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Been meaning to write something like this for a while. Inspired by some folks like @jgreenhall @PageauJonathan @rossbyrd @aaron_renn @aaron_lubeck @CharlestonArchi Link in the followup tweet

@ben_wnc i love when they stroll through my backyard. they are like mini dinosaurs when they strut and gobble.

Turkey times

@Holler_Praetor @Face_Almighty44 "we need a (insert regional grocery store from somewhere else) asap!!!" And then complain "Too much traffic too many buildings going up!" I just want people to assimilate to a place they move to. I don't think it's a huge ask.

@zekester116 @Face_Almighty44 And they'll loudly say "Im from x we dont do that in (place)!/we did y instead in there!" Every 5 minutes.

these people are colonizers and must be resisted strongly

@morganmonoxide Sorry to hear that, friend! Prayers it gets better this year!!

27 kicking my ahhh and I’ve never felt more alone 😓

@PamelaA_Tweets Love brunch! One day we will go!

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

@Urban_Connector doesn't deserve the name Peachtre

Atlanta’s Amtrak station would like a word

On this day in 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the United States Constitution and join the Union. For more than two centuries, the Palmetto State has played a vital role in shaping our nation’s history. Happy Birthday, South Carolina!

@_anthonynash Batman is supposed to be a detective not a "superhero" as we understand it post MCU/Marvel. Everything became so "realistic" as opposed to a rich dude just doing stuff.

This was a hot take for a while, dunno if it is anymore, but this is why The Batman to me is the greatest Batman movie ever made Captures the vibe/tones of everything perfectly and features a way less hyper militarized look for everything, which always felt off

A common crow is more intelligent than "Artificial intelligence" since it can't use rational logic!!! I don't understand how people are lining up to unplug their brains and hand them to Infernal Intelligence when it can't create an accurate descriptor based on a set of factors that require intuition.

Amazing. Fans having a blast at a college football bowl game knowing their team had an excellent season, but wasn't National Championship worthy. The National Championship/playoffs or bust attitude that's been promoted by the media has definitely changed overall season reality.

@annielcrawford @DZRishmawy your convo with Gray was very insightful on this (must've been last year or year before) when you talked about having to avoid baseball since tourneys were on sundays.

@DZRishmawy The idolatry of sports is one of the strongest factors weakening the communal fabric of our churches and sabotaging discipleship.

Incidentally, when a pastor talks about the Sabbath v youth sports, they are up against a whole encroaching industry.

I genuinely don’t believe anyone wants hyperpersonalized media. People YEARN for communal viewing. Barbenheimer. Game of Thrones. Heated Rivalry. Part of the thrill is other people experiencing it with us. We should be bringing back appointment tv and 90 day theatrical releases

@booksandbbq at CofC i was a founding member of the bbq club! was a lot of fun we would have speakers from places like swig and swine and bessingers to talk about how they got into bbq, their relationship to the cooking form, and ofc bring food!

Y'all, I made it into a magazine: southernliving.com/university-of-…

You can actually do lunch even more cheaply but y'all are not ready for that. Crockpot with pork, carrots, and cabbage + rice makes a filling, nutritious meal for substantially less than $1 -- between $0.60 and $0.85 per meal.

The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output. This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest. Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose. You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes. Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning. Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.

@Avion_FJ PAUSE

I promise y’all deep dish is not as good as it gets hyped up to be. People ONLY like Lou Malnati’s cuz of the amount of damn butter in the crust. THAT’S IT!! THATS THE ONLY REASON THEY THINK ITS GOOD! Sucking down all that butter crust

@MosheIsaacian seems like an expansion of their former model of spotify fan presales. Really great for user retention or re-acquisition because this would make me consider using Spotify again.

Great use of data to actually rewards fandoms. Taylor Swift is famous for using for using this tactic and it’s great to see a major streaming platform do something similar

Do.. do you think the restaurant you’re door dashing from is using $14 mayo?

@Yimbymanatee looks like a fire station

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