Random lawyer. National tofu shortage is totally solved. @oneoneder.bsky.social
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Sometimes I think I'm a drone indistinguishable from any other member of my class and demographics
But then I remember that I get rid of physical books after I read them. I am a radical free-thinker!
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Okay, now I'm worried.
World economy has exited the βboom and bustβ cycle, BlackRock, $BLK, has said.
BlackRock said it expects stocks will be boosted by transformation that will require huge investments from capital markets, and investments could sit on par with sums invested during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries.
A leader should care about their popularity, frankly. "Fuck public opinion" is not a sentiment that should be held by a leader in a democracy.
My younger cat is unnaturally intelligent.
He's developed a procedure to indirectly kick old cat out his preferred spot, by attacking my feet, causing me to flinch, which disturbs old cat and causes him to move to a different place.
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Small, but significant detail from this report from Clarissa Ward on the ground in Damascus today.
Ward previously wore hijab in reports from rebel Syria.
Today she speaks to a Syrian woman, both without hijab, with other women without hijab visible among rebels in the back.
I would become qualified
to lay out the argument before killing someone over it π€·ββοΈ
Smart people are idiots too
This is particularly true of those who do things like murder people, which is usually an idiotic thing to do.
Let me get this straight:
Killer is Luigi Mangione, Ivy League grad with degrees in comp sci, avid reader and active contributor on GitHub.
He has a 130+ IQ but he takes off his mask at a Starbucks to flirt with an employee, then an hour later goes and calmly kills the CEO of a major healthcare company, rides away on a bike.
A week later goes to a local McDonalds where he brings the murder weapon, the fake ID he used to check into a hotel, and a written manifesto on how horrible the American healthcare system is. He somehow gets identified by the cashier after he sits down.
He works on his laptop until police come inside the McDonalds, sitting there with a ghost gun and suppressor he made himself.
Gotcha.
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I'm 99% confident this tweet is just confused. Lots of critiques of Piketty and Saez, none of which really point to a lack of demographic controls being important.
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See also how Syrian diaspora returning to Syria in substantial numbers would affect the German social care sector
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Very rare instance of "Assad did nothing wrong" (my signature looks like this but more minimalist)
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Sheβs as untouchable as menswear guy now. You bunch tried and she emerged from it like Daenerys Targaryen coming out of the burning temple. Meet your new queen.
States create nations.
My most right-wing opinions is that the US may need to do a better job infusing people with nationalism through educational system.
Well, it's that and that it's ok that people suffer natural consequences of making bad political choices.
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I retrieved my blue place password and it really is much better over there. Most of my mutuals have moved, people I've missed for a while are there, and the discussion is more thoughtful.
I still get in dumb fights bc that's just my personality, but they're more fun fights!
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It is crazy how easy it is to both suck up to these guys and to have them turn against you, they all have a 5 year old's brain
It's deeply dumb that the "pardon power" is mostly used for people who have already served sentences
The pardon is empty and symbolic, except it is corrupt. Those are the two usages today. Abolish.
Hunter Biden likely wouldn't have qualified for a pardon recommendation under the Justice Department's criteria. The Office of the Pardon Attorney mainly recommends pardons for those who have already served sentences. Hunter Biden has not been sentenced. nyti.ms/3D3hCHm
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fwiw I unironically believe that trump would have pardoned him too. outside the campaign trail, one of trump's most ideologically consistent principles is uncompromising solidarity with all criminally convicted political figures, regardless of partisanship
Breaking on @MSNBC.
NBC News Exclusive: President Biden is expected to pardon Hunter Biden.
He made the decision this weekend.
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end the presidential pardon and the presidential veto
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It is fucking bizarre that internet lefties have convinced themselves the Harris campaign wanted to lose
I don't understand how they model the world