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likes being outside and talking to babies

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This is what happens to you when you take the phone’s word on what the world is really like

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@GlynneVW @mattdemonte @thomaschattwill lol that makes this NYT story even funnier

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@GlynneVW @mattdemonte @thomaschattwill Maybe but I knew people who boasted (to their peers) about other forms of cheating like friends writing essays or buying papers off former students, etc.

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@mattdemonte @thomaschattwill Fair but I don’t recall knowing anyone using a paid online service of any kind. Maybe I was just under a rock. I did hear of people buying essays from student who previously took the class.

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It was literally an apocalyptic event

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Since you weren’t even born yet, I’m going to answer in good faith:

9/11 was America’s collective loss of innocence. In the decades prior, we’d won the Cold War by outspending the Soviets. We were the sole remaining superpower, and we were in a period of peace and economic prosperity.

Then, seemingly out of nowhere, we suffered a suicide attack with a higher death toll than Pearl Harbor. It struck a city on the US mainland, the first attack of that scale to hit CONUS since the Civil War.

In a violent flash, and on live television, our collective illusions of safety, security, and peace disappeared. For most Americans, it was the first time we ever had to contend with that scale of horror, and what it implied about the fragility of our way of life.

It was simultaneously sobering and terrifying. The American response was to launch two wars, and to restructure domestic life around the Government’s presumed duty to spy on everyone, so nothing like it could ever happen again.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say the America we grew up in—imagined or not—vanished on 9/11.

What you’re calling a “worshipful attitude” is a mix of reverence for the dead, and mourning for the loss of what existed before.

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@thelyssamarie @shoujowife Yeah I was disappointed because I like the product and the subscription is a pretty good deal for a non-toxic diaper brand. Much cheaper than healthy baby and dyper!

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@Aktivarum @tonjkb Yes I think this framework is deployed to counter “great man” theories of history: “Individual agency doesn’t matter! It was all the weather”

Of course the truth is somewhere in the middle. Ambitious people are helped along by optimal conditions.

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In practice, having beautiful eyes is indistinguishable from possessing powers of hypnotism

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YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Only in theaters this October.

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@anisenot I cannot explain it but I feel that this is the fundamental difference in sexual psychology

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@ThymeToBeBorn SAHMs have no choice but to contemplate children’s media because we are steeped in it and otherwise understimulated

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@EdwinaPJones @ThymeToBeBorn If it the price is right, I expect families will leave to follow the money then

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I don’t see why psychosis and premeditation are necessarily mutually exclusive. Psychotics aren’t senseless foaming at the mouth rabid animals. They still have human reasoning faculties; just lost touch with reality.

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@sovietvisuals @vocalcry I like that they gave Ken a sharper physiognomy and a furrowed brow

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@CarlisleDiana @hollowearthterf Were they getting more protein when they built the empire or something?

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@WhiteHouse I love the ai slopification of politics from the top down

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@FudgeFuturistic It was an apocalyptic event. Everyone who remembers the world before it will agree that it is gone now and we are in a new world.

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@420stonerman69 @Regan_Carter Replayed online lol

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@420stonerman69 @JeannesTweeting Basically all news was consumed live in 2001. We weren’t watching it in a browser or on a streaming service. It was all live tv. The photos/footage were shown in live news segments for months afterward.