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An argument for the pit
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I am a technically savvy guy with knowledge on science, tech, math type stuff. If you need or want something explained to you at a level you are comfortable with; no judgement; let me know here or in DMs.
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I already knew, but the Nazi tattoo thing really hammers home that a lot of folks that identify as democrats just don’t have a will or enough common sense to fight racism. Y’all, you don’t accidentally get and keep a Nazi tattoo you dingbats.
This is the greatest thing since Sliced Bread 2!
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Today's winner of the "Please STFU" Award is Kat Abughazaleh.

She was right to hang up! Don't talk about the facts of your federal indictment on a podcast! Or anywhere except your lawyer's office!

Sincerely,

Every Lawyer, Literally All Of Us, Heed Our Counsel And Shut The Fuck Up
Mmm and what’s your character’s level? Ah, well, OK. {throws eight books in the trash}
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I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.

If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
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Genuinely can't stop laughing at this Colin Farrell story
🎶 Here comes Jeanie with her new boyfriend 🎵
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And this is how you can have situationally kind, sometimes even normal-seeming people explain to you in very calm tones why thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of people not only have to suffer and die, but should. They've joined a supremacist human spirit—one might say an evil spirit.
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The Dodgers told me Yesavage keeps striking out their batters so I asked how many batters they have and they said they just go to the dugout and get a new batter afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding batters to Yesavage and then Jason Bateman started crying.
Everyone acting like this isn’t baseball and the Dodgers can’t put up 9 with two outs. This game is ridiculous. That’s why you can’t leave. Your football team down 42-7 with 10 minutes left? Pack up. But this is -baseball-. It’s insane on purpose.
Given we could really actually 100% die in a nuclear holocaust because we’d rather be racist than happy, I just want to say I love you all. And I love my wife and my kids and my family and friends. I wish I could have done more and been a better friend, husband, and son. I think I was a good dad.♥️
Breaking news: President Trump says he will direct the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China.

The announcement signals a reversal of decades of United States nuclear policy.
Trump announces plans to test nuclear weapons, just before meeting with China’s Xi
The president said he wanted testing to occur “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, raising the pressure on Beijing as he prepared to meet his Chinese counterpart.
wapo.st
LOL what the fuck!!! That’s amazing.
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Nice shirt. For a clown to wear. To the toilet store
Hey you guys, he has a Hitler tattoo. It’s not harder than that. That is the beginning and end of his political career for me. I don’t need to forgive him or see how he’s changed or whatever. Hitler tattoo. The kind of person that gets a Hitler tattoo is not the kind I want in charge of anything.
Watching Velvet Goldmine and it’s a trip! What was I on this thing?
Shows why you have to ignore stats that are only from the COVID era. They are likely wild outliers.
Maternal deaths have more than halved in the last forty years
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Needed to hide the bar on a #Shiny numeric slider. Shiny sliders are ion.rangeSlider under the hood, so you can target the bar directly with .irs-bar.

github.com/The-Strategy...

The more I play with Inspect Element, the more comfortable I get tweaking little things to improve #UIUX

#RStats #CSS
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my letter to the CEO, President, and COO of Services Corporation International, the owner of Dignity Memorial, which manages the cemetery in which my mom is buried that was being used as an ICE staging ground this afternoon.
I would gather AI: Artificial Intelligence is also, but with a little kid Frankenstein’s monster
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Find someone who loves you as much as Stephen King loves terrorizing a small seaside New England town
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Costco sells this cool clock that tells you when it's time to go back to Costco
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The Collisons are classic tech bros. Smart people but gloriously ignorant and convinced they can work things out from first (libertarian) principles. Here's Patrick asking why France was so innovative in 70/80s. He does not like the answer (state monopolies with a mandate beyond profit making).