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Greg Etling
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Techie, former actor/singer...hopeful at the current state of this app :)
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It's Trans Day of Remembrance, lab rats.

I wish society did more to celebrate us while we were alive, instead of just remembering our deaths.
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Dear @schumer.senate.gov, draw the parallels.

Then resign and for the love of god don’t raise up a right-lite “moderate” Starmer clone.
Latest party leader net favourability ratings, November 2025

Nigel Farage: -32
Kemi Badenoch: -32
Jeremy Corbyn: -40
Keir Starmer: -54

Zack Polanski: -2 (58% DK)
Ed Davey: -9 (40% DK)
Zarah Sultana: -19 (58% DK)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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No, trans people will not vote for an avowed transphobe, because what's "the Trans Issue" to you is our very rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
If he ends up being the Democrat on the presidential ticket in 2028, you would rather vote republican or not vote at all because of this issue?? That’s the million dollar question. Not the hill I would die on and def not worth losing an election over!
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Actually the question that occurs to me is "will you nominate him anyway even after years of people telling you they won't vote for him if you do, and then when you lose as you were warned you would, will you blame not yourselves but the people who warned you."
If he ends up being the Democrat on the presidential ticket in 2028, you would rather vote republican or not vote at all because of this issue?? That’s the million dollar question. Not the hill I would die on and def not worth losing an election over!
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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He’s compelling to some people because he notices genuine failures. But in my framework these failures come from the collapse of the verification–deliberation–accountability cycle. Fix that and the system can work, ignore it and nothing will.
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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This is true, in the sense that it is a web of very real scandals reactionaries will try to claim are fake through the power of repetitive bare assertion
lmao lol Jesus Christ
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.

canceledpeople.org
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good. Next?
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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what happens is like most pieces of legislation the executive has wide latitude in implementation and so congress won’t get what it really wanted.

happens all the time!
no idea what happens next. trump's said he'd sign the bill, which he'd just about have to since congress almost certainly can override a veto. 1
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Turns out Trump wanted more than just the Sudetenland. Who knew!
Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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These are not serious people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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this dude is doing to American Beauty what finance bros did to American Psycho which is: completely miss the fucking point
MAN WHAT?

using kevin spacey for a comparison or example here is definitely… a choice
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Someone rreeeeeaaaaally missed the point of that film.
MAN WHAT?

using kevin spacey for a comparison or example here is definitely… a choice
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I guess this was always going to be the endgame.
It's like Barr tanking the mueller report 2.0. Deliberately release some crumbs that don't incriminate him. Eventually when the whole thing gets out, the media will have already told everyone the president is innocent, and will allow him to spin it as a witch hunt
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I had no idea
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?

I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"maybe marjorie taylor greene has experienced a genuine change and wants to do good things now" give me your bank account information and number immediately there's no time to waste
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Good thing no one wants to replicate Labour's strategy in the US!

Hang on, I'm being handed a piece of paper...
The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years.

Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.
Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM