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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d

i know it's the classic means-testing thing (that i think is intellectually disreputable generally fwiw), but just at the level of language 'wealthy new yorkers who take the bus' is a very funny phrase

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 1d

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1d

my dad was a lawyer, sue me

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 2d

New meme format

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t believe Major League Baseball would be biased against the beautiful dodgers like this

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

Getting some really good feedback on my latest publication (in particular: why the fuck did you use the word ‘arguendo’?)

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

lol hell yeah

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Vlad Chituc @vladchituc.bsky.social · 2d

I spent like 5 minutes arguing with a philosopher this summer at SPP because I said it was crazy that you see perceptual nonlinearities in moral judgment since morality doesn’t have any physical correlate for a sensory receptor to transduce, and he said “yes it does.” Philosophers rule lmao

noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

smh @vladchituc.bsky.social endorses moral subjectivism. disappointing

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

i'm joking—from this nice paper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How to show that a cruel prank is worse than a war crime: Shifting scales and missing benchmarks in the study of moral judgment

Moral judgment is central to both everyday life and cognitive science, but how can it be studied with quantitative precision? By far the most direct a…

www.sciencedirect.com

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

smh @vladchituc.bsky.social endorses moral subjectivism. disappointing

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

there's a major controversy about a fitness influencer's phd, so there's literally so many videos of jacked guys looking at cameras and going 'a doctoral thesis is really important, and it shouldn't be bad' being posted every day rn

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

kershaw was evidently too preoccupied with his own retirement and forgot to focus on retiring batters

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 3d

I assume Clayton Kershaw is being punished by God because he again didn't do something heterosexually enough. That's on him.

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

i can't really enjoy it as a sorta dodger fan, but i can reason my way to understanding that it is objectively funny

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

boy did clayton kershaw just eat a dick

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

i'm obsessed with sensei

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

it's possible i already tweeted this because i can't stop thinking about sensei. if so, sorry

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

the modelo product placement in one battle after another is maybe the best product placement of all time

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 3d

the left embracing the political power of being a chill hang

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry sorry trying to delete it etc

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

Hebrew national guard

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

This is an incredibly dumb thing to say but because I am swelling with warm feelings towards David and can’t (or I guess won’t) actually do anything to help, let me just say that the girls I liked in high school usually liked David more than me

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, it makes me emotional

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

Went to high school with David. Hadn’t heard until now he was on the flotilla (though I have been aware of him doing good work for years). Good for him

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss is an innovator. In a world full of sorta conservative people with editorial roles in legacy media that far exceed their talents, she’s a sorta conservative person with an editorial role in legacy media that far exceeds her talents *and* glasses she thinks make her look smart

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