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i'm genuinely surprised by the number of people still under the impression posting on here is Doing Politics and not something to do while procrastinating on our actual work
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
i'm genuinely surprised by the number of people still under the impression posting on here is Doing Politics and not something to do while procrastinating on our actual work
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COURIER: <Speech 80> What if we replace oxygen with swag?
ULYSSES: thought about it. came close a couple times. but it changes you. swag can kill you. swag is a new kind of history.
COURIER: <Science 95> It's basic chemistry. Decay, change, transformation.
ULYSSES: makes no difference to history.
ULYSSES: thought about it. came close a couple times. but it changes you. swag can kill you. swag is a new kind of history.
COURIER: <Science 95> It's basic chemistry. Decay, change, transformation.
ULYSSES: makes no difference to history.
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
COURIER: <Speech 80> What if we replace oxygen with swag?
ULYSSES: thought about it. came close a couple times. but it changes you. swag can kill you. swag is a new kind of history.
COURIER: <Science 95> It's basic chemistry. Decay, change, transformation.
ULYSSES: makes no difference to history.
ULYSSES: thought about it. came close a couple times. but it changes you. swag can kill you. swag is a new kind of history.
COURIER: <Science 95> It's basic chemistry. Decay, change, transformation.
ULYSSES: makes no difference to history.
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For testing and time limits the problem is more that if you have a test that is super sensitive to time limits, then you have a bad test that is only testing a very narrow skill (ie taking tests under time pressure).
We should be aiming to create better tests that are more time insensitive.
We should be aiming to create better tests that are more time insensitive.
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For testing and time limits the problem is more that if you have a test that is super sensitive to time limits, then you have a bad test that is only testing a very narrow skill (ie taking tests under time pressure).
We should be aiming to create better tests that are more time insensitive.
We should be aiming to create better tests that are more time insensitive.
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Back in 2010, one of the most conservative Dems, Mike Ross, told me they probably would have been better off with just going with a Medicare option instead of the very complicated system they created, which took 4 years to build…
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Back in 2010, one of the most conservative Dems, Mike Ross, told me they probably would have been better off with just going with a Medicare option instead of the very complicated system they created, which took 4 years to build…
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One way ACA would be a lot cheaper is if it simply was built atop Medicare. Medicare buy-in and Medicare-like public option were both killed by Joe Lieberman, who represented a state with a lot of private insurance companies.
(Medicare does have private options too)
(Medicare does have private options too)
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
One way ACA would be a lot cheaper is if it simply was built atop Medicare. Medicare buy-in and Medicare-like public option were both killed by Joe Lieberman, who represented a state with a lot of private insurance companies.
(Medicare does have private options too)
(Medicare does have private options too)
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"Traditional health insurance" pre-ACA didn't cover pre-ex, had annual/lifetime caps, didn't cover important things like having a baby, led to many declaring bankruptcy when they got sick. Even then, ~50M had no insurance at all because they still couldn't afford it. They clogged ERs to get care.
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Traditional health insurance" pre-ACA didn't cover pre-ex, had annual/lifetime caps, didn't cover important things like having a baby, led to many declaring bankruptcy when they got sick. Even then, ~50M had no insurance at all because they still couldn't afford it. They clogged ERs to get care.
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It seems to me that "the institution of slavery has left a nearly two hundred year cultural scar on the region in which it was most prevalent" and "there are still loads of good people living in the South who deserve to not be written off" are not actually in tension with each other.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It seems to me that "the institution of slavery has left a nearly two hundred year cultural scar on the region in which it was most prevalent" and "there are still loads of good people living in the South who deserve to not be written off" are not actually in tension with each other.
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The trend of elite universities putting their lectures online for free was pretty useful for dispelling the idea that kids at like Harvard we're getting some kind of secret extra-good education that everyone else didn't (these schools have other advantages of course) bsky.app/profile/root...
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The trend of elite universities putting their lectures online for free was pretty useful for dispelling the idea that kids at like Harvard we're getting some kind of secret extra-good education that everyone else didn't (these schools have other advantages of course) bsky.app/profile/root...
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I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
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best ending of all time, let's be real
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
best ending of all time, let's be real
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
Congratulations to Janet Mills' Opposition Research team.
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Congratulations to Janet Mills' Opposition Research team.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I don't seriouspost that much anymore, mostly because I'm tired and more cynical about the efficacy of the effort, but I'll give it a try for old time's sake.
It has been de rigueur for many professional posters to insist on participating in American democratic processes as a remedy for discontent.
It has been de rigueur for many professional posters to insist on participating in American democratic processes as a remedy for discontent.
October 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I don't seriouspost that much anymore, mostly because I'm tired and more cynical about the efficacy of the effort, but I'll give it a try for old time's sake.
It has been de rigueur for many professional posters to insist on participating in American democratic processes as a remedy for discontent.
It has been de rigueur for many professional posters to insist on participating in American democratic processes as a remedy for discontent.
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Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.
October 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.
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For all the various hand wringing culture war nonsense about "things you're not allowed to say anymore", an actual thing you're apparently not allowed to say for risk of drawing down the wrath of Big Brother is "I do not mourn for Charlie Kirk."
September 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
For all the various hand wringing culture war nonsense about "things you're not allowed to say anymore", an actual thing you're apparently not allowed to say for risk of drawing down the wrath of Big Brother is "I do not mourn for Charlie Kirk."
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It is wild that Charlie Kirk of all things is becoming *the* litmus test.
Even just talking about the event publicly without a sufficient supply of sackcloth and ashes is cast as "promoting political violence." I haven't seen this kind of mandatory performance of allegiance and piety since 9/11.
Even just talking about the event publicly without a sufficient supply of sackcloth and ashes is cast as "promoting political violence." I haven't seen this kind of mandatory performance of allegiance and piety since 9/11.
September 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It is wild that Charlie Kirk of all things is becoming *the* litmus test.
Even just talking about the event publicly without a sufficient supply of sackcloth and ashes is cast as "promoting political violence." I haven't seen this kind of mandatory performance of allegiance and piety since 9/11.
Even just talking about the event publicly without a sufficient supply of sackcloth and ashes is cast as "promoting political violence." I haven't seen this kind of mandatory performance of allegiance and piety since 9/11.
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My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.
In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.
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My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.
they just decide what they think we’re like and proceed as though
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.
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It was only last month that a guy mad about covid vaccines fired 500 rounds into the CDC building in Atlanta, btw
September 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It was only last month that a guy mad about covid vaccines fired 500 rounds into the CDC building in Atlanta, btw
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/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.
September 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.
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/5 Watch for the response to be, barely disguised, “they’re doing to us what we want to do to them and that’s not fair!”
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
/5 Watch for the response to be, barely disguised, “they’re doing to us what we want to do to them and that’s not fair!”
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/4 But it’s perfectly reasonable to point out that the people who will wave the bloody shirt over this — the people who support Charlie Kirk — are evil hypocrites who endorse and excuse violence every day. Refraining from celebrating doesn’t mean tolerating bullshit.
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You’re not wrong. At all. I just think people are also tired of being lectured about this. And that’s where a lot of the anger stems from, unfortunately, in the people’s feeds that are preaching it. Every single time a shooting happens — which happens alot now. Sigh.
September 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
/4 But it’s perfectly reasonable to point out that the people who will wave the bloody shirt over this — the people who support Charlie Kirk — are evil hypocrites who endorse and excuse violence every day. Refraining from celebrating doesn’t mean tolerating bullshit.
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/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.
September 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.
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/2 We can, and should, discuss whether political violence is inevitable, or whether we’re fooling ourselves because we’ve been swimming in it for a long time. You can note that political violence against the Left (like Melissa Hortman) is treated differently than political violence against the right
September 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
/2 We can, and should, discuss whether political violence is inevitable, or whether we’re fooling ourselves because we’ve been swimming in it for a long time. You can note that political violence against the Left (like Melissa Hortman) is treated differently than political violence against the right