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Obviously Ross Douthat doesn't want any Democrat to win but it's funny to see the guy whose No. 1 publishable opinion is that Americans need to have more babies pretend to go for the guy who blew up the child tax credit

I was caught in the rain and desperately biking down the 9W for shelter, only to end up at one of the best Italian restaurants I've ever been to

what's open for business

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When anti-colonial liberation movements made colonialism no longer tenable, the response was not to fundamentally alter the relations between the colonial powers and the newly independent states, but to recreate them via neo-colonialism. 2/

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Hey @juicysteak117.gay check this out www.pcgamer.com/games/city-b...

In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they wantwww.pcgamer.com In city builder Car Park Capital, why walk when you can drive… and park.

From what I know about Greece this will definitely work

In Greece, a law came into effect on Monday that allows some companies to enforce a six-day workweek. Here’s what to know about the country’s overtime measure.

Some Countries Are Trying a Four-Day Workweek. Greece Wants a Six-Day One.www.nytimes.com The country, which already has the European Union’s longest average workweek, wants to add another day in some cases, bucking a growing business trend.

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Widespread public drunkenness & fireworks were a reliably deadly combination. "We lose more fools on this day than on all the other days of the year put together," Twain wrote, "We destroy more property every Fourth of July night than the whole of the United States is worth” 6/9

Happy 4th of July to everyone who celebrates en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Battle of Mantinea (362 BC) - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Above all else, I crave greatness... greatness big chunk of parmesan over my pasta

This is a skill issue. Biden actually calls me constantly but I let him go to voice mail.

Step down for the birthday boys

Turning and turning in the widening gyro

Tech discourse is always addicted to the future. The most respected people in the field shit their pants as soon as you ask them about last year's outcomes instead of next year's predictions.

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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."

More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?

Bonkchain 🤝 AI

Yet another major thing to hear the tech bros go on about that ends up only seeing gains among criminals (last paragraph)

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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Vance says presidents must have immunity, though possibly not Bidenwww.politico.com But he also said that administrations should not be prosecuting "people based on their politics.”

Sometimes the "lucky 10,000" (xkcd.com/1053) bit is about goatse, and sometimes it's about peach cobbler

he had chicken fried steak and peach cobbler the other day and he said it was, as the kids say, "bustin'" and I'm so happy for him

Someone crossed the timelines!

It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

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one of my favorite Kate Beaton comics

Finally bsky adds the ability to hide posts from all Bards bsky.app/profile/bsky...

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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Going to tell my kids this was Boris Johnson

trollie wallie, loading screen, commodore 64 (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/63510/t...

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I learned through the People's Graphic Design Archive about Croydon's Suburban Press, published in the 1970s to criticize free-market urban planning peoplesgdarchive.org/item/4987/su...

This is your reminder that "independent" does not mean "unbiased centrist" or even "third party voter" as the media likes to frame it.

How Americans view America. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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