timelessvoid.bsky.social
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free Palestine
we're alone on a floating rock and only have each other
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The article is 4 paragraphs
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We have the skeets
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wait until you find out about uninformed/bad opinions being a thing
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To you maybe
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No
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Other articles say exotic pet use, which is likely given the species (messor cephalotes, a large impressive ant). They were trying to smuggle out a million dollars worth of queens, I'd say they got off too easy
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Another twist: Bradbury later in life feared left-wing political correctness more than tyranny and book-banning in the US
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This blob of sophistry sounds almost LLM-generated
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Man it really is heartwarming to see a tall, good-looking white dude get what he wants for a change.
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Better sandboxing than browsers, also
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Doesn't really change your point though that US meddling exacerbated the conditions that triggered emigration
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I thought MS-13 started the US by Salvadoran immigrants (origina,ly as a protection racket) and was eventually spread to El Salvador via deportations
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Why not put his full name in the headline or summary then?
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Real work introduces humility and uncertainty before the confidence of mastery emerges. It's easy to be led astray by tone and style and prolificity. But most of us (myself included most of the time) are actually just fumbling around in the dark... good to remember that occasionally
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I suspect the trap is that we try to emulated the style and tone of influencers without doing any of the other stuff they also do when not on this site, like scholarship and interaction with the world and its people. 4/
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But by now we all know the failure modes of this, right? Echo chambers. The inability to follow a structured argument. Little patience or skill for getting at someone else's point of view. 3/
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It feels like freedom. After all, choosing what you read as opposed tk following someone else's train of thought? It feels easier and safer. 2/
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Sometimes nonviolence is a good strategy. But pacifism in the face of a genocidal invasion? Not so much. Easy to say otherwise when not in the crosshairs of a Shahed or a ballistic missile
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And by identity politics they almost always have minority self-advocacy in mind; white identitarianism doesn't seem to concern them too much
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Shells for Russian invaders? Cool, where can I sign some of those
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Always risky to vote for the FAFOnomics candidate
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Things I didn't really need quantitative confirmation of (but appreciate it nonetheless)
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They'd fill the oceans with concrete if they could
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No worries, I see the Kane Creek potash ponds all the time so when I read about this in the news I also was incredulous and looked it up
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pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/...
Most potash is imported
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Corporate capture? Performative politics? Authoritarian tendencies? Imperialist foreign policy? Something else? (Will not pursue a back-and-forth, this is an honest question, what is the core flaw you believe they share)
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every day his approval rating above 20% is a day you could be informing a MAGA or independent peer about this very simple set of facts
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They have think tanks and goals, but no plan from A to B besides issuing edicts, breaking laws and ignoring the courts. That's why you don't comply in advance and you fight. They don't have any backup tactic in most cases