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You left out the best part which was it was "duplicated" by AI, implying the failure that is "AI" does the job better.
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a modest “improvement” in anabolic steroids does not really explain why hollywood shifted, elites could always access drugs and personal trainers and so on, but this in particular was driven by a cultural moment that really liked the idea of excessively muscular men
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Aw, you think *this* is big picture thinking? All I see is you bitching that people are doing it wrong. Maybe you have your own solution and Big Picture Thinking and would like to share? Or just bitch about how everyone is doing it wrong?
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"The failure mode of clever is asshole."
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I considered him to be young and stupid back then, so he got a conditional pass for the pushing for the Iraq war, but his behavior ever since shows that he was just stupid.
I don't think you should look at a Harvard-granted degree and assume intelligence. NBER has a paper on their 43% legacy rate.
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I think she's talking about unabashedly heroic characters more than antiheros/heroines. Think Robin Hood or Captain America.
I think Gilligan feels guilty for writing an obvious villain who became an antihero to a lot of viewers.
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I'm not so sure that was a bad faith argument itself. Now his "apologies" for it were...
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He's been making bad faith arguments since his first blogging days. All of which have disappeared
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I feel I should point out that this isn't burnt. This is a package that fell into the rollers in a mail sorting machine, and got ground up as a result.
(The *letter* is awful, absolutely! And the passport service absolutely did that. They just didn't do the document-mangling.)
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“In fascist society, everyone is educated to be a hero.”
— Umberto Eco
www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...
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Sadly, or not, there's no fucking involved with how he produces children.
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Is it purely part of the ref-working the Right has done since Nixon, or something more insidious?
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I keep coming back to this and how the contradiction is so blindingly obvious.
On the one hand it totally makes sense that they defend it as the stability of the "MSM" evaporated out from under them, but this was their position for a full decade before any of that had begun.
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Trump and “voters” nominally are the easiest targets for blame and yet to me, I will never not be the most mad at Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats for attempting to “move on” or “do a unity” instead of doing the hard but critical work of securing our government and preventing authoritarianism.
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Thank you Cheryl.