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"Creating a scene" is not wrong! It is firmly within the job description of elected representatives when dealing with the executive! Kristi Noem does not have a legal right to prevent "scenes" from happening!
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I did some research with a color picker app and I think I have a theory
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Translation: "he lumbers and bellows like a giant manbaby"
But even that version of Trump is mostly gone!
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At first, sure, but his insistence on not changing direction is definitely 100% pigheaded ego
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I have one very important list that makes sure enemies of common decency are CALLED OUT and IDENTIFIED bsky.app/profile/did:...
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One way to get to "liberals are the real enemy" is to grow up in a context where you mostly never meet any actual right-wingers and can convince yourself that conservatism is an elite phenomenon that will disappear after the revolution
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Starbucks menu descriptions were overrepresented in the training set
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Oooh, "Watchlist". You're being monitored by the National Institute for Extremism Monitoring and Ripping Cotton
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I think if a person is going to mock mass media for being repetitive and derivative they should perhaps first develop their own artistic style rather than lifting someone else's wholesale. Kind of a glass houses situation
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Like, they use this image in the article. It's from the 2024 convention, which was absolutely overflowing with "we love America and the troops" messaging. And yet the media acts like the median Dem is a flag-burning pacifist, year after year
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My main objection to this is the idea that this is a "new approach" when Dems have been running the "proud American troop" playbook in purple states and districts since 9/11. The Democratic Party has been overtly patriotic and soaking in Americana as long as I've been able to vote!
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Right, but the work necessary to get that imaging for most roads is going to be less than the work necessary to produce road-safe, fully-autonomous self-driving that doesn't require said imaging
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Foreshortening + baggy clothes + she does seem to have a fairly big head (I sympathize)
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"True self driving" in this sense is probably a much longer way off and also not nearly as useful. The vast majority of driving is on known, mapped roads, and most cases where it isn't are situations that merit a trained driver anyway
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Elon's anti-LiDAR stance might be the single biggest and earliest piece of evidence against his vaunted reputation as an industrial genius. He's sabotaged his own product for no discernible reason other than his own ego.
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I started overusing the em dash as a way to wean myself off of the overuse of parentheses and semicolons. Recently I've tried to upgrade to the solid and reliable period whenever possible. But it's unsurprising that ChatGPT uses the em dash a lot — it's a staple of "punchy" professional writing.
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Who paid for her cancer treatment and her live-in caregiver? Kind of sounds like the government has been paying to keep her alive while she spends her money trying to destroy it.
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If you need to define "police" down to "armed beat cops" you are not a police abolitionist in any meaningful sense
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Dictatorship is not a single, stable state
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"qualified immunity" from what???
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David Petraeus? Was this an actual cameo?
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Happy birthday, you deserve to celebrate just being here no matter what else is happening
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Why would "giant rock monster beats fleshy human" be the angle the promoters wanted to take, rather than the much more remarkable opposite? What if they tried to bribe a Ben who's already considering going easy on his non-super opponent? Wouldn't that have some actual drama? Why am I asking this?
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Why would you need to pay someone to throw a fight against The Thing? Even if these guys are abnormally strong, he's The Thing. How could he lose?
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I like fried bologna but why is it so thick and pale
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"Live drums" rules out a ton of stuff. Apparently part of the motivation here is that the Americana category has gotten overstuffed in recent years -- Ferrell and Crockett were called out in an article as examples of artists that would probably end up in Traditional Country rather than Americana
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I looked at the rulebook definitions and this definition feels like it's explicitly written to exclude the past few decades of pop country, especially bro country ("live drums" feels like a specific callout aimed at the ubiquitous trap beats) bsky.app/profile/bene...
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"Live drums" seems very intentional, lol
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For reference, here are the new categories. The vast majority of mainstream radio stuff is going to end up in the Contemporary category.
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The Grammys rulebook explicitly lists outlaw country as a subset of this category. If followed faithfully, these rules really do exclude most mainstream radio country as much as they do Beyonce
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This new award is in the same group as the existing Americana/American Roots awards
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The category's description specifically calls out acoustic instrumentation and traditional song structure. There are a lot of artists fitting that description but it's not Morgan Wallen or any of those other guys
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I think the fact that this is a new category in a group that already had a lot of specific genres broken out makes the reporting on this seem pretty questionable. Beyonce wouldn't have been in the running for any of those awards and she'd still presumably be eligible for the headliner award
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It sounds like artists that would have gone into this category ended up in "Americana" and "American roots" categories, even though what they're doing is more in the Waylon Jennings mold, yeah. These aren't exactly bro country artists
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There are people doing traditional country to this day, but we'll see if any of them actually make it into the category
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I also try to establish specific types of things they have expertise in and to be realistic about them not figuring things out they wouldn't know. e.g. the bard has a lot of shallow knowledge from songs and theater, she knows some religious sects because she's done work for them but not others, etc.
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I have the same issue, but I just balance it out with personality, like my last 4 characters:
paladin - too big+scary to pull off tricks, loves smiting too much
warlock - unable to lie, trusts too easily
rogue - easily bored, loves fomenting chaos
bard - lacks familiarity w/ campaign setting, ego
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He's been doing stuff like this for a couple decades now
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I'm not talking about the physical document
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The number one rule of a dictatorship is that people need to accept it for it to continue existing. Taking "there will be no midterms" as a given is moral surrender
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The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution give us recourse for the situation you are describing
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"No elections" vs. "totally fixed elections" vs. "irregular elections subverted by legal tricks" makes a substantial difference
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It's mostly the mistress obsession tbh
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Johnson had to report an impure thought to his son after doing this, no doubt