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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin
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Electrical, electromechanical, and embedded systems engineer and teacher. ♦️👌 1911. PC Gamer (Steam: Pres. Shimmy Carter). Loves history, philosophy, science and thinking about hard problems.
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Me in the tariff era:
Yep. Computers are necessary to learned computer based skills. They are 100% unnecessary to learn in general.
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My position remains that for straight cis gender people, gender roles is just extended length foreplay for fucking. Its acting. Nothing more. The moment you allow yourself to think it has importance beyond that or has implications for institutions and society at large is when things get fucked up.
December 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Yeah I've had enough of Scott Galloway and the rise of the "centrist manosphere".
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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okay folks, “government name” doesn’t mean “work for the government.” it is a slang term meaning “your full name”
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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never more tempted to abuse my platform than when someone sends me some insanely racist comment using their official, government name email address.
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Sigh.
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Black people have always known what white people were about in this country. I’m not surprised they’re coming for birthright citizenship or that they’re snatching people off the streets, or that the bad economy isn’t stopping the power consolidation. White people want supremacy more than joy.
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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“They’re economically disconnected and are distracted by culture war issues”

No. They justify their economic suffering through the lens of cultural hierarchy. We’ve been doing this since poor white Southerners marched into the maw of war for wealthy slaveholders.
December 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It turns out the “culture war” was the point all along, just like Black people said it was.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Evidence is mounting that the Trump admin ordered troops to commit war crimes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox-f...
“Kill Them All” = Unequivocal War Crime
YouTube video by LegalEagle
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
None of the Sacklers of Purdue Pharma went to jail but they using the military to kill poor brown people in the middle of the ocean *suspected* of smuggling drugs in boats that cant even make it to the US.
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One thing about the Drug War that's always been true is white people = victims, non-white people = enemies.
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Yep. Ill add though there are *lots* of women with men they dont like right now. I guess its just a thing with people. I think women are more like to actually leave though. Could be wrong.
Do men often date women they don’t like?
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The reasoning that the Trump administration uses to kill those "drug smugglers" in the Caribbean can apply to American citizens too. Basically anyone who the president arbitrarily labels a "terrorist" or "danger to the United States".
December 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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“After five years in Paris, Hemings brought his new skills back to the US and served as Jefferson's head chef at Monticello, as well as in New York and Philadelphia, until he was able to negotiate his own freedom in 1796.”

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The enslaved man who popularised mac and cheese
The baked dish is one of the US's most popular foods, but its rise can likely be traced back to an enslaved Black chef who worked for Thomas Jefferson.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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shout out to everybody that kept going this year and didn’t stop🫶🏾
December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I want to go downstairs and make a drink but Im both tired and on the 3rd floor of my house 😫
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I need $10k. It's VERY important.
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Im following Cadillac's new F1 team with great interest.
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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A TOILET SHOULD NOT BE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET
Kohler claims its smart toilets are end-to-end encrypted. They don't seem to understand what that phrase actually means
Kohler's Smart Toilet Camera Not Actually End-to-End Encrypted
Gives new meaning to the 'internet of shit.'
www.404media.co
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM