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Human scum. Englishx. Single-spacer after periods as God intended. C-SPAN addict. Law and SCOTUS nerd. Semper Twitter, numquam X.

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In @Costco the other day, I looked at the ingredient list for Nongshim Udon Noodles and was appalled: it contains 89 entries.

After removing duplicates like salt and sugar from the bracketed sub-ingredients, 62 items remain, half of which sound as though they're manufactured by ExxonMobil or Dow. I have never seen a product with even *close* to this many ingredients and hope nobody's feeding this garbage to their children. Costco should be ashamed of itself.

Alphabetized, the ingredients are:

Acetic acid
Ammonium bicarbonate
Anchovy
Artificial flavors
Beet
Black pepper
Bonito
Chili extract
Citric acid
D-sorbitol
Dextrose
Disodium guanylate
Disodium inosinate
Disodium succinate
Folic acid
Freeze dried green onion
Glucono-delta lactone
Glycerin
High fructose corn syrup
Hydrolyzed corn protein
Hydrolyzed soy protein
Malic acid
Maltodextrin
Modified tapioca starch
Monosodium glutamate
Mushroom
Natural flavors
Niacin
Non-dairy lactic acid
Onion
Palm oil
Pollock
Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids
Potassium carbonate
Potassium phosphate
Potato starch
Proplyene glycol
Red chili pepper
Reduced iron
Riboflavin
Rice bran oil
Rice flour
Salt
Seaweed
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium carbonate
Sodium phosphates
Sorbitan esters of fatty acids
Soy
Soy lecithin
Squid
Sucrose esters of fatty acids
Sugar
Thiamine hydrochloride
Tocopherols
Tuna
Water
Wheat
Wheat flour
Wheat gluten
Wheat starch
Yeast extract

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@pjaicomo Amazing. I have apparently discovered the only internet user who prefers to scroll down and left and right to be able to read tiny text in an image rather than just viewing it in a web page. Down with convenience!

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@AbeGreenwald Quite right. Why anyone should care about a bunch of oversteroided multimillionaires running around a pitch is a great mystery. Screw 'em.

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@tedfrank

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Plaintiff lawyers discover Amchem - when somebody else has negotiated themselves $650 million in fees. https://t.co/C7UwxsgJI6

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@RepThomasMassie If there's still time, please run as an independent, split the R vote, and ensure the election of a D. That will teach the loathsome orange fuck fo sho.

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@SenBillCassidy If there's still time, please run as an independent, split the R vote, and ensure the election of a D. That will teach the loathsome orange fuck fo sho.

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@NileGardiner Leadership?

Do you mean he took a few minutes off from stealing from the US treasury and selling pardons and instead did something useful? I think you do!

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@jfhLive @RealDonKeith If only that were some sort of open-source encyclopedia where one could look up this sort of information.

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@TimesRadio After several years of responding correctly to the command, "Alexa, play Times Radio," for the last couple of months my Echo instead plays a station from Brazil.

Because Amazon appears to have forgotten your existence, to play TR these days I have to connect my phone to the Echo and launch the app, not the end of the world but certainly less convenient than simply giving Alexa a command.

I'm in the US and thought you should know.

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@rkylesmith Google AI:

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@rkylesmith Falschparker (a real German word, happily).

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@TheRickWilson Except for the time he was photographed waving a Bible around in Lafayette Park to sucker his gullible Christian supporters, I don't think he's ever been seen with a book.

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The morons at #WPHT #1210AM are playing music right now, as if they've forgotten they're a talk-radio station.

Imagine knowing so little about your audience you think it wants to listen to Motown instead of the spoken word. Fucking halfwits.

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@HappyApathetic @cpgrabow @Phillips66Co Good point.

The working class has never recovered from the abandonment of the rule that men with flags had to walk in front of self-propelled vehicles. Imagine the millions of jobs we would have today if that was still a requirement.

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Brave of you to discourage even a single potential listener in an industry that although not yet dead, is certainly coughing up blood.

Do me a favor: if you had anything to do with the selection of Sterling, never choose a host again, ok? I've listened to Philly talk radio since 1982 (yes, I'm an old fuck), don't give a flying one about the numbers, but as an old-style, traditional conservative, know what I like (spoiler: endless numbers of Trumpist pukes ain't it).

You are dismissed.

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@1210WPHT Turned on 1210 last night and was delighted to discover that even though his name is still featured in your Twitter profile, you've at last binned Sterling, a world-class bore who knows so little about talk radio he thinks we want to listen to music and smutty monologues. I'll try evening listening again now that he's gone.

Sterling On No Damn Night? Perfect.

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Good points, but unlike the rest of the world which is excited by the prospect of AI maximizing efficiency and lowering costs, lawyers are currently busy trying to figure out ways to charge clients *more* for AI-enabled work than they do today for the old-fashioned kind of labor. They're lawyers, you see.

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@kenklippenstein You sick, sick fuck. Instablock.