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a political scientist but not your political scientist (methods, war crimes, comp); jewess, gemini, chaös muppet for the love of god, please do the readings
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i keep seeing people fa-reaking out about [uses spooky jazz-hands as scare quotes] loyalty oaths! and i hate to tell you guys this but they already do that, it's called an oath of office, and they can weaponize the living shit out of it just the way it is.

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pensar en la nixtamalidad del cangrejo

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we don't talk enough about how john waite's missing you is not just one of the greatest songs of all time, but a song that includes elements of long distance telephony and telegraphy in both the lyrics and in specific acoustic effects.

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was that an earthquake

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ohhh he can't destroy the usps until he nationalizes it.

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i don't think every european is an isopod

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sorry, ESA, but three separate observations of 2.4 3.1 and 0.8 are not a trend. three data points are a weak [reductive] inference of a pattern. from this, a trend might be subsequently inferred if the data supports it. data is plural here. this is properly classified as a clownward trend.

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sorry but this is ridiculous to read from a public-facing person who has said some incredibly inappropriate shit, and maneuvered behind the scenes to punish people for speaking out about it.

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my beef with this article is that there's no discussion of why this is happening, and this is explicable from a basic-ish methodology perspective. the problem with testing long covid treatments is twofold. it's preferable to study treatment effects on the least granular control group possible. ⅙

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she BLINK

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if i was mark cuban rich i would not be creating car note derivatives, i would be reïnventing bell labs across every discipline

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<chanting> low-tax speed-run *clap clap clapclapclap* LOW-TAX SPEED-RUN *clap clap clapclapclap*

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sorry grimes but your kid has to die because your eugenicist ex boyfriend is higher than he has ever been in his life and needs to play with power tools on a stage so his troll stans can shoop nazi memes on 4chan/twitter, the everything app/executive orders

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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rebranding: congressional res̶e̶a̶r̶c̶h̶acher service office of mana̶g̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ a̶n̶d̶ b̶u̶d̶g̶e̶t̶, big hugee̶a̶l̶t̶h̶ a̶n̶d̶ human services ce̶n̶s̶u̶s̶hungus bureau department of government ef̶f̶i̶c̶i̶e̶n̶c̶y̶xpansion department of oligarch defens̶estration

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never go full nancy reagy

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tried to dream over to the magical stones under manhattan last night but instead found myself in what appeared to be an ancient flavor laboratory in the lost city of snaxos

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new season of reacher is like a large boi version of an elliot stabler arc send skeet

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funniest possible universe is if trump got neuralinked and that's why he's like this now

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none of this is a deficit issue. social security is paid for, congress just has to stop writing ious with it. medicare and medicaid are fine programs that can be expanded and adjusted for inflation without any major economic disruption.

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