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Technical diplomat. Offended by credulity. The Unreasonable Man.
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Oh.

submitted 43 days ago • 744 comments

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

submitted 43 days ago • 641 comments

Everyone believes that theirs is the only job in the world that AI will never be able to do and Andreessen is no exception

submitted 43 days ago • 35 comments

“He’s a fucking moron.” - Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Among the people that Trump names in this executive order are radical catholic pacifist Dorothy Day and Woody Guthrie, who famously wrote a song criticizing Trump‘s racist landlord father. trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Why do all these empty calories end up weighing so much?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

me: I’m returning this ice cube tray. It doesn’t work cashier: what me: it only makes cuboids cashier: it . . . cuboids? me: yes, rectangular parallelepipeds. Trapezoidal, really. clearly not functioning as advertised. how is this confusing? cashier: you know what I was gonna quit today anyway

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump is deporting legal US residents to a foreign gulag, and he has stated publicly that he is moving on to citizens next. This is a Constitutional crisis. Will a single Republican stand up for our Constitution?

submitted 59 days ago • 697 comments

talked to someone at one of the top italian tailoring firms. they plan on moving manufacturing to the US. said that generations of italian tailoring skill and culture can probably be transported to boise, idaho. expect flawless transition by monday.

submitted 62 days ago • 388 comments

I have lived in US under leadership so 'realpolitik'-minded that it became amoral. (From LBJ-Nixon on Vietnam, to Mitch McConnell.) Under leaders who made disastrous misjudgments. (Crowned by Bush-Cheney Iraq War.) Under leaders whose values I thought wrong. But never before by nuts and clowns.

submitted 64 days ago • 39 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 64 days ago • 429 comments

“The rich are protected by the law but they’re not bound by it. The poor are bound by the law but they’re not protected by it.” — Scott Galloway

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

The GOP COVID Committee report is wild. The virus is a Chinese bioweapon designed by Fauci ... and it was so mild that the US should have taken zero precautions ... and Democratic governors didn't take enough precautions ... and we should have let everyone get it. oversight.house.gov/release/fina...

submitted 70 days ago • 252 comments

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

submitted 72 days ago • 276 comments

wow Elons grandpa was a complete nutcase who moved to South Africa to help build apartheid www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

submitted 75 days ago • 146 comments

old aphorism 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚞𝚙 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚙𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎 which is not to say the crime wasn't impressively stupid too

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments