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Unfortunately, his defenders subscribe to Horseshoe Intelligence Theory: the smartest people do the dumbest shit but for deep reasons that are incomprehensible to us normies
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For context on their efforts to skirt the court ruling requiring an unfreezing of federal grants: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...
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Back tracking lies, the lies meant to protect well-educated people, takes us to 1972, when a group at MIT really did produce some outstanding value. The world is physical and it has limits. psmag.com/features/fal...
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NEWS: Judge Ali partially grants the request to enforce the TRO — as to any "blanket suspension of funds pending review" from State/USAID — but denies the plaintiffs' request for the government to be held in contempt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I wish I could answer questions like this. "What is 5 times 7?" "Well look, I'm all about numbers being accurate" "Ok, you're hired!"
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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The gold is not there!
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As if there's a world where both the US consumes Canada and politics and elections go on normally as before
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Like, this was a woman OK with the Fork in the Road bullshit, anti-trans bullshit, etc., etc. But whatever Musk’s DOGE team wanted led her to quit this weekend. After more than 30 years with the agency.
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But these alarmed Americans are dead-on when they sense that elected Democrats aren’t acting as though they’re in an existential fight. This is not a distraction and it’s not a drill. www.offmessage.net/p/an-opposit...
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5. Page 10 of "Guidelines for Nursing Homes: Ergonomics for the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders" notes "development of MSDs may be related to genetic causes, gender, age, and other factors." The single use of the word "gender" appears to have flagged the publication for deletion.
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see: our acceptance of fascist rule see: our acceptance of genocide see: our acceptance of mass death from COVID see: our acceptance of dehumanization and oppression of unhoused people see: our acceptance of mass imprisonment of our fellow citizens
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I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that society numbing ourselves to preventable mass death all around us would lead to society being unable to resist the march of authoritarianism.