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If a liquid does not fulfill a purpose, a true function, it should be eschewed in favor of water. Alcohol gets you drunk. Coffee/energy drinks provide energy. Protein shakes gives protein. Caffeine-free soda? That is an abomination. It ought to be cast out forever.

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So who was it

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Value of US land by hectare.

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Lots has been said about droughts in the West due to climate change, but far less about the opposite: the East is getting wetter.

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Strom Thurmond is the only centenarian to have ever served in Congress. He retired in Jan. 2003 at the age of 100. He was a notorious segregationist. He made headlines in 2017 when Sen. Patty Murray disclosed that he attempted to fondle her breasts in elevator when he was 91.

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Flash is completely broken. An attosecond is to a second as a second is to approximately 31.69 billion years. That's triple the age of the universe. He's the relative-time equivalent of a eldritch horror beyond imagination.

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US pet expenditures have nearly tripled in the past ten years.

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American democracy might end because some Thai children got trapped in a cave. The Thai cave incident was June-July 2018, the exact time his Tweeting picked up. Ironic, really.

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Very much behind the curve, I am finally reading the book that launched YIMBYism into a (somewhat) mainstream movement.

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Economic sentiment down sharply in the first few weeks of the Trump admin. Possibly consumer reaction to tariffs, or persistent inflation

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Cutting SNAP will hit a lot of rural, heavily Republican counties quite hard. Especially pronounced in the Appalachians. Lots of heavily Black, Latino, and Native American counties hit too though.

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They cast Ramaswamy out from the corridors of power, relegating him to govern one of the rusting, mid-tier provinces of the industrial heartland - for the crime of not being racist to Indians

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In 2008 this counted as a "controversy" for Obama

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Harris got 48.3% of the vote. Trump got 49.8%. Trump's election was not carte blanche for "let's have outright racists and Neo-Nazis at the highest level of American government." Republicans are overstepping.

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i'm sick of this timeline someone erase it pls

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Here are the 20 US cities with the lowest CO2 emissions per capita. It might be a surprising list - Houston, LA, Vegas, and Tampa all make it. But the reason is simple: heating a home requires, on average, 7x more energy than cooling it with AC does.

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lol

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Obviously the state level is not particularly granular, but there are only three states that both voted for Harris and have a cost of living below the national average. And only one of those states voted for her by double digits.

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Some neighborhoods within NYC are developing better skylines than a lot of standalone cities have. Two images of Long Island City, Queens 7 years apart.

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So far DOGE has gone after things like USAID, the NIH, and NOA, which are 1) completely irrelevant to the actual debt and 2) critically important to both US soft power and literally millions of people. Worst of both worlds.

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Worldwide, the number of vaccine-preventable deaths more than halved between 1990 and 2017. It's essential not to lose this progress. Both RFK Jr. and the demise of USAID seriously imperil it.

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Democrats: nominate a Black woman for governor in 2022 Alabama:

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The judge who blocked Trump's EO ending birthright citizenship was appointed by Ronald Reagan. “This is a blatantly unconstitutional order. Frankly, I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It boggles my mind.”

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Every single state with a Democratic attorney general has sued Trump over his executive order rescinding birthright citizenship. Because they filed their suits in Seattle and Boston, they are guaranteed to get a Democratic-president appointed judge. Will certainly be appealed to SCOTUS.

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This is how Europeans view the average GOP primary

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Extraordinary system lmao

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This is the perfect judicial composition. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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This was the Senate map the last time Republican Senators represented the majority of the US population. They accounted for 50.3% of the country to Democrats' 49.7%. It was... 1996. Today, they represent just 46.5%.

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I made a very quick graph of change in manufacturing employment by presidency. While W. Bush wasn't really the cause of deindustrialisation, 56.3% of the total decline in manufacturing jobs from their peak occurred during his tenure, and he did little to help. Then he left Obama a recession.

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Poetic

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Only three states have ever held the distinction of most populous state in a US Census. - Virginia (1790-1820) - New York (1820-1970) - California (1970-present) If trends continue, Texas will pass California by 2050, possibly 2040.

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I mapped all US counties where >40% of the population age 25+ has a Bachelor's degree or higher. Overall, about what you expect. Wealthy cities, suburbs, college towns, and ski towns. Red states tend to have fewer than blue states.

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In 2020 China's Three Gorges Dam produced enough electricity to power the entire country of the Netherlands or the Philippines for a year.

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I hate the Gulf states i hate the gulf states i hate the gulf states Do you know how bad you have to be on the climate to triple(!) US per capita CO2 emissions

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This is a problem.

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Population weighted density map of US states, or the density at which the average person in that state lives. This adjusts for things like NY's vast, mostly sparse upstate by assigning the density found their weight equal to upstate's share of the NY population.

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Midwest and Northeast winters aren’t what they used to be.

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America continues its phaseout of coal. It comes late, and not fast enough, but it is happening. Coal down to just 13% of power generation in 2025, from 51% in 2005.

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Growing alfalfa, almonds, and pistachios account for 50% more water in California than every other non-agricultural activity combined. This includes data centers, every home in the state, every single factory, every single golf course, etc.

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