tylerhower.bsky.social
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Hoosier living in southernmost California
Etiam si omnes ego non
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Elon could have watched it from space if he knew how to get there
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There’s maybe something of my doubts about the unified self in that or experience of OCD or just discount-store queerness.
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I think I saw one of your sets once.
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You have years of good content, though!
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Happy birthday!
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There's something cognitively damaging about having that kind of money.
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How big could Iran be? Twenty square miles? Thirty? With, what, 100,000 people?
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One of the few things that can be known a priori.
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Democrats lost because of the one thing I care deeply about.
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Either one can pull the cart.
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These are crimes.
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The diet of tabloids and GB News.
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What's interesting to me is how every author of one of these just opens himself to people looking into his past and posts and it never looks good.
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Wait, people other than Jesse and his friends think he's a journalist?
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Gorsuch has a doctorate in philosophy (under John Finnis at Oxford).
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You’re, of course, right. Though that still leaves him firmly nested in the legal academy.
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No barriers or turnstiles on our local trolleys. Very formidable bus drivers who quickly call transit police on all our buses.
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I fear the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has the logical acumen of a college debate bro: Haha what if instead of changing one thing about a situation, I changed TWO THINGS. Take that liberals.
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It’s always funny to me when anyone trusts them. No matter your views, they’ve been wrong at least half the time.
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Why trust your authority on something with which you have little experience? Or, give you the clicks?
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I mean, they have a conclusion and find the principles that lead them there. True sophistry.
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And, Thomas referencing the Cass Report. Because international law is irrelevant but foreign parliamentary reports have bearing.
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A very selective stance. Cf, the VRA.
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Anyway, if you think any civil rights—or any other—advances of the last 160 years are matters of “settled law,” at least six people with life-tenure, deep-pocketed patrons, black robes, and awesome (legislative) power may have another view.
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Any decent tailor would be able to deal with his body shape and make him look okay, but they’d probably have to tell him that he’s fat—and shorter than he claims to be—and that would be unacceptable.
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Well, you’re no fun.
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It’s almost at frock coat, but without the waist.
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Today, I’m thinking about those tall, tapered poles with the very nice tops.
Also, Freud.
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I think he very much believes it looks good. The man has the absolute worst taste in everything.
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If we all go in together?
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To look more like his “club”.
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It’s already gone!
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I see. I see.