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GraniteM

@ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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  • If the votes had been even a fraction of a percent in either direction, the Supreme Court wouldn't have had a role to play.

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  • If less than one percent of Nader voters (not all Florida voters, just Nader voters) had voted for Gore instead, the margin in Florida would have been wide enough for Gore to unquestionably take the state, and he'd have become president.

  • had this convo just yesterday 🤦‍♀️

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  • Card is confounding because those first few Ender books are unequivocally about the importance of empathy and recognition of common personhood, even across seeming-impenetrable species boundaries, and how mutual respect and love are the most important quality a person can have. And then... yadda yadda yadda, OSC is a gigantic bigot. The. Fuck?

  • What is the fantasy book/series everyone should read?

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  • I still can't get over how they stretched that short of a book over that long of a trilogy of movies and still managed to not show enough of Beorn. All of the party arriving at Beorn's house is one of my favorite chapters and it's just... not there. The. Fuck.

  • Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us.

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  • "Surely all those other people who tried to beat this carnival games were simple country rubes, whereas I have finally figured out the winning strategy that will surely allow me to beat this definitely not-rigged game!"

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  • They are so grateful!!

  • Honda President After Visiting Chinese Auto Supplier:'We Have No Chance Against This'

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  • See also: Sears pioneering the concept of ordering things through the mail from a catalogue, and then getting demolished by Amazon's online ordering system. Way to go guys, you got destroyed by some upstart punk doing what you got started doing, but doing it better and cheaper than you could.

  • "Trippy" Reality

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  • The podcast "You Made It Weird," with Pete Holmes is great. He has a lot of smart and funny people on, and the pattern is usually to start with "What's going on with you? What are you working on? What makes you laugh?" for the first two thirds of a given episode, and then the last third is stuff like "Do you believe there is a purpose to life? Have you ever seen a ghost? Have you ever tried psychedelics?" Pete is clearly on his own spiritual journey and has a lot of heavy stuff to talk about and share, and he makes for a great conversation.

    Two highlights were when Reggie Watts talked about going on a trip in a bathroom where he traveled to a parallel universe and met with a sentient planet, and when Judd Apatow talked about how ayahuasca brought him into a meeting with the embodiment of his childhood self.

    I don't necessarily want to get into psychedelics, but it's a very interesting topic of conversation, if the person is smart enough to ask and answer intelligent questions.

  • Cry cry cry

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  • What's the over-under on Trump demanding that both things get named after him / trying to sell the naming rights, and then when the IAU says that's not how that works, he throws a tantrum, names them after himself anyway, and starts a Legion of Doom alternate IAU chaired by himself, Steve Bannon, and Kid Rock?

  • Supreme Court paves way for dismissal of Steve Bannon contempt of Congress case

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  • The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. "We ignored Hitler," he said. "We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all."

    They thought of the government as "They." The only possible route to a clear conscience in politics is to accept political responsibility, either as an active member of the party in power or as an equally active member of the loyal opposition.

    --Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

  • Trump Just Lost a War for America — No One's Done That Since Nixon

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  • Donald Trump has spent his entire life falling up stairs.

  • Naming rights to street auctioned in San Francisco

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  • Streety McStreetface

  • The all seeing eye dog

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  • Got some potential

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  • The US president just instructed the USPS to seize any ballots cast be anyone not approved by the federal government.

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  • So Republican representatives simply know that they only get reelected if they act tribally Republican. Note that this is generally not a problem with Democrat voters.

    Ironically, it turns into a problem for Democrat voters.

  • 100% straight

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  • I'm married to a beautiful woman that I love but...

    ...I'm not like, one hundred percent straight.

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  • God, smiting dinosaurs one by one: "This is taking forever! There's got to be a better way..."

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  • Cyber women.

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • My favorite formulation is:

    The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil.