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I heard once that "respect" can mean "treat as a person" or it can mean "obey the authority of", and very often someone wants you to obey their authority before they'll treat you like a person.
“Civility” is how the modern Right — and increasingly the modern “middle” — describes the attitude “thank you Sir, may I have another”
also I don’t give a shit about “civility,” who cares
September 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I heard once that "respect" can mean "treat as a person" or it can mean "obey the authority of", and very often someone wants you to obey their authority before they'll treat you like a person.
"...we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws - the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist...special circumstances."
-The Culture
-The Culture
April 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"...we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws - the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe - break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist...special circumstances."
-The Culture
-The Culture
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Erez Reuveni argued on behalf of the Justice Department during Friday’s hearing in the Abrego Garcia case.
Reuveni has reportedly been placed on leave.
Here’s one exchange with the judge that may have contributed to his ouster:
Reuveni has reportedly been placed on leave.
Here’s one exchange with the judge that may have contributed to his ouster:
April 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Erez Reuveni argued on behalf of the Justice Department during Friday’s hearing in the Abrego Garcia case.
Reuveni has reportedly been placed on leave.
Here’s one exchange with the judge that may have contributed to his ouster:
Reuveni has reportedly been placed on leave.
Here’s one exchange with the judge that may have contributed to his ouster:
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A major reason that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have never taken hold in the US as anything other than speculative assets (that’s what economists call casino chips) is that we already had a stable, well-regulated currency and banking system. But, you know, whatever.
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Exclusive | Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange’s Guilty Plea
The discussions for a stake in Binance’s U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea.
www.wsj.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A major reason that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have never taken hold in the US as anything other than speculative assets (that’s what economists call casino chips) is that we already had a stable, well-regulated currency and banking system. But, you know, whatever.
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
In case anyone didn't know why the US was giving aid to Ukraine in the first place:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In case anyone didn't know why the US was giving aid to Ukraine in the first place:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
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This device has every book and song ever written, mostly for free.
Wow! What do you use it for?
Unwinnable fights with strangers about things I cannot control.
Wow! What do you use it for?
Unwinnable fights with strangers about things I cannot control.
February 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This device has every book and song ever written, mostly for free.
Wow! What do you use it for?
Unwinnable fights with strangers about things I cannot control.
Wow! What do you use it for?
Unwinnable fights with strangers about things I cannot control.
Maybe I'm becoming a crotchety old man, but I can't think of a model of social media that doesn't suck anymore. The entire concept peaked in ~2005 with forums & IRC and all innovations since then ended up being time-wasting, socially corrosive clusterfucks that brought out the worst in everyone.
January 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Maybe I'm becoming a crotchety old man, but I can't think of a model of social media that doesn't suck anymore. The entire concept peaked in ~2005 with forums & IRC and all innovations since then ended up being time-wasting, socially corrosive clusterfucks that brought out the worst in everyone.
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Okay seems like I need to say this more clearly: Musk potentially owning TikTok is acceptable to Beijing because there’d be compliance, alignment, and deference from him in the same way it gets from Chinese CEOs, because Musk’s businesses are exposed to Chinese government power and influence.
January 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Okay seems like I need to say this more clearly: Musk potentially owning TikTok is acceptable to Beijing because there’d be compliance, alignment, and deference from him in the same way it gets from Chinese CEOs, because Musk’s businesses are exposed to Chinese government power and influence.
Is all the crazy talk about annexing Canada and Greenland trying to distract the public from something else? Or is Team Trump just trolling everyone?
January 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Is all the crazy talk about annexing Canada and Greenland trying to distract the public from something else? Or is Team Trump just trolling everyone?
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I've seen a bunch of posts about the followback culture on here. Let me just say two words about this:
IT'S STUPID.
I have 493 followers out of 7536 who follow at least 5000 others. 20 of them follow over 100,000 others. 🤦 These attention seekers do not care about your posts. Stop feeding them.
IT'S STUPID.
I have 493 followers out of 7536 who follow at least 5000 others. 20 of them follow over 100,000 others. 🤦 These attention seekers do not care about your posts. Stop feeding them.
December 30, 2024 at 5:59 PM
I've seen a bunch of posts about the followback culture on here. Let me just say two words about this:
IT'S STUPID.
I have 493 followers out of 7536 who follow at least 5000 others. 20 of them follow over 100,000 others. 🤦 These attention seekers do not care about your posts. Stop feeding them.
IT'S STUPID.
I have 493 followers out of 7536 who follow at least 5000 others. 20 of them follow over 100,000 others. 🤦 These attention seekers do not care about your posts. Stop feeding them.
Let's debate evolution, gravity, and if water is really wet while we're at it
Senator-elect Jim Banks on RFK Jr: "This country is ready for a big debate about vaccines."
December 14, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Let's debate evolution, gravity, and if water is really wet while we're at it
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What I would like to be doing: happily working on my side project
What I am doing instead: processing everything that just happened
What I am doing instead: processing everything that just happened
December 14, 2024 at 3:35 PM
What I would like to be doing: happily working on my side project
What I am doing instead: processing everything that just happened
What I am doing instead: processing everything that just happened
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We work hard all week, there's really no guarantee that once weekend comes, your brain can disengage or that it's given back to you in the same state when the week started.
If you have a really tough week, it takes time to untangle.
If you have a really tough week, it takes time to untangle.
December 14, 2024 at 3:34 PM
We work hard all week, there's really no guarantee that once weekend comes, your brain can disengage or that it's given back to you in the same state when the week started.
If you have a really tough week, it takes time to untangle.
If you have a really tough week, it takes time to untangle.