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is SpaceX liable for these costs?
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the whole genre of cyberpunk. @sharonk.bsky.social has been on top of this...
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they long to place us on a chilly chessboard. they'll grace us with a triumphal visit after we've built suitably toasty accommodations for them.
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how long until Starship is able to send humans to Greenland?
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"Is Xiaohongshu TikTok Two?" (Sorry.)
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I can't believe I've never encountered Michael O. Church. His remarkable 2012 taxonomy describes three distinct "ladders" of social class. It's perceptive and useful and filled with trenchant social commentary. And accessible now only via the Wayback Machine web.archive.org/web/20180528... 1/
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In 2021, he revisited the issue: "Marx was right. If there are stable social classes, there are exactly two of them." His 2021 worldview is darker, sadder, and rings too true. michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/a... They're long! I recommend reading them both. ht social.coop/@BillySmith
A Reply to Alex Danco: Revisiting MacLeod and the Three Ladders in the Wake of Trump
Link Preview: A Reply to Alex Danco: Revisiting MacLeod and the Three Ladders in the Wake of Trump: I will soon be migrating to an alternative site, because Wordpress is garbage for running garbage ads without my say; stay tuned. Eight years ago, I wrote an essay on the three social class ladders…
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God I'm going to miss the Lina Khan FTC.
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(shamelessly linking my own drivel) drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/05/28/m...
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this is the situation before Stupid & Evil Party tries to impose fascism. we’ll be busy trying to counter that for a while. but when we get a moment, mb we should take a break from defending Stupid & Useless over Stupid & Evil (Useless is much better than Evil!) and find a way to better options.
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our leadership’s determined coherence is a marvel to behold.
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not so useful! and why are people stupid anyway?
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72% of consumers trust Amazon when shopping online
Link Preview: 72% of consumers trust Amazon when shopping online: Customers believe Amazon offers the most secure online holiday shopping experience, study finds.
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i’m constantly told that Amazon is among the most trusted institutions in America while the press is distrusted and despised, so why don’t they just rebrand it “The Amazon Ace” or something.
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that last bit is mistaken.
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note that i wrote “much more”, not that the causality is strictly one way. i agree that causal arrows in social affairs are best understood as bidirectional. 1/
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(social affairs, not social science, because nothing is more abused or misleads people more egregiously than imagining understanding human and social phenomena is epistemologically analogous to, or as amenable to even tentative consensus, as understanding natural phenomena. it’s a bait & switch)/fin
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Text: If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil
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there is no such thing as a mediocre human.
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the most useless form of take is our politics are bad because our people are bad. it’s not a constructive or actionable kind of take. it also gets causality wrong. the character of a community, the character of its members, is downstream from its politics much more than the other way around.
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gonna start a trend of close in foot fetish videos under the hashtag #TikTokToe
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no, i pretty much agree with your thread, just elaborating on it.