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1995: oh cool you can buy books online now
2026: the company that owns Whole Foods and Lord of the Rings is experiencing setbacks with its space program
Jon Erlichman@JonErlichman
On this day in 1995: Amazon launched.
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WW3 will continue until the Singularity improves
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‘a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the
old Adam in most of us!’
-Keynes, JM. 1930. Economic Possibilities for our
Grandchildren
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Or proof that career politicians should not exist, ie any cook can govern
Stephanie Ⓥ@SVcrazycatlady
Proof that Senators are completely useless if any random person can just be dropped into it like this:
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Significant factor in Soviet collapse
People saw that looting was going to accelerate & they'd better get a piece while they could, so looting accelerated, which crippled state capacity to surveil & punish looters, so looting accelerated, etc.
sucks@powerbottomdad1
the main lesson i've taken from twitter this year is that i should be doing tons of fraud and scams and that nothing bad will ever happen to me if i do. i'm just leaving money on the table
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80% of workers experience “Sunday Scaries” — anticipatory anxiety that peaks Sunday night
The physiological effects are so real that heart attacks spike Monday morning by 20%, while the sympathetic nervous system activates for the workweek
The body essentially treats the return to work as a physical threat
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BREAKING: The average US home is now more unaffordable to the average American than at any point in history, per CBS
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Not that long ago, this wasn’t the case in Amerika, at least in the field of culture - the New Hollywood directors, many boomer/Gen X rock stars (Laurel Canyon excepted), novelists and investigative journalists had unremarkable working/middle class origins. That’s all over now
gina_scooter@gina_scooter
how come every time a new white person pops up they have some insane famous mega rich grandpa.
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corporations ARE their constituents
Mac@GoodPoliticGuy
How the fuck is it even remotely legal for a politician to sign an nda with a corporation to hide information from their constituents
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'Enlightenment thinkers sought to clarify how those “born to be ruled” might live according to a law they give themselves, rather than receiving it from those “born to rule.”'
Geoff Shullenberger@g_shullenberger
"Tomorrow people all over the world will celebrate the Declaration of Independence—some loudly, most quietly. They will do so because they know it is their declaration too." Historian James Vaughn on why the American Revolution is still revolutionary: compactmag.com/article/the-ne…
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start foreign wars,
punish immigration,
subsidize fossil fuel industry,
deny climate change,
...
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Some things Democrat voters do NOT want to know about: when elected Democrats
dismantle social safety nets,
enact regressive taxation,
limit healthcare access,
keep reproductive rights at risk,
limit civil rights,
violate democratic norms,
appoint conservative judges,
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Big ironies:
Marx consistently rejected the labor theory of value & state socialism,
whereas today's common sense holds the association was affirmative,
while also championing both themselves!
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Meanwhile, this is what American cities look like under capitalism.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Trump: Socialism will turn American cities into “ghettos and slums.”
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tfw pomo relativism meets cheap virtue signaling meets post-political culture wars meets historical revisionism
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'If you mean being unable to form new memories of recent events (forgetting what just happened or not registering the current moment), the medical term is anterograde amnesia.'
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