Blueacre
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Blueacre
@blueacre
Whatever you call me, don’t call me late for dinner.
Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Because we think about how our parents bemoaned the loss of the good old days of the 50s and how our grandparents bemoaned the loss of the good old days of the 20s and we realize this is the same old song with slightly modified lyrics.
Oeingo Boeing-Go@oeingoboeing
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@IlyaSomin @David_J_Bier Is deportation a "punishment"? If it is a serious crime, I see it as a far lesser consequence than prison time.
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I almost never differ with you. Except this one time. Punishing one person more than another for the same crime merely because one is a non-citizen immigrant is unjust. It’s increasing punishment based on arbitrary circumstances of birth. See my discussion here: reason.com/volokh/2018/05…
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Deportation is the appropriate punishment for actual criminal noncitizens because they chose to come and victimize someone here. They shouldn’t get to choose to continue to live alongside their victims anymore.
Nick Minock@NickMinock
“If two people commit the same crime, but only one’s punishment includes deportation, that’s a perversion of justice and not a reflection of the values of Fairfax County.” - Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano’s website
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Somebody rigged up a Gmail address to pretend to be me and run some kind of scam
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@JonahDispatch Well I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
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I have to think there are enough Republicans senators with self respect that this won’t happen.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Fox News reports that among the people on the shortlist to replace Pam Bondi as AG are Jeanine Pirro and Alina Habba. Habba, a former Trump attorney and former U.S. attorney for New Jersey who was disqualified by a judge, appears to have launched a campaign for the job. Yesterday she posted a photo of herself with Donald Trump and JD Vance in the Oval Office, writing: “Always an honor 🇺🇸” No idea who the next AG will be, but they’ll probably be worse than Pam Bondi.
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@hubermanlab All this extra detail while still not also acknowledging she’s been vegan 40 years (considering all the BS out there about how veganism will eventually destroy you etc), is kinda weird.
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Her son confirmed she trained for 1 month (direct training) for this. Obviously was doing other activities prior. Impressive. Yes there is carryover from other activities but holy wow…
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab
93 years & 231 days old Ann Esselstyn dead hangs for 2 min 52 seconds! To set new WR. (Maybe we call it live hangs instead now?) Distal strength reflects many things.
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RX Needs his own series. Most under appreciated character in the original trilogy
Star Wars Daily@StarWarsDaily_
What are your thoughts on the Gonk Droid?
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@Strangeland_Elf I don't know who that guy is but I agree.
I detest photos of people pointing to something. If it's important it can be noticed.
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Officer spots car, enters license plate #, state registry reports that it cannot confirm car has valid insurance. CA8: This created reasonable suspicion to stop car, at least given that defendant didn't challenge reliability of the state registry.
ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/03/2… #N
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On the other hand, Apple products are also reportedly not functioning perfectly. The astronauts noted this morning that the fancy iPhone 15 Pro Max cameras are badly washing out photos of earth from space.
Rafael Rivera@WithinRafael
NASA Artemis II crew is troubleshooting a tablet right now w/ Optimus software issues. (Sounds minor.) And in that discussion "I have two Outlooks and neither work". Oh no, lol.
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Honest to goodness why don't state just use the firing squad? It's more humane than lethal injection.
WSB-TV@wsbtv
A Georgia inmate wants to die by firing squad; he just learned if it will happen #Echobox=1774996095" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wsbtv.com/news/local/geo…
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@PJMorell @neontaster Yes that is how I discovered her and what will keep me watching her on occasion.
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@blueacre @neontaster Her post-mortem on The Hobbit movies is still one of the best videos to cover the failures of those movies.
Its one flaw is the relatively brief insertion of identity politics really late into that video essay. But it's easily overlooked thankfully.
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It's kind of remarkable how much Lindsay Ellis just disappeared after she got cancelled as a racist and moved most of her shit to Nebula.
allowableman@allowableman2
Dear Lord, they want us to pay money for this
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@Gormogons The divide over the Superman movies does not follow a normal pattern, it's fascinating.
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RX I’ll take the Superman who saves a fucking squirrel (Lookin at you Ch’p & B’dg) over the one that doesn’t save his own dad.
Ambiguous Indigenous@abo_boi
@jazbrogonzo @JoshuaM37848390 Yeah I love when Superman does nothing to save people
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A German tourist in NYC tried some green salsa from a taco shop.
The salsa was too spicy for him. So he sued.
He alleges that he is extra sensitive to spicy foods, and he got diarrhea and mouth sores that lasted for days.
Court says it's not on the business "to ascertain consumers' individual needs and guarantee that each consumer has all relevant information specific to its situation."
He could have just asked how spicy their salsa was, but he didn't, and so he did not act reasonably.
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@emzanotti Does he enjoy Star Trek or other space science fiction? Or does the fiction part turn him off to it?
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I know y’all are out to mansplain this to me, but I have an ND kid with a special interest in the NASA space program and I assure you, I am explained to more than enough and so is every adult in his orbit, including an astrophysics grad student in Grand Rapids who got the number of Saturn’s moons woefully wrong
Emily Zanotti 🦝@emzanotti
To be fair, they’re not going to the moon…yet. Wednesday, they will launch for a lunar flyby, similar to the route (accidentally) taken by Apollo 13. This is in *preparation* for a moon landing, sometime in the next two years!
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@jinijane_ Well she must have had good credentials and positions on the issues!
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My high school neighbourhood just elected a local 59yo councilwoman who campaigned in the local paper with an AI photo. Her statement: ‘I used an internet program to enhance the image because the resolution of the photo was bad. It’s simply my photo, that really is me. I use medication that’s why I look a bit different now. But yes, I do look much younger than my age. When I’m out with my son people think I’m his girlfriend. I hear that I look super young for my age all the time.’
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@HoegLaw The distinction never made sense to me. I consider them synonyms.
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See, the way “ethics” works is that no one, not your parent, not your boss, sure as hell not The Verge can proclaim for you what may or may not be ethical…to you. Take in the information you can, make your own decisions. Or in the alternative, declare “There is no ethical consumption of any content claiming itself an arbiter of all ethics.”
The Verge@verge
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series theverge.com/report/901818/…
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@RichardHanania I don’t understand the lack of basic reading comprehension.
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This is so incredibly funny. Trump can’t bully libs into giving him a Nobel, but evangelicals are glad to toss out their entire theology to guarantee him a place in heaven.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump just posted a letter from Franklin Graham assuring him that says "you commented to the media that you might not be heaven bound. Maybe you responded in jest, but it is an important issue to know for certain that your soul is secure and will spend eternity in the presence of God."
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@Andrewnsnyder I’ve resisted to replying to so many people lately who declare Tolkien a bad writer.
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People who say that Bombadil serves no purpose or “brings the story to a halt” misunderstand the purpose of Tolkien’s writing.
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