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hezbolah-vit
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taro is great for making rugby thighs and nothing else. raw taro takes like a wet ashtray
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oh I think we do, we’re just incapable of collectively implementing new systems on purpose. the capitalists of yesteryear were the same, they just lucked into the end of feudalism
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do you mean your dad or your boyfriend
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I think they not so secretly love the unintended mkultra revelations in the 70s now as the myths spawned since give them way more cachet than they’ve ever actually earned
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Pretty sure you could also draw a timeline back through deepfakes to Andy serkis’ career and then land on “we secretly built a facial recognition mapping database containing every human alive in the years after 9/11”
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I remember wondering why every vendor was trying to sell us on data lakes 15 years ago. Turned out they’d developed the tech for the NSA + five eyes and wanted to cash it twice
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Sounds good to me. If Bluesky is just tumblr for olds I’m good with it. Politics & media has done nothing but suck the 50 years I’ve been alive, count me out
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www.amazon.com/stores/autho...
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mouth breather
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pillow biter
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salad dodger
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I wish to see the big costco cat tree
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I would say that the personal experience and anecdotal samples of your average politician, banker, or economic thinker is far closer in commonality with an anti-vaxxer. A privileged, tiny minority benefiting from the work of others while judging non-members as unthinking sheep
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No, you can’t posit that our ability to measure, diagnose and treat listeria in an individual human being in a hospital has any comparability to our ability to assess the average economic hardship felt by that same individual as part of a cohort of millions of others. Seems cruel
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Everyone wants to believe that someone is on top of things, even if it’s nefarious. The CIA, the Deep State, Palantir, Putin, Soros, AI. God is dead, so we’re inventing proxies. The truth that we’re unguided, a teeming gelatinous mass on a temporary blue ball lost in an abyssal void scares us more
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No, it’s more that Modi stoked the same fires using the same new social media poisons that Trump did. To great effect, I mean he’s been in power since 2014. But stoking religious hyper-nationalism has a price - you puff yourself so hot you can’t back down, and your rabid support base box you in
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you um uh have some uh pretty uh well you know maybe uh highly strung uh opinions uh yeah hmm
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oh thank you, thought this was an Andy Dick situation
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sorry what
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I figured no one else wanted the gig
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I had my very first Democracy Dog today, loved it
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Piketty
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Machine politics. Turning our noses up at pork-barrel politics was a mistake and served right-wing interests. Still shitty, he’s a grub, but that’s Tammany Hall right there
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Wait I’m in Australia and we get the MMR vaccine as kids and have for many many decades what the hell are you on about
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Oh look yes the Ron paul libertarian shit was definitely us. But that was dweebs and olds. Marginal cranks. The millennial accelerationist and outwardly racist version was -not- what the 90s were about. Dog whistles, sure, always. Open race science b.s. - that was new
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Yeah I’m 50 this year. Fact is, GamerGate & the Alt-Right happened on the millennial’s internet. I had a kid in 2001, went mostly offline til 2015, and - things had changed. If I gotta cop for other GenXs (I do) then youse gotta cop for yours
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Hmm millennials are the children of boomers, and the alt-right was formed in your generation, so - the call might be coming from inside the house
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“ok boomer” is 16 years old, so that makes genxs like me the age boomers were when they got boomered
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You’ve been experimenting lately. Positive spin: you’re ready for something new. Negative spin: shit don’t hit like it used to. Cursed spin: you’re edging a breakdown
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I use perplexity. You gotta hold your nose for a few weeks to get the hang of prompting and using the source links. But it is instantly better than Google today. I have AI revulsion/derision as much as anyone but search is a life requirement
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I have this idea that we men are the way we are because the fascist/sexist strain in our genes is so virulent. And for those of us who don’t succumb to it, it’s our job to kill off those who do once they mass enough. You don’t fix this kind of thing via education or laws. You have to kill it
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Tall & Proud reporting. The thought of squatting/sitting appears like Gollum scrabbling for the ring in my mind’s eye
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Yes & no. It encourages some of your detritus to re-enter. And more importantly, I’m not fingering my gaping sphincter some kind of animal
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Us proud shitters secretly judge you squatters for your groundling ways
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No, no I don’t. Full attention position. If I have to go deep I might lean back slightly
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In prison your cell mates get you to flush before you get off the seat to help flush the smell
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I stand full height. Wipe with one hand, salute god with the other
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When I was 20-21 yo in 95-96 dealing lsd was my largest slice of personal income. I used to buy sheets of 500 from the Satan’s Slaves. Fuck it was a good time, I regret nothing. Years later during a particularly boring corporate meeting the boardroom walls starting sluicing due to a flashback lol
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So I read www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... what’s the Tupperware angle?