homme de mystère | male early 40s | climate·food·geopolitics
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Agreed.
Students should have no free-speech rights at all under penality of fitting their livelihoods.
Is the American way!
Stanford should only hand out the diplomas at the end of the event after the speakers finish. If a student walks out or violates other rules during the graduation ceremony, they don’t get their diploma and they don’t graduate.
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Hate to wade in here — but almost all Muslim, Arabic-speaking Egyptians have Ancient Egyptian ancestry.
They just have a little less of it than Copts.
The Arab conquest of Egypt was a language-replacement event. Not a full genetic replacement.
My ancestors built those wonderful things. I am a Coptic Christian. You are descendants of the invaders who came to Egypt and replaced the original inhabitants with desert dwellers.
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Honestly? Terrible take.
There are vanishingly few tradeoffs between solving climate change and preserving the environment. You don't need to cut down the forests for solar.
The energy centrist equivalent of "should you torture if there's a ticking bomb?" thought experiment.
Jun 10
One of the more unpopular takes I have is that we should be willing to sacrifice a lot of local environments for the sake of reducing emissions, because solving climate is much more urgent & will have more severe global consequences if we don't. Cut down the trees for solar etc.
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Actually not a bad endorsement pickup.
Jun 8
Graham Platner is gonna win because he has connected with Mainers on what they really care about: How this country can work for them, not just the wealthy.
He’ll win because he’s not part of the Washington establishment.
If I voted in Maine he’d have my support, no question.
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The fertility weirdos are the weirdest of the weirdos.
Jun 8
A collapse in the global population looks increasingly inevitable. Fertility rates have fallen below replacement in more than 66% of nations.
No policy intervention has substantially reversed this trend. And technological progress seems to be accelerating it. A smaller, weirder world is on its way
vox.com/politics/491167/ai-s…
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London is significantly less dense than Paris.
Closing that gap alone would get you halfway to housing equilibrium in the UK.
Exactly. There’s no fixing housing shortages with up-only. You have to be willing to do some amount of outward development too.
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People in America know who Scott Pelley is. He's been on TV for decades.
Not the single most recognizable name in TV news. But people know him ffs.
Jun 8
Proper war correspondents rarely talk like this about their experiences. This guy, who few even in America had heard of until he was fired, is a pompous, preening, solipsistic peacock. @CBSNews is lucky to be rid of him.
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Man this guy is a fucking moron.
The UK has what has to be the world's most obviously fixable housing crisis.
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I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.
That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.
You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.
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This would work on me.
Jun 3
Was going back and fourth emailing this place I was trying to get a job at and they ignored me once I sent over my CV. Sorry I’m not good enough for you would you like me to send a selfie?
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I think "late deciders broke for Steyer to strategically lock-out Republicans" is a pretty reasonable thesis.
We should count all the late ballots before we count him out.
Jun 3
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. THIS RACE IS NOT OVER.
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There is no bigger tool in journalism than this dude.
Jun 3
It's a big world. I think they'll manage to replace, checks notes, Scott Pelley
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Gretch in her Jared Polis era.
Sam Altman, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer breaking ground at the Saline Twp data center project
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Yea I have to say — sometimes it's the little things. His video production communicates competence.
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Platner Derangement Syndrome is crazy to see happen in real time
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May 31
People aghast at a character as supposedly despicable as Graham Platner occupying a Senate seat should consider that well into my adulthood, Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd occupied safe Senate seats.
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