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4/ I also write non-fiction. Ten years ago I moved from the city to a farm where I taught myself to garden, raise animals & fix things. A massive 8.5 x 11 x 2" thick, 650 page book

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@MorlockP

2 months

this is, in fact, the right way to wash a cast iron pan

Dividend Hero

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2 months

My grandma always makes me do the dishes after Easter lunch She will be so happy to see that I cleaned her dirty old pan

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3 months

I saw a study a while back that showed that the harder the degree, the less likely the holder is to insist on use of the title. EVERY education PhD uses "doctor", people who studied astrophysics are "Bob".

Dr Naomi Wolf

@naomirwolf

3 months

Yeah, no. My dad was a PhD in English literature. He was "Dr Wolf." My mom has a PhD in anthropology. She is 'Dr Wolf." My grandmother had a PhD in social work. She was "Dr Goleman." My grandfather had a PhD in comparative religions. He was "Dr Goleman." My brother has a PhD in

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3 months

1/ Krugman, like most other midwits, uses data to persuade, not to understand. He sees a graph that proves that "food at home spending" is up 1.2x not 2x, and immediately uses it to demonstrated that "food prices are not up 2x". Let's dig in.

Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

3 months

Amazing how much mail and comments I get insisting that grocery prices have doubled and are still soaring. They haven't and they aren't.

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@MorlockP

8 months

What...what am I looking at here? Do you actually need a loicense to open a window more than 3" ? This is a joke, right?

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2 months

1/ On the one hand, I 100% legitimately think it's moral to shoot squatters and toss their corpses in dumpsters (after checking that there are no cameras). On the other hand ...

Finance Guy

@GuyTalksFinance

2 months

Imagine being arrested for taking your home back from squatters. NY is run by a bunch of 🤡

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@MorlockP

10 months

"IT'S OFFICIAL" "...on record" presented as fact almost 1,200 RTs Let's dig in...

NOAA

@NOAA

10 months

(1 of 5) IT’S OFFICIAL: Earth had its hottest #June on record. Sea surface temperature anomaly was the highest for any month on record. #SeaIce coverage had a record-low in June. @NOAANCEI #StateOfClimate

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@MorlockP

8 months

Goats just scream like this all the time. I am 100% serious. They're annoying af.

PETA UK

@PETAUK

8 months

Think of these goats next time you see a cashmere jumper 💔 #LFW #LondonFashionWeek

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@MorlockP

6 months

I love that he's got the hair and sideburns of a BBC staffer narrating a documentary about British cheese in 1968

The Spectator Index

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6 months

BREAKING: Javier Milei wins Argentinian presidential election

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@MorlockP

2 months

3/ your opinion that "never apply soap to cast iron" is based on 100 year old experience where soaps had heavy lye content which could delaminate the seasoning modern soaps do not do this in 👏 this 👏 house 👏 we 👏 use 👏 the 👏 scientific 👏 method

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2 months

@MorlockP I never thought we'd have to part ways, heretic.

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1 month

Ahhh, The Map

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1 month

Here’s the thing, in the blue parts of our country we beat basically everyone else on life expectancy. Our stats look bad because the south is so abysmal.

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@MorlockP

1 year

my father's father was an iron worker did exactly this, in exactly these locations (New York City, surrounding bridges) he died on the job, in an industrial accident in 1975, orphaning his 4 kids needless risks because of zero safety gear isn't macho, it's retarded

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@MorlockP

22 days

gosh why would someone from New York state (pop 20 million) think their home is on the same tier as that of someone from New Zealand (pop 5 M) or Norway (5 M), or Bahrain (1.5 M), or Luxembourg (0.6 M) ?

Tim Byrne

@TByrne75

23 days

My parents once told me that, on a holiday in Europe, the tour guide asked the group where they were from. The non-Americans mentioned their country. The people from the USA mentioned their state, taking the USA as a given. I've never forgotten that.

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@MorlockP

2 months

In a world with "heal" spells, why is she in a wheelchair? Just absolutely retarded.

memeslich 💀 dnd memes

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@MorlockP

6 months

ok, now show us communism

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@MorlockP

5 months

Dominant American culture in 1947: you fought us 2 years ago ...but that was the past. Let's shake hands and move on. Dominant American culture in 2023: you fought us 160 years ago...let's dig up and defile your ancestor's graves to show you we still hate you.

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@chadgarland

5 months

Tsuneo Yamagishi walks anxiously onto a U.S. post in Japan. It’s 1947. He’s 18, seeking work. And hungry. But he knows little English: “Thank you,” “O.K.” And 2 years earlier, he’d fought the Americans at war. “That is what I worried about, whether they would hire me or not.”

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@MorlockP

2 months

you know the beginning of every single zombie movie ever, where people go about their normal lives and tv in the background says "...new strain of rabies...reports of cannibalism in Haiti...Latino man in Wasco, Calif eating a human leg...CDC says 'no reason to be alarmed'...

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈

@MrAndyNgo

2 months

Graphic. Verified video shows a Latino man in Wasco, Calif. appearing to bite into the severed leg of a person who was hit and killed by an Amtrak train today. Deputies arrested Resendo Tellez for removing evidence from a scene of an accident.

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@MorlockP

8 months

The English professors don't understand why econ professors are paid more, but the econ professors do.

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8 months

We are all doing the same job. We teach the same number of classes. I don't think my labor is worth $20,000 LESS than that of my econ colleagues. More money please.

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@MorlockP

2 months

this is an extremely leftist/wordcel/normie question the normal state of cargo ships is sinking/no electrical power/no rudder control only constant maintenance, discipline, and executive function keeps cargo ships out of that ground state and in a more energetic state

Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸

@jacksonhinklle

2 months

🚨🇺🇸 How does a cargo ship magically lose all its power? Something seems off about this.

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@MorlockP

6 months

This is the kind of thing that 105s tell themselves. They have no conception of what 130s - let alone 160s - are like ... other than some children annoy them because they're "difficult and arrogant" "for no reason". We must destroy the public schools.

Austin Scholar

@AustinScholar

6 months

"Fast learners" don't exist. No one child learns faster than their peers – is naturally able to move through material quicker. It just depends on their "starting point" – their previous knowledge bank. Every child is capable of excelling, we just have to give them the chance.

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@MorlockP

2 months

> a world free of exploitation and domination

Jacobin

@jacobin

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Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. His work helps us not only understand capitalism, but fight for a world free of exploitation and domination.🧵

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@MorlockP

2 months

I work at a place where the aura is that everyone is QUITE left of center, so I keep my mouth absolutely shut. New coworker, though...has a vibe. In 1:1 convo just now, he used the phrase "Overton window". I feel like a gay in the 60s hearing the phrase "friend of Dorothy".

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@MorlockP

10 months

1. encourage dumb women to go to college 2. create college majors that they can pretend to take 3. fed gov guarantees loans, so private banks loan money 4. women pretend to study, profs pretend to pass them 5. nothing of value is delivered 6. profs cash paychecks 7. banks cash

Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱

@razibkhan

10 months

ppl asked measurement. i asked one of the authors, screenshotted in the response. the number of women < 90 IQ who have bachelor's degrees is estimated to go up 10x in a single generation...

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@MorlockP

3 months

10/ ...and yet grocery store prices are up 2x and your quality of life is down. Lying liars lie with statistics. Assume that everyone in the media is lying to you, and seek out primary source data.

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11 months

once this becomes widespread, Greens are going to be upset with it for some new made up reason they don't care about the environment; they just hate people being comfortable

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@BrianRoemmele

11 months

AI based laser based pesticide and herbicide. No chemicals. Meet Ironman…

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@MorlockP

11 months

one amazing thing about life is the asymmetry in the ease of creating value vs destroying it one baggage handler can destroy a $20M jet engine by walking in the wrong place and getting sucked in, more value than she generated in her entire life one janitor can destroy research

CNN

@CNN

11 months

A university janitor who turned off a freezer after hearing multiple “annoying alarms,” ruined more than 20 years of research, according to a lawsuit filed against his employer by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York

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@MorlockP

4 months

North America is just LITTERED with Stone arrowheads. Indians shot arrows at deer in the woods for tens of thousands of years, and lost some huge fraction of them. This is like being upset in year 3000 AD that someone collected 100 Ancient American beer cans.

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2 months

1/ I had a [ slightly left of center ] teacher in HS who said that the distinction between right and left dictatorships is that in a right dictatorship you could keep your mouth shut, go along to get along, and all would be fine

St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻

@St_Rev

2 months

Actually, this illustrates an important point: I complain about lefties partly because they have power, but partly because I can't escape their bullshit. I can get along for months with no idea what happens in righty town, because it's not shoved down my throat.

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@MorlockP

10 months

a watt is a unit of power, not of energy I'm assuming that the duration of the generation was about 0.1 seconds ... but let's be generous and call it 1 second this puts the total ENERGY generated from 27,000 people at 1.5 watt hours ...enough to run ONE lightbulb for 54 seconds

Enzo Diependaal

@EnzoDiependaal

11 months

If this describes the competence of the @wef with regard to energy, I would be concerned for very different reasons... This is the stuff that makes engineers cry:

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@MorlockP

11 months

yes, I am 2500% sure that the person who "vandalized" this garbage can with s̵p̵r̵a̵y̵ ̵p̵a̵i̵n̵t̵ easy-release masking tape, and got the Star of David correct but the swastika wrong was a Nazi and not, say, the garbage can owner

Combat Antisemitism Movement

@CombatASemitism

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Antisemitism is society’s ‘canary in the coalmine.’ Wherever it appears, if left unchecked, hatred of all people grows. Antisemitism may begin with bigotry towards Jews, but it spreads far beyond. Help us combat this age-old poison. Follow the Combat Antisemitism Movement.

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@MorlockP

4 months

The free market (Starlink) will put you on the Internet for just $800. Government is going to take 16,000 people who didn't find getting online to be worth $800, and put them online at a cost of $5,000 each.

Joe Biden

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4 months

I announced we're investing another $82M to connect 16,000 additional homes and businesses to high-speed internet across North Carolina. This is just one piece of a much bigger story. Under my leadership, over 40,000 infrastructure projects have been announced across our nation.

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@MorlockP

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reminder: the Nazis developed as a party, and developed a paramilitary force largely because no one else was dealing with the communist street agitators if you throw the mandate of heaven in the trash, don't be surprised who picks it up h/t @hradzka

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@MorlockP

6 months

Doctors are really really stupid in a lot of ways. (I dated a doctor for a bit, a million years ago, and met her friends ...and, man, that was a real blackpill. Think of doctors not as House MD, but that guy at Jiffy Lube who knows how to drain the oil and replace it.

Jeremy Kauffman 🦔

@jeremykauffman

6 months

Fewer than 1 in 5 doctors can correctly answer a basic question about statistics

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@MorlockP

2 months

2/ maybe this is an April Fools post, idk, and it's actually intended as DOUBLE-joking ? ...but the timestamp is yesterday, so I think it's just a single layer of joke bc "ha ha I don't know how to wash a pan" ?

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@MorlockP

1 year

Useless crab bucket piece of shit trying to keep us all trapped at the bottom of the gravity well where he and other commies can stamp their boots in our faces forever

Howard Beckett

@BeckettUnite

1 year

Billionaires, Musk in particular, spaffed £3,000,000,000 on this rocket. It blew up within 240 seconds. If this doesn’t convince you that we must tax the billionaire class, nothing will.

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@MorlockP

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I'm not at all a "JQ" crazy, but, DAMN, 7 years of complete culture war where you're allowed to literally burn down buildings to protest whites being ... idk, more successful than blacks or whatever, but one little protest against Israel and Real Consequences for 1st time 👀

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

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ASU senior starts crying after she finds out that she won't be able to graduate after she got arrested for protesting on campus. Breanna Brocker tells @bdbrown473 that she won't be graduating because her suspension means she will miss her finals. "I'm a little disappointed. I'm

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@MorlockP

5 months

A very large swath of the left has no ethics beyond "sex is good", so their worst insults are things like "incel" and "less-!@#-able". (Also, Musk has had more children with more hotter and younger women than John Oliver has even looked at, so this is a pretty hilarious failure

Variety

@Variety

5 months

John Oliver slams Elon Musk as "the less f*ckable reimagining of Billy Zane’s character in ‘Titanic.’" He also compared Musk to "Lex Luthor, posing for the cover of Metropolis Maniacs Monthly. There’s ‘Why no Mr. Bond, I and my child bride expect you to die.' There’s ‘I just

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@MorlockP

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it's not that being smart leads to traps; it's that autists take ideas seriously your avg normie Christian "believes" Christianity and then proceeds to sleep around; normie Jew "believes", then has bacon; normie Muslim "believes" then does both AUTISTIC Christians etc tho,,,

RandomSprint

@RandomSprint

18 days

A disproportionate share of terrorists are engineers. I remember reading this in 2010 and updating from "being smart leads to better beliefs" to "there are traps only smart people can fall for." I am often reminded of this fact.

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@MorlockP

2 months

3/ Cops are not just trained, cops SHOULD be trained, to separate the two parties, take notes, and write up a report. Cops do not have the time, the capacity, the expert witnesses, or the training to determine if a lease is valid, or a notarization stamp is real.

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Harvard and Yale elites can spend 40 years advocating policies that * strengthen the communist PRC and its military * strengthen the PRC's industrial capabilities * weaken the US military * weaken the US's industrial capabilities * ...all while cashing PRC checks, literally or

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The Army War College thinks war with China could cause 3600 casualties per day. So, they're considering a draft.

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@MorlockP

1 year

a young pretty blonde white woman with a law degree, a column in a national newspaper, and a teaching position at one of the world's top universities ruminates on how she's a victim

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@DrProudman

1 year

Whenever I lack self-confidence, I just ask myself, “what would a white privileged man do?” And I have my answer.

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2 months

2/ You can't blame cops for not taking the side "of the owner". Two people have claims that contradict. One says he's the owner and there is no valid lease, the other contradicts this (perhaps with paperwork that looks legitimate).

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@MorlockP

3 months

a new 747 costs $450 million, and one single trusted individual can destroy one in 5 seconds if he chooses to the modern consumer-facing world trains people to think that everything has, metaphorically speaking, seat belts and airbags, but it's not true

Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

3 months

“You cannot seriously believe there are computer systems capable of causing $100M in losses if a single trusted individual types in a single command. That seems astoundingly unlikely. Efficient Markets and all that.” Yeah that is uncontroversial engineering reality. Point blank.

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@MorlockP

3 months

11/ Approach all claims adversarialy. "How might this be TECHNICALLY true and yet still deceptive?" The media, the government, the universities - they all hate you, and they will deceive you if given half a chance.

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4/

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@MorlockP The concept of rinsing and drying things seems to be lost on a good part of the internet.

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@MorlockP

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1/ I find it hilarious that in V for Vendetta, the news comes out that the disease that allowed the authoritarians to take over was exposed as actually CREATED BY THEM, and the people rebelled and the authoritarian government fell.

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@MorlockP

1 month

Education majors have the lowest IQs of any college program, other than social work.

Matthew Taylor (Still Unbelievable! podcast)

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Stay at home mom with no additional qualifications thinks she's better at teaching than those with educational degrees. Religion really is a poison to our society.

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@MorlockP

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For 20 years the discourse has been lefty: women can do X as well as men can righty: but the physical requirements are ... lefty: the physical requirements were designed around men. Machine guns only weigh that much bc a man can carry that much. Just redesign around new limits

New York Post

@nypost

9 months

Police officer tackled, brutally attacked by hammer-wielding man: ‘Fighting for her life’

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@MorlockP

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9/ You can't afford $70, so you adjust your consumption patterns and replace 2 units of beef with 2 units of grain (cutting your beef consumption in half). We have now replicated the graph that Krugman so proudly showed off. "Food at home" prices are "only" up ~25%.

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@MorlockP

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two types of people: * low productivity, who - if given UBI - will, smoke weed and play vidya * high productivity, who - if given UBI - will KEEP working their day jobs AND their side art projects, and dump $ into SPY thus inflating an asset bubble

Jeremy Kauffman 🦔

@jeremykauffman

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We literally just ran this experiment. If you give people money, they will stay home, play video games, and order door dash. There simply are not secret Shakespeares trapped in minimum wage jobs.

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@MorlockP

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Remember, we select the absolute dumbest college graduates to teach children

Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷

@mathladyhazel

5 months

I can't believe my eyes. 😵‍💫

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@MorlockP

8 months

it's amazing how people who invented literacy are the only ones who had battles 4,000 years ago

Epic Maps 🗺️

@Locati0ns

8 months

Map of every battle since 2500 BC according to Wikipedia (10,624 battles)

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@MorlockP

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1/ This is entirely false, and I'm old enough to remember exactly when the progs forged this meme. In the 60s & 70s progs had lots of exposes about mental hospitals, and leveraged these to pass laws closing institutions. The crazies ended up on sidewalks and were now hobos.

𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗

@shagbark_hick

4 months

Most don't realize just how easily they could become homeless. If you have expenses that require that you regularly make more than you could with sporadic cash employment (sub-$1k/mo), you are 1 or 2 strokes of bad luck from sleeping in a tent under an overpass. It's not a

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@MorlockP

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3/ Google that, find Skim it, realize that the measurement is NOT CPI-like (where a fixed basket of goods is priced each month / quarter), but instead a SURVEY of people asking them what they spent (for a NON FIXED basket of goods).

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@MorlockP

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30 cents of processing power is better at diagnosing common pet medical conditions than a guy with a $400,000 degree the world is going to change at lighting speed right in front of our eyes...and if it doesn't, that's because entrenched rent seekers are preventing utility gains

Cooper

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#GPT4 saved my dog's life. After my dog got diagnosed with a tick-borne disease, the vet started her on the proper treatment, and despite a serious anemia, her condition seemed to be improving relatively well. After a few days however, things took a turn for the worse 1/

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@MorlockP

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you get a choice of neighbor: * a CPA who's dad was an alcoholic, and who reports his home office as 15% of his home by square feet, instead of 8% * some meth heads living under a tarp who get in screaming fights at all hours, never sleep, crap outside, rob homes for copper

Jason Coupet

@ProfessaJay

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“Homeless people drink and do drugs and crimes.” YOU do drugs and come from an entire family of upper middle class alcoholics. You speed in the car, and cheat on your taxes. And you get to not be homeless. I just want the same for them buddy.

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@MorlockP

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4/ If you disagree, imagine the following: you are at home in the house you own, and cops and a stranger show up. The stranger says he's got a lease, you signed it, that's HIS furniture in the house, and he wants in and you out. Think quick.

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@MorlockP

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2/ ...but in a left dictatorship, you had to actively parrot the party line, and the regime would switch up the party line all the time to trip people up. The constant greengrocerism and whiplash was PART OF THE PROCESS.

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@MorlockP

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"I mean, sure, the aesthetic of cyberpunk is great fun, don't get me wrong, but the idea of a billionaire doing an extraction of key employees from a hostile state because they were anti-censorship freedom-fighters just isn't the kind of thing that happens in the real wo-"

Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

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"May you live in interesting times"

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5/ ....because in this hypothetical you've empowered the cops to make decisions about civil matters, and this is all going to be settled on the front lawn in the next four minutes.

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@MorlockP

3 months

gonna defend this girl * olives aren't edible fresh * you shouldn't eat potatoes if they're exposed to light and turn green * many ornamental plants are poisonous (deadly nightshade) * you don't eat crab apples * some plants might be sprayed w chemicals such that you don't want

🫛mowmow beans🫛

@b_e_a_n_mom

3 months

This girl has a lemon tree at her house and she didnt know she could use those lemons to eat

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@MorlockP

1 year

OMFG I can't believe that this water, which comes out of iron bearing ground and that then travels through iron pipes, might have touched iron oxide.

Tucker

@tuckertarantino

1 year

Enjoy ur tap water lol

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12/

A Strange Loop 🧭✴️

@Recursion_Agent

3 months

@paulkrugman I'm paying 8.99/lb for ground beef. That's what I was paying for ribeye three years ago. Stfu.

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@MorlockP

8 months

I will laugh at "liberal discovers good soil" EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

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@MorlockP

9 months

This is the perfect credentialed white woman tweet. It's got everything * selfie (TWO, actually! ) * career bragging * fictional story about unfair criticism * perfectly timely snappy rejoinder Everyone on the bus certainly stood and clapped for this one.

Dr Charlotte Proudman

@DrProudman

9 months

As my cousin took this picture of me in King’s College, Cambridge — a white male student shouted, “if they catch you, you’ll get chucked out.” I sharply told him: I belong here, my portrait hangs in the College Chapel — not his.

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@MorlockP

2 months

6/ So you still want cops to adjudicate things on front lawns, you just want to add more bureaucracy. I don't want law enforcement to have judicial power.

Wandering Wendigo

@rangingwendigo

2 months

@MorlockP Might be a good idea to create a centralized tenants registry.

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2 months

3/ Franco is the dictator? Don't chant "down with Franco", and you're cool. The Harvard faculty are the dictator? LOL OMG, you're !@#-ed. Hope you remember how many genders Big Professor declared there are this week, comrade.

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@MorlockP

10 months

This diagram is totally made up bullshit. (A) If it were true the ship would immediately capsize. (B) it displays extreme ignorance of the weight and location of engines, fuel, water tanks, stores, and ballast. People just say thingsl

Gareth Dennis

@GarethDennis

11 months

centre of gravity of mid-20th century ocean liner versus this pig marked in red:

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@MorlockP

2 years

1/ I am very much against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. I am also horrified by the unanimity in opposition to it. I've been getting more and more upset about very quick preference cascades, whether they're for things I like, or for things I dislike. >>>

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@MorlockP

2 months

6/ I usually hand dry, then "toast" on a flame for a few seconds to fully dry the surface

Demiurgent🥃🖤

@tr0g

2 months

@MorlockP I'm lazy so I throw pans on a burner for a minute or so to dry.

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@MorlockP

10 months

13/ The data - not some, not most, but ALL of the data - is trash, and running a meta-analysis on garbage gives you more garbage. My brothers in Christ, I am begging you, with tears in my eyes, to never RT a graph without at least googling one or two terms in it...

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@MorlockP

8 months

"late stage capitalism" means feeding, clothing, and entertaining people - even poor people - at a higher standard of living than 99% of people in all of history every experienced ...all by harnessing the kinds of driven monomaniacal people who, in other times, would be warlords

Alex Friedman 🤠

@heyalexfriedman

8 months

Most know Costco for the $1.50 hotdogs, but I don’t think people understand the level of operation and thought that goes into each Costco location: - They aim for a low ~17% margin on most of their products (for comparison — Walmart aims for ~45%, while Ulta / Sephora aim for

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2/ The power in your house does not "want" to be on. The clean water does not "want" to flow. The supermarket does not "want" to be stocked. Entropy is always and everywhere trying to destroy, corrode, sink, and endarken.

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@MorlockP

10 months

7/ The first piece of "hard" data in this "complete" and "accurate" record of global temperature is ... A RECONSTRUCTION.

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@MorlockP

1 year

this story is absolutely amazing black "entrepreneurs" open a Black Owned Business in a 99% white progressive utopia, paying nose-bleed rents friend tells me that over 3 yrs they were basically never open, w a sign in the door explaining "family issues"

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@MorlockP

9 months

1/ super retarded take tennis balls are designed (mass / air resistance) to be accelerated w something w a lever arm (tennis racket) I can throw a rock much further than a tennis ball. Dogs appreciate the longer throw with this tool.

Morgoth

@MorgothsReview

9 months

I remain flabbergasted that these things exist and there’s a market for them because people are too lazy to throw a ball normally for their dog.

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@MorlockP

2 years

We've just had one weaponized mass neurotic event for 6+ years now. Trump / BLM / covid / Ukraine This is the new normal This is what happens when billions of neurotics are connected w social media. Picture a have mind of Karens stomping on your face, forever.

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@MorlockP

2 months

subsidizing demand for house buying will help housing affordability in exactly the way that subsidizing the demand for college degrees helped college affordability

Joe Biden

@JoeBiden

2 months

I am proposing a tax cut to provide $400 a month for the next two years for those seeking to buy their first home or trade up for a little more space. Every family deserves a place to call home.

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@MorlockP

2 years

2/ ...but in the real world, where we have the actual documents showing that the virus that allowed the authoritarians to take over was actually CREATED BY THEM under gain-of-function research...55% of the population chants "TRUST SCIENCE / FOUR MORE YEARS / NO HORSE MEDICINE!"

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@MorlockP

2 months

"this hobby, beloved by bespectacled awkward white nerds, and which involves reducing all human activities to numbers, which has intricate tables of events, characteristics, and activities, and has endless minutiae to memorize and argue over, needs to be made more friendly to

St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻

@St_Rev

2 months

The more I think about this the more irritating it gets. Tell me you're a marketing drone who never played D&D. All D&D characters have always been autistic. NO EXCEPTIONS.

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@MorlockP

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7/ Read cell 1196 # This absolutely does not measure a CONSTANT BASKET OF GOODS. This is a sum of all spending for eating at home - it includes BEEF, PORK...and CEREAL.

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@MorlockP

3 months

2/ The graph he is using comes from here Scroll to the bottom and find > Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Release: Consumer Price Index

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@MorlockP

3 months

My take on this: interviewing for a midwit job, go with 51. It's a solid answer. interviewing for a job where degenerate cases exist ("the compiler - and your own code - are trying to kill you"): demonstrate adversarial mindset by listing all of the possibilities and give an

Noam Blum

@neontaster

3 months

Orange boxes take: While it's true that the problem can have a "sneaky" answer, Occam's Razor says that the solution that requires the smallest number of assumptions is typically correct. For the answer to be 51, the only assumption you need to make is that the problem contains

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@MorlockP

2 months

I've never met anyone as hostile to reading and learning as public school teachers. I keenly remember being mocked by two of them in middle school for reading while standing in a line.

Russ Nelson -- e/acc

@russnelson

2 months

@johndrewmarkley @MorlockP I read science fiction books throughout junior high school. Music teacher: "Russell is just going to sit on the side and read his book." as if peer pressure was a thing that affected me. Earth Science teacher grabbed my book and assaulted me with it. Social Studies teacher

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5/

Fuzzy 🇺🇸

@Fuzzy_Reasoning

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@MorlockP This has forever been maddening to me. I come from a long line of cooks/restauranteurs, got a culinary degree, had a 20 year career as a chef come and go and no one has ever been able to tell my why they don’t wash their cast iron without the standard “cause it’s always been

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@MorlockP

10 months

> “Can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government LMAOOOOO

MSNBC

@MSNBC

10 months

“We’re looking at American history” “Can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could stay in power?” “This is narcissism with steroids” -⁦ @TheRevAl ⁩ on ⁦ @Morning_Joe ⁩

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3/ Do not marvel when a ship loses power and crashes. Marvel every other day that engineering, western civilization, and good luck keep up suspended out of that muck 999 times out of 1,000.

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@MorlockP

11 months

> be illegal to build anywhere in the US due to the use of single stair egress. I hate to defend regulation but ... uh, a death trap being illegal to build is maybe a good thing?

Sean Jursnick

@seanjurs

11 months

Cedarhusen is Stockholm's first mass timber high rise and contains 245 units which are primarily dual aspect. At 13 stories tall, the building would be illegal to build anywhere in the US due to the use of single stair egress.

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@MorlockP

8 months

Amazing hack to clean an air filter

Mens_Corner__

@Mens_Corner__

8 months

I have to try that method

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@MorlockP

3 months

4/ Scroll down, find this > Additionally, CE public use microdata (PUMD) for 1980 through 2022 are available at . The PUMD includes Interview Survey files, Diary Survey files,

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@MorlockP

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Planting 58 apple trees. Just now decided to see how much fruit a typical tree gives per year. 250 lbs.

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@MorlockP

1 year

reminder: the felony murder rule is Good, Actually if you form a barbarian raiding party and go out looting and causing mayhem, then if ANYONE ends up dead, yes, you all are - and should be - culpable, both morally and legally

Billy Binion

@billybinion

1 year

Lakeith Smith didn't kill anyone. And yet he was punished as if he committed first-degree, intentional homicide. Not even second-degree murder or manslaughter. It doesn't make sense. Words should have meaning. They're meaningless here. /7

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1 year

You still wake up sometimes, don't you, Clarice? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the rhubarb.

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@MorlockP

8 months

2/ my politics: * the CIA is bad * the FBI is bad * mega corporations are bad * gov keeps way too many secrets * elites are sociopaths who care more about their steak tartare at DC restaurant tonight than they do about 20,000 American lives * we should avoid land wars in Asia

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@MorlockP

2 years

this is an awesome thread where a leftist calculates profit but forgets to subtract out - property insurance - health insurance - property taxes - employment taxes - credit card merchant fees - snow plowing - equipment maintenance - building maintenance - depreciation - marketing

Burger Stalinist

@primarycatdad

2 years

A McDonalds hamburger costs $2.09 at the register. McDonalds internal documents show that the raw materials (patty, bun, etc.) cost $0.34. A McDonalds employee makes $11/hr on average with a shift manager making $15/hr. Shifts are 8 people on average. That means McDonalds pays

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@MorlockP

2 years

Humans and dogs co-evolved as hunting partners. Petting a dog, while sharing bites of another animal with him, is trad and based af. Failing to eat meat is the real weird ass shi*t here.

Special Vegan

@spevegan

2 years

logic↘️ get your shirt on : #Vegan

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@MorlockP

3 months

8/ Let's say that you used to eat 10 units of grains ($1 each) and 5 units of beef ($5 each), for total spending of $35. Let's now say that prices doubled (grains $2, beef $10).

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@MorlockP

11 months

The English have few problems that couldn't be solved by deporting 10 million foreigners and hanging 100,000 natives.

Ben Sixsmith

@BDSixsmith

11 months

Brutally sad.

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@MorlockP

2 months

7/ left dictatorships operate like cults - they want the people mentally exhausted and off balance at all times to control their _thoughts_ not just their actions wordcel tyrants

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@MorlockP

1 year

This is complete nonsense. You can draw with a $10 pad and a $10 pen. You can write a novel on a decade old $50 laptop ... or a stack of yellow notebooks. You can sculpt $50 of clay. There is almost ZERO barrier to entry for creative pursuits.

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤

@ourobororoboruo

1 year

We live in a broken system in which creative pursuits demand access to wealth most do not have, and most are left to choose between making art and making money. In her essay, @nicolesjchung asks whose works we are losing because they can't afford to write?

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