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vivid memories of checking dal for stones at my mom's family house in the 90s

Please enjoy the Dutch word for a carrot

i need people to understand "death of the author" means the author can't dictate what you take away from the text, not that you're not complicit in what they do with the profit they make from you buying it in the first place

telling me to use eBird for confirmed sightings instead of asking people who Just Know Things is hate speech

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft. If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.

Books are worthless which is why Meta needed to steal more than 7 million of them

Every DOGE story feels like reading the news through a kaleidoscope. How did a fake office just formed a few months ago waltz into every corner of government in a few months? Is simply being willing to yell “give me access!” a super power?

“biological sex” should refer only to having sex in a lab, knocking over microscopes and shit, contaminating every surface while scientists watch you and take notes

Who wants to bet that Meta is keeping their algorithm under wraps because they believe each one of those individual parameters has value

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

Filing this next to Toshiro Mifune in sweater

Notably, in his media availability in El Salvador, @vanhollen.senate.gov truthfully keeps saying that Abrego Garcia was "illegally abducted" and "disappeared" instead of the more antiseptic, and factually incorrect, "deported."

NPR put together a "5 Takeaways" version if you need a more succinct version of this story. This is a huge story and should be shared and talked about everywhere. NPR's journalists need to be on TV talking about this.

Might not be a bad day to donate to this

It's telling how few libertarians actually choose to live in deregulated places r/india is rife with people trying to figure out what recourse they have after getting scammed on goods 😬

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