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EmeraldCityPhantic
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EmeraldCityPhantic
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Seattle raised- Philadelphia based Anticap Fuck Cars
Katılım Mart 2016
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@rustyshack234 @HamsterBal38417 @dannycantalk @btc_kiel Name one beautiful city that isn't 1,000 years old.
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I do not want a walkable city. I do not want trains. I do not want busses.
I want a car that can take me anywhere I want at any time.
I don't want to be dependent on transit schedules.
I want to choose who I'm traveling with, rather than going for luck of the draw.
I want to be able to control my own climate while traveling.
I want to be guaranteed a comfortable seat.
I want somewhere to keep my things during a day out instead of having to carry everything with me.
I want to buy and take home loads of groceries too big to carry without having to trouble myself with delivery services.
I want to go through drive thrus.
I want to be halfway home from work and impulsively decide to go to a restaurant on the other side of town and just change direction immediately.
I want to drive around a new city to take in more than I could on foot or on a fixed route.
I want to do road trips where we make up our journey as we go.
I want to explore my own city at will without any particular plan.
I want to visit small towns out of reach of even the most expansive proposed public transit systems.
Essentially, I want freedom.
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Sam Neill has announced he is cancer free after 5 years of battling blood cancer.
“It’s time I did another movie.”
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sports in the streaming era are so cool. is it easier to find? no. is the broadcast weirdly dark and gray? yes. is the connection more reliable? definitely not. it must be cheaper then? also no
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Abolish Palantir 🗣️
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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A man lay dying, a CPR trained coworker asked their manager if he could help administer CPR and the manager said, “It has to be management or safety team. Please get back to work. Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work.” What the fuck is wrong with these people?
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers in the facility were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to The Western Edge. Link: thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-….
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The guy who just flew to Hungary to get involved in their politics tells the Pope, who is from Chicago, Illinois to stay out of US politics.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
JD Vance advises the Vatican to stay out of US politics
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@Hudson_of_Sam @BossIgnostic @nathanrobii You're right I'm dumb, thought it was the initial scene where they come to his house.
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@jrobbi200 @BossIgnostic @nathanrobii This is after, just before they sleep in the basement and the plane crashes in the neighbourhood
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Anthony hated how Americans viewed street food abroad and correctly pointed out that street vendors with daily lines of loyal patrons don't stay in business for years by giving everyone in their neighborhood food poisoning.
Monsieur Grenouille 🐸@monsieurgren
My schizo theory on Anthony Bourdain is that his gut microbiome was terrible from the dirty street food and drinking which led him to a fragile mental state incapable of coping with a major stressor like a breakup
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@BossIgnostic @nathanrobii No this is before the aliens show up, not sure why everyone is saying it is after.
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@nathanrobii Isn't this after the aliens show up and slime half the city? Isn't the point that he's too shook to do basic tasks but is trying to cope because he has no idea what to do in this situation?
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George Clooney in his huge Italian mansion with his eight Academy Award nominations and Nespresso brand deal money: I have Never been as successful as this streaming medical drama :/
toxic yuri butterfly@ancientlovesong
I AM IN TEARS
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genuinely perfect representation of the american mind. if you ignore the atrocities committed by your leaders they just don’t exist
The Resonance@Partisan_12
“Do you think pete hegseth is pro-life” 🇺🇸🤡: “Yes” “He bombed a school with 160 Iranian children” 🇺🇸🤡: **Runs Away**
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i do not care if Trump's comments result in nothing tonight. no one who even thinks of saying the phrase "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" should be allowed to operate an ice cream stand, nevermind the most powerful office on the planet
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god I hate this faux populist bullshit. K-12 is also free for rich people, as are public parks, the fire dept, libraries etc. Study after study shows means testing is the quickest way to gut programs for the rich AND the poor because it erodes the public base of support.
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