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Currently caught in a customer service doom loop. I want a refund on a non-refundable hotel booking which sounds like an absurd request except for the tiny detail the THE HOTEL CANCELLED THE BOOKING.
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We gave my child a wallet with a single dollar bill to play with. She now has three dollars. I don't know where the other two came from. Help.
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College is wasted on the young. I used to skip classes. Grown adult me would kill to spend eight hours a day reading books and listening to lectures.
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I don't think JD Vance killed the Pope, I think meeting JD Vance probably drained the Pope's will to live. It's subtly different.
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The Supreme Court unanimously deciding you can't gulag people for literally no reason is genuinely shocking.
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My TikTok feed is covered in Kamala fancams. I've never seen anything like this (a thread)
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The National Guard apparently requestioned the property which is fine I guess, but I'm not paying for a hotel room I'm not allowed to sleep in.
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I think the reason Google "got worse" is basically just because forums died off. Forum posts were preserved in amber and easily crawlable. Now conversations are stored ephemerally and in walled gardens like Discord.
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John Fetterman becoming conservative after suffering brain damage feels a little too on the nose.
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Converting COBOL to Java is expensive and risky, but at least it will run slower.
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months. wired.com/story/doge-rebuild…
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The Mayor of New York SHOULD be too left wing for national politics. It would be stupid if the mayor of a rich liberal city was trying to appeal to Bucks County swing voters.
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"Democrats rig elections just enough to win about half the time" is one of the all time stupidest conspiracy theories.
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We lost the country to the dumbest people on the planet. It's worse than dire it's embarrassing.
I asked FCC chair @BrendanCarrFCC if he had any new comment now that ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show, and he sent me this GIF
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Trump is authentically very racist, but you can tell his heart is just not in it with the anti-LGBT stuff.
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Both parties nominated the only two guys on Earth that could lose to each other
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It turns out the "adults in the room" from Trump's first term were both real, and extremely important.
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I don't care how depressed or disabled you are. You should not eat frozen meals. You need to heat them up first.
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Great man theory is mostly a dumb way to approach history except for Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon where I think you kind of have to hand it to them.
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Windows 11 has a hardcoded hotkey for LinkedIn (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Windows+L). It can't be disabled, even using the registry. It's treated with the same level of sacrosanctity as "Crtl+Alt+Delete".
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It's funny that Kamala feels like a generational talent just because we haven't had a normal election since 2012
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Television peaked in 2009 when The Deadliest Warrior staged a fight between The IRA and The Taliban.
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This happened to my grandma, turned out to be a stroke, would have died if she hadn't gone to the hospital. Anyways I'm glad to see McConnell returning to work and ignoring.
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People really want artificial sweeteners to be bad for you, but they just aren't. Drink all the diet soda you want. Sometimes free lunch is real.
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Kamala Harris would be the most GIFable President in history. They'll have to animate our children's textbooks.
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They're not even bothering to manufacture consent. We're just going to invade Venezuela with no Congressional vote and zero public buy in or awareness.
“If I was Maduro, I'd head to Russia or China right now,” says Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida. “His days are numbered.” cbsn.ws/4ht4qvD
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The amount of aggregated knowledge that's become unsearchable because of discord is terrible, and there's legitimately no solution.
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Tariffs may cause short term economic contraction, but in the long run they'll unlock the American dream of working in a factory and making less than a cashier at Walmart.
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Microsoft is different from other tech giants, because they have a unique strategy where they sell products to users for money. This generates "profits" for them. Really interesting stuff.
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There should be more drinks that make you feel different besides alcohol and caffeine
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Biden versus Trump is a tough choice, because I love them both so much. It's a real greater of two goods election.
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Diet Coke is the greatest invention in history because it's a perfect product with no trade offs. Tastes incredible. Doesn't cause cavities. Healthy for you. Contains a small dose of stimulants.
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"Increasingly worried the Trump administration will implement the policy agenda they ran on instead of the made up one I ascribed to them" – The entire business community for some reason
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Conservatives freak out about big cities, but the actually scary places are medium density cities you've never heard of that haven't had any jobs since the 70s
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Jedi are not celibate, they're allowed to fuck as long as they don't catch feelings. This is canon for some reason.
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Palpable vibe shift this is crazy
Vice President Harris: Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda... Can you believe they put that thing in writing? Read it. It’s 900 pages. When you read it, you will see Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare, give tax breaks to billionaires, end the Affordable Care Act, and more. We are not going back!
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Its cool that conservatives got negatively polarized against the concept of filtering particles
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Ice cream so good. Mmm, ice cream so good. Gang Gang. Yes yes yes. Yes Yes Yes. Gang Gang. Mmm, ice cream so good.
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If you hit a kid with your car it's always your fault because they're a kid and you're driving a car.
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This photo is from when Obama invited RBG over to pressure her into retiring. She was a moron or a psycho, but I'm not sure what else Obama could have done.
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Minnesota Democrats enacting a robust progressive agenda with a single seat majority they won by 321 votes is probably the strongest argument for voting.
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"I voted for Trump because I wanted it to be 2019 again, and now I'm mad he's dismantling the federal government" is basically a reasonable position.
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She's totally right, this is a completely reasonable threat model for the Vice President.
NEW: Kamala Harris has long felt that Bluetooth headphones are a security risk.
So, she insists on using wired ones, 3 fmr campaign aides told @rubycramer and me.
That Bluetooth phobia remains (if you look closely, you'll see the clump of wires in hand)
politico.com/newsletters/wes…
Community note
Bluetooth devices have capabilities that must be limited to avoid being hacked into or not be used at all. This is not a phobia, but legitimate OPSEC & wise for anyone near classified info. Technical Security & Signals Counterintelligence experts handle these issues regularly. odni.gov/files/NCSC/doc
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If you do $30K of damage in a low speed collision with a stationary object you should honestly just lose your license.
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Nationalism was a disaster. We have to go back to giant multiethnic empires that only care about keeping the peace and collecting taxes.
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Hard to explain how stupid the Bush years were. A guy made a film where he gained weight from eating huge portions of McDonald's for every meal, and everyone treated it like ground breaking journalism.
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How rich was ancient Greece? Like why did Pythagorean have time to sit around thinking about triangles. Shouldn't he have been subsistence farming?
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Bulgaria has a Communist Party offshoot that uses the Soviet icon from Red Alert 2 as it's logo
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FYI if your insurance company refuses to renew your disaster insurance you should move immediately.
Watch this interview:
“My parents have been in this house for 75 years and they've had the same insurance AND THESE INSURANCE PEOPLE DECIDED TO CANCEL THEIR FIRE. We're going through this and it just happened and they don't have fire insurance!”
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How different mayors would've dealt with Spiderman
Giuliani - Special police unit to hunt him
Bloomberg - Try to establish a public private partnership, Miles Morales killed in a stop and frisk
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The Supreme Court going totally off the rails BEFORE the election has really recalibrated my base case for how bad a second Trump term will be.
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Trump appears to have caused a local depression in Iowa. ~33% larger contraction than The Great Recession.
“Since siding with Barack Obama twice, Iowa has become a stronghold for Mr. Trump. Yet perhaps no state has struggled more with his economic policies. During the first quarter of 2025, Iowa’s GDP dropped by 6.1 percent, more than any other state aside from neighboring Nebraska.” nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/po…
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Check under your car
BREAKING 💥#JoeBiden to turn down invitation to #Coronation of #King #CharlesIII telegraph.co.uk/royal-family…
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Sorry in advance, but I'm mostly just going to cringey lib post until the election. I'm all in with Kamala. I really don't want Trump to be President again.
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I think trans issues are probably hard to poll, because the median viewpoint is a rambling answer that is both vaguely bigoted and basically accepting
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Liberals will tell you there's no invasion. You're not being replaced. Open your eyes!
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Biden's debate performance was super unsettling, but I feel a lot better now that he's completely disappeared from public view and gone radio silent towards his party.
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She literally did nothing wrong, this is crazy.
PM Sanna Marin starts to cry while holding a speech at party event in Lahti: ”I will learn”
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There are no alcoholic beverages marketed to children. Wildly underserved market. Lots of upside for whoever moves first.
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What if the swing is entirely Hank Green viewers
Not the most important datapoint of the night, given how low-turnout these races are, but the Democrats are on track to win the Georgia Public Service Commission seat by ~20.
I have never seen (nor could anyone even imagine) anything like this.
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Young people's understanding of the economy is entirely derived from the price of fast food combos
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I genuinely think the republic is over. Our institutions cannot survive what has been wrought.
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Zelensky must hate Biden so much. Ukraine is getting pummeled by ~300 ballistic missiles a month, and we're putting a fucking THAAD battery in Israel.
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If Trump really impounds 90% of the federal budget I think this iteration of the republic is basically over. Maybe whatever comes next will be cooler.
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We have proof that Haitian* immigrants in Springfield* are BBQing cats*
* Non-Haitian
* Dayton
* Whole chickens
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I know nobody cares about laws anymore, but this is like comically unconstitutional.
Breaking from the FT: Nvidia has agreed to share 15% of revenues from H20 chip sales in China with Uncle Sam
"According to export control experts, no US company has ever agreed to pay a portion of their revenues to obtain export licences."
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It's crazy that Trump tried to murder Congress and Liz Cheney was the only one who took it personally
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Do the Trump people understand that foreign aid is mostly not altruistic? The US buys favorable policies and global stability with the change from our couch cushions. That's how the American Empire works.
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Mass Effect has space Jews. Dune gave us space Arabs. What other coded but recognizable ethnicities have taken to the stars?
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Winning four out of five Presidential elections while losing ground in SCOTUS would be an incredible bit. Truly unprecedented.
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I hate these batter coated fries, the fact that they've become the default for mom and pop takeout joints is such a travesty.
ALT Batter coated fries
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Every high powered business person I know was 100% locked in on the tariffs being fake.
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Bill, Barack, Biden... Democrats win when they nominate candidates who go by "B" names
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Reclassifying marijuana to Schedule III (i.e. slightly more dangerous than Xanax) is an incredible bit. Half measure designed in a lab to make everyone angry.
Biden's historic marijuana shift is his latest election-year move for young voters apnews.com/article/biden-you…
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It's crazy that we built submarines capable of ending civilization, and then named them after Ohio
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I think the business community may come to regret dismantling the rule of law for the sake of marginally lower tax rates.
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Borat is an odd piece of media, because Kazakhstan is probably the richest and normalest post Soviet state in central Asia.
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