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More like the chip tax, amirite?

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Don't worry. He still votes for plenty of reactionary centrist bills

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What "whataboutism" means is not that. It means that you can't defend the bad actions of one person/group by saying that a different person/group also does bad things. They might both be bad.

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A good example (though a bit extreme) is this: Your house catches fire. The first thing you do is try to get your books out. A passerby asks you, "What about calling the fire department or saving your infant?!" You reply, "I've had enough of this whataboutism!"

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We agree that the company thinks this is worth their time. That doesn't mean it's good. Having priorities and limited resources means that what you're dismissing as "whataboutism" is an entirely valid question.

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1. Engineering time is limited. If you're doing this you're not doing something else. 2. The problem is indicative of a broken ethical system

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something weird about learning Romanian is seeing how many English words and expressions are straight from Latin. For some reason, I never got this from Spanish... maybe because the language is so similar to English that it felt so much more obvious?

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes! This was in Adams Morgan, too! I thought it was awesome

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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It's a good confluence of Oktoberfest and Simchat Torah

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What there makes sense at all? Jews had a sense of unity well before modern Hebrew and that's GOOD. The problem is that they decided to oppress other people living in Palestine/Israel. Also, Palestinians aren't bearing the brunt of European antisemitism -- Anti-Arab prejudice is totally different

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...the land that already had people--a people made to suffer and bear the brunt of European anti-Semitism [sic.] in the most horrendous ways for generations.'"

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WTF! "'Punctuation marks in Hebrew,' [Hazrat] explains, 'are relics of a brutal colonial system that is far from over.' Adding punctuation turned Hebrew into a spoken language, 'paving the way for an artificial sense of unity among Jewish people from around the globe, encouraging them to move to...

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I wrote my senator, Angela Alsobrooks, demanding she oppose KOSA. She wrote back in a condescending form letter that she's one of the bill's sponsors. If you run to the left of her in a primary please let me know.

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jeremiah spoke of bullfrogs and Spanish Jews in Mitzraim. He couldn't understand a single word he read but he wouldn't change his mind. Oy! What a world!

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Give a man two fish, he'll eat for two days

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Goth Wyatt Earp @eighthsamurai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life." ---Sir Terry Pratchett

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, the thing that always bothered me about living in Frower was how gerrymandered it is. But I guess it's nice to be near the Arlington Cemetery Annex

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every woman you know 📢EVERY 📢WOMAN 📢YOU 📢KNOW has a story of sexual harassment &/or assault; most of us have more than one. I've been -grabbed & street harassed x infinity -dehumanized, grabbed, & harassed by men I thought I cld trust -stalked/followed at night -threatened (online & IRL) w/ rape

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love that the first UI was paper

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ckoppelman @ckoppelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So the idea is that you keep this running on a screen?

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So the term "worship" is not necessarily quite accurate. But autumn rituals tend towards remembering

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I'd like to hear a coherent argument for midichlorian theory.

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Honestly, this was almost exactly my real thesis

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On second thought, I'm not an anthropologist. My real thesis in college would have been more like: A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Colonialisms at the Far Reaches of Empire

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What an inspirational message! The Republican Party, folks.

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Yes, there was a reclamation by the Temple. My pet heterodox theory, though, is that the two goats is actually an older tradition. It's a ritualization of Abraham sending Ishmael to the wilderness and sacrificing Isaac.

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Adult situations and smoking

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Ah. Interesting. I know the history is that Kohanim are part of Levi, but do we see evidence of that in Temple times? The mishnah seems to treat them as coworkers, not part of the same tribe

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But it doesn't make that much sense that it's originally cultic. Sounds more J/E

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Anyway, my theory is that YK comes from an ancestor worship ceremony, which is very common in the autumn for global religions. The ancestors here are Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac. We repeat Abraham's sacrifice of his sons to... ?? ask G-d for forgiveness? Remind G-d of Abraham's righteousness?

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So this also accords with Passover placed two weeks after a Rosh Hashanah. But I don't see the confusion in the YK confessions. It's concentric circles of peoplehood - family, tribe, nation.

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So... if these facts are close to accurate, a good administration would send HHS staff to do education about how to make a claim.

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The Incest Taboo: A Case Study

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I thought Duolingo was too gamified when I started this summer but ugh! The current setup seriously makes learning harder. Way too much tapping and the lessons are tiny. It went from a nice supplement to mostly a distraction

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Also Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were pretty popular and very clearly anti

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Green Day's radio hit, "American Idiot." Dixie Chicks infamously. Mike Doughty's "Move On." I remember whole protest albums and even some news coverage of protests

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