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This is @polphilpod.bsky.social 's theory of the case.
I don't know if it's that many voters, but key voices in the media for sure.
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If you want to know more about his weird cult, read "Neoreaction a basilisk" by @eruditorumpress.com
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Even if you're going to have a mode like this, letting it accelerate up to 50mph is insane.
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I recommend www.youtube.com/@MarshSMT if that's what you're looking for.
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Herbie Hancock is definitely another who moved scenes -- I was just listening to @ethanhein.bsky.social podcasting about Rockit.
And it definitely wasn't solo work, new collaborators led to some of his most successful work.
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And this is better than beef bullion
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In this episode I *briefly* talk about how my podcast equipment, laptop, etc is a decade old and is on its absolute last legs. If you enjoy the show, I would be forever grateful if you could help by sharing or contributing to the fundraiser
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Venus Idol for president 2028
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To be fair -- if they used to deep fat fry everything they ate, this is probably healthier. No wonder their skin improved.
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There's still good stuff on the Internet sometimes
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youtu.be/N5K84ikK6Hg?...
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to be clear: Elon definitely moved behind the scenes to align grok’s responses to his politics (and botched it). It’s just that Grok isn’t a reliable source for that.
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One of the many reasons I have become overwhelmingly hostile to the state of Israel and Zionist institutions is that they actively endanger me and the rest of the Diaspora, and do exactly fucking nothing to protect us.
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The USAID cuts specifically will, if left in place for a full four years, kill millions upon millions, mostly children, at the direction of one or two men, one of whom is the wealthiest man to have ever lived.
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Also, I assume Cantwell is Chris Cantwell, the crying Nazi
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One totally unimportant factual nitpick -- in the beginning when you were discussing where Daniel is from you guys forgot that Louisiana was in the Confederacy, so there were definitely Catholics (but the overall point stands since Louisiana is a huge outlier from the rest of the South)
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Teenagers didn't think I was cool when I was one, why on earth would they start now?
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RETVRN to how podcasts were in like 2009
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Did VCs just forget how to deal with non-zero interest rates? It's not like venture capital was invented in 2010
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If society collapses, where am I going to buy fertilizer? That's right, I'll be composting my poop like my ancestors did.
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The "unobtrusive javascript" thing also wasn't great -- trying to bypass having to write js by generating it in ruby code wasn't a very nice system, though that was a lot easier to ignore.
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I think that was certainly part -- it's funny, rails had a very good (for its time) system with the asset pipeline, but that was around the same time npm blew up and it was so annoying to use npm packages in rails for so long was what really hurt it I think.
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They might not *currently* be selling your data, but look at 23andme to see what happens if these companies run out of money (as is very likely to happen)
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Yeah, you don't need to be a lawyer to see the problem here -- MIT license explicitly lets you sell the software, it doesn't get much more commercial than that
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Yeah, it was absolutely worth investigating, but that was done years ago.
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I like my women curvy, and what's more curvy than the disc of the sun?
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Tariff reduction is part of the new deal.
FDR wins again
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I'd commission the most bizarre avant-garde microtonal music and blast that shit on every radio channel.
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And there's a couple topics he's ok on, but like if you want someone to say we need higher housing density in big cities, and better public transit, you can get that without the other 8 braindead ideas he just thought of.
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He was always bad, but he went totally off the rails when he went to substack -- it turns out not having anyone to give you a reality check is not a good thing in a political pundit.
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Meaning that Hegseth doesn't even rise to the level of amateur
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Amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics, but warfighters discuss warfighting only!
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TLJ had its problems, but it had really good ideas too. Sad we'll never see where that could have gone.
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Yeah, sandman is clearly his best work, but comics have always been more niche than novels. Novels are more respectable and have a wider overall audience.
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There's also lots of conservative academics. Business, economics, law, engineering all have lots of conservative professors.
The overall number is a lot lower than it used to be, because conservatives don't value the humanities and don't agree with many sciences.
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Also, you know they only want certain types of people to have more babies.
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But also like, if you're going to be snotty about reading instead of enjoying other media, at least read something other than a series of children's books.
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Nemo Orcas goes pretty hard.