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Former business school professor, current software engineer. Writes at ordinary-times.com
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I saw Lilo and Stitch. We had not seen any prior iterations of it but enjoyed the movie

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It’s almost like he understands that ICE’s deportations are generally destructive rather than helpful to the rest of the population

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I love how when right wingers talk about the tenets of “the far left,” they almost always just mean anything like your average suburban Democrat believes

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I am kind of in awe how by this website’s standards apparently the pussyhat people are cringe normies instead of activists. 100% of women who have those hats in their wardrobes are leftist activists

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The Importance of Being Earnest:

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If your first Nazi salute falls a flat, you could always try another one

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Incredible work

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You have to hand it to them. 100% of the health care cost savings ideas right now are coming from the right:

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the problem is, these kinds of "jokes" and caricatures are, historically, preludes to violence

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I am a nobody and a person I knew only online walked up to me and asked “Vikram?” based on me being an Indian man in New England walking a husky. And he was right!

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Saw someone on X ask why the Jews he knows are all neurotic messes but Israel is good at war. The vast majority replied that that’s because Israelis are different from American Jews. Like, two of them said, “maybe your generalizations are inaccurate?”

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Maybe having masked, unidentified men do whatever they want to people wasn’t the great idea it seemed to be at first

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Thread. It's deeply frustrating that the stupid free fares thing is what's caught fire on the left, rather than the more impactful vision of rapidly expanding the subway. It honestly speaks to a real paucity of ambition.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Just as there is no mechanism to get rid of Trump, there is no mechanism for Democrats to force out older candidates who are likely to die on the job. None of these people were plausible to primary

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What makes a strike preemptive rather than just emptive?

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Kristi Noem's dog lunged at her too.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

As they say in Uvalde...

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I feel like we should question RFK, Jr’s commitment to sort of a clean, naturalist notion of health

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

Imagine being a marine thinking you’re going to get to invade Greenland but then you get sent to California

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Kristi Noem: One thing is for sure. Senator Padilla has got that dog in him

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AI is learning to get out of the box

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I’m currently reading about the Compromise of 1877 and am realizing: ”oh wait; I guess we already did do all this before” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprom...

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We talk a lot about NY and CA governance, but I am concerned for my own, supposedly-progressive, state and city. We have CA’s restrictions on building housing, but we don’t have the industries to afford CA’s subsidies. Just-tax-the-rich-more doesn’t work if you don’t have rich people

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"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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