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Are you traveling between a Wheel-then-Jeopardy! city and a Jeopardy!-then-Wheel city? Know your rights!
while we're on the topic, find you a partner who will look up the local jeopardy airing times when traveling and make sure you're somewhere with a tv at that time every day
February 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Are you traveling between a Wheel-then-Jeopardy! city and a Jeopardy!-then-Wheel city? Know your rights!
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"It was said long ago that not everyone who keeps on repeating ‘Lord, O Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven. It now has to be said that not everyone who keeps on reiterating ‘Criticism, criticism!’ is capable of rising above dogmatism." - Georgi Plekhanov, 1898
February 17, 2026 at 2:26 AM
"It was said long ago that not everyone who keeps on repeating ‘Lord, O Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven. It now has to be said that not everyone who keeps on reiterating ‘Criticism, criticism!’ is capable of rising above dogmatism." - Georgi Plekhanov, 1898
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someone ask chatterton if he knows what the “lost cause” was
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
someone ask chatterton if he knows what the “lost cause” was
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May this one day happen to them.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
May this one day happen to them.
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related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 8:03 PM
related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
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On two occasions a Dollar General worker drank a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. She later paid for each drink.
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General facing $250K bill over 2 bottles of juice | CNN
Federal court has awarded more than $277,000 to a diabetic former Dollar General employee after she was fired her for drinking orange juice without first paying.
www.cnn.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
On two occasions a Dollar General worker drank a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. She later paid for each drink.
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
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Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"
Yes! This was where I got stuck, too, I think. Was there a level with lava, or am I conflating this with the Lion King game?
Had this at home. The escape from the cave of wonders level was SO hard
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Yes! This was where I got stuck, too, I think. Was there a level with lava, or am I conflating this with the Lion King game?
Played this on sega genesis! impossibly for me after the lava level.
Aladdin is my favorite Disney animated film. There are at least 4 different home/handheld console versions of Aladdin. All of them offer something unique. First up, here is the one for Sega's 16 bit console (Megadrive/Genesis). Did you play this version? #retrogaming
February 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Played this on sega genesis! impossibly for me after the lava level.
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i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.
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Between mturk and the replication crisis, it's been growing clear that those of us doing human subjects, social science research need to go back to first principles on recruitment and data collection. As far as I'm concerned, there's no question about that now.
I worked in market research towards the end of the mall-intercept data collection era. The guys who founded the firm, pre-mall, went door-to-door. Seems like we might need to return to F2F data collection to have any confidence that we're getting human response. It worked fine then. Could work again
February 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Between mturk and the replication crisis, it's been growing clear that those of us doing human subjects, social science research need to go back to first principles on recruitment and data collection. As far as I'm concerned, there's no question about that now.
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if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there
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every single person who supported rfk in any way should be thrown into a volcano just kidding
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:13 AM
every single person who supported rfk in any way should be thrown into a volcano just kidding
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There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
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To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
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Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
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That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.
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"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
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ethics professor here, can confirm
"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
ethics professor here, can confirm
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An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
February 8, 2026 at 5:41 AM
An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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For us lady scholars, who have been known to critique homogenous male academic cliques and spaces as exclusionary… consider the money and elite networks that ALL these men benefitted from. All because those lady scholars were likely a bit less interested in sexually assaulting 14 year old girls.
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 2:28 PM
For us lady scholars, who have been known to critique homogenous male academic cliques and spaces as exclusionary… consider the money and elite networks that ALL these men benefitted from. All because those lady scholars were likely a bit less interested in sexually assaulting 14 year old girls.