Convolver

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What good is seeing-eye chocolate? What good is a computerized nose? What good’s Sanskrit read to a pony? Not much, I guess, not much at all.

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MamaOfKaos

Your points are well-taken, though! A lot of this could come down to “Biden got sick in May right before an exhausting diplomatic schedule followed by a debate followed by media campaign nonsense, and he simply hasn’t gotten better yet.” We just don’t really know!

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Erin Biba

To be fair, Moshe Dayan was a child soldier who fought in two wars and three civil insurgencies, lost an eye, was held as a POW, and served as a military commander at all levels and at 38 /still/ looked twenty years younger than Miller.

Presbyphonia, age-related voice disorders generally caused by changes to the vocal folds. It’s possible he has cold-related hoarseness — he remarked on his voice during an interview in May before his back to back Euro trips — but it’s been going on for a while. The point is primarily that the WHMO/

may have been simply looking at a number of normal geriatric disorders and decided to call in specialists to verify that they weren’t looking at a serious disorder such as Parkinson’s; the presence of clinical specialists, even over multiple visits, doesn’t signal the presence of their specialty.

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southpaw

I think all this is consistent with Biden having some nonspecific geriatric disorders — for example, pathologic presbyphonia increasingly seems more likely to me than an ongoing cold — and the WHMO getting out ahead of it, medically speaking, by bringing in specialists to rule out differential dxs.

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petoskey stoned

“Former Naval Reserve urinalysis officer who allegedly had his clearance suspended over allegations he shared classified information on Twitter and who filed a complaint with ONI IG because he felt his shipmates were insufficiently respectful of Donald Trump.”

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beccadagoo

Eh, still safer than their house-brand OTC meds.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social

Yeah, I probably should have reached for “sycophant” there.

Just to be clear, this is Silicon Valley VC bro/Musk acolyte David Sacks coming down on the side of the Le Pen family, whose patriarch called Nazi gas chambers a "minor detail" of history and whose ex-wife alleged he nicknamed Hitler "Uncle Dolfie" while snarling "The Jews are invading France."

It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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Chase Burke

A cardboard box that’s a centrist former NFL linebacker / lawyer / Obama official, so the favorability gap probably doesn’t improve for Teddarino there.

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Anna O Law

My experience making biryani is that it probably isn’t much more effort making it for 800 people than eight (and impossible to make it for less than eight).

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David

Y’know, not missing Twitter one bit at the moment, no.

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Annalee Newitz

At that point you’re really in Builder’s FirstSource territory.

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Well this is grim

The Munsters are melting pot theory of assimilation, the Addams Family is Kallen/Locke pluralist democracy.

the Munsters could start acting and dressing normal and people wouldn't notice they're draculas or franklinsteins or whatever. whereas with the Addams family, one of them is a hand

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J.J.

Youssou N’Dour and Bruce Cockburn’s cover of “Chimes of Freedom,” Colombia Records Radio Hour. “Head Like a Hole,” Ryan Culwell and Aubrie Sellers.

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Squarepeg makes games

Gasparino does 50% important if contentious financial inside-baseball reporting and 50% completely brain-dead right-wing grandpa fulminating, so depends on the outlet you follow him on.

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Boom. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Opinion | Trump’s Impact on World Affairs Could Be Even Stranger Than You Thinkwww.politico.com The dollar will decline, Europe will rise, and Asia will nuclearize.

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1/14 Three dreams about Elvis Presley that I had between 1995 and 2004: Elvis Dream #1 It is very late at night. The aliens have landed. Three of them, in space-suits, knock at my door. When I open it, they ask me, "What is the word for Elvis on your planet?"

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jay2.bsky.social

You’re going to get more airflow with those just from diameter and capturing the rising hot air, but you got me if it actually does a better job or if it’s mostly aesthetic (obv. my barrel smoker has one, but when I grill I do so directly on the offset firebox, which is pretty much just a furnace).

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jay2.bsky.social

I believe the theory is that it allows air circulation inside the grill, removing temperature differentials while the lid is closed.

I don’t know about you, but I was starting to miss the Democratic Party being a constant fucking clownshow of circular firing squads helmed by politicos and campaign operatives intent on auditioning to be part of the next Carville/Matalin ripoff CNN morning show or whatever. Good to be home again.

We had a moment in which we could have treated this like a rerun of but her emails ratfuckery and reject it outright, circle the wagons, and put up a defense. Instead we (and again, most damaging, elected officials) prioritized getting “honest and smart” points like this is a normal election.

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luke

That’s why I buy Rakkasan. Post-conflict zone small farmers.

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ChatGPTom

The logic is circular. Biden's infirmity is the story. Other things can't be the story, because they're not the story. Why is Biden the story? Because he's the story. If the threat of Trump is the story, why isn't it already the story? And on and on.

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Andy Craig

Turning polling places into TSA security lines doesn’t really show a respect for the average American voter.

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John Shirley

Well, with Chevron dead who the hell knows if /any/ efficiency standards can survive scrutiny.

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David M. Perry

They were a client of mine for a while; nice enough folks, not that we talked politics, of course.

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Craig M. Ranapia

*Stares in Lincoln’s debilitating clinical depression*

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Delbert Grady Seasons

This is true! (Though a lot of the dealers bought in when Kia was the absolute cheapest option for a dealership, so HKNA, after bringing its quality up beyond par, has spent the last decade forcing dealers to consolidate to improve the customer experience.)