Monitoring the situationship.

Oakland
Joined June 2025
I thought all the fun Theory I read in college was training for being obnoxious at cocktail parties, but then we invented search engines that do vibe checks before they give you the Straussian answer…
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All nations are socially constructed, but some are very real
Replying to @si_rubinstein
The truth no one wants to admit is that all nations are fake.
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This is all leftist discourse on NYC rentals
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How have we not gotten any good battle hymns of the electric guitar era?
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Related to this: the Last Battle is both heartbreaking and beyond confusing if you read it as a child without much prior exposure to scripture.
I hope Greta Gerwig has the courage to include Aslan’s terrifying, Oppenheimer-esque final warning at the end of The Magician’s Nephew.
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When was the last time you thought about imovie?
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JUST IN: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals she would "probably not" ever date a conservative.
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Ordered from amazon, missing parts. Return, buy second, missing parts. Return, buy third, get sent first back again. What clown is running this company?
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They say companies ship their org chart. I can only conclude that no one in MS's org chart does any real work
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To believe this you have to believe (1) widespread violations of laws against price discrimination in goods (2) failure of price competition between firms for services
Someone described this as a “total loss of consumer surplus”, meaning some MBA is calculating the precise max price that can be charged at every interaction. It’s not a “rip off” in a technical sense, but it feels like being financially harvested. Bad vibe.
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"that's okay [he]'ll keep [eating] that garbage
I went into this article expecting controversial or shocking info, but the entirety of the piece was just "Customer averages eating McDonalds twice a month" and "The favorite item for this customer is Diet Coke"... but it's treated like Minority Report.
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Armchair general losing a battle: "Retweet, Retweet, Retweet"
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The Australian version of Survivor should be called Habitat Against Humanity
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First the microprocessors came for the Computer (human). Then the computers came for the Programmer (human). Then the programmers came for ...
every job will be automated until one remains: programmer
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Making immigrants check a box accepting responsibility for their share of colonialism would unfortunately be a very funny bit
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Hat tip to the amazon pm who decided to give everyone a price history but make them inflate the alexa stats in the process
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"You expect me to believe Riemann wasn't doping?"
so now there’s going to be a “natty or not” debate every time a human mathematician makes a new breakthrough?
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One-upping excel is a terrible business. One-upping a *specific use of* excel is a great SaaS
Ideas with the highest founder kill rates: - one-upping excel - replacing quickbooks - fixing personal finance - a better dashboard for ___ If one of these chooses you, run.
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The question we have to ask is, "is our educators learning?"
This is actually worse than people are making it out to be. This is *reproducibility* not replicability, meaning they took the authors’ own data and redid the analysis. 0% of education papers even did their math right.
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Man who's never met a jewish man in his life:
Western men need LESS guilt, not more. Every Western Christian man should have the same attitude about his past that the average Muslim or Jewish person has. Zero apologies. Zero regret. More Pride. More Anger.
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They should make a twitter that requires you pass a reading comprehension test
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