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Jenkintown, PA
Joined February 2010
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It is what he would have wanted.
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Remember, only the Nobel prize in economics is actually associated with the Sveriges Riksbank, the others in categories like "medicine" and "peace" have NO affiliation with the Swedish central bank at all.
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Sisyphus: man, this is unending. Hill issue.
This is the lazy nepo baby of memes. Will issue.
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I seem to have run out of whiskey. Still issue.
Cash register on the fritz. Till issue.
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Jack needs help with a bucket of water. Jill issue.
The window won’t close. Sill issue.
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I've explained over and over but no one pays me any mind. Shrill issue.
I ran out of tiny crustaceans to feed my pet whale. Krill issue.
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"Explanation as Orgasm", by @AlisonGopnik "My hypothesis will be that explanation is to cognition as orgasm is to reproduction." (If the paper is behind a paywall for you, here's a closely related one: alisongopnik.com/Papers_Alis…)
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On the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations: What ignited humanity’s ascent from millennia of stagnation, and what are the roots of global inequality? From @GalorOded nber.org/papers/w35799
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G.A. Cohen—quite possibly the funniest philosopher of all time—providing the commentary for a Marxist boxing match between Jürgen Habermas and John Roemer.
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We grow older with time, but the child within us never truly grows up
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The odds of capturing this on video were probably 1 in 850 quindecillion There has never been a quadruple meg before in human history and there will never be another
Just wait for Emma’s reaction to the quadruple meg 😅
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every Russian dinner party has at least one PhD physicist (who against his will works as a programmer), one mathematician (who has a similar fate) and one person trained in music theory or philology(no job but has money somehow)—usually there's more—and they reenact this video.
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Third wall torn asunder
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 30,1956
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Adam and Eve were the first to ignore the Apple Terms and Conditions
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Walton Goggins told Quentin Tarantino he didn’t care about getting hired for Django Unchained. He just wanted to perform the 4 lead roles in front of him. “I said, I'm not leaving. I want to read all of these roles, Leo's role, Sam's role, all of them. Because I don't care if I get this job, that's irrelevant to me. The only thing I care about is having the opportunity to say Quentin Tarantino's words in front of Quentin Tarantino. He said, 'Are you serious?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Yeah, let's fucking do it.' He sat there with me in that room for another 45 minutes, maybe an hour, and we just read through his script. I read Sam's role, and he read every other role as if he was filming it. Then I read Leo's role, and he read every other role as if we were filming it. It was one of the greatest days of my life as an artist. At the end of it, I hugged him and said, 'Thank you. That was a dream come true, and good luck with your movie. I can't wait to watch it!”
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David Ballard retweeted
It's too early to even think about 2028 and I already have the best job in the world representing the 54th, but if I were elected President, I have found my press secretary.
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This is the house that writers in the 1960s thought a future white collar family could afford
This is the house that writers in the 1960s thought a prehistoric quarry worker could afford
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