Alex is ambivalent

Part snob, part slob.

[Alex is ambivalent @apsonge]

@OyVeyIzhMir @NickFreiling This is no longer a given. Used prices are higher now, and used buyers are subject to info asymmetry on the car’s condition and have no lemon law protections. And this is very exceptional, but in the pandemic, my Maverick hybrid’s used price was $8k more than MSRP off the lot.

[Alex is ambivalent @apsonge]

@foster_type Also Lee robbed Peter to pay Paul, taking troops from the other parts of the front that later collapsed. It is also interesting how much backbiting among CSA generals involved unclear orders. Meanwhile Grant understood and worked within the Union grand strategy and wrote clearly.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

Go off queen @AOC 🫡

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

There's an interesting Nietzschean angle to this delusion.

The MAGA project is a return to Nietzsche's 'master morality' - we are the strongest, biggest, manliest, etc. The powerful should rule, might makes right.

But deep inside, they want so badly to be persecuted. It's slave morality - even while declaiming how great and huge and masculine and powerful they are, they can't stop with delusions of how they're righteously persecuted. They are just little smol beans who the liberals are gonna bully and hurt.

It's blessed are the meek, except the 'meek' are a bunch of alpha males weeping that a liberal they made up in their heads called them a name.

[Alex is ambivalent @apsonge]

@MataraKan Pendant or chandelier lighting

[Alex is ambivalent @apsonge]

@BlueYoda7 @Frostyhawk89 @graevanity It’s okay if you’re not musically literate to regional styles. This sounds very familiar if you listen to salsa, bossa nova, or even modern jazz standards (just listen to Girl from Ipanema, sung behind the beat, lazily). I actually liked this adaptation.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Philip Glass
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

[Alex is ambivalent @apsonge]

@Dejavudea Big recent change that might be relevant, there was a COVID-19 additional subsidy that failed to renew and there was an entire record-setting government shutdown over it because it would raise premiums by thousands of dollars, depending on your age.

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

1) yes, The Epstein Files have basically been true crime entertainment for six years
2) there’s no evidence or accusations of him trafficking toddlers, but people often need to pretend so in order to take the crimes seriously. Because what he actually did is groom teen girls for sex, and half the country aren’t quite sure it’s wrong for older men to pursue girls at “the most fertile age,” or if the concept of grooming even applies to heterosexuality

[Rep. Adelita Grijalva @Rep_Grijalva]

Well, that was awfully quick.

[Alex is ambivalent @apsonge]

@martinkasey1 @esjesjesj These would be standards for the entire course but it still fails as an essay. She refers to the Bible, but doesn’t cite or source anything in particular (specific verse or academic work about the Bible), contains contradictory claims, and asserts rather than argues.

[Bricky 🧱 @Bricky]

In the mood for some good yaoi, any advice?

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

Kash Patel's performance as FBI director is exactly what we can expect from Pete Hegseth in a war, RFK jr. in a pandemic, or Tulsi Gabbard in a world where espionage exists.

[David Austin Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh]

The fact that the discourse on the right is shifting from “the Left killed Charlie Kirk” to “the Left is being mean about Charlie Kirk’s death” is pretty significant and suggests this won’t quite be the radicalizing moment many of us (including myself) feared.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

The celebration of political violence is foolish and wicked; murder is heinous, but I will not be lectured on decorum by an American right whose chosen leader is Trump.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It's such an odd feeling that highly liberal writers are trying to tell me that Kirk was a guy who did politics the right way and sought honest engagement while Richard Hanania is going "nope he was a propagandist who didn't care about the truth at all"

[Dylan Burns 🦀 @DylanBurns1776]

In a war, you will not be a superhero. Your home will burn, and your only constant companion will be grief.

You and I are just another blood bag that can be taken out by a $1k drone from people miles away. Shut up and stop trying to get yourself and everyone's neighbors killed.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Hey, I've never played a video game before: does the government putting the leader's head on a giant banner mean he's the good guy?

[Alex is ambivalent @apsonge]

@JacobMoule @Mindpron @DrHistoryBrad The number of times Lee defenders have to blame subordinates to defend Lee is insane. Part of being a general is communicating orders clearly, yet his “bumbling” subordinates constantly misinterpret him or misunderstand his intent or misjudge urgency. Why can’t Lee just be clear?

[Alex is ambivalent @apsonge]

@Mindpron @DrHistoryBrad Grant was busy capturing Vicksburg at that time, arguably a bigger victory and a turning point in warfare that Sherman applies in his march to Savannah and onward. Lee could not see the bigger picture and denuded the rest of the confederate armies of troops they needed.