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It’s hard to overstate how corny everyone is now. They all talk in advertising slogans and tropes. It’s like if Sancho Panza didn’t even bother to learn any aphorisms

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The thing about Herman Hesse's Siddharta is that it is very popular among LSD users in the 60s. Maybe ask your white parents if they have read it if you see them and then come back to me to tell me if I'm right or wrong.

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the worst part of studying and working with robots is how jaded it's made me to fellow USAmericans pearl-clutching over the idea of "killer robots". not to say that it's not a topic worth worrying about, but the two biggest giveaways that someone has no idea what they're talking about is if they speak about these "killer robots" like they're 1. hypothetical future inventions and/or 2. a threat to USAmerican citizens. because they already exist and are being used by the US overseas. meanwhile i have to see people on here freaking out about someone stapling a flamethrower to Boston Dynamic's decade-old Spot platform like this thing with an hour of battery life and top speed of Ambling Gait is going to do anything except controlled burns for forest fires or agriculture. did we not all spend the last year or so watching drone POV videos of Russian soldiers getting blown up? or does that not count because it's not happening to you yet? be so serious

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Its gotten to the point where people die of bombs, of hunger, of bullets, of cold, of illness, of no shelter, of injuries, all on a daily basis in Gaza and we all are out here just sitting and watching. Yes I do think we need to do more than these pathetic protests where we scream and shout. There needs to be more done.

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Gender Flex, Issue 11 (April, May, June 1992)

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This article only mentions landlords in one paragraph. They don't ask WHY landlords raise rent, they treat it as some inevitable force of nature.

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I was eleven when 9/11 happened and I refused to buy the WMD bullshit and told my schoolmate it was a slipshod pretext for the invasion when we were on the phone together. At age fourteen I marched on DC in a peaceful protest against the Iraq war with several hundred thousand attendees, and it received absolutely no coverage on the mainstream news at all apart from a single blurry photograph from a side street. I voted for Obama the first time hoping that Bush Jr & his associates would be prosecuted for crimes against humanity; Obama pardoned the rats on day one. Guantanamo remains open. I lost my faith in the entire process long before Trump took office, which has inured me to shock, to a certain extent. But to a great many people my own age and younger, the present state of affairs is very shocking. It shocks me, too, because I have not inured myself to atrocity. It is, however, business as usual for the warmongers and oil conglomerates that own the Senate and use the armies of the republic to protect their financial interests.

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Obama's Democracy Forum remarks on pluralism, framed in terms of "overlap," made me think about how one could map the last three Democratic presidents onto a timeline of John Rawls's intellectual development. Clinton was the Theory of Justice president (heralding a transitory liberal settlement as the rational telos of human society), Obama the Political Liberalism president (far more successful and compelling, but still marked by fundamental errors), and Joe Biden the Law of Peoples president (bad).

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When I was like fourteen I saw a negative review on iTunes for a Phil Ochs album, and it made me really mad, so I clicked through to see what else the reviewer had written, and their only other review was a very long and erudite appraisal of a Hilary Duff single, with a title like "A New Sound for Duff." It felt like recognizing myself from a mirror universe, the precise opposite kind of pretentious fag.

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Maybe it's because I'm not a Democrat, but I don't think Nate Silver is that annoying. I guess he reads his own preconceptions into the data, but literally every pundit with a model does that. At the same time, I do think a lot of his commentary boils down to stuff like "the election is competitive" and "similar states will probably vote similarly," which conveys basically no information. And his new book seems like the kind of book you buy at the airport, read the first chapter of on the plane before getting bored and watching the preselected episodes of Hot Ones on JetBlue's inflight entertainment system instead, and then try to leave behind on the plane, but the person next to you goes, "Hey, don't forget your book!" and you say, "Oh, thanks," so you have to take it home to put on a high shelf next to Atomic Habits and the Oprah biography your dad's new girlfriend got you for Christmas.

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Slicing up my left nut real thin like the garlic in Goodfellas

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Sometimes when I go to check my email I mistype "proton" as "proon," which sounds like a 4chan slur for people who take baths

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It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown! aired fifty years ago. When I was a child, this scene aroused feelings in me that I could not explain.

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James Hoffman reviews my butthole.