deadarmadillo.bsky.social
Four legs up & motionless in the middle of the road.
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100%.
I was an undergrad the night of Tianenmen. Took a walk and watched campus leftists ignite a fire at a BofA to protest Apartheid, the cause of the day. The contrast stuck: US college kids lighting symbolic fires while Chinese kids were crushed by tanks. Well aware of the history.
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One can hold both opinions: that the Trump administration's actions are horrifying, and that Columbia's reputation has taken a massive hit. Academic-disrupting protests either reflect campus-wide views, or are dictated by the minority.
Laughable academic environment for a serious student.
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Oooh... "Top 10"!?
LOL... so was its law school: "Give us passing grades. No final exams. We're traumatized, but so-o-o serious!"
So very seriously academically unserious & overrated.
All this for only $100K/year.
Presently, not a place for serious students - it's a playground for child-activists.
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My kid is graduating from HS & headed to college to study math.
The last university on earth I wanted to pay for him to attend is Columbia University.
It's not a place for serious students: it's an unserious playground for child-activists who haven't yet ever earned rent.
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Bring the Rays to Oakland!
We will love them & make them ours!
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Waiting for Trump to blame the current wildfires in Georgia & the Carolinas on [checks notes]….
Californians and our water policies.
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Congrats!
You must be the 37th guy for that RE agent but managed to seal the deal.
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“This is how competitive authoritarianism works - you find vulnerable targets and persecute them.”
Good job!
You just described in a pithy nutshell what intolerant assholes at Columbia did to Jewish students with the complicity of the university’s administration.
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If you think about this Congress as his 4th wife, it makes sense that the honeymoon period would be particularly brief.
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OMFG.
After the Universe stops hating me, I'm going to that sushi place in Japan & then jetting over to be your "cousin" at the Chinese family reunion barbecue.
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Want.
Immediately.
Never been to Japan, because the Universe hates me.
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"Podz" is acceptable shorthand on a character-constrained public interface.
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This was completely foreseeable after his inauguration-eve press conference.
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My eldest is a senior and attended zoom-informationals all summer & fall to learn about multiple colleges: the student-presenters at Ivys & near-Ivys usually each said their land acknowledgment when beginning zoom presentations.
It’s you who aren’t where these are routine.
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“Real life”: Start of this year, principal at my sons’ public high school instituted a land acknowledgement policy that required its recital before every class.
Every.
Class.
Like a prayer.
Lasted several months before fading. Now just at assemblies.
“Just” is doing a lot of work above….
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Another British naming contest!
I suggest, "Stucky McCargoface"!
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Ancient geology as political destiny.
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Same.
Campaign rally of lies is unworthy of both comment & viewership.
Especially when “challenged” by performance-art opposition and its juvenile auction paddles.
I watched my kid play HS baseball and then we watched tape of the Warriors beating the Knicks in MSG.
Far superior use of civic time.
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Did Musk announce Tesla's release of self-driving red candles?
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
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BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!
Oh.
Sorry. That's rude of me.
(BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!)
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Democrats should announce that they will seize any and all such properties through eminent domain from any purchaser at their earliest & next available opportunity.
Freeze out sellers.
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While both the maple and snake take dumps on the word, "Trump."
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Our beloved tuxedo in the thick of our teenager's clean laundry... deposited on his beanbag. She appeared at 2am starving & flea-ridden as a 6-week old in our backyard - would guess coyotes & owls made off with the rest. Now she's ours and we are hers.
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This is so painfully, obviously true, it defies comprehension that one must speak out against it.
And yet….
What on earth have we become?
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No.
Your mom describes the teaching of age-old "tolerance."
DEI is absolutely not that in practice: in fact, it's antithetical.
Hotlines are stupid.
But you & she are equating apples & oranges.
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All his best pals get to front-run it.
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Now do, "Trump is a Russian asset."
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Brilliant
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Can't find it - is this being broadcast somewhere?
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Maybe he meant, “putt”?
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Beyond the Arc Curry Era is evergreen.
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Strong support at zero.
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"Abortion is murder," but this isn't?
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I think I’m in love with your chart.
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Thread
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Dude.
Looks fantastic.
But also….
Global knives.
Same.
They’re the best.
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I am entertained!
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Badass
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Forgot... Messengerboy traveled to MAL by way of... Beijing to meet Xi on July 8, 2024.
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To preserve access.
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… then traveled to Mar-a-Lago a week later on July 12, 2024.
Today’s vote in the UN is part of a larger deal that was all hatched out before the election.
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I assume Orbán is/was the messenger/go-between for Putin during the US election. He met with Putin in Moscow July 5, 2024…
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I agree.
But I believe it isn’t necessarily only a Putin-Trump axis. Only appears such now. Xi will be revealed as the third partner at the carving table. My thread below from a month ago.
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Publicly funded scientific research is a public good that generates timeless benefits for humanity.
The system of percentage-coverage of indirect costs is a private good that is consumed & enjoyed locally by universities & municipalities.
Sorry - it should be locally and/or privately financed.
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"We must build a system...."
This post gets it: what Trump demonstrated in 1 short month is that our present configuration is fundamentally vulnerable: the concentration of power invites its capture & malignant use.
To guard against tyranny, we must devolve that power away from the core.
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Remember when that song came out, hearing it on the radio in our carpool to school in the morning. Haunting & captivating to my ear. Years later, I was asked to backup a singer on bass as she sang this, a song I think I love even more.
youtu.be/VqW-eO3jTVU?...
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