this hellscape no longer has customer service reps so i assume this will just get replies from robots looking to scam me. but none of them will be as good at it as @nyulangone itself
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flglmn
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popping back in briefly to advise you never under any circumstances to go to @nyulangone unless you like surprise $2000 bills for almost nothing
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@gesangederfruhe people contain multitudes, total strangers online doubly so
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@fallenigloos a lot of people are still stuck on proving they're cooler than 2008-era richard dawkins
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@flglmn It’s presumptuous but so is even have a good day. It’s nothing to get mad about.
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@said_mitch it's a low bar but at least i don't have to see zuckerberg's stupid thoughts in meme form seven times a day on the same website i use for making little jokes about the news
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@flglmn Funny that the tech billionaire who merely praised Trump as “badass” (as opposed to actively promoting his re-election with a view of having a role in the administration) is the more likeable of the two
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to each his own but i don't think i find either of these images more or less likable than the other. i think zuckerberg's improved public image is almost entirely due to the increasingly flattering comparison with elon musk
Singto Conley ☄️@singtoconley
mark zuckerberg successfully nursing his public image and charisma to the point where he’s actually pretty likable is insane given 90% of it was just getting a new haircut
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@granderojo i don't care for it when politicians do it either but i accept that it is what it is. for me "have a blessed day" is on the border between merely generic - like "bless you" for sneezing - and explicitly religious, and it might depend on context
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@flglmn In the context of how she used it, I think it has a secular meaning. Kind of like how Bernie Sanders says. "We live in a blessed country..."
Something he's often started his speeches with.
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@flglmn It creates an “in” group and an “out” group, and yeah, all the people saying “get over it” kind of prove the point.
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@johnsperanza only way to make this site remotely tolerable is to block early and often
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I will namesearch someone I see being slightly weird in a screenshot, absolute zero tolerance
JUDGEMENT@minosprimequote
How it feels blocking people for slightly annoying you
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as part of your PhD defense in political science you have to demonstrate you know how to turn the keys
Allan Lichtman@AllanLichtman
Nate Silver claims to have applied my keys to predict a Trump victory. He doesn’t have the faintest idea how to turn the keys. He’s not a historian or a political scientist. He has no academic credentials. He was wrong when he said I could not make an early prediction of Obama‘s re-election. He’ll be wrong again in trying to analyze the keys.
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"he doesn't have the faintest idea how to turn the keys"
Allan Lichtman@AllanLichtman
Nate Silver claims to have applied my keys to predict a Trump victory. He doesn’t have the faintest idea how to turn the keys. He’s not a historian or a political scientist. He has no academic credentials. He was wrong when he said I could not make an early prediction of Obama‘s re-election. He’ll be wrong again in trying to analyze the keys.
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@that_tattoos or at least, if he is a nazi, he doesn't shove it in my face half a dozen times a day
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i knew she had said she hated the account but i did not know he was her former publicist. do they not have any professional ethical standards at all
Sarah McGonagall@gothspiderbitch
That account is also run by Liza’s bitter ex-publicist, and she’s publicly stated that it makes her really uncomfortable. The account also once posted that Liza had outlived her own mother’s popularity, which is so fucked up considering that Judy died so young and so tragically.
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