Dan Ostlund

habesne pileum meum?

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@MattPolProf Everyone needs more Elizabeth Anscombe.

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@robwalling I locked my keys in my running car during a snowstorm in mpls. Tow truck takes an hour to arrive. Guy walks up to my car, pops a slim jim into the door and unlocks it. Took maybe 3 seconds. Held out his hand, "$100 dollars." 😂

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@xriskology "weirdly specialized minds"

My god, the galactic narcissism and endless onanistic self-regard of these people always amazes me.

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@courtnelc As a kid a bunch of us were playing doorbell ditch. We hit the same house maybe 5 times over the course of a couple hours. On the last one, the owner was waiting for us, and he burst out the front door with a shotgun. That seemed like a just a bit of an over-reaction...

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@nessimmersion @Car_Free_USA Can you say "non sequitur"?

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@AntGullotta @LinkofSunshine @Noahpinion I dunno man, go to Dumbo or Times Sq (etc) literally any time of day, any day of the week, any week of the year, and tell me again about how no one wants to visit here.

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@brian_callaci "openai".

All these SV chuds are afflicted with supercharged levels of hubris, bolted onto a supreme confidence in their exceptional intelligence and lashed with a complete lack of curiosity.

And so they opine confidently about things they know fuck all about.

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@barbarismcrit These people are so transparently cynical and manipulative. Do they think we don't remember what the GOP did to normie Dem VETERANS Max Cleland and John Kerry? They go scorched earth on anyone who isn't them, so this is all an exercise in excluding the left, as always.

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@JustinBrannan Sorry, it's Tim Walz.

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@StreetsblogNYC "Common sense" is the biggest weasel word in the English language.

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@Ew4214322950043 @Boenau It's one of the best bike lanes in America fwiw, and the street redesigns going on in uptown and elsewhere in MPLS have helped to reduce, and more importantly, calm traffic.

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@queens_parents @StreetsblogNYC Daylighting save lives, but whatever, fuck it, let 'em die, amirite?

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@joewrote I see variations of this argument all the time - "All/most Dems support X or would do Y" - and it's like they think we don't have eyes or ears. Of course the claims are lies, but the shocking part is how shameless it is.

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@RachelBitecofer "Bitch" seems unnecessary, but you do you. Yes I know legislatures picked Senators, and when that changed it became more democratic, but it's still highly undemocratic, so what's your rationale for accepting/defending that?

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@RachelBitecofer @joewrote And all of that is even assuming these polls actually tell us anything of value, which is a dubious claim from the jump.

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@RachelBitecofer @joewrote I always love how you treat moral principle like tactics subject to popularity contests.

You know what else was not popular at one point? Racial equality. Women's suffrage. Guess we should just heed the polls, and to hell with human rights, or even life.

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@mnolangray @the_transit_guy Every time I go there I am just gob smacked again that there are no benches. An absurd choice.

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@SamHeadache @crosstown_line When I'm going 20 mph on my e-bike it is not at all uncommon for non-electric road bikes to blow past me. So "bicycles" without motors go well past 20 mph.

The current 3 class system is just fine.

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@barbarismcrit I saw dude debate Christopher Hitchens live once and he just came across as smarmy and self-satisfied imo.