@istartedthebits @jonsommet @demiurgently @h_thoreson "Is this available" is just the default message option, and most buyers scroll through a bunch of listings at once. You expect people to write a specialized message for every listing?
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Jordan Pierce
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Katılım Nisan 2024
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@jonsommet @demiurgently @h_thoreson Lol. People will ask "is this still available" and "how much" on a brand new listing with a clear price that explicitly says "If listing is up it's still available".
And everyone who puts "free" as a placeholder price should be banned
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@TaylorLorenzNOT @Socdem_Michael That's if you're using 'fair' exclusively to mean maximally compact districts (and applies only to some states).
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@Socdem_Michael The House is based on the popular vote of each district, not the popular vote of the state. “Fair” maps systemically favor Republicans because Democrats self-select into incredibly compact, high-margin cities. You’d dislike the fair outcome even more.
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There is going to need to be a federal law putting a cap on how much you can gerrymander relative to partisan makeup of a state. Dems are probably winning Georgia in 2028. So a state voting over 50% for the Dem in a POTUS election having 80% Republican House reps just isn’t a tenable or healthy situation for a democracy.
Like imagine if Pennsylvania made an 80% Dem gerrymander map. That just isn’t a reasonable or sustainable way to function in a democracy where the House is supposed to be at least somewhat proportionally representative of the population!
OSZ@OpenSourceZone
Potential Georgia map after Redistricting for 2028 Current Map: 🔴 Republicans: 9 🔵 Democrats: 5 Potential Redistricted Map: 🔴 Republicans: 11 (+2) 🔵 Democrats: 3 (-2)
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DeSantis and Newsom two people who have famously already won presidential nominations
Faj@Faj1791
Deleted my Ossoff tweet because I confused him with warnock's seat but the point about him not having enough time to run stands. He would've needed to have started the work already. Look at newsom, look at desantis 2024. You have to have a shadow campaign.
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@isaiah_bb It's a reference to Borges' story "On Exactitude in Science".
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@HeyNeighborCoop @erikmschneider You can go literally anywhere in the rural Puget Sound. We have miles of virtually untouched forests and beaches.
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@erikmschneider I can only dream of seeing that place, untouched by the modern era.
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Some of the greatest majesty of the known universe eliminated in just 150 years
mao_wow@realwow_mao
seeing bland suburbab sprawl over puget sound’s natural beauty makes me so fucking mad
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@ben_golub Why do people continue to believe that "feeding work into" an LLM chat client is what allows it to be stolen? These models are already trained on the entire fucking internet.
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@SmellicusCuntis @media_marshall I don't get what I said that offended you so much. Your first tweet was "It's bad that this good movie is doing well, because Hollywood is going to make bad copies" and I don't agree. Is nobody allowed to disagree with you?
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@_wordmachine @media_marshall I don't like pretentious idiots. You also clearly can't be a good writer when you seem like someone who's never interacted with another human being in person.
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I think it is very likely, if not probable at this point, that BACKROOMS will open above the second frame of THE MANDOLORIAN AND GROGU and send shockwaves across Hollywood boardrooms around what people *actually* want to see right now.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
‘OBSESSION’ may become one of the only films in history to earn $100M+ on a budget of less than $1M. The film is expected to earn more this weekend than it did in its opening weekend, a rare feat.
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@SmellicusCuntis @media_marshall What mental illness do you have?
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@_wordmachine @media_marshall Once again, shut the fuck up you pretentious idiot.
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@SmellicusCuntis @media_marshall And my actual point was not something like "you should just appreciate slop movies" (I'm not even sure how you figured that) but that you can't possibly stop the industry from making them, and it's a waste of time to lament the existence of cheap ripoffs.
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@SmellicusCuntis @media_marshall You made a number of false and emotional statements. Every movie, good or bad, is art by definition. I also have high aesthetic standards, but using the word "art" as a value judgment is incorrect, even if a lot of people do it.
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@SmellicusCuntis @media_marshall You're a little bit too angry.
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@_wordmachine @media_marshall Shut the fuck up you pretentious idiot. These kind of shitty knockoffs aren't art. They're soulless cash grabs. This isn't inspiration. This isn't about purity. It's about Hollywood never learning a lesson about oversaturation and making crap. Enjoy your slop, fuck face.
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@SmellicusCuntis @media_marshall Most pieces of art ever made can be described as "shitty knockoffs". This demand for artistic purity within a genre is impossible to fulfill. The best one can do is enjoy and boost the quality stuff.
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@media_marshall Which sucks, because that just means a flood of shitty knockoff horror films that will dilute the genre and end up keeping future people similar to Barker from getting their films made.
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@playazball He's referring to one of the daycares in Nick Shirley's original video, which had a sign outside that read "Quality Learing Center".
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@TambovGlasser @theserfstv Homelander in the comic is MORE Trumpian than the show's version of the character. This is just what the story is.
...then again, I'm assuming everyone knows it's a comic, perhaps erroneously.
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@theserfstv To be fair, I think the show was better in the earlier seasons when it focused on how superheroes would be bastardised by capital
It sorta began to hit you over the head with the Trump critique by season 4. It just felt lazy in execution, like made purely for CNN libs to clap to
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All they had to do was make the Hitler guy eat shit for all the people who secretly love Hitler to get upset
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@bartlebytaco Coffee Lovers and Fans is a deeply ironic comedy account.
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wonderful snapshot of this website at this moment in time
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@cavempty_ This is the only romance tweet I've ever cared about.
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@meridithmcgraw Some people on PredictIt think that this is what caused the SEC to go after the platform following years of leniency; there was an endorsement market for this primary which resolved to Greitens, and one trader who'd bet "No" on everyone called the SEC to complain dozens of times.
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Remember when Trump endorsed "ERIC" in the Missouri Senate primary and called former Governor Eric Greitens and then Attorney General Eric Schmitt ahead of his statement to tell them they'd be "happy" with his decision.
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Genuinely dismayed and perplexed by the number of people who ostensibly care about climate change but are always unbothered, or even excited by, record temperatures. "Oh yaaaay it's warm tomorrow!" FUCK. YOU.
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@artistic_ako @moons33d Hard disagree. Not only is HoL the one of the most larped books imaginable, but the content is generally inferior to most Lovecraft novels and King in Yellow, while presenting it in a more time consuming format to give the appearance of complexity.
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@jph408 @greatfaerie Furthermore, where's the evidence that this only started happening after streaming and Tiktok? I won't just believe people's offhanded claims that moviegoers these days are way worse than some nostalgic past.
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@jph408 @greatfaerie I do think there's an obligation to read the room and not burst out laughing in the theater, although I rarely see this happen anyway and don't really know what theaters these people are going to. I just think the attribution to people "experiencing the film wrong" is incorrect.
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