Barak A. Pearlmutter

Abusing minions, torturing cats, maligning the innocent.
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[Barak A. Pearlmutter @BAPearlmutter]

@BHRMT123 @thealexvanness The Bund strategy was tried three times. Each was an unmitigated disaster.

1. Europe

2. USSR

3. Arab/Mizrahi world, dozens of mini experiments, each a failure

How many bloody strikes until this batter admits it is out?

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@BHRMT123 @thealexvanness From "The Political Legacy of Theodor Herzl"
By Natan Sharansky

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@BHRMT123 @thealexvanness Certainly Herzl was not so specific, nor would anything that horrific have seemed credible. But in broad strokes, the Zionists thought bad stuff was afoot and would get worse and worse, while the Bundists thought everything would be okay.

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@BHRMT123 @thealexvanness "No one predicted that Jews would have experience an extinction-level genocide in a few years."

Theodore Herzl absolutely did.

"We cannot flee from our enemies; we must create a home for ourselves. The longer the postponement, the more severe will be the catastrophe."

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@realBigBrainAI This is an invalid argument: depends on the details. Would "learn to do sums quickly on paper" have been good advice with the advent of calculators? Would "always need good cobblers" be good advice when shoe factories came online? 75% of the US worked on farms in 1800; now 1.3%.

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@Bev_Copnell @pagingkaren There are many possible purposes for a test. We're only talking about one here: certification. The others can and should be served by in-house tests, quizzes, midterms, homeworks, projects, etc.

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@PhysInHistory Apparently she didn't think they'd done anything unforgivable.

After leaving King's College in 1953, Franklin struck up a warm friendship with Francis Crick and his wife Odile. Towards the end, as her illness progressed, she spent time resting and convalescing at their home.

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@SamaHoole Cooking it with tomato (or other acids) makes the iron in spinach more bioavailable. Or passing it through a goat I suppose.

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@captgouda24 https://t.co/I3ttNktI5j

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@ammalusty You're from Earth? Really? I know a guy whose friend went to Earth! Apparently she said it was lovely. Maybe you met her.

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@JJ_McCullough @TheAtlantic That "review" is essentially https://t.co/N3MhHB9xtv but taking the arguments seriously.

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@erasmuse @TomCotterillX Is that a serious question?

Because in addition to being uncomfortable and impeding normal activities, a vest would provide very little protection to a small child too immature to defend the parts of their body left exposed: neck, head, limbs, etc.

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@TheIrishIsraeli That's not even a curse, it's a Hungarian term of endearment, like "how's it going you old rascal?"

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@SamaHoole This is not due to supply chains, prices, or preference. The oceans are seriously overfished: you just can't catch that stuff anymore.
https://t.co/2bpd94U1VK

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@Vokabre @AstroFops Don't worry the latest hantavirus treatment is really effective: prophylactic use of a heart-lung machine.

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@Vokabre @AstroFops It's mainly spread by breathing dry mouse poo dust, so you'll want to avoid snorting mouse poop too.

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@BritisherPaz49 “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like.”
—Orson Welles