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snowden.st
A scholar with a slight flaw in my character. COan. Cannabis regulatory analyst, a poorly-fit Lutheran, Go Blue + Ski-U-Mah! Nuggets + ABA team loyalist. Can't stop thinking about sports, religion, history, weed, and beans. He/him https://snowden.st
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brother, you have a compound, all is well 🫔
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Front Range home prices are still Fucking Dumb, but in the long long term, they are still underpriced, imo
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oh yeah. like a full 30% of the motivating anger for Midwestern Union armies was the Confederacy fucking with the Mississippi and the farmers’ rights to move their crops
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Water is just one example of what modern bureaucracy, incredible engineering, and planning has afforded us, but the way that our world is constituted is wildly different than 1860s East coast farmsteads and early rail networks.
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and I swear I’m not trying to do a cheap historian’s gotcha or anything— I’m trying to make a serious point about (i) popular ignorance of water policy and (ii) the very real and undeniable transformation of the world that has happened between the 19th century and now.
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It’s the way that we generally describe the immigration process of our ancestors (facts be damned), and the way that many of us conceive of ā€œa clean match or a fair fightā€. It’s probably the most accessible nugget for ā€œmigrationā€ we have.
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what’s the course level for ā€œreading the post you’re replying toā€?
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My spheres are clean, but I catch glimpses of some of those nightmarish 7K followers 7.2K following types doing a lot of gloom shit in replies
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The US isn't a television show, it's not a retailer, it's not even a church. Shit can, and probably will, get bad. But all the "Online Status Posting disguised as gloomy politics takes" is immaterial nonsense, and I mean that literally. Fingercuffs for sad people.
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Mexico has the greatest cooking culture on Earth. There is no modern restaurant industry in the US without them. We are so fucking fortunate to be their neighbor.
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I’m quite sure some people DID get taught to be scared of fascism, and I think that even influenced the assholes who thought ā€œdang, I want to be terrifying, I’m gonna be a fascistā€. But the whole gambit of ā€œfascism = scaryā€ sucks— it’s pathetic and noxious and nihilistic and cruel and scared.
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Don’t operate from a place of terror, folks!
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Me as a HS sophomore in ā€˜01: ā€œshopping at thrift stores is fun, gotta get a good ironic shirt for the ska concert at youth group! Who goes to the Books or Knick-Knacks??ā€ Me, cresting 40 in ā€˜24: ā€œFound a 1e DnD Player’s Handbook at Goodwill, this will serve me as an uncle when Netflix collapsesā€
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Some of us were down so bad, we even had to look up at the ska dorks as higher on the food chain
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Counterpoint, Snowden: when the Rockefellers got into college football, A Terrible School happened
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It's not coming back, y'all, but we can at least take it as a historical lesson
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this post was made for me, thank you
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I think that's a myth, or maybe anecdotal. Hunter was a fascinating man, and I don't mind admiring him from a distance and still seeing him as deeply flawed (often in ways similar to myself). But no one's gotta be doing what he chose to do to summon a muse, imho
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Hunter was chaotically damaging and demanding of people around him, and self-centered to the extreme. I don't think those are good qualities in a person.
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American Gods
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oh yeah, I think JP and Sphere still hold up, maybe even Congo. It’s good airplane/vacation stuff
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I love Hunter (tutored his widow for the LSAT, lol) but he by most accounts was hell on people around him. I don’t think he’d take it as even an insult. Crichton got divorced like 4-5 times, all time arrogant asshole, convinced himself climate change was hoax-y because of Chernobyl
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James and the Giant Peach
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Jurassic Park
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The Pope will fight for the souls of man
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a ruptured, balkanized society of strangers….but enough about Houston zoning folks!
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People see me running all the time and think I’m some health nut, when in reality I’m grassed up and listening to stoner metal or MF Doom
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yeah, my kinda meta goal is to post things that are somewhat scrutable in the future (besides my sports reactions posts haha), and the thing about a lot of stinky stuff is that the smell fades over time. If I’m sharing something stinky, I hope to have a broader point worth sharing.
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yeah, I think ā€œgenerous framing + smooth venomā€ is my favorite style or stance a writer can take. when someone does all their mean work in the framing, it feels like bumper lanes or something
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two minutes in the sin bin ought to clear your head, son
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oh, this is good stuff, you aren’t on the docket here, no Flag Optics debating
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lol, didn’t know you got into it with him, didn’t see it! he’s a crumbum
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An example: we all got to watch hundreds of you argue with Radio Tom, an avowed conservative, about this shit, to no apparent purpose or end. Whole thing coulda be avoided, chat.
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ā€œcan’t believe someone would post _____ā€. I can! An incredible amount of dumb shit is said every day, the goal isn’t to dwell on it
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I have not yet gotten to a place where I agree with Wilson in re: Shortenin’ Bread, but he was so right on so many other things, I just accept it as a religious principle and hope to one day get there.