Matt “10º warmer than Duluth" L

That’s bleak. Is there an X-windows GUI for Linux? I’m feeling a little retro, but not enough to use command line.

Amen.

A Kuwaiti F-18 could do the funniest thing right now

Prob a part of why they don’t want colleges teaching liberal artsy things like history

Watching public opinion shift this quickly on an issue is unheard of. Even the Iraq War took years before people admitted it was failing.

🗣🗣 listen to me talk about college

Didn't really care about or take a side in the Texas primary but Talarico winning seems like the less annoying outcome for the discourse on here.

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I learned that the phrase "on the ball" comes from the Greenwich Observatory's time ball that signalled to sailors that it was 1 pm. My mind is very easily blown, but this is also why there is a ball drop on NYE. Why yes, I do have an article due and may be procrastinating. Why do you ask?

I’m getting the sense that Marco Rubio guy might not be the sharpest tool in the shed. I’m guessing that we’d have to grade the whole administration on a curve (which I’ve never had to do in twenty years of teaching college history).

I thought that was like, a joke? IIRC it was something George H.W. Bush would say when he was losing at tennis or something. He’d threaten to “unleash the Chang” on his opponent.

Feels relevant that both Fetterman and Platner were/are downwardly mobile sons of the white upper-middle class. That can nurture a distinctly different bundle of resentments than are usually found in products of working or middle class households.

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Different Republican, but apt parody.

Will the kids get the reference?

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

Au contraire. After they’ve gambled and been into crypto (but I repeat myself) for five more years, they will be on our side.

This is absolutely amazing! 🤯

They draw the curtains when they do crimes, but a voice says "I can still see what you f*ckers are doing there..."

Yeah, for sure.

Look, if they didn't give the Slovaks and the Ukrainians their own state after WWI, what were the Kurds going to get?

oh, a nepo ayatollah

"AI can do better social science research." Can it? Like come up with novel questions or sites of inquiry that start entire fields? Because that's what I did, and so did many of my friends. Fuck off with that mess.

are the Kurds hungry for another fell for it again award?

Well. I guess some days you get lucky. If I were a cop, I'd much rather clean up a weapons bunker than a meth lab. The later are downright hazardous to your health and explode randomly.

Ah well, cats. They can see right through you!

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How did it work for this guy? I mean it was a pretty rad movie and he got to co-star with Omar Sharif. Oh. Wait, thats historical fiction, nevermind.

BITE ME

SPRING BREAAAK ON KHARG ISLAND!!! WHOO!!! HOOO!!!!

"I can't promise I'll try to do better, but I promise to try to try to do better."

Could be, but why bother? Both those guys are dead

Agreed. I can say the same thing about the other senate primary in Maine. Personally I don’t give two f*cks about either one. I don’t live in Maine or Texas. All politics is local. I’m most angry with the DFL in my own state. And that’s on me!