Urthman

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@Jonathan_Blow thought you might like to see this The Witness-themed Father's Day card my daughter made for me.

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@maxfolkmax Okay, now I need a series of commentaries where it's just the author of the book berating the director of the movie about all the things their adaptation screws up and gets wrong.

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@DanielDiMartino @ZohranKMamdani Dude, did you hear Mamdani says gasoline is poisonous and you shouldn't drink it? You're not gonna let that commie tell you what you can and can't drink, are you?

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I hope showing it to my kids because it makes such a great Dad joke is okay, because it sure feels like I'm monetizing it.

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@TheStalwart I don't think remembering directions is anything like writing. "Someday walking instead of riding a Segway will be considered a bizarre affectation like doing long division without a calculator."

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@ettingermentum Who exactly was doing this? Biggest failure of Woke was letting people like you compare awful official actions of Republican office holders--things Trump actually did--with inflammatory rhetoric of powerless Twitter randos. What Trump did vs. random left-wing posters merely said.

[🇷🇺 Cheeki 🇨🇦 @UncleCheeki]

Warm, wet, childish, rounded, enclosed, ambient noise...
It's a womb. You are in a place you were never meant to return to.
You encounter a dissonance.
A synthetic analog. A space within which a human feels most safe, except there is no mother's body, you are alone.
The ancient part of your brain registers safety and comfort. The younger part of your brain registers the discrepancy, the lack of exit, the illogical nature of your environment.

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@alt_prog McDonald's was bragging in 1984 that worldwide they had served 50 billion burgers over the last 30 years. The population of the USA was 250 millon people. Do the math. People weren't eating McDonald's twice/week.

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@RLangford18 @suzania You think you're doing that, but you're just reading dubious summaries, and maybe finding gaps in the summaries, but not really knowing if those are the lactual gaps in the literature.

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@suzania Typically you think you know something, and as you write you find all the things you don't know, all the flaws in your thinking, the weaknesses of your argument, and you read lots more, and try to make it better, and that's the difference between scholarship and a hot take tweer.

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@JimDMiller @7bBitters Not just an F. At some schools professors are required to report the student to the Dean for violating the school's academic integrity policy. I know profs who had to do that more than once in the last year.

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@danielgsydnor @RaminNasibov So you don't consider magicians to be people?

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@TylerHuckabee Cyclops has the most comic book superpower of all time. He PUNCHES PEOPLE with HIS EYES. His chest symbol should be a middle finger that he's giving to Isaac Newton and his third law of motion.

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@soapbox_tao Completely different situation. In the French Revolution they killed *rich* people.

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@DanLifting99 @noarae99 @nienna121 You're confusing "defining issue" and "your weird obsession," and it's not a great look. Most Christians aren't white and I have more in common with them than with you.

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@Andrewnsnyder Kind of a spoiler.

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@kisstheblade_ The fairies are necessary because God gets overwhelmed and confused if everyone tries talking him at the same time. God's gotta delegate.

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@kisstheblade_ e.g. Shakespeare in Love

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@justalexoki Could still be true for people who can't lose weight with those drugs.

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@justalexoki I don't think you can say "completely dismantled" when the drugs dont work for 25-30% of people who try them.

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@MLBShotsFired Very unrealistic. No way a dad is gonna sit with three kids through a whole game and only drink 17 beers.