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Calling myself a dumbass: humble, self-effacing, almost Socratic
Calling someone else a dumbass: devastating critique, owned forever, brain mogged
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This is one of those things where I don’t understand where there is still a human in the loop here
How Neapolitan Ice Cream is packaged
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“They killed 200 people to rescue 4 of their own!”
Do you have any idea how many people I would be okay killing if my daughters or wife was kidnapped and held hostage? I would not stop unless I was killed myself.
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god forbid I consider the thoughts and feelings of the human I pair bonded with for life
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My buddy literally got laid off this week in favor of an offshore Indian firm, man.
NOBODY IS BEING REPLACED. THERE IS NOT A FIXED PIE OF JOBS TO BE TAKEN. EVERY NEW AMERICAN WORKER IS ALSO A NEW AMERICAN CONSUMER. IF YOU THINK THE POOL OF JOBS IS LIMITED, WHY DIDN’T WE RUN OUT OF JOBS HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO
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South Park did real damage with “DEY TERK OUR JERBS!” because I mean they really did
“Microsoft laid off 817 U.S. software engineers in Redmond, then requested 2,300 foreign workers for the same roles in the same location”
A company built in America now betraying all benefits granted by outsourcing employees to foreigners
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ha!
I could actually see that being an issue but also can think of how a machine could solve it
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I know some of you on here are really weird about tattoos “ruining” a woman which I think is a dorky opinion to hold as an absolute, but this really is a failure to understand what marriage means. “Her body her choice” doesn’t really apply. You belong to one another. (Goes both ways.) Your spouse really does have a say in this kind of stuff.
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The disability
i’m in the airport and i just used the disabled access queue (which i am well within my rights to do as a multiply-disabled person) and had a middle-aged woman in the queue to the side tutting about it “not being fair”. i’d usually let comments like this go over my head but…
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energy company just offered me $75 dollars to let them put a smart thermostat in my house and decide the temperature
75 dollars to cede the right to decide how hot or cold my home is
I just can’t believe how little
Seventy. Five. Dollars.
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They both have the same problem because
•the harknonnens really are that bad
•the Atreides are pretty good (consider actions the duke takes when arriving)
•Paul really is the result of centuries of (very good) selective breeding
•Paul really can see the future
For anyone that still thinks Paul’s rise to power in DUNE is up for interpretation… here’s Denis setting the record straight.
He rewrote Chani to basically spoon feed the audience that “Paul is bad” - but it’s quite clear a lot of DUNE fans think he’s still like Luke Skywalker, which just reinforces the ideas the book/movies propose about messianic figures.
Denis is still going to have to make Messiah to deal with same issue Herbert had.
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Before Hitler who was Hitler or was there someone in the Hitler meme niche before Hitler?
Did Hitler invent being the Hitler of Hitler?
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“read this shitty book”
> wow I hate this, English class sucks
“why don’t boys read more?”
> they don’t like the shitty books they are made to read in hs
“Wow so you’re throwing a fit because you didn’t read something you liked”
Extraordinary
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I wasn’t even trying to make the commies mad I was genuinely curious about the half automation shown in the video
Hi dirty commies, get a job
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This attitude, which I’ve heard repeatedly many times in the last 15 years, is why the young men are so far right and why many of us are rejecting DEI so strongly. It’s not “level playing field”, it’s naked avarice and malicious gleeful punishment for perceived wrongs, real or imagined.
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Me, taking notes: “when people say they are for decolonization… murdering old people, raping women, and kidnapping children is on the table”
Okay got it.
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> it’s racist to wear a mask and not shake hands (there is no virus from China)
> okay there’s a virus but masks don’t work (we are saying this so that people don’t panic buy)
> okay masks do work but even a cloth mask will do. in fact you MUST wear a mask now.
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I know it’s difficult for a 110 to understand, but in fact smart people are able to pick up skills on the fly and also your education degree is a joke
RIP my mentions, but seriously…what makes anyone believe they’re qualified to homeschool their kids K-12?
it’s not as if teaching a) isn’t age-, grade-, and subject-specific; and b) requires a college degree in pedagogy
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IRB rejecting my study to place a woman in a room with two doors and a real bear behind one and a random man beside the other, telling me that the empirical data on revealed preference wouldn’t be worth the risk and then losing tenure when I ask which risk they meant.
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I’m sorry, I’m sorry
I know I shouldn’t object level post
I know it’s Pocahontas and she’s retarded
This stuff just drives me insane. Years of projection. This is literally the first time that my interests ARE represented and I feel as though I DO have political power.
Every time they turn it around to backwards world. “He’s taking power from the American people!” “There’s a shadow government!” “We demand oversight”
I fucking hate these people so much, they make me so angry. We *now* have oversight. We *now* have power over the gov. We *no longer* have shadow government.
AHHHHHHHHHH
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I don’t understand why there is always an appeal to “fairness” when we discuss taking someone’s lifetime of earned money and giving it to someone else they didn’t want to give it to.
If the United States took 50% the total inheritance and spread it out evenly among all ppl turning say 25, that would be $61k to each person. A far more equitable start at life for everyone, easy to administer, manifestly fair.
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Evergreen
I've been uber-dragged on Twitter maybe a dozen times and it's always ok b/c Twitter isn't real
The most important part is that the majority of the time I got dragged, I was completely correct but was 3-6 months ahead of the curve
People think consensus is truth but it isn't
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Using the access line for people in wheelchairs because you have “adhd” and then rebuking someone who calls out your bullshit online because you were afraid to say anything irl sure is something
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An inability or motivated refusal to understand a human emotion so fundamental that it reaches back to some of the earliest days our pre-sentient ancestors (protecting offspring from threats) is truly fascinating and it always comes from the Empathy (TM) crowd.
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Regular reminder that US fig varieties are self-pollinating and there are no wasps in your figs and there never were.
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If you don’t understand that marriage means giving up some level of complete body autonomy to your spouse, you’re doing it wrong and you shouldn’t get married. Marry someone you trust to help you make decisions about yourself and who trusts you to do the same.
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what bothers me about this is that republicans didn’t claim to—it’s the democrats who rejected it
JON STEWART SLAMS REPUBLICANS:
"You don't own Patriotism, you don't own Christianity, and you sure as hell don't own respect for the bravery and sacrifice military, police, and firefighters!"
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What’s the tweet that’s like “this is why we need men in mental health because Gandalf immediately knows Theoden needs to swing a sword around for a bit”?
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I thought killing colonizers was praxis, Adam. Not just vibes and essays.
6) A common Spanish surname is Matamoros, which means “Moor Slayer.” It is taken from Santiago Matamoros (aka Saint James the Moor-slayer), who according to legend massacred 60K Muslims. What a shameful name!
Community note
‘Matamoros’ is not at all a common surname in Spain. Only around 4.000 people in all Spain have it as first surname
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if I was emperor of the world I would absolutely sentence IQ disbelievers to 10 years of teaching remedial algebra in title 1 schools
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I reject it with my whole self. My son does not have blood guilt. He isn’t a sacrifice for your altar of supposed equality. People who want it can shove that shit up their fucking ass.
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Ender’s Game
> tens of millions killed by aliens
> you have to get permission to have more than 2 kids
doesn’t make any sense
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Someone is going to read this as “he thinks wives are property of their husbands” and I’m telling you that you are purposefully misunderstanding me here
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Like Paul is the actual Kwisatz Haderach
Herbert made his antagonists too evil and his protagonists not evil enough for his intended moral to work
He didn’t have to write messiah because “no understood Dune”, he was trying to retcon that shit
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Can’t believe they made a movie about how racial tensions are stoked by Ewes working in the shadows
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lmao I didn’t make it past the lie in the first sentence
This piece hits like a slamming door - @sophieGG collects the full range of feelings right wing men have expressed about women this year. It’s shocking to sit with them. I’ve NEVER seen anything like this in America. And I’m old. Must reading. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Fun fact! We can know why Jesus hung out with whores and thieves because Jesus was asked and he said “it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick!”
He had plenty of words of condemnation for the self-righteous religious leaders but Jesus was not endorsing prostitution as a holy career.
My main takeaway from the Bible was that Jesus hung around w whores, scammers and the maladjusted and outcast because they were far more decent people than the so called righteous
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Oh wait I missed that I also get $25 off my bill every year! Wow!
Not month.
Year.
$25 per year.
These fucken jokers, man.
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I think this is partially the one-child syndrome. My wife’s best friend and her husband have only one child. They’re nice people, but the mom has literally never “missed bedtime” with her kid. They’re afraid to break the routine. When I told my wife to invite her friend on a girls weekend trip, my wife said she knew her friend wouldn’t go because of this. Shackles of her own making.
All the most overwhelmed parents I know only have one child each and I don't think this is a coincidence.
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I’ve thought about this exact thing before.
But I always imagined he would say
“What are you doing here, [my name] son of [my dad’s name]?”
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This is an amazing thing to say when investigating the human genome for this purpose is often explicitly banned by ethics committees
The thing I fundamentally don't get about the race and IQ crowd is how fundamentally incurious they are. They obsess over statistical group differences but provide almost no decent theories about why those might be the case or what genes might be involved.
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You understand there’s a difference between “this as a cool moment” (agree) and “nothing else has ever made me feel like that” (oh god, really?), right?
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Inclusion is when I get to play professional baseball even though I’m nowhere near qualified
Yeah sounds about right
I love the famous equality/equity/justice cartoon & have used it a lot in talks. However, its always really bugged me that the three people stay exactly where they are, outside the park, in all 4 pictures, so I've taken the liberty of added a 5th, does this make sense?
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This is an image of wonder and a testament to the ingenuity and cleverness of our species, not lame Reddit kitch to make people feel insignificant or their problems unimportant.
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if the homeless person was using the library as a library then you probably won’t actually notice they are homeless unless you’re really paying attention
but that’s not what they use it for, is it?
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> not wearing a mask means you are a bad person who is killing grandmas
> okay so yeah only special masks work and you should get those
> trumps warp speed vaccine won’t be safe
> actually Biden’s vaccine will be very safe but there won’t be a mandate to take it
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> sends text to dad designed to upset him
> he becomes upset and responds accordingly
this should he you but it isn’t. why?
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Some people are responding with examples of tyrants or conquerers before Hitler, but that’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking who occupied the same memetic space that Hitler does now for accusations of ultimate evil? If Godwin’s Law was written in 1500 who would it be about?
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