saambarrager.bsky.social
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Dudes on Twitter super excited that other countries will pay their income taxes.
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Tim Kaine warns Chump will stiff you!
www.rawstory.com/trump-buyout/
Musk did the same to Xitter employees.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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It would be useful for democrats to discourage people from taking this offer, and describe it as an illegal trick.
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Of course his name is Buckley
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"The cupboards were bare" was the reason there wasn't enough medical equipment in reserve in 2020. Obama's fault.
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The fascinating thing about this is that folks in Hanson’s field are now questioning his conclusions within that field because of his affiliations. They’re not libs they’re career military and historians.
(I stopped reading VDH in the aughts because he seemed white supremecist.)
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Should be a cottage industry of sociologists researching the effects of 2020 trauma on society.
Yesterday I was looking for similar research regarding WWII.
Zuckerberg is apparently still balls deep in Covid conspiracy theories.
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There was the Thai cave rescue, and his predilection for crypto.
There was another time he said he would just build Teslas in the parking lot to fill back demand. That seemed really wrong.
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How is Netanyahu weakened by Trump?
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He has Alzheimers. As it gets worse we'll see more stuff like this.
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Tasmania.
(Others mentioned Boer War, Ireland)
Do you have any other examples in mind?
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It’s so they can scam the banks, which they also own.
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Deaths due to natural disasters have massively dropped during the same time as massive carbon release.
Humans ability to engineer solutions greatly surpasses the rate of climate change.
We do divert huge resources to these problems though that could be spent elsewhere.
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I think crime upticking sharply did that.
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Do you have an example?
Are you talking about Tara Reade, disarming Israel, m4a, Bernie sanders, defund the police, or any of a number of other unpopular positions?
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And he canceled internal DEI — popular by people most directly affected by it. Bay Area engineers want to get along with their very diverse coworkers.
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What’s startling to me is that *Josh Marshal* made a superb argument regarding cost scaling and fact-checking. Zuckerberg could have made a convincing argument and done most of what he did.
But he didn’t.
He moved content checkers to Texas, and decision designed to be inflammatory and offensive.
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That said, tech will return and companies will be competing for workers again. Ahole management does make talent acquisition more difficult.
I’m a middle aged white dude in SF. Good DEI policy is a massive workplace benefit for me.
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Hard agree. People held on at Twitter as it became a hell-hole. In 2019 nobody but recent college grads and H1Bs would have put up with that crap.
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“WHEREAS efforts to rebuild should include measures to increase
community resilience, harden homes, and ensure defensible space to build
resilience to future wildfires, to the greatest extent practicable;”
It’s part of the order to build with resiliency.
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
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People don’t read and their comprehension is low.
Most Christian’s don’t know what the Bible says, and can’t tell you anything about life in the Levant 2600 years ago.
What are you concerned about being lost, and in which way?
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I love this. The fact that you feel confident that you got that part of raising her right and are sharing it is a cool flex.
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It’s the magic of X-Files.
Fox always concluded vampires.
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The economics of this are that a profit maximizing insurer will offer discount rates to those that got preventative medicine somewhere else.
By forcing everybody to do preventative medicine you remove this perverse incentive.
Ultimately it makes the entire country healthier and is cheaper.
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No me molesta a mí.
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I used to tell shocked Mormons that Young *left* the US. The official Mormon Book of Mormon / DC / Pearl of great price had a map of Young going to Mexico and I would show them that. Lot of Mormons think the founding fathers created the US for Mormonism so the idea that Mormons would leave it shocks
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PS grew up Mormon. I was never fundamentalist in any way — history is ugly and life is hard. Mormon church would prefer to sweep it under the rug but I always appreciated a warts and all approach, still do.
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Mormons felt like they were persecuted in Nauvoo and Joseph Smith was killed by an angry mob. So they were anxious and trigger happy about protecting themselves.
The show does a great job of contextualizing this stuff. It’s well acted and well financed.
Really enjoyed it.
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Mormons initially proposed taking an area extending from Canada to San Diego to Mexico — it’s why Romney’s dad grew up in a Mormon colony in Mexico. They wanted to establish a theocracy.
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The quintessence of this show is how much chaos and lawlessness are happening in this huge swath of land, and how different actors were dealing with it.
One super weird fact is that the Nauvoo Militia at one point in the 1840s was 2,500 strong — Federal army is only 9,000.
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It’s superb.
Most people understand this era through Oregon Trail video game (also great!). The Mormon experience before and in Utah territory is extraordinary and few people really appreciate it.
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Guessing the 22-year-old told you that pregnancy sucks cause you have to pay for half the abortion.
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Bill Gates. There’s a lot actually.
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Chefs kiss neither over nor under acted.
It could have been played very differently and it would have ruined it.
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Recently Republicans have abandoned any pretense of a reasoned approach to civic discussion. Musk defines "free speech" as "not woke". Fox news informally defines it as the right of republicans to say dumb or racist shit. Republicans all agree that free speech is something they alone get to enjoy.
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Free speech, even under Holmes, is not absolutely free. Death threats, child pornography, perjury, and many other forms of speech are not protected.
Republicans for years argued that free speech should exclude flag burning. A younger Ken Starr argued this in front of SCOTUS.
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Holmes optimistically uses the phrase "marketplace of ideas". Not optimistic regarding speech -- optimistic regarding markets. Holmes used this phrase in the context of the trustbusting era, where markets *clearly* need to be regulated and controlled.