Jesse Lansner

The federal govt is huge and makes lots of rules on lots of things that the president doesn’t have to get too involved in. Biden probably o Lu spent about 15 minutes of his own time over the last 4 years on appliance efficiency rules.

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Kevin M. Kruse

And I think that only started with Clinton making a quick appearance in 1992; before that the nominee never appeared before the last night.

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Oliver Gibson

They share the same Old High German source – wantlus.

wantlus - Wiktionary, the free dictionaryen.wiktionary.org

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Rishus Cold Yetzer

I can maybe believe he’d never heard the term “sparkling water”, but I can’t imagine a nearly 30-year-old man who’d served in the Marines, worked for a politician, and was now at Yale law school had never encountered seltzer.

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Emily St. James

It used to be common to just show up whenever, watch a movie until the end and then stay for the next showing until you got to a point you recognized. Hitchcock and Paramount had to ask theaters to ban this for Psycho so the twist wouldn’t be ruined.

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James Callan

I remember that. I even saw it in a theater (no idea why) and I recall the client is revealed to be a pig like 20 minutes into the film.

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Mary Bannister (MaryB)

Maybe something like “senior status” that the lower courts have?

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Noel Murray

I got 7/9 Correct Score: 2018 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩 Made a lucky guess that “Days of Thunder” had gotten a nomination for something like sound effects or editing. Turned out to be Best Sound (lost to Dances With Wolves)

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Isaac! At the Butler!

I thought the first half might be setting up something interesting, but then the second half just felt tedious.

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Emma Roller

I think this, from 2007, is the first mention of The Baileys.

Imaginary Friendswww.newyorker.com Chuck Schumer’s imaginary middle-class couple

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Erin Biba

Seems to be.

Cybertruck No Match for the Fury of Hungry Raccoonsfuturism.com A particularly unlucky owner of a Tesla Cybertruck had an unfortunate incident with some raccoons while camping.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭

Grudgingly faving this.

Jews Detest Vance

"He'll probably die before he tries to kill me"

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈

DUNCE?

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Artist Duke Riley uses discarded bottles of engine coolant, bleach and Gatorade to bend the rules of an artform that’s become illegal to practice using the customary whalebone. A piece of his recently acquired by the New Bedford Whaling Museum depicts a grim scene of industrial pollution.

Not your grandfather’s scrimshaw: Duke Riley engraves pollution scenes on ocean plasticwww.wbur.org Artist Duke Riley uses discarded bottles of engine coolant, bleach and Gatorade to bend the rules of an artform that’s become illegal to practice using the customary whalebone. A piece of his recently...

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Ranamar

My favorite scene! “How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?”

hot leaf juiceyoutu.be So... what is tea?

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lily geller

I think “Station Eleven” is the only one that all of us have read.

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Maggie Wittlin

A few options: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Circe by Madeline Miller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

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Sara N

Picked up 8 today to bump me to 20 total.

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Joshua J. Friedman

Much better than “Joementum”

Nice try Joe, but Trump has already locked up the “fans of inappropriate touching” vote.

‘Touch Me, Poke Me, Ask Me Questions,’ Biden Says of Voters Who Doubt Himwww.nytimes.com President Biden’s remarks were in response to a Democratic lawmaker who told him on a Zoom call that he should withdraw from the 2024 presidential campaign.

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ᴅᴏᴡɴ10⸻

Yes, and then it takes so much computing power that the rest of the ship shuts down.

“No,” Arthur said, “look, it’s very, very simple…. All I want… is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Now keep quiet and listen.” And he sat. He told the Nutro-Matic about India, he to...www.tumblr.com Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

Darth Focaccia

Remember when someone uploaded Trump’s inauguration speech to PornHub in 2017.

I guess I should have guessed that Project 2025 is badly written beyond just being vile. Did an AI write these sentences?

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Anil Dash

Users: The way this new tech is being introduced and controlled has a lot of negative political/social/economic effects. Techbros: These people just hate tech.

It took like two weeks for my kid to go from asking me for help in Breath of the Wild to mocking me for how little progress I’d made compared to them.