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garden variety trader at your garden variety hedge fund

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@typesfast I see what you’re doing here, you’re simply guaranteeing yourself a viral tweet

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@jack226RE @eigenrobot He presumes that OH voters don’t know what they’re doing. And there are idiots who think the sight of his feet is disqualifying but it may be less so for OH voters than those idiots

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How can this person be taken seriously when he includes Ramaswamy in there?

Vivek is born and brought up here and importantly running statewide in reliably red Ohio with demographics that are anything but “coastal elite”. Not the same as city or house election

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

striking thing that's happening in the united states is that our elites are in fact being replaced by foreigners

this is different than blue collar and white collar workers also being substantially displaced; the turnover of elite _culture_ is extremely disruptive in a civic sense

this is problematic because "consent of the governed" is substantially a matter of: by _whom_ do the governed consent to be governed?

the governed typically do not have time nor ability to understand the details of policy, and their consent is consequently a matter of trust formed on superficial evaluations of reliability in advancing their interests.

the most basic signal for this reliability is: are the members of this governing class _like me_, whether as i "am" or as i aspire to be. much of the baby-kissing and flesh-pressing and presentation of incredibly bland and conformist personal lives of 20th C politicians was of course irrelevant to policy in a "deep" sense but served as a credible sign of the cultural relatability of politicians.

naturally the knowing ones scorned this kind of politics without understanding its civic importance in forming a coherent and legitimated elite.

the turnover of this elite and the new body's rapid cultural heterogeneitization has resulted, and is likely to increasingly drive, increasing political discontent, fracture, and general popular delegitimization. per kipling:

The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control—
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.

casual life with fargroups is one matter, and even this frequently challenging. being ruled by them is another enchilada entirely.

of course the regions electing these politicians don't see them as outsiders, but their influence is national, and natives notice with concern the formation of aggressively-nonassimilating voting blocs wielding increasing political power that affects them.

this has had and is likely to continue to drive unhappy political trends for the united states of america.

ex uno plures. enjoy arbys

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@alanliddell_ @eigenrobot That’s a fair characterization. That also implies that people’s discomfort with his being different is “priced in” to a reasonable extent and if he wins, OH voters made the calculus that it was not as important to them as other considerations

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@CaitLady1984 Maybe so, it’s also irrelevant if the voters of OH don’t care about it. We have a free and fair functioning democracy with all its trappings

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@eigenrobot “of course the regions electing these politicians don't see them as outsiders”

I mean if OH does not see him as an outsider, maybe they understand something we don’t? Either that or as you argue “they don’t understand” but that has always been a paternalistic elite thing

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Would argue the OH voters have more maturity and sense of what matters to them and obviously understand the differences between them and Vivek than this X “talking head” who’s making the argument that people don’t have time to understand the implications of their choices

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@CarmenMcCoy53 @ushavancefp @JDVance @VP @SLOTUS That said I think it’s bad form to equate bad grammar with assimilation. Half of America if not gets such things wrong

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@CarmenMcCoy53 @ushavancefp @JDVance @VP @SLOTUS Oh I misunderstood your point, you’re talking about the ‘Dad’ portion of the 2nd half of the sentence. Yes you’re quite right, no apostrophe there. it’s a simple plural. She’s a Yale trained lawyer at that smh

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@CarmenMcCoy53 @ushavancefp @JDVance @VP @SLOTUS Father is the possessive noun for Day, it’s not functioning as a plural in this case. The apostrophe is appropriate (the missing ‘s’ isp a typo).

Capitalization is also fine because the phrase is used as a proper noun

[New York Post @nypost]

Costco debuts hugely popular cookie - and customers are hoarding 5 cases at a time https://t.co/CyDh5ht1gY

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@TheStalwart Most runners have separate (usually more than one if you run more than once every 2 days) running shoes and casual wear shoes. Using running shoes for regular use still deteriorates the soles and it’s a bit of a waste spending extra $ for running quality shoes for walking

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The big and very important caveat is way down the thread. People with family get to spend more with family and loved ones. Social people don’t get affected. So it’s basically benefits those who are single and reluctantly social while costing everyone else. Let’s be nuanced

[Natalia Emanuel @NataliaHEmanuel]

Published an op ed in @nytimes: remote work hurts mental health.

Let me explain why
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And yes, too much jargon and saying what could be said simply and succinctly in a convoluted manner

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In a way this is stating the obvious - basically build synergistic work flows with AI to bring “value add”

It’s also somewhat remarkable that not many in tech are saying this

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

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@rrpre Please say more

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@rrpre I had found the gallery to be underwhelming though I can’t quite recall why (it’s been a long time).

Have you been to the Museum of American History? What’s your take on that one?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

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@BowtiedGuanaco @LeylaKuni lol yeah. Depends on whether cooked qualifies active or passive participation. The present continuous form is unambiguously positive