving on him on the merits and not make a fake argument that precedent controlled. I still think I was right on that.
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should we REALLY make our schedule release video in halo?
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Also Mrs Met as Bo Katan. I’m begging y’all to be normal about this.
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Is that Mr Met as the Mandalorian or Dark Helmet?
SNY Mets@SNY_Mets
Mr. Met as The Mandalorian and Mrs. Met as Bo-Katan Kryze for Star Wars Day
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@benryanwriter @DougJBalloon @JonHaidt Dude, Twitter is not at all the real world and resembles the real world less than it did when that phrase was coined. It also doesn’t represent a wide array of opinions. Do you think catturd is more influential in the real world than the NYT because he gets more engagement than?
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@_themoman @DougJBalloon @JonHaidt X is 10 times the size of BS and has a much wider array of political opinions.
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NYU professor @JonHaidt, who has stood at the forefront of the movement to challenge academia’s culture of suppressing the free exchange of ideas, is facing a campaign to cancel his graduation address. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/…
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@nfacehero @bendreyfuss You know who else cast a black Helen of Troy? Orson Fucking Welles, in 1950
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@bendreyfuss In aggregate casting a black woman as Helen of Troy, a trans man as Achilles, and Zendaya as a greek goddess...
Either Nolan is dumber than a roof shingle or he's doing it on purpose.
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How dare Christopher Nolan offend Greece by casting a black woman in his film as a Greek. He must apologize immediately to the one Greek person Americans can even name: a black basketball player in Milwaukee.
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@DrBennyRush @CenTexLib @avrilbradley23 @JMilesColeman Half of the eligible men in the Union and 90% of eligible white men in the Confederacy fought in the Civil War
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We haven’t had—and might not ever have—a president who was born in the 1950s.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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@vir_innominatum @TheWapplehouse I completely fucked over my Google search algorithm trying to find the image of the floor humping “master your body weight” ad
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@_themoman @TheWapplehouse Drunk frat boys bleeding on the floor after fighting with broken bottles.
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Cops are stupid enough to still believe you can OD from touching or breathing around fentanyl. That glove company employee deserves a raise.
antifa barbie@evilgilby
somebody at the glove company was like “i know how to sell more gloves to cops”
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@gribbo586 @LPDonovan This. There’s definitely a moral panic aspect to it. Though, I bet if the data centers guaranteed that they would cover electricity price increases for X years to keep electricity prices flat, they’d buy off all but the cranks
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@LPDonovan I think energy prices rising just as more and more data centers are being built doesn’t help the pro data center cause.
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Sympathetic to the logic (and the model is working where it's working) but this presupposes that the nimby forces actually succeeding in disrupting certain projects have a price when all available evidence points to moral panic.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I am skeptical of the data center NIMBYs and incredulous at the extremist pro-data center posts from some of the tech guys on here. If the facilities are economically lucrative, cut a deal with locals to make it worth their while. This shouldn't be a huge thing.
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@jessesingal @EsotericCD My commencement speaker was quite famous and became well respected if less visible as he aged, but what everyone remembers him for is his early work.
Think of someone who made his name like Kramer without the racist rant.
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@jessesingal This is the most rational complaint. People were very annoyed when the year after President Clinton was the commencement speak, the graduating class got Click and Clack from Car Talk
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@lastfullmeasure @janecoaston If you're concerned about teens socializing, focus on teens socializing. Would it be bad if teens were getting together with their friends and drinking cocoa instead of doing shots?
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Teenage drinking can be a function of many things —rates of social interaction, lack of parental control, moral breakdown, lack of law enforcement, etc.
Is it not perfectly valid for someone to look at the phenomenon differently based upon which factor is driving the change in behavior?
And if so, why try to hand wave away the discussion by calling everything a culture war?
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my point here is that moral panics can operate in either direction, thus rendering them, yes, absurd. let me put it this way: if teen drinking numbers and teen sex numbers were rising rapidly, would there be celebrations in the streets? of course not. I was alive in the 90s.
Jeff Bercovici@jeffbercovici
@janecoaston is your point here just that moral panics are absurd or are you disputing the underlying assertion that teens are meaningfully less happy/more anxious & isolated vs. previous cohorts?
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