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Former US English Professor — science-minded — prefers the company of cats — D[NY] loyal to democracy — despises autocracy & theocracy — enjoys black beer, halvah, espresso, weird/twisted films, and driving my slow car too fast — NO DMs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Requesting to understand"?! -- Hey Elon - did you ever take an English course in college? Because that's about as muddy a bit of prose as I've seen in my 20+ years teaching English....
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So who's going to take in 337,000,000 people from the USA? Because the indigenous population's just under 3 million. I could cut myself in half & send half to Israel & the other half to England, but that's just me.
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They saved us $50B by firing workers who didn't deserve to be fired, thereby making everybody pay through the nose for the savings.
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-2...
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He sure does talk a lot of shit for somebody who looks like he sells boiled beef in a can in British magazine ads.
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If this idiot thinks Trump legitimately wants people of all races to be treated the same, he's carrying Trump's water, ignoring facts right in front of his face, & is a bad-faith actor because of it.
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If it weren't for warlords & power brokers using food scarcity as a weapon against their own populaces things would be easier.
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Any competent professor can easily spot an essay not written by the student whose name is at the top. Last time I taught an AmLit class, 2 sections of 55 students each, the cheat rate was 22%, which is approximately the same as it had been over several years. It may be higher now, I don't know.
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"I'm sad"?!
That doesn't even come close to the harrowing and numbing effects of depression, as I can attest from personal experience, or the helpfulness of SSRIs in treating the condition.
Elon can go fuck a tree.
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As a man who's 5'3" tall (yes I said "tall" lol), that premise describes a lot of shows for me!
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My favorite show with people that do that was Leverage with Timothy Hutton & crew. Robin Hood vibe with a bit of joy in cleverness.
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Keep up the good work! When you fight, you fight for us where we cannot!
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Vaping is healthier than smoking, but tremendously harder to kick. I've been an on again off again smoker for almost 50 years (not smoking now) -- maybe 5 years at a time each way, & vapes were the absolute most difficult thing to stop, with cravings persisting for months after quitting.
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You are who you are and I am who I am and so's everyone else. You can't make left-handed people right-handed through force, and you shouldn't think you can force a new personality & set of feelings on someone just because they don't fit the arbitrary godforsaken "norms."
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Why don't you all ever provide a source for each of your announcements? It would be super helpful.