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> How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days That is only 1 VIP twitter recipient, not the total received by Twitter.

It wasn't even a topic in the governor race, despite the numerous well documented connections between the governor and PG&E https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals…

Why did he buy 10% of twitter stick? That wasn't a momentary lapse of judgement.

Since all the clients have to do the work, doesn't that result in a net increase in electricity consumption? Since most electricity comes from fossil fuels doesn't that in net hurt…

There is a school of thought, primarily from critical theorists and their derivatives, that proposes constant agitation, there is no neutral. E.g. Kendi's anti-racist. As this scho…

> This comes up all the time that "you can't make edgy jokes anymore", but it isn't true. What would be your explanation for Nimesh Patel being removed from stage at Columbia? http…

Is Spengler the only person describing cyclical history? Probably not since someone above your post mentioned > Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Muslim scholar from Tunisia

No reason ad tech companies should have freedom to associate real world data with online data. This seems like the perfect candidate for a US state proposition.. no company engaged…

> It would be good to analyze what happened between 1965 and 2022, what has changed that instead of progress we see some kind of downward spiral. Whether you agree with him or not,…

Its a Motte and Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle

> without that community college plus a cheap state school isn’t expensive. UCLA is 13k per year, *if* you are from California. Classes are likely impacted (even upper division) so…

> We were warned - time and again - and each time that warning was ignored. And at least in the US, their are 1000s of people receiving good money to take that warning seriously. A…

remind me, what happened in 2013?

A great use case would be data collected in the process of complying with general govt regulations. Why this is better than central DB: Allows govt to outsource IT Public interest …

That completely ignores leaving the gold standard... which was necessitated by... runaway govt spending

The democratic party famously screwed over VP Wallace in a highly rigged convention (so power leaders could get relative neophyte Truman in) Rumors are the mob delivered the electi…

* refuse to accept college IDs as valid for voting, even those issued by the state government because it's a state school (college students are more likely to vote for the "wrong" …