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Noam Blum
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The neontaster || Cohost of the
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Washington, DCyoutube.com/c/neontasterJoined January 2009
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Sadly, there is only minimal usage of Rick and Morty voices in this episode. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Ambitious Crossover Attempt
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EPISODE 54: Some ongoing conspiracies were laid to rest with video evidence this week. Plus some more talk about episode 2 of The Last of Us (we're covering the show one week behind so no spoiler worries). ambitiousxover.libsyn.com/episode-54-cau
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Matthew Yglesias
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I think what people want to say about Leo is that living a good life involves settling down with someone and raising a family rather than dating a rotating cast of young women but that idea is so badly out of style that people reach for implausible abuse claims instead.
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Good character development in this episode. Was happy to see Melanie Lynskey. I Don’t Feel At Home in this World Anymore is very underrated. #TheLastOfUs
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3.5 days!!!
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Streeter Seidell
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Written with @mikeyfuntime Directed by @mikediva All around a really really amazing job on everything - costumes, props, makeup, sets. Just awesome. And a huge accomplishment for our editors and VFX artists. This was all done in 3.5 days. Incredible talent twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/…
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"Actual American Jews"?
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Joel S.
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There are 24 Jewish members of the current US House of Representatives. Of those 24, 22 of them, or 91.6%, voted against stripping committee assignments from Ilhan Omar. Tell me again how this is about what actual American Jews want.
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Rage Against the Machine Learning
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anton 🏴‍☠️
@atroyn
announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images. stableattribution.com
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If this is anywhere near true - wow.
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Tim Groseclose
@Tim_Groseclose
1/ Brilliant article in the NY Times. It tracks obituaries of leading scientists in China. It finds an excess number of deaths among this group since mid-December, after China lifted its covid restrictions. nytimes.com/interactive/20
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This happens every year.
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NBC News
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A school food vendor apologizes for its Black History Month menu after students and parents pointed out the racial stereotypes the menu reinforces. nbcnews.to/3DHVLCN
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His first point is stronger than his second. Saturation attacks are what Hamas does now in an attempt to overwhelm Iron Dome, and so keeping it well equipped is vital.
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Dan Williams
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Netanyahu disinclined to provide Ukraine with Iron Domes ("In my opinion we don't have enough to cover ourselves - just barely") & circumspect on redirection to Kyiv of US ordnance kept in Israel. ("That's a pretty big drawdown on our emergency supplies") tf1info.fr/international/
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They're just like us!
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Quantian
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Absolutely incredible interview with former Taliban fighters: >the rent is too high >my boss wants me to work in the office >I’m addicted to Twitter >traffic is horrible after everyone moved here >petty crime is out of control twitter.com/aanafgh/status…
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I don't understand the point this thread is trying to make. This is a wildly different application. Not to mention that balloons have less atmospheric distortion and unless a Chinese satellite is in geostationary orbit over the US, you also get coverage that is less sporadic.
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David Frum
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US uses blimps to monitor southern border stripes.com/theaters/us/20
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The headline of this piece is an argument I don't entirely disagree with. I do think we need to increase the bar of severity for offenses that require active stops by armed police. This is also better for the cops!
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The New Republic
@newrepublic
Why is policing considered a purely local matter in the United States, especially when we see these tragedies repeat themselves in Minneapolis and Louisville and Dallas and Memphis and so many other places? on.tnr.com/3RvngoR
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Sam Harris' covid utilitarianism is motivated by the same "I know better than you plebs" attitude that drove the public health apparatus' Noble Lie strategy, and look where that got us.
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Rav Arora
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In his new podcast episode, Sam Harris calls out @DrJBhattacharya, saying it was “not an accident Jay was perceived as a fringe figure” given his supposedly wild under-estimation of Covid deaths in the U.S. I’m recording a podcast with @DrJBhattacharya tomorrow to discuss this.
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Ellen Carmichael
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CCP officials fired the head of the Chinese weather service in a move meant to substantiate their claims the balloon was tracking weather. There’s a catch, though: he was already scheduled to leave because he “won” elective office in late January.
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Beijing says head of national weather service has been fired after revelation of Chinese balloon...
The head of China’s weather service has been relieved of his duty, Chinese state media announced on Saturday, in a move seen by some analysts as an attempt to shore up Beijing’s position that the...
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Wait it’s ranked 200? That’s pretty good.
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Mike Babcock
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Yes, pointing guns at the balloon is ‘performative nonsense.’ But so is co-hosting a podcast that is ranked #200 in a vague sub-genre.
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Regular audiences loved Infinity War and Endgame - two of the most convoluted comic booky type comic book movies out there. Having an Elseworlds Batman and a DCU Batman isn't a Quantum Mechanical superposition. General audiences will be fine with it.
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I'm starting to get a little annoyed at geeks who are like "HOW WILL REGULAR AUDIENCES BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND TWO DIFFERENT BATMAN CONTINUITIES AT ONCE???" Shut up, nerds. It's not that complicated.
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Noam Blum
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Nick Grossman and others today: Them: January 6 was horrible, violent, beyond the pale, and put our democracy in mortal danger Me: January 6 was horrible, violent, and beyond the pale, but our democracy is far too strong to be threatened by something like that Them: OK, MAGA
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I finally saw the full trailer for it and despite giving away more than I'd like, it also made me want to see whereas the mysterious teaser did not, so I guess I'm torn on whether the trailer giving a way some stuff is good or bad.
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Harvester 1
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Have you seen Knock at the Cabin yet? It was surprisingly good. At the theater I chose it over Infinity Pool at the literal last minute and I’m glad I did.
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I wanted to love INFINITY POOL but overall it's just ok. I mean the first half is terrific, and Cronenberg Jr. definitely knows how to make a film, but it descended into a bit of an incoherent mess by the end and I think any message he had kinda got lost.
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RIP to Kaya, whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting several times.
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Ron DeSantis
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I met Marine Corps veteran Cole Lyle and Kaya when we were working to pass the PAWS Act in Congress. Kaya’s story has helped countless service dogs and wounded veterans across the country and her legacy lives on. twitter.com/ctlyle1/status…
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