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@looptrnnr

Running stupid distances and other nonsense; also a fucking lawyer

Katılım Ağustos 2017
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana·
Found out in at least one state you only need to be ****16**** to legally import a sloth. Now, the occupational licensing reform side of me obviously is like - hell yeah. But a 16 year old cannot care effectively for a sloth. Many 18+ cannot. And importing them puts them through severe stress.
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Patrick@looptrnnr·
@DavidAFrench Ok this confused the hell out of me bc I thought he was talking about Cameron, not Russel.
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David French
David French@DavidAFrench·
I love this take. So true.
Dan Davis@DanDavisWrites

What strikes me about Crowe is how he defined a kind of deeply moral masculinity for a generation in the 2000s (say 97 - 2010). Every big role he chose and crafted portrayed men grappling with duty, honour, responsibility. We all love Master and Commander but the Insider, Cinderella Man, LA Confidential, 3: 10 to Yuma, Robin Hood, the Next Three Days, etc. They're all about men grappling with the consequences of doing what must be done. Legendary run, dunno how he pulled that off.

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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana·
You all know I'm not for social media bans and age verification. That said, circumstances have changed and I think there are some people who should not be on social media for their own good and the good of others. Here, I will list the extent of those populations. /1
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Patrick@looptrnnr·
@senatorshoshana @Centralflzoo Imagine 31 sloths dying and saying “is it me? …. No, no. It’s the sloths who are wrong. Johnny, buy more sloths!”
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana·
UPDATE: Sloth World killed a bunch of sloths. They bought more. Those died. They bought more. Scandal leaked and they gave them to the state which gave them to @Centralflzoo - you can see from their TL that the sloths were in poor health and they're giving them great help. In my free time I do serious policy work to protect sloths (for free, for @slothinstitute) If you're a lawmaker who loves sloths, I'd love to work with you. DMs open!
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana

New from me: If you kill 31 sloths you shouldn't be allowed to buy more—a policy proposal What happened at Sloth World, how this hasn't happened before, and what federal lawmakers can do.

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Patrick@looptrnnr·
@scottlincicome I like to periodically remind people that I was once assessed a penalty by the IRS for “failing to pay the amount due” by the deadline. On the very form the IRS sent me to notify me of this penalty, they helpfully listed that the “amount due” that I “failed to pay” was “$0.00”
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Scott Lincicome
Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome·
The best part abt being self-employed in the US is that the government penalizes you for underpaying estimated taxes each quarter - amounts that are often impossible for self-employeds to know in advance due to the tax code's complexity and the erratic nature of self-employment
Joey Hansen@joeydhansen

I went to law school in the USA and did like 3 semesters of tax law, which was just enough to know that I needed to hire an accountant to do the taxes of my self-employed wife (who is an American citizen) in order to ensure that she does not inadvertently end up in prison.

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@abnerpastoll Actually, the new one is just a long exposure of the dark side of the earth. Look closely and you’ll see the aurora around the edge of the planet. But the lack of light accounts for the lack of color contrast.
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Patrick@looptrnnr·
Deeming him a “threat to the peace of the world” after repeated incidents of political upheaval, the British exiled Jonathan to St Helena in 1882. His 150 year term of exile will end in 2032, at which point he will likely conquer Europe.
The Associated Press@AP

Jonathan, believed to be 193 and the world’s oldest known tortoise, is still alive on St. Helena despite rumors of his death. Officials dismissed the reports as a hoax, saying he is “very much alive.”

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Patrick@looptrnnr·
@senatorshoshana Interviewed a guy for a job once and I’ve never been convinced that he wasn’t just an AI avatar. All of his responses felt like exactly what you’d get from an LLM.
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Patrick@looptrnnr·
@HubieTalksHoops @kevin_nealon Technically, the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma The sun's not simply made out of gas, no, no, no The sun is a quagmire, it's not made of fire Forget what you've been told in the past
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Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon@kevin_nealon·
Daylight saving time. We are gaslighting the sun. The sun has been doing the exact same thing for 4.6 billion years, plus tax. We’re in the kitchen arguing with a microwave like, how dare you. Birds are not updating their wristwatches. Squirrels are not pushing a meeting back an hour. The deer outside are not standing around like I thought sunrise was at 6:30am
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Scott Lincicome
Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome·
Goodbye, natural-time sunset. See you again in the Fall. 😥
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Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer·
BREAKING: @SouthwestAir Southwest Airlines Flight 2094 from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale, Florida was forced to divert to Atlanta late last night after a an Arabic looking Muslim passenger onboard the plane threatened to blow the plane up with a bomb! You can see the SWAT team apprehend the Muslim passenger while terrified passengers were forced to put their hands up. Zero media coverage!!!! Share this everywhere!! DEPORT ALL MUSLIMS FROM AMERICA!! If you were on this flight, please DM me. @DHSgov @FBIDirectorKash @RealTomHoman @POTUS
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Analytic Valley Girl Chris
Analytic Valley Girl Chris@ChrisExpTheNews·
I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce
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Patrick@looptrnnr·
@senatorshoshana What’s impressive about this to me is that it added a ring light reflection in your pupils. When I used earlier versions to try to quickly edit headshots, it actually completely blackened the pupil giving the final images that dead behind the eyes “Polar Express” quality …
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana·
Nano banana is amazing for photo editing. I wanted a new headshot but wanted to look like me. I told it to expand the background, fix the lighting, and get rid of some of the reflection. It gave me a tall body that wasn't like mine but cropping that out fixed it fine
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Three Year Letterman
Three Year Letterman@3YearLetterman·
@looptrnnr To make the world smaller. Rushdie made a cameo in Seinfeld. And I watched that episode. So we three are linked
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@senatorshoshana @DavidAFrench @samloomis13 @Centralflzoo @slothinstitute @scottlincicome @abnerpastoll @benlandautaylor