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At a hundred days into his presidency, Joe Biden had a 52% approval rating.

As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.

Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
April 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I never realized there was a class of people for whom the History Channel version of WWII was “too complicated”
Another tweet that should have ended with the first sentence.

Also, I guess I'm a "World War Two enjoyer."
April 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”
March 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The US “International” Building Code completely sucks and makes infill housing cost too much. This is all by design to force builders to build detached single family homes which is social engineering

www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...
Small Single-Stairway Apartment Buildings Have Strong Safety Record
Policymakers could increase the supply of multifamily housing in their states and localities by revising outdated building codes that require more than one stairway in small apartment buildings. If en...
www.pewtrusts.org
March 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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From the paper: “We hypothesize that this decline is because current LLMs cannot perform genuine logical reasoning; they replicate reasoning steps from their training data.”

This. This is what I’m saying.
December 20, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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hidalgo doesn't have to go to 50 meetings after getting elected for every single change on every single street on their platform.

they won on closed school streets.

guess tf what.

they closed a sh*t ton of streets. over 200.

cope.

youtu.be/ezPzocuqKPc?...
Paris School Streets: Safe for Children, Safe for Everyone
YouTube video by Streetfilms®
youtu.be
December 13, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Knowledge is becoming aware that Morrissey is basically a fascist whose lyrics often suck.

Wisdom is understanding that Johnny Marr's guitar work is too beautiful not to listen to.
December 10, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away
December 7, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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IS THERE A MORE SATISFYING WAY TO ACHIEVE A STRUCTRUAL SPAN THAN THE WAFFLE SLAB? THE ANSWER IS NO.
November 24, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Note that this excellent little building does not have the types of materials variation, facade articulation, or off-street parking that are required of new construction in most American cities.
We should be building versions of this on neighborhood corners across the country.
November 13, 2024 at 5:32 PM