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gone to the other place mostly

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@Predamame Get the fuGoutta here, Alex.

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@JoelKlettke I hear your drama, dashes and all.

People are scared to lose out. That’s why we hear all about formulas. They suck. Nielsen couldn’t figure out how the brain works so why do others think they can? Just try stuff till it clicks and then let it roll.

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@brady_h What is the matter? We’re talking about a practice that, in some form, reaches back millennia across several societies. The proof is in the living and not yet the science. I’m with you, Brady. Let folks have cold water and leave the deep thoughts at the shoreline, says I.

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@Predamame If you’re not a hurdler or a pole vaulter, get out of the pole barn.

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@Predamame Also, congrats on the new gig, Alex!

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@Predamame Are the treadmills fully funded? How are officials certified? Any sponsors? Omg the admin of this…

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@stevemagness SO true. And naps. Naps ARE magic supplements.

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@SaulChogman_ @BretDevereaux @PetreRaleigh That’s not the point. The word “seems”encompasses the intelligence problem of eugenics. People who are willing to set aside ethics because stuff seems a certain way give themselves permission to think awful things so they can pretend to be first to the table of human salvation.

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@kenschenck A key problem with the culture of Modernism was its assumption of objective truths where they weren’t proven. Humanity doesn’t follow a linear evolution. If the Enlightenment gave us anything, it’s the ability to hold competing views in tension as we search for firmer ground.

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@kenschenck That may be true in theory. In practice postmodernism has helped people to live more authentically than they had been. This is, ironically, objectively better than the requisites of modernism whose orthodoxies suppressed personal reflections that diverged from established norms.

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@Freakonomics Would the ‘92 Dream Team qualify?

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@stevemagness Not a surprise. It takes an experienced broadcaster working closely with organisers to make these things go off just OK. I worked Tyson v Jones and Holyfield v Belfort, not amazing events, but they ran fairly smoothly because https://t.co/xFM94fr8TE ran a tight operation.

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@fstonehythedc I see it now at :46. Thanks!

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@BretDevereaux It won’t happen, but not just for the fact of GOP realignment. Zakaria says that the entire administration will likely run better bc loyalists aren’t fouling initiatives they agree with. Priebus and the generals were never that loyal to POTUS so he got little done.

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@fstonehythedc Excellent. I’ll share the info.

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@jem_arnold What is the value of mapping social langauge onto a technical paper? Surely the audience (institutions, NGBs, coaches) are the ones who need to interpret it for end users, not scientists.

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@NewYorker What can you say? Some people want to be ruled. It’s hard to examine one’s beliefs because then they might have to, y’know, do something with them. That’s just too darn hard. Just put that orange person in charge. Good as anyone really, and they were on the TV.

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A very large section of the American public has decided to commit to four years of collective delusion and illiberal democracy. Somehow it’s so appallingly ordinary in the modern era. #USAElections2024