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What's always confused me is the folks I've known who dismiss history as boring, but then can recount the entirety of the extended history of Middle Earth. Sure there's no magic and fantasy creatures in real history, but it's full of insane drama that is often super compelling.
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Good news: Minnesota is finally banning child marriage! Bad news: It'll be only the third state in the country to have done so... https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1258097668536111106?s=19
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May 7, 2020 03:01
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Yeah, one of the reasons house-owners in my old neighborhood opposed replacing SFH with low-rise multi-family units or adding bike lanes to the street was that it might reduce "their" street parking and all of the dumb shits had packed their garages far too full of literal junk to fit their cars in any more. Also racism/classism. Woo.
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May 8, 2020 19:03
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bulletsponge13 posted:It's weird how related rural and urban driving are. "I want a burger"- 20 minutes stop and go to go five miles and cross a bridge; Urban Unfortunately, the car has reigned supreme in our urban planning since WW2, so most American cities are terribly, terribly planned.
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May 13, 2020 16:41
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Handsome Ralph posted:I mean 35 voted against it (including King who caucuses with them) but yeah sure, whatever you need to tell yourself to so you can chant "dems bad" at every turn.
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May 13, 2020 20:22
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Holy poo poo, FBI pursuing Burr on his Coronavirus-motivated stock sell-off. https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1260751783682441216?s=19
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May 14, 2020 04:10
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bulletsponge13 posted:My biggest takeaway has been the absolute failure of the American Public School system. The amount of people who do not understand basic concepts of math, science, and medicine- in areas that should be covered in school has broke my brain. I'm gonna place the blame on the parents and communities more than anything. Public school can only do so much when you grow up in an anti-intellectual and authoritarian atmosphere.
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May 18, 2020 00:21
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Someone buy an emoji that's this one  but :dam:, instead
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May 20, 2020 08:02
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Also important to recognize that a lot of liberals and conservatives genuinely (and stupidly) believed that China's opening to world markets and rising middle class would somehow inherently lead to at least nominal democracy.
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May 21, 2020 17:58
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Midjack posted:China was here before us; China will be here after we are gone, largely unchanged. They may be terrible in a lot of ways but they have staying power.
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May 21, 2020 20:03
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I'm awfully curious about the decision Amazon made to locate their primary HQ in the core of a metro area rather than directly contribute to sprawl by building on the lower density outskirts like so many other tech companies. It's just so wildly at odds with trends from the other big players and can't come down merely to Seattle offering a bigger bribe than one of the 'burbs. My main opposition to telework becoming the default comes down to believing dense, diverse neighborhoods are incredibly beneficial from both an environmental and social perspective. Sure, employers are only an artificial anchor for this, but considering how much we subsidize low-density, car-reliant sprawl in the exurbs and actively ignore the externalities of doing so, I figure maintaining at least one big counterbalance is fair. Of course, companies everywhere have long done an utter poo poo job of accommodating telework when employees would be much better off at least having the option to do as necessary. I just always need to jump in and try to tap the brakes when I see discussion that could lead to tech workers dispersing into the hinterlands and losing what little contact they still have with the real world.
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May 22, 2020 06:26
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I do worry that big tech corps that start ditching physical offices entirely wouldn't stop at letting their employees work in a barn in Nebraska for lower compensation, but instead go on to pushing through policy that makes it facile to just hire workers that are based entirely overseas and can be paid marginally higher than the American minimum wage, if even. We could look forward to a further hollowing out of the American middle class and a Rust Belt 2.0.
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May 23, 2020 05:24
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facialimpediment posted:Donnie's going golfing. Mission accomplished! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/525495434928988160 We'll likely hit 100k+ deaths today.
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May 24, 2020 00:18
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On the one hand, neither India or China would materially benefit from a border dispute conflict and certainly not full-out war, but when you put two overconfident strongmen in a room and both feel like being seen to back down would undermine their rule, the odds they'll settle on a mutually face-saving modus vivendi edge downward. As a fan of neither country's leadership, the only thing holding me back from rooting them on to all-out war would be the mind-boggling civilian death toll.
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May 24, 2020 15:57
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Fallom posted:People drive Teslas like loving idiots in a brand new way because of their insane torque and acceleration curve Was oddly out of character as he was otherwise a very level-headed and chill dude.
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May 26, 2020 23:50
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Cross posting from the Minnesota thread, but poo poo seems to be kicking off in Minneapolis. MPD appears to be responding to the protest with a massive show of force, tear gas, and flashbangs... https://twitter.com/KeaonDousti/status/1265437893255933954?s=19 https://twitter.com/BLongStPaul/status/1265444444129591296?s=19
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May 27, 2020 02:06
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 So forgive me for inhabiting bizarro-world, but I'm absolutely baffled by the dominate narrative about how the protests evolved into a riot. My apparently unique read on events is that the MPD left the precinct and now other sites completely undefended in a deliberate invitation to the more uninhibited protesters to cause a little damage and thus justify massively disproportionate police escalation that further inflames tensions. They've since reworked the tactic several times to ensure continued escalation. Why? Because the shift to a riot allows the police to control the broader narrative. They're betting that Jane Schmo might have watched the video of the police murder of George Floyd and said, "That could have been me/my neighbor/my coworker/etc., we need police accountability," but is now being hammered with news about poo poo burning and thinking "That could be affect me/my neighbor/my coworker/etc., maybe I'll just accept the bad system because this chaos is a more imminent threat." What am I missing? Are we just hoping that the former thought will still win out over the latter? 'cause I'm worried peoples' brains don't work that way.
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May 28, 2020 05:57
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facialimpediment posted:In the Minneapolis case, everything going on right now is just a result of the police department being dumb and bad. The city PD isn't exactly green when it comes to handling protests. There's been multiple police crimes in the last decade that have prompted massive protests that have been, in turn, met with a massive, but relatively subdued response. All that previously demonstrated capability to respond to a protest mysteriously vanished and was replaced with an approach that has sparked a massive blowup in a way that the department and its allies might exploit to make the case for a heavy-handed department free from political interference from the city's elected representatives. I mean, they left the precinct in the district completely undefended and with high-value targets just sitting in the open, but happened to swoop in with overwhelming force once they had their pretext of people breaking a few things. I'd like it to be incompetence, but I fear it's a deliberate strategy by profoundly bad people pulling the strings at the department.
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May 28, 2020 10:37
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Hekk posted:I am not from the area but it looks like looters had enough sense to loot the nicer areas instead of loving over the poor dumb bastards trying to eek out a living in the hood part of town.
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May 29, 2020 01:23
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Big Dave, you aren't the only one that feels that way quote:1. Riots I've said it before, but I'll say it again: the awful people making decisions in the Twin Cities police forces appear to have actively invited rioting to win the public over to their side and accelerationists are giving them exactly what they want.
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May 29, 2020 06:38
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:This is the other side: Should they also be worried about being impacted by wanton police crimes? Absolutely! But that's not what is front and center in peoples' minds right now. We can explain amongst ourselves all we want how the other side is worse, but unless we can persuasively make that argument to the broader public, they're going to side with the strongman that says they'll take their fear away.
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May 29, 2020 06:53
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Doc Hawkins posted:White moderates are poo poo
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May 29, 2020 06:59
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Fister Roboto posted:So what's the alternative? Everybody go home and wait for cops to pinky swear that they'll stop killing black people? Maybe have a few peaceful protests that are easy and convenient to ignore? Edit: hell, we've even seen this on a small scale with everyday folk intervening to stop bad actors and provocateurs, just not on the scale needed. Cugel the Clever fucked around with this message at 07:18 on May 29, 2020 |
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Jesus gently caress, for a thread that's repeatedly talked about right wing extremists eager to start the electric boogaloo, suddenly the idea is preposterous? I was seeing tweets all loving night from Twin Cities protestors that mysterious masked white folk were on an arson spree well away from the protest, targeting residences along with small, community-owned businesses especially in majority-minority areas. Is it really that hard to believe the baddies are exploiting the situation to their own ends? Edit: https://twitter.com/kar_nels/status/1266724690476892160?s=19 Cugel the Clever fucked around with this message at 16:50 on May 30, 2020 |
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