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perplexpert
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Video games, PopSci/geoscience, Giants baseball, progressive politics, nonsense.

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Atlanta has replaced Anaheim as the farm upstate where former Giants have room to run around (except Atlanta might actually be good idk)
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
You use Calibri because serif fonts are hard to read in digital formats and particularly for reversed out text, and you can’t control the medium of the reader.

Also, if switching was “wasteful,” switching back is equally wasteful! Just the absolute undisputed dumbest people in existence.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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one NL executive told me that the light of Allah is making a late push
are we supposed to be placing bets on this or something
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Hey quick question miss, what the hell and fuck
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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When cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I was gonna joke that for the glory of our great nation we're bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test, but the joke's on me. Apparently Trump reinstated the PFT in July. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
December 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What a great representation of the power of generative AI. Bad visual effects, an incoherent visual identity, and a punchline that isn't worth the effort. "Holidays bad, eat McDonald's."

The most fundamental question of any ad is this: is it helping your brand? Nope!
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad

The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'

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December 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I've always thought that the whole "natural immunity is the best way to protect people" thing was a bit like saying "getting pregnant is the best form of birth control."

Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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time to start talking about reforming the locks on the Supreme Court building
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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people whine about "purity tests" but if there could just be, like, an Are You An Amoral Gullible Loser Dumbass wonderlic for democrats that would be nice
it’s been pretty funny to see Polis’ addiction to posting completely end any discussion of him as a potential 2028 candidate
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“There is a presumption that [Max] Scherzer could pitch for his good friend […] Tony Vitello.”

Always remember to look at exactly what is being said in these rumors; this is basically unattributed fluff from Olney about what some other teams *might* think. A presumption by who? He doesn’t even say.
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Happy for this guy and his family
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you see this, post your favorite Pokémon
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Giants really need to evaluate how they keep screwing up so many top prospects' development paths if they're ever going to be consistently competitive in the futre.
The Giants announced that former top prospect Marco Luciano was claimed off waivers by the Pirates. They now have 39 players on their 40-man roster.
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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FIFA is so corrupt they hired Jenny Durkan to defend them against corruption charges.
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I am not convinced that the Supreme Court will come not come up with a nakedly partisan reason to reject these maps but (1) Dems should do them anyway and (2) defy federal court orders to the contrary
Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.

They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.

Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Tom Cotton deffo needs to face charges in the next regime.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?

Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Every time I see video of this chucklehead it seems an additional 5% of his blood has been replaced by cocaine
They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Shut up, moron 👍
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I do think if anyone in your life is using Polymarket to bet on the Game Awards, you are going to have to lock them in a freezer for however many months it takes for them to forget they like gambling. That might take a really long time, but if you care, you’ll do the work.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM