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@SheaSerrano I subscribed sight-unseen so I could get Maximum Shea every week. Let it loose. Every kid from south of I-10 is cheering you on.

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@mattyglesias A seriously, seriously under-discussed aspect of Silicon Valley’s right-coded/antiestablishment lurch is seeing what Bill Hewlett’s fortune is being used to further.

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@AndrewSshi Grim Amusement is going to be my default setting when observing the affairs of man for the foreseeable future.

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@AndrewSshi I spend a lot of effort deliberately looking away. Fortunately, the History Department at the University of Texas did a very good job showing me how 90+% of what people think they know is bullshit, so I’ve spent my adult life with scale-less eyes.

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@hugs Living tissue over metal endoskeleton.

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@AndrewSshi It’s almost like writing ~10% of the Fiend Folio as a teenager can shape one’s mind in … unnatural directions.

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@AndrewSshi @marwood_lennox Fuck that, I'm the same age my stuffy, out-of-touch dad was the year after I graduated from college. (*sobs* *pulls back muscle*)

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@AndrewSshi I remember the first day I felt old. I was standing on a corner in San Francisco, and a bus went by with a picture of one of the Giants on it, and I thought 'Damn, he looks like a kid.' He won the Cy Young award that year.

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@freemancrouch all hail the Mighty State.

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@zenpundit @AndrewSshi Oh, I think a decent percentage of them are now table stakes if you want to grovel successfully.

This is, of course, nothing new under the sun. Oxford 1854 and all that.

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@carloshasanax @AndrewSshi And 20% would be a better rate of return than what Harvard or Yale or UTIMCO generally comes up with...

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@AndrewSshi The ubiquitous use of the verb 'train' in reference to grad school education has always struck me as weird/probably-telling.

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@AndrewSshi The Irishman will out.

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@AndrewSshi And yet, people who don't know history keep doing shit like starting land wars in Asia.

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@yhdistyminen @AndrewSshi @nntaleb

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@AndrewSshi NB: Early voting in the Republican primary is currently underway, and I'm guessing he knows something he doesn't like about his chances of avoiding a run-off.

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@AndrewSshi I've always been partial to the theory that many aliens would regard a planet that's 70% surface water with a ~20% oxygen atmosphere as a toxic hellworld, and once undeniable signs of intelligence started emanating from it, would run the other direction as fast as they could.

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@AndrewSshi AISD slotted me into the Bad at Math track (which you'll find funny, knowing what I do for a living), but what I really was was Bad at Following Directions I Don't Understand. Our Math pedagogy is inadequate to the number of people we need to make it past calculus these days.

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@AndrewSshi *cough*Edward VIII*cough*

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@AndrewSshi I've often wondered what went through Yamamoto's mind when he realized the carriers weren't there.