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0.1x-er. If I argue with you, it's because I respect you. (I am not the Government of Kenya. That's @MyGovKe .)

Chicago, IL
Joined February 2007
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@catholicpat @Robotbeat My mom talked her way into bringing on her pasta sauce by starting to cry when they called her sauce liquid or gel
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@CartoonsHateHer This is why I make sure I'm always double booked for meetings (then go to neither of them)
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@YouGov There is absolutely zero chance that 60% of Americans have an opinion about this.
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@buccocapital Because they're doing weird accounting tricks where they're "paying" their executives like a billion dollars in stock that isn't really worth anything but allows the company to realize no profit.
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@AlanMCole 6 month old humans already understand basic logic, extremely rare among animals.
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@KareemRifai I often wonder if these people have ever met or even seen an Arab person.
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@Eric_Erins Make Cars Boxy Again
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@RegimeTwink As if these people do something else on social media
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@mattyglesias The planet is getting warm-her not warm-him!
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@CollinFisher Finally something for the real tankies!
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@TrueSlazac two members of NATO have kind of been at war for 50 years and ehhh you know politics are complicated
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@nikicaga Because the petrostates have actual apartheid.
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@TrueSlazac They have a deep emotional connection to those who lose wars spectacularly.
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@GreatLakes32nd You can just taste the democracy oozing through these ward borders
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@ilikeadamsmith He would have no trains to workout in
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@nikicaga He's a dictator but it's unfair for opponents to say that because it sounds bitchy.
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@AdamRackis But would you pass up (say) $500K to work on something that really excites you?
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@TrueSlazac Ah this must be the real reason all this footage is illegal in China, it shows the PLA being too nice!
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@rustbeltenjoyer Actually it has secret guns aimed at the passengers' heads which immediately kills you when it detects an incoming collision. It's unreliable though and has many false positives. This has already killed dozens of drivers.
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@rustbeltenjoyer urbanism is, first and foremost, about poasting
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@alexanderburns @alexbward @suzannelynch1 EU continues to pull off the impossible and make US congresspeople seem competent
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@SwannMarcus89 Aw damn Javier Bardem got his whiteness revoked
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@danlehnermusic but they could haeyfree
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@jacobrintamaki Zoom is a performance you have to put on. A phone call lets you put your verbal mind to work while the rest of your body is able to do anything else.
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@opinonhaver The average Trump voter would rather see babies ripped from their mothers than see Trump be upset.
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@JeremiahDJohns Twist: they go with the Jodorowsky ending.
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@emmma_camp_ He wants to be periodically neglectful but it's cool because he's being upfront about it.
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@spignal I also support limiting the French to 4 flights per life.
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@mattyglesias pyramid schemes
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@PritzkerForPrez Mexico City
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@Noahpinion This wasn't some big secret that China would not have been able to figure out.
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@JosephPolitano @james98170 they use celsius so it feels cooler
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@Noahpinion So many times my kids are like "daddy pick me up!" and I have to tell them that I can't because it would not help grow the economy.
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@BlackMadness317 @AmericanaAesth So important to have a symbol for people who identify as racist losers.
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@BoxElderDust China has gotta be kicking themselves as TikTok teaches the world that Imperial Japan did nothing wrong.
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@Trey_Explainer Fellas is it gay to win the war?
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@nikicaga Venezuela makes Argentina look like Singapore. In 1950 it had the 4th highest GDP per capita in the world. Today it's 130th.
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@Eric_Erins gotta look out for the Wet Bandits though
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@nykyt0sha free of food they mean
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@UAWeapons Can't see any ships in that field, that's how you know it's doing a good job.
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@nykyt0sha and it's only the native language of like 65-70% of China
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@CougarSpider they take “Hide your strength, bide your time” very seriously
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@nikicaga @CougarSpider Democracy is so offensive to these people
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@Noahpinion China's best friend and BRICS ally?
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@stephentyrone @AlanMCole All our kids' first big logical leap has been "If I scoot to the dog's water bowl and flip it over, that will be awesome."
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@IntelWalrus The 737 variant that specializes in killing submarines instead of its passengers.
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@Noahpinion That's not what they meant by sneaking into the French laundry, Noah
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@td_dion @Eric_Erins The glass boxes that Salesforce is dropping all over the world
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@bomalley @JoeBiden @TexasCentral Should definitely lean into the whole "bullet train" thing in Texas
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@naval How the fuck did I end up following this nonsense.
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@mrbenwexler This is revisionism, his campaign ended because he came third in a primary he was expected to win in a landslide.
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@joakial_ Look closer. Boring colors peaked in 2011!
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@Birdyword - lots of etched glass - China really wants to be able to build real ones
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@EricMGarcia Ah see these are the domestic issues they're always talking about
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@pseudolad US SWEs have to write like 50% of the code used by the other 8 billion humans.
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@Noahpinion Eh. Half the country will claim the attack didn’t happen because it won’t be covered on TikTok.
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@libhawkish Ah yes Spongeville, ND
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@GravitysRa1nbow >Periodically go to war with another NATO member
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@JoePostingg Benjamin Franklin also very on brand
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@Birdyword It clearly meant to say age 35, the Yahoo clickbait machine typo'd a number and noticed it was getting more clicks and now this is going to show up in my timeline for next decade
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@GrantSlatton That friend was descended from the original King of Hamburg
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@StatisticUrban Yeah it's really expensive to analyze data without using algebra
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@TechEmails coincidentally this was also my excuse to not do laundry on May 8th
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@jonklemke uhm the continued existence of Cubs fandom pretty conclusively shows that Chicago baseball fans are not fans for success reasons
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@Carnage4Life I never understood the theory that Uber would never make money. They take a 30% cut, have almost no marginal costs, and are like half the cars on the road.
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@stephentyrone @mcmansionhell Extra normal: even if your spouse changed their legal surname years ago, it never changes in your phonebook.
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@NateSilver538 908 feet would indeed be record breaking.
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@johnregehr I should write a paper about how fast it can be to remove meltdown/spectre mitigations and publish in 20 years when everyone has forgotten why we added them.
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@Noahpinion The inevitable next step is they're going to try printing money.
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@agraybee - make *a lot* of movies
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@alibrooke4ever And if there was any doubt that Malaysian Airlines would be so reckless as to have a murderous+suicidal pilot, MH17 removed any question 4 months later.
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@opinonhaver It is shocking how few people know about this, including doctors.
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@ArmandDoma In the 90s-00s we arrested lots of troubled kids and got them help and since we've stopped and now they just kill themselves
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@revhowardarson It's not that deep, the thinking here went about as far as "yay yay yay an excuse to do some serious protesting"
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@MarketUrbanism Both exploited huge loopholes that elites had carved out for themselves (so they could have private drivers and rent out their vacation homes) which made it nearly impossible to close them.
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@jfbastien Next, a guitar solo in every presentation
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@GarrettPetersen Also the movie totally inverts the morality of the novella. The protagonist is supposed to sacrifice himself to keep precrime running.
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@Doha104p3 If 6 Su-57 were to exist
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@nikicaga I don't think there is a single candidate of even fringe parties that are left of Biden and pro-Ukraine.
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@RiverTamYDN They do it because one of the founders was Jewish and that's good enough.
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@pcwalton Yes but they only work on Rust because it's a memory safe place.
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@stephentyrone They have to use a round number because it's hard to charge $99.9899999999999948841
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@AdamRackis Yeah and often also the better-paying job requires 50-60 hours weeks, has bad vacation policies…
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@Noahpinion Borrow against the trust funds
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@jbarro This is aligned with the belief that the GameStop bubble took control of the stock market from Wall Street and gave it to Reddit.
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@jarredsumner CPU% on asymmetric core chips is kind of meaningless. It could just be running on an e-core at a super low rate.
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@wwwojtekk Talk about updating some priors
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@BasedDaedalus this needs an “invents git” bullet point
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@ChristopherJM very large cigarette
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@TNOQuoProQuid It's like a musical except, when the drama gets too intense, instead of singing Frank kills someone.
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@SwannMarcus89 Also covered by SNAP
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@ElGranSenglar In the Six Day War the losers possibly didn't think they were even going to fight.
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@fedtanyl The French had to develop nuclear weapons because they knew their population would sabotage any conventional military.
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@SwannMarcus89 See also Poland, Hungary.
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@ABeardedPanda Hamas: We did this. It was great. Hamas supporters: You are so great. It's so great you did it. Also wink wink I know you didn't actually do it.
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@Noahpinion Germany was disarmed for like 6 years. By the mid 50s they had the biggest military in Western Europe. German military dysfunction didn't really start until the 90s.
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@jmhorp 80% of households in 1960 had one or zero cars. Today 60% have 2 cars or more.
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@Gankra_ @pcwalton It's a good thing this is all namespaced properly. There might be some other organization this exact same 82,000 character type and we wouldn't want symbol collision.
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