I have questions about the decimal precision
23.01.2026 16:21 β π 28 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@tomscocca.bsky.social
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I have questions about the decimal precision
23.01.2026 16:21 β π 28 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And before that!
23.01.2026 15:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Sorry yes I am realizing to my alarm that the writer of that line was NOT the only person who didn't already know the extremely well advertised history of Gatorade and its marketing!
23.01.2026 14:49 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, explicitly and entirely
23.01.2026 14:45 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Nikes have been recast as athletic gear engineered for performance
23.01.2026 14:43 β π 26 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Cornflakes have been recast as part of nutritious breakfast
23.01.2026 14:41 β π 31 π 0 π¬ 4 π 1"Even decades-old products have been newly recast as miracles of modern chemistry: After years of selling itself purely impressionistically, via close-up shots of hot athletes dripping sweat and swilling neon liquid, Gatorade has recently begun touting itself as 'Lab Tested.'"
23.01.2026 14:39 β π 50 π 0 π¬ 8 π 6Indignity Vol. 6, No. 6, COLUMN DEP'T, MR WRONG: Big Snow Is a Big Treat If You Don't Let It Kill You www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-into-the-white/
23.01.2026 05:02 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0"Now we may understand where in the brain [liliputian hallucinations] originate"βsomebody making several key assumptions
23.01.2026 03:56 β π 35 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0"Hallucinate" or "see"?
23.01.2026 03:52 β π 115 π 8 π¬ 9 π 1Is he going to mail him a printout of the Truth Social post or
23.01.2026 02:45 β π 89 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Sometimes I sift through Newspapers dot Com
23.01.2026 02:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Google Ngrams?
23.01.2026 02:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Screenshot of text: Singer then asked the jury if prosecutors proved that $10,000 was offered for Bovinoβs murder. βWas it true? Who knows. But you canβt guess. Because they have to answer those questions,β Singer said. βAnd if they canβt answer those questions β which they canβt β Juan is not guilty.β [Highlighting begins] Singer also said prosecutors didnβt highlight an βlolβ message from Espinoza Martinez, which goes against their claim that he never indicated he was joking. [Highlighting ends]
HUGE development in Posting Law
22.01.2026 22:42 β π 166 π 35 π¬ 12 π 12A legal argument so strong you don't allow anybody to make copies of it, classic law-abiding behavior
21.01.2026 22:58 β π 319 π 52 π¬ 4 π 0The fourth amendment would like a word apnews.com/article/ice-...
21.01.2026 22:51 β π 37 π 7 π¬ 3 π 0From the live blog: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
21.01.2026 21:19 β π 1055 π 361 π¬ 42 π 77Steve Bannon's Flood the Zone With Shirt strategy has unfortunately conquered the ruling class
21.01.2026 20:58 β π 89 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0Like when the guy who's in the middle of delivering and installing an appliance says "Sir, can I show you something?"
21.01.2026 02:19 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pivoting from shooting priests in the face with pepper balls to denouncing protesters who "almost violently" demonstrated in a church
21.01.2026 01:07 β π 753 π 111 π¬ 10 π 3"Iβm not racist in the sense that is morally pejorative."
20.01.2026 18:33 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Trump official previously reported to have nursed a grudge about being banned from the Gawker comments now tells Semafor that she kept four separate accounts for sockpuppeting purposes www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
20.01.2026 18:11 β π 60 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0Mamdani ran on three concrete promises representing an affordability agenda: free buses, free childcare, and a rent freeze. What is Schumer promising to do?
20.01.2026 15:52 β π 245 π 19 π¬ 9 π 3It's true no Fed chair has previously, while under threat of arbitrary firing by the president, weighed in on the arbitrary firing of another Fed member by the president
19.01.2026 21:59 β π 76 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0It's always interesting to see where the word "unusual" appears in headlines and stories these days
19.01.2026 21:58 β π 122 π 9 π¬ 1 π 1Oh me too
19.01.2026 21:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Screenshot from the New York Times Spelling Bee of the word DORKWAD, in black text on white background with the D's in yellow, above which is a black box with white letters reading "Not in word list"
Oh really
19.01.2026 21:20 β π 139 π 2 π¬ 5 π 1This doesn't really engage with the text of what Hanania posted and what Ganz was responding to
19.01.2026 14:18 β π 138 π 4 π¬ 4 π 0Remembering how the Homeland Security secretary wrote about how she got mad and killed a puppy for misbehaving and presented her choice to shoot the puppy like it was a proportionate and relatable decision
18.01.2026 22:24 β π 1228 π 241 π¬ 22 π 7(Technically ON Jan. 6)
18.01.2026 17:11 β π 100 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0