Derek Harper

Hostile City ambassador/Go Birds absolutist.

Once put Trump on hold while buying a sandwich at Wawa.

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@gcochran99 @VeeEmYou It peaked at 7.8, but it was relatively brief

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@spasmboing @decemberhunting Without a doubt it must cast a long shadow, but considering UK and US salaries were much closer until 20 or 30 years ago, I wonder if more proximate factors are to blame.

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@spasmboing @decemberhunting I was an exchange student in the UK in 1995 and I was utterly astonished by the level of destruction, and the fact there were still parcels of land left vacant by 50 years on by Nazi bombing.

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@SeamusHughes When there were several times as many journalists 20 years ago, courts were routinely staffed. I mean, you know this right?

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@CogginToboggan Can't tell if you're joking or not but the Langley Schools Music Project is an amazing album

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@TheSimDoughnut @Bob_Janke Rickenbacker never flew a Sopwith Camel though

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@tommyveggies https://t.co/RB3qI6pG1E

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The die was cast when we stopped building housing during the Great Recession, just a few years before the numerically largest generation in American history started reaching prime childbearing age.

Really, the rest is just commentary.

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@evropauberalles Hey, by the way, why is the Lucky Strike logo red, instead of the original green?

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@JamesNeilMeece @cremieuxrecueil Apparently it's been incrementally raised almost every year over the past three decades.

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@jakehalloran1 People usually stop making their deepest memories by the time they are 30, so by the time we're old, we end up walking around with mental maps that are decades out of date.

This explains so much.

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@ChaimKatz7 @SeanTrende Welp. Forgot Biden

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@AnalyticaCamil1 To be fair, they were Chicago newspaper columnists who started out having friendly discussions on local TV.
And even today practically every region still has journalists discussing public affairs on public television Sunday mornings, sometimes to literally dozens of viewers.

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@BuckyMcChubbins @SeanTrende Obviously the descendants of those people.

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@JoyceCarolOates It's a mugwort. It's an interesting plant. If you don't want it here, it's a weed.
https://t.co/iyPlRA7kOj

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@life_minutiae @Noahpinion The carpenter, you know him?

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@SIUC_SPS @LinkofSunshine When I worked in newspapers, they warned us to never use more than one number per paragraph, lest we lose the reader.

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@KateCornell As far as I'm concerned, civilization peaked 30 years ago.