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The problem is also compounded by the dynamics of the attention economy, where things cannot just be "bad", but have to be "THE WORST THING TO EVER HAPPEN". "The involvement of the US in the Israel-Iran conflict would be a serious escalation" is much less eye-catching than "IS WW3 ABOUT TO START???"
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Fortunately he has the National Security Council, which is made up of... hang on I'm getting a call here
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Will the world's biggest fool handle this delicate and extremely dangerous situation appropriately? We are going to find out together
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The US is not joining Israel offensively in its military operation, per US officials, CBS reports.
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yesssssssssssssssss
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gonna have to fight a lot of rarebit fiends if you keep that one in
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US official to Al Jazeera: “Our forces in the Middle East are maintaining a defensive posture and we are not currently conducting any attack against Iran."
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that seems to be the primary concern
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yeah so long as you don't disturb it you're fine, but if it's in the old wiring coating and they move it while hooking up the new fixture and it crumbles and they get a faceful of asbestos dust
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saw this for the first time a couple months back and really dug it
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Hungry tube
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the opening of rescuers down under is one of the most gorgeous sequences disney's animation department ever did and could just stand as a little short film on its own, i will die on this hill
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it's so terrifyingly easy to make
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some kind of citrus olive oil cake, maybe. or this!
smittenkitchen.com/2012/08/vani...
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and then in the early aughts the file sharers arrived and that shit seemed like magic
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dallas was a magic land accessed maybe twice a year
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this is also why stuff like kurt cobain name-dropping the bands he loved was such a generous thing, it gave you a key to take to those stores
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and a lot of the music i wanted was not actually available at a sam goody's in north louisiana so i'd have to wait until we visited family in dallas three hours away or order via mail if the label the band was on had a mail order catalog
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my town was so small it had neither a record nor a bookstore, you had to drive thirty miles to the nearest mall and pray the record was big enough for sam goody's to carry and also that it didn't turn out to suck ass
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basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery