slyreference.bsky.social
Everyone's username is a sly reference about something
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And that's if the world hasn't changed too much for us just to fix the damage done. There are others who will move in to take advantage of the US being asleep at the wheel, even if they're just trying for market share, and it will be hard to get some of that advantage back after they occupy it.
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I also met Sting's son at a party in Boston. I remember someone had put glow in the dark stars on the ceiling and he it was really cool, and then made a joke about looking at them and spinning around.
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Corey Haim came into a CD store where I worked and tried to borrow $20 from me to get whippit gas from the head shop in the back of the store. He said that he'd come back the next day and give me a signed copy of any of his movies for the money.
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I also wonder how the story was framed when it was told to him. Did his source say that Padilla was disruptive and didn't identify himself, like Noem claims? Is there any chance that he knows the actual circumstances of the incident?
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and an important part of that story:
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And they shouldn't act like "I don't likenit" is an objective fact, and people are wrong to disagree with them.
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I guess you don't recognize her, or her use of irony.
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You're explaining the joke?
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The legal system was built for deliberation, not demolition. It can’t keep pace with a president who governs by impulse and breaks laws faster than courts can schedule hearings. We’re watching rule of law get outpaced by a man who doesn’t believe in it.
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Oh, come on, Asha, you know if they didn't hear about it before 2016, it's not a law they need to obey.
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My guy, you tax corporations so you can offer tax breaks from a position of power. You could give them a 90% tax rate and with enough breaks they'll probably be fine. That's why having a low base rate is short sighted.
Higher taxes make tax breaks a great source of leverage.
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And most of the super rich already have their money elsewhere, and have enough tax shelters to defray most new taxes aimed at them.
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Beijing pushes the nine dash line based in part on old maps.
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Slightly misremebered, it covered Afghanistan, but left out Pakistan.
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There was an old Century of Humiliation map that indicated Asia as far west as Pakistan was rightfully in China's sphere of influence.
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Wasn't there a fanfic that got popular years ago on the Chinese internet about the wars China needed to fight to reclaim all the land it lost? IIRC, it included Mongolia, Vietnam and Vladivostok. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of that thinking.
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I know a couple of people who are long-time Republicans in part because they saw local Dem leaders make decisions that were terrible, incompetent and/ or corrupt.
It's one of the things that keeps me from saying that all Republicans are stupid or blind.
Both of them hate Trump, though.
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Can't acknowledge climate change if you don't understand the climate.
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Wasn't it Andre Gide who said he learned about abusing Algerian boys from Oscar Wilde? And the whole leading French intellectuals coming out pro pedophilia in the 70s.
A long inglorious history.
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Did @bencollins.bsky.social buy the WSJ too?
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After Andor S2, I rewatched Attack of the Clones, and holy cow was it bad. Incoherent plot, terrible writing, bland cinematography, and horrible acting.
I remember Revenge of the Sith being miles better than eps 1-2, but I haven't rewatched that yet.
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I read it pretty well. I haven't put myself in a position to practice speaking. It was the first foreign language I learned back in school. Le Petit Prince was the first book I read in French, so I went over it again and again until I understood all of it.
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Why? We're at the point where Led Zeppelin III and the breakup of the Beatles. are closer to the end of World War One than the present day. They don't need to update their canon until at least half of the current canon gets to that point.
In about 5 years.
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It's like so many NYT articles. You ask yourself who the intended audience was, and it always seems that their ideal reader is someone who doesn't know anything about the topic, but wants to sound informed about it to their friends.
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And someone the my English teachers (and Art History teachers) liked having in class.
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Here's a thought, though: the Little Prince might not have cared about humans until he met the Narrator, just like the Fox didn't care about wheat until he was tamed by the Little Prince.
And he definitely cared more about roses (or at least one rose) than any human.
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Just a guy who's read The Little Prince too many times.
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the Narrator left his shell the way the Little Prince did when the snake bit him.
Would an immortal alien (because that's seemingly what the Little Prince is) even care about saving a human's body?
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Did it? The Narrator admits that he might have been hallucinating when they found that well. Are you sure he's a reliable narrator at that point?
Maybe the Little Prince slipped him one of those anti-thirst pills. Why else did they pop up in the narrative?
Maybe...
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I actually looked it up, and what I posted was a paraphrase of Swift. His original was "Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired."
source: quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/r...
It also sounds like your version is common.
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I heard it as "You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place," but that's probably a difference without much distinction.
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He talks pretty, doesn't he? But he thinks debating about the War of Sheep and Roses *an idea he created without evidence* is more than the Narrator trying to save himself from dying.
It's almost like he's a Twitter user.
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The Little Prince spends so much of his time slandering adults, but he's no better. He is as self-cenetered and blind as the Businessman.
The "love" that he reps as an ideal is toxic co-dependence.
The only sane character is the Fox.
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The themes of The Little Prince are toxic and terrible.
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😃
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And it depends on if you want more of a "Thirty Years War" focus or a "Dutch East India Company" one.
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*17th century.
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Yeah, it's hard to find the right balance between having a lot of classes so you feel like having all your bases covered, and getting bogged down by having too many classes.
That said, the 16th century was the beginning of the Age of Sail.
To what degree are you going to wrestle with religion?
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And what would a Musketeer fall under?
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Are you going to have a dedicated sailor class? Or does that fall under Bravo?
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Every time I see Newsom revealing himself, I remember that he was the front runner for replacing Harris if there had been a contested convention like some of the Democratic leaders wanted.